The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


La, threaten vengeance against the
school board, which recently passed a
law declaring that pistol was not es-
sential as portion of the outfit of a
schoolboy, and that lads armed with
revolvers would not hereafter be ad-
mitted to the schools.
In the excavation for dam near
Ottawa, Ill, the remains of stone
roadway have been found. The part
disclosed is about fifty feet in length,
each slab being about twelve feet in
length, one to three feet in width, and
about two inches in thickness. The
breaks had been filed with cobble-
stones, laid in regular courses
ALBERT" said the stern Boston
father, 81 see that on the third day of
this month you got three demerits at
school How can you explain this, sir?"
The little Boston boy hung his head in
shame. Father" he exclaimed at
last, 81 can not tell lie. That was the
day forgot to crease my trousers -
Truth.
This country came near having
Crescentia as the name of one of it's
states, instead of Maryland. 1t was
originally intended to give that name
to the province granted as proprietary
government to Lord Baltimore, but when
the charter was presented to Charles
l. for his signature he struck out that
| name and substituted Maryland" in
honor of his queen, Henrietta Maria Of
France.
Baron Hirsch, the rich Austrian
rival of the Rothschilds. whose chari-
ties to the prosecuted Russian Jews
has made his name better known on
this side of the Atlantic than even his
enormous wealth, is a very lavish en-.
| tertainer, but personally most abstemi-
Gus. He spreads liberal table for his
guests, but eats only the plainest food
/ himself and drinks but little wine. 1t
is his invariable rule to retire to bed
before H. leaving the company to their
own amusements for the rest of the
night
Once upon time when a man had
a narrow escape from threatened ca.
lamity, he showed his gratitude to prov.
idence by making pilgrimage, by Civ.
ing aims to the poor or gifts to the
church. But times have changed
Leonard Patterson, young man ot
Bangor, Me, mad very narrow escape
from death recently. An immense safe
fell on him, but for some reason he es
capped with but slight injuries. He an
nounces in the newspapers that, ''ir
! honor of his miraculous escape" he
will give dance in Union hall"
The death in Wales of William
Hooper Ropes, formerly of Boston
calls attention to a notable class, O.
which he was member, in the Bostor
Latin school. John Lothrop Motley
the historian and minister to Australia
and to Great Britain; Fletcher Webster
the son of Daniel Webster: Henry Sum
ner, the brother of Charles Sumner
Turner Sargent, Prof. L. Z. Salisbury
who has been president of the Ameri
can Oriental society well known as the
professor of Sanskrit of Yale, and Rev.
George f. Ellis, of Boston, were with
Mr.. Ropes in the class that entered the
Latin school in 1924.
Here are some hard things to say i
you speak rapidly: peter Piper picked
a peck of picked peppers; peck o
picked peppers Peter Piper picked.
Peter Piper picked peck of picked
peppers, where's the peck of picked
peppers Peter Piper picked?" Tho,
waft'dst the riclIety stiff over the
mountain-height' cliffs, and clearly
sawst the full-orb'd moon" "When {
twister, twisting, would twist him 6
twist, For twisting a twist three twists
he will twist, But if one of the twists
untwists from the twist, The twist un
twisting untwists the twist" Robert
Rowley rolled a round roll round
Where rolled the round roll Robert
Rowley rolled round?"
Howard Pyle's studio in Whining.
ton, Del, is an interesting combination
of workroom and old curiosity shop
The building was erected especially as
q studio, and Mr.. Pyle is gradually fill
ing it with rare old furniture and curl
GUS antiques. In the little anteroom
are two richly carved high backed
chairs bearing the crown of Sweden
and dating back to the early Swedish
settlements on the Delaware. The body
of an old-fashioned carved mahogany
spinnet serves as paint chest; an enor
nous old chest of inlaid wood occupies
one corner of the room and serves vari
Gus useful purposes. A steel helmet
that protected the head of German
knight two and a half centuries age
and half dozen antique flint locks &C
to make up the stock of properties usec
by Mr. Pyle in studies for his pictures
| of bygOne times,