The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

| or cabbages, cucumbers and t,,r-
nips, the Londoner eats more than tho
Parisian, but with the exception Of
these, and also potatoes, onions and
tomatoes, Paris is much the largest
consumer Of fruits and vegetables.
Soprano Tin organ loft)-"That
was lovely solo our new basso gave
u.s." Tenor-"Yes, rather But he
shouldn't play ball every day in the
week. 1t isn't right, you know" Alto
I'D like to know what you mean.'
Tenor-"Well, that lovely basso is
catcher on week days and makes bass
hits on Sundays. "-PittsJurgh Bulletin.
1t was his first visit to the city.
AS he stood on tho curbstone shaking his
sides with laughter he was accosted by
policeman, who said: whats the
fun, stranger,P" "Fun! Can't you see
itP just look how that thing (point-
ing to watering cart) leaks; why, the
man won't have drop left when he
gets home. ."-NeW Hduen NeWs.
"A man in New York went before
n judge for naturalization. "What is
your nationality" II don't know.
wish you would tell me. My father
was an Englishman, my mother was
Spaniard, and was born at sea, on
French ship flying a Dutch flag.
want to become an American citizen
and make the rest OF the voyage under
the Stars and Stripes"
"A prominent business man of Bath
has declared war against the cigarette,
and is industrious in cutting items out
of the newspapers giving frightful ex-
| amples of the use of this pernicious
article. These he shows to cigarette
smokers, and has succeeded in making
number of converts. He challenges
any one to name single thoroughly
good business man who smokes cigar
cites.
Culture is spreading. The other
| day young miss, of Texarkana, bought
herself half a dozen big trunks full OF
finery, had them shipped to her address
at leading girls college up North,
and sent the bills to her fond father,
who is man of worth and substance,
along with telegram that she herself
had taken the train for school, as she
was 'bound to have n fine education"
| "A prominent engineer says that it
will be noticed that most boiler explo-
sions come, like black coffee, right
after dinner The reason for this, as
he explains it, is that the water in the
boilers is in perfect readiness to become
steam. and would be such but for the
| pressure of the actual steam on top of
| it, When the dinner hour is over and
the men and machines begin to work
again, the valves are quickly opened,
the steam rushes out, and the water
suddenly becomes steam. AS steam
has LOO times the expansion of water
the effect is an explosion.
| President Willis, of the Agricul-
tural College, of Michigan, while he
disputes the exercise of direct influ-
ence of forests in promoting moisture
saying that all the trees in the world
will not put it where it is not-believes
that the moisture on the continent is
advancing toward the west, and that
the planting of forests and increased
cultivation will cause the rainfall to
advance farther west every year. Seven
hundred thousand acres of forest have
already been planted in Nebraska; the
cottonwood and the willow first, and
then the soft maple and the hard
woods.
Concerning Holsters, experts say
that young crustacelns have to be put
In the sea almost us soon as Matched,
and they begin to feed voraciously.
They are born with sense enough to
know that Holsters make delicious
food, and they attack one another saw
agely and hungrily. For few DAYS
they swim on the surface, where they
find the food suited to their early re-
quirements. Here their destruction is
enormous. In "a few days the lobster's
walking or crawling members are de-
veloped, and he sinks to the bottom.
where he makes his home.
In the vicarage garden at Evenly,
says an English paper, is a lilac tree in
which pair of robins built their nest.
A cat climbed the tree and killed Mrs.
Robin. Mr.. Robin, however, kept the
eggs warm by sitting on them for sew
eral days, but lady who watched him
says that he used to go away some
where for long intervals, but not long
enough to let the eggs get cold. At
last he returned from one of his tours
with another Mrs. Robin, who immedi.
ately took the place of the deceased
wife and in time Matched the eggs, and
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