The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

never begins to show his temper until
he Loses it.
---.fhe latest railway signal indicates
automatically the time that has elapsed,
up to twenty minutes, since the last
train passed it.
"A living man with three legs,
living man with two mouths, and
living man turning into stone are
among the curiosities announced in a
Now York museum.
Nevada had a Dead Horse" post
Office. 1t was ordered to take new
name and it took that of "Live Horse"
The department wouldn't have it, but
changed it to Rosedale.
"A Boston newspaper thinks it high
time that the expressions 1.-The colored
lawyer" "the colored artist" and tho
like were expunged from the vernacu-
lar phraseology, and says: How would
it look, for instance, to speak of Wash
ington Flanders, Esquire, the red
headed bank President; or of Ulysses
Flaherty, the bandy-legged broker; or
of Cornelius Cronin, the cross-eyed COR
respondent of the Concord Chrome
type?'
-Four years ago William II. Camp
bell, u good old-fashioncd Democrat of
Saxton's River, Vt. was appointed
postmaster His wife. who has always
been Republican, has constantly as.
sisted her husband during these four
years, and so well has the office been
conducted that when he resigned
Democrats and Republican united in
asking the Government to make her
her husbands successor She has just
received her commission from the Post
master-General, and her husband is
now her assistant.
Twenty million dollars are what
somebody has estimated as the gross
amount contributed ay the American
people during tho last ten years for
the relief of suffering caused by disas-
ters or epidemics. Two million dollars
II year make a large sum. In one-dol-
lar greenbacks, laid end to end. it
would stretch nearly from Washing
ton to New York City. The total sum
given in ten years would span the
greater part of the continent.
ington Star.
"A new swindling scheme said to
be very successful among religiously
inclined agriculturists, is thus de-
scribed by the McHenry Plaindealer:
A pretty female solicits ten-cent sub
scriptions to foreign missionary So
ciety, and those who donate aie re-
ft,actnl IN cir,,, fbai
with others who have kindly given
something to the heathen. Beneath
the paper the sucker signs is an ingen-
ious copying paper that transcribes
the name to a promsory note, and she
leaves with as many notes as she has
names, which she gets discounted as
soon as possible.
"A writer in Florida paper says
OF the Seminole Indians: They have Il
tradition handed down from their
forefathers which they believe-that
the Great Spirit first made the black
man, next the red man, and third. the
white man, after which the Great
Spirit called them together and placed
before them three boxes, one filled
with books and maps, the second with
bows. arrows and tomahawks. the third
with spades, axes, hoes and hammers.
"These are the means offered by which
you are to live; choose among them ac-
cording to your fancy" The white
man had the first choice, and chose
the books and maps; the red man took
the bows, arrows and tomahawks.
In Columbia County, Georgia. is n
quivering tree. Years ago, the negroes
of the neighborhood say, "a murder
was done under its branches. Two
men had accompanied woman to
church, and after she had entered the
edifce they quarreled about her, and
one cut the other to death. The mur-
derer escaped, and ever since every
limb, large and small, on the tree
trembles as if in fear, or as u suffering
animal would quiver. This occurs
when not n breath of air is stirring.
No negro in Columbia County can be
induced to pass the SO called haunted
spot alone at night. Prominent gen.
tlemen say they have noticed the phe-
but no explanation of it has
ever been volunteered.