The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


BARRY county, Mo-, hasa town called
panacea.
IRISH and Negroes rar.ly resort Il
self-destruction.
WHITE sulphur water has been struh
near Pineville, Mo.
WATERMELoNs are but sixteen cents
hundred in New Orleans.
A YOUNG colored woman has been ad.
hitted to the bar in Chicago.
MANY steamboats, made in Pittsburgh
are plying on South American rivers.
CALIFORNIA reports her almond croy
ef this year as the largest ever grown.
srx-TENrHs of the population in Jap.
IN do not earn more than $40 month.
DROUGHT in Argentina has killed
S0o, 900 cattle, 100000 sheep and 10000
horses
A LIGHT suspension bridge was built
at Niagara Falls in 1s4s and removed
In 1854
BARONESS BURpETT-C Courts owns the
finest copy of the first folio of Shak.
speare, 1923.
TRrBET, though nearly half as large
rs the United States, has only 1900, ,OOo
Inhabitants.
In A. d. 105 Trajae built magnif.
cent stone bridge across the Danube.
4,77o feet long.
MUSHROOM, Mich, is one of the
worlds chief centers for the manu-.
facture Of toys
The most extensive mines are those
Of Saxony. The galleries have 12a
miles of length.
A GAS well at Montpelier, Ind, has
changed its tune, and oil flows freely
from its mouth.
EVERY civilized nation of the world,
even China and Japan, now has a
weather bureau.
ROBERT BUCHANAN, the author and
playwright, became bankrupt by bet
ting on the races.
WHEN Paris was practically rebuilt
by Napoleon III, hc chose Washington
City as his model.
AS long ago as 1910 the endowed
charities of Great Britain amounted to
G1,5OO, 600 annually.
A SECONDHAND hearse, with the ton
cut off, does duty as wagon on the
Milo Me.) poor farm.
ONE after another of the theological
seminaries of the country are opening
their doors to women.
THERE is no record that the seventh
day was religiously observed in the
days of the patriarchs.
A SHORTAGE of billions of feet of pine
lumber is predicted from the great
northwestern territory.
The kangaroo readily leaps from 60
to 20 feet. The highest record Of Q !
leap of horse is 81 feet.
ALUMINIUM is now used as substi |
tute for leather in building up the
heels of boots and shoes.
THERE is twin crystal of emerald
in st. Petersburg inches long, broad
and weighing AZ pounds.
The book of Job written 1920 B. c.,
describes very accurately several pro.
cesses of smelling metals.
The body of a petrifed elephant was
recently found three feet below the
surface at Castle Rock, Kas.
THE customs authorities at Boston
have decided that the works of Zola
are immoral but not obscene.
In Italy five centuries ago every per-
son that wore shoes was obliged to pay
the state tax for the privilege.
The principle of trial by jury was in.
augurated in 46s. Every accused per.
son to be tried only by his equals.
SOUTHERN cotton planters claim that
the oil mills have made combine
against their cotton seed products.
Moss grows thickest on the north
side of hills, and a sun-exposed tree has
the largest limbs on the south side.
EVERY pint of port, sherry or Ma,
deira has four ounces of alcohol; every
pint of champagne has three ounces.
MOSES HALL, colored resident OF
Owings Mills, near Baltimore, has n
great head, it requiring ~ hat to
fill it.
A wooD-sToNE is now made of saw.
dust, cement and magnesia, which can
be sawed, planed or bored like natural
wood.
WARTIME journalism is recalled in
the forced publication of late issue
of the Whiting Qnd:) News on wall
paper.
The sacred bo tree, uprooted by
cyclone that swept over Ceylon in DC.
tober, 1887, was believed to be 2,l75
years old.
THERE is now a continuous line of
street railway between Lowell and
Z HaverhiN, Mass, q distance of forty.
two miles.
OF the nineteen lieutenant generals
Of the confederate army only Hampton,
Wheeler, Longstreet and Gordon are
now living.
The poker players of the senate are
Brice, Henderson, Hale, Pettigrew and
Quay, and Quay is accounted the best
of them all.
SLATER, Mo-, has tcn-year-old boy
who rides grown up bicycle by
standing on one side of it with both
feet on one pedal.
jim Crow, an Indian boy of Mar
mette, Wis, recently had his leg cut of
while trying to save dog from being
crushed by train.
The most remarkable formations OF
frost known to the meteorologist are
found on Mt. Washington, where the
crystals are often foot long.
FORMERLY all the mandolins used in
this country were imported from Ger
many and Italy. Now nearly all thai
are used here are of home make.
Mr., LADoUcHERE carries his radical
ism SO far as to refrain from giving tn.
readers of his paper any information OF
f ha hivr<h - hat, To- 4 he