The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.


be accompanied by apple sauce, and by
mashed potatoes and mashed turnips.
"A Great Change. --He--'I intend to
lead a better life henCeforth. hope to
succeed in time. II takes time, OF
course" She-"Yes, IL takes time to
bring about great changes. Yankee
Blade.
According tosuperstitIon corpse can
dies are no other than human souls
dancing over the graves where their
bodies lie, or the souls of dead relatives
coming to fetch those who are to reioin
them.
Rita was riding one day on very
crooked road, that went winding and
dodging up hill and down dale in an
eccentric fashion OF it's own. At last
much resignation, saying: well, I
never did saw such a curly roadl"--
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"A perplexing suit, involving pro-
fessional secrecy, has been before the
Paris Society Of Public Medicine. A
suburban practitioner called in to at
tend patient suffering from scarlet
fever advised the landlord to disinfect
the house. This was done and the
landlord sued the patient to recover the
cost The patient thereupon sued the
doctor for breach of professional secrecy,
and it is thought that he will win his
case.
Winfield Scott Hancock Doran, the
phenomenal boy smoker, died recently
in Trenton, N. j., in the fifth year of
10 Iic do ,Atp
the use OF the weed, however, but from
an attack of virulent diphtheria. He
had been sick only week. His mother
says that he had smoked from the time
he was seven months old. She kept
boarders, and the men used to take him
upon their knees while they were smok-
ing their pipes and give him a few puffs.
The Maine Mrs. Partington is still
on deck One lady just returned from
Boston informs the neighbors that she
rode ''up stairs in a refrigerator, and
had her clothes washed at foundry"
An old lady in Bath recently mortified
her relatives intensely. At a grand din
ner she overheard lady guest politely
answer to the wielder of the carving
knife that 'it was immaterial which
portion she had" A luscious slice was
passed up to her, and our old lady after
an appreciative glance guessed she
would have a small hunk off'n the inn
material"
An amusing incident is reported in
the Vledomosti of Kharkov An Egyp-
tian mummy was brough to that city for
exhibition. The Tariff Commissioners
we're at a loss about the import duty to
be levied on it, as no such ware is speci-
fed in theircatalogue. Atlast they found
in one of their catalogues a certain paint
which is called mummy. Thereupon
they decided to have the Egyptian piece
of antiquity weighed and to levy on it
the tax due on its weight in paint A
similar incident, says the same paper,
occurred in another city of the empire.
A skeleton was imported from Germany.
The tax gatherers, not knowing to what
class of goods it belonged, decided to
put it down among the things that had
once been in use"
Says rounder of New York res
taurant: "An infall ible recipe for de-
stroying any fear you may have of the
waiter is contained in four words: Look
life that had a pres entable pair of pedal
extremities. He may be bland, suave,
clean-shaven, Gle ar-eyes, clad in snowy
linen, and the ma ster of supercilious
manner. If you feel that he is cowing
you at all glance at his feet. You will
find that his trousers are ragged and
turned up at the bottom, and that he
wears an enormous pair of rusty shoes,
and that they are as, hilly and ridgy as
the boots of the equity old uncle in the
old-time comedies. After this you may
look him in the eye with absolute fear
lessness."
1t is fact known to the close OBJ
servers of Chinese life in New York that
some of the Cinnamon here have fallen
into the way of quaffing lager beer at
times. 1t is not their habit, however,
to quaff it in the beer saloons, where it
costs five cents mug They like to
get it more cheaply by buying it in
bigger measure, or by the pint, quart or
half gallon, and there has been at least
one case in which Chinaman bought as
much as a gallon at a time, all of which,
however, was not consumed by pagans
of his race. 1t IS learned on high
authority that Cinnamon IOathe the
taste and smell of lager when first they
try -, drink it, and it is only by perse-
vering efforts that any of them become
able to do so. They are too thrifty to
spend much cash upon it, and it is re-
ported that pint will serve as whole
days supply for three or four consumers.