The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

safe to put grain OF salt on your re-
turned neighbours stories, however. just
the same. .-Somerville Journal
Affected the Millz.-"That COW is
awtully cross; don't go near her" 81
had some of her milk this morning"
"How do you know it was hers?" ut
was sour. Epoch.
-Fogg-"O, you are too hard on
f'limsley. He has his faults, but there
is one good thing about him" Brown
"And pray what is that?" Fogg-"He
ur--I can't recall il at just this mo-
ment. "-Boston Transcript.
Mr. Vernon Mount--"Yes, darling,
we can get along without a piano, but
we must have furnace, and l don't
know how we can afford it. Mrs.
Mount (who has been reared in luxury
81 tell you what we might do love.
We might pass our winters in Florida"
The statue of Commodore Perry in
Cleveland, having acquired such n heavy
coating of smoke and SCOT as TO render
it unsightly, was recently scrubbed, but
with the effect of making it look worse
than ever. The black came off the
'high lights, and the smudge is deep
ened in the shadows.
The appearance of the cruiser
Charleston in japanese waters created
great interest. On the day the vessel
was thrown open for inspection over
90, 900 people boarded her. The Ameri-
can officers found it difficult to convince
their Japanese friends that the cruiser
was not built in England.
-Parson-"Now Mr.. hounder, you
must admit you don't find any real en-
joyment in coming home in the early
morning hours and inventing stories to
tell your wife in order to account for
your absence" Rounder you're
right, Parson, don't like iuventing the
stories at all. / tell you it requires a
good deal of mental effort"
1t would seem from statements
made at a recent meeting of the scien-
tific committee of the Royal Horticul-
tural society, London, that some plants
can grow and develop in total darkness.
Amongst the evidence offered was the
statement that hyacinths, which by
some accident had been prevented from
coming above ground, developed colored
flowers.
-"The members of the British Dem
tai Association are unanimous as to two
great causes of the deterioration of
human teeth The first cause is the
lavish waste of teeth, many people hav-
ing them pulled out on the slightest
provocation. The second cause is the
starvation of teeth, the modern manner
in which food is prepared, together
with the scarcity of fish as an article of
diet, tending to eliminate the earthly
salts which nourish the teeth.
Several people in Louisville, con-
sumptives and persons of delicate con-
stitutions, daily visit the slaughter
houses of that city to drink the warm
blood of recently slain cattle. They
believe that it is invigorating and ex-
hilarating. At first the blood is nause-
Gus, but liking for it is soon acquired.
A half pint is the usual drink, but there
are some persons who readily imbibe a
quart within half an hour.
The duty of employers in the case
of sick workman was tried instruct
lively in a London city court. A tailor
engaged a man for month. He was
attacked with rheumatism and obliged
to stay away three days. When he came
back his place had been filed. He sued
for wages, and the judge found for him,
saying that when an employer engages
n man he must take the risk of the lat
ter being incapacitated by sickness.
-Hop-growin is one of the remuner
ative industries in the state of Washing
ton. The yield per acre is something
astonishing. To obtain $50 pounds OF
! ,fr & o..
yield among the hop-growers on this
side of the Rocky Mountains and in En-
gland and Germany; but an acre o.
ground in Oregon or Washington will
yield 1000 pounds. In 1890, O,OOO bales
of hops, equal to 5000, 900 pounds, were
sold in Washington.
-Timid farmers in the neighborhooc
of Genesee, Idaho, are apprehensive les
their farms may sink into a subterane
an lake. A man was recently digging
a well, and when he had gone dowI
sixteen feet water gushed out, filling
the we'll and flooding the surface of tn,
i ground. Finally it settled back to tn,
earth's level. A local paper says tina
peculiar sightless fish were brought t,
, the surface in the overflow, iudicatin!
| the existence of an underground lake.
l The fragments of fine marble
statue of the best period of Greek ar
have been found in the Tiber embanll
{ ment excavations. The head is of eX
traordinary beauty and well preserved
So far as the fragments have been pu
q together, the sculptor Monteverde ant
the painter Morelli pronounce tn,
statue to be chief deuvre of Greel
art. 1t will shortly be exhibited to th
public in the new museum in the Batl
of Diocletian, where other importan
5 objects lately found in the embanlimen
works are preserved.
{ No vegetable has undergone
greater development in the last genera
tion than the tomato. Persons who still
esteem themselves young well remem
I ber the time when the only tomato t.
, be seen were the small round or ova
ones called love apples and deemed il
edible. They seem to have been apprC
priated for BILE use first in this coun
try, for an old European traveller tell
how ne astonished his fellow diners at
, continental table dhote by eating tn
{ tomatoes placed on the table purely u
, garniture
"A clinometer is an instrument fo
I measuring the rolling of vessel at sea
, and it is usually in the cabin compan
+ ionway. When it indicates fifty-fiv
= degrees any one can easily understan
, that something unusual has happened
.