The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

l"No--all the signs. Puck.
MIR. Relish tells me he has COM
pletely lost his appetite" Mrs. Hastily
-"Well, he's found one, then, that is
much better than the one he had
Inter Ocean.
--"I want something that will make
me sleep, DOCTOR Doctor-"What's
the trouble?" ''It's tooth coming"
Doctor--.'One of your wisdom tecth?"
l"Goodness, no; one of the baby's teeth"
Inter Ocean.
| Collegiate. e.-Frend-''Let me con.
gratulate you: some one told me to-day
your son would be valedictorian of his
Glass; Old Sport - whats thatg
There's no place of that sort on the
football team. Detroit Free Press.
Miss Style--"How 1 do pity those
poor horses that have to wear hats dur
ing the summer "Why, it's great
mercy; 1t protects them from the heat"
"Well, but half the time they are not
on straight. Ocean.
-Obeying Instructions Stranger
SIS the editor at home?" Servant
Eyes, sir, but he is engaged" Stranger
Twill you please tell him that his
house is on fire?' "Impossi-
BILE! He gave strict orders that he was
not to be disturbed. Judge.
DIR. Cook, who is to go to the Arctic
on trip that combines business and
pleasure, says that the cold of New
York is more trying to him than the
cold of Greenland winter. The latter
is dry, sharp, with the moisture frozen
out of the air, but winter in New York,
he says, is wet and raw and penetrating.
| "A good deal of gratuitous service is
rendered in behalf of the employment
bureau of the Young Womens Chris
tian association. The bureau procures
places for female wage earners in vari-
GUS branches of industry; it has an ex.
change for woman's work, and it has
classes for industrial instruction. The
whole of it's business is conducted at a
very small expense.
There is said to be in Chicago the
biggest collection in the world of idols,
fetiches, totems, l1obongs, tubus and
other symbols of heather worship OF
all countries 1t was gathered at the
expense of many thousand dollars by
the late Mr.. w. j. Cunning. 1t is ex-
pected that it will find a place in the
new Columbian museum.
1T is being realized that deaf mutes
suffer from imperfect lung expansion
because they use the lungs so little in
talking, singing, and deep breathing,
and an effort is being made to benefit
them by gymnasium work especially
adapted to relieve this fault. A pecu-
liar gait is also characteristic of the
deaf-mute, which it is expected proper
physical training will remedy.
| When the Mother Hubbard toilet
was abroad in the land, one small Ohio
town distinguished itself forever by
passing law prohibiting the wearing
of the gown outside of house limits.
And the landlady of small village
inn in England has handed herself
down to posterity in similar fashion by
refusing to let two women cyclists,
clad in kniclerbocker suits, sit down
to dinner in her public coffee room.
Ira III. Benjamin, of Romeo, Mich,
has a copper coin issued by the oppo
nents of Andrew jackson in the cam
paign of 1884. On one side, encircline
the center, are the words, Perish
Credit. Perish Commerce, 1854" In the
center is the figure of a hog running
with the words, "My Third Heat" or
it; above the hog, "My Victory;" below
it, Down with the Bank" On the
other side, encircling the center, ar,
the words, ''My Substitute for the U
S. Bank" In the center is medallion
of jackson, and below is the words
Experiment. My Currency. MyGlory.
Many people waste n great deal o
their strength by swinging their arms
backward and forward all the tim'
!. while walking. 1t is curious fac
that the practice is followed by one o
the sexes much more than it is by tn,
other. An observer has taken note
J upon this subject. After standing TO
good while at the corner of Broadwa,
and Fourteenth street he was able t,
allege that nearly sixty men in ever.
!, 1OO and only twelve women in ever.
100, swing their arms when walking
Most of them move the right arm witt
the left leg and the left arm with tn
right leg. A man who gave up tn
habit for time returned to it, for tn
, reason that it seemed to help him t
walk rapidly.
The chaparral cock is famou
bird in Texas and some other south
western states, where it is known b.
:, various local names. It's fierce-looh
ing bird, about the size of bantaI
rooster; has long and powerful legs an
feet, strong bill, three or four inche
long, and is an exceedingly swift rur
|. ner. According to the Texans, thi
e bird eagerly hunts and eats cent
4 pedes, tarantulas and scorpions, and
4 also follows and destroys rattlesnake
{ in peculiar way. Waiting until tn
s reptile is asleep in its coil, the bir
a drags branches of dry cactus, s
l. as to completely surround the snake
!, Then the serpent is aroused by pushin
! q piece of cactus against it's skin, an
a it Immediately tries to escape. Bein
= unable to pass the thorny hedge,
d turns at last in it's blind rage to strih
Il itself, and thus dies of it's own venom
d Then the chaparral cock dances aroun
II with every show of exultation, an
b goes off after another victim.
y Money Value of st. Louis.
ls When Louis IX., the saint, surrel
g dered with his whole forces to til
Us Saracens ut Mansura, on the 5th (
q April. 1850, l.OOO,OOO golden bezants-
d equal to half that number of the livre
le of the day-were demanded for h
N freedom. But the Moslems came dow