The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

A Marietta (O.) horse died Q
loclsjaw the other day, the result o
having had corn burned of tw,
weeks ago.
A natural curiosity is to be seel
ON street in Columbus, Ga. A small
oak tree Is growing from the limb of
chinaberry tree, and the strange freal
attracts the attention of all passers-by
The constant increase in the mum
ber Of steam yachts indicates tina
pleasure-sailing is going where oul
mercantile marine business has already
gone largely-into steam.
"A stone has been discovered il
Japan which has remarkable qualitie,
as a cement material, and can bt
worked up for a much less price thar
the imported article costs. The cemen
will bear weight of 400 to 500 pound,
per square inch.
The family OF w. F. Strouse, o
| Shamokin, Penn, have odd luck il
birthdays. His wife was born or
Christmas, his second daughter on St
Valentines day, his third on the Fourth
of July, and his only son ON Thanks
giving day
"A negro was convicted of robbery
at Walker, Ga, the other day on very
circumstantial evidence. He stuck his
hand through a window, and woman
Lit a match and looked at it. She ex-
amined a negro's hand in court and de-
clared that it was the same that had
been thrust into her room.
"A Summerville, Fla, paper says:
1--WE have a man in our country who is
thirty-five years old who was never
more than forty miles away from home,
never rode on train or steamboat,
never wrote or received u letter, never
subscribed for a newspaper and never
voted.
1t had been noticed OF late that
many OF the suckers and catfish in the
creek near Marshall's paper mill in
Kennett Township, Chester County.
Pa, was found dead or stupid, and
upon examination it was found that
the fresh water leeches get into the
gills OF the fish in large numbers and
sap their blood.
The province of Ontario, Canada,
is possessed Of the most extensive de-
posit of rock-salt which has yet been
found on the America continent. The
salt was first discovered at Goderich,
about twenty years ago, at a depth OF
one thousand and ten feet. by boring
which was made for petroleum. The
salt-measures extend over an area of
twelve hundred square miles.
"A farmer of Northeast, Pa,
drove stake by each of two hills of
corn in his garden recently, and then
stretched up the longest leaf to mark
its height. The next morning, at the
same hour that he had measured it the
day before, he repeated the operation
and found that one had grown over
four and the other five inches.
One Gordon, vocalist of the last
century, rashly accused Handel of ac-
companying him badly, and added that
he would jump upon the harpsichord
and smash it if the composer did not
change his style. "Let me know when
you will do dat" said the Saxon master,
land l will adverdise it. / am sure
more beople will come to see you
shump dan will come to hear you singh
"A "wild woman of the mountains"
who lives on Blue Mountain, Mary
land, was arrested the other day, after
giving the daughter of Senator Butler,
of South Carolina, severe fright. The
old woman is a well-known character
in those parts. She is described as be-
ing but three feet tall. and her face the
acme of ugliness. She has led her
strange life in the mountains for years,
and her name is terror to all the chill
dren in that region.
"A weasel came down the hill and
went into a house in Easton a short
short time ago. No men being handy
seven women of the neighborhood
armed themselves with pokers, canes,
etc., and entered the room. There was
a faint squeak in one corner, and seven
jumped on chairs and screamed.
Their screams so terrified the weasel
that il ran out of doors and was killed |
BY a sick dog that was lying out in the
sun.
-Denpysville. way down on the
eastern Maine coast, is one of those |
'old towns with history" The town
1as no debt; the village has not had a
lwelling house, barn, store, church or
'chool-house destroyed by fire for more
han eighty years, and at the late town
meeting Peter Z. Vose, Esq, was re-
elected selectman and treasurer, after
l service OF twenty-seven years in the
ormer and twenty-three years in the
after position. During all these years
10 person but Mr.. Vose had ever writ
en a word or made figure in any
own book (excepting the town clerks
'ook) or drawn an order.
The late DIR. Thayer was one OF the
'est physicians in the country, but his
kill was of no avail in the case OF his
wife, who kept her bed for more than
wo years. One day there was no
'rown person about the house and her
title boy came running in with bad
ut on his finger. bleeding profusely.
With true motherly forgetfulness OF
elf she sprang up, found bandages,
nd dressed the wound; then sitting
own to rest, she looked around; every
hing seemed SO pleasant and she felt