The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

100. 900 persons
LADIES' smoking cars on Russian rail-
ways are we'll patronized
THE coal fields of the United States
cover 1914 900 square miles.
THE original home of the bison was
in the Great Salt Lake valley.
THERE are 10000 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.
NORTH CAROLINA has but 3,7O2 foreign
ers out of a population of 1,617,9sO.
A PLUMBER in st. Petersburg is paid
ele month with board; baker $3.50.
THE output of pine lumber in Georgia
is estimated at 400, 900, 600 feet per an
num-
TIE great aqueduct which supplied
Carthage with water was seventy miles
long.
THE historic battlefield at Braddock,
Pa, is to be marked with shaft Of
,teel.
THE largest theater in the world is
the Paris Opera house. 1t covers three
acres.
ONE mile of the hairspring wire used
In watches weighs less than half a
pound.
The average tourist trip around the
world comprises about 90, 600 miles Of
travel.
ORGANIZED charity was unknown in
the Roman empire till after the Christ
ian era.
GERMANY has more miles OF railway
in operation than any other state in
Europe.
The preparation of the human hair
for the market gives employment to
1000 Parisians.
A SCHEME is on foot to utilize the
current of the Bosphorus to illuminate
Constantinople.
A SHOCK of earthquake is transmit
ted at the rate of 16, 900 feet--or three
miles-a second
BooKBINDERs in Edinburg receive
twenty-four shillings week and work
tifty-four hours.
GEN. BooTH claims that the Salvation
army converts to Christianity 2O0,OOC
people every year.
ONE of the brightest students OF
Smith college is q Winnebago Indian
girl from Nebraska.
THE Snowbird mountains OF North
Carolina are reported as being literally
overrun with bears.
ABOUT $40. 600, 900 has been expended
for improving the harbors and wates
ways of the great lakes.
BosToN has water storage capacity
for II, TAG, S43,9 ,960 gallons. which is con-
.sidered 433 days supply.
AN English paper, the other day, had
an appreciative reference to ''Farragut,
the great confederate admiral
RHODE ISLAND, which has 31s people
to the square mile, is the most densely
populated of the United States.
THERE is tree in Nevada so lumin-
Gus from exuding phosphorescent mat
ter that one can read by it's light.
AN egg weighing three and one-half
ounces was recently laid by a hen on
the farm of Hiram Kirchem, at Cuba,
Ga.
In some Hiadoo temples in South In.
6ia the collection. is taken up by an
elephant that goes round with bas.
tet.
THE charitable hospitals of France
mploy a staff of 2.34s doctors, s,S54
.lurses, and 9,564 attendants and SER
wants.
The Sunday law in regard to the
closing of business houses of all sorts
in New Orleans is to be rigidly en-
forced.
LIGHTNING has not killed a single
person in New York since 1850. Pre-.
vious to that year nine cases had been
reported
A SPANISH musician is said to have
devised a system of musical notation by
which the sharp and fiat system is done
away with.
A CLEVELAND contractor has under
taken to move a stone house weighing
$500 tons basement and all, a distance
of sixty feet.
ONE can read the history of wet and
dry, warm and cold seasons by study
ing the rings of tree that has been
chopped down.
AN ''inch of rain means gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly
two square feet, or "a fall of about lon
tons upon an acre.
IT is about thirty miles across town
in London, and for that entire distance
there is said to be an unbroken line OF
residences and stores.
In olden times screws were made by
hand, and five minutes were spent in
making one. Now machine rattles
out sixty in minute.
A NEW washing machine is run over
the floor like a lawn mower, and does
the soaping, scrubbing and drying in
one or two operations.
MUsTACHEs in women are getting
more common than of old. In Con-
stantinople ten per cent. of the women
have these appendages to the upper
lip.
EXPERIMENTS in pigeon-fying recent
made on the Italian torpedo boat
Aquilla show that the average rate of
flight was almost exactly mile min
ate.
THE island where Robinson Crusoe
was monarch of all he surveyed is now
inhabited by about sixty people, who
attend the herds of cattle that Craze
there.
Two hundred thousand fruit trees,
most of them the Italian prunes, have
been planted in Thurston county,
Washington, during the last twelve
months.
WAGES for farm hands in south eru
Michigan average Sl5 per month and
board. or S22 without board. In the