The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE deepest artesian we'll Is at Pots
dam, 8, 500 feet deep.
ALL the German warships are to be
painted cinnamon yellow.
THE largest pumps In the world an
nsed in the sewers of London
The play of color in the opal b due
t. minute fiisures in the stone
THE best pearls are found on the O0y
Ion coast and the Persian gulf.
THE diamond, In a sufficient heat
will burn like piece of charcoal.
The longest bridge in the world, ovel
the St Lawrence river, is 0, LA feet
EVERY gem known TO the lapidary
has been found in the United StatcA
THH house property of Philadelphia
annually increases $50, 900, 900 in value
Tn house property of London is an
nually increased by the sum of s1O, o0o,.
o00
TIE rented houses of Great Britain
bring In their owners E1SS, 800, 600 q
year.
oNH Of the curious things about the
gulf stream is that no whales are found
IN It.
R1sADING lamps have been placed or
English railways on the penny-in-t the
slot plan.
The oldest known pottery is that OF
Egypt; some of 1t dates from nearly
1000 B. G.
THE Austro-Hungarian empire has
1896, 600 houses, of which 1905, 600 ere
IN Austria.
COAL is dearer in South Africa than
any other part of the world 1t is cheap
est in China.
TIE United States census of 1856
showed S,956, 600 houses, with S. S inhab-
itants to each.
LAST year about S5, 900, 600 packs OF
playing cards were manufactured and
sold in this country.
The best express train in Denmark lie
said to consume ten or twelve hours in
a journey of 100 miles.
Ex-SLCRErARY OF AGRICULTURE Col
MAN clears $500 annually from his
stock farm in Missouri
A NEW star was recently discovered
1t Harvard college observatory, in the
constellation of Norma.
GAMBLING debts are recoverable by
law in France, Spain, Venezuela and
sometimes in Germany.
SCHOLARS attending the New York
public schools have formed an anti-ci.
garette smoking league.
IRELAND has 156, 900 houses of one
room each, S57, 900 of two to four rooms
and 804, 900 of five or more.
The official returns of Berlin prop.
srty show 20, 700 houses, valued at g15s,.
400, 900 and renting for es 100000
F1REMEN at Troy, N. Y, are permit
ted to use the street cars in going to or
returning from fires free of charge
A RoUMANIAN lady is, at her own
Expense, constructing railway from
one of her estates to the nearest town.
A CABLE is to be laid between Ire.
land and Nova Scotia next spring. The
Commercial Cable Co. will operate the
line.
THIS years grape crop in New York
is the heaviest on record, and the hop
crop is $1,000 bales larger than last
year.
AT least fifty giants, whose heights
range from to 9 feet inches, want
positions with the Barnum e. Bailey
show.
ALASKA, with it's islands, is said to
have coast line of 1000 miles, equal
in extent to the circumference of the
globe.
THE embracing extent of the British
empire may be judged from the fact
that it contains 10000 islands and 9, 1000
rivers.
SoUrH CAROLINA this year paid pen
sions to 1885 ex-confederate soldiers,
the money thus expended reaching
t49, 744.
The queen of Greece is president of a
.sterhood devoted to the reformation
of criminals and she personally vista
prisoners.
ENGLAND is said to have more light
houses than any other country. There
Is one for every fourteen miles of it:
coast line.
The Syracuse salt works, the mos
extensive in the United States, have ar
evaporating surface of over 100000
square feet.
NESTS of the termite ants of South
Africa are often twelve feet high ant
grouped together in clusters, the TALES
In the center.
JAMES r. SOVEREIGN, the new heat
OF the Knights OF Labor, advocates tn,
naturalization OF land and of all natur
al monopolies.
The registration report Of Massachu
setts shows that nearly twice as man.
women in that state live to be owe
eighty years old
PROF. II. II. PATTIsoN, of Rochester
is getting titles by degrees. That G
D. D. has been bestowed upon him b
three universities
The Chinese emperor, who is twenty
three years old, has learned the Eng
lish language, and is now engaged i
the study of French.
The diamond, though hard, is one c
the most brittle stones. A fall on
wooden floor will sometimes crack an
ruin fne specimen.
AN uncut diamond looks very muc
like bit Of the very best gum arabic
THE New York city banks now hol
deposits of $475, 600. 000-more than ons
third the sum of money, gold, silve
and paper, in circaIation in the Unite
Statsa
The total receipts at the Springfield
football game amounted to $4,000
Yale's income from this source for I'll
entire season will probably be net
ae6, 900
CAsI. RouRxE, Of Trail county.
North Dakota, who died few da,