The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

nothing left for the heirs.
"A Chester (Pa.) woman calls her
husband "Tclephone" when he gets
mad and won't answer her.
Water differs from good many
things in that it is highest when there
is most of it.--Binghamton Republican
"A Meadville (Pa.) man is authority
for the statement that a rooster, served
at his home the other day, had two fully
developed and perfectly formed wish
bones.
--Queen Victoria's crown, kept with
other royal regalia under strong guard
at the old tower, and worn only on state
occasions, is worth 100000 metal, gems
and decorations included.
In Wheeling store where looking
glasses were formerly scattered around
rather generously they have all been
taken down. ''The reason" said a
floor walker, 'is that the women would
always be iammed up in crowds where
ever there was looking glass, and we
took them down"
An instrument called the tele-
graphone has been patented, which
enables the sender to record his message
on u cylinder attached to the receiving
instrument, in the absence of any one
to hear it, and even to repeat the mes
sage back to himself for correction.
| -"Come in and see the Swimming
Match! Admission, Ten Cents" This
advertisement, cleverly displayed tc
catch the public eye was posted on
board outside a large fair in Brooklyn.
When the visitors paid their admission
fee, and rushed in, they saw match
floating in a tumblor of water.
TO show the capacity of his stomach
visitor at the Neversinl1 Fire House at
Reading, u few days ago, ate mixture
composed of pound of figs, fifty raw
oysters, and pound of sugar, and topped
off the mess with pound of lard. He
said on wager he would eat box of
wagon grease, but the spectators would
let him go no further.
Frogs are improving with the rest
of the world, and are evidently develop
ing capacity for turning the tables on
their prosecutors. One of the frogs put
into the snake cage at the Worcester
(Mass.) Natural History Museum to be
swallowed, turned swallower and ''ab-
sorbed" SO much black snake that the
latter died after being pulled from the
fighting frog.
"A writer who contends that old
fashioned out-of.door games are the best
form of exercise for children says:
Running makes trim ankle and
shapely leg, and girls should be en-.
couraged to run as often as possible
in oldfashioned games of ball or pris-
! ,,-g lng til. u. l.
played, left few fibers of the body with
out stretch and refreshment. The dodg-
ing, the feints and sudden dashes for
base were good practices in tactics, Civ.
ing quick eye and foot and 1.-THE body
"A hawk pursued pigeon into a
house at Brunswick. Ca. the other day.
The pigeon took refuge under table in
the kitchen. The hawk in entering the
door saw window beyond, and suppos-
ing his prey had gone that way darted
for the aperture, but, to his horror,
found an invisible pane of glass, through
which his momentum carried him to the
ground beyond, where he lay for some
time. "Who trow dat brick?" sang out
the cook. The master of the house ar
rived on the scene just in time to dis
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see him disappear after recovering from
his encounter with the window pane.
"A newspaper man went to interview
the superintendent of one of tho cleva-
ted roads of New York a few days ago
with lot of letters complaining that
the cars on the road were too cold.
you'll save me lot of trouble if you'll
let me have these letters said the SUI
perintendent, reaching into his desk and
taking out a package of documents.
'How is that?' "Why, here is bundle
of COMPLAINTS we have received about
the cars being kept too warm. If you'll
let me have yours can send the cold let
ters to the hot writer's and the hot let
ters to the cold writers, and so make all
the GROWERS answer each other. Iowa
State Register.
The modern game of base ball is an
American institution and not, as some
might believe, an exotic of foreign
growth which has come to us from the
older civilizations of Europe and the
East. The game from which our pres
ent sport is derived had its origin and
development among the aborigines of
the American continent, who played
with bat and ball for ages, for aught
we know, before the dream of new
world filed the imagination of the
Italian adventurer. 1t is thus Ameri-
can to the core. OF course the game has
undergone great notifications, but re-
cent archaeological investigations prove
the truth of the above statement.