The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

UNCLE SAM pays 500, 600, 600 year in
salaries.
OVER 800, 900 men in the United States
work in coal mines.
BIa bells are now being made from
steel, not from bell metal
THEY make "maple sugar" out of
corn cobs at Batavia, Mich.
LAsKER, the great chess player, Is
but twenty-five years of age.
ONE pound day is the amount of
bread allowed an English soldier.
ScoRpIoNs, 1t is reported, are becom-
ing great pest in various parts of Mexico.
A DANCE house and concert hall for
the Gettysburg battle fiold is now pro-
jected.
A GERMAN physician has revived the
apple treatment for the cure of drunk
enness.
The fattest man ever known was
Daniel Lambert, who weighed 739
pounds.
The national cemeteries of Tennes-
see contain the graves of 57,1T9 union
soldiers.
A FARMER near Port Jervis, N. Y, is
said to employ his twelve children as
scarecrows.
A TEXAN has invented a device
which will couple air brakes by steam
Or electricity.
BUT a single eastern resort is this
year full to overlooking, and that is
Buzzard's Bay.
IT is said that there are 12T, 900 work
ing women in New York who support
their husbands.
THE new statue of William Lloyd
Garrison was unveiled on July at
Newburyport, Mass.
THE Ohio state free employment
agencies secured positions for over 49,
600 people the past year.
THERE is natural fountain in Dau.
phiny, France, which emits an infiam.
mable gas after every rain.
A NEBRASKA paper was forced to sus.
pend publication on account of the i'll.
ness of its only compositor.
A CORNER lot in San Francisco, once
exchanged for a suit of clothes, is now
considered worth 81, 100000.
PRINCESS MAYS wedding ring will he
made from a half-ounce nugget of pure
gold, the gift of Welsh miners.
AN evangelist at Butte City, Mon,
lately delivered funeral grafton over
the remains of favorite monkey.
THERE is a subterranean lake in
Colorado of considera BILE extent covered
by soil only eighteen inches in thick.
ness
HERMANN, the magician, testified
in court proceeding recently that
he had lost $4,000 in Wall street last
year.
CRIME is rapidly growing all over
Argentina. Statistics show that it has
more than doubled during the past two
years.
The women clerks in the depart
ments at Washington have raised
$4,000 to erect statue to the late Gen.
Spinner.
THE skeleton of mastodon measur.
ing, it is said, fifty feet in length, was
unearthed near Port Angeles, WASH,
recently.
A ST. LOUIS woman drew 81 1,700 from
bank, hid it in the cooking stove and
proceeded next morning to build the
usual fire.
Gov. TILLMAN, South Cardinals boss
bartender, started in business July
with stock of new-made liquors valued
at s3OO,OOO
"CAvENDIsH" Jones, the whist ex-
pert, says that the American women
are far better whist players than their
English sisters.
A PEAR from Oregon, displayed at
the Horticultural building at the
Worlds fair, weighs four and three
quarter pounds.
a coLoRED boy at McClenny, Fla, was
chased up a tree by an alligator the
other day, where he was kept prisoner
until help arrived.
The women in South Carolina state
liquor dispensaries are to receive the
munificent salary of 81. so week, and
work from seven to six.
"IZAL" is the name of a new non
poisonous disinfectant which has been
successfully used for dressing wounds,
bruises, etc. i'll England.
A CURIOUS tree-growth is noted near
Ellenville, N. Y, where hemlock and
IN oak have been perfectly joined at a
height of about ten feet.
THE clay pipe smoked by Miles
Standish in his friendly treaties with
the Indians is part of the government
exhibit at the exposition.
THE state of New York leads every
state, save California, in the produc
ton of grapes. About 10000 acres in
that state are planted in grapes.
A YOUNG soldier in California some
time ago deserted from the United
States army to join the Salvation
army. There was less probability of q
fight.
AN opal, weighing six hundred kar
ats, in the possession of Edward II
Fleming, of Opalville, Idaho, is claimed
tn be the largest of it's spe.;es in thu
world.
The school board of Auourn Maine
has decided that it takes six children t.
make school, and they intend CLOSING
up all schools having less than tina
number.
A SUIT in the English chancery cour,
begun 1872 years ago was concluded tn
other 6ry. The government duties AM
legal fees co, cred nearly the entire sun
Fought Tor.
IT is reported that the Ghezirah pal
zee, situated on the banks of the Nile
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