The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
LONDON has about 17s rainy days in
ayear.
MEXICO is country without bitumin.
Gus coal
AN English locomotive is to go 100
miles an hour.
JUST now they say there is craze
over chamelons.
SOME writer's claim that the tortoise
lives for 400 years.
CRIME has more than doubled in Ar.
yentina in two years
PYTHoNs and several species of boas
have real legs and feet.
THB Chinese language is spoken by
fully 400, 900 people.
CHHDREN, plants and animals grow
more rapidly during the night
A SHERIDAN county (Kan.) man
caught an eagle in a wolf trap
ABoUT TO- 600 wolves are killed annu-
ally IN Russia for the fur market.
IT is said that 32, varieties Of
goods are manufactured from wool.
A woMAN's suffrage convention will
be held in Washington next month.
THB number of women lawyers in the
United States is now more than 100
MARK TWAIN is fond of cats, and has
one named Satan and another called
Sin.
Ten per cent of the inhab houses
of England and Wales are in Lon
don.
IT is estimated that the annual salt
product of the world is fully 1900, 900
tons.
A STURGEON weighing 1,l0O pounds
was recently caught in the Columbia
river.
THE czar has an income of S12, 200,
600 a year, derived from his own es-
tates
KRUPP employs about TO-, 600 men at
Essen in manufacturing his enormous
guns.
MI. RupYARD KIPLING intends to
make visit to London the coming
spring.
THE cost of frst-class battleship,
carrying six hundred men, is about So,
600. oO0
BRAZIL has q greater variety and
luxuriance of plant life than any other
country.
TIE Kilanea crater, in the Sandwich
Islands, is the largest actiye volcano in
the world
UNCLE SAM pays about one hundred
dollars a minute in interest on the ma
tional debt.
As a flank movement the cigarette
fends have begun a war on chewing
gum at Emporia.
Boston has so many women's clubs
that their notices fill three columns OF
short paragraphs.
The Bank of England estimates that
the amount of gold in circulation in
the world is S65 tons.
A sHREwD Harlem dealer is adver.
tising ladies' skates that require TWEEN
ty minutes to put on.
nj. BLONDIN, though seventy-one
years old, is still giving tight-rope per.
formances in London.
FRANK BAKER of Pixley, Cal, an.
nounces that he is about to resume
rainmaking experiments.
The Hessian fly is now for the first
time reported as occurring in Norway
and doing damage to barley.
THERE are 1852, O4O persons on Eng.
lands pension list, and they draw s3s,
600, 900 year from the treasury.
THs withdrawal of the princess Of
Wales from all social functions is large.
ly due 10 her increasing deafness.
EX-SPEAKER THOMAS b. REED, after
having discontinued cigar smoking for
four years has resumed the ha bit.
The Japanese emperor has just re-
eeived as present from the kaiser o.
Germany horse valued at 50, 900.
SEVENTEEN cities in the United
States are each of larger area than Ber.
lin with its population of 1,579,O 900.
A WOMAN was crushed to death re-
Gently in Chicago in the rush for food
at the Office of the county poor agent
The smokeless powder adopted by
the italian army has it is said, irrepar
ably damaged n large number of guns
fHE aggregate age of three old ladies
who sat down to dinner together al
Hannibal, Mo-, recently was 234 years
LOOK out that the horseshoe that you
naf1 over the door has at least one ot
the original nails left in it, else it's nc
use at all.
ISAAC McGAY, tea inspector at the
United States appraisers stores il
New York, has this season rejected 23,
900 packages.
GENERALLY speaking the slope O
rivers flowing into the Mississippi from
the east is on the average, about three
inches per mile.
JOSEPH MUIR, of Fairmount, Somer
set county, Nd, recently shipped t.
Ambassador Bayard in London u quan
tity Of terrapin.
RYREMEN were driven out of burn
ing store in New York by the odor O.
burning snuff, which set them all t.
sneesing violently.
A New YORK reporter, who has beer
on the turf for many years, says thai
John ID. Rockefeller is the hardest mar
to interview in the country.
THE Belgian army has soldier 81,
feet six and half inches tall, who i!
allowed double rations, on recommen
dation of his colonel. on account of hi
size.
I'm German emperor has now turned
his attention to sculpture, with results
1t is said, quite as untoward as were
the consequences of his interference
with science and literature.