The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
ELECTRICITY now lights about 1, $50
American towns
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, has q company of
deaf mute soldiers
A CIRCULAR city railway is to be con-
structed in Vienna.
THE Union Pacific railroad crosses
Aine mountain ranges.
1T costs Uncle Sam $3.50 shot to test
sanpon plate and guns.
AN Indian named Trout has been
drowned while bathing.
The score of a baseball game at Bren.
ham, Tex, was Ill to II.
PHYSICIANS say that hay fever has al.
most entirely disappeared.
The Turkish cavalry is admitted to
be the finest in all Europe.
BENTON county (Mo.) farmers arc
Feeding wheat to their hog.
The name Of jug Tavern, Ga, has
been changed to "Winder."
NrNNEAPoL1s' new directory shows
ats population to be 222, ,7o7.
The anchors Of the Campania weigh
eight and ene-haf tons each.
FROM 1914 to 1880 the Siberian mines
have produced 1900 tons of gold.
SCIENTISTS have invented q device
which makes sunbeam audible.
MoNKEYTowN is the name Of new
postoffice in Yazoo county, Miss.
OF every 10000 deaths in the United
States 1, 420 are from consumption.
THE United States produces thirty
I'VE per cent of all tho lead of the
world.
MARK TWAIN is said to have received
500, 900 in royalties for his "Innocents
Abroad"
MICHIGAN, Iowa, Vermont Wiscon-
sin and Illinois have no interest-bear-
ing debt.
HARVARD, the oldest American uni
versity was attended by 2.o8s students
last year.
The owner of a hairless calf at Brad
ley, Me-, refused showman's offer Of
$500 for it.
WOMEN are longer lived than men.
Insurance tables are now being based
on this fact.
LAKE MICHIGAN is twice as deep az
Lake Superior and nine times as deep
- Lake Erie.
A BROOKLYN woman who is very fond
of cats has turned her house into Q
feline asylum.
A SHOEMAKER at Lynn, Mass, re-
pairs free every eleventh pair of shoes
left to be fixed.
HARRIET BEEcHER STowE's twin
daughters, who have turned forty, are
both unmarried.
A MINK, in one night, killed 1877 chick
ems owned by F. P. Wagner, near
Springs City, Pa
THE Japanese divide the day of
twenty-four hours into twelve periods
two hours each.
A sALooNKEEPER at New Albany,
Ind, has been prosecuted for keeping
two polecats as pets.
LEWIS IRIG, who has been sleeping
for three months, died near Chadron,
Ia, from starvation.
A RESIDENT of Missouri recently
finished a guitar composed of over
1000 pieces of wood.
OF all American generals Marion is
the favorite for town names, having 30
clt1eS called after MIN.
A BROOKLYN minister intends to make
his church attractive to young men by
employing girls as ushers.
HUMAN blood is composed of n. parts
of water, 6.2 of albumen, 14.1 of color
ing matter and 10 of saline.
IT is said that Carl Schurz is writing
= history of this country covering the
decade between 1850 and 1860.
ELLA EWING, of Clark county, stands
up for Missouri at Chicago to the ex.
tent of eight feet two inches.
GOVERNMENT detectives in some of
the "moonshine" districts carry kodaka
with them to secure evidence.
A COLLECTION of postage stamps has
been disposed of for sixty thousand
francs by native of Bordeaux.
In Great Britain the daily cost of a
laborer's food is As per cent of his wages;
In the United States, s3 per cent.
In Great Britain the annual sick rate
for each inhahitant 10 ten days to t,le
year; in the United States, eight days.
A FEW drops of compound tincture o,
benzoin on a wad of cotton is said to be
IN excellent remedy for the toothache,
FORD CITY (Pa.) is being deserted by
foreigners returning to Europe since
the plate glass works have shut down
MYzI ABBoU, Azel Abbou and Primo.
Abdalia are three Syrians who have
purchased farm near Fort Scott, Kan
A Mr.. FISCHER has set up near Bel
ford, N. j., factory for making
horses into sausages for European con
sumption.
JOSEF HOFFMAN,, the little prodigy
whose forte is the piano, has been play
ing 80 poorly Of late as to discourag,
his father.
EDISON, the inventor, recently sais
that he never owned watch in hi
life. II never wa t to know what tim,
1t IA" hs says
MRS. GEO. MAsoE, of Geneva, o., ha
plant Of double hollyhock. the bios
SONS Of which are nearly a jet black
II is \ novelty.
MEXICO sends the United States ever,
year $4,000, 900 worth OF "heniquen
rope. the cordage out of which ham
mocis ere made.
A FLORIDA man has Q fondness 70
alligstors and is said to have lived o.
nothing but the meat of saurians TO
over three years
The superstition about the numbe