The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-12
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CURRENT TOPICS.
A FRENCH chemist makes wine out OF
potatoes.
THE mummy cats unearthed in Egyp,
have red hair.
FEMALE frogs have no voice; only the
males can sing.
GREAT BRITAIN makes over 1S0, o0l
bicycles yearly.
THE heart of n Greenland whale is a
yard in diameter.
PHOTOGRAPHS have been taken 5000
feet under water
VENICE has no streets, horses, trees
Or wooden houses.
A NEW mineral, resembling turquois,
has been found in Utah.
ALL the world over there are ninety
eight women to 100 men.
THE police of Buenos Ayres have not
been paid for six months.
SINGLE mastodon teeth sometimes
weigh from IL to 90 pounds.
SEATTLE, WASH, has reduced her
teachers salaries Is per cent
The sunken garden is unique fea-
ture of Philadelphia's Fairmount park
are afflicted with some form of para
site.
The population of the United States
doubles in period of about thirty-four
years.
THE alligator is becoming extinct, as
is the golden eagle and the white
whale.
THE waters of spring near San
Diego, Cal, can restore hair to bald
scalps.
Rosa BoNHEUR is the only woman
who has been an officer in the Legion
of Honor.
THE fashion of wearing snake skins
for necllties is said to be growing in
Baltimore.
New YORK has followed Philadel.
phia's policy in keeping rewsboys off
street cars.
In ancient Rome copper by the
pound passed as money, but later coins
came into use.
MRS. JAMES WEBSTER Ballston IN.
" woman, aged 81, gave birth to twins
few days ago.
AN elephant is fifty to sixty years in
attaining maturity and will live a cen.
tury and n hall
A CHICAGO belle by the name of Miss
Lydia Smith will soon wed Claria Mar
ishina, 4 Hindoo
'ELEcTRIc sUNsTRoKE' is a new NAL
ady which has come with lightning
and trolley wires.
The empire of Morocco is the most
important state that is absolutely
without newspaper.
WILLIAM is the Christian name that
has belonged to the greatest number
of distinguished persons.
A CLUB in Berlin, called the Giants,
admits to membership only men who
are over six feet in height.
THE famous shipyard of John Roach,
at Chester, Pa, has closed down for
the first time in its history.
The house in which Garibaldi lived
on Staten island is to be torn down tc
make way for improvements.
JOSEPH Ii. CHoATE will be spokesman
in the New York institutional conven-
tion for the woman sutfraglsts.
THE moon is not so small after all
Its surface is fully as great as that OF
Africa and Australia combined.
THE Turkish laboring day is from
sunrise to an hour before sunset, with
an hour for prayers and dinner.
LAST year the United States gov arn.
ment collected a total revenue of $780,.
525, SCI from alcaholic stimulants.
CRoswEI.I., Mich, occupies u unique
place among the towns of the country,
having twice as many churches as sa.
looms.
WILLIAM Cox of Coshocton, o.. is TAX
ing the Pasteur treatment at Chicago.
He was bitten in the shoulder by q rab
id cow
THE rice paper tree, native of Chi.
ma, now hourishes in Florida, where il
was introduced as an experiment some
years ago.
Mrs. BEsANT, accompanied by Col
Olcott and an Indian attendant, has
arrived in London from u lecturing
tour in India.
The Massachusetts board of health
declares that each inhabitant of that
state loses thirteen days every year
through sickness.
A TRENTON, (Wis.) man, while driv-
ing one horse and leading another, had
AAS oi AZ oiohch Wy d ouuuSu JCEh VI tuc
head of the led horse.
LORD HoUGHToN is the youngest lord
lieutenant Ireland ever had. BY the
aeath of Lord Crewe he inherits an in
come of S20O,090 year.
KANSAS has larger proportion of
children in school than any other state
an the union. So says the report of the
national bureau of education
EMILY A. BRUCE, NJ. d., declares
that more women die annually in Eng
land because of faulty dress than from
all contagious diseases combined.
ACCORDING to French divorce statis-
tics the most unhappy period of mar
riage is from the fifth to the tenth
year. After that the figures drop rap.
idly.
RAY WELLS, a sixteen-year-old Brook
lyn messenger boy, raced after runa
way horse, caught up to it and saved
the life of a three-year-old child in the
wagon.
Two young women in Sedalia, Mo-.
arc looking for Capt John Turner, who
gallantly promised to marry them.
Both had trousseaus prepared. but the
man has sought other quarters.
The Indiana superintendent of pub
Tic instruction has decided that while