The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

IN ATTAINING maturity, ana VIII live
century and Il half.
"A Roman shoe or sandal-malier was
assisted in his business by twenty diff.
ferent deities.
Many African tribes pray to snake
deities, hoping to conciliate them and |
so not be bitten.
There may be many good qualities
In miscr but his love for money kills
them all-Ram's Horn.
Empires are broken down when the
profits of administration are SO great
chat ambition is satisfied with obtain.
ing them.-Dr. johnson.
The nests of the termites. or white
ants, are, proportioned to the size and
weight of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
--Giles-"Did he tell you he couldn't
speak French?" Mcrritt-"No." Giles
Then. how did YOU know?" Merritt
-''lIe spoke some."-Life.
Talent is the capacity of doing any
thing that depends on application and
industry; it is a voluntary power, while
genius is involuntary. -Hazlitt.
Uncle Dick-''Well, Rob, are You
getting on any better in arithmetic?'
Rob-"T should say so. The boy that
sits with me knows his lessons always"
Inter Ocean.
Where ambition can cover its enter
prises. even to the person himself, un-
der the appearance of principle. it is
the most incurable and inhexible of
passions.--Hume.
--Freddy-'Have you-haw-such n
thing as-haw-a full dress cigah?" The
| Tobacconist-"No. sir: but we have
some in very elegant wrappers. Pink
'UIn, London.
AT the Police Court. Magistrate
"Tell me under what circumstances you
"Under eNtenuating circumstances,
your worship.
-Itis better by a noble boldness to run
the risk of being subject to half of the
evils we anticipate, than to remain in
cowardly listlessness for fear of what
may happen.-Herodotus
On anniversary days the Chinese
place food on the graves of their ances-
tors. Ina day or two it always disap.
pears and of course the spirits of the
deceased must have devoured it.
The East Indian ship worm will in
a few months destroy any vessel by
eating out the interior of the beams
and planl1s. They will be left mere
she'll that can be shattered by the fist
Hundreds of experiments have been
made to determine whether toads could
live when inclosed in blocks of stone
and in every ease the toads died before
the end of the second year.
Al 4
no less than fifty-two volcanic islands
have risen out of the sea: nineteen disap
peared, being submerged, the other,
remain. and ten are now inhabited.
Young girls in Greece and Italy
worshiped Diana until they were ot
age. when they dedicated their girdie:
to her by hanging them up in Eel
J temple or grove. and turned to ApSro
. dite.
Five YearOl -Boy-"We've got lit
: tie chickens at our house, Clerk
; "llave you and when did you ge
them?" Five-Yeal-Old why. on
: old hen put hair on Il nestful of egg
and made chichens of them"
Prof. Milton Whitney. of John
Hopkins university. has determine,
that in an ordinary wheat soil there i
Mt least ten Thousand million soil grain
in a'gram (about ii pint. AID in som
of the finest soils this number ha
reached twenty-four thousand millions
: An Egyptian shoplSeeper had a deit.
!, , to whom he offered sacrifice every morn
ing. and whose duty it was in retur1
:, for this reverence to stand in front O
the shop during the day, Il sort of celes
tiul barker" and direct the attentio
> of the people passing by to the sho
and its contents.
There is an exceedingly able ,voma
in Boston who can report speech dt
livered rapidly in German she frs
translating the speech into Englis
and then recording it in stenograrh hi
; characters. Such celebrity of though
: is only approached by the tradition rt
y specting kossuth. who is said to hav
thought in Hungarian. translated mt
Latin and retranslated and uttereil a
;, a rapid rate the choicest English. l,or
y of IL study of the Bible and Shakespeare
: Persons accustomed to see only on
! form of macaroni on their doms sti
: tables are ;lstonishcd at the many vlrie
> ties shown by lnacaroni dealers Their
y are at least forty forms of the az, iclt
+ some of them interesting and art sti'
= as the macaroni and egg, in which tn
= paste has Il yellow hue. is formed int
h discs two and Il half inches in diar,cte
:. and stamped with various ornament;
e devices. This retails at ten cents
'' pound. There are half dozen either
), quite as distinctive.
f When the postage stamp was frs
q resolved upon the post office authoritit
issued prospectus, and otfercG til
i sum of $500 for the best deSigi, an
y plan for stamp. 1t is said that II
J. fewer than $500 designs were sui
: mitted by the artists. men of .ienC
n and the public generally" to wh.m TIL
+ proposal was addressed. The penn
4 stamp came first, and in July, $40,
n two-penny stamp was issued, an / sul
G sequently complete series ranging
4 value from II half-penny to tivc shi
u lings.
', -Vesta was the Goddess of Life an
+ of home. her altar stood Oh ever
d hearthstone, her fire burned IN til
o floor of every public blildinr; EN-
: grants, when leaving their country Il
d ways carried with them ire from I'll
II public hearth. The V.stal virgin
y spent thirty years in 81 rvice- ten
+. learning their duties, ten in pra4ticin
~ tliau tan i'm tanrhiuu noyicaS Aft,