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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

miss Budd's heart rs like volume
in circulating library" "How is
that?' mot TO be kept longer than
two weeks" - Harper's Bazaar.
On Examination Day Physician
"What would you do in order to throw
patient into a sweat?" Student
"Send him here to be quizzed."
-"Ten men bit the dust" says the
sensational reporter of the west. They
must have tasted pies sold by the train
boy. y.-Picayune.
-Cumso-"Doctor, how long can
corpse be kept DIR. Kapsool-"Well,
Philadelphia was laid out in 1852 and
isn't buried yet. Jury.
-Jarvis-"Do you know what I'm
going to do with the first hundred dol
lars | earn?' Jessup-"Pay your en-
trance fee to home for aged men prob
ably."-N Y. Herald.
-Dottie--"Why does Miss Skinflint
address all her verses to the moon?'
Dick-"Well, suppose it is because the
man up there is the only one who can't
run away. y."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
--Ethel-'I just am almost sure that
the market reporter boards here
Helen-"Why do you think SOP" Ethel
why, the very first thing in the re-
port is butter growing stronger" -
Inter Ocean.
Shelf you loved me as you
say you do you would not hesitate to
ask papa" lIe-"Darling, that is my
very reason. You are not the benetic-
iary under my present insurance pol
icy."-N. Y. Herald
They We're of Personal Nature
Wright-"S "Squib, the humorist, poor
fellow, has lost all his friends SlSrawl
why, how did it happen| Wright
-"In moment of forgetfulnesS last
week he signed his name to his batch of
jokes in the Buster Yankee Blade.
IL hear there's trouble between you
and Miss De Trop" Yes everything
is declared off. What was the mat
ter?" I'VE went into a restaurant the
other evening and | ordered lemonade
for two The stupid clerk served it in
such manner that she got hold of my
| glass. Chicago News Record
Madison Crafteigh has the repu.
tation of being the most intelligent
man in the club, but l have never
yet which was any evidence of it. >"
Jackson" But have you observed the
rapt manner in which he listens to
and approves of the remarks uttered by
| other members ?"-The Club,
"A young man, his eye blackened,
his collar and neclltie disordered, his
coat torn, his hair tossing wildly, and
wearing no hat, was rushing along one
of the streets of the Back Bay when he
encountered his best girl. "Oh! Hen
ryw she exclaimed in an agony of dis
tress; Il know it all! You have seen
father. boston Post.
You are going to build a house,
are You? What style?' II have not
thought of any particular style yet, but
l was counting up the number of my
friends to-day and | find have twenty
nine. AS soon as my intention to build
house becomes known | shall have
twenty-nine different styles from which
to choose. N. Y. Press
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
FIVE MEN KILLED
And Others Injured by a Failing Wall at
Hartford City, Ind.

Hartford City, Ind.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Aug. a.
Thursday afternoon the heavy stone
walls in the tank room of new glass
factory of Hartford City caved in, kill
ing five men and injuring two others
The killed and injured are: Alex
Moore, laborer, killed; Albert Inman,
laborer, killed; W. II. Foreman, laborer,
killed; C. Sawyer, bricl1layer, killed; G.
Epply, boss bricl-layer, badly injured;
Press Bradshaw, laborer, badly hurt.
The caving was caused by the pressure
of the filing that had been placed be-
hind the walls. A water boy had
warned the men that the wall was fall
ing, and they were attempting to prop
it up when it fell upon them. Moore,
Inman, Foreman, Pummel, and Sawyer
We're instantly killed. Epply, the boss
brick-layer, was pinioned to the earth
by huge stone. Press Bradshaw was
buried up to his waist, and was badly
injured. Moore, Inman, foreman and
Pummel have families. Thousands OF
people were on the scene in few
minutes, and the mangled forms were
soon taken out and taken to the under
taker. Another wall that was con-
sidered dangerous had but recently
been propped.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
FEARFUL WORK
OF Mad Bull at Gallipolis, O.-Three
Horses Gored to Death-IIe Attacks Two
Men After Being Fatally Wounded.

