The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

pand the more he will have to lose
when the storm comes. Rams Horn.
"A man who formerly acted as fire
man to locomotive refers to his recol
lections of that time as tender remin.
lscences."
--"Fine weather for corn remarked
the passenger clinging to the strap.
The car lurched and There goes my
entire crop!" groaned the passenger who
was sitting down.
MIR. Bullion-"Youa are far too young
to marry my daughter You are only
eighteen" Tom-"Yes sir, but Miss
Julia is thirty-four so the Wvo of us
would average about right. Jester.
Not Good for Shaving. g.-Rastus lin
need of n shave)-"Kin you lend me a
razzer, Pm goin' to party tonight.
Gawge-"Cert; here's one wild teef on
II, it kin cut jess bully. ."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Physics Class. s.-Professor-"S Speak
Ing of transparent objects, glass and
water are transparent, because we can
zee through them. Now, Mr.. De Kid,
can you give me another example?" De
Kid.-"Yes, sir; n hole"
Likely He Had.-"Papa," asked
little Ethel, after a season of deer
thought, did you have any idea that
would go right along living with yor
and being your daughter the first tim,
we were Observation-Disclosures
journal.
The announcement of a forthcom
ing English wedding contains the re
quest that the old custom of throwing
rice and flowers should be dispensed
with. Throwing slipper after the
bride is an old Saxon custom, but
throwing rice is oriental, and in En-
gland dates only from the time of the
Indian nabobs
The government tract of land al
West Point contains about 2, 100 acres
most of which was purchased in 1870
from the son of one of the origina,
patentees; the rest was purchased il
1924 Jurisdiction was ceded by New
York to the United States, over part
of the tract in 1926 and over the re-
mainder in 1875.
1t isn't what you see but what you
feel that will make your work interest
ing. You can look at thing and see it,
but that's nothing. You can look at
something which may give you an emo
tion. That's feeling. Facts don't amount
to anything. Cyclopedias are full OF
them. It's an individuals expression ot
them that is interesting.
In 1922, James l., then king of En-.
gland, made strenuous efforts to intro.
duce silk culture to supersede tobacco
growing into the colony of Virginia,
but with no great success, though con.
siderable silk was produced. In 164G
there were 5000 white inhabitants and
300 negro slaves, and the colonists had
a large amount of live stock. Tobacco
at that time was the colonial currency.
"A European correspondent informs
us that Russian expedition is now in
northeast Siberia for the purpose o1
bringing back mammoth which has
been discovered there frozen in per
feet condition. The writer adds that
he has strong hopes the naturalist in
charge of the expedition may discover
the eggs of Ross Rosy Gull (Rhodoste
thia rosea), as yet unknown to zoolog.
lists. Science.
Queen Victoria's Hindoostanee
doesn't come to her without hard dig.
ging. She actually has Hineoo secre.
tary, fact unknown to her American
admirers. His name is Munshi Hafii
Abdul Karin, and if his pupil were not
queen he would be called tutor.
Mr.. Karin is fat-faced, dark-skinned
gentleman, who wears eastern raiment
and has soft fringe of black beard ali
round his cheeks and chin.
John johnson, newly rich man,
wishing to be considered of literary
turn, bought books right and left tc
found a library. Among his purchases
was an old dictionary. This he sent tc
be rebound. When it was returned il
had printed on its back the words,
'Johnson's Dictionary" This famili.
arity he could not endure, and he in.
dignantly asked the binder why he did
not put on his full name, John John
sons Dictionary"
One hundred and nine thousand 10
comotives are atpresent running on the
earth. Europe has 68,00O, America 40,
600, Asia $500, Australia 1000 and AT
RIGA 700. In Europe, Great Britain and
ireland take premier position, with IT,
900 engines Germany has 10, 900, France
1000, Austria Hungary, the second
largest Continental country, has 5000,
Italy 1000, Russia $500, Belgium 2, 900,
Holland and Spain 1000 each, Switzer-
land 900 and the remaining European
states 1900.
AT late fair in Brittany, France, a
monk from the Friestine monastery ex-
hibited plain-looking table with an
inlaid chess board on its surface. The
inventor, or anyone so disposed, sets
the pieces for a game and then sits
along at one side of the table. How
ever cautiously he plays he is frequent
ly checlsmated by the pieces from the
opposite side, which move automati-
cally across the board. No matter how
scientifically the player plays the
ghost-moved pieces frequently come out
ahead. No mechanism is apparent; to
all intent the table is a solid board.
Crowded Parlors.
Strangely enough, while the city
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