The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

nually.
"A man of Van Vert County, Ohio
on bet wheeled a barrow containing
$50 cats three miles through muddy
country road.
The revolution in Brazil will make
coffee scarce, but the abundant Glove
crop will serve to help out between the
acts.-Boston Herald.
1t is said that there are forty-eight
languages and dialects spoken in
Mexico, and when a Greaser gets excited
he apparently makes good use of them
all.
-Notincluding Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than tho United States; it pos.
sesses within its limits an area of 3,2S,,.
964 square miles, with population OF
12,3S3, ,275
Collectors of insects who remember
back of the introduction of the English
sparrow say that caterpillars are very
decidedly rarer where the English spar
row is than they were before his advent,
and this every year.
"A Manchester IN. Y. girl telephonod
to her fathers Office asking if her dog
was there. Curlcy was there, and his
mistress asked the man to hold him up
to the telephone. She whistled and
spoke, and told him to come home. Cur
ley pricked up his ears, and as soon as
he was placed on the floor started for
home.
"A school for the thorough instruc-
tion of nurses in the care of babies is to
be established in New York. in connec-
tion with the Babies Hospital there.
The Herald states that there is no
school of the kind either in this coun-
try or in England the only one in ex-
istence being in Germany.
You are a great friend. Here it is
three days that you have known that
DIR. y. had proposed to Rosalie, and you
told me nothing. | know that he con-
f1dcd his secret to YOU ''Secret.
thought everybody knew it. If | had
suspected it was secret | should have
told you at once. '-F'liegende Blatter.
"A peculiar trade was made at Woos-
ster, Ohio, the other day. The articles
exchanged were red-hot stoves, and they
were moved while full of fiery Goals.
The city expressmen agreed to swap the
stove in their Office for one in the Office
u. Harsh, nearly half block away
The offer was accepted, and both stoves
were moved while red-hot. The trans
fer attracted z number of Interested
spectators.
The value of an old newspaper was
well illustrated the other day in New
York. 1t was necessary in lawsuit to
secure copy OF the New York Herald.
which was issued about two years ago
The law firm sought for long time
before they could find n copy of the re-
quired date, but finally succeeded in OBJ
tanning it at cost of S1.1O. And this
for two-cent newspaper only two years
old.
Managing editor enters humorist's
room. Humorist, showing back his chair.
says: 81 was just thinking what great
difference there is between humorists." 8"
YES the managing editor replies,
quite a difference" Now" the hui
morist continues, "Artemus Ward used
to chuckle, yes, even laugh over his own
jokes. / am of different temperament.
] never laugh at my jokes" Neither
does any one else" says the managing
tulJOr.-ArhuHSdW traveller.
Whether the Norsemen really dis
covered and settled New England in tho
eleventh century or not, Professor Eben
Norton iosford, of Cambridge. will
have it so. He has just erected at his
own expense massive tower at Walt
ham, Mass, to mark what he believes is
without doubt the site of tho ancient
city of Norumbega. This old strong
hold the professor located as the place
where the Norsemen stayed for long
time before they abandoned it on account
of the hostility of tho 'Sllraelings" as
the natives of the region are called in
the old sagas.
In an address to workingmens or
ganization, Mr.. Gladstone said recently:
1T was not eXtravagant to say that, al
though there were but 9, 200, 900 people in
the thirteen American colonies at the
time of the American revolt, yet from
among those 100000 of people there
proceeded at that epoch agroup of states
men that might defy tho whole history
of tho world to beat them in any one
State and at any period of time. Such
were the consequences of well regula-
ted and masculine freedom
The coal gas at last came to be so
pressing in its attentions to the damper
that the damper turned on it and cast it
off. This was followed by a coolness
between the damper and the register,
friend of the gas. On the other hand,
the coal fire, although it had introduced
the gas to the damper, beamed on the
latter, and pressed its own SCOT. The
stove, to whose embraces the coal fire
had long submitted, growing warmer
the closer they were, did not breathe
easy at this, and the cinders showed
sympathy for the stove. AT this the
CRATE, between which and the cindcrs
there had long beena warm attachment,
became agitatod and turned ashy. This
agitation increased, and ended in tLo
crate giving the cinders the shake
Puck.
-Fogg entered tho car, to find every
seat occupied and the aisle filled with
standees. But he was equal to the occa-
sion. He shouted, with the voice of one
having authority 'Plenty of seats in
the next car" Instantly there was
rush for the next car The standing
passengers started first, of course, but |
there were lots of the sitters who wanted |
to sit together and several more who
thought by going into the other car
they might get two or three seats to
themselves. The result was that Fogg |
selected one of the vacated seats and |