The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

on railroads in the United States, dur
ing the year ended June 80, 1891, was
%, 1876, of whom about fivc-sixths were
employees.
The shrek of the locomotive whis-
tie along the line of the Adirondack 81
St Lawrence railroad, which pene-
trates ;he very heart of the Adiron-
dacks, has already frightened the deer
so that they have been seen in numbers
near the bordering villages,
"A Brooklyn man, whose matrimo-
nial relations were evidently not alto
gether pleasant, revenged himself by
hanging in the hrst-story window n
placard and pair of drab trousers. On
the card was printed: "a woman who
won't sew her husbands pants, but
goes gossiping among the neighbors. +"
-Emin Pasha was born of Jewish
parents in Silesia, in 1910, and his name
was Edward Schnitzer. According to
the New York Sun he rendered services
to the Egyptian soldier, Ismail Pasha,
"who rewarded him by saying: Thou
art no more Schnitzer; thou art Eminr
an Arabic word meaning faithful; and
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"A large grower of small fruits says
he always makes most money in bad
years. Careful culture tides him over
drought and other drawbacks, and the
crops that result give a much better
profit than those more easily grown in
other years, when every one has plenty.
Perhaps this idea will apply equally
well to some things besides fruit N.
Y. Observer
Great Britain, France, Germany
and, in fact many other foreign ma
tions are asking, and almost insisting,
that more space be granted for their
exhibits at the worlds fair. Sir Henry
Wood, of the British commission, is re-
ported to have declared that so great is
the interest in England that he believes
the English exhibit would fill half of
all the buildings if the space could be
secured.
The state capitol, at Albany, n. Y,
is considered the costliest building of
modern times, its cost, up to date, hav-
ing been $4,000, 900. The capitol at
Washington, from 1878 to 1S7S includ-
ing its furniture and annual alterations
and repairs, had cost less than SIS, ,OOO,-
600. The most expensive city hall in
this country is that of Philadelphia,
and its tower will contain the largest
clock in the world.
Napoleon lie Grande, Biddeford,
Me, French Canadian, has "a small
menagerie of his own, which is both
profitable and amusing His big st.
Bernard dog furnishes power for
turning lathe by diligent work in
treadmill, and also takes part with
other dogs in acrobutic exercises which
would win applause in Barnum's tent.
lie Grande has clown dogs, leaping
greyhounds and buck deer broken to
harness.
"A living national flag was the
unique spectacle recently presented at
Il grand gathering of Sunday school
children. held in the Auditorium at
Chicago. Over thousand children
were grouped on the large platform,
those in yhe left-haud upper corner be-
ing dressed in various shades of blue,
while forty-four girls in white were
scattered among them. Thirteen red
and white stripes We're represented by
rows of girls clad in red and white: and
the effect, when the curtain rose, was
extremely pretty.
To the treasury at Washington con-
science-striclien citizens, from all parts
of the country, are constantly sending
some acknowledgement of hidden sins.
One correspondent writes: Enclosed
find $40 which return to the govern
ment, having beaten her out of that
amount in minor ways from time to
time" From France came $50, as an
apology for smuggling, no doubt, and
the words: "C'est pour la tresorerie." "
Another humbled smuggler sends 81. 26,
with the words: DUTY on five pairs of
gloves, visible but not taxed"
The Dismal swamp in Virginia,
one of the largest of swampy tracts in
America, is also one of the most prom
ising areas for reclamation. 1t con-
tains fully one thousand five hundred
square miles, and is at present of little
value, except for a supply of timber.
1t is an old sea bottom, and the western
boundary of the swamp is a sea cliff
and beach. The chief animal popula-
ton of the higher classes consists of
waterbirds and snakes OF the larger
animals, bears are abundant and there
is peculiar and very ferocious species
of wild horned cattle. The fights OF
the bears are said TO be very exciting
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The latest idea is an interoceanic
canal. This is truly an immense
scheme, but, according to the plans of
engineers, not impossible
one by any means. 1t was recently
stated by member of the San Fran
cisco chamber of commerce that, with
such canal, at least five million dol
lars per annum could be saved on
transportation of the wheat crop alone.
With refrigerator steamers the fruits
of the Pacific coast could be put into
the markets of Northern Europe in
twenty-five days Such waterway
would open up vast territory, and do
more to Improve the Pacific states than
any plan that could be devised.
In Michigan it is unlawful for rail
way companies to neglect to block the |
frogs on their roads, so that the feet OF
employees may not be caught therein.
A switchman, while uncoupling cars,
had his feet caught in an unbloclled
frog and was injured. He sued for
damages and proved that other frogs
in the yard We're unblocked and that
the yardmaster had been notified of
their condition. The court decided