OF Mad Bull at Gallipolis, O.-Three
Horses Gored to Death-He Attacks Two
Men After Being Fatally Wounded.
GALLIPoLIs, O., Aug. 15.-John Niday
had q large, fine thoroughbred short
horn, which was about four years old.
He had raised the animal, and it was
not regarded as dangerous, but Satur-
day morning it escaped from home and
went to Geo. Martie's, about two miles
off, and got among his horses and gored
three in such manner that they died.
After much trouble they got him
home again, when he took after Ed
ward Niday, knocked him down and
threw him about as he would feather
pillow. The enraged animal then start
ed for Mr.. Warder's pasture field
wherein his horses We're quietly feeding
A gun was finally procured A young
man named Hively took aim and shot
the animal square in the head He fell,
stretched out his massive frame on the
green sward and it was thought was
dead, but when Hively went up to him
to cut his throat, he arose like light
ming and charged upon him with wild
ferocity. IIively took to his heels and
barely escaped with his life by getting
into brush heap that was near by,
where he was safe until he reloaded
his gun and put six more shots into
him. Five of the seven shots pene-
trated his skull, from which the brains
OOZed
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
NO BOYCOTT.
That is What the American Federation
Decides in the Carnegie Matter.

That Is What the American Federation
Decides in the Carnegie Matter.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13.-The eXecu-
tive board of the American federation
of labor met here Friday and after an
all-day's session decided that no boy
colt would be placed upon the Carnegie
products at present. The reasons for
this, according to the official statement
given out Friday night, are that the
council is of the opinion that the firm
is not turning out enough material,
or of quality to justify a boy
cott This action, the statement
says, was decided upon after u
thorough review of the situation and
consultation with the amalgamated
officials. Should it be necessary in the
future to order boycott, however, the
board says, it will not hesitate to do so,
Notwithstanding the threats of the firm
to use the conspiracy laws. The boards
action, it says, does not prevent all
sympathizers from refusing all products
of the company or sending financial
aid to the locked-out men. A circular
is being prepared and will be issued
Saturday, calling for funds to aid the
strikers,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
Midnnta NNedded.

New York, Aug. 15.-Victoria hall,
was the scene of Il unique wedding
Sunday night, when midgets were made
man and wife. They were Leopold
Kahn, better known to the public as
Admiral Dot, and Miss Lottie Naomi
Swartwood. The ceremony was accord
inc to the Jewish ritual.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
"'To Mr. Charles Lawrence,
"Taylor, in old Fish street, London"


Grace-Do you mean to say that the
average age of your graduating class is
sixteen.
Rosalie-Yes; honest. You see, we
girls clubbed together and paid for the
tuition of several prodigies during the
year SO as to reduce the average.-N.
Y Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
Mhnle Trnin IiurnIng.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug 15-At o'clock
Monday morning word was received
that train of forty-two cars on the
Erie road, filled with fine merchandise,
mile east Of William street, was burn
ing tiercelv, with no protection.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20

Snively-Do you believe that virtue is
its own reward?
Snodgrass-I think it must be. The
average salary of clergymen in the
United States is four hundred and
thirty-seven dollars per annum Judge
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20
WASAlNGToN'S CLOTHES.
a Letter to His Tailor Gives Some of II
Measurements.


A Letter to His Tailor Gives Some of Hi
Measurements.
The gentleman who brought forward
the following communication had not
only the original letter in his posses
sion, but was also the owner of the
measure" composed of stiff paper care
fully sewn together and with the mark,
written upon it in the generals hand
writing. 1t was sent to the tailor
through Washington's agent, presum
ably Cary e. Co., merchants" 1t il
notable for the same eXactitude anC
precision as the more important matter
which the general had connection with
and it is inculculable as giving the abso
lutte condition of his physique in the
year of its date:
"VIRGINIA, 26th April, 1763-Mr. Lawrence
BE pleased TO send me genteele suite of cloaths
made of superhne broad cloth, handsomely
choson;--I should have inclosed you my meas
ure, but, in general way they are SO badly
taken here, that / am convinced IL would be OF
little service; l would have you, therefore, take
measure OF gentleman who wears well madt
cloaths of the following size, to-wit: Six feel
high, and proportiQnably made; if anything
rather slender than thick for person of thai
highth, with pretty long arms and thighs. You
will take care to make the breeches longer thar
those you sent me last, and would have you
keep the measure OF the cloaths you now make
by you, and if any alteration is required in my
1ext, it shall be pointed out. Mr., Cary viii.
pay your bill. l am, sir, your very obedieut,
humble servant, GEORGE WAsHINGToN,
"Note-For your further government ana
Snowedge Of my size, have sent the inclosed,
and you must observe Vt from ye coat end &C
No and No, 3 is ye size over We breast and
yc hips. No ,, over the belly, and No 4 round
yc arm, and from ye brcechcs end To No II, is
Tor waist band: b, thick of the hip; c. upper
button holE: d, knee band; e, for length OF
breeches.
Therefore, if you take measure of a person
about feet high of this bigness, l think you
can't 90 amiss; you must take notice that the
inclosed is the exact size, without any allow.
ance for seams, sc.
GEORGE WAsHINGToN
"To Mr.. Charles Lawrence.
Taylor, in old Fish street, London"
AS Washington was thirty-one in
1868, his height, as he states it, viz, six
feet, is apparently at variance with the
popular belief that he was six feet two
inches; but it may be that some pecu-
liarity, either of his length of limb OF
his body, caused him to tell his tailor to
measure IA gentleman of only six feet,
| assured that by some slight difference
on his part from other men, he may
have exactly the corrected difference
He was so correct in all his directions
| that this seems the only elucidation ot
| the discrepaR1y.-Sar Art Jour
| nal.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-20

