The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-02-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

A RACE horse clears from twenty to
twenty-four feet at bound.
IT is so cold in the northern part o.
Sweden, the mercury freezes.
A SALISBURY IN. c. woman is re-
ported to be cutting her third set Of
teeth.
BALTIMORE has S65 churches, and
claims to be the greatest church city in
America.
A BILL providing for a three-cent
street car far in Illinois is before the
legislature.
KENTUCKY has, it is said, more wom-
en- school commissioners than any other
Southern state.
ITALY eXpends every year SOC, 900, 900
for her soldiers, and less than 81, 900, 900
for her schools.
Two Indians who live in Atchison,
Kan, wear plug hats, and one of them
has mustache.
FRANK G. CARPENTER, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, has taken to
the lecture field.
A JOHNSON county mo man has been
convicted of stealing a cracker and a
chew of tobacco.
EXTENSIVE surveys have lately been
made for cable between North Amer
ica and Australia.
JANUARY is reputed to be regarded
by the shopping world as the linen
month of the year
THB original manuscript of "Scots
wha hae wi Wallace bled," is owned by
Mrs. j. G. Burns, of Dublin.
THE public school systemsof Hawaii
IS excellent. There are few of the ma
tives who can not read and write.
The population of the Sandwich is
lands is 10000, and they are in area
about one-siXth as large as the state OF
Ohio
THERE is bill before the New Hamp-
shire legislature which provides for the
purchase of Daniel Webster's birth
place.
RIPE bananas put up in cans with
condensed milk are said to make nu-
tritious food for those who like the
flavor
THERE is said to be an insurance COM
pany in Paris that refuses to issue poll.
cies on the lives of any people who use
hair dye.
AMERICAN money is in universal use in
the Hawaiian Islands, and nine-tenths
of the trade of the islands are with the
United States.
OF the siXty-four cardinals who com.
pose the sacred college but five are
English-spealling and only one of these
is an American.
FLORIDA is to have a confederate
home. A place on the Shell road, four
miles from Jacksonville, has been Sc
lected as the site.
New telephone companies are already
organizing, and in st. Louis private
families are furnished telephone SER
vices at $50 year.
New YORK is proposing a Worlds
fair for 1897 in New York city, in COM
memoration of the discovery of North
America by John Cabot.
A MONUMENT to Gov. John Sewer, OF
Tennessee, has been raised in the court.
house lawn in Knoxville. 1t will be
formally unveiled in May.
NEW YORK city is to have one of the
largest public schools ever erected.
About 2,4OO pupils will be accommo,
Dated in the mammoth structure.
EDWARD II. PAIsoN, of Salem, Mass,
has filed the position of cashier in one
bank for siXty-seven years. He is nine.
ty years old, and recently resigned his
position.
The Texas Legislature is considering
q proposition to exempt factories from
taxation for ten years, Such law was
IN force in South Carolina up to few
years ago.
A COMMITTEE OF classical scholars in
Italy are trying to raise funds to build
monuments in honor of four ancient
Romans OF Virgil, Sallust,
Horace and Cicero.
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES did not carry q
watch. The experience of having his
rhronometer twice stolen from him made
so much trouble that he declined t.
tempt another thief.
A BALTIMORE man who paid his fare
pm cable line in that city got caught
in tie-up and was awarded s. damages
oy the court because the conductor re.
fused to return his fare.
SINCE the discovery of the diamond
fields of South Africa in 1867 there have
oeen exported from Cape Colony SO, O,OOO,.
600 carats of diamonds, weighing over
ten tons and valued at $3.50, 600, 900.
THE most terrific explosions on record
were those at the eruption of the vol.
cano of Krallatoa in August, 1883 The
furthest point at which this eruption
was heard from the island of Rodriguez
2,eGS miles southwest.
TIE vice presidents room at the cap
itol is luxurious apartment, and one
of it's chief features is the fireplace. 1t
has been the custom, it is said to
give the retiring vice president the
fender, tongs, poker, etc, belonging
thereto.
The heir to the, Austrian throne,
when he becomes emperor, will govern
nine countries, bear eighteen titles
as duke, one as archduke, two as grand
duke and also thirty-three other titles
CAPT. JoHg ADAM COOPER is the
youngest veteran OF the Mexican war,
having enlisted at the age of twelve. He
is also the pioneer horse-car driver OF
San Francisco, having been in the bust.
ness twenty-nine years,
THE highest trestle on the line of the
Northern Pacific railway is that across
the Coriscian defile, about twelve miles
west of Missoula, Mont The track
level is exactly 800 feet inches abov,
the rocks in the gorge below.
SENATOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, is al.
most blind in one eve, and the trouble