The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-10-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


The fortune of Mrs. w. II. Wander
bilt is estimated $50, 900, 900.
MILLIoNAIRE FREY, of Minneapolis
has married his housekeeper
Boston will no longer permit fruit T.
be ripened in dwelling-houses.
PROF. DAVID Swine finds recreatio,
In working like a laborer on his farm.
THERE are about twenty men to on,
woman holding life insurance policies
Nor including Alaska, Brazil i
larger in extent than the United States
A MoRENcI (Mich,) couple have sep
arated eight times and as many time
made up again.
THE Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offer
IN the newspapers.
JOSEPH FIELD, an active farmer o
Middletown, N. j., celebrated his lois
birthday the other day.
A HYDRAULIC testing machine a
Washington university exerts pres
sure Of 100000 pounds.
The daily number of people visiting
Central park, New York, is estimated
at from 130, 1000 TO 10000.
The largest room in the world un
broken by pillars is drill hall in st
Petersburg 62o by $50 feet.
A SINGLE sponge has been found or
the coast Of Florida with a circur fer
ence of five feet six inches.
The Welsh in the United States claim
that they are in number as many as
their countrymen in Wales.
Two men from Bentonville, Mo-, got
lost in the Crystal cave and was not
found for forty-eight hours
GRAPES are SO cheap in Grand Haven,
Mich, that it does not pay to pick
them. Six cents basket is the price.
THERE will be between $500 and
$500 students at Yale this year, of
which number 600 are in the freshmen
class
The holes often observed to appear
In marble which has for period re-
NAMED in sea water are caused by an
insect.
RAILROAD trains will shortly be lit
by electricity. The New York Central
railroad is probably the first to use that
system.
AN armless boy of Middletown, Ct,
named VIM Mylehreert, has completed
the painting of wagon. His feet did
the work.
ONE of the greatest lobster pounds
In the country is near Southport, Me-,
where 100000 Holsters are shipped
every year.
G. S. ANDERSON, of Rives, jackson
county, Mich, has grown 5000 pounds
of Concord grapes from an acre of land
this season.
THREE daily papers We're started in
Perry-a fresh town in the Cherokee
strip-on the day the settlers of the
town arrived.
> MH. EDWARD TERRY, an English mu-
steal editor, says women compose some
OF the finest oance music and some of
the best songs.
THERE are seven national banks in
the five Indian nations, not one of
which suspended during the recent
financial furry. 1
A SYNDICATE of United States capi-
talists are arranging to establish an
extensive pin factory at Guaymas in
the state of Sonoro.
WHILE under lock and key, New
SorS composer" is. to produce, com.
pete. within forty-eight hours, an or,
eretta, or forfeit 500.
WILLIAM BROWN, a colored man who
claims to be 103 years old, recently APP
pied at the Mobile (Ala.) courthouse,
for marriage license.
The Navajo Indians are great shep.
herds, unlike most redmen, and are
said to have herds of a million sheer
near Flagstaff in Arizona.
THE Chinese almanac, of which more
copies are printed annually than any
other work in the world, is published
at Pekin and is a monopoly of the EN-
peror.
A HEN on the farm of Lewis Livings
ton, near Pensacola, Fla, recently laid
an egg with, it is claimed, a correct
of the dial of clock Oh
the she'll
ONE OF the curiosities Of the Worlds
fair is the original portrait of Pocha.
hontas, painted in 1912, and loaned by
a lineal descendant Of the far-famed
Indian princess
PHIL ARMOUR, whose fortune is esti.
mated ut $50, 900, 900, is described as
short-set, broad-built, prosperous-look-
ing man, with a ruddy, open face, dark.
~ side-whiskered.
AN ocean steamship that arrived in
New York recently had among it's pas
sengers young lion and lamb, con-
fined in the same cage, who appeared
TO be great friendk
ASTRONOMERS are agreed that we are
moving through space, but the direc-
tion sf the movement is better known
than the pace. The rate is sometimes
set down at about thirty miles Sec
ond.
Col. SwITzLER, of Missouri, has
among his cherished possessions o
gourd which was raised in Virginia in
1881. the year before Washington was
born. There are etched upon it vines
and flowers.
A WHISTLE for thc shops at Third ant
Berks streets, Philadelphia, is four
feet two inches high, and the cylinder
is eighteen inches wide. The whistle
can be heard twenty-five miles.
SIR JOHN GLADSTONE, nephew of the
grand old man, is n tall. broad -shoul-
dered young giant. as ardent u conser-
vative as his uncle is the reverse. and
one OF the most extensive whisky dis
tillers In Scotland.
MARoAREr BioLER. Of Asbury, N. j.,
has just died at the age of 9a. Her
father died at the same age. Hei