The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

During the thirteenth century n
France an archer received fifteen shil.
lings month, knight G4 10, a field
marshal g16. &"
--Dressmakers In France in 1870 av.
eraged nineteen pence a day in wages;
hower-makers. embroiderers, lacemak'
ers and laundresses averaged twenty
eight pence.
The food Of working people in Hol'
land is mainly potatoes, vegetables,
beans and peas. With the exception Of
horse flesh, fresh meat is rarity.
"A Definition. --Teacher-'What is.
the feminine OF man, Thomas?"
Thomas-"W Teacher-"Andss
the feminine of gentleman" Thomasy
Observation-Disclosures. =
Napoleon once called attention to
a bright star he saw shining In his
room, and said: ut never deserted me.
/ see 1t on every great occurrence urg-
ing me onward 1t is my unfailing
omen of success"
If wife in India is abandoned by
her husband, she waits eight years II
he has gone on a pilgrimage, six If he
went to study and three If he travelled
for pleasure, and then is legally di-
vorced and may remarry at her pleas.
ure.
-"Doctor, do you think that the Gig
arctic habit really affects the brain?''
Doctor-"That is q question that will
probably never be answered" 20,
doctor, why?" "Well, man of brains
has never been discovered smoking
one. Inter Ocean.
-Madam-"Well, Mary, what do you
think of the pictures at the academy"
Mary-"O, mum, there was picture
there called Two Dogs after Land
seer, but looked at it for nearly half
an hour and I couldn't see no Land
seer. Spare Moments.
I'm the shifting movement of this
restless country some people yet have
been content to abide by the ancestral
roof tree DIR George Adam died at
Canaan, Conn.,, at the age of 81 years,
in the same house in which he was
born, and in which he had lived all his
life.
Two men uprooting peach trees on
the farm of Mrs. Richard Diehl, near
Chestertown, Md, on the eastern shore,
unearthed the other day an iron pot
containing hundred and fifty dollars
in old coin and an open-face silver
watch, doubtless the forgotten treasure
of some one who buried it when many
persons were boarding coin during the
period of inflated currency.
Those South American medals and
decorations that await some officers Of
the United States navy were doubtless
actually manufactured in New York or
possibly in Paris. The South Ameri.
can republics go abroad for nearly all
such things, bank notes and even coins
included, and New York does larger
share of the work than any other city
of the United States.
Although the curfew perhaps never
passed the Alleghenies, something
nearly its equivalent used to prevail in
New Lisbon, o., the county seat of
Columbiana county. The stroke of
nine on the court house bell was gen.
orally accepted as indicating the hour
for closing shops and for Fastening
homeward. The lives of many families
were regulated by the bell, and the
younger members in particular were
held to account when they reached
home long after it's stroke of nine.
Women lecturers on labor topics
are novelty on the Pacific coast, and
much interest is aroused in Oakland
over the fact that in course of leo.
; turers under labor union auspices three
; women lectured on the labor problem
; as women see it. Women of the Pacific
. coast gre only now beginning to join
the labor unions, and the accession ot
J ''three lady cigarmakers' to the ranks
OF Federal Labor union of Oakland q
few days ago, was made the occasion
, of an enthusiastic demonstration.
California prospers apace. At The
close of last year the state had popu
lation of 100000, and since 1880 the
assessed value of property has Just
doubled. She has the largest pc,
capita wealth of any state in the
: Union, and her savings banks now
have on deposit s13s, 1000, 600. She rank.
first among the states in the produc
tion of gold, wine, honey, oranges al
monds and walnuts, and is running
! close to first on many other products
Last year her mines yielded gold to thu
. value of $4,000, 900, and other precious
{ metals to the value of s7,OOO,O00 Sar
8 Francisco is now the leading whaling
l port of the world.-N. Y. Sun.
One of the most ingenious expedi
> ents for overcoming the difficulties O
> sinking shafts for mining or other pur
poses in wet measures is the s'freez
. ing process" Supposing that the bot
. tom of the shaft is 30 continuousl,
flooded that the miners are unable t,
use their picks or in any way proceed
with the excavation, pipes are run
8 down from the surface to the foode,
locality, and through these pipes i
I forced a powerful freezing mixture
a The consequence is that the impedin,
b water becomes solidified, and the work
3 mau can quarry his way through tn
r ice, which now becomes a protection
!, from the body of water beyond, an,
!, the sinking of the shaft can be con
n tinued.
!, Rare Egyptian Antiquities.
In accordance with promise an
4 nounced some time ago. some exceed
: ingly valuable selections of antiquities
recently discovered, have been pre-
= sented to the British government b