The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

"ISSELIANEOO0
Florida promises to become large
producer Of opium. Sixteen plants
will produce an ounce, and an acre Of
poppies will yield $1,000 worth OF
opium.
"A recently published Dictionary
OF Furniture and Decorations" shows
that the grandes danes Of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries re-
ceived while in bed.
"A parrot which died at Poaghkeep-
sic recently was quite linguist, being
able, It is said, to talk in the English,
Dutch and Portuguese languages. II
was valued at $500.
The Government ornithologist at
Washington estimates that the surplus
in the United States treasury would
not suffice to pay the bounty for exter-
minating the English sparrows in New
York State.
"A curiosity noticed in Portland
Harbor lately was a largo schooner
yacht, which was bound for Ohio.
Thirteen fresh water yachtsmen from
Ohio bought her in New York and were
bound home by way OF the st. Law
renee. Not one of them had ever been
on the salt water before.
In the old days, when forgery was
punished by death, an English judge.
in passing sentence upon a convicted
forger, remarked that he chopped the
prisoner would find that mercy in
Heaven which due regard to the
paper currency OF Great Britain made
it necessary to deny him upon earth"
Lightning recently at Hallsville,
near Centralia, Mo-, struck the smoke
stack of d mill. On the window OF
the mill the stroke of electricity plainly
photographed the numerals 1888. Be-
tween the figures was zigzag line.
On the wall opposite hung calendar
for the present year from which the
photograph was supposed to have been
copied.
"A dog in Davenport, Ia., having
seized a young sparrow that had
dropped to the sidewalk, was instantly
set upon by half dozen of the grown
birds with ferocity that not only made
him drop his prey, but sent him of
bowling with the blood flowing from
several places where their sharp bills
had struck him.
Three tailors established them
selves in the same street in Glasgow.
The first wrote on his sign, 1.-The best
tailor in this town" The second
adopted as his motto, "The best tailor
In the world" But the third, who was
cleverest of the lot, got away with
all by putting on his sign, "The best
tailor in this street."
"A New York art dealer has in
vented novel picture frame. 1t is OF
broad oak, with real bars half an inch
thick, colored to look like iron, set
across it from side to side. Imitation
hinges on one side and a very real
looking paddock on the other increases
the resemblance to the barred door Of
a cage. With the picture of the head
effect is very startling, if not strictly
artistic.
1t would be mistake to suppose
that meteorological eccentricity is Pc
culiar to this day and generation: The
weather was just as erratic long before
the Signal Service was dreamed of. In
the Buffalo Weebly Republican of June
"a, 1S41, appears this paragraph: "The
night before last we stood by good
fire and it was comfortable. Yesterday
we stood by good thermometer and it
was decidedly uncomfortable, being at
98."-Bufalo Courier.
"A Berlin merchant who advertised
for wife lately received 277 answers.
OF these, 81 were widows varying in
age from twenty-five to fifty-two; AZ of
them had no children, and 21 possessed
fortunes entirely under their own con-
troi of from $500 to 800, 900. Four ladies
who had been separated from their
husbands also wrote to express desire
to try their luck at marriage for a
second time-one of them for third
time. OF the remaining 1856 only
gave their age as over thirty; 18 OF
them professed to be just turned six
teen. Seventy-one photographs were
inclosed, and 81 Of them are said to
represent remarkably pretty girls.