The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

ue peOplO WIN BSu Jne pTeuUeS'
pleasure out OF tho travelling season nre
the servants who stay at home.-
Fliegende Blaetter.
--"Well. what you wearin glasses
fur, Mr.. Johnsingp" Fur my eyes,
Niger; did you s'pose wuz woarin
'em fur de collie. ."-Once Week.
-Eiffel is said to have gained the
first idea OF the tower which bears his
name from sitting behind an American
woman in an American theater.-Life.
/ "A stingy man of Burlington, VT,
drew up some valuable papers and
used ink of his own make to save OK
pense. The other day he found that
the writing had all faded out, involv-
ing him in u loss of $1,000.
! -Drorghts are not so great calam-
ity, reasons the New Orleans Picayune,
as poor farming and poor land. An
ordinary drought would hardly be no.
ticed If all farms were slSillfully man
aged on the intensive plan.
1t is said that Cullman County.
Ala, Is the only level arabic and fer
tile tract of land in the Southern States
in which there are virtually no negroes.
In IL census population of more than
$4,000, including an area of over 1900
square miles, there are only fourteen
negroes.
Recently n negro woman near Cen
terville, Wilkes County, Georgia. bav-
ing her young baby in her lap ut
church, got to shouting and pounding
her child. She beat it so severely that
several of its ribs were broken and the
child died in a few days from the
injuries.
The italian laborers of New York
are said to be largely given to the
quaffing of sarsaparilla and other light
notwithstanding beverages in the sum-
mer season. Comparatively few of
them indulge in beer or other alcoholic
liquors while at work.
The number of locomotives In the
United States, says railway authority.
is now over $4,000, to which Canada
and Mexico can add about $500,
making the total number on the North
American continent not far from 32 800.
The average number of locomotives
per mile of road in the United States is
about 5.4.
-Visitor-"You say this ruined cas-
tie is haunted?" Guide-"Undoubt-
edly. The specter can be seen almost
every night" 1T is probably the
ghost of some robbers" mo, it is tho
ghost of an actor. who neglected while
living to have himself photographed in
his favorite role, and who consequently
can not rest in his grave. ."--German
Fun.
An Iron Nerve.-Boggs-"Wbat
an extraordinary nerve one of the
passengers in that railroad smashup
displayed" Foggs-"Yes, and he has
displayed nerve more extraordinary
still since then" Boggs-'In what
way?" Foggs-"Why. by suing the
company for $4,000 damages for the
injury to his leg, which happens to be
cork. ."-Drake' S Magazine.
An Albany youth. whose life in Z
boarding-house was made miserable by
IiS Sobo'tthp l'iug upou tib
piano, procured hose, attached it TO
the cold water faucet in the wash
room, carried the other end into the
parlor, and turned the water upon the
fair performer. The effect surpassed
his expectations, for the playing was
not only stopped, but the wires of the
instrument became rusted from the
flood poured in upon them, rendering
an outlay of $50 for repairs needful.
"A leading Presbyterian minister of
Chattanooga, states that on the top of
White Mountain, in Western North
Carolina, are three trees of the cachoin
species growing close together and
each being abouta foot in diameter and
about fifteen feet in height. The top
of the trees is about twenty feet in di-
ameter and perfectly fiat, being SO
completely interviewer that number
OF persons can walk on them with case.
Twelve persons can lie down on the
top of the trees without danger of fall
ing. Indeed so close are these tops
that holes had to be cut in the middle
ior pefSOnS 10 peJ on uOp.
Americans are gradually being
recognized as the greatest yachting
people in the world. Nowhere else
can one find so much enthusiasm and
interest over yacht race us here, and
what is more significant, this is the
only country in the world where the
masses have any idea of the details OF
sailing and the maneuvers of yachts in
a race. The yacht-race reports in the
great daily papers of the United States,
which are read understandingly and
with great interest here, would be
Greek to theaverage newspaper reader
on the other side of the water.
Statistics of sleep may not prove
any thing of Importance, but they are
According to statistics
in Russia, the need of sleep
is greater in women than in men, the
duration of sleep being longer and the
of tired morning and even
ing and of not tired being to and 2
to respectively as compared to the
men. Students sleep longer and are
less tired than other men. The time |
needed to fall asleep is about the same |
in all three classes-20.S minutes for |
the men, IT,. l minutes for students and |
2l.2 minutes for women. In each case,
however, it takes longer for those who
are frequent dreamers and light sleep
ers to fall asleep than persons OF oppo-
site characteristics.