The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


mo, my son, people do not argue to
get at the truth of a matter. They
simply wish to prove that their position
is the true one, evot1 if they have to lie
TO prove that they are telling tho
truth. h."-Boston Transcript
49," Don't monkey with the buzz
saw may be good advice for general
purposes" said an actor, "but know
man who got rich by disregarding it."
"How?" "lIe wrote u saw-mill drama"
Washington Star.
-Farmer-"Kin yer furnish glasses
ter make feller, see double2"
Optician-"Yes." Farmer-"Well, old
Peter Funlx's comm daown to buy my
pigs tomorrow, an T yell sell i'm a
pair I'll set 'em up next time l come to
taown. Jewellers Weekly.
First Professor-"You see, they let
him in the Academy of Sciences because
he had taken an A. b., an $. b., an A.
NJ, Phi. D., and an NJ. D." Second
Professor - "Ah, l understand - he
worked in by degrees Harvard LAM
poon.
1t Stunned Him.-Mrs. McCorlkle-
"What did your husband say about
your new hate" Mrs. McCrackle-"He
fell to the floor insensible when he saw
the bill" Mrs. McCorllle-'I told you
it was sumner when you bought it."
Detroit Free Press.
The Variable Mother-in-Law.-Ma
-"Extravagant saphead Two hum
dred dollars for diamond stud! Think
of it," Daughter-"But he's going to
have the stone matched for earrings for
me-" Ma--"What thoughtful dear he
isl,
"A Casualty. - Wiggs - "The IRON
iawed woman wants you to send the
stage-carpenter down to her dressing
room right away" What is
the trouble?" Wiggs-"She switched
off from hot coffee ito ice cream, and
| cracked her jaw
The first female knights are said to
have been women who stoutly defended
| Tortosa against the Moors in 1149, and
were rewarded with large immunities
for themselves and their descendants.
| When Edward III. founded the Garter
he bestowed the robes and badges on
his queen and on the wives and daugh-
ters of the other knights
The field of Wounded Knee is still
fell in the battle there. The Indians
who cry over the graves of their dead at
| Wounded Knee are said to have new
song of mourning, which runs some
| what like this.
He is down so deep, he is down so deep, he is
| down so deep.
He can't get up he can't get up, he can't get up.
A musical instrument of ten pipes,
| 40 hn na &c GDiI To
existed in the second century, and an
organ was said to be in the possession
of King Pepin, of France. in 1871 An
organ containing 400 pipes was erected
in the tenth century in England. Semi
tones were introduced in this instru-
ment about the end of the eleventh
century, and pedals We're constructed in
1890 by Bernhardt. which gave a COM
pass of Il fiat to A.
"A siX-year-old son of George Har-
ger, who lives just south of Kiowa,
Kan, is an infant Jupiter in his way.
He is so full of little thunderbolts that
whenever he approaches any conducting
substance, animate or inanimate, one OF
them springs to it from his finger tips.
He always has larger load just before
n storm, and all the animals about the
place run from him in terror.
An amateur bird fancier in the
French quarter of New York city eX-
hibits with pride a canary sitting on
four eggs in a nest with a bird less than
a month old from her latest Matching.
Six others of her brood perished in the
cold of two weeks ago. Such rapidity
of breeding is rare among canaries, for
the young at ten days old are little
humps of life. almost bare. and utterly
helpless. From that point on, however,
they grow with astonishing rapidity,
and in about three weeks acquire full
suit of feathers.
Dealers in human hair recall the
instructive fact that the panic of ls73-4
suddenly stimulated the trade among
the French Canadians. The hardships
of that period drove the women to sell
ing their hair and considerable quanti-
ties were sent to the United States. At
no time have the women of this country
been pressed to the necessity of selling
their locks. although the great variety
of color and texture, resulting from the,
mixture of various nationalities, would
give hair from the heads of American
women peculiar value.
Secretary Blaine has decided to send
an interesting exhibit to the worlds
fair at Chicago 1t will consist of the
original Declaration of Independence,
the constitution of the United States,
the articles of Federation, the famous
protest of the Philadelphia Carpenters
Company to King George ILL.,, and other,
documents which are the heirlooms of
the country itself, of our national his
tory. These will not be shown by fac
simile but by the originals. They will
be shipped in steel Baskets and guarded
: by soldiers while en- route and at the
fair.
Here is q faithful copy of double
barrelled letter forwarded to us by a
board schoolmaster, says the Journal
of Education. THE first half is writ
ten on the outside of the envelope, the
last on the inside. We wish we could
present our readers with facsimile;
Please do not keep Charley Hall in and
cane him as he has had such bad eye
and could not see out of it for days
and had to take him to the doctor and
he told him to keep indoors from his
Mother please sir Charley is quite
well e nofe to come to school and he
won't come and you cane do as you like
with-from his father"
According to the Boston Advertiser,