The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-03-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

kota we're found to be much warmer
during the recent cold spell than
houses made of wood or brick.
The Minneapolis Woman's Ex-
change pays some $4,000 q year into
the hands of needy women who could
not, probably, without it find market
for their work.
A waiter in New York club was
discharged the other day because he
declined to recognize the swapping of
the fingers as summons in the res
taurant
The California papers report that
on account of vandalism Of the Ameri-
can tourists the ancient adobe church
at Paso del Norte has been closed to
them.
The cost of compiling and publish
ing the reports of the Challenger eS-
pedtion, the last three volumes of
which are about to be issued, has
already exceeded S1,000,000
p. T. Barnum says that he has pro-
vided that if any of his legateos makes
a contest of his will he shall by that
act forfeit his bequest, and he has left
300, 900 as fund for the executors to
fight any contestant.
A man living near Macon, Ca, was
attacked few days ago by Texas
pony which he was leading, and would
have been killed if his wife had not run
to his assistance and stunned the ami
nal by striking it with an axe.
The celebrated war horse, "Old
Buckskin." which died at Lansing.
Mich. the other day, will be stuffed
and placed in the State museum.
Lieutenant Baker, who commanded the
party that captured j. Wilkes Booth.
rode the horse on that occasion.
"A shoe dealer in this city says that
he can invariably pick out among his
customers the men who work on salary
and the men who work by the job.
The latter buy more shoes and always
have their stockings darned. .-Bwrling-
ton Free Press.
"A $4,000 lighthouse lens made
in Paris for the United States Govern
ment is now in Washington. 1t is the
largest lantern lens in the country.
The glasswork, or lens proper, meas
ures fifteen feet in height, while the
internal diameter is eight feet eight
inches.
"A new invention for schools is the
"electric birch" This new instrument
of discipline does not leave marks upon
the skin and regulates blows to II nicely.
Electricity was never put to a more
curious use, but it is to be doubted
whether schoolboys will take to it
kindly.
Miss Minnie Freeman. the brave
Nebraska school teacher who tied the
pupils together and led them through
the blizzard, is nineteen years old and
very pretty. She is an Eastern girl,
and was educated at the York Metho-
dist College, where she graduated with
distinction in 1886.
Any man with fair education and
good initiative faculties can pass HIM
self off for lord, count, earl, marquis,
or bishop, and nothing but positive
identification can expose him. 1t is
different with awoman. Whatever she
is naturally will come out the first
time she gets mad.
AT recent trial for hogstealing
in Mount Pleasant, Tex, the court de-
clared that the marks by which the ami
nal could be identified had not been
clearly described to the jury. and the
hog was thereupon dragged into the
courtroom and placed in the Witness
box on exhibition.
Experiments are to be made at Al
bany, Ga, in the cultivation of the
pyrethrum roseums, 81 species of fever
few, from which the insect powder
known as Dalmation, now so much
used, is manufactured. 1t is now cul-
tivated largely in California. but the
supply is not equal to the demand.
Thomas q Becket's bones have at
last been found in n rough-hewn stone
coffin under Canterbury Cathedral.
where heretofore their existence was
only legendary. The skull is we'll pre-
served, and is said to lie magnificent in
size and proportions-in fact. one OF
the finest ever seen. Its crown bears
unmistakablc marks of sword-cut.
which the chroniclers relate took off
the top of his scalp.
New York is the largest and deep
est waterway penetrating the Atlantic
coast of North America. Sixty miles
from it's mouth at the junction of the
Mattapony and Pamunkey. the two
rivers which form it. it is forty feet
deep, and opening down toward its
mouth, approaching the Chesapeake
bay and the capes it is largely over n
hundred feet deep. The river is really
an arm of the sea.
"A Maine fur dealer says that it is
astonishing the uses to which musk
rats fur are put. The skins are taken
at the city establishments. clipped. COL
ored and put into such shape that they
very closely resemble otter, and, if not
sold for that, are at least represented
to be much better than they really are.
The fur is never sold for what it really
is, but is fixed up to look like something
finer and charged for accordingly.
Two brothers in Cambridge. Me-,
were inveterate checker players, and
one of them always wanted to bet on
each game. The elder had scruples
against gambling. but one morning