The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


The Borden trial cost the state Of
Massachusetts, $4,000.
AMSTERDAM, the capital OF Holland,
rests on forests Of piles.
PEARLS are found In southwest
Missouri worth $50 each.
By the emancipation proclamation
S,S05, 172 slaves were freed.
Hs.oVe the curious animals in Siam
are tailless cats with purple eyes
ELECTRIC tramways and railways In
Europe aggregate about 270 miles.
CHARLES BEEBE, of Dorset, O., has a
eat that is in It's twenty-ffth year.
The Denmark dikes have stood the
storms Of more than seven centuries.
ABOUT seventy corpses have been
cremated at st. Louis within the year.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has thus far
appointed fifty-nine newspaper men to
EIeHT-TENTHs Of the soldiers In
Russia and Servia can neither read nor
write.
Two post offices in Burke county, N.
c., are named respectively Joy" and
Worry"
COPPER is believed to be the metal
earliest known to man and first used in
the arts.
FIFTY-oNE metals are now known to
exist. Three centuries ago only seven
were known.
NEW YORK has found 1t necessary to
cover Cleopatra's needle with another
coating of wax.
WIN. MILLER, living near Shannon
dale, Ind, lately dislocated his lower
jaw while yawning.
The armies Of Europe have grown
since the Franco-Prussian war from
cess. 900 to %, PAS, 900.
TEE great gold fields Of South Africa
were discovered In 1865 by an elephant
hunter named Hartley.
KALAMAZOO has five wells with a
capacity Of 100000 gallsns Of water
daily. Three are artesian.
A HERON measuring six feet seven
inches from tip to tip was shot near
St Johns, Mich, recently.
CHuLALANeKoRN. the name Of the
present king Of Siam, means royal
hairpin, or royal topknot."
THERE is q tailor in the Kansas peni-
tentiary from Atchison who was sent
up for forging his wife's name.
IT is cited rs complimentary that
nearly all tho monarchs of Europe are
attended by American dentists.
A LITTLE black bug has made its ap-
pearance in the celery fields of Kala-
mazoo and is doing much damage.
MACON, Ga, has dog which was
trained to take the papers for its
master from the neighbors' doors.
MASS meetings for and against the
proposed operation of street cars ON
Sunday are being held at Toronto.
A NUMBER Of Cherokee Indian girls
supplied the singing at church ser.
vice in New York Sunday evening.
WASHINGTON state charges $3.50 for a
wholesale butterine license, and deal
ers are not taking out licenses thi.
year.
ALASKA, with its islands, is said tc
have coast line Of %, 900 miles, equa
in extent to the circumference of the
globe.
STEELE and Keep are the suggestive
names of two bankers Of Portland
Ore. They are not partners, but great
friends.
ONE of the Paris restaurants cele
brated for novelties in gastronomy
serves daily q soup based upon grass
hoppers.
A JOURNAL in Missouri complain.
that two burglars attempted to rob {
house in its town, regardless of th'
Sabbath"
MRS MARGARET McDowAL, Scotch
woman, who died in l76S, aged lo
years, married and survived thirteel
husbands.
A oNE-ARMKD resident of Youcalia
Ore, built, during the past month {
house twenty-four feet square, withou
assistance.
PENNSYLVANIA ranks first in tn
cigar output OF the country. New
York, Ohio and Florida follow in tn
order named.
MRS. RODNEY. who walked acros
Missouri in her trip from Little Roc
TO Chicago, arrived in Chicago on tim
and won $4,000.
THERE are one hundred and on
counties, towns, rivers and places gee
In this country.
The jaw bone of mastodon, COZ
tanning four huge teeth and weighin
1O3 pounds, was unearthed near Blu
springs, ILL.,, recently.
SPECIAL AGENT HANLoN estimate
that the government lost last year
fraudulent importations of Havan
tobacco over $4,000, 900.
AN eloping couple from DeKalb, Ia
rode on single horse seventeen mile
/ and had just been married when th
pursuing party arrived.
FIFTY-sIx years ago the block @
J which the Chicago post Office no
stands was sold at auction for S5o5.
is now worth $5,000,0 900.
The mayor Of Shepherdstown, We
Virginia, recently fined himself #
letting his cow run at large, Violate
of the towns ordinance.
SUPERIOR JUDGE WM CoNLEy, of IL
new county of MADEIRA, in California,
said TO be the youngest judge Of ar
court of record in the United State
He Is just twenty-six years old.
In China ell land belongs TO the stat
. trifliug SUM per acre, the san
through long centuries, is paid as rem
This u the only tax In tho country
1 shout sixty cents to person, on an q
4 ersge.
Al Immense spotted snake Is kee
! Ing the country around Mutual, O.,
= stste Of excitement. II IL said TO
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