The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

her hat and gloves Inter Ocean.
I'm Trade Miss Nuritch-"Would
you marry q man in trade?" Miss Old
family ly)-."Really, l don't know
/ never had an opportunity"-Dctroit
Free Press
You give me pain" said Gargoyle
to the man who came to put in broken
window. Not much dc" " replied the
man. Il charge you for it"
-IIighhy-"I don't think mentioned
the price of the umbrella, so how do
you know it's great bargain" Plain
talk-'T thought It was when bought
it couple of weeks ago. Inter Ocean.
What" said the inquiring young
woman, do you mean by a universal
geniusY 60" said the artist rather
scornfully, "a universal genius is an
all-around amateur. "--Washington Star
"A Plausible Derivation. lobby
"What sort of a doctor is a specialist,
papa?" Pater-"One who devotes him
self to the accumulation of specie" -
Smith, Gray e. Co s Monthly.
AT the Chemistry Rxam. (which is
the best-known insulator?' The candi-
date, a young student, pale and thin,
with n bilious complexion and a savage
look about him. Poverty, sir!"--La
Monde Illustre.
The bride had just left the altar
and the dear old grandma was kissing
the fresh cheek of her blushing young
descendant 'And now, my dear,
whispered she of the white hair and
time-worn face, remember that life's
cares must be life's pleasures. IN. Y.
Times.
During the cold and snowy weather
of the past winter foxes about the
North Beach life saving station, on the
Maryland coast, were driven to desper-
alton with hunger. In their starving
condition they seemed to lose the fear
of men, and actually approached the
life saving station in broad daylight and
attempted to steal chickens and even
small pigs.
The ancient Americans who built
the large mound at Walnut Grove, near
Wheeling, w. Va, little thought they
were providing grading material for the
street PAYERS of the nineteenth CEN
tury, but they were. Contractor Coch-
ran, who paved North Fifth street,
Martins Ferry, had big hole to fill
He purchased the mound and dumped
1t in the hole.
An Alamosa, Col, newspaper, in n
birth notice printed in it's columns the
other day, affords an interesting notion
of the composite character of the great
American people in the west. The
child, whose advent in the Holland
colony was announced, is the first
Dutch child born in the San Luis val
| ley The birth notice was written by
a Dane, put in type by Mormon, the
proof read by an American, the type
placed in the form" by German, and
the paper printed by Mexican.
"A woman correspondent of several
| German newspapers went away disap-
pointed after visiting the New York
| downtown tenement house district
with charity physician. She looked
in vain for the deep poverty of Cont
mental cities and was astonished at the
little attempts at ornament in the tene-
ment house homes Above all she was
! surprised at the sight of oranges vended
in the streets. The poor as she had
known them in Germany would regard
oranges as an unattainable luxury.
The worlds submarine cables now
measure about 1876 nautical miles,
in 1,16S sections Different govern
ments control S33 sections, or 13, 1888
miles; France claiming 5000 miles;
Great Britain, 1899; Germany, 1879,
and Italy 1,O27 miles. The remaining
335 cables, aggregating ,G2S miles,
are owned by private companies. This
great length of cable has been nearly
all made on the banks of the Thames,
but Italy now has cable factory, and
| France will soon have two To lay
and repair the cables requires the con-
slant service of specially equipped
fleet of thirty-seven vessels of Sc, 955
tons.-The Great Divide (Denver)
"A commander in the United States
navy says that the heaviest drain on
the resources of the officers comes from
social obligations, especially in foreign
ports. They are invited to dine with a
king, a prince, a governor, and as rep
resentatives of this nation they have to
60 Then, in return, they must invite
the potentate to dinner with them;
they must decorate the ship brilliantly
and provide sumptuous "spread" not
only for the king, but for as many OF
his ministers and hangers-on as he
chooses to bring with him, and every
time this is done each officer must go
down into his pocket for s25 or more.
Anybody can measure, approxi-
mately, the breadth of river without
surveyors compass or any mechanical
means whatever. The man who desires
to make the experiment should place
himself at the edge of the stream, then
stand perfectly still, face the opposite
bank and lower the brim of his hat
until it just cuts the opposite bank
Then let him put both his hands under
his chin to steady his head and turn
slowly round until the hat brim cuts
some point on the level ground behind
him. Mark the spot where the hat
brim cuts the ground, then pace off the
distance and it will be found about the
breadth of the river.
DR.. Joseph Gardner has donated a
valuable tract of land in Indiana to the
American National Red Cross Associa.
tion as permanent endowment The
tract contains 7S2 acres, and has upon
1t a village, post office, bar tenant
houses, orchards, forests, including
groves of sugar naples, quarries of the
famous Bedford Oolitic stone, a beauti-
ful river frontage of one mile and
springs of excellent water. A trunk
line of railway passes through it, three
other lines of railway are near it, max
ing it easily accessible for shipping pur-