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

In his rambles a lad in Wintcrport,
Me-, found and brought home birds
nest containing four young birds. The
mother bird watched the removal with
much interest and anxiety. and every
day entered the house through the win
dow, bringing food with which she fed
the young birds. When the window
CHANGED to be closed, the visitor tapped
on the glass until il was opened.
1t is proposed to signal the planet
Mars by marking out right-angled
triangle on the desert of Sahara in the
hope that the inha bitants of the planet
will respond with the Pythagorcan fig
ures of three squares built on the sides
of the tri0 angle. What's the matter with
the less scientific but more popular plan
of signalling with the figure of white
horse and letting Mars answer with n
red-headcd girl?
While i'shing in Hogan Creek. near
Lawrenceburg, Ind, Samuel Latin saw
the tail of fish protruding from be-
meath a rock in the water. To get at
1t he removed the rock, and discovered
nest of young musllrats. Their cries
brought to the scene number of old
muskrats, which attacked him so Wig
orously, biting him on his neck, face,
and limbs, that he fed. His injuries
proved very severe, and blood-poisoning
resulted, causing death.
"A New York boy, poorly dressed,
occupied an expensive seat while eating
piece of pie. He had just bought the
pie at street-stand, and seeing five lit.
tie oak barrels on the sidewalk near the
sub-treasury, in Wall street, he coolly
took seat upon one of them. The keg
contained ten canvas bags, and each
bag held $1,000 in gold. An officer OF
the sub-treasury, who saw the perform.
ance, enjoyed it so much that he didnot
disturb the boy until he had eaten his
pie.
An Eng .ishman, who recently
passed through New York City on his
way home from Australia, whittier hc
went to give advice upon the subject o
the rabbit pest, describes that particu
lar curse as something beyond the i'm
ngination of those who have not seen it
When rabbits descend upon planta
tion in swarms, as they frequently do
ton. The returning traveller is manu-
featuring two hundred miles of wir
netting per day for use as fencin,
against the incursions of Australian
rabbits.
An individual described as 'gen
tleman of the old school, sah," passet
through Rome, Ga, some time ago. IL
was long, bony man, riding tall
black mule. He wore new suit O
"thunder and lightning" cloth, made ol
his own loom, and big white sombrer,
with leather band around it. A vel
low beard reached from his chin nearl,
to the pommel of his saddle. On hi
back was strapped long, old-fashionet
fowling piece. and pack of dogs fol
lowed at his heels.
"A benevolent looking woman
stopped in a crowd where man wa
playing hand organ, with a monlte,
dancing on the sidewalk. Poor littl
man." she said pityingly, and taking on
u well-filled pocket book, she gave tn
monkey a dime. Then every body els
gave something and the organ-grinder
having reaped his harvest, bowed lov
to the kind woman and moved along t.
the next street corner where the sam
play was enacted, the benevolent wo
man going snacks with the musician. -
Detroit Free Press.
The most novel and expensive col
lection of autographs in the country,
not in the world, is that of Philadel
phia merchant. Every one is worth a
| 1aoSt or1 thn,,o o,.l &c
of them. He began about five year
ago to collect So bills containing tn
signatures of the different nationa
bank presidents of the United States
He has now nearly $3.50, 900 tied up il
this queer scheme, and declares tina
his collection is not complete by man,
thousands of dollars yet. He is willing
to give 500 for S. bill bearing the sig
nature of man who was at one tim
president of a certain short-lived ban
in Ohio.
The Swiss watch trade has under
gone complete transformation durin
the past fifteen years, owing to tn
work being done in large manufacture
instead of at the homes of the watch
makers. The result is that there ar
much better watches at less cost, an
greater sales. There are schools 70
teaching matchmaking at Geneva, Neu
chatel, La ChauX des Fonds, Locle
Bienne, st. Imier and Porrentruy. Ii
the last six years the number of watche
exported from Switzerland has in
creased from 2,734, 234 in 1885 to 4, 431,
sol last year, these figures not including
the works and cases exported ser
arately. Altogether, the value of tn
exports last year is calculated at $40
900, 600.