The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

ASTRONOMERS catalogue 1000 double
stars.
CHICAGO has practical female un,
dertaker.
The United States is the richest ma
ton on earth.
ITALY pays the lowest wages of the
European countries
ELECTRIC locomotives are in use on
two French railways
THE ordinary railway locomotive is
made up of 5, 416 pieces.
FRILLED shirt fronts are coming in
style again in England.
A MAHOGANY child's chair" was re.
eently advertized for sale.
The bottom of the sea is being pho
stographed by Frenchmen.
OF 100 patients treated for obesity So
are men and Ga are women.
A SOCIETY of vegetarians has beer
organized in New Orleans.
AMONG flower !, chrysanthemums live
the longest after being cut.
WALsINGHAM, Eng, claims to be the
healthiest place in the world.
The first paper mill in Americs
was built near Philadelphia 1890.
AUTOMATIC nickel-in-the-slot tele
phones are Chicago experiment
THE English poet William Morris is
made i'll when he sees purple silk.
The meat of animals which have
been bled to death keeps the best.
AUSTRIA now owns more than one.
third of the railroads in that country.
The average strength of the union
army during the civil war was 431, 900.
IT is said that only two Americans
were naturalized in England last year.
OCCUPANTS of a balloon mile high
command radius of ninety-six miles
AN international cat show has just
closed a very successful season in Lon
don.
A HOUSE that was built at Canton,
Ct, in 1T60, is still occupied as dwell.
ling.
In Germany ninety per cent of the
railroads are owned by the govern.
ment.
In France by far the larger part OF
the railroads is owned by private COM
panies
THE beet sugar product of the United
States last year amounted to 40,000,000
pounds.
AN $4,000 hennery is to be built at
"Uplands," the country seat of Robert
Garrett.
GARMENTS taken from Egyptian
mummies have been found to be dyed
with indigo
THE vertical system of handwriting is
being advocated by. educators for use in
public schools.
In Pennsylvania there is brewery
run by monks and famous distillery
by the economics.
THE entire church membership of the
United States is put by the census sta
tistics at 90, Gas, 600.
HORSES are so plentiful in Chilli an6
Buenos Ayres that it IS not uncommon
for beggars to ride.
A cATAMoUNT in Mt Zion settlement.
calves thereabouts.
THE amount Of candy consumed in
the United States every year is esti-
mated at 20, 900 tons.
ITALY has the greatest proportion OF
criminals. They number 5,14O to the
million of population.
The labor unions are now nomi.
mating Judge Caldwell, of Union Pa
cific fame, for president.
AFTER being abolished for twenty.
five years, the death penalty has been
resumed in Switzerland.
RICHMOND, Va, has actively entered
the lists as n candidate for the Grand
Army encampment in 1895.
Gov. TuLMAN, of South Carolina,
figures out a profit of Sal, 163 40 from
his state bar for three monthly
A GREAT religious revival is being
conducted at Newberry, S. c., and
many converts are being made
ONE of the pioneers of California is
Wong Zip Nong, who came from Hong
Kong in Il sailing vessel in 1874.
IT rained salt in Idaho recently. The
salt came from the Great Salt lake of
Utah, nearly 800 miles southwark.
THE license law of San Bernardir O.
Cal, will not allow two saloons in the
same block on one side of the street.
THERE is talk of running trolley OBJ
servation cars across Niagara falls,
suspended fifty feet above the water.
THE bonded debt of the Pacific rail
roads, together with interest due the
United States amounts to $50, 900. 900.
SINCE the beginning of the century
the English tongue has risen from fifth
place in the worlds use to first place.
UNDER a law recently put in force in
France only physicians graduated in
France are allowed to use the title
doctor"
LAWYER ID. Il. HILL, of Albany and
Washington, has just argued and won
his first case in the United States SUI
preme court.
REV, a. c.. DIXON, the we'll known
Baptist clergyman of New York, is
preparing series of lectures in reply
to Col. Ingersoll.
ST. JAMES, l.. l.. boasts the highest
snd strongest windmill in the world
1t frequently fills u 50, 0O0 gallon reser-
voir in two days.
The physicians of the United states
now number 1lS 453, New York leads
with l1,17l; Pennsylvania has 0,310 and
Illinois ranks third with 5000.
RUSSIA has no colonies in the proper
sense of the word. All the additions tc
this gigantic empire have been by mill
( tary conquest and annexation.
FIELD mice are reported to have in
creased in large numbers in some parts
of the eastern counties OF Scotland, and
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