The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-11-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

--HiS Impression .-He-"DtQ you say
he furniture was Louis xIv?' She
eyes. Why?" He--"The bills suggest
the Reign Of Terror. "--Broolslyn Life.
81 gave you ten cents Just before J
stepped into that store" Blind Beggai
well, you see, your new hat changes
you SO didn'i know you" Inter
Ocean.
Cure Tor the Malady.-Patient.--t
say, doc, when do YOU think I'll be ou',
Of this9" Doctor--"Well, can cure
you at once fer cash or in u week foi
thirty days Judge.
| "A Farmyard Episode. .--"Whv dc
you cut up such antics when you feed
your turkeys, Mr.. Farmer?" ssOhl I'm
trying to make game of them. DE.
troit Free Press.
Look n yer, yo', Sam johnson,
De hoss dat yo' sole me las night /.
daidel' Sam-"Daide? Lo'd, dats
funny. He nevah did dat befo'. IN.
Y. Herald.
Free Posthumous Advertising.
Professionally what did Xenophon
owe his reputation?" Student-"Prin.
cipally to the fact that his name com.
menced with X and came in so handy
for headlines in alphabetical copy
books Worlds Fair Puck.
Dentists are great users of costly
metals. Besides, gold for stoppings,
two-sevenths of the worlds consump
ton OF platinum is employed by them
in making the wires by which the
artificial teeth are firmly fastened to
the plate.
One of the ugliest savage races on
earth are the Canoe Indians, who
spend all their daylight time on the
water At the bottom Of each boat,
near the center, some earth is piled,
and on it small fire of sticks is kept
burning for the partial comfort of the
occupants.
An English sparrow met curious
and untimely death in London recently
In trying to take drink of water from
the famous Temple fountain. A gold
fish, it is declared by witnesses, jumped
up and seized the bird by the leg. A
second fish did likewise by the birds
other leg, and between them the spar
row was dragged down and drowned.
-Philadelphia possesses collector
OF horshoes, Boston gatherer of
bricks, New Orleans collector of
sugar samples, Louisville a ratherer
OF sample TASKS of whisky, but Ne
braska beats them all. She boasts of
man who takes locks of hair shaved
from the heads of noted criminals
which he labels and indexes with great
care.
One of the best fishermen of Glou-
ic L.
George Winters. He is of mixed breed.
half Newfoundland and half wolf, and
is a thorough water dog. 1t is fire.
quent occurrence for fish to escape
from the hook when at the surface,
and when this occurs the men call to
the dog, who jumps overheard and
dives for the fish, and is nearly always
successful in capturing him.
-Toothache is no longer serious
thing to treat, and can now be stopped
In the course of two or three minutes
at the outside, and often in half min
ute. The method is very simple.
thoroughly clean out the cavity, take
a small piece of cotton, twist it up into
a roll SO that it will enter the cavity.
dampen the small end and place upon
that three or four granules of cocaine
about the size of small pin head.
press these, with the cotton, into the
mole up against the nerve, and the
eHect Will be instantaneous Every
throb will cease, and the sufferer will
think in few moments he never had
the toothache.
"A singular story is told by the
Abbeville, Louisiana, correspondent of
the New Orleans Picayune. The writer
says: 1.-Two young men, after talk
on the road, galloped their horses off
in opposite directions. Each thought
Of something he wanted to say to the
other and turned back. Tiiey both
ran their horses and encountered each
other at full speed. The horses passed
unhurt, but the riders legs struck as
they passed and both were thrown in
manner to the earth and hurt alike.
Each had his thigh broken, neither
more dangerously than the other"
About the middle of the seven
teenth century, according to a tract
ssued at the time, hairy woman,
Barbara Urseiin Vaubecls, was ex-
aibited in all the principal cities of
Europe. The tract above
'eferred to, which bears this extraor-
iinary title, Barbara, the Human
Beare; True Relation of a Woman as
daire as Any Annimile," gives the fol-
owing account of her: Her name is
Augusta barbara, and she is the daugh-
er OF Balthazar Urselin, and at this
ime q655) is in her twenty-second
care. Her whole bodie even to her /.
ace, is covered withe curled hare
erie soft like woole; she has besides
thicke heavie beard that reaches to
Ter girdle and from her ears hang long
ufts of haire of tho same yellow col
ur"
There are 119,9OO,OOO old copper
somewhere. Nobody knows
What has become of them, except once
awhile single specimen turns up
change. A few years ago 4,5OO, 600
ronze 2-cent pieces were set afioat.
'hree millions of these are still out
tanding. Three million Scent nickel
ieces are scattered over tho United
tates, but it is very rarely that one is
sen. OF 100000 half-cents, which cor
sspond in value to English farthings,
OF one has been returned to the gov
for recoinage or is held by
no treasury. Congress appropriates
ON 100000 to $4,000 yearly for re-
oining the uncurrent silver coins now
! possession OF the treasury. These