The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A swordfish marketed in New Bed
ford, Mass, has embedded in it's flesh
the head of harpoon that is supposed
TO have been there twenty years.
From the summit of Mt. Rose in
Nevada, 10000 feet above the sea level,
the waters of twenty-one lakes may be
seen glistening among the forests of the
Sierras
In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears
and nostrils are all set on the same
plane, which enables the animal to
sink its body entirely below the sur
face of the water and yet keep thor
ougly informed as to it's surroundings.
"A house still standing in Chicopee,
Mass, is reported TO be two hundred
and twenty-five years old, and is proba-
bly, the oldest dwelling in the common
wealth. 1t is in good state of preser-
walton and its present owner has occu-
pied 1t fifty-seven years continuously.
I'm the United States oranges and
lemons are produced only in California
and Florida. The. orange crop of the
latter is practically out of the way be-
fore before that of the former is ready
lOl OllC luhIhCbs llC SdlllOllilh vi dhB u
is of slower growth than the Florida
product and does not decay so soon.
The skewer was formerly used as a
kind of tally-stick, and it continues to
find similar employment at Lyons,
where the butchers rarely fail to stick
in the middle of piece of meat small
wooden cylinder announcing by so
many notches what every housewife
knows 10 be the exact weight of the
meat.
The hide of the former Cincinnati
elephant, Old Chief, which was shot
last February, has been stuffed, and
with the mounted skeleton of the brute
will be housed in special building al
the Cincinnati geological garden. The
hide weighed one thousand one hun
dred pounds, and it has been stuffed
with oalSum.
"A dentist, whose stories are always
founded on fact, tells of negro who
came to him with his wife to have one
of her teeth extracted. Gas being
something whose mysteries added ter
ror to it's charms, the solicitous darlley
questioned: Couldn't you gibe he
suffin little milde'rn gas, doctah
Couldn't you gibe her gasoline?"-Phar
| maceutical Era.
in an old Sag Harbor paper of th'
year 1904 appears the following: "Th'
husband of pious woman having occa
sion to make voyage, his wife sent ;
note TO the parson to be read the mex
Sabbath in meeting: Jim Kenny having
gone to see his wife desires the prayer
of the congregation that he may merci
fully be preserved from danger 1t i
to be presumed that the good lady
photography and punctuation were no
altogether correct"
Flexible sandstone is one Of tn,
curiosities found in North Carolina TIL,
quarries are in the mountains of tn
southwestern corner of the state, ant
the stone is taken out more as curl
osity than for any other purpose, thougl
it is sometimes employed in building
When cut in n thin piece, say the siz
and shape of a common milestone, yo1
can bend it into a considerable arc with
out its breaking, and it will resume it
former straightness on the pressure be
ing removed. Of course, if you bend i
too far, it will break.
---"Buffalo Bills" father was shot b.
border rutfians while making a fre
state speech near Leavenworth, Kan
in the fifties. He died in 1856 and wa
buried in metallic casket in Noun
Aurora cemetery of that city. A stand
ing reward of $500 has been offered TO
ten years to the person finding tn
grave. Recently quarrymen dug up a
iron coffin on the site of the old GENE
terry. The corpse was in fair state Of
preservation and answered the descrip
ton of w. +. Cody's father 1t tool
eight men to lift the burden.
The homestead law of Texas some
times acts harshly to creditors. A lei
ter from Austin says that cattlema
failed short time ago and the creditor
took possession of the property, subjec
to attachment. The mans family liv
in house for which they have been O.
fered $50, 900. The price asked is S75
600. This is made possible by the pt
culiar homestead exemption law {
Texas. The homestead can not be take
for debt. And the homestead is define
to be piece of ground costing not MOI
than S., 600 and whatever improvement
there may be thereon. In this case til
residence is the finest in the city wher
it is located. 1t is one of the finest
Texas. 1t cost more than $50, 900, but
is entirely out of the reach of the cret
itors of the estate.