The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
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1T Is EASY to be, but hard to appear
70 be.-Ram's Horn
While the man who seasons sausage
may not be a philosopher, he often mas
= sage air about him.
The creature who sells wilted vege-
tables in the city during the dog days
Is the green-goods man that the au-
thorities should look after
--Joggers-"I hear You got nice
round sum from Scribblers for your
latest poem.' Rimer--''Yes, a nice
round sum; something like this-O."-
Philadelphia Record.
--Irascible Old Waiter, this
plate is quite cold" "Waiter--"Yes,
cir; but the chop is 'ot, sir, which
think you'll find it'll warm up the plate
nicely, sir"-Tid Bits.
There are gracious, serene, hopeful
and happy old women who are more
beautiful in their wrinkles than they
were in their maiden roses.-Ram's
Horn.
How do you like your new music
master?' "He is very nice, polite
young man. When made mistake
yesterday, he said: Pray, mademoi-
Sellc, WHY OO YOU UttNC ~ uAuSiA PUAAAc
to improve on Beethoven?'"- Figaro.
Observation-Disclosures, my stomach
says it is dinner time" Mamma
"You'd better go and see what time 1t
is.' Robert (after an inspection of the
clock)-"Well, mamma, my stomach Is
three minutes fast"
"A white oak was lately cut near
Shenandoah Junction, w. Va, which
made three logs whose continuous
length was thirty-six feet, the diam
eter of the largest one at the butt
being seventy inches, while the small
est end of the smallest log measured
forty-two inches across.
"A prize parrot was recently bought
by the Archduchess Stephanie, OF
Austria, for s4O0. An evidence of its
ability as a linguist was given when
she heard it recite the Lords Prayer in
six different languages. The man Of
| whom she bought it was a ventrilo-
guist, who had taught the bird to open
its mouth, while he did the talking.
The age of squirrel rarely exceeds
| years; that of the rabbit Z; sheep will
live 10 years; dogs have been known to
exceed 90; cats and foxes rarely go be-
yond Is, while pigs, deer, the bear and
the COW have often lived beyond 20
years. The horse has been known to
exceed 80; the lion 20; the camel, the
eagle, the raven and the tortoise have
been known to pass five score; one or
two swans have been known to pass
into the third century.
1t does not look reasonable that
six to twelve months should be needed
to make billiard ball, but a first-class
ball cannot be made in less time, owing
to the tendency of carved ivory to
shrink. If it shrank equally q ball
could be cut and polished in a few
hours, but it does not, the shrinkage
being greater in the direction of the
width than of the length of the tusk.
A ball must thus be roughly shaped,
then kept for a number of months, un-
til the shrinking process has been COM
pleted, when the fine cutting and
polishing may be done.
| That vulgar upholstery of art which
sought by many cheap devices to adapt
frame to picture in ostentatious fashion
seems to have had its day in most of
the print shops. One seldom sees now
the frame of an equine subject gar
nished with genuine riding whip or
pair of silver stirrups, and even that
hideous little beast enclosed in a frame
with great chan across the glass and
and labelled Dangerous" For the
safety of the public and the like, has
almost disappeared. The time has not
yet arrived, however, for those who
bought these things to turn them to
the wall, though doubtless many who
received them as presents have BAN
ished them to unused apartments.
"A New Yorker, who was employed
twenty years ago in helping survey
streets in purely rural district about
Pittsburgh, since covered by the city,
contrasts the present comparative
cleanliness of the place with the per-
petual dun pail that then wrapped the
city and it's suburbs. On rural hill
sides, five or six miles from the heart
of the city, the grass was perceptibly
darkened by it's constant bath of car
bon. Chickens showed tinge of this
. grimy atmosphere upon their feathers;
even the wild birds were dingy, and
peaches hanging upon the trees blushed
dull red through fuzzy semi-opaqne
, with thick particles of the flying CRIME.
All this was seen in a region so thor
oughly rural that the city engineers
sometimes had to ply the AK for an hour
or more in order to obtain vistas
through which to survey the streets OF
the future.
The New Jersey beaches are veri-
table museums after a brisk easterly
wind, and among the things that i'm
!, press the stroller is the duplication of
objects in the wreckage. For instance,
few days ago there were hundreds of
small blue bottles near Sandy Hook.
They had contained samples of new
drug, but how did they get there, in
that one spot? Among other things
washed up by the sea at the same point
were bundles of papers, bundles Of
clothing, tags, pillows picture frames,
candles OF tinted wax. a huge carboy,
, u dead parrot, monster sturgeon,
, many dogs, rats, cats, crabs, birds,
I beetles-some alive-and fsh-nursing
tubes and nipples, corsets, bustles, hair
, brushes, paint brushes, bamboo rods,
dolls toys, an umbrella, shells, boxes,
! oil cans, pipes of clay and corncob, bird
cages, mouse traps, a chair, candy, a