The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

--"Old Muggs received word that This
daughter had eloped last night" ''1s
that why he is looking so badly cut up2"
mo; it's because he has discovered that
IL isn't true. Inter Ocean.
-Mandy-"Well, Silas, l reckon you
found Laura's house awful fine" Silas
-"Well, them that likes 1t can call II
fine. She had piany in every room
and not bedstid in the house Inter
Ocean.
-Woman--"What a shocking coat"
Tramp-"My dear madam, while l am
no great respecter of conventionalities
l can not bring myself to make an
elaborate toilet until after dinner."-
Detroit Tribune.
-Wife-"Why, John, could hear you
singing to the baby clear out in the
street Why did you sing so loud?"
John-"Well, / had to keep him from
finding out that he was crying Inter
Ocean.
Force Majeure. why,
Mabel, thought you said you would
never accept Arthur" Mabel-"So /
did, dear But he just put his arm
uAOuhb my WdloO NllCh lc pIODOSCht
and-well, 1 yielded to pressure" -
Judy.
"A Common Expression. "A trades
man who was very fondof his glass, pre-
sented check at a Boston banking
house, and on being asked, as usual,
''How will you have it?" replied:
''Hot, without sugar. Yankee Blade
There is some chance of boy
amounting to something If he is stupid
when 6 years of age. 1t is the boys
who are prodigies at learning when
they are young who stay out in the rain
when they are grown.
do you know Mr.. Drydust?" said
Maud. YES" replied Mamie. "He's
very learned" isn't hep" What makes
you think SOP" "He can't talk so long
on such uninterestiug things Wash
ington Star
-"How did you come out with those
plays of yours?" "Evcry one of the ten
has been. repeatedly rejected by the
managers" what are you doing now?"
Getting out book on the art of play
writing. buffalo Express.
Smart Nephew (of the ecity)-"When
yOu ~ w y Jul liObSl, OllClS llclR
ue sure not to blow out the gas"
Uncle Heighcede (who knows thing
or two)-"Well, guess not. What did
/ bring a candle-snuffer all the way
from Prairietown for, anyhow"
Host Ia trife nervous about the
effect of his guests wooden leg upon
the polished tloor)-"Hadn't you better
come on the rug, major? You might
slip out there, my boy" The Major-'O
don't be afraid, my boy. There is no
danger. l have nail in the end of it.
IN. Y. Ledger.
Bridget was "hired girl" who was
too amiable to believe in a scolding A
story of her should be remembered as
an item on the credit side when the de-
linquencies of "help" are being conned
over. "Why, Bridget" exclaimed the
housewife, 81 can write my name in
the dust heren' "Deed, ma'am," re-
piled Bridget, with generous admira-
ton, ''thots more nor l can do. Sure,
now, there's nothing loike education,
after all, is there, ma'am?"
When the South Carolina conven-
tion adopted the ordinance of secession
on December 90, 1860 the city of
Charleston seemed delirious with Joy.
The bells of the churches rang out
merry peals, and these wcrc accom-
panied by the roar of cannons A
group of enthusiastic young nen went
to st. Philips churchyard, and forming
a circle around the tomb of Calhoun,
made a solemn vow to devote their
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor to the cause of South Carolina's
independence.
"A story of how Alma Tadema
learned to paint marble is being circu-
lated, which goes far to prove that prac-
tice makes perfect. His first master
was Dutchman, who set him at work
on a subject wherein marble was con-
spicuous, but he painted this so pain
fully that his teacher was quite i'll.
The master then set the young painter
at work on a block of marble, which he
was made to copy day after day and
week after week until he loathed the
sight of it, and forever after Mr.. Ia
dema was able to paint marble as it is
| painted by nature.
The dates of the first issuing of
newspapers in the original thirteen
states are as follows: In Massachusetts,
| 1901; Pennsylvania, 1919: New York,
1925; Maryland 172S; South Carolina,
1882; (the first newspaper issued south
/ of the Potomac(; Rhode Island, 1892;
Virginia, 1896; Connecticut, 1856; North
Carolina, 1855; New Hampshire, 1856;
Delaware, 1861. The number of news
papers in the colonies at the breaking
out of the war for independence in
| 1775, was only 81, whose total weekly
| circulation did not exceed 1000 copies.
Silk sheets are an elegant caprice
of women who find it difficult to spend
their income. Tney are usually of
plain white, and hcmstitched with the
monogram cipher along the hem. But
sheets of pale pink and blue are also
made with delicate line of embroid-
cry alonr the edge The fancy is one
which will probably be indulged only
by the favored few, and its reign, like
that of silk lingerie, will be brief.
Still, on July nights it might seem like
sleeping on cool cloud pillows to dream
between the cool silken web If any
thing could make July night worth
living such luxury is calculated to ac-
complish it
Some people grow dizzy on looking
down from the approaches of the Brook
lyn bridge, but seldom or never from
the central span, although it is higher.
The reason is that the houses on tho
land sides furnish standards of meas