The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-07-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

When man comes to time, docs IL
not prove that time waits for some
men9-Texas Siftings.
First Moth-"Can help you to .
piece of this flannel shirt?' Second |
Moth-"Thanl<s but have just got up
from dress suit"
"A bit of reasoning In mode dc
Dumas ascribed to Rossini: ~ don't
like spinach, and it is very fortunate
don't, because if / did / should eat it,
and can't endure it."-TidBits
| The late Cardinal Lavigerie once
visited the Omar mosque at Jerusalem,
and, contrary to all precedents, was
allowed by the Mohammedan function
ary in charge to enter without taking
off his shoes. "Cardinal," said the
other, "your feet are quite as holy as
mine"
81 didn't take any cakes, mamma"
whimpered Bobby. ~ only took lit
tie cakelet." "rhen 1 will not give
you spanking, my son." said his
mamma, placing him gently but firmly
cross her knee and reaching for the
cakesturner; 81 will give you little
sp@ds lighthouses are how distinguished
by the mariner by color, combinations
of color, or the periodicity of short
flashes Capt. Mahan, of the United
States Lighthouse board, has devised
a system of signals given by shutters
over the light, by which each light
tells its own name or number, and pre-
vents any possible confusion. Whe n
tested at New Haven last month it
worked admirably.
The first warlike measure Of the
Americans previous to the hostilities
begun in 1912, was the construction, at
Sacks it's Harbor at the eastern end OF
Lake Ontario, of the brig Oneida, six.
teen guns, by Christian Berg and Henry
Eckford. She was launched in 1909,
and was intended for q two-fold pur.
pose, namely, to enforce the revenue
laws under the Embargo act, and to be
in readiness to defend American prop.
erty atoat on Lake Ontario in case OF
war with Great Britain.
I'm 1921 a fierce controversy arose
in England in consequence of claim
! set up by the council of Plymouth, a
company chartered by James l., for the
monopoly of fishing in American seas
between 4O-4s degrees of north lati.
tude. This company demanded from
each vessel fishing in these waters
tax of about eighty-three cents per
ton This claim was stoutly resisted.
! The house of commons took part with
: the fishermen, and the contest was con.
, tinued in the reign of Charles L., and
, was one of the causes of the quarrel
between him and parliament, which
brought on the civil war.
) The first settlement of white people
I in Vermont was made in 17a4 by the
3 erection of Fort Dummer, near the pres.
ent site of Brattleboro, then supposed
: to be in Massachusetts. In the spring
2 of 1777 the settlers in Vermont peti.
Z toned the Continental congress for ad.
! mission into the confederacy, but New
s York opposing, the petition was with
] drawn, and at convention held the
g next year at Windsor constitution
modelled after that of Pennsylvania was
adopted. In 1881 congress offered tc
admit Vermont upon terms which the
people would not agree to, and it re
manned outside the Union until March
4, t791.
The firm of Longmans, Green & Co.
under the same name, dates furthe
back, it is stated, than any other pub
fishing house known to this genera
ton, with a single exception, and b,
buying up that one it became the oldes
publishing house known. The origina
q Longmans, born in 1899, purchased th'
v stock of William Taylor, publisher, il
= 1926, and since then the name of Long
a mans has always stood at the head o
r the firm name, and their headquarter
= are still at the sign of the Ship and tn
n Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London
where the house of Taylor stood at tn
time of the purchase by Longmans il
1926. This firm brought out DR.. John
son dictionary in 1746, Lindley Mu,
10 ray grammar at the beginning of tn
century, Moore's ''Lalla Rookh'' i
y 1896, and paid Macaulay large royaltie
- on his books.
d Joseph Francis, the inventor of tn
10 lifeboat, died at Otsego Lake, May II
~ aged ninety-three years. When tn
'e little Joseph was but eleven years c
IL age he built small boat with cork i
p the bow and stern, which has bee
~ called the first lifeboat built in Amel
ica. The unsinlsable rowboats mad
=. by him when he was quite a young ma
m; were bought by England, Russia an
Brazil. In 1s42 Mr.. Francis succeede
E in completing his corrugated iro
,! water-tight car, but it was not unit
" January IL, 1850, that its great etficienc
NJ was proved. On that occasion the Bri
ish ship Ayrshire came ashore at Squa
Beach, N. j., with 200 souls on boart
The life car was taken outeand mad
-, about forty trips, saving every ON
-, with the exception of man who a
tempted to ride on the outside and WE
washed off. Three years ago Mr.. Fral
els was presented by President Harr
n, son with the gold medal which ha
H. been voted to him by congress-. ~
-. The majority of travelling me
n sleep head foremost on well-ballaste
- road and feet foremost on road whel
the cars sometimes run on the trac
and sometimes on the ties. 1t is lnuc
an pleasanter to sleep headfrst, as
it were, because it prevents that swell
,ss head feeling which results from te
cd much blood being forced in the dire
nd ton of the brain. But in case of an a
or cident it is very much pleasanter
nd sleep the other way. Nature did NJ
ID provide the human neck with as mar
of joints as that of giraffe or ostric
~, | and when n train suddenly comes To