The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

ihE cOutn African SOtQ fnltleS QUIZ
iputis increasing greatly. ~ "
The editors of the religions papers in
St. Louis have formed a club.
The United States has SIS medical
schools, regular, eclectic and horneo-
pathic.
SALooNKEEPERs in New York city
have added snuff to the free lunch
counters.
WAKEMAN is a descendant of the old
village watchnsan. So are Wake and
Wakeson.
CHICAGO has invented a new era.
They call 1894 the year A. F-after
the fair.
ONE of the oldest markets in the
country is in Alexander Va 1t was
built in 1850
ENVELOPES were first made in 1889
and sold for ten cents and twenty-five
cents apiece.
THE tomb of Mahomet is covered with
diamonds, sapphires and rubies, valued
at SIC, 900, 900.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the steel king,
pronounces his name Car-na-gy, second
syllable accented.
In Paraguay, when n gentleman is
introduced to a lady, it is customary
for him to kiss her
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, it is said.
has given $1,000, 900 to religious work
In the past two years.
MR. GLADSTONE, prime minister of
England, pronounces his name Glad
stun, first syllable sounded.
HyrrrnN 1Dll,,e SC x,,1,,< no,<.
Chicago for Christmas candles, and
New York spends s2,OOO,OOO.
THERE are 10000 copyrighted volumes
of American poetry in the congress
ionai library at Washington.
SKINS of catfish are being worked up
by a mun at Old Orchard, Me-, into
strong and handsome leather.
A MAN at Jonesboro. Ind, has cat
that not only associates with chickens,
butfoosts with them at night.
AN Illinois man named Storms has
named his three sons Hale Storms,
Rayne Storms and Snow Storms.
OWING to the frequency of criminal
assaults in the suburbs of St. Louis, the
people are organizing a vigilant COM
mittee.
THE fourth verse of the twentieth
chapter of Revelations contains more
words than any other verse in the New
Testament.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. SouTHwoRTH is
seventy -four years old. She has writ
ten eighty novels-sixteen for each of
her initials.
AT Worthwhile, s. d., an unknown
man fred two shots at Nicholas Haas,
who was playing after the Ball. on
an ACCORDION.
In einorthwestern part of Colorado
there is region several hundred square
miles in extent which is vast deposit
of petrided fish
In southern California there is an inn
mense mass of hardened lava that
looks exactly like an inverted cup in an
enormous saucer.
An establishment has been started in
London where housemaids are supplied
by the morning or by the day, as the
employer prefers
JOHN CHATrERToN, who poses on the
stage as Sig. Perugini, achieved his
first success in life as Barnum's prizs
baby many years ago.
A CARMEL (Me.) young man, taking
his girl on sleigh ride, spilled her out
and drove mile before he discovered
his loss. His excuse is that he is very
deaf.
THE mayor of Kalama, Wash, after
treating the waits of that city to
big Christmas dinner, made them linz
up and every one take dose of quiz
nine.
A CLEVELAND reporter who has been
interviewing the hardware dealers
thinks that at least fifty per cent of
those who carry anything of value go
armed.
AM intelligent cat is pet in the
house of Mrs Mary Brownell, at Will
mington, Del. When the animal de-
s;res to be let out of the cellar it rings
q bell
The further north, the more in
furious to the human system is the
use of coffee. Greenlalders have found
1t necessary to prohibit it's use by the
young.
MRS. MAcKAY, wife of the California
millionaire, paid Meissonier, the French
artist $4,000 to paint her portrait.
This is the largest sum ever paid for
portrait.
PROF. HUXLEY, the great scientist. is
keen-eyed, sharp-featured man. He
is quite crotchety, almost cranky, in
his ways. and is removed for his irasci-
BILE temper.
The people of Hythe, Kent, Eng
land, have been unable to get any ono
selected 10 accept the Office of mayor,
and have taken steps to compel some
one to serve.
ACCORDING to the latest statistics the
United tates has Is, S12,766 persons OF
school age, of whom IL, 0lO, 1856 are en-.
rolled in the schools, and the average
attendance is S,373, 364.
iT is signifit ant of the mixed charac.
ter of the population in the German
quarter of New York that some mid
wives announce their profession in five
languages.
MANY OF the South Sea islanders be-
lisye that Paradise can only be inher-
tted by persons of perfect physical
FORMS and they would rather die than
submit TO a'surgical operation to save
their lives.
MANY Chimes laundrymen in New
York are developing into merchants
They have discovered the popularity of
Oriental goods and taken to keeping
all sorts of quaint and cheap tr'fes
from thina