The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


the United States whose incomes range
from $1,000 to $4,000 year.
AT Pensacola, Fla, o mustang 'tat
was abused by its driver rushed into che
water and held its head beneath the slr.
face until it was drowned.
The rising generation is full of sur.
prises for its elders. A class of boys In
a Massachusetts Sunday-school with
drew because its appointed teacher was
"scab' workman.
silk thread Is soaked in acetate OF
lead to increase its weight, and persons
who pass it through the mouth in thread
ing needles have suffered from lead
poisoning.
Maine mon are proverbially sharp.
After lot of dickering, says the Bel
fast Journal peddler told horse
jockey in that neighborhood that he
would give him SIS and ten bushels Of
clans for q horse The offer was ac-
cepted-and then the peddler told the
jockey that he'd have to go to the flats
and dig the clans himself.
"A business man in Chicago sent out
10000 circulars and on each was printed
the request to tear off and return to him
a slip pasted on the left hand upper
corner. There was second slip pasted
on the lower right-hand corner, and 10
out of every 90 who returned slip at
all took pains to detach the wrong one.
What has become of the little gold
dollar? An official of the Philadelphia
mint says that only about five thousand
of them are coined for monetary circula.
tion and that they are mostly used fo1
ornamental purposes. The gold dollar
is too small to be adesirable pocket piece
and it is very seldom one is seen in bust.
ness transactions.
Hemp can be easily grown in nearly
all sections of this country, but the OBJ
stacle to it's successful cultivation is the
labor of preparing it for market. There
is wide field for inventive genius in
devising appropriate machinery for spec.
tally treating hemp and other fibrous
plants which demand more labor than
can be profitably bestowed on them.
The postal card, called in England
POSTCARD, and on the continents scor.
respondencc card" celebrated it's twen-
tieth birthday recently. Prussia sug-
gested it four years earlier, but Austria
began it. America took it up in 1878,
and by 1878 its use was universal. Dur
ing the Franco-German war they were
issued free to the German soldiers in tho
field and sold five for cent to the fami.
lies at home.
The Chinese have political saying
which is worthy the reading even OF
American statesmen. 1t is as follows:
When is the Empire well governed, and
Fai
swords are rusty and spades are bright;
when prisons are empty and grain-bins
filled; when the law courts are lonely
and o'ergrown with grass; when doctors
walk and bakers ride, it is then that
things go as they ought, and the State
is well ruled.-Youth's Companion.
This is pen-and-ink sketch of an
American girl, as given in an English
comic paper: "Baron Won Smallpumps
Titles, wealth, position-all these
offer. Why, then, loveliest of Amelias,
will you not be mine? Miss Wander.
tromp-'Why, Barn, I'm ready to marry
one-half of ye tormorrer, for them feet
of yourn are just lovely. But, as things
stand, I've got to take your head into
the bargain, and l caynt bring myself
to swaller that nohow.'"
"A citizen of Eatonton, Ca, smokes
about twelve pounds of tobacco yearly
in pipe that he declares is over two
hundred years old. This leads mathe.
matical person to calculate that il that
were the average amount used in the
pipe since its first day, 2,4OO pounds OF
the weed have been burned in its bowl,
and If the first $12 had been put out at
compound interest at the rate of ten per
cent. it would now have grown to the
sum of S1,755, ,443, 200. Just how this
would have benefited the first owner of
the pipe does not appear.
"A Scranton man who had observed
butcher bird carrying off humble bees
and sparrows, finally traced the bird to
a large thorn bush hard by the river
bank, nearly half mile away. Impaled |
on the sharp thorns he found thirteen
eled mice, and the skeletons of seven |
English sparrows. While he was MAX
ing this interesting discovery of the |
butcher birds nice and accurate work, |
the master of the bush suddenly APP
peared, circled about the spot a number |
of times, piped spitefully at the intruder, |
and seemed to be greatly afraid that |
man was going to disturb its choice and i
neatly arranged collection of things.
The question of who can be given the |
title of colonel with propriety in Ken
lucky has at last been settled by com
petent authority. BY the latest rule |
every man who conducts large distil-
lery is ipso facto a colonel. Every promi-
nent railroad official is also a colonel.
Every Congressman is colonel. Every
man with government Office is a
colonel. Every great editor is colonel.
The chief of the police department is de
facto colonel Then there are other gen
tlemen who are colonels because no other
title fits them. If man has been cap
tain in the war, never call him captain;
call him colonel. He is entitled to this
promotion twenty-four years after the
war has closed.
-Rung Them All INA sable gentle
man created much amusement at tho
theater one evening by the ostentatious
display of profusion of cheap jewelry
with which his person was adorned. A
few moments before the erformance
began he was seen to draw huge,
bright watch from his fob, and, allowing
the glittering chain to dangle in all its
before the eyes of the null
titude, he pointed with his little finger,
upon which shone resplendent a ring
with setting trife smaller than a
grindstone, at fly that was meander-