The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Manson hospitable in his New Jersey
home9" Very" You find everything
In your room when you go there, from
an assortment of necSties to quiuine
pill. Truth.
--Brightly-"The newspapers have
Ssid great many hard things about old
Millionaire, but they must admit there
Is oue thing to his credit" Evergreen
whats that?" Brightly" bank
balance. philadelphia Press.
Sick and Dyeing. - Elsie--'I rde.
clare il Eunices hair doesn't get lighter
every week since she was engaged to
Will" Josephine Eyes. He hates
dark hair and she's just dyeing for love
of him." Elsie-"T knew she was love-
sick, but didn't think she would dye
for anybody. y."-Detroit Free Press
What nonsense is there?" he asked
as he looked over her shoulder Mt the
paper she had in her hand. ''Some
fool dress pattern, suppose" "No,'
she replied. cts a diagram of the
pitchers curves in baseball" "Lcmme
see it as soon as you get through, will
you?"-Washington Post.
"A Leading Question: Questcr.-
Hello, old boyl You look rather the
worse for wear. What have you been
doing with yourself?" Jester Been
off on little piscatorial toot, that's
all" Quester-"Yes, but what did you
fall in with?" Jester-"What did fall
in with? Why, fell in with my clothes
on. "-Boston Courier.
Better than Azure Blood. -Pater--
$50 you don't like Mr.. Fahrweste?"
Daughter-'I don't. He's too coarse. !
don't believe there's drop of blue
blood in his veins" Pater--"Never
you mind that He's a mine owner,
and the contents of his veins are ores
that assays twenty thousand to the
| ton" Daughter - "Tll wed him.
Pittsburgh Bulletin.
I'm the woods near Plantsville,
Conn, day or two ago Mr.. Elisha
Newell found nest of four gray squir.
rels that were only few days old. She
took the little fellows home and gave
them to her house cat, which had re-
Gently been deprived of her kittens The
OLD cat welcomed the strangers affec-
tionately, and is bringing them up in
the night way.
-Wool-"Have you been in the new
restaurant, where they weigh you when
you &c in, and again when you come
out ana charge by the pound for the
difference?" Van Pelt - "No; is it
good place?" Wool-"You bet! .
went in yesterdaY-had Saratoga chips,
dry toast and crisp bacon-five cents.
| To-day had corn beef and cabbage
and English plum pudding, and went
brokeP'-Smith Gray &c Co.'s Monthly
This is a record-smashing year.
Mrs. Georgia A. Brown made notable
divorce record in Oakland few days
ago. She filed her complaint on Tues
day morning, the summons was served
on Wednesday, on Thursday her hus-
band put in frivolous answer aud on
Friday the answer was stricken out
The case was referred, testimony was
taken, and the decree was granted on
the same aftereoon. Time, three aud a
half days.
Persons unacquainted with the
qualities of swamp gum have no idea
of the wonderful things that can be ac-
complished with this wood. When
boiled it may be handled almost like
paper. 1t is used extensively in lower
Delaware in the manufacture of berry
boxes, and u boiled gum log fifteen
inches in diameter may, by the use of
proper instruments, be literally drawn
out into ribbons. 1t cuts like cheese,
and may be tied into bow knots, or
bent into almost any conceivable shape.
The common plant is as much a
matter of speculation as the coming
man. Prof. George l.. Goodale, of Har-
ward, says the first development is in
the direction of the seedless. There is
no good reason, he thinks, why there
should not be seedless raspberres, seed
less strawberries and seedless black
berries He also expects plums,
peaches and cherries without stones.
This, of course, means artificial propa-
cation, and that, according to the
professor is what the world is coming
to- Slips instead of stones will he used.
Near Higate, about forty miles west
OF St Thomas, Canada, was discovered
the largest skeleton of any extinct ami
NAL yet found. 1t belonged to the
order of mastodon giganticus, and
measured % feet from end of the nos
trils to tip of tail. The tooth only of
one of these huge monsters of prehis-
toric times was dug up recently at Fall
ing Springs, near Bellevue, Miss,
| WHICH WclgHeu IOurJecn POUNDS JWelV6
ounces, and had the skeleton been dis
covered it would probably have been
found to be that of an animal 80 feet
long.
Close to the circular boundary that
separates Pennsylvania and Delaware
is the graveyard in which legend locates
the famous ticking tombstone" It is
the graveyard of the London Tract
Quaker meeting house, known in local
parlance as the London Track The
region was settled more than two hun
dred years ago by Quakers from Lon
don. The present meeting house goes
back well into the last century. The
tombstone, according to local legend,
gives forth a constant ticking sound.
The possibility is that the ticking is
caused by the trickling of subter-
ranean stream along hidden deposit
of limestone
The magnitude of the figures con-
corning the operations of the railways
of the United States in 1890, presented
in Poor's Manual, is indeed wonderful.
When it is remembered that the total
revenue of the United States for the
year ending June 80, 1891, was $399, ,5OO,-
900 the vastness of the earnings of the
railroads (Sl, ,0S6, 900, 00O) may perhaps
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