The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Insecticides should be used before
the damage to fruit is done., 1t is too
late after the insect has found retreat
In the fruit.
Gideon L. Pease, of East Wilton,
Me-, who was sergeant in the Black
Hawk war, is thought to be the only
living United States soldier OF that
war.
1t was when the late Prof. Proctor
was an English school examiner that a
little girl defined the difference be-
tween man and brute as follows:
IA brute is an imperfect beast; man is
perfect beast"
If you happen to feel little cross
and who among us does not at some
time or otherp.-do not select that sea-
son for reproving your noisy household
flock. One word spoken in passion will
mako scar that summer of smiles
can hardly heal over.
John Swift, Connecticut man,
lived to the age of eighty eight with
out being sick one hour in his whole
life. He never had mumps, measles,
headache nor toothache, and when he
died it was more because a tree fell
upon him than from any fault of his
own.
An Indiana man who has attained
the sobriquet of Lawsuit john" hav-
ing been continually engaged in some
lawsuit for the past twenty years, was
lately sentenced to year in the peni-
tentiary This will give him vaca-
tion and plenty of time to plan new
lawsuits for the next decade.
In Matagorda County, Texas, are
a number of negroes who are natives
of Africa. They were pirated and
brought there from Guinea during the
brief period of the republic. They
preserve many of the strange customs
of savagery, use their own language
among themselves and retain all the
superstitions of fetichism.
1t has frequently been noted that
the New Englander is cautious in his
language, and that he rarely gives
direct answer to a question. A gentle
man said to a friend whose family were
not noted for active habits: WAS not
your fathers death suddenp" Slowly
drawing one hand from his pocket and
pulling down his beard the interroga-
ted cautiously replied: "Waal, rather
sudden for him. "-Chambers' Journal.
Newark contributed over $4,000
for the relief of the Johnstown suffer-
ers. Jersey City contributed less than
one-half of that amount AS Jersey
City-according TO the census-is the
largest city in New Jersey, we must
account for this discrepancy by reasons
not novel. Jersey City people go over
to New York to contribute to the relief
fund, just as they go there to die, be
born and be married. Adver-
tiser.
In 1916 it took just one bushel of
corn to buy one pound of nails, now
one bushel of corn will buy ten
pounds of nails. Then it required
sixty-four bushels of barley to buy
one yard of broadcloth; now the same
amount of barley will pay for twenty
yards of broadcloth. 1t then required
for one yard of calico, now one bushel
OF wheat will buy twenty yards of
calico.
AT teachers examintion in Jones
County, Ia, in answer to the question.
"What is hygiene?" young lady ap-
plicant for certificate to teach school
answered.: 1T is the soft spot on the
top of baby's head which gradually
becomes harder as the baby grows
older" The board of directors re-
jected her application, evidently be-
lieving that the hygiene" on top of
the young lady's head had not suf.
ficiently hardened to qualify her for
the stern duties of teacher. Norris
town Herald.
The attention of visitors to Mount
Repose Cemetery, at Haverstraw, n. |
Y, is attracted by novel grave in a
secluded spot. 1t is the gaave of pet |
canary bird which belonged to a
wealthy family in Brooklyn. The pet |
short time ago became quite i'll and
was attended by persons skilled in bird |
doctoring. All their treatment was
useless, however, and the bird died.
so strong was the attachment of the
family for the bird that it was given
an aristocratic burial, with all the
honors that could be bestowed.
There is an able romancer out
West somewhere who is keeping the
East supplied with excellent 'itcms of
interest" Here are couple of them:
Lightning played "a queer caper on a
ranch near Buffalo, Wy, Ter, recently.
1t struck barb wire fence, and for u
distance of four hundred yards melted
the barb without injuring the strands,
and pulled one end of the staples hold
ing the wires to the posts. The ex-
tracted ends were neatly turned into
corkscrews and nickle plated" Jim
Blevins. living near White Rock, Tex,
killed very large chicken snake a
few days ago. and noticing the snakes
body was unusually large and ill
shaped, made an incision and found it
to contain large cow horn and in the
horn a prairie rat. 1t is supposed that
that the snake chased the rat into the
horn, and to secure the rat swallowed
the horn"
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