The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Inter Ocean.
when an actor comes upon the
stage in an intoxicated condition he re.
calls the balmy days of the drama. -
Boston Gazette.
! Biddie--"What makes you think
there has heen hitch in their friend
ship?" Belle" Didn't | see the traces
| of tears?'-Inter Ocean.
"A Modest Youth. Young Mr. Dol
ley--''Give me one kiss, Miss Flypp, and
I'll ask you for no more" Miss Flypp-
"Thcn you'll get none at all, sir De
troit Free Press.
An Obstacle. Mrs. Upton Elatt--
bridget, have you lighted the drawing
room fire yet? Bridget from the
lIitchen). mo, mum; I'm waitin for
yea to git up and fowld up the bid so |
can git trough. Puck.
Street Car CONFEDERATION old
are you, my little girl? Lite Girl-''If
fer to pay full fare, and to keep my
own statistics. Puck
-"Cholly must be u smart man to
have accumulated all his wealth.
'Na-as. 1t took his father-in-law thirty
five years to get the same money. Chi
cago News Record.
Modern improvements. - Mr.. De
Flatt-"It's cold as Greenland here this
morning. l wonder why the heat
hasn't been turned up" Mrs. De Flatt
II presume the janitor's family are
not too warm yet."-N. y. Weekly.
WAS that sermon Mr. SANITY
preached an old one?" ''Yes He re-
peated it by request" What for? That
was the shortest sermon | ever heard
him preach" eyes That's the reason
why they wanted it again."-N. Y.
Herald.
kicks Himself -"You ought to have
seen old Bellows kick himself yester-
day." "How was that?" "IIe was on
a street car when lady entered. Not
noticing, he arose, bowed low, gave her
his seat, and then discovered she was
his wife. - Yankee Blade.
The acme of incongruity was
reached at recent church fair in the
west. One of the features was a grab
bag, and among the things in the bag
was slip of paper, on which were the
words Good for one grave. viii be
! dug any time during the ensuing year.
John Smith, Sexton"
In an English court lately, in the
case of Il bicycle stolen from wayside
inn, Judge Lushington said that the
| innkceper was bound to take care of the
goods of travellers, and that goods in
cluded bicycles. The jury gave a ver-
| dict of about S75 for the owner of the
bicvcle, and the judge approved the ver-
Gict.
The general manager of the Balti-
more &c Ohio railroad says that they can
move from the interior of the country
| to the seaboard (talxing the mean dis
tance at 1000 miles) $500 troops in
thirty hours, together with their neces-
sary equipment This could be done
without serious interruption to regular
commercial traffic.
-Shoplifting by women is said to be
alarmingly on the increase in Paris, so
much so that the justices have been in
| structed to be less lenient in future
with rich women, and to punish So
called kleptomania as simple theft. OF
| eighteen arrests made recently in a
| single day seventeen were women; four
wealthy, and all were in comfortabl
| circumstances.
Probably the smallest painting ever
made was the work of the wife of a
Flemish artist. 1t depicted mill with
the sails bent, the miller mounting the
stairs with a sack of grain on his back.
| Upon the terrace where the mill stood
was a cart and horse, and in the road
leading to it several peasants were
| shown. The picture was beautifully
finished, and every object was very dis
tinct, yet it was so amazingly small
that its surface could be covered with a
| grain of corn.
Columbia has natural facilities for
the cultivation Of cocoa, maize, sugar,
cotton, tobacco, gum, spices, timber,
| barley, wheat and tropical fruits, be-
| sides raising cattle in large quantities.
| The virgin soil is fifteen feet deep and
| gives two crops year, and for some
| products three crops. Land costs
slightly over twelve dollars per acre for
clearing and placing in cultivation, and
there is good sale for maize, plaintains,
cassava, beans, yams and sweet pota-
! toes.
King George of Greece, who cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his marriage a few days ago, is one of
| the most democratic monarchs in
Europe. He loves to walk about the
streets of Athens unattended and to
mingle with his subjects He is a tall,
handsome man, with high forehead
and long, dropping mustache. The
report gets into the foreign papers
every few months that he intends to re-
sign his royal Office in favor of the
crown prince, his son, who was born in
Greece, but his majesty still seems con-
| tented to remain in power
The emperor of Japan, according
to foreign papers, will visit Europe
next year, and may be induced to ex-
tend his journey to the United States.
The emperor is an exceedingly intelli-
| gent and enlightened monarch. and the
| possibility of his visit does not alarm
| European courts so much as favors on
| the part of oriental rulers usually do.
A nephew of the emperor is serving as
a lieutenant in the German navy at
present, and several other members of
his family have studied in Europe. His
majesty has never visited the countries
of the Occident
Religious persecution still exists in
| Vienna. A Methodist congregation was
! first formed there in 1859, and after con.
tinuous interference it has been finally
forbidden. For several years the Meth
odiats have worshiped very privately,
| but about a wear aOo n noliae officer Vic