The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

oOhuc meu Try 50 nuru W Vc ori8r
nal that they become aboriginal
Young Mems Era.
Faulty faultless, icily regular,
splendidly null, dead perfection; ne
more -Tennyson.
1t is better for city to be gov.
erned by good man than even by good
laws. Aristotle.
He that worries himself with the
dread of possible contingencies will
never be at rest.-Johnson.
The guild of shoemakers is men
toned in A. d. 9s2 as being at that
time very old, wealthy ana respectn.
BILE organization.
The famous "llendall green" goods
mentioned by Shakespeare in Henry
~. were invented by JOHN Kemp,
Flemish immigrant.
According to Homer clothing in his
time was washed by being placed in
water and stamped until It was sup.
posed to be clean.
AT least 500 years before the Chris
tian era, the Egyptians had axes OF
various styles, chisels, msllets, planes
and saws, together with levels, rules,
rollers, wheels and pulleys
Il am of opinion that there are no
proverbial sayings that are not true,
because they are all sentences drawn
from experience itself, who is the
mother of all sciences -Cervantes.
People don't die very often over
here, do they?" inquired the smart
New Yorker. "No, only once" replied
the Philadelphian. And there was an
intense silence.-Philadelph Record.
Talking is like playing on the
harp; there is as much in laying the
hand on the strings to stop their vibra-
tions as in twanging them to bring out
the music.-O. w. Holmes
There are in England and Wales
7s7, ,545 public paupers-that is, persons
who are either inmates Of the aims
houses or who receive outdoor assist.
ance.
-Mother-'I guess you find Jimmy
pretty quick at arithmetic?" Teacher
10, dear, yes! Sometimes he's SO
quick that he skips half the lesson."-
Inter Ocean.
"A single plant of wheat will often
produce 1000 seeds in one season;
sunfiower will yield 1000; poppy,
SO 900; tobacco plant, $50, 600; spleen
wort, 100000
Applicant for Cook-"One thing
more. Is your husband fond of blondes
or brunettes?" Mistress (who is fair)
Blonde, of course" Cook-''Ther
I'll bleach me hair!'-Hallo.
| Kansas capitalists talk of piping
natural gas from Neodesha, where il
was recently discovered, to the zinc
fields of southeastern Kansas and
southwest Missouri.
-Mamma-''Flossie, did you ask God
to make you better little girl?
Flossie-'T never thought of that, il
took SO long a time to ask him to keeI
you from scolding me so much. -
Inter Ocean.
The scarlet tanager, by many con-
sidered the most beautiful bird in
America, has within few years be.
come SO rare that it is seldom seen.
The milliners have almost extermina.
ted them.
"A curious question of law has been
brought before the Vermont courts.
The point to be determined is whether
one man may be held in damages for
injuries inflicted by another mans dog
in the owners house and upon the
owners wife.
-Kentucky's latest freak produc-
tions in the animal kingdom are a
lamb with four extra legs sticking ur
from its back, and another that resem-
bles and hops like a kangaroo never
using its hind feet for the purpose of
locomotion.
A horse can draw on metal rails
one and two-third times as much as on
asphalt pavement, three and one-third
times as much as on good Belgian
blocks, five times as much as on good
cobblestone twenty times as much as
on good earth road and forty tunes as
much as on sand.
There has been introduced into the
house of representatives bill to amend
the revised statutes SO as to permit in
civil cases the verdict of three.fourths
of the jurors constituting the jury to
stand as the verdict of the jury and
such verdict to have the same force
and effect as unanimous verdict.
The laugh of mirth that vibrates
through the heart; the tears that
freshen the dry wastes within; the
music that brings childhood back: the
prayer that calls the future near; the
doubt which makes us meditate; the
death which startles us with mystery;
the hardship that forces us to struggle;
the anxiety that ends in trust-are the
true nourishment of our natural being.
james Martineau.
"A curious phenomenon has been
discovered near Eddy. N. M. In Dark
Canyon, about three miles from Eddy
a number of tunnels were run in order
to tap streams of water to get supply
for the water works. The water was
fonnd running in small natural water
pipes made by the deposit of lime
from the water. The whole space cut
by the tunnels was found to be per-
forated with these lime pipes.
1t is not darkest just before dawn.
The maximum of darkness begins when
the sun has sunk below the horizon so
far that none of its rays are retracted
to the earth by the atmosphere or re-
ficcted by clouds, and continues with
out variation until it reaches q point
near tho eastern horizon when the
light reaches the earth once more.
making the commencement of dawn.
1t is hard to understand how SUCH an