The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Fulton (Ky.) mother has FIVE
sons and the birthday of each OF them
is July "a.
"A woman OF Reading, Penn,
hanged herself because she could not
endure the toothache.
Two focks OF sparrows at Mounds
vile, w. Va, engaged in a pitched
battle, and when they had finished
eight birds lay dead upon the ground.
An eagle weighing nine tons re-
Gently arrived in Brooklyn from its
home in the mountains of Maine. 1t is
of granite, and will be placed over the
main entrance OF the new post office.
When will the bucolic inhabitants
of this great country learn that the
man who offers gold watch or a
grand piano in return for a sixty-cent
subscription to paper is a first cousin
to the man who sells bogus fruit trees
or wooden utmegs.-Chicago News.
Near Elmer, Ore, farmer cut
down fir tree on his farm. He got
$12 for the bark. From the lumber he
built house 14x20, feet high; a shed
kitchen feet wide and 20 feet long, a
woodshed 14x20 and had 500 boards
inches wide and 2 feet long. He also
cut 1874 railroad ties and fifteen cords
of wood-all this from one tree.
During some maneuvers of the
German cavalry at Greig u woman
and her little boy got in front
of regiment of cuirassiers charging
in full gallop. The leading officer
shouted to her to lie down, and she
did, lying upon her boy. The whole
regiment passed over without injuring
her, every horse in whose track she
lay having been made to jump over
her.
"A fleet of seventy-five barges near
Memphis, containing $4,000 bushels
of COAL recently suffered from the dep
rotations of countless myriads of
shrimps, which ate out the oallum in
the seams of the boats, rendering a
large working force at the pumps
necessary to keep them from sinking.
The boats were lately moved into the
current, which swept the little incum-
brances off, and the leaks stopped.
Pour tramps arrested at Moberly,
! Mo-, for vagrancy were put up at pub
The sale had been duly advertised ac-
cording to law, and there was u large
crowd present. The bidding was not
very spirited. Two of the tramps went
to farmers for two dollars a head, and
another was bid in for seventy-five
cents. The fourth tramp could find no
purchaser, and he was returned to jail.
The three who were sold were to serve
their purchasers for four months.
1t is thought that irrigation will
be the means of doubling the popula-
tion of every Western State and Terri
tory within the coming ten years, and
that in the East. where the rainfall is
heavy, but uncertain. irrigation will
ultimately be resorteI to in order to
insure greater regularity of crops.
Four-tenths of the area of the United
States, not including Alaska require
irrigation. This territory includes part
of California. Texas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon. all of Arizona New Mexico,
Utah, Wyoming, Montana and portions
of Dakota and Washington.
"A clergyman of Boston likes to tell
a story of his experience in suburban
church some years since. He was to
preach an exchange, and so was Il lit
tie anxious to have things go smoothly.
The pastor had left written order of
service for him, but he noticed that it
contained no organ response after the
"long prayer" SO he called the aged
sexton. to the pulpit and asked him
what followed the prayer The sexton
couldn't remember. doesn't the or
gan have any thing to do?" asked the
preacher. "O," said the sexton, II
believe the organ does give few notes,
just enough to take off the effect of the
rayer!"-Boston Record.
"A colored man living five or six
miles from Americus, Ga, caught a
seven-foot alligator in steel trap set
for the purpose in Muckalee Creek.
The trap caught the ugly brute by one
toe ON his hind foot and held him Sc.
curely. When the negro found that
he had secured his prize he notified
the white people, who took their guns
and went to the creek. The negro
took long pole, put it under the
beast, lifted it up so that the parties
could fire at the white spots back OF
his fore legs, and they let four loads of
buckshot into the animal, killing him
instantly The darkies of that section
had big time off of alligatorsteak,
which is pronouced superior to beef
steak any time.
Gas in Railway Coaches.