The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A young woman at Beloit, Kan,
was recently paid the bounty on the
scalps Of nine young wolves which she
captured while herding cattle.
Less than one-half OF the Senators
now in office were born in the States
which they represent. Americans sell
dom emigrate out Of the country, but
they do good deal Of emigrating
about in their own land.
In calling cattle, some OF the cries
used in different localities are given in
the Journal of american Folb-Lore;"
BOSS, boss" (Connecticut); "salxe,
sake" (Connecticut); 1000, COO" (vir-
ginia); ''sook, sools," also ''sookey"
(Maryland); "tlon, tlon" Russia; and
for calling horses, "kope, kope" Mary
land and Alabama.)
The revival Of the ancient Grecian
and Roman custom Of so fitting up the
house roofs as to make them available
as children's Fairgrounds, or breath
ing spots for older persons during the
summer months, is advocated by New
York physician. He argues that the
scheme would be an especially happy
one for the more crowded cities.
"A Montana newspaper say that the
days Of staging in the hills are rapidly
departing. Steam is fast taking the
place of horse and mule power, and
Pullman coaches are crowding out the
swaybacls stages of old. The noted
Northwestern Transportation Company
has begun to dispose of it's plant, and
is preparing to hunt for business on
the rapidly receding frontier.
"A citizen of Volo, ILL.,, claims to
have discovered a peculiar phenomenon
in the woods in Fremont, Lake County.
AS described by him, it consists Of the
natural migrating Of a burr oak tree
upon a white oak. The burr oak leans
against the other from the ground up,
and is dead. The dead trunk, how
ever, seems to go right through that Of
the living white oak, and the branches of
both varieties of tree, all green and
vigorous, mingle together in about
equal proportions.
An astonishing experiment may be
performed with no apparatus but
piece of string five or six feet long. A
PERSONS hands being held over his
ears. this string is passed around his
head by another person, who holds
both ends in one hand, and by
drawing the fingers or nails of the
other hand over the cord produces
upon the tympanum OF the subject i'm
pressions OF almost startling intensity.
Sharp peals Of thunder, changing into
distant and prolonged rumbling, are
effects that may be readily given.
Cultivated in groves, the average
growth in twelve years of ofseveral varie-
ties of hard wood has been ascertained
to be about as follows: White maple
reaches foot in diameter and 80 feet
in height; ash, leaf maple or box elder,
i foot in diameter and 20 feet in height;
white willow, 18 inches and 40 feet;
yellow willow, 18 inches and 35 feet;
Lombardy poplar, 10 inches and 40
feet; blue and white ash, 10 inches and
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inches and 20 feet.
An autograph collector says that of
the Presidential autograph letters those
of Andrew jackson are the rarest and
costliest. This is because he seldom
wrote letters; never when he could help
it. The fact that his letters were often
both written and signed by proxy is
known to collectors, and paper of this
sort recently sold for 50. A full genu-
inc letter is worth from $25 upward
Washington autograph letters come
next in value and rareness. Next come
the letters of Zachary Taylor, who
wrote a bad hand and bad letter. They
are worth from $15 to $25. Lincoln's
letters come next in rareness, and
range from $12 to $50. Grants are
high-priced, not because rare, but be-
cause they are Grants. Arthur's let
ters are scarce. They haven't had time
to find their way into the hands of
strangers. Twenty years from now
they will be commoner.