The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

rillair in a melodrama." "why SOP"
Because he is always laying out plots
hat amount TO nothing in the end."--
Boston Gazette.
"Mother-"Wbat did you do with
that medicine the doctor left for you?"
Small Boy-'T heard there was poor
siclS boy in the back street, an 1 took
It around an left it for him"
-Mother-"Why aren't you and
3eorgie as good boys as your little
brothor2" Young Hopeful-'T guess
It's cause you had more experience
bringing up eoys wen you commenced
On him
-Tourist-'I see you have fitted up
your scarecrows with hoes and rakes,
so as to look like men working in the
Geld. That's n good idea" Farmer
''Yes stree. Scares away tramps"-
Il. Y Weekly.
"A Speaking Picture. Thomson
"See this picture of johnson. Isn't it
truly a speaking picture?' Joneson-
$50 it is. Growing nervous Let's come
away. 1t may ask us for a loan."-
Yankee Blade.
Very Much Put Out t-Dood-"The
beastly chap, he doesn't know how to
make a photograph" Brown-"Why,
It's n good likeness of you" Dood-
"Pshaw, a feller cawnt see the crease
in my trousers at allr'-photo. Times.
| Mrs Swcll-'Our house is fitted up
with all the improvements and we have
a picture molding in the parlor." Mrs.
Homespun-'S 'Sales alive! But your
house must be awful DAMP To think
| of ,,s, na hn
| paste, | s'pose. boston Transcript.
The following is the simple inscrip-
Cion upon tomb in a quiet corner of
the cathedral at Carthage, which has
lately received the illustrious occupant
for whom it was intended: Here lies
he who was Cardinal Lavigerie, and
who now is nothing but dust. Pray for
him."
"A watch, in the form of 4 shirt
stud has been made by an artisan in
Newcastle, Eng Its dial is three-six-
teenths of an inch in diameter 1t is to
be worn in connection with two other
studs BY turning the upper stud, you
wind the watch, while turning the
lower one adjusts the hands,
"A friend Of ours, then living in Ra-
cine ordered, with other books, from
G. & Co., of Chicago, a copy of Canon
Farrar's Seekers After God, just then
out In a short time the other volumes
came to hand, but being out of the
Canon's book, G. & Co. wrote at the bot
tom of the invoices "No Seekers After
God in Chicago st Marks Monthly.
The Brazilian government has en-
tered into negotiations with the Mikado
of Japan for bringing into the Bra
lillian plantations number OF agricul-
, tural laborers to take the places of the
emancipated negroes. Companies are
started in Rio and Sac Paulo for the
establishment of a line of steamers be-
, tween Brazil and the east for the pur-
pose of bringing over Asiatic immi-
1 grants.
4 Flinders which prevent horse
: from seeing distinctly have probably
J caused more runaways than most
3 drivers would care to acknowledge,
and it has remained for German in
| ventor to treat the matter on homeo-
, pathic principles and make like cure
> like. He has added to the harness line
which instantly closes the binders in
r front so that the fractions animal can
$ not see at all.
4 In the autumn of 1856 big black
e cat, the pet of Mrs. Sarah Van Dykes
: family at Schwenlville, Pa, disap.
h peared. He was mammoth pussy, his
q only defects being the absence of an
eye and a tooth, which he lost in an en-
o counter with another cat. After week
went by poor old Tom was given up as
n lost. Last Friday he threw the family
9 nearly into y fit of fright by appearing
e in the dining-room.
e 1t has heretofore been considered
l perfectly safe TO advertise n large for.
n felt if proprietary or patent medicine
d should fail to do the wonderful things
e claimed for it, but hard headed En-,
n glish judge has just decided that the
patent medicine advertiser can be held
), to his offer, and the makers of n pre-
o ventive of influenza will, therefore, be
n required to pay $500 to a woman who
S took the medicine according to directions
G and was, nevertheless, attacked by in
o fiuenza.
:. The magnificent Episcopal cathe
= dral which is to be built in New Yorl
q City and in which all lovers of archi
e tectural beauty are deeply interested
n is to be the largest and most imposing
d structure in the country. Recently
s. wealthy New Yorker has given hal
IS million dollars toward the fund of fiv
VI million necessary to the building, ant
- work on the choir will be begun at once
a 1t is thought that the choir may b
ic ready for use in December, 1895. 1t will
be situated at the corner of One Hun
h dred and Tenth street and Columbu
is avenue.
'e Praying by machinery is done il
10 parts of Thibet, China and Japan.
,t wheel six or eight feet in diameter
~ ~ covered with rolls of parchment whicl
: is filled with written prayers. TIL
wheel is placed in Q temple, the faith
full each give it few whirls, and tn
to prayer is supposed to be repeated a
man times as it is contained on tn
le parchment. Sometimes the wheel
Is erected over running stream. Thi
I'd keeps the wheel almost constantly il
ul motion and the faithful merely gaze a
lie 1t, bow their heads, and thus acknowl
y; edge the prayers as theirs,
a. "A unique entertainment will b
e; provided for the delectation of visitor
Of TO the worlds fair, if the plans of tn
It. Wah Yung Chinese Theater Compan
Sre approved by the government.
re party of Chinese magnates have lease
er property near the worlds fair ground
re and propose to bring over two hundre