The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-11-13
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Brevities.

Hop vines make paper.
-"SpirIt Of the Press glass of cider.
The hardships OF the eoceaa--ironclads.
Music by Handel--that Of the organ
grinder.
Shakespeare has q blacksmith's shop
il Buffalo
"A peripatetlc show out west goes by
the name Of Wizardian CagIiostromanthe-
Two fatigued travellers, having to
travel ten miles further, comforted them
selves by the calculation that it was only
five miles each.
Which IS the Oldest. Miss Antiquity,
old Aunty DIluvian, Miss Ann Terror,
Miss Ancestor, Miss Ann I. Mundane or
Miss Ann T. Cedent2
The Des Moines dramatic club is dis
cussing what Desdemona meant when she
exclaimed, Would that heaven had made
me such man !"
"A California paper Of late date con-
talns the following advertisement; "Born,
In Eureka, August 10, 10 the wife OF D.
Mannheim, a son-a Is FOUNDER"
"A Georgia Cracker" was offered four
dollars per day to labor, when he exclaim-
ed, ''Sir, dye s'pose I'd work when I've.
just discovered q fresh coon track ?"
"A watering place correspondent writes
that very Jew batheTs bathe at the West
End Whefeupon Mrs Partington saws
she "haal an -idea-that -Il4Sy-b baTned al
OVsr.
Scene IN court: Judge,-@Have you
anything to otier to the court before sen
tence Is passed on you F' Prisoner.-eNo
udge; had ten dollars, but my lawyers
-"Why do you set your cup Of coffee
on the chair, Mr.. Jones ?' SAID a worthy
landlady one morning at breakfast. at
Is so very weak, madam, L thought 1
would let 1t rest"
The Denver News gave, a short time
ago, an account OF a rad Of three hun
dred clergymen" on the frontier carrying
their scslps and plunder with them.1 1t
meant three hundred Cheyennes,
The editor Of the Huntsville, No,
HERALD pops the question in his paper
in this public fashion: There's certain
girl IN; this town who can carry our smoke
house-keys for life if she'll only say the
word"
1t was expected the other day. when
Anna Dickinson rode to the top Of Pixies
Peak, that she would have made speech
on the occasion; but it seems that, for
once, she was willing 10 let Pike speak
alone.
"A lager beer house in Hudson county,
N. j., was formerly church, The shrewd
Teuton who now keeps it was about to
erase an inscription painted over the door
but on second thoughts he left the last
untouched. It's; Let him who is athirst
come"
"A good natured spinster boasts that
she always has two reliable beaus at hand
elbows.
Chicago wants to have the next
worlds far held there. "In the first
place, says the Boston PosT, "it isn't
certain that the next world will have
far, and IN the second place those who'd
be likely to attend it will prefer a more
plous town IN which 70 celebrate"
Are you very fond Of novels, Mr.
Jonesf Very" responded that interro-
gated gentleman, who wished to be thought
by the lady quesloner fond Of literature
Have you" continued the lady, "ever
read Ten Thousand q Year," "No,
madam, l never read that number in all
my life"
"A Cayuga county, N. Y, man sends
the following advertisement to the Syra-
cuse JOURNAL: "Mr Editor please pub
lish that Wanted young lady from the
age OF Is to D who would ike to younlte
her selfe in the locs OF matrimonia 1 the
writer Of this am % years of age feet IN
height IN weight 1876 of occupation farmer"
Maoe SlSdr Dy 1llustraHon.--We over
heard the following between two bell boys
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, recently Pat
asks Mike, whats this suspension Of the
banks 2' .fsHist ye r Nike refsliszsal,'I'i ~
telljye. Suppose ye have i've cents"
"YIs, s.'Ieave it wid me-" "Yis." Next
day ye-want It, and ye Ak me for it,,
VS. a tell ye, mo, sir, I've used it
meself." %
ANDREW jackson was once making a
stump speech In a country village ont
West. just as he was concluding, Amos
Kendall, who sat beside him, whispared,
Zip 'em lutte Latin, General; they won't
be satisfied without it." The "hero Of
New Orleans" instantly thought of few
phrases he knew, and, il voice of thun-
der wound up his speech by exclaiming
"E pluribus unum, Sine qua non, Ne plus
ultra, Multum in paryo." The effect was
Tremendous, and the shouts could be heard
for miles.