You can trade your reputation for a
dollar, but you can never trade back
Atchison Globe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
ALawyer's story.

The following story was told by
one of Chicagos prominent lawyers.
No other proof OF its truthfulness
could be desired:
1T was when used to practice law
in little town near the center of the
State" said he. "A farmer had one
of his neighbors arrested for stealing
ducks, and was employed by the ac-
cused to endeavor to convinced the
court that such was not the case.
The plaintiff was positive his neigh
Dor was guilty OF the offense charged
against him, because he had seen the
duck, In defendants yard.
How do you know they are your
ducks9' / asked.
40, l should know my own ducks
anywhere replied the farmer, and he
went into a detailed description OF
their different peculiarities whereby
he could readily distinguish them
from others.
-'Why, said /, those ducks can't
be such a rare breed; / have some
just like them IN my own yard
That's not at all unlikely, re.
piled the farmer, 'fOr they are not
the only ducks i have had stoler
lately.
Then / called my next witness.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

THE servant girl question has be-
come so serious in Philadelphia that
families in large numbers are break
ing up housekeeping and seeking
winter quarters in boarding-houses
and hotels. Household help is ex-
ceedingly scarce, and employment
bureaus, of which there are about
three hundred in the city, are unable
to meet quarter Of the demands for
cooks, house girls and chambermaids.
The newspapers are filled with adyer-
tisements for such help. Besides the
scarcity, the supply is extremely I'M
satisfactory as TO quality. Ameri-
can girls prefer to work in stores and
factories, and house help is nearly all
Of foreign production-fresh arrivals
of raw material that does not contrib
ute much to the wholesomeness and
savoriness Of the family meal, or the
neatness and comfort of the family
abode. This painful situation, we
are assured, is not confined exclusively
to the City of Brotherly Love, and,
therefore, short discourse in the
Times on the cause of the existing
trouble may be of general interest:
at is all the fault of the American
mother. There is too much piano
and not enough cook stove in the
training of our girls A young man
marries a wife with all the modern
accomplishments, which, unfortu-
nately, do not include cooking and
homework. She is made the mistress
of an establishment employing from
one to three or more servants, but If
left to herself could not cook square
meal for her husband to save him
from starvation. The servant takes
in her situation in less than twenty
four hours, and acts accordingly. In
few years she grows nervous and
worn out with her efforts to maintain
her position amid stream Of con-
stantly changing servants. The end
comes when the costly furniture is
carted away TO the auction sales
room, the servants discharged and
the unhappy couple seek suite Of
rooms In some hotel or boarding.
house."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
Training Young Farmers.

