The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-10
MISCELLANEOUS.


large number Of railroads.
Washington is the City of Magnifi-
cent Distances, on, account of the lib
eral plan on which it was laid out.
Excess of grief for the dead is mad.
ness; for it is an injury to the living,
and the dead know it tnot.--Xenophon.
--Camoens, the poet of Portugal,
often felt the bitings of poverty, and
finally died in hospital in Lisbon,
not leaving enough to bury him.
Most people get their grip checked
II they are going away. Some people
who fail to get their grip checked in
time go away never to return.--Troy
Press.
-''I'll shine your shoes so you'll see
your face in 'em," said the boy. GLOW
absurd" said Wilkins "I'm satisfied
to see my feet in my shoes, without
seeing my face in them"
Those who have suffered much are
like those who know many languages;
they have learned to understand and
be understood by all Mime. Swetch.
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mo, don't see any way to cut Mr..
Longtalls's salary "Has he been en-
gagged to preach another year?" "Yes."
well, why don't you give him lot Of
big donation partiesT'-Inter mn.
Dimensions of billiard tabl.s (Col-
lender)-Four feet by eight inches, four
feet two inches by nine feet and five
feet by ten feet. Size of room required
respectively, thirteen by seventeen,
fourteen by eighteen, fifteen by twenty.
The contest over the will of the
late Daniel Hand, the philanthropist,
of New Haven, who died in 1891, leav-
ing about $500. 600 to the American
Missionary association, has ended by
the contestants withdrawing their
suits.
The fund raised in Boston to erect
statue in memory of Bishop Phillips
Brooks amounts to s79,625 in actual
cash, $4,000 of which is loaned at S
per cent, while the remainder is draw
ing ~ per cent interest on deposit.
The Ancient Order of Foresters in
in England has found the admission of
women into its ranks complete sue
cess. There are already seventeen
courts of female foresters, and this
number is expected to be doubled by
uhe emu OF the present year.
Paper yarn is now being substi-
tuted for other cheap stock in carpets,
and is said to be superior to 'shoddy''
and ''mungo," both in cost and
strength. OF course the paper is used
only in the body and on the under side
of the texture, and not on the upper
surface. 1t is said that ffty-five per
cent. Of carpet may be made of paper
without customer suspecting it.
housekeeping is a science. 1t can
not be intuitively grasped. Its prn-
ciples are sometimes impaired bv
mothers to their daughters. No doubt
the science of housekeeping could be
effectively taught in schools. When
the time comes when no girl who ex-
poets to marry is believed to have fin
ished her education until she has grad
uated in the science of housekeeping,
the vexing servant girl problem, which
now seems SO formidable, will have
disappeared from American life.-Mil.
waukee Evening Wisconsin.
The bnrgomaster of Solingen has
refused to register a child in the name
of Emma, on the ground that the Code
Napoleon, which is still in force in that
town, only allows names of saints or
historical persons to be entered in the
birth registers. The object of this law
was to prevent children from being
called "Fraternite," Egalite," etc., ac-
cording to the prevalent fashion at the
time of the French revolution.
He was very tall and very thin. He
entered the Office of Wall Street
man and asked if he could not give
him some work to do, since he was
penniless and out of employment.
"Well-ah--what can YOU do in nv
line?" asked the Wall Street man.
Nothing; only / thought perhaps
your doors were not weather-stripped,
and being tall and thin, l might stand
in front of the crack and keep the
daught off of You" He was dismissed
without employment, but with dol
Lar for his wallpapers Bazar.
"A splendid record for safety of
ships and cargoes was made during
1898 by the large feet of grain carriers
between Pacific ports and Europe. The
voyage is the longest and stormiest of
all routes in the worlds commerce, vet
out of 1926 vessels which sailed from
San Francisco and other Pacific ports
for Europe, only one failed to arrive
at her destination safely and with
cargo in good order. This one shin
was stranded on South Pacific island,
and lack of wrecking facilities alone
prevented her getting off and resuming
her voyage. Her crew was saved. 49,.
When the first issue of the Confed-
crate money was scattered among the
people. it commanded a slight pre-
MUM. 1t then scaled down as follows:
June. 1861, ninety cents; December 1,
1851, eighty cents; December Is, 1861,
seventy-five cents; February I, 1862,
sixty cents; February 1, 1868. twenty
cents; June, 1863 eight cents; January,
1864, two cents; November, 1864, four
and one-half cents; January, 1866, two
and one-half cents; April /, 1866, one
and one-half cents. After that date it
took from eight hundred to one thou
sand dollars in Confederate money to
buy one-dollar greenback. 70
All the great ancient literary char.
actors had their detractors. Socrates
was called usurer by Cicero and
pcdant by Athen@us; Plato was ac.
cused of envy, lying. avarice, robbery
and impiety; Aristotle was abused by
Diogenes, Laertius, Cicero and Plu-
tarch; Virgil was declared by Pliny