The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS.


nor write.
There are now in use on American
railroads 26,4l5 locomotives, 1917
passenger coaches, 6.325 baggage cars,
84t, ot4 freight cars. Their value is es.
timatcd at 500. 100000.
IL have girl" says Jerseyman,
"thats SO modest she wouldn't even
learn improper fractions in school,"
my girl is more modest than that"
retorted another, "she always goes into
the next room to change her mind.'
Aunt Minerva to fashionable niece
-"Do you expect to do anything in the
direction of charity this winter. ClaraP'
Miss Clara, brightly-"O, yes, aunty.
/ am already planning my costume for
the Charity ball. ."-Epoch.
MIR. Palette-"Will you allow me to
paint that picturesque old building back
of your house?" Mr.. Waybacs-"No.
I reckon won't go to that expense;
but wouldn't mind coat of white
wash. mister, il ye din't tax me too
much for it."-Goldcn Days.
The strength of shafts ov bars of
iron is, for bending and twisting
strains, as the cubes of their diameter.
Thus, a two-inch shaft is eight times as
strong as one inch shaft, while n
three inch shaft is twenty-seven times
as strong.
The force of habit is always strong.
A Baltimore young man who was call
ing on street car conductors daugh-
ter says that the father wandered in at
n rather late hour; and, opening the
door. mechanically exclaimed: "Sit
close, please. ."-Baltimore American.
Washington Sunday-school.-- Teach
er Ito little girD-"Now, Angeline.
can you tell me what it means to return
good for evilP" Angeline Brooks
'.Well, miss. Idon't exactly know dc
words, but tink it mean ef any one
sasscs yer, doan't yer jaw back. y
Harper's Bazar.
"A company of caters were cracking
jokes the other day when one of them
startled the rest by asking: "Did you
ever see bun dance on the table?''
After struggling awhile they said they
hoped they always would be able to see
such thing-especially when hungry.
ST. Albans (W.) Messenger
AT the reception Vawze
(from Bawstine) (which do you like
the better, Mr.. Miller, winter or springP"
Mr.. Miller Qrom Minneapolis)-"Well,
good hard No. spring grinds pretty
we'll, and there's the most money in it
but after all, give me the regular old.
fashioned winter wheat that aim
growed any. and I'll guarantee you the
best flour every tirser'-Puch.
An exchange says that folded
newspaper placed under the coat in the
small of the back is an excellent substi
tute for an overcoat. There is consid.
cradle warmth in q newspaper, that's q
fact. Many man has become heated
by simply reading an article in nows
paper; and at such times he wants tC
make it hot for the editor, too.-Nor
ristown Herald.
Among the 'fowls OF the air. are
three, the eagle, swat and raven. which
live to the age of 100 years or more
The paroquet and heron attain th'
goodly age of sixty years. The spar
row-hawk. duck and pelican may liv
to be forty, while the peacock and lin
net reach the quarter century, and tn
canary twenty-four years. - Bostoi
Budget.
Any device that will make the car
. comfortable and do away with TIN
chances of fire in case of accident will
t satisfy the public; the railways hav
\ only to consider the question of eff
Y cheney and economy. 1t is even credibl
4 that temperature below the stifiin!
3 height usually reached by the stove
!, would be grateful to n great many trav
; elcrs.-Bosto7s Post.
e In 1887 2.O67, 2S1 acres of land il
!. Dakota were newly filed on; 1.5S6,67
= acres were acquired by final proof an
t cash entry, and 1857 acres were pur
| chased by land scrip. There was a larg
i immigration into the DEVILS Lake dis
trict. The area of unsurveyed Ian
5 taken up, but not filed on, during tn
f year, is estimated to be about 200, 90
y
9 acres.
+ The ship Macaulay. launche
: thirty-two years ago in Baltimore, ha
d been sold to Boston parties rs q co;
l. hulk. She cost in 1855 $4,000, an
L although sound vessel still, was sol
n for mere song. The Macaulay ono
r made the run from Liverpool to Me
G bourne, Australia. in nseventy-cight day:
d and once from Southwest Pass. at tn
/ mouth of the Mississippi, to Liverpot
Q in twenty-four days. She was anon
!. the last of the famous Baltimore clipper
j. A restaurant proprietor of Mon
't martrc, in France, recently opened
@ curious cafe. The interior is in til
!. form of an immense tub, the illusion c
o which is carried out by the circula
n shape of the doors and windows. I'll
signboard is inscribed with the wor
u .'Diogenes," whom the untutored fol
}, of Montmartre imagine to be SON
% fellow countryman Of theirs who hs
u distinguished himself as a cooper
's The time has come, we are gll
. to say, when those who can really a.
. preciate possum and tater can get tt
u full worth of their money. The possu
- = is in all his glory and the tater is sapp
Tho combination is superb. 1t has l
~ superior in this or any other land, al
w r. il distinctive for NOT ayerv m.