The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


THE Kentucky river is 210 miles
long, and there is not an island in 1t
anywhere.
There is clergyman in England
named Straight whose ourate Is named
Crooked.
"A man who was begging in the
streets of Mobile tho other day Is said
to have lost and paid $40, 900 in wagers
on Tilden's election.
The origin of trusts has been traced
back to Vermont sheep-owpers, who
formed u combination in the long ago
to monopolizc the merino sheep busi-
ness. I.
Mormon Elder Ito wife)-"I un-
dcrstand that our beloved brother,
Elder Brigham. has an addition to his
family" Wifc--"Is it boy or girl,
Joshuap" Mormon Elder--"Neither;
it's "a new wife. "--Epoch.
Mover use nitric acid when clean
ing glycerine bottles. Anursc recently
tried this experiment and the bottle ex-
ploded. Nitric acid and glycerine form
u lively compound called nitro-glycer-
inc. which won't be pounded with i'm
punity.--M y Tribune.
Chinese pheasants are so thick in
the Waldo Hills, Colorado. that they
have to be shooed out of the burrows
by the plowmen, so greedy IRE they in
gobbling up the angleworms. They
are becoming nuisance.
OF eighty.eight specimens of weeds
described by Mr.. l.. H. Pammcl, of st.
Louis, as growing in Southwestern Wis
consin and Southeastern Missouri, for
ty-six are of European and thirty of
American origin. One-third of the lat
ter class, and nearly one-fourth of the
entire list, are composites.
The grave of General William
Henry Harrison, ninth President of the
United States, is on q beautiful natural
mound near his old residence at North
Bend, on the banks of the Ohio, fifteen
miles below Cincinnati. monument
marks the spot, and the grave for years
has remained neglected.
Two lovesick Mormon maidens in
New Mexico fought duel recently.
Both loved the same cowboy, hated each
other intensely, and, meeting by ap.
pointment in an obscure place, 'fought
it OUT One was seriously wounded
by the fire of her antagonist, who al
once fled from the scene.
The latest Maine romance comes
from Biddeford, where an honest, awk.
ward farmer, who had been pestered for
years with q suit for sending indecent
letters to the girl he loved, has Just
been able to prove that their author
was none other than her rascally
brother, who hoped, by preventing
her marriage, to keep undivided their
joint estate.
by an ingenious device the man.
agement of the Battle of Gettysburg, in
New York, contrives to watt warm
breezcs over the spectators platform
by way of adding to tho illusion that
the visitor is standing in the midst oi
q wheat fold similar to that over which
Pickett's charge swept These breezes
apparently blow down from the tops oi
| the mountains.
--"Speaking about clubs" remarked
Mr. Cumso, who had just been elected
a member of the Manhattan, 'they arc
the sign-posts of civilization. YOU
never hear of savages forming them
selves into societies for mutual i'm
provement and pleasure" 20. non
sense" replied Mrs. Cumson. "Tv,
heard of Indian clubs ever since
could walk. It'd bits.
Two young ladies of South CHESTER
Pa, went into store where thoro wa!
galvanic battery, and the proprietor
asked them to try it. Each grasred ;
pole of the battery, and wondered why
no shock was felt. The proprietor sug
gested that they kiss each other. They
did so, and then there was shock in
deed. One of the young women shrieket
and fell over backward. The othel
made no sound but tainted. Cole
water brought them both around, non,
the worse for the kiss.
"A tramp who was frequently seel
in the vicinity of West Somers, N. Y.
is known as the "Old Leather Man
He passes through the place about ono,
in five weeks. His dress is entirely O
leather, made of small pieces which h,
picks up in his travels. He never talk.
to any one, refuses money or any thing
bat food, which he gets at regula
places on his route, which is alway.
the same. He never enters building
sleeps in the timber and tramps day by
day through heat and cold and storm
Where he came from no one knows.