The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

While two fine coach horses were
biting at each other, in their stable IL
Springfield, ILL.,, recently, one of the an
imals bit its companions tongue entire
ly Off manning 1t so badly that 1t had tt
be killed.
An extraordinary number of fires
have occurred within the past few year.
in institutions committed to the care o.
nuns. 1t Is supposed that women are less
careful, or less competent in their in
spection as to the danger of fire, than
men.
| The homes of rich Mexicans are said
to be pa,socs, and the grounds around
th' m are gardens. There is an oriental
| splendor around them that is not found
in the United States. There is an ex.
panse about every thing and retinue
of servants that is bewildering.
Some missionaries in Africa are
greatly troubled by the fact that the
natives are not at all eager to adopt the
| dress of white men. Not even the con.
verts arc willing to wear the amount of
clothing which, according to missionary
IDEAS is essential to respectability.
Amateur magicians complain that
| thoy are no longer in demand There
is general tendency to frown on some
of tho young performers nowadays, and
the craze that set in some time ago over
this particular form of household amusc-
ment has quite disappeared.
An immense squid or devil fish,
which was recently stranded upon Achill
island, off the west coast of Mayo, Ire.,
had arms which measured thirty feet in
length, and the body and short arms six
ty feet in circumference. Some of the
short arms were four feet in circumfer-
ence
The largest load ever hauled over
the Sierra Nevada Mountains by one
team consisted of so, 200 pounds of mer
chandise, 10000 pounds of barley for
feed, $50 pounds of hay, three bales. and
100 pounds of bran, three sacks. This
immense load was safely delivered on
time at Austin, New, the other day.
Among some paper rags in Plain
well Mich paper mill, there was lately
found an order allowing one Stephan
Stillwell to carry cloth and trimmings
for a suit of clothes from New York to
Brooklyn. The order is signed by the
Superintendent" and dated New
York, Oct. Z, 1872" about thirty days
before the British evacuated New York.
Ono of the smaller country towns of
Maine that has been greatly changed by
time is Fayette, in Kennebec County.
Fifty-seven years ago, according to the
Augusta Journal at Fayette Corner
there were three churches, four stores
two hotels, a post-oflice, and nearly thir-
ty dwellings. Now only one church, the
Baptist, remains, and the stores and
hotels have burned or fallen down.
"A native convert to Christianity in
Equatorial Africa recently asked mis-
sionary the following question: (Which
is moro contrary to Christs command
ments, to go about naked according to
tho custom of our ancestors, or to go in
debt for garments which make us hot
and unhappy" Tho answer of tho mis-
sionary is not given, but probably it was
in the line of wise compromise if
compromises are ever wise.
"A common seashore limpet, which
without its shell weighed fraction less
than half an ounce, required, when
pulled according toits plane of adhesion,
a force exceeding siXty-two pounds to
remove it from its grip upon the local
rock, or upward Of nineteen hundred and
eighty-four times it's own dead weight
The force required to open an oyster ap-
pears to be thirteen hundred and nine
teen and one-half times the weight of
the shell-less creature.
The photographing of caves or other |
chambers underground, where porta-
BILE camera can be easily installed, offers |
no particular difficulty, and it is a com
paratively simple matter to obtain curl |
GUS and interesting views under such |
circumstances, Illuminating the bowels |
of the earth by burning magnesium tape, !
which gives brilliant light, by means
of which surrounding objects can be |
photographed.
-''Josiah," said Mr.. Chugwater TO the
head of tho family, 81 believe our John
ny is turning over new leaf and is |
going to be better boy. He asked me |
a little while ago If he could take tho |
family Bible up to his room for an hour |
Or two" AT the same time boy of |
Johnny's size was seen to enter cigar
store in the vicinity, open a big book
and lay it on tho counter. "Do you see
this ontry?' he demanded, addressing
tho proprietor in thunder tones. "You
said | wasn't sixteen. Look at this:
John, born May s, 1874 Gimme me
five boxes of cigarettes and be quick
about it, blame your dr-Chicago
Tribune.
A friend ard admirer of Keely, the
motor man, has this to say about the
mysterious alleged inventions: st costs
nothing more, after the machinery is
made, than the vibratory concordant i'm
pulse which associates it with the polar
stream. The twanging of taut string,
he agitation of tuning fork, as asso-
,iated with the rosonating condition of
,he sympathetic transmitter, is all that
s necessary to induce the connective
ink and to produce this costlcss motive
,ower. AS long as tho transmitter Is in
ympathv with the sympathetic current
II the trinne polar stream, the action of
ho sympathetic instrument or engine
continues. IN. Y. Tribune.
The first culprit brought before
lumorist Peck, the new mayor OF Mil
vaukco, was fourteen-year-old boy.
What's the charge?" asked the mayor.
Malicious mischief, yer Honor, replied
he officer. "The prisoner went into
toro, poured coal oil into the molasses
'arrel, upset the cracker boxes, soaped
hc steps, emptied sand into the sugar,
'iled "a dozen tin cans over the door,
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