The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


--Troude says: "Character must be
hammered and forged" but it does not
follow from this that the pugilist and
swindler have an ethical utility.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
The ceiling of the Assembly cham
Der at Albany, N. Y, is made of paper
mache. 1t is model of its kind, and
appears so like marble as to deceive the
most expert eye.
"A man with penchant for statistics
has computed that more than four mil
lion miles of blood pass through the veins
of an ordinary human being during a
lifetime of seventy years.
Tho English sparrows have almost
exterminated the wrens, orioles and
meadow larks, and in five years more
the keno goose will be about the only
native bird left.-Detroit Free Press.
In Chester, Pa, tho colored people
have come to the conclusion, after
trial of eight years, that the education
of white and black children together
does not work satisfactorily, and have
asked for separate schools to be estab-
lished.
The village of Data, on the island
of Lesbos, has woman said to be 1876
years old who still has the complete use
Of all her senses. The same island con-
tains three other inhabitants who are
said to have passed their hundredth
birthday-Ismail Apa, 11O years old;
Khalil Apa, in his 10th year, and
Aschil Baba, aged 115. All three of
these centenarians it is said, earn their
living by daily work.
The New York World has printed
census of children in two representative
quarters of that city, Fifth avenue and
Cherry street. In 800 families living on
the former street there were found nine
ty-one children under 10 years of age,
of whom six we're born in the past
twelve months. In Cherry street, which
appears to be an abode of the very poor,
800 families furnished $50 children under
ten years and Ill under one year of age.
They manage to have considerable
fun one WY or another in the Tennes-
see Legislature. A Tennessee paper, re-
porting the passage of an important
bill, says: "There was great enthusi-
asm, some disorder, and somebody tied
a sleeps bell to Mr.. Collins, of Carter
County, and he did not know where it
was until he had attracted the attention
of the house. Visitors then filed out
and the house resumed its usual appear
ance."
Near Lincolnton, Ga, on a stream
known as "Fishing Creek" in shelly
ing projecting just above the water in
the stream is a perfectly defined imprint
of mans bare foot. All the toes are
,,,I 3, al
is as plain as if made in plastic clay or
even putty. The stone is as hard as ada
,nant, and has been since the Oldest in
habitant landed in Lincoln County,
over 100 years ago. BY whom and when
was the track made is an interesting
query.
1t is a strange coincidence that
several American clowns, and at least
one English pantomimist have all died
insane. Hitherto the general belief
among professionals has been that the
quantity of bismuth used in making
up" particularly in America, where the
hair is cropped close and the bismuth
rubbed into the side of the head, had a
great deal to do with disease. But one
old pantomimist still living solemnly
went, the bismuth not only left his
faculties unimpaired, but had the merit
of healing sores and cracks in the skin.
"A newspaper man lately discovered
a remarkable family in Pennington,
Me. Calling at the homo of Jonathan
Scott Ellis he found Mr.. Ellis,
who is ninety-six years old, seated
by the stove and reading a newspaper
without glasses. His wife's sister, Miss
Lydia Ballard, who will be ninety
seven years old in April, was seated in
rocking-chair near by and knitting
vigorously. Another sister-in-law, Miss
Hannah Ballard, eighty-four years old
next October, was clearing up the din
ner-table and washing the dishes. Mrs.
Ellis died three years ago at the age of
eighty-eight. The old folks prefer to
live by themselves and to do all their
own work, and Father Ellis refers to his
sisters-in-law as ''the girls"