The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

eS, Salu Ine OH lnuy, 'Jney We
had dry season out there-they have
had to irritate the land. columbus
Post.
Many people say they go away to
get rid of their business letters, but the
summer girl relies implicitly on the daily
male. Philadelphia Times
The young man in love doesn't care
so much about having yacht at sea as
having a little smack ashore. Cape Cod
Item.
In the menagcric world giraffes are
becoming scarce. The animal offers too
many chances TO fate TO get hit in the
neck. Minneapolis journal.
Girls were formerly so modest that
they would blush if small star winlSed
ut them, but when the man in the moon
casts sleeps eye at one of them now
she asks him what he is giving her
Galveston News.
John, the Morning Daily
states that you got into disgraceful
fight at your club last night. Who did
you fight with?" Husband-"I am sure
do not know, dear. l haven't even
seen the Daily yet. The Club.
AT the time of the Talmud pigeons
were used in amusing games. The Tai
mud tells us that betting was iudulged
in at the pigeon play. The owner of
the pigeon which reached first the point
| designated was the winner.
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Stockbridge,
who is at the head of .he list of chap
lains in the United States navy, is the
only one who has the rank of commo
dore. He resides in Philadelphia. He
has been in the service over fifty years.
-Merritt-"That was pretty hard
doctors bill / had to pay" DcGarry-
Glow was that?" Merritt-''You see it
was for injuries | received by being
thrown from a horse | was rapidly rid
ing by the doctors advice. N. Y. Sun.
"A curious spot has been noticed as
the selection of pair of wagtails for
the propagation of their species. This
is on the railway near Stanton, Eng
land, where a nest is to be found in the
hollow of a sleeper on the main track,
over which something like Il dozen or
more trains pass in "A day.
Down in Connecticut the other day
Stiles Belfeld's family was startled by
a binding flash during thunder
shower There was crash of glass
and the family rushed into the parlor
The bolt had entered at the back of the
motto God Bless Our Home, broken
the glass covering into thousand
pieces, chipped off the gilt in the frame
and gone out
The most expensive municipal hall
in the world and the largest in the
United States is the city building of
Philadelphia, upon whose yet unfinished
tower the largest clock in the world is
to be displayed. Nobody knows exact
ly how much money it has cost, but it
cannot be far in the aggregate from the
amount invested in the state house OF
New York
There are fifteen national banks in
! New York City which have deposits eX.
ceeding $4,000, 600 each, the largest
amount being S33, 900, 900 in the Ma
tional Park bank, and the next largest
amount, S25 5000, 900, in the Chemical
National. Ten banks have over S15,.
600 900 each loaned, the National Park
having the largest amount, and the
First National the second largest.
-Brownstone fronts on Fifth avenue,
New York, used to be considered the
abodes of wealth and gorgeousness ex-
clusively. Subsequently they came to
be transformed into shops, and now the
national committees of the two great
parties have taken up their abodes
there for headquarters The glory OF
the Fifth avenue brownstone front may
be said to have vanished before the
march of business and politics.
The dam porpoises are said to help
their young in their efforts to breathe
by bearing them up to the surface OF
the water on their flippers The spira,
Gle or blowhole appears to be sensi
tive part of the head, for when
touched with the hand the porpoise in.
variably shows signs of great discom-
fort by lashing the tail very violently
: and beating the sea into foam, as il
does when wounded.
There is now on exhibition in Paris
boat which, it is said, is as exact re
production as can be made of the cara
vel which took Christopher Columbus
to America. The ship floats around il
. a large basin, whose edge is made tc
q represent the shore of the island OF
which Columbus landed, and there are
I Indians and other accessories to give
4 realism to the picture. A Pantomint
= representing the landing of Columbus
t on the shores of the new world is given
0 Hunting dogs, when they grow old
r become rheumatic, or at least dcbili
= tated with pains We know, too, tha
| they crave heat, and get as near the fire
= as possible-a craving which Increase,
: as they grow older. One such dog
e older than the others and slower il
, getting into the lodge on returning
: from the hunt, was often crowded
e away from the fire by the other liveliel
t dogs getting all the best places before
e him Finding himself thus turned ou
in the cold, he would dash toward tn,
door barking, when the others, sup
+ posing it was an alarm, would rusl
1 away too while the old rheumatic wen
n to the fire and selected place to sui
. him.
: An uptown pharmacist has a move
Y fly trap in his store window. 1t is rul
S by little electric motor and gathers il
v the flies with great celebrity and abso
e lutte certainty, A piece of strong BROW
e paper, about four inches wide and fiji
: teen inches long, is fastened in con
= tinuous band around two rollers, whicI
= are kept revolving at slow rate by tn
motor. The band is slightly smeare
with sweet substance. Two-thirds o
Y the length of the band is freely eS
: posed, but at the othev roller it run
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