The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

Mpch counters.
BAMBOO furniture for country houses
Is evidently at the height of fashion.
Mr.. S. c. HENDRICKS. of Hannibal.
Mo-, has invented railroad bicycle.
LIZZIE BORDEN will neither write
book nor embark on a theatrical tour,
A NEW and important industry Is
the production of soap from cottonseed
oil.
A BOILING spring which. runs pure
cold, fresh water is curiosity at Bath,
Mo.
No MORE Pinllertons can be employed
In Michigan-not even as deputy sher-
Ifs.
THE fat women residents of Harper
county, Kan, held u picnic the other
day.
CoLoRED and fancy footwear was
never so high in favor among women rs
now.
IT would require $4,000 cholera mi.
crobes to form procession an inch
long.
EVERY president of the United Statea
has either been lawyer or soldier or
both.
THERE are 1,S5O cities and towns in
the United States equipped with cleo
trio light.
HENRY WErsEL, of Hellerton, Pa,
owns u Bible printed in 1541, weighing
fifteen pounds.
The United States acreage in grain
Is greater than the entire area of the
German empire.
AN aged woman living in Platte coun-
ty, Neb., was recently married to her
eighth husband.
AN advertiser in a paper says he has
cottage to let containing six rooms
and an acre of land.
Two SONS of Gen. Garfield, Abram
and Irwin, graduated from Williams
college on Wednesday.
IT is estimated that 1,7OO, 600 square
miles of the earth's surface are still un.
inhabited or ownerless.
THE Connecticut law requiring drunk
erds to tell where they bought their
liquor has been repealed.
MARSHAL MCMAHON, eX-president OF
the French republic, has just passed
his eighty-siXth birthday.
a man the natives pull up the track for
miles and boycott the trains.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND receives from
ten to twenty letters a day containing
recipes for reducing his obesity.
NELSON, Mo-. has pigeon which is
raising brood OF chickens in place of
an old hen who declined to serve.
THE theory of Jones, the English
scientist, is that the earth is huge
balloon, and that it will finally collapse
as the result of drilling for natural
gas.
PROF. JAMES II. KIRKLAND, the new
chancellor of the Vanderbilt university,
at Nashville, is native of Spartan
burg, S. c., and thirty-four years OF
age.
THE smallest tree in Great Britain
grows on the summit of Ben Lomond.
1t is the dwarf willow, which is mature
when it attains the height of two
inches
FIVE thousand women in Boston have
petitioned the street-car company to re-
scind the privilege now allowed men OF
smoking on the three rear seats of the
summer cars.
WHEN pair of twins are born in Sa.
lima, Kan, the old bachelors of the
town rustic around and buy them a
cab. And they consider that is letting
them down pretty easy.
ELMER JAMES, of Philadelphia, tied
sinlSers to his feet before jumping over
board from yacht at Atlantic City, N
Ia oil hn1l ,t,;, OF h
with u razor, as he was bound to shuttle
off.
QUEEN VICTORIA never reads any doc.
uments or letters, except from her i'm.
mediate family, until they have first
been looked over by her secretary, who
has charge of the royal correspond.
ence.
AS AN offset to the perennial baby
show Paris is to have an exhibition OF
aged people of both sexes, from July IL
to July %. Foreigners as well as ma
tive born Frenchmen will be allowed
to enter.
Miss SALLIE PIERsoN, compositor,
has been appointed state organizer OF
the Federation of Labor for Indiana.
She has supported herself and mother
by type-setting since she was sixteen
years of age.
SOME one of a curiously mathematical
turn has calculated that pound o1
spiders webbing unwound would be
long enough to reach around the world,
with enough left over to reach from
New York to San Francisco
EUGENE V. DEBs, well known in the
Firemen's brotherhood, is making q
great effort to establish the American
Railroad union, an organization con-
sisting of various classes of railroad
men, without an insurance branch
The wealthiest Negro woman in the
United States has just died. She was
Mrs. Amanda Dickson Toomer, of Au
gusta, Ga, and she inherited nearly
$500, 1000 from her father, who was q
wealthy white farmer of Hancock coun-
ty in that state.
LAGRAND LARoN, Missouri stock
raiser, has also raised during the past
sixteen years set of whiskers tina,
rest on the ground when he stands erect
and he is six feet tall.
GEN. ROBERT Il. LEES daughter, Miss
Mary Curtis Lee, spends very little
time In America. She has already
made the journey round the WORLD
twice, and is just starting again TO,
Cairo. Egypt.
The total production of silver in the
world during the last year was placed
at l45, 600, 900 ounces troy. of which the