The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-30
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hxed?" asked the pole-cat. "Just one
big cent" said Jerry Hardups. Same
here" said the skunk. Trav.
sler.
Before the Venus of Milo.--SmitGs
ers-(reading sign, Hands Of'o-"The
poor idiots! Do they think any one
could look at that statue and not know
the hands were off?"
What is 1t draws such great con-
gregations to hear Rev. Longtext?"
"a smoky chimney" "How could that
be?' "Well, because he isn't able te
preach over fifteen minutes on account
Of it. Inter Ocean.
--Ecce Homo.-Managing Editor
"Confound It'll Who can swear the
loudest in this Office? ] want some one
to help me- City Editor-"The re-
ligious editor just stepped out, but he
will be back in a moment. Truth.
"A Good Excuse. .-Father-"I guess
you'll have to wear this blue flannel
suit of mine. can't afford to get you
a new one" Son-"But it doesn't at
me-" Father-"That's all right. Say
1t was made in London. n."-Clothier and
Furnisher.
--Reassured.- Charmer ~
feels kinder rocky tday, Grimesy, an
feel leery of doin' me turn" Mama
ger Grimes-Wot yer want ter doP
Bust me show? You goes on, an de
orkestrer plays st. Patrick's Day on
de orginette, an dc snakes are dead
easy fer We. See?"-Puck.
To see the worlds fair and walk
through the buildings the grand total
l. e
or nearly twenty-three miles. This eS
innate does not include state, govern.
ment r private buildings the plat.
sance ignored and no account is taken
OF the long jumps from one building TO
another. A walk of about forty miles
is necessary to do the whole thing up.
One of the Fighter" attractions at
the Columbian exposition is interna.
tional swimming matches every Friday
afternoon. The course will be half
mile. The first came off recently, when
four Dahomians, two of them women,
three South Sea islanders one woman,
Bedouins, Egyptians, Cingalese, Java.
nese and American Indians partici.
pated. Over $4,000 people witnessed
the race, which was quite exciting.
Floating islands are by no means
!; rare, but an unusually queer one is To-
Gated in Cranberry lake, near Arden,
N. Y. Some years ago, in order to keep
the island from floating down the
stream, it was attached to the main
land by a hawser, in nearly the same
, manner as an ocean steamer is tied to
dock. The old hawser still remains
tied to tree, and is the object of much
, interest to visitors.
) 1t is estimated that the number Of
l bodies e,nbalned in Egypt from B. c.
1000, when the art is supposed to have
l been first practised, to A. d. 700, when
it ceased, amounted to 420, 900, 900. An
other estimate places the total num-
I ber of mummies at TAI, 100000, but this
is based upon the extension'of the be-
t ginning of the practice to much
a earlier date. The traffic in the num-
!. mics is very profitable to modern
Egyptian dealers.
Among the crowd of refugees who
n endeavored to leave the town of Bruins
wick, Ca, few nights ago in alarm at
= the outbreak of yellow fever was a
= poor, old and .enfeebled man with n lit
Q tie dog as hn sole companion. When
told that the dog could not be ad-
n mitted to the car, he decided to remain
8 behind, and the next morning he set
g out with his dog to walk the forty
+ miles that would take them, he be-
n ieved, out of the reach of the scourge.
9 The first policemen in New York
!. We're appointed in 1868. The force was
d then called the. rattle watch, and had
Q nine members. The wages were fifty
d cents a night, lone or two beavers and
It 200 or 800 sticks of firewood,' and the
n captain of the watch collected 81 q
o month from each house to meet the eX
a penses. After Q o'clock till daybreal
o it was the duty of the watch to call out
9 the hour on every street corner. They
v We're to arrest anyone "heard to bias
d pheme the name of God,' or anyone i1
l. any way insolent or unreasonable il
n his behavior"
% The expression, "deaf asan adder,
d is from the Psalms of David, where i
r appears in the following form: ''Theil
4 poison is like the poison of serpents
is They are like the deaf adder that stop
,, peth her ear, which will not hearkeI
d to the voice of charmers, charming evel
d SO wisely" East India travellers tel
is us that there is a widely prevailing
supposition in the east to the effec
1t that both the viper and the asp stol
d. their ears, when the charmer is utter
le ing his incantations or playing hi
IL music, by turning one ear to the grount
'r and twisting the point of the tail int
I'd the other.
N -.DonnybrooS is on the outskirts o
re- the city of Dublin, but Donnybrool
10 fair ground is no longer the friendl.
u fighting ground of former days. One
a the tents made of wattles, with patch
a work quilts or blankets or old petit
re coats spread over them, held rows o
lg tables made of doors placed on mound
~ of clay. The benches, too, rested ol
er the same uncertain foundation ant
when the young Irishmen grew un
to steady the bench sent them all dow
IL to the floor. Out on the green ther
II was fighting and sports and at nigh
to the hdd es played jigs for the joll
IS. young people. 1t appears from tn
SO accounts given by the strangers VIII
be visited Donnybrool almost hundre
w years ago that there was good reaso
n for the worldwide meaning given to tn
he mere expression "Donnybrook Fair.
he But it's glories have departed and it
DO many long day since the cheerfu
n shillaly was welded around Donny
on brook castle.