The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

sunrise 10 an hour before sunset, with
an hour for prayers and dinner.
IF there is any person to whom you
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
you ought never to speak. Cecil.
--Rcmorse is mans dread preroga.
tive Remorsc IL we exclude the no
ton of responsibility, is an enigma in
human nature never to be explained.
-Isaac Taylor.
How lie Managed It.-Wiii,s--
''How do YOU manage to keep in a cook
all the time?" Wallace-"O, thats
easy enough. have standing 'ad.
In a daily paper. Truth.
-Dantes Inferno was not origina,
In its form. The dream of vision was
then a popular style of writing. Sew
eral dreamers had visited both the up
per and the lover regions before Dante
wrote.
What need" said the man who
complains, sis a change of climate"
WELL replied his friend, ''you stay
right here in Washington for four or
five hours and you'll probably get it."
Washington Star.
The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do well,
and doing well whatever you do with
out a thought of fame. If il comes at
all it will come because It is deserved.
not because it is sougha after.-Long-
fellow.
Japanese coal has found its way to
Bombay A quantity of it was lately
| delivered alongside in Bombay harbor
at prices ranging from eleven to twelve
rupees per ton. The great Indian Pen
inSt,1a poi1,yn, iv f,x,i Inn
some of it.
Its funny about Dawson he
| knows exactly how many stars there
| are on silver dollar, and Fiske
| How many are thore?" II don't
remember. and that's why wanted to
| ask You to lend me a dollar. Inter
| Ocean.
| Lawyer-"So your wife hit you
with the tlatiron and poker. did she,
and you want damages?" Ebenezer-
Damages! Lawd, sab. no. | want
bout ten tousand dollahs wuf of sat
isfaction, sab! ! dun git all de damage
] kin stand, sah!'-Boston Traveller.
| -Palcstrina opened new era for
church music. The church music of
his age had become SO trivial that the
reigning pontiff was about to order
that nothing be sung in the churches
but the Gregorian tones. Palestrina
interceded for music, and as proof
that suitable music could be prepared
composed his cele ebrated masses.
| Whenever cold snap visits Fort
Myers. far down in sub-tropical Flor
ida. the inhabitants, who have no
method of heating their houses, come
out into the streets and keep warm by
sitting round great fires of wood. The
cold snaps are rare, but when they
come every body, even the northern Wis.
itor is thoroughly uncomfortable. and
poor folks with few and thin garments
really suffer-
In guns the old-style flint locks,
with stocks carved and painted in
colors and with the barrels painted in
peculiar hieroglyphics, are sold to the
Arabs and African tribes in quantities.
The South American takes dainty
barrel of the smallest gauge, with the
stocks also Ella aborately carved and or
namented. The European buys gun
exquisitely finished and inlaid in trac-
ings of gold.
The Emperor Duc-Tu, of Cochin
China, protects his treasures by placing
them in followed trunks of trees.
which float about in huge tank situ-
ated in the center of the royal palace.
There are twenty crocodiles in the tank
as well. When he wishes to draw upon
this bank all of the reptiles are killed;
but this cannot take place without the
joint consent of the emperor and his
minister of finance.
) The earliest known scale of wages
: is that fixed for the whole Roman en-.
pirc by the Emperor Diocletian in A.
ID. 303. A shepherd was to be paid 200
a day: a day iaborer and mule driver
received the same as the shepherds: a
: baker got 40c, and the same was paio
to the masons and carpenters and
smiths; stonecutters got soc and paint
ers 60c. A bricllmaker got 24c per Loco
bricks; n sheep shearer got SLIGO per
100 pounds. A common school master
) received zoe a month for each pupil;
one who taught Greek or geometry, SO
per month. A lawyers fee was S1s.
Jacob Stullenger, who lives near
Piedmont, W. Va, lost a good many
chickens last November, owing to a
big owls fondness for poultry. He set
steel fox trap in the top of cherry
| tTee, 1dSl CHING ~ Will wire, 10 cdtCn
the owl. One night the trap dsap-
penred, and after that the chickens
We're not molested. Stullenger sup
posed the owl would starve with the
trap on his legs but he was mistaken,
for on the 9th of January the owl was
caught again, twenty miles from Pied
mont. this time by Ebenezer Kitzmil-
Ter. Ebenezer had been annoyed by an
owl since Christmas and set trap for
the bird near the chicken house. The
owl got caught and found two traps
too much baggage to carry away. It
had one on each leg.
lit is ever surprise to the novice
. in the painting of human studies to
find out, let his subject be blond or
brunette, the large proportions of blue
he must mix with his white and car
mine colors to produce the natural
tnts OF the human face divine. Where
this ingredient is lacking Chinese
doll effect unnatural and unpleasing,
Is produced. This truth would appear
to be often unappreciated by those
silly women who use paints with the
purpose of bcantifying the face, though
it may be that the snowy red and white