The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

meal, TWO cuptulS OF nOur, one Cupful
of molasses, one cupful of sour milk,
one teaspoonful of soda, salt Bake in
sheet.--Good housekeeping
--She-"I notice that you are always
glancing at the clock" He-"Good
graciousl You don't suspect for a mo-
ment that l am weary OF your com
pany?" She-"No, but suspect that
you have pawned your watch, HUI
morist
The first six months during which
the Brooklyn bridge was open 1000, 900
passengers crossed In 1854 the total
was s, 800, 900; in 1885, II, 900, 900; in 1886,
"a, 600, 600; in 1887 2s,0OO,OOO; in 1888,
1000, 600; in 1889, "a, o0O O0O in 1890, 81
6T6, All.
He had stayed and stayed the night
before until the girl was mad enough
to say anything, and she did the next
day when she met him. al had per-
fectly delightful time at your house
last night" he murmured, when he met
her. "Time?" she said curtly. 'It was
more like eternity. IN. Y. Telegram.
The elevated railroads in New York
City, which cost less than S17 900, 900.
are stocked and bonded for more than
$50, 600, 600. The steam railroads in the
country cost, on paper, SO, 091, 453 146, of
which two-ffths represents water. The
street railroads of the country-horse,
cable and electric-have not cost over
$4,000 per mile, but they are stocked
and bonded up to about S400. 600
Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace,
of Newcastle, Pa, We're out hunting
frogs the other day and captured a
creature not described in the books. 1t
is a frog with wings and tail some
thing like fantail pigeon. 1t weighs
exactly nine ounces The wings are
composed of elastic-lil1e skin, and when
stretched out measured nine inches
from tip 70 tip. When the frog bird is
in the water the wings and tail fit
closely to the body and are hardly no.
ticeable.
"A little oblong steel box opening
with a combination lock passed through
the Chicago custom-house recently, con-
signed to an Illinois watch company.
This insignificant looking affair con-
tained diamonds and rubies by the hun
dreds that We're intended for settings
for watches. The value of the stones
was placed = $50, goo, and the duty on
them was a small fortune. The goods
were delivered by a special messenger.
Nine. Tilma Perlergin painted the
last portrait that was ever taken of
Molthe. After she had put the finish
ing touches to the counts portrait she
received the compliment from him that
he considered the portrait the best that
had ever been painted of him. When
the lady said that she was proud to
have been allowed to put a piece of his
tory of the world on her canvas,
Noltlle replied, with his old-world
courtesy, And L madam, see in the
portrait piece of the history of art.
Probably the maddest race for life
that ever happened in San Francisco
was that of a sleepy old nag whose
hitching strap in some way was caught
in the cable slot of a street railway.
The animal was obliged to run as fast
as the rapid transit cable pulled him,
until the strap was cut in twain by
coming in contact with a cross cable.
The horse was holding back so hard
that the reaction throw him on his
lunches, and before he could recover
his equilibrium half hundred citizens
We're holding him down.
"A Baltimore freak is frog of good
size and trifle light in color, but APP
parently not different from any other
frog The frealiishness developed when
his frogship was worried, when, in
stead of hopping off or giving utterance
to the deep, sonorous note usually
heard from frogs, he simply opened his
mouth and cried. The frog is nothing
if not human, and suggests both in tone
and volume bad, peevish child The
cry is not a single note, bat several, and
is continued even after the annoyance
ceases
The four cables OF the Brooklyn
bridge are sixteen inches in diameter
each and consist of about 10000 single
wires. One difficulty with which the
engineers of the Brooklyn bridge had
to contend with was the fact that the
: outside or exposed wires We're expanded
by the heat of the sun, while the inner
and protected ones were not so af-
fected The pressure of the wind, too,
being of varying velocity, required such
adjustment of the wires as to prevent
displacement, even in hurricane 1t
took fifteen months continual work to
string the wires of the bridge.
Children are born mimics, as every
poiy hhoWS, Duu IlSEt ndDpliy lS SOlle-
thing unique in the pranks of two Port
; land, Me-, babies, each under five years
old, who recently got hammer, broke
in square of glass, and crawled
through the hole thus made into a Port
; land residence, and there amused them
; selves by lighting matches and rum
< maging over drawers and boxes, finally
: emerging with gold bracelet in each
of the juvenile pockets When their
1 mothers called for an account of their
movements they calmly announced tha5
e they had been playing burglars.
g -Wellsville, O., has wonderful,
monstrocity. 1t is a female pig, abops
2 eight inches in length, entirely, devoic
: of hair, has double set of eyes, feet
like the hands of human, distinct fn-
e ger nails, large ears and the lower part
of the face like a human, The most
t peculiar part of the freak is the upper
part of the face, which looks like an
n elephant 1t has a long trunk project
ing from the middle of the head, which
turns backward and lays between the
two ears, and in the end of which are
n two large holes, through which the air
or breathing takes place. The nose
). proper has no holes on either side, and
4 resembles human nose The chin is
as perfect as a child at birth possesses.