The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

The baggage Of returning European
| tourists Is thoroughly searched ut New
| York now for dutiable articles, and the
result has been large increase In the
amount of duties collected. In May this
year $40, Ago was collected from passen.
gers baggage.
Attention is called to prophecy
which writer in Harper's Magazine
hazarded in the year 1856. This dreamer
predicted that in the year 5000 men
would be able to attach an ear tube to q
wire and hear conversations two miles
away.
1t is common sight in New York
to see well-dressed men running or skip
ping the rope in Central Park. Exercise
Is the chief aim of these simple diver
sions, which are practiced mostly by
brokers, lawyers and club men who are
becoming stout.
Other things being equal, it will be
tolerably safe to give the preference
to the hired man who sings at his work.
AS for the whistler, there is room for
argument. If he knows how, and can
whistle tune decently, the fact is q
| mitigating circumstance. II he doesn't
know bar of music from pair of bars
in the fence, and creates tune and time
as he goes along, still determined to
whistle, he may yet be of some use, as
guinea hens are said to be-to scare
away the hawks.-Hartford Times
A Spanish woman's mantilla Is held
sacred by law, and can not be seized for
debt, says the Dry Goods Chronicle.
There are three kinds of mantillas
which form the toilet of the Spanish
lady. The first is composed of white
blonde, used only on state occasions,
birthdays, bull fights and Easter Mon
day. The second is black blonde,
trimmed with deep lace; and the third,
for ordinary wear, is made Of black silk
trimmed with velvet.
While the Indians, of Eagle Valley,
New, were at fandango one day re-
Gently, they left in camp an aged buck
named Teekaboo and his squaw. Teeka-
boo was quite infirm, so his spouse dug
hole in the ground, put him in up to
She then left for the fandango, frs
placing a cup Of water near the buried
buck. He was rescued by some sheep
men after sixty-five hours confinement
The ways of the itinerant vendor Of
delicacies of the season are often anus
ing If trying. Through suburban
street toiled cart, whose driver yelled
'Watermelons! Nice ripe watermelons"
in the tones of a stentor Called to
halt by housekeeper, he confessed
that he had nothing but potatoes to sell.
"Why did you call watermelons, then?"
was the indignant rejoinder. ITO at
tract attention, mum; everybody has po-
tatoes."
Among the rules of prominent
livery stable, where the animals Of many
wealthy men are kept, says the New
York Sporting World, are the following:
mo man will be employed who drinks
Intoxicating liquors. No man shall
speak loud to any of the horses or in the
stable where they are. Horses of good
blood are nervous, and loud, excited
conversation is felt by every horse who
hears it, and keeps them all nervous
and uneasy. No man shall use profaue
language in the hearing of horses"
"A tanner in Coburg, while cleaning
an old oil-painting which he had lately
purchased, found concealed between
the canvas and the blackboard, a docu-
ment to the following effect: Lucky
individual, whoever you are, who reads
these lines, act with prudence and fidel-
ity. In time of calamity / had four
Thousand thalers in silver in this room.
They will be found in the floor under
the stove. You are to distribute two
thousand thalers among the poor and
keep the rest for yourself. May it
bring you Joy and happiness. Alexander
Won Rotheneck. Written in the year
1859 at Coburg." Where is that money?
Echo answers, "Where?"
-"It doesn't pay" remarks the Ken
nebec journal, ito be too grasping in
this life. Several years ago Richmond
man refused to allow the Maine Central
railroad to put foot on what he sup
posed to be his land. A survey showed
that not only the land in dispute, but
several rods more, belonged to the COM
pany, and when the line fence was built
it took off slice of the citizens door
step. A similar case happened in Skow-
hegan recently. A citizen objected to
staging poles being set in his garden to
shingle the car house. A Asurvey showed
that generous slice of the garden was
the property of the railroad company"
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells
of Maine man who is Selectman, As
SCISSOR and Overseer of the Poor in his
town. He is also school agent and high.
way surveyor in his school and highway
district. 1t is said that the town pays
him 81 Der day for the board of his
mother-in-law, and that he has hired his
own daughter for the school teacher.
An ex-soldier, he draws nice sum each
month as pensioner. He carries on
farm and speculates some in farm pro-
duce and stock. He also owns build
ing that is the headquarters of poker
club, and he is a leading as well as
successful member thereof. 1t should
be added that he does not teach class
in Sunday-school.
Joseph Duvuette has been in the
Michigan prison for th'rty-two consecu-
tive years. He was convicted of MUIR
der in Sanilac County in 1858 and con-
demned to solitary confinement for life.
For a number of years (how many he him
self can not tell) he was isolated from
any thing in the shape of ahuman being.
He never saw human face or heard q
human voice for long, weary months at
time. His food was brought to him
on tin plate and handed through
wicket but he never caupht GLIMPSE