The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-01-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Poor old Lushforth fell down and
broke tie trestle of his nose" Don't
you mean the bridge?" "You might
call it bridge, but as no water passes
under it / thought the other word bet
ter. indianapolis journal
Miss Fitzogre-"Wcll.g good-by Per-
cival, and be good boy" Percival "a
very good hoy, who has just been
specially warned not TO make personal
remarks about people in their prcsence)
-"Good-by. I'll not tell nurse what /
think of your nose till you're gouel"-
Punch.
Maine has only nineteen cities
within its borders. Portland is the old
est city and Deering is the youngest,
having just thrown off town govern
ment. Cape Elizabeth. Brunswick,
Skowhegan, Dexter Pennington, Cam.
den, Carbon and Houton are thinking
favorably of city government
The following are examples of eight
| syllable words in the English languge:
Anthropometamorphosis, antisupernat-
uralism nticonstitutionalist anhydro.
phepsiterion, iatromathematician, in
comprehensibility NATURALIZATION,
syncategorematical unconstitutional
ity, unintelligibility, valetudinarianism
and vicissitudinality.
There are naturalists in this day
and age who believe that horse hairs
will turn to living snakes; that toads will
live for thousands of years in the cavity
of a rock without food or water; that the
barnacle goose was developed from the
shell-fish of that name, and that the
bird called sora is a species of winged
frog.
"A New Jersey truclz-farmer who
went to New York few days ago took
with him fifteen pearls which he had
taken from mussels found in a small
fresh water stream near his farm. The
pearls were sold for large sum upon
the opinion of a New York expert. who
said they were the finest American
pearls he had ever seen.
A new variation of the niciSel-in.
the-slot machine is an apparatus by
which You lay parcel on the shelf
and have it delivered. The customer
steps on platform, on which is an OBJ
long box of steel The top flies open
and a steel shelf comes up, on which
the package is laid; the sender atiiXes
stamp valued at fifteen cents, and re.
tires, when the box closes. Wagons
make hourly collections. The STAMP
has coupon attached, which the sender
keeps as receipt
Most people says an artistic gar.
dener "rake off the leaves from Their
lawns and then to protect them smear
! them over with some vile compost. ]
can't understand why they prefer the
rank favored stuff to the beautifully
variegated blanket of leaves nature
provides for that very purpose. What
is prettier than wide stretch of the
restless, tiuttering things, and no better
protection can be given the grass than
they afford. Enough will decay in the
course of the winter to enrich the soil
sufficiently, and when razed off in the
spring the lawn is as neat and clean as
one can wish.
The invention of the hand loom
antedates all authentic history, but un-
doubtedly originated in either Hindus-
tan, Egypt or China. The Old Testa-
ment, frequently refers to woven fab
rics. The Israelites carried with them
the art of weaving when they lef:
Egypt, and Pliny accords the invention
to the Egyptians The loom was prob
ably known in England prior to the
conquest by Cesar, at which time
woolen and linen cloth were manu-.
factured at Winchester, to supply the
Roman army
Clocks, called water-clocks, were
first used in Rome, l5s before Christ;
clocks and dials first set up in churches,
913; clocks made to strike by the
Arabians S0l by the Italians, 1900; Il
striking clock in Westminster, 1868; the
first portable one made, 1880; none in
England that went tolerably, till that
dated l54O, makers name n. o., now at
Hampton Court palace; clocks with
| pendulums, etc, invented by one Fro
mantil, Dutchmun, about 1856; repeat
ing clocks and watches invented by one
Barlow, 1876 Till about 1851, neither
clocks nor watches We're general.
The proportion of travellers killed
in railroad accidents in France from
1875 to 1889 was one to every "a 900, 900
of passengers and one wounded to
every 1000, 900; in England for the same
term one to every 2l,000, 600. of passen-
gers was killed, and one to every $685.
600 was wounded: on the German rail-
roads accidents are more frequent, al
though the number of travellers is less
one to every 5000. 600 of passengers
was killed; in Belgium between the
years 1881 and lSSs one to every 6, $780,
600 was killed, and one 20 no 900 pas
sengers was wounded; in t1s Uuited
States there was one to 2,S0C, 0nC killed,
and one to 42S, 900 injured.
Prof. Bicllmorc has good word for
the common house-hy, which, although
nuisance when it has become old
enough to go about and alight on hui
man flesh does valuable service to hu-
manity as a scavenger There are, he
said, in North America alone over 1O-
600 different varieties of flies. The
young ones in their larval state con-
sumo large quantities of decaying veg
etable and animal matter, and it has
been computed that were il not for this
work foul odors and poisonous particles
would so predominant in the air as to
breed disease of II typhoid or malarial
nature. The service thus done to man
kind by the larvae of the flies could not
well be calculated.
Where the Language Laoks
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