The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-09-20
MISCELLANEOUS.


buy" "Gootday, Yankee Blade.
--O the one hundred and eight new
roses produced during the year just
passed., seventy-three are credited to
France, and but five to the United
States.
-Celetfne--"whyd didn't you take that
seat the gentleman offered youp" Earn.
estine-"Because would have had to
sit next to that woman whose dress
doesn't harmonize in color with mine"
Domestic servants are so scarce in
Montreal that women in want Of help
are said to visit the Jail with the view
of engaging young women to work for
them at the close of their terms of Inn.
prisonment.
Jockey "Can't ride to-day, Mr.
Petit" Pettit-"What's the matter?
Are you sick?" Jockey.-"No, I'm not
sick; but I've got silver in my finger
and I'm afraid they'd make it out that
i was overweight. Judge.
-Lady-"I would like to get serv.
ant-girl. The family consists of my
husband, myself and five children. 4"
Employment Agent - very sorry,
madam, but you will have to kill of
some of the children"
-Manderville Virgins, of New
Brighton, Staten Island, suggests drown
ing as humane form of capital punish
ment He says he came near being
drowned not long ago himself. He went
far enough to discover that death by
that method would be painless.
old gentleman lat his daughters
wedding)-"My dear, don't see how
am to get along without you" Bride
"Never mind, pa. Since the ceremony
was performed, my husband has con-
fessed that he hasn't enough saved to
go to housekeeping, so you may not lose
me after all. IN. Y. Weekly.
Eighteen words have come into the
language - probably temporarily, most
of them - to denote the act or state of
electric killing. They are as follows:
Electromort, thanelectrize, thanatelec-
trize, thanatelectrisis, electrophon, cleo.
tricise, electrotony, electrophony, elec-
troctony, electroctasy, electricide, elec-
trop9nize, electrothenese, electroed,
electrocution, fulmen, voltacuss and
electrostrike.
Don't clean your nails in public"
said q critic to Detroit Free Press re.
toilet should be made in the privacy of
ones chamber, or, at any rate, out of
the public gaze. If there is anything
in the word that disgusts person it is
to see a fellow pull out a jackknife in a
street car and begin pairing away at his
hands. Don't do it, for it is vulgar to
the highest.
"A gentleman who wrote concerning
the price of board in a country town is
said to have received this telegram in
reply: Board, $50 week, including
washing up the carriage and piano
agent. Robinson" He wrote in an
swer that though both piano agent and
carriage needed cleaning, he was not
accustomed to such charges in board
bill, and soon after learned that the
original copy had run thus: Board,
$50 week, including washing, use Of
carriage and piano. Agnes Robinson"
The annual product Of roofing slate
is given by Superintendent of the Cen
sus Porter as S2S, 900 squares, of a value
Of So, 2,775,271 of which Pennsylvania
share is 474,602 squares and $1,636, ,945.
OF slate for other purposes the value is
given at 1868, ,5S2, Pennsylvania's part
produced, So, 444, S63; Pennsylvania, S2,-
OIL, ,776. - Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
The man who was hurrying into the
hatter's was on business. He wanted |
his old hat. when did you leave il
here?" 81 Dunno" was the reply. They
hunted over a great pyramid of hats and
found it, labeled July 2. When he went
out the halter said: "That man bought |
new hat here and when no went out |
said that he would call for it in half an
hour. 1t has now been four weeks. We
throw away seven or eight hundred old |
hats every year for which the owners !
are going to call in half an hour. -
Lewiston Journal.
The London Hospital tells of a
Beamstress who, like Hoods pathetic |
heroine in the "Song of the Shirt"
worked till the stars shone on the roof. |
Her eyesight failed, and the story goes |
on: "She saw at the same time four |
hands, four needles and four seams. |
She at first treated them as an illusion. |
but at the end of some days, in con-
sequence of weakness and prolonged |
mental anxiety, she imagined that she |
was ocWihB louI dO ohSc,
and that God, touched by her misfor-
tune, had worked miracle in her
favor"
According to calculation made by |
the Economiste Beige, the cost of firing
a 11O-pound gun is, in round numbers,
Ss32, divided as follows: 900 pounds of !
powder, $3.50; 1850 pounds projectile,
S435; silk for cartridge, SIT; total SS32.
But this is not all. The 110-pound gun,
it appears, can be fired but 95 times,
and after that becomes incapable of be-
ing used, ana requires repairs. Now, |
the cost of the piece being $s2, 400, it is |
necessary to estimate the cost of wear
at about SS6s for each shot, thus raising |
the cost of each charge to S1,7O0
They struck town Tuesday, pictures |
of rural health and unsophisticated hap
piness, says the Sidney IN. " Record.
Down our main street they wandered,
side by side, hand in hand. They saw
not the light of heaven; naught but the
light of the gentle flame of love illum
mated their path and enabled them to
see their way to Justice Pierce's, where
their aching, throbbing hearts were
soldered into one, blissful and indi-
visible forever and evermore. Venus
and Adonis in this case was represented
by Lester ID. Newton, of Norwich, and
Miss May Hubert, of Walton. After
the nuptial knot was knotted the happy
pajr want tO Hotalinp's proparv and in