The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

get up in the world In minute No
body can walk half so fast up hill as
coming down"
"A Preference for Pop. like
corn, Miss Flypp," said young Hunlser,
as she muncheda roasting ear" Eyes,
/ like this kind Of corn pretty well, but
prefer pop corn."-Detroit Free-Press.
what is the matter, MaryT'
"Somciln awfuls happened, mammal
'"Well, my dear, what is t?' MY
d--doll--baby got away from me, and
bwolicd plate out in the pantwy."
1t is predicted that in the course Of
time Northern 7'hibet will become a
second California, perhaps even richer
than the I'll st in precious metals lying
in the soil over the vast surface of the
desert land.
Mrs. Wceds-"Dear Mr.. Hanks will
not remarry; he has burned the bridges
behind him" Mrs. Willing-"How SOP"
Mrs. ..Weeds--"Givena all his money to
charity."--N. Y. Herald.
"A Satisfactory Patient.--Family
doctor-"Well, my little man, and how
are you this rnorningg' Young hope
ful-"O, nursey says Pm ever so much
normaller to-dayl--London Punch.
a--'I expect 10 see the time when
electricity will be used for all cooking
and heating purposes, remarked Van
Braam. "Then l suppose bakers will
sell ohm-made bread" added Dind-
ddie.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
-ApproXimating to the Custom
"Bruddern, rs so indisposed wild de
ruinatiz dis mawnin' / finds myself un-
able to stan up an talk to ye, an SO l
AK de congregation ter stan up instid
whilst discourse. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Half eagles of 1895, 1897, 179S and
1928 can be sold for from s15 to S25
each. Quarter eagles of gold issued in
1896, 1877 and 1926 are valued at $40
each. The $50 gold piece of California
commands premium of from $40 to SIS.
--Buff-"They tell me that Squiddle
has a great ear for music" Bass-'Yes.
/ knew he had great ear--two of them,
in fact; but 1 did not know that they
were for music 1 supposed they wero
for brushing flies off the top of his
head. boston Transcript
Oregon was a name formerly given
to an imaginary river of the west Car
yer, an American traveller, mentions it
in 1868. In describing the river he
evidently confounded it with the Mis-
souri,, but the name was finally applied
to the present state of that name.
Bad Forms-Mrs. Porcu-"There
was one thing that happened at her
wedding that struck me as being rather
bad form" Mrs. Wabash-"Whatw was
that?" Mrs. Porcu-"Among the old
shoes thrown after the happy couple
were pair that had belonged to her di-
vorced husband. IN. Y. Herald.
The Tombstone Epitah recently
spoke of garden near Yuma, Arizona,
in which are growing twenty-five date
palms, the largest of which is thirty
feet in height and fifteen years old.
This and five of the other trees were in
bearing, and some of the bunches of
their fruit weighed fifty pounds, and
are estimated to contain 5000 dates
each.
"A factory at Lynn, Mass, has asked
for space at the worlds fair to show
pneumatic dynamite field guns and pro-
jectiles, one dynamite field gun to be
shown on wheeled carriage fifteen by
six feet over all; one coast defense
pneumatic dynamite gun, stationary,
mounted on carriage with turnta hle
track, tube eight inch bore, three feet
long.
An exchange propounds the start
ling and saddening fact that there are
5000, 900 young men of marriageable age
in the United States who obstinately
neglect to provide themselves with
wives, and this implies the existence of
at least an equal number of young
women of marriageable age who arc
waiting for proposals that never come.
"A minister in the east said-"My
brethren, the collection will now 10
taken for my expenses for trip, for Z
am going away for my health. The
more / receive the longer i can stay"
The largest collection ever made in that
church was taken. And now the ques-
tion under discussion is whether the
size of the collection was a compliment
to the preacher or much the reverse
Louisville Western Recorder
An ingenious prisoner in the peni,
tentiary at Szegedin, Hungary, has in
vented machine which shaves man
in twenty-five seconds, All the pris.
oners are shaved by it-145 of them, il
about an hour, AS most of the com.
pulsory victims of this mans ingenuity
are in dread of losing their noses or
ears, they have expressed the wish that
the inventor had been sentenced to
death instead of Imprisonment
An effort is being made to secure
for exhibition in the horticultural de-
partment of the worlds fair specimen
of giant cactus from the desert region
of southeast California. This cactus
grows at times to the height of seventy
feet. A specimen when boxed ready
for shipment will weigh eight tons
and it will require an expenditure Of
something like $4,000 to deliver it in
good condition in Chicago.
Illinois will have an exhibit in its
state world'sf fair buildings of specimens
of all the indigenous woods of the State.
In order to secure uniformity each
specimen will be about forty-two inches
long and consist of a section of the tree
trunk. 1t win be cut in such manner
as to show the grain from the surface to
the center. On each specimen will be
painted picture of the leaf and fruit
of the tree.
John Moerlin, the Cincinnati mil
lionaire brewer, has had presented to
him rare specimen of a bird. 1t is an
albino robin and perfectly white. 1t
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