The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

States the incidents of his visit were
pictured on teapots and sugar bowls.
Thomas Walker, of National City,
Cal, exhibited ten big onions, the prod
uct of his farm, in the San Diego cham
ber of commerce few days ago. The
largest onion weighed five pounds, and
the aggregate weight was twcnty-four
pounds,
AN offensive odor came from a
trunk at railroad station in Newark,
N. j., and it was therefore supposed to
contain clews to mystery pehaps a
murder The trunk was opened, and in
It were found some wearing apparel
and dozen ancient eggs, which rough
handling of the trunk had broken.
Estimated at IL pounds II COW daily,
the United States produces 150,00O,00O,-
900 pounds of milk a year And as
three pounds oflmillS are equivalent TO
one pound of beef in food elements,
each inhabitant has in milk one and a
half beeves annually; whereas, in beef,
each inhabitant has only four-ifths of
one beef per capita.
Miss Braddon, since 1862, when her
first novel ('Lady Audleys Secretly
was published, has written fifty novels.
representing in the original editions 1856
Volumes or about so, 600 pages of printed
matter. Her average is almost two
novels year, almost six volumes a
year; almost 1000 pages a year; and
therefore almost six pages day for
each day during all these thirty years"
1t is said that between the island
~ Madagascar and the coast of India
there are 10000 islands, only 600 of
which are inhabited. On any of these
islands a man can live and support his
working more than twenty-five days in
the year. In fact, on some of these ISL
ands he need not work at all, as nature
provides the food and no clothes are re-
quired.
When Louis Paulsen and Paul
Morphy became acquainted at the New
York Chess congress of 1851 they fre-
quently took short trips together in
the vicinity. 1t was their custom, when
travelling, to amuse themselves by
mental games of chess. Each would
announce his move in turn, and both
would retain in their minds eye the
ever-changing positions of the chess
men. A chess board was not necessary
when they desired to engage in the
game of which they were masters
An Augusta, Me-, man, who rs the
proprietor of hair tonic, is getting up
somo testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public. One of his friends who
loves joke sent him this very sweep
ing Endorsement, which may be printed
on the outside of tho book cover and
may not: Dear Sir: A few days ago
accidentally spilled some of your hair
hatcher on the straw mattress at my
lodgings, and when l returned home /
found a hair mattress"
-Dolan (holding hand to nose) -
"Murther Murther But phat's ailin'
the cloimate! Is it nortifoyin' OF
wondher?" Woodman "Why, you
greenhorn, don't you know skunk
but it's a skoonlt is it that's maxim the
atmosphere so conshpickyous? Well,
now, its mes'lf as do be sayin' it, that
aither me nose do be igzageratin' the
sittywation or the gintleman sadly
neglicts his BIRTH. Boston Courier.
"A genius at Muhlenberg, Pa, has
! completed a marvellous clock for ex-
hibition at the fair. Around the dial is
a railway track, on which miniature
| locomotive makes the round every FIVE
minutes, 1t requires magnifying glass
| to see the delicate machinery. The oil
cups at the journals are so small that
nothing larger than hair can be in
serted. There is headlight and bell,
on ha nil lnt 81
everything connected with a locomotive.
1t has link motion under the engine
to reverse it. The weight of the loco
motive is n pounds.
"A mean young man in Cheboygan
has little mirror in the corner of his
hat. Pasted beside the mirror is list
of people who have recently been poi
| soned by ice cream. When he is out
strolling with a young lady, he tells
her she has little specl1 on her face,
and takes off his hat to enable her to
| view her face in the mirror. 20, now
it's gone" he says: but by this time she
has seen the record of the poisoned peo-
pie, and reads it. She shuns ice cream,
and the mean young man saves his
shekels.
The earliest reference to RAILWAYS
on the plan of making distinct surface
and track for wheels is found in Roger
North's Life of Lord Keeper North"
where it is stated that at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, in 1876, the Goals were conveyed
from the mines to the banks of the
river 'by laying rails of timber exactly
straight and parallel, and bulky carts
were made with four rollers fitting
those rails, whereby the carriage was
made so easy that one horse would
draw four or five chaldrons.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells a
curious after-the-fair story. A man
from Oxford county had lost railroad
coupon ticket to the fair and had in
] quired at the ticket office if one had
been found. One had been found, but
how were they to know that it was his?
He asked to look at it and it was shown
to him. He said: ut is mine. can
prove it. See, the face of it has been
torn off. Look here" And he opened
his vest pocket and showed hearty
cud of gum and the face of a railroad
coupon sticking to it The two matched
and the ticket was passed. over TO hirl.
Probably the youngest bona-fide
editor in America is Tello d'Apery, the
14-year-old boy, who occupies that posi-
tion on the Sunny Hour, New York
monthly. The not insignificant profits
OF the publication are devoted to the