The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

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The national life boat institution
last yearsaved 627 lives from shipwreck.
! There are over 10000 children at
| tending the schools in London who are
insufflciently fed.
Probably with the intention OF
starting a menagerie Of his own an au-
dacious thieiin st. Joseph, Mo-, stole an
elephant, two camels and five horses
When a steamer passes over the
Port Huron tunnel tho noise of tie
wheel can readily be heard in the hole,
which is at least forty feet under the
water.
| "A tramp in Birmingham, Ala, while
suffering with delirium tremons, saw
his big toe protruding from his we'll
! worn boot. Imagining 1t to be snake
F., about to bite him, he smashed it with a
hammer.
Michael Fitzgerald, Jr., while ber-
rying up Bates Run, near Tunesta,
killed black snake that measured ten
feet and seven inches. This is, no
doubt, the largest blacksnake that has
been killed in the country this year.
While fishing off Fortunes Rocks at
Biddeford young lady lost valuable
| ring. Having occasion a few days later
to visit the place she was more than
surprised to find the identical ring lying
in the sand near the water.
"A Tuscarora New newspaper pre-
pares the young mind for tho coming of
new school principal by the remark
that "the officials teaching weight Is
about two hundred and twenty-five
pounds avoirdupois which under cer-
tain conditions might be made to ap-
proximate ton."
Hearing tremendous noise in the
engine-room an Auburn, Me-, engineer
rushed below to find the governor belt
off, the engine running wild and the
room filled with steam. He immedi-
ately appreciated the situation and did
what few men would.-groped about till
he found the stop-valve and slowed the
engine.
"A remarkable incident occurred in
Hartford recently. A mink trotted
right into the heart of the city, among
throngs of people on the streets, and
passed all kinds of dogs with impunity,
and finally made his way into the back
yard of big store on Asylum street.
In the yard mon cornered him and tried
to capture him alive, but he fought so
desperately that they had to kill him.
Says business man, writing from
the City of Mexico: "Why do you Amer
leans put five cents on a letter to Mex
leo when two are enough? Is cash SO
abundant in Northern houses that you
can so waste it? Pray tell your people
that only a 'phule' will put any more
postage on Mexican letter or paper
than on one destined for the United
States-else why the postal treaty? One
half my correspondents thus foolishly
contribute to Uncle Sans exchequer. I"
Some jokers at Schenley Park,
Pittsburgh, had little fun with Hun
garian, who asked for work. They
gravely gave him position as hostler
to bear, and supplied him with curry
comb and brush. The bear enjoyed be-
ing scratched with the curry-comb, and
showed it by rolling on the ground as
fast as he was cleaned. He also evinced
his appreciation by playfully clawing
his valet, and by the time the latter had
completed his job he had no clothes on
worth mentioning.
George w. Keene, of South Boston,
deserves to live until he is ninety-nine
years old in order to complete his re-
gard of mines. His father died in 1859
at the age of sixty-nine, and was buried
on January 90. Mr.. Keene himself was
married May 90, enlisted in the civil
war July 10, 1868; was mustered out
June 80, 1865, and was discharged July
Q. His son was married October go. On
the 9th of August he received an injury
which necessitated his removal to tho
city hospital, but he was discharged on
the 10th. He is fifty-nine years old.
The English Industries states that
novel industry, resting strictly on
chemical principles and needing nothing
but little capital and a dash of dis
honesty to develop it, is said to be prac-
ticed in Florida. 1t consists in avoid
ing dependence upon the slow and inn
perfect ripening of lemons by the suns
rays, by picking the fruit while green
and exposing it to the fumes of burning
sulphur, whereby its color is changed
to rich golden yellow, infinitely more
attractive than the natural hue. sit is
true that the interior of the lemon is
practically free from Juice, a fact which
the hypercritical might reckon a slight
drawback; but this is, after all, trivial
matter, affecting only the consumer" is
the salve applied to the conscience.