The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

et s3, 600, 900, 900.
THE property Of Germany is assessed
1t &c, 500, 900, 900.
VIENNA bread was introduced into
This country in 1875.
FRANCE is worth, all property con-
ddered, ss,000,o00 900.
AN electric road from New York to
Chicago has been proposed.
TRACES of the bicycle are found as
far back as the fifteenth century.
OVER 41 per cent of all the property
In the German empire is mortgaged.
The annual increase Of wealth in the
United States il over ss5 per inhabit-
ant
In Great Britain the mortgages aver
age % per cent Of the value of the real
estate
TIE czar has presented President Car
not with six magnificent thoroughbred
horses.
THERE are men in Connecticut who
make the hunting of rattlesnakes q
profession.
THE winter term at the Berlin uni.
versity comprises seven hundred courses
Of lectures
EACH pupil in the public schools of
tho United States cost on an average
e17.22 a year.
LORD EBURY, born in 1901 and created
. baron in 1856, is the oldest peer in the
house of lords
The free mail matter delivered with.
IN the last twelve months amounted to
$1,000, 600 pounds.
The Krupp gun exhibited at the
Worlds fair cost $3.50, 600 for casting
and transportation.
THE population of Italy is very
dense, there being 27O people to every
square mile of territory.
Miss LOUISE IMoaEN Quincy, the
poet. is candidate for postmistress at
her home in Auburndale.
CALIFoRNIANs says that Boston geta
its beans from their state, and Texas
depends on her for potatoes.
An old deed, dated July IA. 1925, was
fled in the county clerks Office at AL
bany, N. Y, few days ago.
GEORGE SHORTER, colored, died from
the effects of a quart of gin, swallowed
on a bet, in Washington, D. c.
MRS. EMELINE ALDR1cH, a pensioner
Of the war Of 1912, died at Riverhead,
L. l.. recently, aged 101 years.
MASSACHUSETTS has more incorpor.
ated cities Of more than 10000 inhab.
itants than any other state in the
union.
DR. w. S. LEACH, the oldest physi-
clan at st. Joseph, Mo-, and before the
war the largest slave owner in the state,
Is dead.
Nrrr,r o{ac+ - T
Michigan is $40 feet or about one-sixth
OF mile. The mean depth is about
1926 feet.
MULBERRY trees on a farm near
Charleston, Mo-, are said to have re-
Gently borne fruit for the fourth time
this season.
PROBABLY the finest private collec-
tion of butterflies in the world is
owned by Barthold Nuemoegen, New
York broker.
MISS LoTTIE CRABTREE, the actress,
is in San Francisco for the winter, ac.
companied by her mother. Her visit is
due to ill-health.
The freight on car of Oregon wheat
was thirty-two and one-half cents per
bushel to Chicago, where it sold at
Afty-eight cents
Two hunters went out in the woods
from Abbeville, Wilcox county, Ga, q
few days ago and bagged eleven pos,
ums in two hours.
IT is said that if wart is rubbed
with the pared surface of a freshly cut
potato three times day it will disap-
pear within a month.
SEATTLE meat market company
hires local mandolin club "to perform
during the sale of meats and poultry
on special market days
A WOMAN in Portland, Me-, deposited
$500 in savings bank in 1864, and has
seen the amount grow to s1,26S by the
accumulation of interest
THE condor scars higher than any
other known species of bird, spending
nine-tenths of his life floating about at
hight of over three miles.
ALTOONA, Wis, lays claims to the
champion high kicker of the world.
His name is w. S. Stokes and he has a
record Of ten feet six inches
ALUMINIUM, the new metal of which
such great things are expected and
which now sells at seventy-fve cents a
pound. is soon to be put on the market
AZ forty-tive.
THE iron lighthouse exhibited at the
Worlds fair is to replace the Waackaack
beacon, near Sandy Hook. The new
tower is SO feet high, 80 feet taller than
the present one.
You've women of Germany have a
superstition that, if they bury drop
of their blood under a rosebush, it will
ever afterward insure the eXperimenter
pair of rosy cheeks.
FEW Americans are aware that
Queen Victoria is a clergyman. She
has been prebendxry of ST. David's
since 1887, and Is the senior pre- ebendary
OF the English church.
The annual yield from the cotton
crop OF the south will average $500, 900,
400, says Gov. Northern, of Georgia, to
which may be added s27, 900, 900 for oil,
cake and bulls from the seed.
New YORK furnishers of mems cloth
Ing are making an effort to emancipate to
their patrons from the shirt that goes
IN over the head by Offering for sale a
shirt that goes on and buttons up like
coat
WILLIAM II. SMITH, for many years
superintendent of the botanical gar
deus In WashiugtOn has il is said