The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

leather are much used for trimming
ladies' shooting and travelling dresses.
The wonderfully cosmopolitan city
Of New York is said to number 600
native Armenians among Its population.
-Four-fifths of the engines now work.
ing in the world have been constructed
during the last twenty-five years.
~ amt goin' to say my prayers"
"Why not, Willie?" 30, what's the
use? Everything ask for amt good
for me-"
"A Chicago policeman took a lady
friend to photograph gallery the other
day, and, after arraying her in his coat,
helmet, star and mace, he had her pic
ture taken.
"A New Haven gentleman has q
couple Of tame wasps. They have built
nest in his parlor and live undisturbed
and undisturbing. This is the third
season tho insects have occupied the
samo quarters
1t is not generally known that the
custom of keeping birthdays is many
thousands of years old. 1t is recorded
in the fortieth chapter of Genesis,
twentieth verse: "And it came to pass
the third day. which was Pharaoh's
birthday, that he make feast unto all
his servants"
English naval officers have made
demand to be allowed to wear russell
leather boots at sea. The sudden popu
larity of unblacked leather is one Of
the freaks of fashion. Very little else
was to be met with in Europe this year.
Vacation boots are now almost invaria-
bly, made brown and are everywhere
the fashion among foreign tourists.
An English writer tolls of two cats
which advanced daily from opposite
ends of long and lofty wall, and,
meeting in the middle, fought with
great fury until one or both we're pre-
cipitated to the ground below, upon
which the fight ceased Immediately,
the combatants remounting the wall
and basking peacefully side by side in
the sunshine.
"A farmer at GrifIithville, w. Va,
has for twelve years had black snake,
three feet six inches in length, in his
barn, where it has done excellent serv-
ice in destroying rats, mice and other
rodents. BY its frequent contact with
the family and the animals about the
barn it has become quite tame and never
attempts to harm either man or beast,
and will come on hearing its name,
Jim" called.
1t has been remarked that during
the warm weather of summer John
Ch naman appears to be the coolest man
about town, and probably does suffer
little from the heat. His clothing is
light and airy, loose and comfortable,
free and easy; his food consists of fruit
and vegetables, and he doesn't patronize
alcoholic or iced drinks. Apparently he
does not perspire freely, and is never
subject to sunstroke. He works long
and steadily, but moderately-deliber
ately-and seems never to be in hurry
or worry. We may learn from John.
Mr.. Joseph elliott was Birming-
ham working jeweler in $780, One day
he accidentally split one of his fine steel
tools, and being suddenly required to
sign receipt, not finding his quill-pen
at hand he used the split tool as ready
substitute. This happy accident led to
the idea Of making pens of metal 1t
was carried out with secrecy and
promptitude, and the pens of elliott be-
came famous. The manufacture of
metal pens has been as important as any
invention connected with business and
education since that of printing.
There are now numerous firms which
produce as many pens every day as all
the geese in England could have sup
piled in year.
More than three-quarters of the
Americans who go to Europe" said Mr..
Wiseacre, had better stay at home. 1t
is not worth their while to waste time
and money in travelling like fools.
They go to London and put up at hotel
very much like the hotels in New York,
and meet a few people who are of the
same stripe as their own set in New
York, and walk through few streets or
squares of the kind they have seen in
New York. Then they rush to Paris,
put up at a hotel like the hotels in Lon
don, and see a few people and streets
like those of London. Then they hasten
to some other city, where they go
through the same dull routine, after
which they come back here and babble
about life abroad, though they might
just as we'll have gone from one hotel
to another in New York. There are
plenty of strange and wonderful things
to be seen in Europe by tourist who
knows how to look for them, but few of
our Americans who have been there can
tell about any thing that differs much
from things in New York. IN. Y. Sun.