The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Seattle, Wash, was SO called after
powerful Indian chief Of the neigh.
borhood.
The marriages with the deceased
wife's sister or husbands brother num-
bered in France, in 1886, 1856 per 100000
marriages.
--One of the most disagreeable duties
Of the Hawaiian police is the examAna-
ton and arrest of persons suspected Of
having leprosy.
Some persons are SO busy talking
about what they intend accomplishing
that they never find time to begin
Young Mems Era.
Some men are known by their
words and works; others by the color
If their neckties and the cut of their
clothes Young Mans Era.
Buffalo has a city hall which cost
81, $50, OOO Over 9O,OO0,0OO bushels OF
grain have passed through Buffalo
going east in single season.
-Bobbie-'I got q awful toothache."
Jimmie--"Been eatin' candy?" Bobbie
NO" "What made 1t then?" Look
in Mt the coal that's to be carried in."
Inter Ocean.
--Goldsmith's improvidence caused
him great annoyance. He was more
than once compelled to dodge his cred
itors and on ut least one occasion was
locked up for debt.
--Gluck's life was made a burden by
musical squabbles. He was peace
able man, but it was his misfortune to
be constantly mixed up in the brois OF
his admirers and their opponents.
-VirgiPs sore point was the fact
that he could not converse pleasantly.
He often envied the fops of the Roman
court who could talk with ease on the
ordinary subjects of the day.
From Arizona for three years past
has come the earliest car load Of
American raisins shipped east. The
season there is ahead of that of south
ern California and the atmosphere ia
peculiarly suited to the curing Of rails.
ins.
| Gen. Booth, in opening the Saliva.
tion Army congress in New York No.
vember Ia, said that during the past
year more than 15,OOO,OOO persons had
attended the meetings in the halls OF
the army and 10, 900 children had been
cared for while their mothers were at
work.
Henry Harrington, aged 65, of st.
Paul, Minn.. has arrived at Hazelton,
Pa, having walked the entire 1,500
miles in quest of work. He left st.
Paul September 80 and arrived at
Wellsboro, Tioga county, December 9,
covering the distance in eleven weeks,
making an average of 1917 miles per
day.
Cicero was the greatest book col
lector of antiquity One of his letters
is extant in which he urges Atticus, a
learned friend, who was compelled
from poverty to sell his library at auc-
tion, not to dispose of the books at
public sale, but to keep them until the
writer is able to purchase them, Cicero
adding that he is saving all his rents
: for that purpose.
Cato learned Greek at so; Plutarch
Latin at 20; DR.. johnson, e. few months
before his death, began to study Dutch;
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were fin
ished when he was 81; Monaldesco
wrote his memoirs at 115; Cellina his
autobiography at 5S; Dryden began
his translation of the "Iliad" at 6s:
Franklin began the study of natural
philosophy at SO.
Tombstone, Ariz, owes it's name to
an attempted witticism. When Schief-
ferlin, the discoverer of the mines in
that locality, was starting on his most
successful prospecting tour he told a
friend he was ''going to discover a
) mine this time sure" The friend re-
piled: you'll discover a tombstone"
In recollection of the rejoinder, Schief-
ferlin named the mines he found the
Tombstone.
,, New Zealand has twenty-five es-
Establishments in which mutton is
: frozen for the British market. The
!, output is some two million fat sheep a
year. The sheep used for this purpose
are chiefly crosses of Merino and
Down, long-wooled breeds. Shrop-
shire Downs and Lincolns are in much
: favor for rich, level pastures, while in
3 hilly and broken situations Border
Leicesters have proved quite success.
full for crossing on Merino ewes.
birmingham, Ala, is called the
! ''Magic City of the South,' on account
: of its phenomenal growth. Within
" easy reach of it is Red Mountain, with
: millions upon millions of tons of hem
2 attic ore and inexhaustible supplies OF
: : limestone and coal. Krupp once said
! "Should fate drive me from Germany
would go to Birmingham, Ala" Yhe
London Times once prophesied that II
would become the greatest metal
working city in America.