The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Flags and Flags. -Wishlctts--"We
had flag raising in front of our house
the other day" Bishlets-"Getting pa
triotic?" Wishlets-"O, no, there was
leak in the water pipe and they had
to take up the sidewalk. "-BrooSlyn
Eagle
Two cooks of Ashland, Ore, one a
negro and the other Chinaman. in
dulged in novel contest few days
ago TO sec which could clean chicken
in the shortest time. The celestial won
in twenty seconds and the fowl was still
kicking after being denuded of its
feathers.
"A Fourth of July sham battle on
the Pacific coast was made realistic be.
yond intention by the conduct of
cadet, who became panic stricken, ran
home and told the folks that one of the
opposing forces had wiped out the other
and was coming into town to massacre
the women and children.
There is six-year-old Chinese girl
in San Francisco that has blue eyes and
haxen hair. That she is full blooded
Chinese was established in the course
of unsuccessful proceedings recently
taken by the authorities to have her
taken away from her parents on the
ground that she was white child.
"A woman in Cleveland went to a
chiropodist and told him she was affiict-
cd with an in-growing toe nail. He di-
agnosed the boot she wore and found a
roll of bills worn to fragments in tho
toe She paid him his fec and sent the
money to Washington to be redeemed.
She declares she must have hidden il
there in her sleep.
"A horse in Macomb, Mich, has been
used to go to church every Sunday with
his owner for years. Last Sunday, for
reasons best known to himself he left
the horse at home, and after services
went out and there stood the faithful
animal in his accustomed place by the
church, waiting for him, but without
[ the carriage.
Count Taafe, the Austrian prime
minister, is almost as taciturn a man as
| Grant was. He is sparng Of his words,
| so that when he does speak in the
| chamber he is listened to with unusual
interest. He dresses most plainly and
in cool weather is usually wrapped up
in gray overcoat, with gray slouch
hat on his head
President Carnot expends from
$1,000 to IS, 900 each time that he gives
a grand fete, such as society expects
him to furnish three or four times dur
ing the fashionable Paris season. His
official dinners for twenty-four people
at time cost about 500 each. A din
ner, followed by an open reception and
dance, costs from s., 800 to 81, O0O All
these expenses come out of the allow
ance of 625, 900 francs annually provided
by the nation.
-"Waiter!' "Yaas. sah" "Havc
you some nice wheat cakes and maple
syrup" "Yaas, sab; but, boss, I'd wise
you not to eat 'em now" "Why not?"
"Bettah wait sab, till it's leetle
darker. De gloamin' is da bes' time
fob to cat dem wheat cakes an maple
syrup, sah." "Why?" well. you see,
sab, de red ants done got into that
maple syrup an it's good deal pleas
niger to eat it just after dusk, sah."
Detroit Free Press.
Felix l.. Swald maintains that night
air from the outside is far more health
full than the vitiated, disease-laden night
air of ordinary human dwellings In
Germany successful experiments have
been tried in summer of having patients
with pulmonary disorders sleep all
night in the open air of the pine woods.
Night air is no more harmful than day
air. At any rate it is all we have to
breathe at night, and it had better be
fresh and pure as possible,
-Tartlets: Make paste with ounce
of butter, two ounces of flour, the yolll
of an egg, little water, pinch of salt.
Mix and roll out to thickness of half an
inch and line some small pans with it..
Take two ounces of finely grated cheese,
beat it up in bowl with the yollzs of
two eggs, Add pepper, salt, cayenne
and nutmeg, according to taste-very
little of the two latter will do. Then
work in three tablespoonfuls of cream,
fill each pattypan with the mixture and
bake in the oven until done. Detroit
Free Press,
1t is estimated that the British
mines will be exhausted in less than 600
to 800 years. 1t is further calculated
that drawing upon only one of her
fields, the Westphalian, Germany will
not exhaust that before the end of the
twenty-seventh century but that by the
beginning of the year 5000 the big coal
fields of Bavaria and the Aachen and
the Silesian districts will also be en-
tirely used up. What will Europe do
for fuel then? Fall back on the timber
supply of course. But the timber will
also be thing of the past
"A young lady's exploits mentioned
by the Portland Oregonian: "A few
days since Mr.. Kahn, the fur dealer,
while driving out of Empire City, Coos
Bay, met young lady riding into town
with rifle in her hand and the carcass
of bear strapped across the horse be-
hind her saddle The young lady was
Miss Charlotte Nichols, of Empire City,
who had started out to visit place her
father owns in the country and took her
rifle along, and meeting the bear, shot
it. She is quite an expert with the
rifle, having killed a number of deer.
"A Farmers Idea.-A farmer and
his wife, who had been doing Central
park the other day, stopped at the Fifth
avenue entrance as they came out and
turned for last look. Mice, isn't it?'
said the wife. "Purty darned fine, and
no mistake" he heartily replied.
whats it wuth?" "Wall, that's hard
TO say, as l don't know what land
fetches by the acre round here, but I'll