The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE number of railroad employees in
France is 232,OO
AN ordinary locomotive is said to
sonsist of 5,4l6 pieces
The new London bridge over the
Thames cost S., 900, ,OO0
A RUSSIAN is not legally of age till
he is twenty-six years old.
The high cirrus clouds are believed
TO be formed of snowflal1es.
CAMBLs are being imported into Aus.
tralia for use in the gold fields.
In ITS hailstones said to weigh GO
ounces fell at Murcia, in Spain.
The average annual amount of dew
In England is equal to five inches OF
gain.
MANY old feudal castles are still in.
habited in England and parts of Eu-
rope.
MORE than one thousand forms OF
snow crystals have been observed and
copied.
The first book printed in America is
said to have been an almanac at Boston
in 1859.
A STURGEON weighing three hundred
pounds has been caught in Narragap.
eett bay
THE American people last year drank
the decoction from $40, 1000, 900 pounds
of coffee.
IN 1035 there was frost in England
July I that destroyed nearly all the
vegetation.
THE heaviest rainfall is near the
equator, and diminishes steadily as the
latitude rises.
NEGRO was fined by New York
justice recently for saying "Ah, therem
to passer-by.
The luster of morocco may be re.
tanned by applying the white of an egg
with sponge.
OVER 100000 people live in this
country upon the wages paid by rail
road companies.
AT Great Falls, Mont, the mercury
has been known to drop 25 degrees in.
side of five minutes.
The prince of Wales has II brothers
in-law, 16 uncles, 81 cousins and So
nephews and nieces.
OVER one-half of the vapor in the at
mosphere is within 6,OOO feet of the
surface of the earth.
IN the temperate zones, the maxi
mum of heat is attained about month
after the longest days.
In the United States the rainfall of
the four seasons is about equal in
amount in each season.
In Norway the perpetual snow line
is at 2,4OO feet; in the Himalayas. 49,.
700; in the Andes, 1s,6OO.
Tup Him 81, 1;, won't 1,,. x,o.,ol -
law prohibiting all railroad traffic and
mail delivery on Sunday.
MOST of the m-producing strata
of the air lie below the tops of the
highest mountain ranges.
IT is now asserted that Argentina ex-
ports more wheat to the markets of
Europe than the United States.
FROM recent exploration it is be-
lieved that Peru contains the second
largest petroleum area in the world.
In France sixty-seven per cent. OF
the people live on rye bread, only
thirty-three per cent. on wheat bread.
A WEST PHILADELPHIA girl has her
room papered with correspondence
The dado is made entirely of love let
ters.
THERE are more artesian wells in
California than any other state in the
union. One county claims 45O such
wells.
JAMES WOOD and Miss Mary Stewart
were recently married near Youngs-
town, o., after courtship of but two
hours.
AT Bombay twenty-four inches of
rain have fallen in day, at Genoa,
thirty inches, at Gibraltar, thirty-three
inches.
THE silk of the great spider of NADIA
gascaa - fine, strong and elastic. 1t is
used by the natives to fasten flowers to
sunshades.
A RADIsu weighing four and three
quarter pounds and measuring fourteen
inches in circumference is product of
Huston, Ga.
LYDIA Z. GAUL is reported to have
relinquished all claims to the estate of
Robert Ray Hamilton in consideration
of the sum of $4,000.
A NEBRASKA paper missed publica.
tion one day lately on account of the
EDITORS wife. who did the typesetting,
being away on visit.
4hE uVerdSc WdLch lS composed OF
ninety-eight pieces and it's manufac-
ture embraces more than 1000 distinct
and seperate operations.
IN spite of the financial condition of
the country 495 miles of new railroad
has been constructed in the United
States in the last six months.
THE bulletin of the Berlin bureau of
statistics says that four-fifths of the
engines of all classes now working in
the world have been constructed since
1870.
In Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota the inhabitants of foreign par
entage outnumber the native popu
lat;On.
CLERGYMEN vie with each other in
their advertisements to perform the
marriage ceremony cheaply in Austria.
fla. Their charges vary from seventy.
i've cents to $3.50.
By the will of the late William Wal
ter Phelps his daughter, the Baroness
Won Rottenbcrg, receives over $1,000
300, which, added to the wealth of her
husband, will make them one of the
wealthiest families in Germany.
Mrs. CATHERINE SALISBURY. sister OF
the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith,
who was killed at Carthage, ILL.,, in 1874.