The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

world from London in slxty-nine days,
by way OF Vancouver.
Like many q young man, nature
begins her fall by painting things red.
-Terre Haute Express.
"A steamer sails from England ev-
cry year for the mouth of the Yenesel
river, taking merchandise thus direct
to Siberia by water. The steamer gen
orally manages to get through such ice
us it encounters, and it sends its mer-
chandise up the Yenesel into the very
heart of Siberia on fat -bottomed, light
draught steamboats,.
"A little girl from a charitable in-
stitution spent a day in the country.
She knew so little of green things
growing that she pulled up weeds and
plants to see how they were fastened
in the ground. An ear of green corn
was given her to play with. "Oh! oh!
OH" she said, ''it's all wrapped up in
little green blankets!"
Only Question of Time.-Guest
(who has been waiting impatiently for
his pastry: II ordered that tapioca
pudding at least fifteen minutes ago.
Waiter: YES, sab. Takes bout two
hours for tapico to soak. It'll be along
by an by. Ere's one of the af'noon pa
pers. sab, Chicago Tribune.
"A large American eagle flew on the
ship William Starbuck recently in the
Gulf Stream, and was picked up in an
exhausted condition. The bird had
,,,it na do, N 10 a N
itials of the supposed owners name in
ii. The birds craw was entirely emp
ty. and it is supposed to have been car
ried to sea by the force of the wind and
was unable to reach the shore.
In a Western drama called ''Black
Hawk the bartender finds himself
obliged to listen to this: you don't
know me? You don't know me? I'm
Bloody Bill, the Howling Terror! I'm
a creased thunderbolt from Hell's Cam
yon! When | twitter the clouds hide
themselves! When l yell the rocks
split, the waters stop running, and the
sun turns back. When / shrek
'Y-e-i-o-u! it rains b-l-u-d"'
Americas and Sumter County can
boast of the Oldest horses and mules of
any city or county in the State of Geor-
gia. There are seven horses whose
ages will aggregate 200 years, and six
mules whose ages will aggregate the
same. Some of them are remarkably
young looking and get about in as live
ly manner as if they were only five
wears old. One of the horses included
in the estimate was offered for sale at
auction recently that is known to be
thirty years old.
Sir Edwin Arnold lately lectured
to the students and professors of Har-
ward college in the College theatre, in
Cambridge. His subject was the philos-
ophy of the Brahmins, aud in the course
OF his remarks he said that lin India,
with its 100000 inhabitants, there
never occurs marriage of inclination.
Yet there are more happy marriages in
India, more happy homes, more pure
domestic relations than in any other
part of the world"
"A gossip writes that n new London
freak is ''The Peace Society," The men,
bers assemble for tea in fashionable
studios, languidly look through collec-
tions of sketches and as languidly listen
to music, and then, with continued Ian
guor, discuss questions for banishing
ideas of war from the youthful mind.
One idea is to treat war as merely an
incident in text books of history. This
is the society which, some time ago,
began its self-appointed mission by
recommending the Punishment of drums
and tin soldiers from the nursery.
joaquin Miller says that "in Spo-
kane Falls at the Grand Hotel l saw
little box with few dollars of change in
it out on the end of the counter in the
midst OF dozen or two of the daily
papers from various places. Not one.
SO far as | ever saw, was in charge of
either the papers or the money. Any
man who wanted paper took it,
tossed his money into the box, and
took whatever change was his. l set this
down as an incontestable sign of pros
perity and-let us admit, as we bow
our heads in humility to the need of
that portion of the Lord prayer which
says lead us not into temptation'-of
honesty, which is the first born of pros