The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

California fruits are shipped In large
quantities to England whore they are
very popular
One of the curiosities found by the
census enumerators in Madison County,
Georgia, is a boy nine years old who has
never been given name by his parents.
Proprietor of country hotel Ito serv-
ANITA stranger has arrived. Make q
fire in No. IA" Servant-"A big fire,
sir?" Proprietor-"No, he is little
bit of fellow"
If there is any thing that exceeds
all else for appallingness it is the situa-
tion of a man who gets caught in rain
storm in flannel shirt that is already
too tight for him. Washington Post.
| "A wild westerner attended church
in Winnigep, Manitoba, for the first
time in twenty years, and during the
service lit pipe and enjoyed a smoke.
He was fined $40 for disturbing worship.
"A New York woman who is suing
for divorce because of failure to pro-
vide stated that when her eight children
were in need of shoes her husband sent
her o basket of flowers and lot of his
own poetry.
Ever had cyclone here?" asked
Kansas man who was visiting country
aunt in the East. so, yes" said his
aunt "Deacon Browns son brought
one from Boston spell ago; but law,
he couldn't ride 1t. Tumbled off every
time he tried Golden Days.
An obliging clergyman in Aroos-
took, Me-, was lately called upon by
loving young couple who were desirous
of going to housekeeping. The clergy
man married them, and then thought of
asking their ages. The bride is fourteen
and the groom one year older.
The first steam vessel which sailed
on the Mississippi was in 1910, and the
| enterprise was considered extraordin-
ary. In 1926 the steam navigation on
the river had so improved in respect to
facility and quickness that fifty-one
boats, of 90, GIG tons, were employed.
The two hotels which Waldorf Astor
has decided to build in New York are
not intended for transient guests, but
for rich families, such as can afford to
pay So, 600 to $1,000 year for q suite
of rooms and board, and it is believed
that there are enough of this class to
fill both houses.
"A well-known London lady ot rank
has just had a pair of ten-button gloves
made in which each button is dia-
mond. The pair cost 5000. Gentlemen
in London are now wearing mousque.
taire gloves which go higher than the
elbow
-"The kola nut, of which good deal
has been said lately" writes the Lon
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, sis rapidly increasing in
favor as an indispensable adjunct to
travellers kit. The French Alpine Club
have just adopted it as a stimulant and
nutrient in their mountain. climbing ex-
peditions."
An athletic Cuban negro, about
thirty years of age, escaped the other
night in Boston from a strong cell in
police headquarters. Reaching between
the bars of his door he pried off the face
of huge paddock with case knife and
the wire handle of bucket, pushed
back the bolt and opened the door. He
got through corridor window to the
top of shed, dropped to the ground,
climbed fence or two and was off for
parts unknown.
Two Cincinnati women thought they
would make fortune by opening res
taurant and hanging out sign "Home
Cooking Here" But the patronage was
SO poor that they were threatened with
bankruptcy, when recently-married
man advised them to change the sign so
as to read "No Home Cooking Here"
They are now doing rushing business,
and will soon retire with a fortune.
"A police officer of this city has de-
vised an ingenious mode of signaling for
the patrol wagon. He has brass plate
fixed in the end of his club, having an
opening Of suitable shape to correspond
with and act as a key or wrench to turn
the lever that sends in the alarm. This
opening also serves as mouth-piece to
a whistle set in the base of the club.
This is most practical device, for the
subjects Of arrests are, as rule, neither
obliging nor amiable, and certainly not
prone to remain peaceful and inactive
while an officer is extracting his keys
from his pocket to send in an alarm
Chicago News.
Thunderstorm lore is thus made
plain by the Cincinnati Enquirer: If you
can count three slowly-that is, one
count to the second-between the flash
of lightning and the peal of thunder,
you may know that destruction has not
been wrought in your own locality. The
flash and the crash are really simultane-
GUS, only the light of the former travels
much more swiftly than the sound of
the latter. If it takes three seconds for
the noise Of the thunder to reach you,
then the storm is 3,270 feet-two-thirds
of mile-away. But when the flash
and the peal come close together, then
shake yourself to see If you are hit.