The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

the pin in the chair, sis what consider
point well turned Washington Star.
--Treebag-"Did Joblots leave any
last requestT' Humplate-"Yes; he
wanted the funeral procession to drive
around by the way of the bah grounds
--Wife--"John, do look at that poor
waiter; what makes him so one-sidedY
Husband-"I guess il is because he has
been so frequently tipped. "Inter Ocean.
"A Sunday-school Surprise Now
you're nicely dressed little girl. Is
volr father indepcndent?'' "No, thir.
lie ith in Jail. l."-Brooklyn Eagle
Our English language is full of &C.
centricities. We wind up watch to set
it going. But we wind up business
concern to stop 1t. Howell Courier
"A little miss had prepared to recite
in Sabbath-school the line SEARCH the
Scriptures. When the teacher asked
for her verse, however, she hesitated,
then bravely uttered the words "Hunt
for the prescription.
When Harry and Lucinda go out
rowing they love to work the same oar.
tits SO sociable, you know, and then it
reminds them of the words of the poet.
Two souls with but single thwart." :"
Boston Transcript. ID
The Sword Swallower-''I i have had
notice that they don't want me any
longer in the museum" Fat Woman
We'll, who will take your place?"
Sword Swallower-"Why, a girl from
Boston is going to swallow her words :"
Inter Ocean.
An original method of inducing the
residents of Alsace- Lorraine to become
Germans has been discovered by the
Volk, the organ of Herr Stoecker.
This journal proposes that the state
shall give dowry to every native of
Alsace-Lorraine who marries German.
1t was on Friday that Columbus set
sail from Palos Friday he hrst saw
the new world, Friday he reached Palos
on his return, the four hundredth ami
versary of the discovery falls on Friday
and on Friday this country was chris
tened after Americus Vespucius, the
Florentine discoverer.
An erroneous school of barracuda
was sporting in Monterey bay, Cali
fornia, the other day. when, with the
sudden turn, they Seaded straight for
the beach without diminution in their
speed, and were soon landed high and
dry upon the shore. The belief is that
I, the barracuda were driven ashore by a
| school of whales
| &C. l.. Walker, chief clerk of the
Central railroad at Macon Ga, has an
old bill in his possession. 1t is $40
| - b of ~
printed in 177S. On one side is the in
scription, Persecution the Ruin of
Empires" On the other side appear
the words, death to Counterfeiters. "
The idea of manufacturing power
on moving car to run dynamo to OPP
crate a motor to propel car seems to
be roundabout way of getting at the
result of electric traction, and yet that
is what western man is said to be
steam for power; but why not use the
steam power direct?
The famous story of the word "sir.
loin," or, more properly, "surloin," is OF
recent creation. A king of England
the ''merry monarch" most likely
coming in hungry one day from the
chase, had served up to him savory
loin of beef. So delighted was the fam.
ished king at the sight of his favorite
dish that he knighted it on the spot
and it is now known as ''sir loin" even
to this day.
President Harrison's most formida.
BILE rival for the hand of Miss Caroline
Scott, who afterward became his wife
was a rollicking Irish boy who fell in
love with her, as did her husband, while
they were both attending her fathers
school. He is Thad L. Conant, and he
is living now in Evansville, Ind. where
he is river editor of the Standard.
One of the model cooperative asso
Citations of the country is the Fruit
Growers union, which was organized
in 1867 and incorporated in 1888. Its
membership is 574 and it had ISSUED
4, 1866 shares up to January last. Its OBJ
ject is the protection of the grower by
obtaining the highest prices for hi:
fruits Shipments and sales are at
tended to, and necessary articles are
supplied at the lowest rates possible
The total amount of last years bust
ness was $114,361 The net assets of the
society are $3S, 500.
Petroleum, when stored in bulk
either in tank steamships or in tanks
on shore, must be provided with mean:
for expansion when the temperature
rises A drawback in appliances ha.
been the admitting of air on the con
traction of the oil The manager o.
large works in West Hartlepool Eng
land, has devised an apparatus that
will prevent the access of air. In cylin
drical domes on the top of the tanks ht
fits pistons, the rods projecting through
the tops and moving freely. The
pistons rest on the surface of the OF
and rise and fall when it expands anG
contracts.
The independence of Burmese
women is remarkable. They manage
their own affairs, lord stalls in tl,
bazar, with which no one interferes
marry when they choose, and divorce
their husbands as soon as they please
No jealous wells cover their faces; nc
melancholy purdoh seclusion prevent,
them from mixing with the male sex
They first dance and laugh with al
many admirers as they choose, and las
of all they smoke-not dainty cigarettes
on the sly, taking Whit while they
read the latest French novel, as thei
European sisters do; no, but cigars
Cigars longer than men use in Europe
cigars foot long and two inches in cir
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