Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — OHIO’S MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHIO’S MONUMENT.

Thy Buckeye State Erect* a World's Fair Shaft at a Coet of •18,000. Ohio has erected a monument in front of the State Building on ’ thq Fair grounds, Chicago, which when the Exposition is over with will be set up permanently in the city of Columbus. The monument is 31 feet high and rests on a base 14 feet square. The crowning figure, symbolizing the State of Ohio under the

guise of the famous Roman matron, Cornelia, is ten feet tall, and the figures around the shaft measure seven feet and represent "Ohio’s Greatest Sons” Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Garfield, Chase and Stanton. The cost of' the monument is $25,000. Cost of Bad Iloadt. The Board of Trade in a Tennessee town, In a recent memorial to the legislature, demonstrated, according to the Engineering Magazine, that bad roads were costing the people of that commonwealth more than $7,000,000 annually. Professor W. W. Carson, of the University of Tennessee, 1 after careful investigation, found the' average cost of hauling to the Knoxville market by wagon to be $7150 per ton—aggregating $1j250,000 a jyear on the total tonnage hauled. Ho maintained that this •hauling could have been done for half the sum over good dirt roads and for one-sixth of it over goo(|,macadam roads, saving $1,000,000 annually. Professor Richard T. Ely, of the Johns Hopkins University and Secretary of the American Economic Association, affirmed that poor roads cost this country over S2O a horse, and Prof. Jenks, of Knox College, Illinois, thinks sls a horse a low estimate ftfr this loss. Mr. Hord, a former Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Tennessee, estimated the number of hores, mules and asses in that State, in 1889, at 476,000. The number has Increased since his estimate, but taking this number and the lowest estimated loss per horse, say sls, and an aggregate loss of $7,140,000 a year for one State is shown. From tables calculated by Professor Carson, for an agricultural experiment station, it was shown that on gravel a horse will draw nearly one-and-a-half times the load, on macadam, over three times the load he can draw on a dirt road. Of course there is great economy of drawing power in the proper grading of roads, and disregard of this fact has wasted large quantities of money in the road building of the past. The greater speed attained on scientifically graded and patent race tracks Illustrates the advantages of grade.

The Cigarette Evil. Considering what very poor things cigarettes are, it is surprising that they should have got such a hold on the community. But, bad as they are, they are extremely fascinating. The use of them, when carried to excess, becomes a habit that is most difficult to break, while they are so cheap and so convenient that it takes exceptional discretion to smoke them at all without smoking them to a deleterious extent. Of course it is primarly because they are so cheap that they appeal so generally to boys; but even with boys, who ought not to be allowed to smoke at all, it is not so much the tobacco in the cigarette that does the mischief as the pestilent and insinuating practice of inhaling the smoke. An ordinary boy of wholesome appetites won't smoke cigars or pipe tobacco enough to do him serious damage, even if he can get them. Nor would the cigarettes he might smoke be so serious a menace to his welfare if he would only smoke them as he would smoke cigars. The trouble is that as soon as he gets used to cigarette-smoking he begins to inhale the smoke, and presently is fixed in a habit that plays the mischief with him. Whether anything besides tobacco goes into ordinary cigarettes is a much-discussed question. The effect they sometimes produce on the brain is so different from that due to tobacco in other forms as to favor-the theory that many of them contain opium or valerian; but this the manufacturers deny, usually asserting that such drugs are toq r expensive to put into cheap cigarettes, even if it helped their marketable qualities. One thing besides the tobacco obviously goes into them, and that is the paper, the fumes of which are doubtless bad for the throat and lungs as far as they go.*—Harper’s Weekly. A Famine Factory. Major F. H. Law, an attach»>otrf the British Embr-ssy at St Petersburg, states as the result of personal investigations, that the famine of eastern and northern provinces is apt to become a chronic evil. The agricultural communities of the Empire are managed on a plan which compels the cultivators of the soil to give up his farm every third year, and as a consequence the productive capacity of the land is being rapidly exhausted. Moreover, the forests of the Ural border have been cut away by millions of acres, and the cold northeast winds now sweep unobstructed over the open plains of the Volga country, and cover the fields with ruinous sand drift*

OHIO'S WORLD'S FAIR MONUMENT.