The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


vusly impaired by spiders attaching
their webs to the lines and drawing
them toward the wall, often with suffi-
cient tension TO introduce material err
rors in the position of the plumb bobs.
The wounds made by the new small
caliber army rifles close quickly and
heal readily, showing wonderfully little
destruction of the soft tissues The
next Improvement will probably result,
it is said in the bullets being cased in
hard metal so as to prevent spreading
and laceration.
There must be myriads OF fish liv.
ing in the depths or the sea whose form
and characteristics we can never even
guess at, for should specimens be sue.
cessfully hooked they would burst into
pieces before they could be brought to
the surface, being relieved of the extra
ordinary pressure upon which they ex-
list.
st Charles, Mo-, is in worse posi-
tion than any of the towns in Massa-
chusetts. 1t has two willing and wait
ing young women to every marriage
able man in it's population, and when
bashful young fellow wants to go out
for an evenings walk he has generally
TO carry his grandmother along to see
that he isn't eloped with.
-"Can you manage a typewriter?'
asked one married lady of another
"Can manage a typewriter? / should
say so. l made three leave my hus-
bands Office within the last two
months, and the last is SO homely that
John is almost afraid of her The man
agemept of typewriter is an art, but
I've got it down fine. ."-Demorest's
Magazine.
"A Brunswick, Ga, newspaper makes
this effective and pathetic editorial ar
raignment and appeal, which would
seem to be worth several columns of
particularized condemnation: Ladies
and gentlemen, as you pass down New
castle street will you please look at the
court house! Is that such building as
Glyn county ought to have in Bruins
wick?"
-Why?-Sweet Girl-"Oh! papa, why
are there so many poor people and we
are so rich?" Rich Father-"My child,
it is nature; nature is full of such i'll.
equalities! Everything is unequally
distributed my dear-for instance
in the sea there are millions of dollars
worth of salt, and not single cents
worth of pepper-Why?"-D
Magazine
The accomplishments and acquire
ments of Hieronymus Lorm, Germanys
blind poet, are remarkable wheu it is
known that ever since the age of fifteen
he has been bereft of the senses of sight
and hearing. He was born in Austria,
but when young man was driven from
Vienna on account of his political writ
ings. Going to Berlin he made himself
widely known and influential
"A farmer near Columbus, Ga, has
two turkey hens and one gobbler The
hens made nests about seventy-five
yards apart in melon patch and went
to setting. The gobbler got lonesome
and concluded that the proper thing for
him to do was to set also. He got an
equal distance between the two turkey
hens, squatted over guinea water
melon and set six weeks before he was
discovered
President F. R. Webster of the Mar
in county (Cal) Country club has
started remarkable immigration
scheme. A subscription paper has been
circulated among the gentlemen far
mers, and it is proposed with the pro-
ceeds to import from Germany 200 pairs
of slxylarks, bullfnches, nightingales
and thrushes. 1t costs about $3.50 to i'm
port hundred pairs of these birds, but
Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo and Sacra-
mento counties are pursuing Marin
county's example.
The late Calmann Levy, the Paris
publisher, was acquainted with nearly all
the famous French writer's for the last
half century, and his house enjoyed al
most monopoly of the dramatists. He
was the last of four brothers who were
associated in the book trade, and he in
herited fortune of $S, 900, 600 from his
brother Michael, the originator of the
firm. The average annual output of
Calmann Levy's presses was 1924, 900
volumes and $500 900 periodicals, and
he kept going IA paper mills 80 print
ing-houses, Is binderies and various
other factories and workshops. -Har-
per's Weekly.
"A post mortem on the remains of
Charles G. Barowsky, who died recently
at Sioux City, Iowa, revealed the re-
markable fact that he had lived for the
past twenty-nine years with bullet in
his brains. He was shot with revol-
yer during the war, but recovered.
Since then he had never been able to
lie on the right side or to stoop over
without violent pains in his head. The
doctors found that the bullet had gone
through the eye to the upper part of
the head and turned downward and
lodged near the base of the skull, where
it had become encysted. The most
vital parts of the brain were traversed
by the ball, and how the man lived is a
mystery.
Many of the older residents of this
section remember the late Dr. Warner,
of New Milford, and will appreciate
this little story, says the Danbury
News. When DIR. Warner was stu
dent at Yale he used to come home Sat
urday nights and retnrn to New Haven
Mondays. That was before the days of
railways, and, as stage coaches did not
leave New Milford Monday mornings
for New Haven, young Warner used to
mount his fathers horse and ride to
Yale on horseback. There were sew
eral toll gates on the route, and at each
Warner would pay the return toll for
his horse. Arriving at Yale he would
affiX to the bride a card bearing these
words: "Please not stop this horse"