The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
ITALY has a7o.OOO inmates of the poor
houses
JAPAN talks of exporting coal to
California.
The aims houses of France have 900.
900 inmates
MINNEAPOLIS makes 1000, 600 barrels
of flour year
LONDON has Ell public parks contain.
ing 1856 acres
THERE are in Austria 200, 900 persons
receiving state aid.
GERMANY has 100000 paupers in the
public aims houses.
A SOLE of chamois skin inside the shoe
will relieve cold feet
PAVING blocks are made of blast fur
mace Stag in England.
BLuB-EYED men, observes writer,
are the most sentimental
THR charitable bequests in London
every year exceed S., 10000
GIRL students are taught to sew in
the free schools of Germany.
VISITORS to the Worlds fair left
1000 umbrellas behind them.
THE official history of the Worlds
fair will contain thirty volumes
IN South America rain frequently
falls in torrents from clear Sky.
SOME of the large crabs found in
India measure two feet in length.
THERE are in the United States rs, ,O45
inmates of the public aims houses
ELEPHANTS range in value from
about s7OO to something like s2,5OO
THE leading professors of the new
Chicago university get $1,000 a year.
The organized charities of Great Brit.
ain give away every year over $50, ,OOO,-
900.
The French government annually
appropriate $50, 900, 900 for various char
tiles.
A SQUIRREL. with eleven legs and four
heads has been caught in Washington
state
RUSSIA is said to have $50, 900 paupers
in the various refugees provided for
them.
A FIRM at Marietta, Ga, buys old
lead from bullets collected on battle
fields.
FEMALE bootblacis are reported to be
multiplying in Paris and other French
cities.
MORE than 4, 900 of Uncle Sans PEN
sioners live outside of the United
States.
THE English asylums and homes for
the aged and infirm cost annually s13,-
900, 000
THE charitable associations of France
give away in aims every year over S25,
100000
ONLY women will be employed as
ticket agents in the Brooklyn elevated
railroad.
THE larges apes have sixteen ounces
of brains; the lowest order of men
thiry-nine.
CLEVELAND, O.,will celebrate it's CEN
teunial in 1896 with big inland ma.
rine exhibit.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK asserts that $780,
300, 900 is invested in building societies
in England.
A CONGRESS- of hygiene and demo-
Eraphy is to be held at Budapesth early
aeXt September.
TnE earth's lowest body of water is
the Caspian sea, which has been sink
ing for centuries.
The culture of ginseng in this coun.
try, while still in its infancy, is being
increased rapidly.
A LAW in Massachusetts, prohibits in
dependent military companies from
carrying firearms.
THE charity schools of Great Britain
are maintained at an annual eXpendi-
ture of sci 200, 600.
The Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria,
was built Il. c. 2S5; height, $50 feet;
light visible - miles.
A CHICAGO woman Furnishes drunken
husband by putting large gentleman
goat in bed with him.
ACCORDING to official statistics S,51O
persons died in Germany during the
last cholera epidemic.
The value of property held for char.
ity in Italy is GG5. 900. 900, an average OF
e12 to each inhabitant.
AN engine constructed entirely oi
paper machie has been added to the
Berlin fire department.
A NEW Krupp gun recently tested at
Meppen threw a projectile thirteen
miles in seventy seconds.
The weight Of the equipment of the
German soldier has been reduced by
fifteen or twenty pounds.
PAsrEUR's patients for treatment
against hydrophobia sometimes num-
ber as many as 120 u month.
THE Caledonian canal, Scotland, is 81
miles long, 30 feet deep, 1aO wide al
the top and 80 at the bottom.
In a melodrama recently brought out
in London the hero runs donkey en-
gine all through the first act.
ExrLEs and convicts are to do most o.
the work on the new Siberian railway
now in course of construction.
AN American photographer, +. z
Ives, is astonishing London by success
fully taking colored photographs
UNCLE "DAvE" BREWER, of Lebanon
Ore, is "a years old and has living will
him his 90-year-old mother-in-law.
JACK FARREL was Shot and Instant,
killed while acting as peacemake
between two men near Dingess, w. Va
THE kernel of the snakenut of Brit
lsh Guinea is almost a perfect repre-