The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

- nave Decn KNOWN 10 Dehb THiN
road, said the tramp, but there is one
thing never did beat" "Whut is tAatP''R
~ carpet Washington Star
How Thought Differs From Reality.
-Porter-"That trunk just carried up
must have tombstone in itl' Clerk
No, it contains tho samples of an Indi-
ana farmer who thinks he's found dia-
mond mine.'-Jeweler's Weekly
Are you one of papa's relationsP"
the inquisitive little girl asked. Yes"
replied her uncle. you don't look
very thin" "Of course not Why did
you think should?" "Aunty said yes.
terday that mamma and papa's relations
were strained "-Washington Star
Triumph OF Art Over Nature Seri
GUS Artist - II think you knew the
model for this fgure-poor beggar, deaf
and dumb" Light-heatted Friend-"I
know--used to sit at corner of street.
Deaf and dumb! BY love, you've made
speaking likeness of him. Wonder
fulr-Punch.
1T is announced that Welshman
has perfected sewing machine by
which the thread is supplied directly
from two ordinary spools, and sews
through the assistance of rotary
looper; by means OF this arrangement
the old style shuttle or bobbin is done
away with.
The most remarkable set of spoons
in Missouri are owned in Richmond.
They were made out of Mexican dollars
by timer named Kaiser, the first of
his trade in Fulton, who also made the
first tin lamp in Galloway county. The
spoons, after fifty years of use, are in
excellent preservation.
Great schooners come to grief as
we'll as small craft, and some of the big
fellows die young. The four-master
John Paul, 1,433 tons, built at Bath in
1889, is in the harbor of Providence, R
l., having been scuttled TO quench o.
fire in her cargo of 2,70O tons of coal
She cost $76, 900 and was insured for
$4,000. She was the heaviest spared
vessel on the coast.
The following advertisement re.
Gently appeared in matrimonial paper.
"a stamp collector, the possessor of q
collection of II, 544 stamps, wishes to
marry lady who is an ardent collector
| and the possessor of the blue penny
stamp of Mauritius issued in 1S47" 1t
appears in the Moniteur of the Island
of Mauritius, and the stamp which the
young lady must possess is valued at
about 81, 900 on account of it's rarity.
Wrinkles come first to the girl who
laughs the heartiest, to the girl whose
face, from chin to forehead, is one
broad smile. To defer the coming
wrinkles, girls should laugh only with
the lips, and never extend the laugh to
the corners of the eyes Girls full OF
fun will find this difficult to do. Cold,
dignifed women, whose faces seldom
brighten with hearty laughter, have
the fewest wrinkles, and to them they
come late.
"A Norwegian farmer has devised q,
lock, in which the bolt is released by a
stroke from pendulum bob. The pen
dulum, invisible from the outside, is.
moved sufficiently by blowing sharply
several times through hole in the
door, but the puffs of air can be given
at the proper time only by swinging a
key pendulum previously adjusted to
vibrate in unison with the lock pendu-
| lum.
Eight lively girls of Preston, w.
Va. formed coon-hunting party and,
with a wagon, two guns two axes, and
some provisions, gleefully started out.
| AS they did not return that night, their
relatives became alarmed, and went to
the woods in quest of them. At noon
on the following day the girls were
found seated on a log, crying as if the
world were about to end. They had
| lost their way in the woods, and had
not seen a solitary coon.
"A recent instance of man S inhuman-
| ity to woman is related in Maine After
she had milked the cows strained the
milk into thirteen stone crooks, carried
the crooks down into the cellar,
| skinned the cream, washed the crooks
and put them on the fence palings to
dry, heated skim milk for the calves
and carried it to the barn for them, got
the cream ready for churning, put her
husbands supper on the table, and then
hurried to take the crying baby, the
farmers wife said that she was tired,
and asked her husband to buy her a
portable creamery, in order to tighten
her labors, The farmer replied that he
couldn't afford it, and the next day he
went to town and bought riding plow,
paying for it with the butter money.
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