There are fifty boys In the four
years course at the Iowa agricultural
college. This is not equaled in any
other college in America. says an
exchange. Farming will paw better
when the Ames college shalll have
sent out few well trained young
farmers into each locality in the
State. They will do something con-
nected with the farm, because that
will pay them better than any
thing else. There are idle cream
cries enough to give jobs to all that
can be educated for several years IL
they gave attention to nothing else,
and at salaries equal TO those earned
by graduates from any other course
in any other college. Many creameries
do not pay because the operators
have not learned their business In all
its details. The boys at Ames have
the finest creamery in Iowa running
six days In every week for no pur-
pose but to educate the students.
But the students in the agricultural
cOurseare taught many sciences as
well asthat pertainign 20 dairying.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

SIR GEORGE BOWEN, writing to a
London paper, throws some light on
a long-debated point. He AYERS it
was not vinegar but picKaXes that
Hannibal used in splitting the rocks
when he crossed the Alps. The word
~aceto," translated usually vinegar"
is declared by Sir George to have
been from time immemorial down to
the present age the local name among
the mountaineers for ak or pickax
with which the miners and foresters
split rocks and trunks of trees. He
points out also the fact that plain
water poured on heated rocks will
split them as efrectually as vinegar
will do il. II Sir George is right he
has solved a conundrum that has
puzzled the world for ages-to wit,
where did Hannibal get all that vine
gar? He didn't use vinegar. 1t was
the pickax. Let the enterprsing
publishers Of school histories get out
new and revised editions at once.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
Poultry Ptokings.

PROVIDE good comfortable quarters
for laying stock.
If protected from danger, fowls
do not need to roost high.
Dry, clean and light poultry houses
are indispensable to success. ar
AS A rule the hens with the largest
combs will prove to be the best lay
ers.
MANGEL-wURZELs boiled and mixed
with middlings, are economical feed
for poultry.
IT Is the capacity for taking on
flesh rapidly that makes breed or a
bird valuable for the market grower.
To PROCURE eggs, avoid over-feed-
ing and feed meat and milk, with
plenty OF grain at night, emitting
corn.
WHEN shipping dressed fowls be
sure that all the animal heat is driven
from the carcasses before they are
packed.
No VEGETABLE makes better sue
culent food for the hens IN winter
than the beet when boiled, or pulped
in a root cutter.
SELECT only the very best of your
birds to breed from, and select them
for their laying qualities, rather than
for their feathers and form
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

Jane Rogers was good girl, deyout
and positive In her religious BELIEF
She had always lived in village
where nearly every one belonged to
the same denomination, and she had
grown into the belief that every one
who was outside OF its pale must ba
wrong.
1t was a subject of regret, almost
OF distress, TO her to know that none
OF her cousins In New York-whoul
she had never seen belonged to this
church which was so dear to her.
John Rogers family were Presbyteri-
ans, James Rogers were Methodists,
and her Aunt Catharlne's children
differed widely from her on the sub
ject OF baptism.
should go to New York and spend the
winter among her kinsfolk, she felt
as II she were m ssionary venturing.
among those who were almost heat
then. She read books on the differ
emit creeds, and resolved to be I'M
fiinching In her defense of what she
believed to be the truth.
The day came, and she started
There was frightful railway accI-
dent. Jane, badly injured, was car
ried with Others Of the wounded to q
hospital In the city.
Her friends FASTENED there to meet
her. They would have each OF them
taken her to their homes, but she was
too seriously injured to be moved,
She saw their pale, anxious faces, and
caught loving glances on every side
AS days passed and she approached
| convalescence. these strange faces be-
came inexpresslbly dear to her.
She learned to call them by name,
The kind, grave old man was Cousin
Ben; the two merry girls were his
nieces; the sweet-faced old lady was
Aunt Mary. They all brought flow
ers to her and to the poor, frlendless
patients in the same hospital. They
went from bed to bed, comforting and
cheering the wounded and the dying
Sometimes they repeated hymns, read
the Bible, or prayed with some
wretched sufferer.
Day after day her kinsfolk came,
honest, friendly men and gentle
WOulCuI CdCn OCuU vi OOu .
work for His hurt, sick children,
among whom she lay.
When James mother reached the
city and hurried to her, the girl told
her with glad tears of their kindness.
"They have kept me hopeful, They
have kept me nearer to God" she
| said.
Her mother was bewildered.
(Which OF these wers the Baptists,
and which the Methodists, and which
the Presbyterians?" she asked.
Jane was silent for moment.
Il do not know" she said in low
voice. Il did not ask what doctrines
they believed. But saw that when
they came to the sick and dying God
was in their hearts"
Jane learned in the hospital that
the foundation of Christ's church is
broader than sectarian walls when it
means faith in him and love to our
brother. Youths Companion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

