The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

The Latin Bible was valued at $3.50 in
the fifteenth century.
A TREE planting day has been estab-
dshed in thirty-eight states
LoNDoN's latest census showed the
population to be 4,2l1, ,O5G people.
THERE are 1000 saloons in Chicago,
with an invested capital of at least S1o,-
900, 600.
THE New York Sun estimates that
there are eighty clubs in the city and
e5, 600 members.
New YORK will spend $3.50, 900 to enter
tain distinguished foreign visitors TO
the Worlds fair.
A WATER pipe in Washington was re-
Gently stopped up by a young eel about
a foot in length.
II is said that there are over 10, 900
applicants for postmasterships in the
state of Georgia
The life saving service in 1890 cost
s1,oOO,OOO, and saved 500 lives and
$4,000, 900 of property.
THE London Lancet advises visitors
to the Worlds fair to drink no water
that has not been boiled.
New YORK was the first city incorpo-
rated in the limits of the United States.
Its charter was dated 1864.
THE cotton acreage will be largely
reduced in West Tennessee the coming
season for several reasons
A CABLE ferry will soon be placed in
operation across the Columbia river at
Chelan Falls, Washington.
TWENTY-FIVE ships of war of various
kinds are now in course o construction
Cor the French government
THE Vanderbilts have decided to run
a train between New York and Chicago
on q nineteen hour schedule.
IN Amherst, Mass, the public cleo
trio lights are furnished free for the
privilege of occupying the streets.
THERE is more snow on the summit
of the Rocky mountains at present
than there has been for years past
MANY oflicc-seekers in Washington
are losing faith in the left hind foot of
a graveyard rabbit as n pocket-piece.
A YOUNG woman who is under arrest
in Augusta, Ga, for bombarding houses
with rocks says that she did it for sport.
AMONG other houses destroyed by the
recent landslide at Sandgate, Eng,
was one in which John Il. Cough was
born.
ACcoRDING to statistics, the pro-
duction of beet sugar in this country
has more than doubled during the past
year
The governor OF Virginia is having
his oyster gunboat painted and from
her deck he will witness the naval re-
view.
LACE OF all kinds is now made by ma
chinery in such perfection that only ex-
perts can distinguish it from hand
work.
A HORSE owned by Mrs. Gilbert, of
Clark county, Ind, died short time
ago at the reputed age of forty-two
years
MISSISSIPPI county, No, has a willow
farm, the crop of which is sufficient to
manufacture fifteen carloads OF baskets
year
AT Plymouth a vessel weighing 200
tcns was lifted clean onto the broad sea
wall at the brea!iwater by the force Of
the waves.
ONLY six women out of nearly 1000
who were registered in Kansas City,
Kan, voted for the female candidate
for mayor.
l. most Florida hotels there are large
baskets full of oranges on the office
counter, to which all can freely help
themselves.
A SCHOOL teacher at ,yaterville, y.
Y, has offered prize Tor the best col
lection OF clippings from the current
aews papers.
AMONG the articles to be exhibited by
the French government at the Worlds
fair is parasol once carried by Martha
Washington.
Mrs. DR. ELDRIDGE, of Toxic, Japan,
has made collection of 1000 :ea pots,
which she intends exhibiting at the
Worlds fair.
Mrs. HICKs-LoED. whose fortune runs
into the millions, has the details OF
every piece OF property she owns at her
fingers ends.
EX-ATToRNEY GENERAL Wayne Mac
Veagh has, with his family, beer
spending most of the winter in South
ern California.
Cor. SHANKLIN of Trenton, Mo-, dur
ing a recent visit to Florida gatheret
-and cleaned and has now brought hom,
e collection of >, 600 shells.
MILLIONAIRE George NJ. Pullman hal
recently expended $3.50, OoO of his palac,
car profits in building an addition Il
his Chicago residence.
THE ten-year-old son of z. A. God
dard, os Reynolds, Ga, fell into a wei
sixty feet, deep and escaped with com
paratively few injuries.
ALEXANDER DOYLE, the sculptor, i
in Mobile, at work on a statue of Ad
miral Raphael Semmes- The family o
the admiral live in Mobile.
IT is reported that VIM C Whitne.
will soon retire from active business
He is at present the master mind of sew
eIal great financial enterprises.
GEN. U. D. HOWARD, L. S. A, thougl
only one-handed. is said 70 be able t
open and handle letter with as mucl
facility as any aide upon his staff.
TIE English language owes much Z
local newspaper reporters. A dispatc'
describing the fire in Auburn Priso
tells of the good work done by str
peds," meaning the convicts.
A SYNDICATE with capital stock q
800, 600, 900 is formed by capitals IS 0
Pittsburgh and other cities TO establis
a mammoth steel-making plant tina
will rival the Carnegie mills.
AN unpleasant taste in the molasse
used by Tennessee family led to u
investigation of the barrel, which ha
l,aar ra,afva1 from, +ha ,vicl.ad c;ty, n