The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-30
CURRENT TOPICS.


navy in the same year, $50, ia, 1S9.
A MEDIC AL writer estimates that FIVE
per cent of dog bites result fatally.
The total value of exhibits at the
Worlds fair in bond was sl4,5Oo,ooo.
THE physical strength Of tiger is
nearly twice as great as that of lion.
WHEN the vote of jury in Germany
stands to 6 the prisoner is acquitted.
THE London hod-carriers have an
organ, edited by one of their own num-
ber.
SALooNKEEpERs in New York city
have added snuff to their free lunch
counters
BosroN's -Four Hundred, according
10 the Blue Book, numbers nearly five
thousand.
OAKLAND, CAL, has imposed tax OF
Is on each telegraph and telephone pole
in the city.
A MAN in Polk county, Mo-, has
salted down two hundred rabbits for
winter use
The estimated cost on both sides Of
the great civil war in this country was
sc, 500, 900, 900.
THERE are $50 papers published in the
interest of anarchy, most of which ap.
pear IN Spain.
In less than three hundred years
300, 900 in war.
The spring and autumn maneuvers
of the European armies cost annually
over 100000, 900.
NEARLY fifteen per cent. of the pres
ent population of the United States i:
of foreign birth.
CoLoRADo's gold output will show ar
increase of more than 100 per cent this
year over last.
The total number of electors in this
country including women entitled tc
vote, is 13, 500, 600.
The students of the scientific depart.
ment of Yale intend to esta blish a mag
wine of their own.
THE wars of the last seventy years
have cost Russia e335, 600, 600 and the
lives of 664, 600 men.
SAM JONES described man as "sc
little that he could peep through key
hole with both eyes"
ADAM BADEAi is getting very corpu
lent, and looks less and less like gen
eral the older he grows.
ONE-FIFTH of all the platinum USED
in the world finds its way into the
workshop of the dentist
LARGE quantities OF oranges are sem
from Jerusalem to Liverpool, and the
trade is rapidly increasing.
QUEEN VICTORIA is going to Italy fol
the winter There is no noise ant
clamor to bother her there.
The destruction of stores and cloth
ing in both armies during the civil wa
is estimated at 500, ,000,0J0.
IT is estimated that since the Chris
tian era began over 1000, 100000 human
beings have perished in war.
WASHINGTON IRVING, great-grand
nephew of the famous author, is an en-
sign in the United States navy.
WITH load of 400 pounds came
can travel twelve or fourteen days with
out water, going forty miles day.
A SPANISH musician has devised
system of musical notation by whicl
the sharp-and-fat system is done ava,
with.
TIE burning of Moscow by the Rus
slams in order to drive out the Frencl
caused an estimates loss of over Sl20,
600, 600.
THERE will be marked contrast be
tween the old ana new Planters hous
in ST. Louis. The new will cost 81,
200, 900.
A New YORK police justice rules tina
police officer has no right to look at
woman in such a way as to attract he
attention.
A CHICAGO fakir recently sold som
gorgeous bottles of cologne" which
when opened, were found to contain
plain water.
LITTLE Switzerland has an enormou
army in proportion to population. Th'
population is 10000 900; the standing
army, 10000.
AN Atchison Kan lawyer has com
menced hauling wood as means o
paying the debts he contracted Will.
practicing law.
THE caves or grottoes discovered il
Carniola, province of Austria, in 1885
are said to be equal in extent to ou
Kentucky wonder.
A FOREIGN correspondent estimate
that there are about 5000 Americans il
France, less than one-ffth of whom ar
engaged in business
AT Washington, Pa, soup kitchc
will be opened, not to give food as
gratuity, but to furnish the poor a sui
stantial meal at the lowest possibl
cost.
A BosToN Judge has decided that
mans face is his own and that an arts
has no right to reproduce the sacre
xneaments without their owners COZ
sent.
WHEN the highwayman attacke
Mr.. Doyle, of Moberly, Mo-, his littl
daughter was not afraid, but sweetl
said: "Shoot him with your pisto
papa"
OREGON has the youngest railroa
conductor in the world, John G. Bal
mum, aged thirteen, on the Rogu
) River Valley, branch of the Souther
Pacific.
MRS. CAROLINE RoMNEY, besides otf
er patented articles, has invented
cellular brickware dinner pail. Ce
lular brickware is made of clay, saw
dnst and asbestos, and it is warrante
70 keep food hot for half doze
hours.
PARIS is trying wood pavemen
made of mahogany Mahogany
Huch cheaper than it used to be, bu
still dea1er than the woods general