The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
GREAT BRrTAIN's capital in our rail
roads Is said to amount to $500, 900, 900
DURING the past four months the st
Louis police have killed six people.
AN Indiana man claims to have Gu
sumber thirty-six inches in length
STRAWBERRY vinss at Cadillac, Mich
are said to be bearing second crop.
A NEW Gatling gun can fire 3,12t
shots minute, and worked by u small
electric motor 800 shots.
A HYDRAULIC testing machine a
Washington university exerts n pres
sure of 100000 pounds.
IN the reign of Louis XVI. the hat.
of the ladies were two feet high anc
four wide.
LEAvENwoRTH man died the other
day after taking five drinks of whisky
and three tablespoonfuls of red pepper
The highest death rates from Bright.
disease are in Shanghai, $50 per 10, 600
Frankfort, $780, and Amsterdam, 100.
A PHILADELPHIA colored man named
A. Il. Land parts his name in the mid
die, thus: "a. PARKWAY Land"
THERE are associations in Great Bri
tain which insure against elopement
matrimony and twins.
STEPHEN PusuEE, of Marinette, Wis,
has suntiower stalk in his garden
bearing 147 blossoms.
THE earliest coins of New Hampshire
were of copper pence, 1Os to the Span.
ish dollar, issued in 1776.
THE Roman sestertius was like ou,
''bit," a money of account, having ne
coin to represent its value.
The combined weight of family In
Morgan county, Ga, consisting of five
members, is said to be only 272 pounds
Nor since the summer of 1s49 has the
water in the upper Delaware river been
slow as it has been lately.
The freshmen classes at Dartmouth
and Amherst are the largest in these
colleges history.
A SINGLE sentence in speech of Sen.
ator Faulkner's the other day contained
257 words.
VERMONT was the first state to issue
a coinage on its own authority. Cop
per coins were issued in 1885.
TEXAS reports that the pecan crop
this season will be the finest in many
years.
HAILsToNEs that plug watermelons
are reported from New York state.
Nature furnishes watermelons on ice.
PARIS fruit dealers paint fruit to
make it appear ripe. American dealers
depend on the smell.
1T is estimated that last year 1885,
600, 600 bananas were consumed in the
United States alone.
The real name of the most distin-
guished Dutch novelist of his time,
'Maarte Martens" is Van de Poorten
Schwarz.
in an asylum near Paris. His delusion
has taken the form Of belief that ho
is Cesar and Napoleon in one.
The marquis of Londonderry is the
owner of the smallest pony known. 1t
weighs only 16 pounds, and at it's birth
was but 19x inches high.
The Oldest postmistress, in point of
service, is Miss Martha 2, Stone, of Ok
ford, Mass, who received her commits
sion April 81, 1857.
A STURGEON, measuring nearly eight
and half feet in length, was driven
ashore during the recent storm near
Essex, Ct. soy
Sol. iNaERsoLL Is rather pleased
with the fact that the advertising he
gets through the religious newspapers
is worth to him s15, 1000 year.
The Duke of Westminster is said to
have expended about s5,OOO,OOO in re-
building Eton hall, now one of the
palatial private mansions in England.
FIVE men and a woman recently rap
. footrace of 200 yards in Henderson
county, North Carolina, and the woman
won easily.
1t is estimated that over half of the
meA Thrown out Of employment in
August have been reinstated in Sep
tember.:
AN innovation in the manner of de-
Ivering mails will take place in Brook.
iyn, N. Y, first Of next month. The
mail carriers will deliver on bicycles.
A RELIGIOUS debate between Camp
bellite elder and Baptist deacon is
shaking Charleston, Mo-, as an earth
quake.
A WOMAN aged 11e years lately ap-
piled for marriage license in Tolchen-
over, Russia. Her husband died four.
teen years ago at the age of 101 years.
New YORK papers report reduced
ratio of matrimonial engagements as
the result of the summer season. Evi
IDENTIFY the market was panicky.
The New York Thirteen club has had
another annual dinner AS there was
no death to record, they celebrated the
fact by having the bill of fare printed
On coffin lid.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, who is cred
tied with the intention of starting {
new woman's paper in England, is {
sister of the marquis of Queensbury ant
one Of the most versatile women of tn,
day.
WORTH, the man milliner of Paris
keeps regular force of about fifty
persons besides the employees of th
dressmaking department, numbering
from two hundred to seven hundre'
girls, according to the season.
MISS LUCILLE RODNEY, who has wol
wager by walking from her home il
Galveston, Tex, to the Worlds fair
coupfipp tias "a II tha Ivnv tnada ShOO n,