The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-02-16

worse fault than the thing tha
causes it.
! II is when a school boy puts a,
e 10 the word low that the spell
begins to word.
Never ask lady why her bacl !
halr does not match the front.
A corset is nothing more Than
a waist basket without any poet
ry in it.
A book has been written fo
"middle aged women" Ii is find
ing a very ready sale among very
| old ladies.
| Better a dinner Of herbs, will
or without love, than a stalled
railroad train ten miles from tht
eating station.
1t is stated that a discharged
bullet goes like lightning with :
"pingw But there is speed
faster and deadlier than ihi:
uhen malicious tongues are gos
si-ping.
A London barber left fortune
of forty one thousand pounds. Al
American barber could never ac
cumulate an amount equal to that
His stories are invaribly longer
than his bank account.
There Is n won en- in Ohio who
has eaten nothing but pie for
sixteen years, and the poetry she
writes for the village newspaper
in apily described as "lurid IN
its Intensity"
With books, as with compan-
IONS, 1t is no more consequence 10
know which 10 avoid than which
10 choose; for good books are as
scarce as good companions.
'As dumb as an OYSTER is cor
rect expression, for an oyster
keeps liz mouth shut as long as
it is in good health. When it
begins to cape something's wron.
with il.
A young preacher picked mp
Bishop Pierce's hat and put it on
his own head, and it was exactly
a fit. "Whv, Bishop" said he.
your head and mine are exactly
The same size" Yes" replied
The Bishop, "on the outside"
The women who pays $40 for a
bonnes Will reach down a lamp
chimney for nearly five minutes
and nearly burn her nails to the
quick 10 light a piece of folded
paper and save match.
A Persian philosopher beng
asked by what method he had
acquired so much knowledge. an
swered. "By not being prevent
ed by shame from asking ques-
tions when l was ignorant.
Fashion is going to get left for
once. She orders that "ladies
will wear their hair this winter
as they did fifty years ago." but
they won't any of them own up
10 wearing hair fifty years ago.
Some men are more behoIden
10 their bitterest enemies than TO
friends who appear 10 be sweet
ness itself. The former frequent
ly tell the truth, but the latter
never.
1t takes 14,s00.00O gallons orl
oil Il year to keep The railways OF
Great Britain going, and ,he cost |
is nearly s2.G00,O00.
Prof. Tumas, ,an European phys
Iolosist. has shown that vomiting
is ihe result of irritation of
space IN the medulla oblongat a
abouth one-fifth of an inch long
and one-lwelftk wide, and be-
ieves that The brains of rumi-
nants, rodents and other nom
vomiting animals lack this "vom.
ting center"
John Langfori, of Lawrence
county. Ark, raised a potato that
weighed eleven pounds and laid
i away, intending TO send il TO
he Little Rock exposition. But
lis moiher-in-law had other
'iews Tor the monster, and when
Mr. Langford went away TO mill
he cooked and ale it.
The great killer OF birds in
south Africa is the secretary
,ird. a grav birI with long legs,
Ghoes name derived is from lis
projecting feathers on The side Of
he head, which look like quill
,ens. Snakes constitute the prin-
iral food of The birds. and thous-
nds are killed by them. The
make is first disabled by a severe
,iow wi II the feet or beak, and
hen carried up 10 a great height
II the air, whence it is allowed
o fall and be crushed on TIE
arih below. The secretary bird
5 protected ID Cape Colony Oh
ccount of IFS services in thus
esiroying venomous serpents. l
BRACE UP. /,