The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-06-24
CURRENT TOPICS

CURRENT TOPICS
THE colored walters have national
union.
WARM weather accelerates tile growth
Of whiskers.
THE Typographical union has mem.
bership of 24,704.
JAPAN is taking most enthusiastic
ally to the kindergarten.
ST. LOUIS reporters demand less
nours and n six day week.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELL says that kiss
Ing ruins the complexion.
SWITCH tenders and signalraen will
form supreme lodge at Chicago
A TYPEWRITER was among the pres
ents received at the duke of York we'd
ding.
THE corpse of deathbed convert at
Eagle Cliff, Tenn, j. w. Massey. was
baptized.
THE Merrimac river Is said to move
more machinery than any other stream
In the world.
A CRANE acts in the role of watch
dog on the place of w. N. Harmon, at
Tennille, Ga.
AN alternating current of electricity
Is being used eXperimentally in Turin
to tan leather.
AMONG the newly elected aldermen in
Galveston, Tex, is Cornelius Williams,
Negro drayman.
TAIRTY-HoRsE-PowER petroleum en-
gines without boilers are now in sue
cessful operation.
BROOKLYN printers will celebrate on
July 8 the 200th anniversary Of the in
PRODUCTION of printing.
Six little girls in white carried Clara
Wagner, Detroit playmate, who was
drowned, to the grave.
ONE hundred thousand young musca-
longe from Chautauqua lake have ar
rived at San Francisco.
A PNEUMATIC cotton-picker has been
invented by a Texas man. 1t employs
both blast and suction.
EMPRESS FREDERICK is expected to
visit the Greek royal family at Dekeleia
toward the end of June
EXSECRETARY WILLIAM G. ENDIcoTT
is now convalescing and able to take
the air after n long illness
OSCAR WILDE is giving sittings for his
bust to Henry TeiXeiro da Mattos, the
well known Dutch sculptor.
STREET cars are being successfully
propelled in Paris by electricity ap-
piled through accumulators.
Dennis Koorbee, who died recently
in Ireland, aged eighty-three years,
had 944 great-grandchildre
KNOX college of Galesburg. ILL.,, has
conferred the honorary degree of mas
Tor of arts ,,,p,, E,,rapa Eia15
BURGLARY has been committed at
kyres, but the local paper says; 1.-THE
niscreant or ants are spotted"
THE arrival of a ship from the Ant
artic ocean with cargo of G,O00 seal
skins is reported from London.
Mrs. ELEANOR CALHOUN, grandniece
of John c. Calhoun, has made sue
cessful debut as an actress in Paris.
TIP. O'CoNNoR's new London daily,
the Sun, is to be a half-penny paper,
and will appear on the Goth of June.
The Mohawk Indians will not allow
SO much as a blade of grass to grow
upon the graves of their companions.
CIRCUIT JUDGE SLOWER granted thir>
ty-two divorces in sixteen minutes al
Independence, Mo-, one day recently.
Smith, of Roswell, Ga, has been in use
by her family for over a hundred years
The new postmaster at Dundee,
Mich, among his other qualifications
has pustache S2% inches from tip tt
tip.
Most of the worlds supply of phos
pilates comes from South Carolina.
which has an output of 100000 tons g
year.
A THOUSAND millions of the animal
Guile found in stagnant water do no.
collectively equal the size of a grain o.
sand.
FLORA BRYAN, a young English
woman, has forsaken Christianity anc
married the maharajah of Patiala il
India
Thin japanese government will soor
send commissioners to Mexico and Aus
tralia in search of suitable colonization
lands.
AN Illinois well-cleaner took advan
tage of the gravity of the gas in wei
and scooped it out with an open um
brella.
The Sultan of lahore, who think
nothing of wearing about quart o
diamonds all at once, is coming to Sc,
the fair.
"APPLE MARY" a familiar characte
In New York city, has purchased tw'
fine tenements from her savings in ped
ding apples.
A NEW summer material is broch
toilet silk. 1t is thin and SOFT ant
comes in all the light shades, with
raised stripe.
The little island of Iceland witt
about 10000 inhabitants has the sam
number of newspapers as the great EN-
pire Of China.
KING MALIEToA, of Samoa, is not pai
his salary with regularity enough t
keep him in easy financial condition, S
his wives take in washing.
The furore over the Infanta has Sc
In in Chicago, where special brand c
ham has been named in her favor 1t
popularity known as the "Yallally
brand.
OREGON expects to clip 100000
pounds of wool this year, her increas
in sheep over last year being estimate
at ninety per cent, all of which
Ghear gain.
"A DENVER housewife has an India
princess doing her housework. Th
young woman is the daughter of
Pawnee chief, and her name in Englis