The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MIN, NellI II nat IS just the trouble.
Another man has that t"-Mcn's Out
filter.
-"Uncle Jack" said little Nell 10
her uncle who is raising mustachc.
doesn't it hurt TO have all those splin-
ters in your upper lip?' 80 Harper's
Bazar
but Spelled With an E.-Judge-
you are young but Il hardened crimi-
nal. Were you never taught to pray?"
Jewelry thief-"No, your honor; l was
born TO it."--Jeweler's Weekly.
You're the slecpiest locking lndi-
vidual | ever saw" said Dick to the
seedy man on the corner. "Yes, even
my coat hasn't had n nap for some
time," quoth he.-Boston Post.
Caught in Trap. -Charlie-"Does
your ia ther carry pop'?" Lucy-"No:
he leaves it to the young men to do all
the popping" And Lucy smiled so
sweetly that Charlie had popped and
been accepted in a rush brooklyn
Eagle.
-Son-"One of those European doc
tors has discovered that the older man
gets the smaller his brain becomes"
Father-"Ah, that accounts for it," Son
-'Accounts for WHAT" Father-"For
your knowing so much more than / do
about everything"
To be Put in Repair. -Footpad
(three a. m. )-"Wot time is it, mister?"
Belated Citizen" -"Er-er-ny watch
doesn't run" Footpad producing a re-
volver)-"Well, you just hand it over
ter me an watch me and it run fur
few seconds. Chicago News Record.
The Worlds Fair Cooperative Bu-
reau has just closed a lease of ten acres,
on which will be erected the largest
hotel in the world, the Andreas, con-
tanning G,124 rooms. 1t will consist of
a series of buildings separated by wide
courts. The location is just south of
the exposition grounds.
There is one fond parent in Hart
ford who is going to let his beard grow
without molestation hereafter. He had
it shavedsbff the other day. and when
he appeared at dinner with q clean face
for the first time in number of years,
his fve-year-old daughter remarked:
Say, papa, whose head you got on?'
The boy had been passed on the con-
ductor at half-fare rates, and later the
official saw him in seat by himself and
began to talk with him. 'lIow old are
you, sonny?" he asked Ten years
DID," said the boy. AREN'T you rather
large for your age?" Maybe am on
Il train, but l amt when at home, was
the ambiguous answer. And the con-
ductor let him alone.
The horseshoe superstition is very
old. The aucients believed that iron,
as a metal, had unknown powers, and
would drive nails into their walls to
keep off pestilence. Ithas always been
thought uncommonly lucky to find
piece of the metal, and as horseshoes
We're the form in which it was most fre-
quently found, the superstitious regard
came to be transferred from the mate
rial to the shape.
S. A. Keyes, of Rockland, Me-, has
a gun which was made in England in
1929. 1t formerly belonged to Mr..
Keyes' neutrality-suspicious., and his
uncle carried it through the revolution
ary war. Mr.. Keyes' grandfather bore
it with honor in the war of 1912. In
1918 the stock was broken by NJ.
Keyes father, who was then but IA
years old, in clubbing d bear
In 1881 9,4S7 new miles of road were
constructed; in 1882, 1860; In 1885,
after the panic of 1854, the number OF
miles ran down to 2,0S2, but in 1886 the
annual construction ran up to S,O1S,
and in 1887 to IL, SIS. In 1891, after the
panic of 1890, the construction ran
down to g. 500, and this year Will be
light, The volume of grain and mer-
chandise moving is beyond the dreams
of twenty years ago.
The Order of the Carter was in
stituted by King Edward III. of En-
gland, and although not the most an
cient, is one of the most famous of the
military orders of Europe 1t was said
to have been devised for the purpose OF
attracting to the kings party such sol
diers of fortune as might be likely to
aid in asserting the claim which he was
then making to the crown of France,
and intended as an imitation of King
Arthur's Round Table.
"A curious industry has arisen as the
result of the establishment OF the Paris
London telephone. Skilled takers are
by the news agencies to do
all the telephoning for these enterprises
because of their rapidity and distinct
ness of utterance. AS telephoning is
expensive, these experts talk at the |
rate of 100 words per minute. French |
only is employed, because of the alb
sence of the kissing sound that renders
telephone talk in English frequently |
Two French gentlemen, with the |
of their opinions to an extraor-
dinary extent says the Paper Record,
have patented hypodermic syringe all
over the world. This fact arrested the |
of a writer in lie Figaro, who |
at once became curious to know the |
cost of the operation. 1t seems there |
are Ga countries where an invention can |
claim protection, or rather where |
patent fees may be paid. Sixteen of |
these are in Europe, eight in Africa,
four in Asia, twenty-seven in America,
and nine in Oceanica, The total price |
of these "a official scraps of paper
amount to the nice little sum of Sl4, $50. |
New Jersey early became the bat
of the Revolutionary war,
some of its most important contests hav-
ing occurred within its borders, Thirty |
thousand British and mercenary troops |
once held Staten Island, and after the !
battle of White Plains this enemy COM
PEELED Washington to retreat beyond |
the Delaware. But the tide of fortune !
soon turned under the masterly StrateUv |