The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

ASiuuihS SioVU iHulan school CnllQren.
ONE county in New Jersey sends to
New York ten carloads of lettuce day.
The railroads of this country last
year moved IA 231, $50 tons of freight.
MARSHAL FIELD, of Chicago, conducts
.yearly business estimated at $40, OOO,.
0eO.
ONE of the curious things about the
gulf stream is that no whales are found
In it.
THE earliest reaping hook was the
lower jaw of an antelope lashed to a
stick.
A CERTAIN forest plant in Japan
grows to about six feet high in three
weeks.
The largest pearl ever found meas.
ures two inches long and weighs three
ounces.
THE spinning wheel was invented in
India before the most ancient historical
records.
In Berlin the police arrest people who
play the piano in flats after 10 o'clock
at night.
A METAL. hitherto unknown to science
has been discovered in Idaho and named
powellite.
The Italians have started the manu-.
facture of boots with detachable soles
and heels.
MORE than sixteen thousand Hindoos
have been inoculated for the prevention
Of cholera.
JUSTICES FIELD and Brewer can both
talll modern Greek, which they learned
in Smyrna.
The largest apes have only sixteen
ounces of brain: the lowest men have
thirty-nine.
New loRK's Croton alueduct sur
passes all modern engineering efforts
of this kind
THERE are now 81 metals known to
exist Three centuries ago only seven
were known.
The Massachusetts Legislature is con.
Eideripg a bill to prohibit the manufac.
tuie of cider.
''OID MANS FALL" in the river Quota.
no, British Guiana, is al feet high and
about 500 wide.
INCLUDING commission and interest, ,
the total cost of the Croton aqueduct |
was $i2,50O,00O.
THE Egyptians, 1000 years before
Christ, had hoes made of bone. with |
wooden handles.
The number of criminal convictions !
in Great Britain has declined % per |
cent. in - years.
In Norway persons who have not
been vaccinated are not allowed to
vote at any election.
IN the British museum. according to |
q rDf ~ ,Sf
Bibses in all languages.
The proportion of old offenders in
France increased from 10 per cent. in
1926 to As per cent. in 1880.
TIE production of iron in this country
Is increasing faster in proportion than
the increase in population.
PEACH stones find ready sale, to be
used in manufacturing perfumes, flaw.
"ring extracts and prussic acid.
Four full-blooded Indians have be.
Eun taking the gold cure ut Kansas
-ity. haiiing from Nowata, Kan.
MELVIN GRuBB, aged Is years, OF /
Wyth county, Va, is said by the Rich.
mond Times to weigh $50 pounds
The king of Portugal could sell the
jewels in his crown for SG 800, 600 ir
THERE are every year in Australia
100000 arrests for crime and misde !
meanor, and over 1000 convictions.
lN Germany women form 81 per cent.
OF the total number of prisoners incar
cerated for crimes against property.
On June D. 1890, there were Sa,3ag
Prisoners in the United States, OF
whom 7,2SG We're charged with mur
der.
MORE than one-half of the persons
charged with murder in this country
last year were under thirty years OF
age.
ENGLAND's new torpedo-boat, the
Hornet, steamed twenty-three knots
an hour at her trial spin the other
day.
FRENCH postal cards are in future
to be cashed at the residence of the
persons to whom they are made pay
able.
ScIIooIBoYs of England are contrib
ntipg for memorial to II. NJ. Ballan-
tyne, the famous author for books for
boys
THERE is Il four-story brick mansion
In New York city with all modern
improvements" which is only five feet
wide
Tap Trans-Siberian railroad, begun
in 1891, is expected to be completed in
1900. The line will he 5000 miles
long.
THE railroads of Holland are the saf.
est. There is only one passenger killed
per annum while only four are in
iured.
Mrs. MARTHA STRICKLAND. lawyer
OF Detroit, is lecturing on parliament.
ary law to parlor classes of women in
Chicago
A. NJ. BARBEB, a teacher in the Con.
gregational church at Bouldeck, Col.
has taught his class regularly for TWEEN
ty-six years, moi missing single Sun
day.
A PARIS suggestion is that imprison-
ment for life, with weekly applica.
.ioD Of the cat-o'-nine tails. be substi.
tuted for the guiliotine as IL punishment
for anarchy.
KrssIsG parties are popular in Atchi.
son, Kan, and are given an additional
Eest by the introduction of u mild cleo
trical current, conveyed through the
arms Of Il chair, which the kisser and
kissee are obliged to grasp as the sa-
lnte is given.