The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-05-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

ELpERrLooM schoolhouse is in Carroll
county, Mo.
THE church spire originated in tn,
twelfth century.
THE speed of the falcon often exceed.
$50 miles an hour.
MoRRrcE, Mich, has an expert tele
grapher nine years old.
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about G,000, 900 people.
THERE are forty-three mountains G, ,oO(
feet and upwards in North Carolina.
In England no town is technically G
city unless it is the seat of a bishops
see.
MR.. ONION, of Smith county, is one
of the strong men of the Texas legisla.
ture.
NULL Boom is in Washington in
Tennessee Office.
F1FTY-oNE metals are now known tc
exist. Four hundred years ago only
seven were known.
INVITATIONS to church weddings in
New York city sometimes bring as high
q sum as $40 each.
Two MORNING newspapers at Raleigh
N. c., are published by the same staff
and at the same office.
The most remarkable springs in the
world are in California; they produce
sulphuric acid and ink.
Miss ADDIE EDMoNsToN, of Centralia.
Mo-, dislocated her arm while in the
act of combing her hair.
FENTREss county, Tenn, has never
had a church in its limits. One is
building now at Fentress.
Mr.. WEIssE, Chicago "shatchen"-
a sort of marriage broller-styles him
self commissioner of love-"
THE Boston common contains in round
numbers forty-five acres and is worth
more than 81, 1000, 900 per share.
THE most wonderful vegetable in the
world is the trutfle; it has neitherroots,
stem, leaves, flowers nor seeds.
The care of the forests in Germany
supports 100000 families and involves
al annual expenditure of s4O,OOO,OOO.
In Thuringia, Germany, there is a
whole district which is dependent for
its support on the manufacture of glass
eyes.
The duke of Bedford is one of the
few Englishmen, who like the queen
possesses a complete dinner service OF
gold.
The shootings at Cluny castle, which
Andrew Carnegie has rented from
Cluny Macpherson, extend over 12,OOC
acres.
The canyon of the Colorado is 800
miles long, and the cliffs on either side
are from 5000 to G,O00 feet above the
water.
THERE is some talk in England of
breaking up the old vessels that are
lying idle and put the old metal on the
market.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, the palace car
man, intends erecting church at AL
bion, New York, in memory of his
mother.
THOMAS A. Edison recently said that
he never owned watch in his life. Il
he says.
CARGoEs of horse meat. it is said, are
being shipped from New York to Bel
gium as food for the poor people of that
country.
HoN. JOHN BAssELI, of Clarksburg.
w. Va, is the owner of Bible printed
IN the Latin, which is more than 326
years old.
A SCHOOL district in Galloway county,
Mo-, has 100000 worth OF taxable prop.
erty and only thirteen children of
school age.
PERHAPS the earliest Columbus mon
ument in the United States was that
erected at baltimore by French resi-
dent in 1899.
THE largest desert is the Sahara,
5000 miles from east to west: 1000
from north to south; area, 5000, ,OOO
square miles.
The closest city, politically, in the
United States is Wilmington, Del,
which Cleveland carried against Harri.
son by one vote.
AT Cherbourg, France, an electrical
canoe is in successful operation. twill
run twelve hours at the rate of nearly
eight knots an hour.
VIM M. BRYAN, of Coldwater, Mich,
is the owner of a pitcher which he
claims was brought over to this coun-
try on the Mayflower.
Gov. PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, has
appointed five women as notaries pub
lie, his first nominations under the new
law regarding that office.
THE huge Krupp gun to be exhibited
at the Worlds fair will be presented to
the city of Chicago after the fair, and
will be mounted in fort.
The largest Gothic church in the
world is Cologne cathedral. It's founda-
tion stones were laid in 124s, and the
edifice was completed in 1885,
MOST of the buffalo bones are ship
ped to the east, where they are con-
verted into bone charcoal, which is
used for tiltering in the sugar refner.
les.
manded one of the squadrons in the
Hampton roads naval review, was the
of the vessel that bore Gen
Grant around the world.
THE Italian government is to issue Il
postage stamp of new design in honor
of the silver wedding day of the king
and queen. 1t will be adorned by pro-
file likenesses of their majesties.
A MEMPHIS man has patented ar
electrical vegetation eXterminator,'
which is designed to kill the rank vege
tation which grows along railroad beds
snd highways in tropical countries.
EMPERoR WILLIAM, of Germany, in.
tends to go on n yachting cruise along
tue coast of Norway about the middle
Of June, after which he will go to Eng.