The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

The punch bowl has been nearly
banished from Washington society. Tea
and coffee take the place of the intox''
eating draught.
brigham Young's body lies under
a 14,000-pound inscription stone and
there are three feet of solid masonry
around the grave.
IL have noticed one thing about
tobogganing with Boston girl" he
said, (which never fails "What is
thatP" "If the girl falls off the young
man goes, too. ~ y Sun
"A New Orleans dispatch announces
the probably fatal illness of the Hon
Charles Gaycrrc. He is the oldest liv
ing ex-United States Senator, having
been elected in 1885, when Jackson
was President.
Old Mr.. Bcntly-'I hear that tho
Cadwalladers pay thousand dollars a
year for their pew in the Church of the
Holy st. Swell" Old Mrs. Bently-
Goodness! They must be very religious
folksr'-Puck.
The Dayton (Ore.) Chronicle says
that Il petl'tied man has been discov-
cred by farmer in lonely gulch nine
miles from that place. The man was
leaning against small bluff of rock,
and upon examination was found to be
completely turned to stone.
Scientists say that shutting the
eyes makes the hearing more acute.
This explains why man can't sneak
into the house at midnight and crawl
upstairs us noiselessly as a feather
without being heard by his wife, who
is asleep. If women were to sleep with
their eyes open married men would
have more fun at the lodge when there
is protracted session. -NorristotDn
Herald.
In the Chinese language, coutsil.
spoken with rising infection, means
trousers; with falling infection, fruit.
One day new missionary gave din
ner to some of her foreign friends, and.
among other things, ordered her native
servant to have coutsil for dessert. The
dinner proper passed off pleasantly, but
what was the lady's horror at the close
of the meal to see her servant enter the
dining-room bearing on large waiter
three pairs of her husbands trousers.
When the first vessel completed the
passage of the then new Erie Canal, in
1925, there being no such thing as a
telegraph in those days, the news was
communicated to New York and to
Buffalo by cannon placed within hear
ing of each other all the way along
from Albany to each of the other cities.
The signal was passed along in this
way from Albany to New York City
and back again to Albany in fifty-eight
minutes. This is quicker than tele-
graph message can be sent over the
same route and answered nowadays,
considering tho time usually consumed
in the delivery at each end.
"A Colorado farmer recommends a
somewhat novel method of preventing
the loss of water by evaporation from
open tanks o. ponds. 1t consists in
giving the surface of the water thin
coating of oil, and was successfully
adopted by him during tho unusual
drought of last summer. He demon
strates the correctness of his theory by
filling two vessels of equal size with the
same depth of water and pouring few
drops of oil on tho water of one. In
due course the water in the other ves-
sci will entirely evaporate, while the
one that was oiled shows no loss.
-"Yes," said the parson at the tea
table; young Jones was out driving
with Miss Penelope the other evening,
and his horse ran away. They were
both thrown out and the buggy was
smashed to pieces. 1t was Providen-
tial escape for both of them; but can't
understand how the young man came
to lose control" HE must have been
driving with one hand" tiippantly sug-
gested the minister's eldest son, gay
youth. "Or perhaps he had the reins
around his neck" said Edith. shy
young beauty Of sixteen, with modest
mein. And then everybody exclaimed
in chorus: "Why. Edith" Cambridge
Chronicle.
One of the oldest trees in the
world. and probably the largest, is
situated in Mascoli, Italy, near the foot
of Mt. Etna. 1t is called the "Chestnut
Tree of a Hundred Horses" Its name
arose from the report that Queen Jane
of Arragon, with her principal nobility.
took refuge from violent storm under
its branches. At one time it was sup
posed that it consisted of a clump of
trees united, but on digging away the
earth the root was found entire at no
great depth. Five enormous branches
arise from one great trunk, which is
212 feet in circumference. A part of
the trunk has been broken away and
its interior is hollow, and is large
enough to contain flock of sheep or
two carriages driven abreast through
it. 1t still bears fruit. Collectors of
relics have built hut within the
trunk.