The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

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potato crop in Ireland occurred in 1914,
1916, 1929, 1881 and 1896.
After being separated for eighteen
years farmer in Washington County,
Pa, has found his son b. means of n
wedding notice
Boy -"Say, mister, please give me
five cents worth of castor oil, and give
me very short measure, too" Druggist
-"Short measured Why?" Boy-"Why,
I've got to take it myself. brooklyn
Life.
"A Missouri constable overhauled
tramp on the highway and demanded
his surrender. The tramp pulled a re-
volver, and each man fred six times at
a distance of ten feet and nobody was
hit. Being mutually disgusted each
went his way.-Detroit Free Press
| William Bachelor, wealthy and
eccentric resident of Coshocton, o., re-
Gently died. When the will was pro-
bated it was found that he had cut off
his nephew without cent because the
latter's wife had at one time objected to
his smoking in her pnrlor.
The fretful porcupine is said to have
an inordinate fondness for chewing
leather, which it regards as one of the
daintiest of esculents. jim Gibbons,
the blacksmith, of Stockport, N. Y,
declares that a porcupine ate more than
half of his bellows in q single night.
--Boomtown Citizen-"O, we have
fine class of citizens here. Our Jail is
empty and has been for a month" Visi-
tor-"Yes, judged from the gangs l
have seen around the saloons that your
Jail was either empty or so full it could
not hold aay more. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
-Wooden-"Wel, you can say what
you choose, don't like Sneaker"
Edgely-''Why, he's very fine fellow,
polite and accommodating. Wooden
"Yes, he is polite enough, no doubt, to
your face, but he's one of those fellows
who will cut your throat behind your
back. Boston Courier.
Pedestrian (halting before McFad-
denis chestnut-roasting establishment
-"Looll here, don't like those chest
nuts l got from you just now. Every
other one had worm in it," McFad-
den-"Faix, an it's obleeged to ye Oi
am for letting me know. Oil go over
me stock, bedad, an throw livery other
wan away, Oh will. ."-IIarper's Bazaar.
Take back the heart thou gavest!'
"Why should l take it oack?' There
was hush of expectancy and the lis
teners leaned far out over the veranda
to catch the dying note of Loves lyric.
Because" came the reply, waited
softly on the wings of evening-"be-
cause the boarders won't eat it." 1t was
the butcher.-The Epoch.
Fill tumbler with water, put a
sixpence in it, and, holding plate over
the top, turn it upside down. The six
pence will fall down on the plate and
appear to be a shilling, while at the
same time sixpence will seem to be
swimming in glass This can also be
done with q twenty-five cent piece.-G.
Ben White, in Sunday Hour
November, 1T40, was ushered in by
one of the most furious and fatal gales
of the century. Between Boston and
Lynn sixty ships and upward lay
wrecked. At Whitby. the damage done
both at sea and ashore was incredible,
and from the Firth of Forth to the
mouth of the Thames there was scarce
port or fishing village escaped without
damage and loss of life.
"A young son of Richard T. Dana,
of cambridge, was asked by one of his
companions if he didn't think the story
of Jonah and the whale was funny. He
replied that it couldn't be funny because
it was in the Bible. Speaking to his
) mother about it later, however, he told
her what he had said, adding: "But
honestly, do think it was funny, don't
: you?"-Cambridg Tribune.
"A Boston girl at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art of this city was going
into raptures over the figures in one of
the halls. SO, Ethel! see these wonder
full marble statues, think Of the ages
that they have watched go by, note the
; beautiful brown tinge that age has
given them. Beautiful Their brother
five minutes later; "Why, girls, 1
,, have been looking all over for you.
/ Come, let's get away from these plaster
casts"
Systems for distributing power in
cities from central station are coming
more into use every day. Steam, cleo
, tricity and compressed air are the com.
mon agents, but Paris has system which
is the reverse of that employing COM
pressed air. The motors operate by a
= vacuum, created by immense air pumps
!, , at the central station. The cost per
,, horse power per hour is twenty-three
cents, about the same as with the ordi-
! nary gas engine, when Illuminating gas
! is used :,
: A gentleman from the interior,
whose nautical vocabulary is more ex-
tensive than his actual knowledge of
things pertaining to the sea, while at
, the house of a retired sea captain, heard
= = a clock in an adjoining room strike
: eight, when he knew it must be about
! noon. He looked at his watch, and,
sure enough, it was just twelve o'clock,
and he said to the old salt: Captain,
your clock must be making stern-way,
i isn't it?" NO" said the Captain, II
guess not. / reckon she's just about
holding her own" This impression was
confirmed by glance at his watch, and
then the captain kindly explained that
/ the clock was made to strike the bells
} as they are heard aboard ship.-N. Y.
2 Sun.
l -"The steeple ought to go" was an
opinion given by Christian neophyte
t while looking at the picture of new
| churches with lofty steeples in the New
| York Sun 'If all the money" he said,
7 ''that is wasted in building useless
, steeples were devoted to the propaga-
! ton of the Gospel among the heathen