The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-10-14

consumed the minute animal
cul@ in the fluid ejecting it again
through some other channel.
The student of sublime rhetoric
has often heard of England, upon
whose vast empire the sun never SETS"
but we, too, may proudly boast of the
extent of our possessions. The most
western point of Alaska is $500 miles
farther west than San Francisco, and
the Aleutian Islands stretch 1000 miles
farther west. When, therefore, the
suns last rays are falling upon our
westernmost possessions it's first morn
ing beams kiss the easternmost point
of Maine.-Boston Globe.
C-The difference between the atmos-
phere of the best ventilated houses and |
the outer air is illustrated by the con- |
duct of cut flowers. Blossoms that |
retain their freshness but Il day or two |
when standing in water within doors
will sometimes live twice as long when
dropped in shady place out of doors,
even without the aid of other moisture
than they obtain from the earth and
air.
The nickels and small silver coin
paid to the ticket sellers of the eleva-
ted railways in large cities rarely reach
the main offices of the companies. BY
the middle of the afternoon, at some of
the principal stations, the accumula.
ton of change will weigh number OF
pounds. Relief comes in the form of
tradesmen's clerks, who lug away the
coin in small bags and leave bills in
place thereof
M -e
found new use for oranges. They
scrub the floors with them. Go into
almost any town in the orange growing
districts and you will see the women
| using the luscious fruit exactly as our
housekeepers use soap. They cut the
oranges in halves and rub the fiat, eX-
! posed pulp on the floor. The acid in
the oranges doubtless does the clean
ing, but at any rate the boards are as
white as snow after the application. 1t
| is thought that lemons would be better
than oranges for this purpose because
of the additional acidity.-Good House
keeping.
| -SaXon,girls thousand years ago
always Wore gold crown during the
l marriage ceremony, this article being
kept in the church. and fee paid the
| priest for its use by the brides of the
parish. In the year 927 the Danes
raided the south of England and stole
one hundred church crowns, and there
was no marrying in the afflicted vii
| lagos for nearly six months, until new
crowns could be made.
The visitors to Central park, New
York, number from 10000 to $50, 900
per day. Policemen have been in
structed to arrest all dogs found in the
park without leading strings. After a
days hard chasing after the many un-
tethered pets, the whole force had
caught only one dog. Most of the out
lawcd animals thought the policemen
wanted to play with them and made
the most of their novel amusement.
I'm quaint old Nantucket is still to
be seen the house in which Lucretia
Mott was born. 1t is large frame
structure, with the "hip roof" which
distinguished the efforts of all right
minded architects at that time. 1t has
wide, many-paned windows and a hos
pitable doorway, with two flights of
steps leading down to the street. 1t
= now has coat of fashionable cream
white paint, but is otherwise un.
changed.
The Parliamentary Commissioners,
in 1854, having established "a new gov
ernment in Maryland, called new as
sembly, one of the first acts of which
was to SO modify the Act of federation
of l649 as to exclude "Papists and pre-
lates" from it's benefits. They also
passed acts multiplying the oath of ale
-iance to the Proprietary and denying
ais claim to be absolute lord' of the
province, as his charter called him. The
Roman Catholics and the Episcopalians
In Maryland equally felt the oppres.
sions of the commissioners. Finally, in
1740 compromise was effected and
toleration restored
The Pcnobscot Indians retain q
good many of their tribal characteris-
tics, in spite of their civilized surround.
ings and the infusion of white blood.
All the islands in the Penobscot river
belong to their reservation. and on one
of them, Mt Oldtown, they have large
settlement. Several of them are we'll.
to-do. and none of them show marks
of poverty. They find ready employ
ment as lumbermen in the forests in
winter and as guides for hunting and
fishing parties at other times. At Old
!. town they make light and serviceable
canoe that is said to be better than Il
white man can make. 1t is built 'oi
wood and canvas, but Is modelled on
the lines of the birch.