The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.


tae ye"-Dundee News.
- never turn out for. scoundrelE,'
said q bully meeting Quaker and step
ping up squarely before him TO inaugu,
rate a quarrel 'Jdo," said the Quaker,
and placidly took the other side of Tbs
way.
johnny (who had just been scolded)
-"Am l really SO bad, mamma?"
Mamma-"Yes, Johnnie, you are very
bad boy" Johnny acknowledgement,
anyhow, you ought to be glad I'm not
twins"
Mrs, Wrangle-"You must have
been quite i'll to be visited by your doc.
5or twice day" Mrs. Polltadot-"O,
no. But he's friend of ours just start.
ing out and l wanted TO encourage him
all could"
"A Man OF His Word. .--Bumpus-"No
woman will ever have me under her
thumb" McSmith-'By Jovel Here
ensl where can hide?" McSmith-"In
there, quick! Bumpus-"H Has she gomez"
McSmith - yes" Bumpus - "Well,
what did tell you?"--Brooklyn Eagle.
An Englishman has invented rub
Der stud for floor and stairs. 1t con-
sists of q small iron plate with nail
projecting from under the surface,
around which rubber is nodded. 1t is
fixed IN place by blow of the hammer,
the advantage being that when worn
it can be easily removed and replaced
by others.
Don't you," said the earnest young
tln, htc /, "a
arc beyond your power of expression?"
"Yn'as; l fwequently have thoughts
that are verwy hah'd to eXpwess; and
the worst of it is that when get them
expwessed l cawn't help wondering
why ! went to all that trouble. Wash
ington Star.
Salt effects the freezing of ice cream
by causing the ice to melt, on account
of its own slight affinity for water. The
ice in melting rapidly absorbs heat or
renders heat latent, and hence reduces
the temperature below that of ice
which simply melts by heat acquired
from surrounding objects by conduction
or convection Of air
Mr. Moneybags (reading) gold man
Richburg is dead and his son will be
sole heir to his immense fortune" Miss
Blanche Moneybags- Il feel reasonably
certain that some others will contest
his will" Mr.. M.-"Who, pray?" Miss
Blanche-A dozen girls promised to be
sisters to Jack Richburg, and they'll
claim relationship. "-Des Moines Argo-
naut.
"A watch is composed of 9S pieces
and over 1000 operations are used in its
manufacture. 1t takes 30S, 900 of the
small screws which are used to weigh a
pound. The hair spring is a strip of
steel about 915 inches long, 1-1o0th inch
wide and 27-1O, O,OOOths inch thick. A
2O-l ,OOOth part of an inch difference in
the thickness of the strip makes diff
ference in the running of a watch of
about six minutes an hour
well, you got the ofice?" eyes"
''What did it cost you?" That's hard
question. You see, broke my leg run
ming for it, and that cost considerable;
then my brother-in-law was killed
making speech for me, and had to
bury him; then barbecued all my cat.
tie killed three mules ridin' around the
country, mortgaged the farm, and got
divorce from the family, so, you see,
it kinder foots up!"
Goldfish are getting scarcer and
scarcer every year. They used to be as
thick rs herrings on the Newfoundland
Shores but now they are very seldom
found in that part of the world. They
may be plentiful enough in the deep
ocean, but are not easily taken by bait,
and therefore are seldom caught by
deep-sea fishermen. Cod are found on
European and African coasts, but as far
as this part of the world is concerned,
in fifty years time they will be prac-
tieally extinct Globe Democrat
The Philadelphia Telegraph states
that the holding of q convention for the
nomina tion of candidates for president
and vice president costs about fifty
cents for each voter in the country, and
the cost of counting the votes cast at a
general election is something like a1.75
for each voter. AS there are eight mil
lion voters in the United States, the ex-
penses of a nom mating convention are
about 81, 900, 900, and of the collating oi
the results, about S14, 900, 900. The cost
of canvassing by the two political par.
ties is, perhaps, $40, 900, 900 more.
The first iron casting made in
America, Il kettle, cast at the SAugus
iron works in 16 SO, has been presented
to the city of Lynn by j. e. Hudson, oi
Boston, liueal descendent of Thomas
Hudson, the original owner OF the cast
ing. Thomas Hudson owned sixty
acres of land on the westerly bank OF
the SauguS river and sold it to the iror
works company. He claimed the first
article made and received this kettle
which has been preserved through two
and n half centuries in perfect condi
ton.
The New York fish commissioners
in their last report, in speaking of the
appearances OF pike in some of the Adj
rondacks lakes, use these words: Wher;
they (pilSe) arc found in sufficient mum
bers the trout 20 to the wall. Where
pickerel have gained a foothold it is al
most impossible to disloge them, ant
the commissioners can suggest no RENE
dial legislation. The only course re
naming, in the commissioners opinion
is to stock with black bass" Thi
means complete obliteration of th
shailow-water troat in the lakes re
ferred to by the commissioners.
-The reason person sinlSA in quick
sand is because the latter is composed
chiefly of small particles of mica mixe'
largely with water. The mica is S
smooth that the fragments slip upol