The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

EX-SENATOR INGALLS, is said to be go
ing to Europe again.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX dances almost
as we'll as she writes.
THE editor of Missouri paper takes
'possums on subscriptions.
A HOPKINS (Mo.) hunter claims to
have recently killed 1, 100 quail
The Toronto, Ont. law society has
admitted women TO practice law.
A WOMAN life insurance agent does an
excellent business in Wichita, Kan.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY contains the
mortal remains of 1,173 illustrious dead.
FARMERS near Fairbury, ILL.,, are much
exercised over the appearance of CLAN
ders.
BosToN bicycle-mallers are proposing
an asphalt road from Chicago to New
York.
The Marquiso LAMA often rewrites
her stories as many as four or five
times.
Mrs WlL w. AsToR has unique col
lection Of photographs of beautiful
women.
EX-Goy, BALDWIN, of Michigan, and
who succeeded Senator Zach Chandler,
is dead.
A CLARENCE, Mo. man has been fined
S675 for the luxury Of riding a mule on
the sidewalk.
Mrs. SARAH BALCH BRANuN, of
Georgetown, Mass, i5 is said, was born
in December, 1890.
The Georgia legislature has done its
work promptly, adjourned ana given
the Taxpayers q rest
IT is computed that twelve city people
die where ten deaths occur among
dwellers in the country.
NEW ZEALAND has set apart two
islands for the preservation of wild
birds and other animals.
The heaviest man in congress is John
w. Rife, of Pennsylvania. A special
chair is provided for him.
Mrs. PTEEPoNT MORGAN's correspond
ence is so large that she is obliged to
employ n private secretary.
The Krupp gun to be on exhibition
at Chicago is eighty-two feet long and
throws a shot sixteen miles.
A JUDGE at Biddeford, Ne, sentenced
drunkard to pay q fine or take
course of the bichloride of gold cure.
PRESIDENT Low announces a gift Of
$4,000 to Columbia college, to be di-
.ded between biography and history.
The most indestructible wood is the
the jarrah wood OF western Australia,
which defies all known forms of decay
The total ,oss by fire in the United
States during the year 1899 is estimated
at Sl56, 1924, ,53j, as against SlGG, or, 600 in
1891.
lHE Gretna (Neb.) Reporter tells
about a doctor of that place who took a
tapeworm from man seventeen feet
long"
il TEXAs farmer raises the money TO
go to New York and buy green
goods" and finding himself duped goes
insane
LEGISLATION on the immigration ques-
tion in SO far as it pertains to the i'm
Portation OF disease is promised in the
near future.
The Languedoc ship canal in France
by short passage of 14S miles, saves a
sea voyage OF :, 600 miles by the Straits
OF Gibraltar.
The largest needle manufactory in
the world is in Redditch, Worcester
shire, England. Over 7O,OO0 600 are
made weekly.
SAN FRANCISCO is led to believe that
Mrs. Hearst, widow OF the millionaire
senator, will leave it $1,000 600 for a
great museum.
A TELEGRAPHIC signal passes from
end to end OF the Atlantic cable, dis
tance of 2,7OO miles, in less than one
third of a second
D,-r,,,>- --,,-,,.- rx,..-. NJ
with swallowing needles in an effort to
provoke symptoms Of consumption, and
70 secure her pardon.
DEATH claimed Augustus Haas, of
Bethlehem, Pa, after he had eaten q
large pot of sauer lSrout and drunl;
Beventeen schooners of beer.
THERE are two places in London
where clergymen can buy sermons
printed. They cover all subjects and
can be had for every season.
A CONVENTION of the Negro editors OF
Georgia have formally resolved that
Negroes should be so designated, and
not DC called ''colored' people.
BRONSON HOWARD says that American
managers are now seeking American
plays, ana that foreign dramatic works
are merely regarded as stopgaps.
TENNYsoN's personal estate proves to
have a value of about $3.50, COO Brown
lng's amounted to little over $50 600
and Mathew Arnolds to only s., 900.
VICE-PEEsIDENT MORTON has appoint
ed Senator Gray, of Delaware a regent
of the Smithsonian institution, in place
f Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, de-
ceased.
A WRITER in the St Louis Globe Dem.
ocrat defines a widow to be one who
has buried her husband, and grass,
widow to be one who has simply mis-
aid him.
CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON of Pennsylva-
mia has been offered S22, 600 for farm
which only cost him Sl3 900 a year ago
The farm is on the line of a proposed
electric railroad.
A YANKEE, by name John Beattle
has applied for a patent on contriv
ance to prevent that whirring sound in
the telephone wires at parallel trolley
wires used for street car purposes.
ACCORDING to a recent decision of an
English court u man has good case at
law against clergyman who persuades
his (the man's) wife to go to church, in
stead of staying at home and cooking
the dinner.
Mrs. SUSANNA ABBOTT, of Cambridge