The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


captured in Florida, although alligators
are numerous. One difference between
the two is that the crocodile works with
his upper jaw, while the alligator snaps
n man in two with his lower jaw.
His --latest Opus. Musical Editor
(meeting composer)-"Hello, Tewnes'
] haven't seen you since you got mar
ried Doing anything in our line?"
Composer-"Noth much. Only lit
tle-er-cradle song in A fiat. Chicago
Tribune.
Mamma" said Mrs. De porgue's
daughter, "you ought to go over to the
National museum. There are things
there that are thousands of years old"
so, dear mel" calculated the worthy
lady, chow frightfully out of style they
must be. ~ Washington Post.
The first water mill ever built was
erected on the River Tiber, at Rome, A.
ID. So Windmills were in original use
in the twelfth century. Tide mills were
operated in Venice about 170s. Saw
mills are said to have been in use at
Augsberg. Germany, about 1882.
10 Charlie!" said the sweet young
thing, as she nestled trihe closer to
him, 81 am so so glad you are not one
of those Indians" "Well. should hope
so. But why, particularly?" Because,
they are disarming them" And then
he was glad it hadn't happened to him.
st. Joseph News.
DR.. o. f. Voigt, of Columbus, o.,
reports having relieved woman by
means of an emetic of Il stomach boarder,
a living toad about an inch and u half
| long, perfectly developed, except the
! hind legs We have always been in
clined to doubt these stories, but this
one appears in the Sanitary Era and
| should not be an error.
1t was shown in a suit in Cincin
natl the other day that one shyster law
! yer had visited thirty-six different peo-
pie in the course of a year and encour-
aged them to begin libel suits against
different newspapers, offering to take q
retainer of So and half of what might
be got before jury A good share of
the libel suits come about in this way.
Housewife you clean off this
snow for quarter?" Boy-"Yes'm."
4 Housewife = Well, after you have
cleaned off the. front walk and steps,
shall want you to make nice path
down to the well and through the or
chard, clean off the cellar doors, and
then bring up the water from the well
and few buckets of coal from down
stairs" Boy-"And then, ma'am, / sup
pose you'll want to have your grass
cut?"
Dodge City has only three grades of
society, according to recent arrival
from the west. The first, or 'aristoc-
racy," is composed of those who put
out their washing. The middle class"
does its own washing, and the ''lowest
class" is that which takes in washing.
This is the most simple and complete
distinction yet known, only it leaves
one large class unaccounted for-those
who think washing an unnecessary lux
ury.-Boston Post.
This discreet resolution was adopted
recently by the trustees of a school
house in Monticello, Ga: "Whereas,
the big hickory near the left hand of
Ben Hill academy being dead, and that
if it should fall on any of the children
between their seventh and seventeenth
year, and near the small of the back,
they should surely die therefore re-
solved that we hire an unbleached
American to raze the aforesaid hickory
tree to the ground"
"A man who is the father of eight
boys finds that they cost him suit of
clothes, from hat to shoes, once week
Children cost money, and most parents
find it is only a question of how much
they can or will spend on them. But
we have here in town mother who has
upset this rule. She has little boy
with an angelic face and she keeps him
before the camera half the time posing
him as a cupid or Fauntleroy or as
choir boy. The sale of his photographs
nets her $500 a year, and the worst of
it is she does not need the money.-N.
Y. Sun.
-"In God we trust first appeared on
the copper two-cent issue of 1864 and
is the first use of the word God in any
government act This sentence was
introduced by James Pollock, an eX-
governor of Pennsylvania, director OF
the mint with the approval of S. p.
Chase, then secretary of the treasury.
1t appeared on the 1866 issue of the
double-eagle, eagle, half-eagle, silver
dollar, half-dollar, and nickel fvc-cent
piece, in lieu of the long-eXisting motto
of h. P5urtbus Uaum. In the trade
dollar issue (1S73) both notices were
retained, SIN God we trust" appearing
on the diverse.
The New York County Medical So
ciety frequently brings into court per-
sons practicing medicine who have no
legal right to do so, not having diplo-
mas; and the convictions are quite nu-
merous. In recent case the offender
had been before the court once before,
but claimed that his lawyer had given
him n paper which purported to be a
decision reversing the former convic-
ton. The lawyer was shyster, who
is now serving term in the state prison
for forging divorce decree The Judge
said it was simply case of medical
shark falling into the hands of two
legal sharks and sentenced the bogus
doctor to imprisonment for 100 days in
the penitentiary, together with fine of
J 500.
{ Judge Richards, of Chicago, once
had a very exciting experience when he
was justice in Bosque county, Tex.
J One day, when prisoners were few, a
, little man was brought in by consta-
, BILE and two assistants for the offense of
/ carrying two revolvers. 81 told him"
said the justice "he must pay S25 and
} lose the weapons. At that the little
t fellow broke down and actually cried.