The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

Many sheep are being destroyed In
Delaware County, New York, by small
bugs, which burrow into their heads
and kill them.
During the past ten years no less
than six species Of North American
birds have become extinct. and It Is
claimed that the English sparrow has
been the main cause of their disappear.
ance.
"A Waterbury dry goods clerk had
dream the other night. He was
measuring off dress goods and actually
tore the sheets of his bed TO pieces, so
real was his dream. But that is not so
bad as If he had dreamed he was wind
ing up Waterbury watch
Australia has some giant cater
pillars. Mr.. A. S. Oliff, of Sydney,
mentions one moth larva. abundant
during the past season as being seven
inches long, and specimens of larve
of two other species measure eight
inches in length.
Talk bout dem Genl' Washin'toR
body-servants! rs licked Gen'l WASH
in'ton, gemmen-iicked 'imr "Why,
hows that, Uncle DaveP" "On a
POSI- stamp!" And the old man doubled
over a hitching-rack, and fairly laughed
a hole in the ground. --Harper'S Bazar.
Women are always willing to speak
of the age of other women, and will
discuss it with freedom and positive
assertion of facts calculated to convince
any man that there's nothing private
or reserved about it. But when it comes
to the age of an actress, woman's arith-
metic gets involved. -Bu6alo Express.
There is town in Mississippi
where the law is enforced in n rather
peculiar manner. A man who ran
blind tiger under the very nostrils of
the law reformed suddenly and an
nounced that he had become an evan
gelist. The next day he was arrested
for preaching without license
Arkansa,o 7raUeler
Several thousand dollars in gold
coin in earthen pots were exhumed by
Lorenzo Mears ON his farm in Accomac
County, Virginia, a few days since.
A tradition in the neighborhood says
large amount of money was concealed
on the farm during the American Revo-
luton by its Tory proprietor, who went
to England and died there.
Mr. Braceln, of Clam Lake Town
ship, Michigan, invented new relig-
ion, and became so absorbed in getting
it on the market and supplying the de-
mands of his neighbors who wanted
some of it that he neglected to provide
his wife with bread. bustles, and other
necessities of life, for which the officers
swooped down upon him and took him
to the cooler"
"A pair of tiny buskins was privily
exhibited by New York shoemaker
the other day. They were lined with
white goats fur and finished with white
satin on the outside. They buttoned
with real gold buttons, and there was
cord and tassels twisted of gold
thread somewhere about the top.
They were for the only baby that wears
such things, the pride and hope of the
Gould family, Edith Kingdoms little
boy.
AT one place in the Indian gas
field the surplus gas from gas we'll is
carried off by a three-inch pipe and
turned into the river; when the full
pressure of the gas is turned into the
pipe the waters of the river are thrown
: to height of from thirty to fifty feet,
J. and fall back through the immense
flame made by the burning gas. The
y varied hues impaired to the falling
water give it the appearance of a true
fountain of fire.
l The Indian Territory embraces
63, 900 square miles of the best land in
the world, and is inhabited by not ex-
ceeding $4,000 Indians or alleged In
dians, for among the civilized tribes a
pure-blood Indian is said to be very
rare. The Indians make little or no
q use of this land. and even the use
}. which they would have made of it by
n renting to cattle men, they have been
= denied, and the cattle men driven off
o of the reservation.
i The mysterious Philadelphian who
= is inviting proposals from all over the
q country as to the best disposition to
g make of $50, 900, which he will give away
). when he finds the best way to bestow
h the money, is believed to be Isaiah v.
It Williamson, wealthy and charitable
i. Quaker. Mr.. Williamson is worth $1S,
O 100000 lives at the rate of $4,000 8
i year, and gives away thousands of dol
. lars on the dead quiet, and without
v making as much fuss as the ordinary
: millionaire would over S5bill.