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


THIS country contains 107,475 Chi.
rese.
TwENTY-FoUR carat gold is pure
gold.
ONLY one man in 2o3 is ever six feet
high.
FIVE per cent. of mankind are color
blind.
A BUFFALO church has vested WON,
ms choir.
The last census included 5s,sO6 civ.
ilized Indians.
PHILADELPHIA has 1s7,O5o houses and
2o5,1 families
CHICAGO has 1851 dwellings and
290.32O families.
THE Russian imperial crown is val.
ucd at Sc, ,OOO,O
ST. LOUIS has 6O,937 dwelling houses
and 81, ,756 families.
A NEW French invention is scissors
for opening oysters.
NEW YORK city has s1,s2s dwellings
and ,766 families.
WYOMING sheep and wool are being
exported to England.
JAPANESE children are taught to
write with each hand.
Low water is obstructing navigation
in North Carolina rivers.
The maximum of the debt of North
Carolina is over 4O,OOO.OOO.
AMONG flowers chrysanthemums live
the longest after being cut.
The newest Paris paper is called the
journal for Mothers-in-Law
A GRANDSON of James Russell Lowell
is Harvard graduate of this year.
DoLPH BUCK1Ns, a Georgia Negro,
has one white ear and one black one.
A SUBSTITUTE for glass is made from
collodian wool and is flexible, not brit.
tie.
SOUTH CAROLINA is the only state in
which no official record of marriages is
kept.
ONLY 1928 per cent. of the voting
strength of the United States are col
ored.
A LION in the jungles will jump
twenty-five or thirty feet from stand
ing start.
Mrs. JULIA J. IRVINE, the new presi-
dent of Wellesley college, is sister of
Buffalo Bill.
The Russian peasant never touches
food or drink without making the sign
of the cross.
A HuMiING BIRD is said to have been
stung to death by bee at Columbia,
Wis, recently.
In the United States there are 81 law
firms in which the partners are hus.
band and wife.
1T was proven in a New York court
that a lawyer took away hot stove as
part of his fee.
RAILROAD ties last about eight years.
There are usually $500 of them in a
mile of track.
OHIO raised 4,37s,72 sheep last year,
value 1000, 600: Texas raised 4,3O4, 900,
value $7,OOO,OOO
MARY ANDERSON is about to publish
a book. 1t will deal with her mem.
cries of the stage.
TIE star fish has no nose, but the
whole of its under side is endowed with
the sense of swell.
TENEMENTs and high class apartment
houses comprise forty-two per cent. of
New York dwellings.
THERE are now 797 prisoners in the
Kansas state prison, and of that num-
her only IA are women.
A DOG owned by Trapper Ragan. liv-
ing near High Point. n. c., has been
taught to track turtles.
on,,t, /Yp, fo,,,a,,. .1,,
template growing 100000 bushels of
rye for the export trade.
A SIGN over a bird and animal store
in San Francisco reads: Talking par
rots, monkeys and dogs"
The birth rate of the United States
diminished from 1880 to 1890 from 30. 95
per 1000 population to 26.6s.
REMAINS of prehistoric man of the
mound building period have been
found at Charlotte Harbor. Fla.
IT is now asserted that Argentina
exports more wheat to the markets of
Europe than the United States.
The First Presbyterian church of
Jersey City has decided to use individ
rsl cups in the communion service.
IN the tenement districts of New
York ,he houses each average six
families and over thirty occupants.
OvEp eighsy-four per cent. of the
population of Philadelphia live in
houses having but one family each.
The 124 largest cities in the country
show a, steady and tolerably uniform,
decrease in the average size of family.
TRAIN which runs at the rate OF
eighty-fvc niles an hour requires a
mile in which to stop, when going o:
full speed.
In Germany merchant was recent,
fined heavily for using quotation n
from the Bible at the head of an adj
vertiscment.
a LApY at Maple Valley, n. Y, is
raising in a cage an albino robin which
she found in the grass under tree.
Every feather is white and its eyes are
pink.
ARTHUR WooDsoS. aged IA, lives in
Brow nsboro, Ill. His hair began fall.
irG out when he was II years old
and now he is as baldheaded as man
of TO-
ENGLISH papers say that Mrs. Hum
phry Ward has made $4,000 from
david Grieve." $4,000 from ''Mar.
celiH." and s4O,0 900 from ''Robcrt Els
mere"
WHEN the aluminium cap was put on
the Washington monument it cost So a
pound. Now it can be bought for 81
cents ii, mound