The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

gold fish at the central station of the
United States Fish Commission, ins
Washington, ID. c., has been exhausted,
no more will be issued before next fall.
Van Holstein, Jr. - saw - what
would you do, father if | gave up my
gay life, don't you know, and come to
settle down quietly at home?" Van
Holstein, Sr.-"Well, should feel
strongly inclined to kill calf. IN. Y.
Herald.
"A negro about dying was toid By his
minister that he must forgive certain
darlkey to whom he seemed to entertain
very bitter feelings. "Yca, Sah,' he
replied, ''if l dies, 3orgiv dat nigga,
but if gets we'll dat nigga must take
care"
The New Minister Fair Par
ishioner-"Isn't the new minister hand
somep" Second Ditto Ditto--"Isn't he,
though?" Third Ditto Ditto-They say
he's engaged to girl in Wayback"
Omnes-"The homely old thing. YAM
lxee Blade
"A short-sighted gentleman chooses
pair of spectacles "These glasses"
he says, 'are not strong enough for
me-" "But, sir, they are No. 3"
"What have you next to No. %" "No.
l." "And after that?" after No. 1,
sir, you will want dog!''
"A Birch Run, Mich, family sends
the children to the country school, sew
eral miles away, in peculiar manner.
1t has an eminently safe horse. The
children drive to school in the morning,
head the horse for home, and he
| t. Ia
is sent after them in the same driverless
way.
Beyond Its Power Photographic
Ito customer)-"O, yes, we can take
any thing with this instrument. 1t is a
very fine one" Customer-"Well, L
want a dozen cabinets and will call
around in thirty days and pay for them"
Photographist-'I beg your pardon, but
/ neglected to state that it would not
take risk like that. Washington
Star.
The Amateur Farmer.-"Mine is a
model farm" said Barrows. 81 raise
potatoes of all kinds. In this field
plant onions and potatoes together. Re-
suit, 300 bushels of lyonaise potatoes to
the acre. Over in that field planted
fifty bushels of potatoes. In the spring
l ran stone crusher over the surface.
Result, $50 bushels of mashed potatoes
, to the acre"
-Stiff.-Customer (rubbing his stiff
fened fingers)- )-"Whewl How is the
price of coal this weather?' Dealers
New Boy with stiff upper lip)-
=, "Purty stiff" Customer (bowing stiffly)
-"Huh! Stiff, eh? How's the coal?"
New Boy (stiffening up)-"Well, as it's
been layin' outside in all this frost and
snow, the GOALS purity stiff, too. IN.
Y. Weekly.
, More cabin passengers arrived al
r New York in 1890 on the ocean steamers
than ever before in the history of that
port. The steamers made a total oi
. 914 trips, bringing 90, 1S9 cabin and 371,.
593 steerage passengers. British steam
= ers made 1854 of the trips and landed
y 54971 cabin and 1859 steerage pas
= sengers. During the total 914 trips
there were 40 births, 63 deaths and II
suicides
Just the Samoa retired actor
says that nine out of ten men in the
u profession, no matter how good or bad
whether leading man or bQotblacl1 imag
inc that from ten to fifty females are
stuck on them in every town. Thil
feeling buoys them up when salaries
are in arrears, and gives them ambition
l. to take to the railroad track when thu
bust-up comes.-Detroit Free Press.
o Some of the most important date
: in American history are these: The dis
1 covery of America by Columbus, Octo
I Der 12, 1899; the landing of the Pilgrim
from the Mayfower, December 81. 1920
u the Declaration of independence, July 4
9 1776: the birth of Washington, Februar,
Il %, 1882; the death of Washington, De
a cember IA, 1899; the attack on For
e Sumter, April 10, 1861; the death o
II Abraham Lincoln, April 10, 1865, an,
the surrender of Lee at AppomattoX
y April o. 1865.
q The New York Star tells of : zcal
c who, in coming from Odessa, bloEgh
u with him small quantity of the les
y Turkish tobacco. Before leaving tn
u vessel he spread it out and folded it il
VI large silk handkerchiefs and placed
next the skin under his vest. This in n
II degree gave him a suspicious fullness
II but it was as much as he could do t.
n walk ashore and tear this horrible poul
IS tice from him. Tobacco thus applied i
: one of the most powerful of emetics.
u Kate Field abominates dotted O
y figured wells, and says they play int
e the hands of the oculists and opticians
II She is also rightly denouncing the re
e turn to walking skirts that drag on tn
= ground, She thinks American wome
living in our unclean cities can not al
ford to import this fashion, but she doe
Y, not protest with much courage, remarh
q ing, "The average city woman woul
e rather die than not be clothed in tn
ri the latest style" She further object
II to the slaughter of singing birds fo
u ladies' hats
| There was society wedding in
city not a dozen miles from the Stat
House. 1t was literally an immense al
n fair, of which local paper said that
D. mention those present would be to prin
l. the ''blue book" entire. One of tn
" guests, in looking over the vast array o
n presents on exhibition, said, "Why,
h don't see our present" What was it?
,s "Venus," she exclaimed, and, whe
"a asked whether it was an engraving @
,r statue, replied: "Why, it is one of tn
IS very latest Venuses, with no arms. -
d Boston Traveller.
n "A boy seventeen years old in Lon
l. land City has gone to Jail for 81
d months for the offense of kissing
n Young woman who didn't want to b