The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

There Is dog at Seymour, Ind.
who will look at clock and then put
his paw on the exact hour as marked
on q card.
| Experiments show that tropical
sugar-corn will grow in many parts OF
Arizona and that it is as productive as
in the Sandwich Islands. II is also as
certained that the lockwood tree will
! grow there.
The report of the Trustees OF the
Vermont Lunatic Asylum shows the
whole number of patients admitted to
the asylum in tifty-two years is 6,2oS;
1929 men, and 1906 women.
"A Philadelphia marketman rejoices
in q cablegram from Prince Bismarck
ordering twelve pairs of canvas-back
ducks. The same dealer supplies
Wilkie Collins with New Jersey snipe.
"A visitor who examined some town
records upon Cape Cod furnishes this
extract from an old sermon, preached
about 1760, on the sin of wearing
peliwigs: "Adam, so long as he con-
tinued in innoceney, did wear his own
hair and nota periwig."
"A cooking school lecturer has
bravely attacked the custom of the
multiplying of little dishes upon the
table. She says that the greatest need
of the American table is not variety,
but variation; variety in food does not
necessarily preclude certain amount
OF routine.
"A marble worker of Baltimore, not
long since found u valuable diamond
imbedded in big block of Italian
marble, and has had the gem set, with
out cutting, in heavy gold ring.
Lapidaries say that though such finds
are unusual, this is by no means the
first on record.
In some of the counties of Dakota
they pay five cents a tail for prairie
dogs, and in one place they pass as
currency. A man goes into saloon
and for his drinks throws on the coun-
ter gopher tails. 1t looks a little novel
in church to see prairie dog tails going
into the contribution box, but so it is.
Not long ago an Italian workman on
the water-works at Dover, N. H., re-
ceived notice that he had been drafted
into the Italian army. He at once
settled up his small affairs and started
for his old home. Asked why he didn't
stay here and pay no attention to the
draft, he said that if he did he would
never dare to return to Italy, for he
would be liable to arrest and imprison-
ment.
In cleaning out the lower levels of
the caves at Dordogne, in France,
ary stone arrow-heads yet discovered,
there were found great many oyster
shells piled in such a manner as to
show that the Neauderthal man used
the bivalve as a common article OF
food. The oyster is thus demonstrated
to be the oldest domesticated delicacy
known to man. These relics are esti-
mated to be over sixty thousand years
old.
Cultured Dame-"Just like man!
You grab n paper as soon as it arrives,
keep it all to yourself, and then blame
me for not being informed on matters
of public interest" Husband-"Well.
my dear, I'll read the paper aloud if
you wish. Let me see-.Another Ocean
30, don't read that"
" The Progress of the Campaign
II don't care for politics." Tissues
of the Hour" "Never mind that"
" Science Solves a Problem " 81
hate science" ".Mrs. Tiptap's Party
Description of the Dresses" 80,
read that Riladelphta Record.
"A fight between rattlesnake and
a coach-whip, near Moultrie, Fla, is
thus described: The rattlesnake
his antagonist, but could not
obtain an opportunity to strike.
that the coach-whip did not
mean business, the rather then leisurely
uncoiled himself and started to go,
when, quick as lightning, the whip
started for him, seizing him back of
the neck, and wrapped himself tightly
around his body. In ten minutes the
coach-whip leisurely uncoiled himself
and glided away into the underbrush,
leaving the latter mass of Jelly,
quite dead. The rattlesnake had sew
eral rattles, and was q dangerous
looking monster.