The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


There is township in Summer
county, Kan. In which crime against
the laws of the State has not been re-
corded in sixteen years.
There is cat in Millville, N. j.,
chat for sixteen years has lived around
the docks, and that will jump ove- board
fand swim like water spaniel.
There la an admirable arrangement
for quickly and safely emptying the
house in use in the fremont Thcater,
Boston BY simply touching button
in any one of eight handy places in the
theatre. seven exits open, actuated by
electricity.
Tho daily rations of pair of os.
triches on the Fallbrook farm in San
Diego County, Cal, are forty pounds of
beets for breakfast and for dinrer a
gallon or two of grain. For dessert the
birds are given bits of bone. Gail
Hamilton, the pride of the farm, is two
years old and stands nine feet five
inches high.
--Bismarck's crosses, medals. medal
lions, ribbons, stars, buckles, swords,
etc. figure up only about $4,000 in
cash. and he has been forty-fve years
winning them. There is some honor
attached, of course, but he could have
made more clean cash on five-acre lot
devoted to cabbages. = Detroit Free
Press.
England obtains certain proper
tion of its supplies of ivory from ASIA
but the bulk and the best comes from
Africa. Indeed great part of what is
nominally East Indian is really African,
for it is sent from Zanzibar and Mozam-
bique to Bombay, and such parts as are
not required for bangles and carved
work are shipped to England.
--One Of the curiosities of Washing
ton the now State, is Medical Lake,
not far from Spokane Falls. A proper
ty of it's water is that it forms lather
whenever. it is agitated violently or
rubbed quickly on the hands or the
\ surface of the body. No fish or other
y living thing has been found in these
waters, and the lake itself is rather re-
pulsive and muddy in appearance.
A metal that will melt ut such low
temperature as $50 degrees is certainly
curiosity, but Syracuse IN. " man
has succeeded in producing it. 1t is an
alloy composed of lead, tin, bismuth and
cadmium. and in weight, hardness and
color resembles type-metal. So easily
does it melt that if you place it on
comparatively cool part of the stove
with piece of paper under it it will
melt without the paper being scorched.
"A foreign exchange gives the fol-
lowing bit of milling history in this
country: "Much of the flour made in
Ohio before 1910 was sent West. In 1886
Oliver Newberry purchased 500 barrels
at IS q barrel, and took it to Chicago,
then a struggling frontier village, and
sold II at $50 per barrel, citizens holding
a public meeting and thanking him for
not asking $50. 1t was all the -four the
people of Chicago had for the winter
Fond mother-"IIow did you get
along in school to-day, Susie?" Tired
child (wearily)-''O missed in my geog-
raphy again. / forgot whether the Putu-
mayo joined the Amazon east or west of
the confluence of NIaranon and Ucayale
rivers Same child (years later; wife
and mother)--"What is it you want to
know, PETE" Little daughter (strug-
Cling over q primary geography
Where is the Amazon River, mammal"
Mamma (after long reflection think
it's somewhere in Africa or Asia, for
get which. IN. Y. Weekly. ESsssSs
There is man living in Salt Lake
!, City, one of the old settlers, who when
quite young married an Indian woman.
Years went by, and he amassed large
fortune and lived in an elegant house.
surrounded by every luxury. One day
an acquaintance, who had imbibed
something of the morals of the place,
said to him: "Why don't you get a
young and pretty wife, who will suit
your beautiful home? You might give
that old squaw enough to live upon in a
quiet way. AS it is, she's perfect mill
stone about your neck" With blazing
eyes he turned upon him, saying: THAT
old squaw,' as you call her, helped to
make every cent of money | have to-
day, and so long as we live we share our
fortune together.-Woman's journal.