The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-06-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


last more than 800 or 400 years ut the
outside
Burglar Ito promising young pick.
poclSet) Say, pal, how are yer doin'f"
PiclSpocket-"O I'm gittin' me hand
in. IN. Y. Journal
--Jenlzs-- SIS weakness weak?" BlcnlSs
-"Of course" jerks - "Thcn what
makes it take so much strength TO over
come it?"
--"What can'tunderstand,' groaned
Tommy, sis that little stummick like
mine can have such tremendous big
ache"
-Foley-"H Have you nice neighbors?"
Patterson-"E Elegant. Why, they spend
the fall and winter in Florida and the
spring and summer in Newport"
-"An apartment is so convenient"
said Mrs. Trotter; "when You see any
one coming to call that you don't want
TO see, all you have TO do is to walk
down stairs while they are coming mp
in an elevator."-N. Y. Sun.
-"What do you think of your little
sister, Osgoodson?" inquired his father.
"She may improve upon more ex-
tended acquaintance, replied the little
Boston boy, regarding the new infant
critically, but at present she seems alb
surdly crude and immature
Prince Bismarck has one hundred
and three decorations. Fourteen are
set in diamonds of great value. He be-
longs to no English order. The late
czar of Russia gave him the order of st.
Andrew, the most important in Russia.
1}ismarcll's diamond star belonging to
the order is worth $50, O00
Tho department of Agriculture is
about TO introduce to the people of the
United States new vegetable food re-
scmbling the Irish potato, but longer.
1t is the root of the calla lily, which
grows readily and without much cults
walton in swampy land, yielding enor.
nous crops. 1t is commonly used in
Egypt and Japan, and Florida farmers
have begun to raise it for market.
To mark steel tools, Just warm them
slightly and rub the steel with wax or
hard tullow until a film gathers. Then
with needle scratch your name on the
wax, cutting through to the steel. A
little nitric acid poured on the marking
will quickly eat out the letters Wipe
acid and wax off with warm, soft rag,
and the letters will be clearly etched.
"A glass of water and Il napkin are
no longer the only accompaniments of
drink of liquor in the small bar-rooms,
The fashion is now to hand to each
customer a small handful of water
crosses in a saucer. The bartenders
have suddenly discovered that there is
wonderful medicinal virtue in water
crosses, and they boast that it cures
half the ills to which man is heir.
-Briggs-"That was narrow escape
Bildergate had, wasn't it? You know
how he was just about to marry a girl,
when he found that she spent fifteen
hundred dollars a year on her dresses
G G:iggs-'Yes; but he's married all the
same" Briggs-''True; but he didn't
marry that girl" Griggs-''He didn t?
Who did he marry, then?" Briggs
''lIer dressmaker. Cloak Review.
Russian tea is gradually making it's
way in New York. The Samovar is
scarcely ever seen in any restaurant,
though it is maintained in few Rus
sian households. The tea has been sold
for some years in the Hebrew quarter
of the tenement house region, and an
importer who shares the shop of far
East Side matchmaker reports the de-
mand growing. A few uptown grocers
keep the tea done up in black paper and
labeled in Russian characters.
Adhesive postage stamps were in
troduced in England ffty-two years ago,
and in this country one year later
They We're the invention of James Chal-
mers, printer of Dundee, Scotland
The advance made in the business of
carrying letters is indicated from the
fact that SO late as 1916 it cost eight
cents to carry letter of prescribed
size and containing a single sheet of pa
per distance of forty miles.
One of the vegetable curiosities of
Central Park, New York City, is maple
tree standing just west of the west side
tennis lawn. The tree is fully five feet
in diameter at the base, but instead of
rising as one trunk it splits into seven
teen distinct trees, of which sixteen are
alive, and several are at least ten inches
in diameter. The seventeenth, trunk
four inches in diameter, is dead, having
perished apparently from some defect
of nourishment. Near this tree is
another maple split into eight trunks
-BootblaclSing in New York costs all
the way from ten cents at the hotels to
two cents, or even less, in regions
where tiny lads compete for trade.
Washington square is the favorite re-
sort of small Italian boys, who tempt
ingly hold up three fingers to indicate
the price of shine and lower one in
the presence of an unwilling customer
The same thing is encountered on the
far east side, but no boy on any fre-
quented street dares to enter upon this
cutthroat career lest his competitors
visit him with summary punishment.
In May, 1881, Gen Greene com
menced the siege of Fort Ninety-six, in
Abbeville district, South Carolina. with
less than thousand regulars and few
raw militia. The garrison was command.
ed by Lieut., Col. Cruger, of New York
loyalist. The siege continued from May
- until June IS, when an unsuccessful
attempt was made to take the works by
storm. The siege was raised on the fol-
lowing evening, and the Americans re-
treated beyond the Saluda river. Greene
lost 100 men during the siege.
"A movement is on foot in New York
to induce the legislature to donate that
states building at the worlds fair to
the Chicago organization known as the
Sons of New York, which is comnosnd