The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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didn't see you ut church Sunday, Jen-
kins." Jenkins-"No? That's strange
was there in my usual place" links
-"Probably you were, bat wash t.'--
Detroit Free Press.
The latest thing in ira-dghting
tools is gun which will FIRE Il metal
rap, carrying small piece OF strong
cord 70 the top of the highest building.
The cord is used to pull up rope, and
the rope to pull up hose
Living near the Tennessee City of
Memphis are seven sisters whose names,
rhyme beautifully but do not sean. The
names are Nancy Emelne, Lucinda
Caroline, Mary Hascltine. Jane Pales-
tine, Lulu Paradine, Virgie Valentine
and Maudie Anna Adeline.
No ball-catcher no matter how eX-
pert has been able to catch o ball
thrown from the Washington monu-
ment. The monument is 55j feet in
height, and ball dropped from its.
summit acquires a velocity Of 800 feet
second just before it teaches the
| ground.
One of the men who helped save
the life of the Czarowitz of Russia last
year has become so demoraliHcd by
good fortune that he has been sum
moned several times into court The
brave but weak japanese receives an
annual pension of Sl,OO0 from the Rus
| sian government and small sum
yearly from the milado.
The root of n sort Of turnip is used
by the Indians of Tennessee for curl.
Gus purpose-namely, to cure dogs OF
| the habits of eating eggs This root
has a very hot and biting flavor and a
small portion of it is put into an egg,
which is placed in the dogs way. AZ
ter swallowing it hastily and without
| consideration the animal will never
touch another egg.
Many kinds of grass seeds are used
to make flour for bread and mush of
excellent quality. Along the rivers in
Colorado and Arizona grass seeds are
collected in large quantities and supply
a much valued winter food for the In
dians. They are ground into -four,
mixed with water into a dough and
cakes of the latter are baked in the hot
| sand.
Two boys out in u boat near Boston
Island Booth Bay harbor, Inst week,
saw two big eagles fighting in the air
two hundred feet above the water. The
talons of one bird became entangled in
the wing of the other and both fell into
the sea. When the boys rowed up to
them one of the eagles showed fight,
aud they were obliged to kill it, but the
other was captured alive and now orna-
ments Bath restaurant He is IL hand
some bird, and measures six feet from
tip to tip
Some Maine parents have great
deal to, answer for in the names with
which they have burdencd their chill
dren. A French Canadian girl in Somer-
set county is staggering along under this.
load: Carrie Annie Mary Louise Nell
lie Susie Pooler." One man has named
his four daughters Asia, Africa Amer
lea and Europe, respectively, while the
members of an Oakland family are sew
orally known as Taught, Orlando, The
opevander, Serepta, Salonie and Serena.
B. +. Cummings u train dispatcher
of Oakland, Cal, is in danger of fgur-
ing as an awful example in the anti-to-
bacco crusade. He was q moderate
smoker, but he abandoned smoking re-
Gently and took to chewing necessarily.
One day recently he became totally
: blind. He recovered his sight after q
few days, but entirely lost his hearing
Then as suddenly and mysteriously he
| regained his hearing but became quite
dumb. He was in delirium for some
time, but finally he recovered complete
, ly. The doctors said his Affections were
due to paralysis of the senses caused by
the absorption of nicotine into the sys-
, tenn through the excessive use of tobac-
= co.
. "A Rhode Island woman has just mar
ried her seventh husband. He is the
: brother of her first and fifth husbands.
She is forty-seven years old. Her we'd
> lock enterprises extend over period of
thirty years, and she has children by
: five of her worser halves The first
I husband was good-for-nothing fellow
who was killed in street fight The
next was Nova Scotan, who left
: her with considerable property. Her
= third husband was already married, so
she had to relinquish him. She tried a
;, minister the fourth time, and after he
e died she married the undertaken who
Q buried him. He turned out TO be her
I brother-in-law and after a while she got
!. divorce. Her sixth husband left her
: in rage when he learned that five men
had called her wife before his turn had
: come. The seventh is some years
n younger than his wife and appears to
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