The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-09
CURRENT TOPICS.


In Russian theaters.
ARMY inspectors say that blue eye
make the best shots.
EzEKIEI. GoDBEpRAIsED registered a
Philadelphia hotel.
GRAssHoPPERs are caught by machin
cry in New Hampshire.
j. PM, the English tennis champion
is an Irishman by birth.
CINCINNATI manufactures every yea
$3.50, 1000, 900 worth of goods.
RESTAURANTS in Paris sell annuall-
nearly 10000 dozen frog legs.
ALL of the German warships are t,
be painted cinnamon yellow.
IT is estimated that the 1,14a tunnel.
In the world are 514 miles long.
MORE than 100000 persons are EN-
ployed by the railroads of this country
A SPIDER web is constructed accord
ing to the best mathematical princi
pies.
The highest Of the Green Mountains
in Vermont is Mount Mansfield-4.o osC
feet.
GAS now costs consumers in Lon.
don hfty-six cents thousand cubic
feet.
CHINA's national hymn is so long
that people take half day to listen
to it.
SEA BASS weighing nearly 600 pounds
are sometimes caught on the Pacific
coast.
IN the Soudan there are GO. 600. 900
people who are ignorant of Christi
anity.
The roar of the lion can be heard fur
ther than the sound of any other living
creature.
The bullfrog, by Il peculiar arrange
ment of his larynX has a bass drum in
his throat.
ATTEMPTS have been made to manu-
facture bank bills and paper of alum
mum in Paris.
The highest peak of the Rocky noun
tains is Mount Brown, in British Amer
ica-15, 300 feet.
THE khedive of Egypt will soon start
for a trip to Switzerland, Austria,
FRANCE and England.
The area of the czar's individual pos
sessions of land is greater than the en-
tire extent of France.
NELSON kNEAss, who composed the
music of the old song. Ben Bolt" is
buried at Chillcothe. Mo.
Mosr of the Central and South Amer
lean governments have their stamps
engraved in New York city.
The District of Columbia has the
largest death rate from consumption of
any part of the United States.
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of the old-fashioned names for girls
such as Sarah, Ann, Martha. Jane, etc.
CITY TREASURER COLE. of Iron Noun.
tain, Mich, gets salary of only Sl50
year, and has to give bond of $780,
600.
THE marriage statistics of every
country show that widows are more
prone to marry maidens than to take
widows.
A New YORK girl threw her arms
around a mans neck and hugged him
until the police intcrfered. He was
burglar.
A PORTRAIT of Emily Bronro, the only
one known, has recently been discov-
cred and has been engraved for pub. |
lication.
A FRENCH paper says that there are
hut four survivors of Napoleon's grand
army. The four veterans are said to be |
centenarians.
PROF. A. GRAHAM BELL says he be-
lieves the time is not far distant when
one will be able to see from Washing
ton to New York.
HAIR dye is considered so detrimcnt.
III to long life that Paris insurance
company refuse to insure the lives o.
women who use it.
A MAINE young man entered store
at Caribou and asked if he could buy
a bicycle ION the insolvent plan He
was not successful
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. estimated popu
lation 5000 Gn 1890 1000. is advertis.
ing for proposals for the erection of
$50, 600 market house.
ToADs and frogs carry supply OK
water about with them in a sack provid.
ed for the purpose. If by accident the
supply becomes exhausted the animal
dies.
WILLIAM II. KINs, of Rochester. n. V.
is said to have the; only double pansies
in the United States. He has forty
plants valued at $500 which he carefully
guards.
THE colors of the chameleon do not
change instantly, but require consid-
erablc length of time. The change is
a provision of nature for the protec.
ton of helpless animal from innum-
erable enemies.
THE idea that the toad is poisonous
has foundation in fact. The skin Sc
cretes an acrid fluid, and just behind
the head are two sacs, which, when
pressed, elects fluid that burns and
stings the skin.
HENRY BARNES, of Lawrence, Mass
is believed to be the oldest odd fellow
in the United States. He was initiated
in 1926, when the order was only IL few
years old in this country, and is NOW in
his nineticth year.
The Devils Looking Glass" is
smooth stone formation one hundred
feet wide and rising two hundred feet
out of the Nolachuclsy river in Tennes'
see.
WHEN suddenly frightened lizards
viii often drop their tails and scurry
away. The discarded member, bounc.
ing up and down, attracts the atten
tion of the enemy and enables IN cs
cape to be affected.