The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-08-11
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CURRENT TOPICS.
SENATOR GoRMAN was once q member
Of baseball club.
AARON is from the Hebrew, and sig
nifies lofty mountain.
JAPANESE aim to have all their debts
oaid on New Years day.
FEMALE franchise leagues are being
formed all over Australia.
LONDON has 271 public parks contain
Ing 1876 acres OF ground.
AN automatic sculpturing machine
has been invented in Paris.
THERE is in all Japan an average oi
two earthquake shocks daily.
AUSTRALIAN Bushmen are the least
Intelligent of the human race.
: Foor BALL was a crime in England
during the reign of Henry VIII.
VACCINATION has been made relig.
tous ceremony in Geneva and Holland,
IT is rumored that Mrs. Blaine is not
likely TO return to Washington to live.
FIVE men can easily hold down a
lion, but nine are required to hold
tiger.
THERE are more muscles in the tail
of rat than there are in human
hand.
Mr.. j. L. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Is resident of Sarcoxie, Jasper coun.
ty, Mo.
IT is said that the post Office was in
vented by Cyrus, king of Persia, about
500 B. c.
On an average, the lungs contain
about ESQ cubic inches, or nearly five
quarts of air.
DRuNKARps in the Argentine repub.
lie are sentenced to sweep the streets
for eight days.
MORE public money is spent for brass
bands than for schools in the Argen.
tine provinces.
ACCORDING to the statistics S6o0,0OO,.
900 is spent in the United States every
year for tobacco.
LOTUS POWER, of Howard county,
Ark, is Is years old, and is said to
weigh 3s3 pounds.
VoNDEL, the great Dutch dramatist,
was poor all his life, and was finally
buried by charity.
A DouRLE-JoINTED bull calf was re.
Gently born on the place of Hitch
cock (Neb.) farmer.
MRS. RA1NEs, a demented woman Of
Sullivan, Ind, built bonfire of brush
and cremated herself.
THE porcupine is so called because
his name come from two Latin words
meaning q thorny pig.
Mrs. HANNAH CHARD, of Gassboro,
N. j., who is said to be 1O5 years old,
has $50 grandchildren.
AUSTRALIA has more places of public
worship in proportion to population
than any other country.
SIXTEEN million children were found
to be enrolled in the schools of this
country in June of this year.
DURING the past year the Mormon
church sent out four hundred mission
aries to all parts of the world.
RED hair is of that color because it
it is supposed to have large proper
ton of sulphur than black hair.
A NEWLY launched battleship. one o1
the most powerful in the French fleet,
is called lie Carnot. 1t cost S.. 956, 900.
Miss CLARA CLEMENS or Mark
Twain's daughter" as she is usually
called, says that ''papas" books bore
her.
JOSEPH BLACK. JH.. young lawyer
of Richmond, Mo. is described a
''having Il head on him as long as ,
canoe"
DOUGLASS TII.DEN. the famous dea.
and dumb sculptor. has returned to hi:
California home from an extended stay
in Paris.
LIGHTNING Is so destructive because
of its enormous power. a flash o
lightning is calculated to equal l., 00
horse power.
THE Chinese national army number
about G50,OO0. peace footing. Tn
japanese army numbers about 30, 90
peace footing.
WHITE clothing is cool because it re
fleets the heat of the sun: black cloth
ing is warm because it absorbs bot
heat and light.
FULTON county. Ga. has too oddl
named candidates running for office
One is Frank Rain and the other
Henry Shower
In Japan there is one way Of salutin
superior, another way of saluting
equal, and still another way of salu'
ing an inferior.
IT is reported that "a Honesdale (Pa
man was struck by lightning twice r.
Gently during thunderstorm and su
vived both shocks.
IT is interesting to know that te
per cent.-21 out of 214-of the bull
ings struck by lightning last year wei
churches or chapels.
AN English writer attributes ill-ten
per to excessive meat eating. He sa.
that in fish and rice-eating Japan hars
words are unknown.
IT is impossible, it is said. to fly
kite higher than eighteen hundrt
feet. At that elevation it looks mu'
further away than it is.
THE young women employed in dail
farming at Ebling, Germany, ha
adopted mems attire, as they find tn
it facilitates their work.
OF the population of the Unit
States it has been calculated that ?
OO,O0O are immigrants of the last
wears, or their descendants.
THE largest slogan" or swayil
stone is at Peninis, Sicily. 1t weig
about 313 tons and is so nicely b
anced that a man can easily put it
motion.
SAND alteration of water similar