The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

He can never speak we'll vhc
knows not how to hold his peace. .--Plu.
tnrch. i4fF4 re3 ,
The sexes were made for each other
snd only in the wise and loving union
Of the two is the fullness of health and
duty and happiness to be expected.
w. Hall.
-Customer--"Is this hairtonic that
you know well Orr" Clerlx--Wcll. ]
should think so. It's been on the shelves
here for the last ten years without ever
being disturbed. Inter Ocean.
lin Parvcnudom. - Sculptor --''l
should think you would like marble
bust of. your husband" Mrs. P.-''1
think not; the three-nights-a-week kind
Is enough for me. Detroit Free Press.
---Of the presidents of the United
States eight have been of Welsh de
scent--.Iohn Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe. William
Henry Harrison, James A. Garfield, Ben.
jamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams.
-Catharine Pair, the lady who had
the singular good fortune to become
the widow Of Henry VIII. would have
been in luck If she had remained a
widow. She married Sir Thomas Sey-
mour, with whom she lived very unhap-
PLY, and finally died under suspicion
of poison. 3@.4A9 aH
The photographic Office has issued
report concerning wrecks and dere-
lets. 1t is estimated that the average
period of drift is thirty days, But notice
is called to the case of the three-masted
schooner Fannie E. Woolston,, aban-.
doned October 10, 1891, and last seen on
February 90, 1894, a period of $50 days
during which she drifted 7,O25 miles,
/ the longest track of the kind on record.
Catherine de Medici, widow OF
Henry H., ruled France with absolute
power for many years during the NOM
inal reigns of her sons, Francis Ii. and
Charles TX. 1t was under her auspices
that the massacre of st. Bartholomew
was planned and executed. In her last
days she perceived the evil consequences
of her policy in regard both to the
people and the nobility, and advised a
change. Ho b@f let NV hAaa.i w
One of the most famous widows Of
antiquity was Agrippina, the wife Of
Germanicus. During the lifetime Of
her husband she attended him in all
his campaigns and shared his dangers.
Suspecting that her husband had been
poisoned, she had his presumed mur-
derer assassinated, and was herself
soon after treated with such indignity
by ,Iiberius that she was driven to
despair and starved herself to death.
An old Scotch lady who had no relish
for modern church music was expires.
sing her dislike to the singing Of an an.
them in her own church one day, when
a neighbor said: '.Why, that is very
old anthem! David sang that anthem
to Saul" To this the old lady replied:
"Weel, weel! 1 moo for the first time
understan' why Saul threw his javelin
at David when the lad sang for him.
Presbyterian. 34'i
Lady Huntingdon, the illustrious
patron of the Methodists. was widow
of forty-tiv years. She lived to be &C
years old, and retained the vigor OF
middle life almost to the end. Her
benevolences We're innpmerable, and
she founded number of chapels and
schools for the Methodists. Not long
before her death it was estimated that
from a moderate income she had ex-
pended over ElOO,OOO in public and pri.
vate charity.
Some one who understands human
nature has written the following:
Mother-''I wish you would rake up the
dead leaves in the yard" Small Sammy
-'Tve got sprain in my wrist, an
the rheumatism in my back, an grow.
ing pains in my right leg, an'-an'
cramps in my left one, an headache,
an toothache. Mother-"After you
have raked the leaves into pile, you
may set it on fire and jump over it,
sammy 'Whoopee! where's the rale?"
The Carlisle (Pa.) Gas and Water
Company recently asked for an injunc-
ton restraining the Carlisle Traction
Company from laying its tracks above
the water mains because of electro
lysis. The case was argued May 9, and
Judge Sadler said, as it is an important
issue that involves millions of dollars
worth of property throughout the
country, it must be fully investigated.
The case was continued so that the
railway company may take testimony.
English collars have somewhat lost
popularity in New York. 1t is not
many years since collars of English
make were usually offered to man
when he asked for the best; but some
of the houses where this was the case
no longer keep such goods in stock.
One dealer in mems furnishing goods
gave as excuse for the change that En-
glish collars are too heavy for summer
wear, and added that buyers sometimes
complained that such collars shrmnk in
the washing.
1T was not until July I, 1s47, that
the adhesive stamp WIS issued ina this
country. May 3 of that year an act of
congress was approved, and stamps OF
the denomination of Ave and ten cents
were issued. The fve-cent stamp bore
the portrait of Franklin, and the ten
cent stamp the likeness of Washington.
In each case the picture was enclosed
In rectangular frame. In 1851 the
\ postage rates were reduced, and three
new, stamps, one, three and twelve
cents, were issued. Then came "a TWEEN
ty-two.cent stamp and later on a thirty
cent stamp XtefA ~ ~ s5N .gsdi
--Some unpleasant appearing statis-
tics have just been issued by the French
government. Explanations of the fig.
ures may come later to tone down the
evil impression, or explain it away. In
1885 abont $1,000 hectolitres of absinthe
We're retailed in France; in 1899 over
1?6, 900 hectolitres were similarly sold
and there has been marked increase
IN tha ,,nncunntion ~ oil .,<la,, . II M,