The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS,

BillSins has been reading some OF his
poetry to me. detroit Free Press.
Canoe chocolate, hominy, maize,
opossom, tomato tomahawk.and some
others have come to us from various
Indian languages.
81 say, Weggie, lend me a fve9'
Sorry, old man, but I've only got
three" "Well, lend me that and you'll
owe me two!'-Wrinklo
-"Who was Louis XIV. of France?"
asked the teacher. II know" said
little Miss Fifthave. ale was the man
who made all our chairs"
old Gentleman Ito contented-look-
ing workman-"I am glad to See, young
man, that you do not think your work
beneath YOU" Workman-''No, Sir,
I'm a ceiling decorator.
1T is very pleasant to follow ones
inclinations; but, unfortunately, we
cannot follow them all; they are like
the teeth sown by Cadmus-they spring
up, get in each others way and fight.
L. Il. Landon.
--Croft was an inclosed field, and in
various notifications gave its name to
Crofter, Meadowcroft, Ryecroft, Ban
croft, which was originally Beancroft,
Berecroft, that is Barleycroft and Hay.
croft
An interesting inter-racial game OF
cards at Winnemucca, New, was rudeiy
disturbed-the account does not state
that it was entirely broken up-by one
of the players, an Indian, shooting and
instantly killing another Indian and
squaw and wounding n colored man.
Chinaman and two other Indians.
, Heretofore the convict labor OF
Minnesota has always been given to the
highest bidder, but at the last meeting
tle board of prison managers found
themselves in predioament that has
never existed since the state was or
i ganized, no bid having been received
t from October l. 1898, to October 1, 1895,
0 which places 400 convicts on its hands
: with no work for them to do.
S in 1894 Joshua Pine settled on a
d farm near Walton, N. Y, and planted
G a fine orchard. Although nearly nine
ty-nine years ago when the trees were
n first planted they do not show much
signs of their great age and number
u of the trees are yet vigorous, giving
j. promise of many years of life and
j. fruitage. The largest measures 177h
O inches in circumference, the next larg-
l. est 1O5 inches, and another 102 inches,
/, fruit this year. 81
e Delaware has been turned into
e something very like great game pre-
y serve. strong association, chartered
r by the Legislature, has for some years
/ past been stocking the wilder parts of
$ the little commonwealth with the
:; finest game birds. The concern is in
e fuential enough to procure from time
| 4 -, e.,
of it's game, and, in spite of some pro-
D. tests from local sportsmen not men,
e bers of the corporation. these laws are
so strictly enforced that the game is
e constantly increasing.
u The erratic Missouri river is threat
If ening, and will most likely soon ac-
D. complish the complete destruction Of
d the town of East Atchison, Mo-, on the
n opposite bank from Atchison, Kan.
> The stream has been eating a new
1. channel for several months, and during
20 the past summer has washed away over
re 800 acres of land. 1t is now within an
b. eighth of a mile of East Atchison, and
IS the destruction OF the little town, with
n many thousands of dollars worth of
y valuable property, is regarded as inev-
vt ita BILE, and the people are moving away
lie as rapidly as possible.
+. Mexican dollars in great plenty
'e have lately struck some Maine towns,
a and there is much interested specula-
,e tion as to where they come from.
Thirty were taken in one day by a
N Biddeford merchant, and they have ap-
peared in circula tion in Lewiston, Ban
of gor and other towns. 1t is suggested
ct that hard times has brought out some
a old ,piSa,.'S bpnr1 0thar S1rnasfiopS
re arc more picturesque, but less likely.
re Some of the smart folks are appraising
10 them at the rate of siXty-one cents, but
al with many they pass at par.
j. Zone of the oldest pieces Of work
Id we have yet had to do" said New
es York typewriter, 'came in the other
in day. The manuscript, covering half a
so dozen loosely written small pages was
e. in woman's hand. 1t scheduled the
Id daily work of domestic servant. The
SIS request was that we typewrite 1t SO as
u to leave wide margin on the right
side of each page. The lady had just
ID hired Swedish servant who speaks no
o. English. Each item of the schedule
6 was to be repeated in Swedish on the
SIS margin of the page, and the English
SO was typewritten that the girl might
IL the more easily make ont the foreign
lie words"
IL. The first settlement in Tennessee
CT was made by immigrants from North
Carolina, led by James Robinson, on
Sc the Watauga river, one of the head
S. streams of the Tennessee, in 176S.
1t was on lands of the Cherokees, from
=, whom the settlers obtained an eight
. year lease in 1771. They there organ.
tb lied themselves into a body polite and
.r. adopted n code of laws signed by each
IN adult member in the colony. Others
in soon joined them, and extended settle
Il. ments down the valley of the Holstor
al and other intervening regions to the
nm Clinch and one or two other streams
rv while others penetrated Powell Valley
-. and began "A settlement in the south
ha west corner of Virginia.
as. tone who goes on pedestrian
ed tour nowadays" said man who has
IT. just returned from brief tour afoot
he 'may be surprised at the number O.
M men he will meet on bicycles. The bi
no cyclist of to-day undertakes long jour
rs neys with great confidence, and hs
Is. seems to find keen enjoyment ON the
as. swift-moving, silent wheel. And i