The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A busy doctor In Scranton, Pa,
sent in certificate Of death to the
health officer, and inadvertently placed
his name in the space for "cause of
death" This is what might be called
accidental eXactness.
Among the famous cases of exist
once without food and drink is that Of
n fast of sixty-six days by a sheep on q
farm near Tuscola, Ill. The poor ami
NAL was imprisoned all that time be-
meath strawstack.
Largo families, with the middle
classes, as q rule, stimulate exertion
and enterprise, and in the districts in
which there are the largest birth rates,
there is the greatest amount of pros
perity and the least pressure on the
means of subsistence.
-"What are the chief requisites for
success in the literary world, Mrs.
Nibson?" inquired Softly. "There are
two that may MENTION" replied the
oracle. Zone of them is plenty of
patience" "What is the otherp"
PLENTY of postage stamps."-N. Y.
Sun.
Some simple country peasants
came TO a celebrated sculptor in Vien-
ma, and ordered statue of st. Francis.
"Do you want him dead or alivep'
asked the sculptor. "Well, you can
make him alive. and if he don't suit
twill be an easy matter to knock him
in the head. d.-From the German.
Report says that the judicious and
wholesale advertising of cigarettes had
brought the consumption in this coun-
try up to more than 2,000.000,0 900,
which figure was reached last year.
This would give an average of thirty
cigarettes every year to each man,
woman and child in the United States,
or about ITO to each adult male.
"A Kingston (Ont.) girl made up a
package of clothing, preparatory to
clipping with hermost adorable Adonis,
and left the said chattels out-of-doors,
where he could find them and carry
them Off. In the meantime the girl's S
mother discovered the parcel, "got on to
the racket" and replaced the daugh-
ters clothing with some of her own.
Then she laid in wait for the young
man, and on his attempting to take
away the clothing she had him arrested
for larceny.
lt is u pity that some people are
not so quick with their hands as they
are with their tongues. A farmer once
had very lazy helper. One day he
returned from market and caught his
man sound asleep under the tree
"Whatn exclaimed the farmer, "asleep
when you should be at twork? You are
an idle wretch, and not worthy that the
sun should shine upon you!' 81 know
it; l know it," said the man, sitting up
and yawning, 'and that's the reason |
lay down here in the hade!"-Y outh's
Companion.
The different tones OF piano are
made by having the wires of different
sizes and lengths. The longer and
larger a wire is, the lower its tone will
be, but as a piano is too short to put in
wires of the common size which will
be long enough to make the lowest bass
notes, the wires have to be made larger
by winding fine wire around them.
This fine wire is sometimes of soft iron
and sometimes Of copper. The sound
ing-board OF piano is usually made
of American spruce, entirely free from
knots. 1t is fastened TO the frame by
the edges only, SO as to leave the whole
middle part of it free to vibrate when
the strings sound above it.
A young Englishman sojourning in
this country and connected with the
British Legation recently made two
purchases. One of these was some
flowers. 1t came from the florist in
a box. The other was an article
of underwear. The mems outfit
ter sent it also in box. The
flowers were destined for u beautiful
young lady from Chicago, who has
the hearts OF many New
Workers during the season. The other
article was destined to keep warm the
legs. He wrote a card:
"Wear these for my sake, and, attach
ing it, despatched the box of flowers
10 the fair one. A little later, when he
opened the remaining box, he found
the flowers still therein. Y. Com
mercial-Advertiscr.