The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
-Twenty-one tramps met in Decatur
Neb., and ordered meals at q restaurant.
After they had eaten they compelled
tho proprietor to accept ten cents as pay
ment in full.
"A Frankfort, KY, man is training his
hens to lay their eggs in the kitchen,
where he has placed a cradle for their
accommodation. This saves the labor OF
hunting the eggs.
"A burglar at Cincinnati, who re-
mained curled up under bed for hours
waiting an opportunity to rob the house,
was obliged to sneeze, when he was dis
covered, pulled out and handed over to
the police.
1t has been asserted that chewing
wooden toothpicks sometimes produces
small ulcers in the mouth, and that even
the stomach has been similarly affected
by the action of the small PARTICLES OF
wood detached by chewing.
"A servant girl living with family
near Boston recently gave her mistress
'notice." "I'm not used to these kero-
sene lamps" she said. "I can't live
anywhere where they don't have incan-
descent lights. Youths Companion.
"A New Yorker was about to drown
in the surf at Beach Haven last sum-
mer, when he cried out that he would
give $1,000 to the man that saved him.
He was saved, but he wouldn't pay, and
the other day settled the matter for SIS,
alleging he meant to cry out that figure
and no higher one.
"A French paper proposes, in time of
war, to make carrier pigeons photograph
tracts of country by attaching to them
miniature cameras, in which the thin
spool of sensitized paper shall unwind
and be exposed as they fly over the
country. The pictures can afterwards
be enlarged.
"A New York gambler has exploded
the superstition that touching hunch-
back brings bad luck. He touched thir-
teen Of them, and not only lost his last
dollar at faro, but was arrested by one
of the hunchbacks for assault and bat
terry and had to pay fine of S50.--De-
troit Free Press.
Many clergyman who can preach
capital sermon is very unhappy as a
speaker out of the pulpit. The Phila-
delphia Times has heard of clergyman
whose duty it was to introduce to an au-
dience a missionary from Ceylon and did
as follows: "This faithful missionary OF
the cross comes from Ceylon, land
where, as you all know, every prospect
pleases and only man is vile.'"
"A few days ago as a class at the
Cincinnati College of Medicine was about
to dissect the body of man who had
lied of drink, young man rushed into
the room and threw himself on the SUBJ
ject, crying: "My father! o, my poor
father" This recalls the fact that some
years ago President Harrison found in
the Ohio Medical College the body of
his father, John Scott Harrison, of North
Bend, Ind. These horrible incidents
emphasize the fact that there is vast
deal of unpleasant romance in actual
life.
"A searcher among old deeds and rec
ords in London lately came across
statement that Mr.. Samuel Wilson be-
queathed sum of gao, 00O-whirh was
considerably increased-"to be lent to
men who have been set up one year, and
not more than two years, in some trade
CT manufacture in the city of London,
or within three miles thereof, and who
can give satisfactory security for the re-
payment of same" 1t has not been
claimed for many years.
In Switzerland and other mountain
GUS countries the goat leads long strings
of animals daily to and from the noun
tains, but it is in South Africa that it is
regularly kept and employed as leader
of focks of sheep. Should a binding
storm of rain or hail drive the silly
sheep before it, or cause them to huddle
together in a corner so as to suffocate
each other, the trained goat will wake
them up, and, by methods best known
to himself, will induce them to follow
him to place of safety.
Some idea of the care necessary to
preserve the great oil pipe lines intact
is furnished by one of our contemporar-
les. 1t appears that track-walkers pass
over every mile of the line each day,
about fifteen miles being assigned to
each man. Every walker is a telegraph
operator and is supplied with pocket
instrument. Should he discover leak
in the line he Immediately telegraphs
the division superintendent. At stated
intervals along the telegraph lines wires
run down the poles into locked boxes,
the key of which is carried by the
walker. Opening the box, he attaches