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

PERUVIAN mumm1eS are on cxnhpf
tion in New York.
ONE Alaskan volcano puffs at inter
sals like locomotive.
THE annual cocoanut crop of the
world is worth $50, O0o,0 900.
THE phonograph is now used in
schools for teaching purposes
THE Boston public library has $780,.
900 volumes, that of Chicago 100000.
GIANT human tracks are said to exist
In the solid rock near Rushville, Mo
KBUPP has made fully 900 guns Of
large caliber for the armies of Europe.
A WAVE of thought would require
about minute to traverse mile Of
nerve
ST. Louis now has electric ambulance
cars for use after street railway accl-
dents
CALIFORNIA has the largest per
capita wealth of any state in the
union.
A MAN in st. Joseph. Mo-, purchased
his sister-in.law of her father for ten
dollars
The estimated death rate of the
world is twenty-four per thousand per
annum.
ACCORDING to the Publishers Weekly
there were s, 1874 new books published
last year.
ME6ALAMAN1A is the techinal name
for the malady commonly known as the
''swelled head"
A COUPLE were married on horseback
at Wilkesboro, N. c., recently, under
the American flag.
CLAPIssoN, the French musical celeb.
rity, is building a chateau composed
entirely of buttons.
BURGLARS at Bridgeport, Ct, stole
the safe from an Office and cracked it
later at their leisure.
COYOTE hunting has been introduced
in southern California and is meeting
with much popularity.
Two CENTURIES ago liquors, without
exception, were invented and manufac-
trred in the monasteries.
A MORNING SESSION" in the house OF
commons begins at . o'clock in the af-
ternoon and lasts until Z.
THE Dirigo, recently launched at
Bath, Me-, is the first steel sailing ship
ever built in New England.
Fm civil engineers of the navy, an
arm of the service that may soon be
abolished, number only ten.
IN some parts of Australia earth
worms grow to length of six feet and
are three inches in diameter.
IT is said that on several Russian
railways iron telegraph poles are to be
substituted for those of wood.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., is said to look
more like an English town than any
other city in the United States.
TBRoPHILUs BLAND, of Pitt county,
N. @, has seven sons, each of whom
weighs over two hundred pounds
AN ingenious Kansas hog stealer
chloroformed the pigs he stole, and
not one of them "squealed' on him.
Toronto has over 100000 people and
publishes seven daily papers, each Of
which claims the largest circulation.
PRoF. LoMBRoso has discovered that
women criminals have larger hands
and feet than those of average woman.
DE- CYRUS EDsoN, of the New York
board Of health, says the grippe is like
~ cooiA W SAoupDCoi AL ~ SCLSi olAoAA
or so.
BA9R, Me-, is to have coasting
party, and nobody can go but bachelors
over forty-five and old maids over
forty.
NJ. PICARD, the French commissioner
general for the Paris exposition of 1900
already has one hundred clerks at
work.
Sf1iIsTIcs prove that Pennsylvania
has greater railroad trackage per
square mile than Germany, France or
Holland.
MRS WM. HOWARD HART, of Troy,
n. Y, is to erect a fine building for the
Young Mems Christian association, of
that city.
The Hebrew colony established in
Palestine by Baron Rothschild has
grown so rapidly that he is buying
more land.
Mrs gSSnY YoUNG, OF Pensacola,
ES, aged 40 years, is reported to have
recently given birth to her twenty.
fourth child.
AT Salisbury, Austria, a man was
kept prisoner in cellar for fifteen
years, during which time he never saw
human face.
MONTANA, it is asserted, has pro-
duced nearly one-third of the gold,
silver. copper and lead mined in the
United States.
DrsTRIBUTI0N of real estate left by
the late p. Il. Barnum shows that his
entire estate was valued at over four
million dollars
E1sr year 27O religious sects were re-
corded by the registrar-general at
Somerset house IS having places Of wor,
slip IN England
ADvIrEs from Hawaii says that ex.
Queen Lii is in that picturesque and
bizarre financial condition known a.
''9p her uppers"
A WILDCAT lit on the back of Arm
stead Gilbert, of Galloway, county
MD, as he was going through tho
woods, but his two dogs made the cal
ger off his porch.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Mississippi legislature authorizing the
cibyAof Meridian to issue bonds to pur
chase and construct water works ant
fossother purposes
~ PoUssET, the founder of severa
nqed drinking places in Paris, whs
didd recently, bequeathed about 5000,
006 to the twelve oldest customers o
his first establishment, whose patron
age caused his success.
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