A NEW YORK citizen, In suggesting
In the Tribune that liberal space
be allotted In the Worlds Fair for the
growth and exhibition OF woods and
plants containing valuable fibers,
contributes some general points on
the subject that are or public intcr-
est. A new system OF disIntegration
has overcome the exclusive import
ance OF cotton and made practicable
the utilization OF the many tibrous
plants that have heretofore rotted In
our fields, forests and swamps. BY
using the substitutes growing around
US we might save nine-tcnths of the
$40, 900, 900 yearly sept to Europe for
fibers. Cotton stalks could be used
instead of burned. So could the mill
ion tons Of fax straw annually pro-
duccd and destroyed annually. In
Europe, last year, 600, 900 tons OF fax
straw were used. We allow to go to
waste materials which would take
the place of the hundred thousand
tons of fiber imported yearly for
grain binding Irvine and the 90, 600
Z tons of wrappings used for baling
each cotton crop. What is stated
should be enough to awaken concern
In the great sources of wealth allow
ed to go to waste through ignorance
and neglect
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

ATHLETICS have become great
feature of American college and aca-
demic life, but they have yet to reach
the extreme of the English schools.
A Rugby boy dropped dead after hav-
ing gone through the forty-flve-mile
run, which is compulsory upon every
student or the school. Such an or
deal for boys of twelve or thirteen is
exceedingly trying, and often to a
high degree injurious, but it is a
feature Of the school, where long runs
are one of the regulation exercises
enforced upon all who are not too i'll
to undergo them. Manifestly this
beats American football out of sight,
and it is not surprising to know that
an agitation is on foot to secure
reform.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
The Bow as a Weapon.

"The bow, once the worlds chief
weapon, is now almost completely a
thing of the past" said Major ID. G..
Johnson, now a guest of the Laclede
"The more or less noble red man of
the American forest now carries q
Winchester and metallic cartridges,
the Australian Bushman is armed
with musket and even the Congo
negroes blaze away at each other with
villainous saltpeter. The bow is no
longer a military weapon OF any con-
siderable people. Even Cupid APP
pears to be equipped with repeating
rifle and is blazing away at the
stomach instead OF the heart. We
are accustomed to think of the bow
as a harmless kind of weapon, fit
only for small boys to shoot wood
peckers with, but tell you that in
the hand of skillful archer it is one
of the most terrible engines of de-
struction known to man. / have
seen an Apache Indian drive barbed
arrow clear through a 2-year-old
buffalo and bring him down as though
struck by the bolts OF Olympian Jove.
/ would rather be struck by a MIME
bullet than with one of those metal
pointed darts. History tells US that
when the Romans invaded Parthia
under Cassius those Apaches OF the
east drove their arrows clear through
them and pinned them to the earth.
I would back a regimentsof skilled
archers to whip an equal number OF
soldiers armed with muzzle-loading
muskets. The fire would be equally
rs accurate and effective and much
more rapid. cannot understand
how the old flint-lock came to sup
plant the bow, unless military men
were charmed by its noise. The old
English bowmen constituted a sol
diery not TO be scorned; the bow OF
Ulysses was weapon that the
'bravest might well fear. Globe
Democrat.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08
Keen the liens Warm.

It matters not how abundantlv the
food may he supplied, no flock Of hens
will lay regularly in winter unless
they are provided with warm and
comfortable quarters II is not nec-
eSsary to have a stove in
the poultry house, but every
crack and crevce should be closed.
The animal heat of the bod.
les of the fowles will aid in increas-
ing the temperature and the mis-
take should not lie made of ventilat-
ing the house except by leaving the
door and windows opens during the
day. In cold climate the cold
air will find its way inside soon
enough without afrording openings
for that purpose. The house should
be closed completely at night. There
need he no fear in regard to ventila-
tion, as no poultry house is so tight
and close as TO cause inconvenience
on cold nights No flock or hens can
lay il the poultry house is cold, as it
requires too much food TO create
warmth for their bodies They will
be unable to produce eggs simply be-
cause the cold takes from them the
elements that should be devoted
10 egg production. Warm shelter,
therefore, saves food. and it is much
cheaper to make the poultry house
warm than to purchase warmth in
the shape OF grain. Mirror.