The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

--Muihall says that of our national
wealth $81, 15O, 900, 900 are owned by
native born Americans, being over six
sevenths of the whole.
-"What a queer boy that Is OF
Tompkins!' "Yes; Tompkins says his
boy is the only symptom he has of
paresis. "-Harper's Bazaar.
--Petrarch read and wrote day and
night. On the table where he dined
and by the side of his bed pen and ink
were always ready.
what is your daughters dowry?"
asked Jimpson. "Just about enough
to pay the gas and fuel bills of your
courtship period" retorted the cautious
father.
Harmony OF Color.-Palette $50
Sincere got mad when you criticised
his picture. l suppose he got red in
the face, as usual?" Dauber-"No;
madden. Truth.
The translation OF Quintus Curtius
by Vaugelas occupied thirty years.
The translator rendered every sentence
FIVE or ten different ways and finally
chose that which pleased him best.
"A valise containing the manuscript
of forty sermons was lost by an express
company. The owner, Chicago cler-
gyman, made claim for the value of the
sermons and received SALT.
The largest fresh water lake is
Lake Superior. 1t is 400 miles long, 100
wide, and has an area of $4,000 square
miles, or about half that of Missouri.
Its surface is 634 feet above sea level.
"A Clear Case.-Mrs. Farmer-I
think that young man from the city is
trifing with our daughter Mr.. Far
mer-"Im sure of it. He's the most
trifing man ever saw."-Detroit Free
Press.
-Drapers and others showing win.
dow goods liable to lose color by fading
are advised to put yellow colored glass
in their windows, as the bleaching is
caused by the white rays of the suns
light
Some incautious burglars, while
used such big stick of dynamite that
the explosion startled the town. Every
body seemed to have been awakened,
and the burglars were easily captured.
The most wonderful machine is
that which makes pins 1t measures
and cuts the wire, points and polishes
it, puts head on one end, repolishes
the pins and puts them by rows into
the papers in which they are sold.
The pass of Thermopyle was de.
Tended, not by 500, but at least 1000
Greeks, or, according to some writer's,
$4,000. The 800 were the Spartan con.
tingent. who showed no more bravery
on that occasion than their companions
in arms from other Greek states.
Aaron Burr resigned from the pro.
vincial army by reason of ill health in
1889. In 1900 he and Jefferson each
had seventy-three electoral votes fol-
the Office of president of the United
States. The choice was thus left to
congress, which On the thirty-sixth bal
lot chose jefferson for president and
Burr for vice president.
Prospective brides may be inter.
ested to learn that tnere are thirty-two
days in the year on which, it is said, it
is unlucky to marry. They are Janu-
ary 1, 2, 4, 5, z, 10, Is; February 6, Z, g.;
March 1. 6, 8; April 8, IL; May 5, 8, q;
June Z, IS; July 5. 10; August II. 49,:
September 6, z; October 8; November
Is, 16, and December Is, 16, II.
-Thatnoble institution in New York,
the Children's Aid society, had under
its charge during it's fiscal year just
closed 34,277 children. Homes were
found for 1,940 of them, and 6, 227 boys
and girls were sheltered and fed at the
six lodging houses The expenditure for
the year was $395,S45, but how paltry
the money side looks when compared
with the amount of good ddone-Spring-
field Republican.
"A Bible, printed from the type
called brilliant, which is the smallest
size used in English printing, has been
published by the Oxford University
press. The volume contains 1915 pages,
with map, and weighs less than three
ounces. 1t measures three and half
by two and an eighth inches, and is
five-eighths of an inch thick.
Careful observers have noticed that
fish hawk, after securing it's prey,
4 will often rise very high in the air,
drop the fish, quickly swoop down upon
and seize it, and then fly homeward.
The object of this, as explained by an
| OAA cnAPPCA IA OuO A<OWCT Ddy VI NEW
York, is to get the fish "head on," as q
hawk will never fly with the tail of ltd
prey foremost. So, If it has caught Il
that way, giving it twirl it drops II
and seizes it again with the head point,
ing in the right direction.
"A Deaf Mans Blunder.-A bride
tells of a difficult moment of her recen,
wedding trip. A few days of it were
spent with an uncle Of hers, very deal
and very pious. When they sat down
to dinner on the night of their arrival
the uncle asked the groom to say grace
Much embarrassed, as he was unaccus
toned to officiate in this way, he leaned
forward, murmuring request to be
excused. Whereupon the uncle, watch
ing him, only waited until his lip.
stopped moving to utter sonorou.
"AmenW in response. 1t is hardly nee
essary to add that the blessing for tina,
meal went unsaid.-Argonaut.
"A side show attached to a circul
which showed in country town IL
West Virginia last summer had a biz
sign: "Only 10 cents to see the mos
wonderful thing in the world" Per
sons curious enough to pay the dime
found man sitting ON chair insid,
whiting piece of wood. As he Gu
away, with an outward sweep of hi,