The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

don't see why" KeediclS-
they are so familiar with poses Inter
Ocean.
"A pair Of moose are to be broken to
harness in South Sioux Falls, s. d. II
is expected to drive them in Sioux Falls
until the opening of the worlds fair,
when they will be taken to Chicago.
Rather Strange. hand
some manteL What is that sentiment
carved there?" Eat, Drink and BE
Merry" Ahl curious combination. -
"How SOP" ''Oal mantel; chestnut
sentiment IN. Y. Sun.
-"What keeps our friend, farmer b.,
from church?" said Clergyman, ~
hope it not socinianism." "No," said
the sexton, 'its worse than that. u
'Worse than socinianism? Is it deism?'
"Worse than that, your honor" "Worse
than deism? Good heavensl I trust il
is not atheism?" "Tt is worse than that,
sir; it is rheumatism.
The department of justice of Canada
has decided to purchase a newly pat
ented Photographic apparatus of great
value in detecting crime. The inven-
ton will enable copy to be taken of
the image in the retina of the eye of a
dead person. This is regarded as very
important, especially in cases where
there is no other clue to the perpetrator
of the murder.
One of the most excellent of recent
innovations is the introduction of metal
ceilings in place of wood and plaster.
These ceilings do not shrink or burn
like wood, they will not stain, crack or
fall off like plaster, but being perma-
nent, durable, fire-proof and orna-
mental, will eventually supersede both
wood and plaster, besides being in the
end far more economical than either.
what fool 1 am" was the re-
mark of an old smoker in Stoneham the
other day. He had been rummaging
through his pockets, looking on shelves
and searching through closets in frantic
haste. "What have you lost?" inquired
bystander. my pipe!" was the i'm
patient reply. "But what is that in
your mouth?" asked the correspondent
of the Norway Advertiser, who tells
the story. And then it was that the old
gentleman made the remark above
quoted. Journal.
Prof. Gill says train going at the
rate of ninety-three miles an hour would
allowance being made for stoppages)
require 4S, 1913, 900 years to reach Alpha
Centauri, the nearest of the fixed stars
"a period which is practically incon-
ceivable. On the other hand the moon,
the possibility of reaching which forms
the theme of one of Vernes extrava-
i b
earth. A person for instance, who
would traverse our globe ten times at
the equator would have travelled more
than the distance between the moon
and the earth.
"A Wall street man who has been over
to Boston recently has returned with
story of seeing for two weeks every
morning a citizen at one of the promi-
nent hotels eating hot mince pie and
drinking champagne for breakfast. He
describes the citizen as one who has
made 100000 out of silver mine and
who returned to Boston, his native city,
to spend some of his new found wealth.
This man had spent twenty years in the
West. He had roughed it and had about
as hard time as any man in the silver
hills, but now that he has made his for
tune his chief idea of luxury is hot mince
pie and champagne for breakfast.-N.
Y. Snn.
The brass-knuckle ring says the
New York World, is the newest delight
of the delightful young man who feels
that he must go armed, you know, but
can not condescend to anything quite so
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band, fully an inch deep and appropri-
ately thick, meant to be worn instead
of ''lnuckle on the little finger of
the striking hand and deep set with sew
eral more or less precious stones to give
it an innocent and ornamental appear
ance. This weapon is quite effective
when well laid on, and it's beveled edges
and corrugated surface are calculated to
leave scars.
OF all the athletic exercises, says a
doctor, with perhaps the single excep-
tion of cricllet-and it is doubtful if that
is an eXception-the best is digging.
Probably every single muscle, vein, ar
terry and nerve in the body is vigorous
ly exercised in the process. There is no
constitutional, no aid to digestion, no
cure for the blues, no recipe for good
nights sleep no quietus for excited
brain or rutfied nerves, to match half an
hour at honest digging once or twice a
day. Most of the above evils are born
of mental strain, worry, anxiety, monot-
ony Of labor, the dreary treadmill
eXertion of counter or desk, and they
fly at the first spadeful.
"A novel door, especially intended
for the economy of space, has just been
patented. The door is an adaptation of
the principle of the roller-top desk and
cover, sand consists of series of Stats
about one and one-half inches wide and
three-quarters of an inch thick, Joined
together by wooden spindles, one re-
volving within another. In the roller
top desk the Stats are joined by ribbons
of steel or canvas. When the door is
opened it is wound upon spiral drum
at top and bottom and all is inclosed
within the door casing. A three-foot
door winds up in roll seven inches in
diameter. Ordinarily three-foot door
occupies about fourteen square feet in
swinging, and the new rolling doors en-
ables the builder to economize all that
space.
That the growth of the work which
New York firemen are called on to do
demands the best apparatus which can
be made, and that every valuable inn
provement must be adopted, will be ap-
parent from even a casual inspection of
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