The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The official directory of the New
York Central shows that of 206 station
agents on the road twenty-six are
women.
The farmers near Salt Lake City are
followed by large focks of seagulls,
which find rich picking in the freshly
turned burrows.
"A lion cub ut the Cincinnati Zoo is
being raised with black cat. 1t is
very fond of pussy, and they play and
frolic together most amusingly.
The roast beef of old England has
been obtained for years in the United
States; breeders are now sending over
here for turkeys to improve the British
stock.
dead Head HILL" the famous ele-
vation near New London, from which
the friends of Yale and Harvard have
watched many boat races, has been
graded out of existence.
1t is said that the annual production
of eggs in this country equals in money
value the country's annual production
of iron. The eggs are eaten as fast as
produced, while the iron stays by the
owners, and is subject to taxation as it
accumulates from year to year.
Women inventors appear very often
on the patent Office records, and one Of
them who succeeded in pushing through
an improvement in an eye.glass spring
is said to have made very comfortable
| fortune by the crystallization of her
ideas in practical form.
"A freight car which passed through
West Chester, Penn, Monday con-
tanned the following notice on the side
written with pencil: 'S50reward.-
above will be paid for the arrest and
conviction of the man who invented
work, by Camp No. 1, Sons of Rest, Keo-
kuls, Ia"
"A lawyer, in a breach of promise
case, made an eloquent appeal for his
beautiful Client When he had con.
cluded, his opponent merely said, my
learned friend has omitted to state that
among the many attractions his client
possesses, she has a wooden leg" This
effectually destroyed the effect of the
appeal.
An old Wyoming hunter estimates
that there are not over 500 buffaloes on
the globe now. There are less than 100
wild bisons, about 200 in captivity and
200 in Yellowstone Park. Nearly all OF
the wild ones have been located.
Twenty-Five are known to be in Texas,
20 in Colorado, 26 in Wyoming and Mon.
tana, and Is in Dakota. The big herd
said to be in the British possessions is
but myth.
"A short time ago the Government
l. ;,+, 1yr 4ha
face representing $40, while the reverse
side represented $40 One of the notes
was subsequently returned by the
cashier of the First National Bank OF
Washington, n. j., and the other came
to light in New York. 1t is held by the
clerk of an insurance company, and it is
said that he has refused large sum for
st.
AT recent meeting of the London
Geological Society, A. ID. Bartlett COM
municated some observations on wolves,
jalscals, dogs and foxes, based mainly
upon his experience of those in the
Geological Gardens. His remarks tended
to prove that all the varieties of the do
mestic dog owe their origin to wolves
and jackals, the habit of barking having
been acquired under the influence of do
mestication; and that the dog is the
most perfectly domesticated of all ami
mails.
An old lady in Vienna ordained in
her last will and testament that a
Straus waltz should be played at her
funeral, for which each member of the
orchestra was to receive ducat. The
heirs objected at first, on religious
grounds, but the provisions of the will
were distinct, and could not be violated
without endangering their own claims;
so Strauss and his musicians were en-
gagged and placed in circle around the
grave, and while the coffin was being
lowered they played the favorite waltz
of their late lamented admirer.
There are persons in this world
and the pity is there are not more OF
them-who care less for praise than for
appreciation. They have an ideal after
which they are striving, but which they
consciously fall short of-as every one
who has lofty ideal is sure to do.
When that ideal is recognized by an
other, and they are praised or COM
mended for something in its direction,
they are grateful-not for the praise,
but for appreciation. An element of
sympathy enters into that recognition,
and they feel that they have something
in common with the observer who ad-
mires what they admire and praises
what they think is most worthy OF
praise.-N Y. Ledger