The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Cork is The latest material proposed
for making railroad cars The idea is
that In case of collision IL would simply
bound off the track.
"A new lubricant that Is coming
into use in Germany is mustard oil II
remains fluid at the low temperature Of
fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. and will
keep unchanged for years.
"A man who exercises profound
Influence over the Car is Ivan of Cron-
stadt, n hermit priest. who is said to
perform miracles and whom the Gar
frequently visits in his monastic cell.
The champion meanest man is the
husband who placed his pocketbook in
n mouse-trap, so that his wife could not
get Mt it in the early morning without
liberating mouse. Baltimore An,eri-
can.
. The washerwoman finds her occu,
patton almost gone through the intro
duction Of machinery. The most inter"
esting machine ia the whizzer, which
dries clothes in one thousand revolu-
tions minute.
Silver. generally a very desirable
metal. is source of great annoyance
to the manufacturer of white lead, for,
If present in an appreciable quantity, it
spoils the color of the finished product,
owing to the well-known backening
effect of light upon the salts of silver.
Henry" said the wife of a travel
ing man. ''there is q woman on the next
block who hasn't spoken word for
twenty-seven years. Isn't that wonder
fulp'' "Hum, she's deaf and dumb
ain shep' Eyes, he said with little
pout, "How did you guess itp" BE
cause miracles are out of date. .'-Mer-
chant Traveller.
What was the biggest school Of
mackerel you ever sawp" asked sum-
mer boarder of old Captain Gloster.
"The biggest school of mackerel ever
sawp" repeated the captain. shifting
his quid and hitching up his trousers
"Well, ma'am, the biggest school Of
mackerel ever saw was off the Banks,
away back in 81, But, ma am, that
wasn't no school of mackerel. That
was university"
"A Mournful Rehection.-A Texas
man was left $1,000 by the death of an
uncle in New York. He drank deeply,
and went through the property in two
months. While engaged in the COM
pletion of one of the railroads in Texas,
he received notice that he had fallen
heir. this time to $1,000. "Allow me
to congratulate you,' said one OF his
fellow-workmen. Congratulate moth.
ing!' said the man dismally. "It looks
very much as though there was some
kind of plot on foot to kill me off, -
Teas sj7tngs.
The annual royalty exacted by the
Bell Telephone Company from its busi-
ness is $14 per set of instruments. 1t
sells nothing. Ii, New York State, at
least, in addition to these royalties it
also eXacts from its licenses further
consideration in the form of donation
of tliirty-five per cent. of the capital
stock of it's licenses. 1t also exacts a
commission upon all extra territorial
and telegraph business done by the
licenses of fifteen per cent. ON the
former and fifteen per cent. of the
latter.
AN easy-going couple live in SPRING
field, Mass. They are young, have
been married about four and q half
years, and have three children. The
husband has left his family three times,
and each time the wife has sold the
goods and returned to her parents,
taking back her spouse every time he
returned, and helping refurnish. Fur
thermore, she LETT him twice, when he
in turn sold their common possessions.
They are now living together again as
if nothing had occurred out of the
usual way.
AT Sullivan. on Frenchman's Bay,
opposite Bar Harbor. they dig she'll
fish which some of the natives declare
superior to scollops. 1t is called razor
fish, from the fact that the shell is
shaped like IL razor handle. The shell
is of dark blue color, and it is quite
difficult to open it with knife. These
fish are found in the mud, like CLANS
They are very acute of hearing, and
disappear quickly when disturbed, so
that anybody who wants to get a mess
of them has to dig pretty lively.