The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

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clear nearly $1,000 from four-acre
crop OF celery this year.
| --"What g the interior of Africa
principally used for? asked teacher OF
y pupil in geography. "For purposes
of exploration" was the reply.-M Y.
Ledger.
| "A contemporary states that 15O.-
| 0O0.000 corkscrcws are turned out
every year in Newark, N. j. We were
| always under the impression that cork.
screws were turned in. - Ionkcrs States
| man.
Visitor (noticing an active autumn
industry)-"I should think that Chi
ca2o would he an excellent place for
comic papers" Citizcn--"Whv SOY"
Visitor--'lt is such good chestnut
market
The man who absconded with
retl-hot stove has been eclipscd by
Denver individual who jumped IL
cemetery. The citizens are talking of
compromising with him by giving him
burial plat and planting him in it.
| Snn francisco Aitn.
According to DIR. Douthwaite, q
medical missionary attached to the hos
| ptal at Chefoo in China the Chinese
attribute all classes of disease to anger.
They do not regard themselves as
blameworthy, however, for getting
angry. but consider themselves simply
as necessary victims of the passion of
anger. N. 2. Ledger.
The coolest known point on the
earth, says DR.. H. Koppen, of the Rus
sian meteorological Service, is Wer-
choiansk. in Eastern Siberia. where the
mean temperature for the year is two
degrees and ninc-tenths below the zero
of the Fahrenheit thermometer. This
place is on the Yana River. just north
of the Arctic circle. y Ledger.
| Travellers through the Hoosac tun-
mel recently experienced curious
change in weather. On entering the
eastern end of the tunnel the travellers
left country on which rain was pour
ing and was devoid of every vestige Of
snow. On leaving the tunnel, the
traveller saw with astonishment a
driving snow-storm and a snow-covcred
ground.
AT Milton, Pa, the other evening,
o lady upon coming out of n meat-shop
was accosted by masher. Quick Us Il
flash she put her hand into the basket
and pulled out Il piece of bologna
sausage, which she pointed at the fell
low, crying out: "Leave me, you
scoundrcl, or will shoot you" The
mashcr saw what he thought to be !,
pistol and quickly made his escape.
On account of its Misunderstanding
qualities, there would seem to be no
good reason why cypress should not
make headway as a material for
siding, IN competition with white pine.
1t is being used to small extent for
house finish is some northern cities. 1t
has a pleasing appearance. - Wood
Worker.
"A novel type of a floating saw mill
has been built at Creston City. Fla,
consisting of large lighter or barge,
with two h,ors, and covered with iron
roofing, so that it resembles house
anoat. 1t is forty feet wide, eighty
feet long. six feet deep, draws eleven
feet of water, and required 100, 900 feet
of lumber in its construction. Its saw
mill equipment is quite complete.
The oldest canal in America is for
sale. 1t is called the Union canal and
extends from the Schuylkill river near
Reading, Penn, to the Susquehanna at
Middletown. The route was first sur
vcyed in 1862. but the canal was not
completed until 1927. 1t is eighty-nine
miles in length and cost $1,000, 600.
No doubt it can be bought at II much
lower figure. 1t is not stated whether
the property has to be removed or not.
Last winter II family in Monroe
township, Bedford County, Penn, suf.
fcred severely with diphtheria. The
heavier coverings used on the patients
beds We're not washed or fumigated
after the disappearance of the disease.
In the spring these covers were packed
away, and few weeks ago were taken
out and put on the beds. There arc
now three cases of diphtheria in the
family, and no other cases in the neigh
borhood.
"A young man had his girl out car
riage riding the other evening, and til,
horse took fright and ran away. In
turning Il corner the vehicle overturned
and the young lady was pinned to the
earth, the body OF the carriage lyin.
heavily across her waist. She was rem.
dered unconscious. When she was re
leased from her perilous situation she
slowly opened her eyes rs conscious
ness returned, and family gasped
"Don't-squeeze-me-quitc quitc-so--har
ext--timc-,John."
In country court in Engl and re
Gently there was Il trial to determine
the ownership of dog. The Judge
couldn't make out from the evidence
which claimant was the real owner. ST
he made one stand on each side while
an officer held the dog in the middle o
the room. Then he told them both tt
whistle and the officer to release tn,
dog mt the same moment. When thi
was done the dog bolted through TIM
open door. "Call the next case" was
all the comment the judge made, al
though the litigants stormcd.
An English physician who has in
vesticatcd the characteristics and sur
roundings of ccntenarians says that h,