The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04

say So lie. said he coal MT soc any
sense in our waiting a whole year,
Inter Ocean.
Old Mr.. BENTLEY (roading the pspcr)
u see that in recent storm at sea a
ship loaded with passengers went
ashore" Old Mrs. Bentley p'acidly)-
How fortunate! I can imagine how
glad those passengers were to get on
dry land. d."-Tit-Bits
Make small dot on paper, then
look at it through q diamond. II you
can see but one dot YOU can depend
upon it that the stone is genuine, but
if the mark is scattered or shows more
than one, you will be perfectly safe in
refusing to pay ten cents FOR stone
that may be offered you ut $500
On Silver Heights, near Winnipeg,
q few butIaloes are kept remnants of
the enormous herds that rolled like u
brown tide from the Texa8 plains to the
Saskatchewan. The experiment is being
tried OF producing a race OF hardy stock
by breeding the butfaloes with cattle.
The offspring resembles the COW rather
than the bison, but has somewhat
shaggy coat and an i'll temper.
"A Pennsylvania railroad conductor
has classified the commuters who come
to the city on the morning trains.
Those who take the train between 6
and I are ''workers;' those between
and 8 are "clerilers;' those between
and are "shirl;ers," while those be-
tween 9and 10 are "smirlicr5." BY
"slnirkers' he means people OF leisure
as well as ''mashcrs,"
Tho Ambulance Reporter. Every
newspaper has its telephone reporter
aud its kodak reporter-nen %ho r"sh
through an assignment and take
chances rather than follow it to the
end; but greater has appeared in one
newspaper Office. He was sent to inter-
view a Chambers street hospital ambu
lance surgeon and he rang n Il call for
the ambulance from q popular all-night
pharmacy. Then he interviewed the
surgeon at his leisure. Judge.
Bottled beer especially that pre-
pared for export is much stronger in
alcohol than draught beer and much
OF the American beer sent abroad bor-
tNto SiNt7S u LsSii pow CIV ~ iAtF' hNIii
discovered, too, that some, at least. of
such beer does not suffer by transit III
ship. A United States ship now in port
has on board some beer, now nearly nine
mont this old, which has made two voy-
ages across the Atlantic, and is not the
worse for its travels
The best gold fields in America to-
day are in North Carolina, is the opin-
ion of DR.. Tiernan, an old miner oi At
lanta, and the statement is backed up
in local paper by other god miners OF
that region. This should be- interest
ing news Cor the crowd Of disgusted
miners now trying to get away from
the san Juan country, Colorado, and
recalls a remarl; OF Connecticut gold
mining expert; There's a great deal
OF gold in Connecticut" he said; Gust
about enough toruin any company that
undertakes TO get it out"
The Chinaman is progressing in
American ways Three ccle,tials in
Stockton, Cal, last week engaged in a
bold safe-crackinG Job, with chloro-
forming trimmi gs, that would not be
counted arliss by any Mclean cracks
man. They broke into the store of II
Chinese merchant NJ night found the
old man and his two sons awake,
knocked them down, chloroformed and
bound them, and then drilled square
piece out of the safe large enough to
admit an arm. They emptied the safe,
and at last accounts We're at large with
the two or three thousand dollars in
cash that it contained.
Several young wives in Chicago,
who had become dissatisfied with the
high prices and poor work Of their
dressmakcrs, formed IA amateur dress
making club for the purpose of work
ing out the problem of making their
own gowns. At their meetings, each
sets forth her own ideas and con-
tributes of her skill and experience for
the general good. One has good eye
for color; another can drape and an
oth-r trim, and still another has a
knowledge of fitting. They first con-
fued their attentions to tca-gowns and
common dresses, but now all the best
dresses are made, and made satisfac-
torily, in the club
The following is list of the local
tiles of the principal headquarters OF
Washington during the old war for in
dependence: Vassal house, Cambridge,
! 1775-G; at No. 1S0 Pearl street and No. /
Broadway, New York City, 1776; also
Morton house, at the junction of Varicli
and Charlton streets; Roger Morris
house, Harlem Heights, New York isl.
and, 17I6; the Miller house, near White
Plains, Westchester county, N. Y, 177G
Freeman's tavern, Morristown, n. j.,
/ 1777-'7S; Ford mansion, Morrstowu
1770lsO; Schuyler house, Pompton, N
j., 1777; the Ring house at Chad's Ford
1 on the Brandywine, and the Eimar
1 house, Whitemarsh, 1777; the Potts
/ house, Valley Forge, 1777-7s; the Brink
erhoff house, Fishlill, N, y, 177S; al
Fredericksburg (now in Putnam county
n. "; New Windsor-on-the-H Hudson
I 1779, 1880 and 1881; Hopper house Ber
| gen county, n. j., 1850; Birdsall house
| Pecksklll-on- -the-Hudson, 1850; De Wind
house at Tappan, 17aO; Moore's house
/ Yorktown, Va, 17Sl; Hasbrouck house
/ Newburg on-the-Hudson, 17S2-S3; farm
house ~ Rocky lIill n. j., near Prince
ton, 1853; Fauncv's tavern, corner o
iIrord and Pear treats, New York City
\ whcr, he parted with his officers 1888