The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-08-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

were born on the same day OF the month
--"No; l can't say that I want the
earth" mused the freight car tourist
"About three-quarters of it is waite
and that amt got no use for. "-Terre
Haute Express.
Aunt Mary--"Poor Bulge! Docs
your tooth ache yet? II 'twere mine,
dear, I'd have 1t out at once" Budge--
'1f 'twere yours! Well, auntic, SO
would I."-Harper's Young People.
Census numerator-"Well, have
finished big days work, and I'm
tired" His wlfe-"I'm so sorry can't
help you. Now sit down, dear, and tell
me all you found our about our neigh
bors. IN. Y. Sun.
Editors like brevity, but man who
was recently hanged in Indiana suited
them too we'll. He made no remarks
preacher and said: "I'll see you later"
and then the trap fell. Brooklyn Union.
Say, old fellow, are you really a
relation of tho celebrated Prof. Drip"
Eyes, but somewhat far removed. "
SHOW then?" "He is my brother, but
you see there are ten sisters between
us. s."-Fliegende Batter.
"A dispatch from Ohio tells of one of
the shortest courtships on record. The
groom was guest at Canton hotel
He became infatuated with the cook the
day of his arrival, proposed, and, being
accepted married her at once.
EDITOR of Agricultural Paper-"Look
here, here's the man who asks the sill
lest questions!" Assistant-"Howa about
it?" "Why, he asks me the best way to
cure hams, and he doesn't state in his
note what's the matter with them"-
Lawrence American.
The "L" road companies in New
York are doing their utmost just now to
minimize the noise made by their trains,
and on some of the roads they have sue
ceeded, but they are still far from hav-
ing the noiseless trains which so delight
the heart of the traveller in Berlin, and
the service has a great many lacks.
The great Bear River Canal in Utah,
for the construction OF which $4,000, 600
has been provided, is expected to be one
of the most extensiue irrigation works
in America. TO get the river along the
side hill along Bear Creek canon and
out on to the plain near Plymouth will
necessitate moving 22O, 900 cubic yards
of solid rock.
-"While passing along street in Des
Moines, the other day." relates the st.
Joseph News, "Constable Allen noticed
a woman digging in a garden and turn
ing up peculiarlooking vegetables
After she had loaded her apron and left
the scene the constable went over and
did little digging on his own hook, un-
earthing several gallon jugs of whisky
M. Boule has shown the French
Academy that animals having afiinities
with the dogs existed in France in the
Miocene epoch, and that the Quarter
nary epoch had species identical with
those of to-day. This makes it difficult
to admit, as has often been done, that
our races of domestic dogs are all modi.
fications of their congeners, the wolves
and iackals.
1t has been estimated that were
electricity to come into general use as
means for propelling street cars, at least
so, 600 horses would be thrown out of
employment. This is a serious consid-
Grafton, for were the street cars to
eschew them, what would become of our
decrepid steeds? In France this ques-
tion could be easily answered.; but in
the face of our prejudices it is, indeed,
perplexing
The Argentine Republic has nearly
II, 900, 900 sheep, yielding about 260, OOO,-
900 pounds of unwashed wool, which,
when washed, amounts to something
less than 100, 200, 00pounds. The flocks
Of the United States, although in 1880
only 4O,000,00O produced
nearly 1856, 900, 900 pounds of clean wool
Thus the average per sheep in the Ar
gentine Republic was less than IL
pounds of clean wool, while in this
country it was nearly four pounds.
"A negro killed a monster rattle
snake SIX miles this side of Clover VAL
ley on the Union Pacific extension from
says California paper The
only weapon which the darky had was
in the form of earth clods, but he sue
ceeded in crushing out the life of the
rattler, and upon examination found |
the snake to measure ten feet in length,
with ninety-six rattles and button on |
the lateral extremity. This would give
IN almost phenomenal age to the snake,
making it about one hundred years old. |
The skin and rattle have been taken
North to Salt Lake, from whence it will !
DC shipped to the East
The laborers of the blacksmith !
of KEW, found conical
bomb and conceived the notion of using
t as an anvil. They knew what the /
hing was, but they thought it was not
charged, because they had found it w.
ng about freely. To make sure that it
vas not dangerous, they tried it several
lines in the fire and it did not explode.
iereupon they fitted it up as an anvil.
But as soon as they tried to forge a
'iece of iron upon it, it exploded with
force, tore off the roof of
he building and scattered the walls.
luckily, the explosion tended upward
bove the heads of the workingmen and
My three of them were slightly
by flying fragments.
1t is not often that there is any dis
ute as to the habits of the Southern
egroes. We see them on minstrel
tage in strange and uncouth garbs,
nd we hear them playing on the banjo
nd bones. All this is the purest fancy,
nd it would be the widest Imagination
it had not been sanctified by the
runken craziness of circus performers
I the old Bob Ridley stripe. Think, for
Instance, of a Southern negro going
round and proclaiming himself to be