The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-29

Did Noah's bees keep the archives.
In Paraguay girls are not allowed to
chew tobacco till they are I3.
Every lawyer knows that where there
is a will there is way to break it.
Why is the root OF the tongue like
detected mann Because is down in
the mouth
Bashfulness is often like the plating on
spoons-when it wears off it shows the
brass.
Girls named Mary are the most amia-
bic, because they are the most easily
Molly-6ed
We send to our butcher for sweet
bread, and if we want a sweetmeat we
send to our baker,
Those engaged in the Touring mill
business do not make good politicians
They are too apt to bolt.
A Connecticut town boasts Of young
man so timid that he cannot look a nee
die in the eye.
A maiden lady says that if single life
is bad, it stands to reason that double
life is twice as bad.
The best way for man to acquire a
fine flow of language is to stub his toe
against a raised brick.
10 says he can't see why people al
ways say, "She is widow woman, and
not say, "He is widower man"
Nothing so destroys mans peace of
mind as to hear woman express an in
tention to give him piece Of hers.
1t was fine remark of an Irish ven
der of potatoes, the other day, "These
parathies are parathier than any par
athies ye liver saw"
A boy who blows the organ has been
arrested for firing a church in New Ha-
ven. He bellows every time the subject
is alluded to- .u
When a young lady has to stay at
home from a party on account Of lsty
on her ,eyelit is useless to tell her that
Providence doeth all things for the best.
Experience apparently has proved
that the butter factories can make tallow
taste as near like buttera as many farmers
can make butter taste like tallow
The difference between a fool and a
looking-glass is said to be that the fool
speaks without rejecting, and that the
lOOking-glass reflects without speaking.
Hotel keepers justify the high prices
they charge, from the fact that they have
more lat steak than any other class
1t is rare that we see the thing so well
done. ........
A man having a bill against a distant
merchant, sent letter of inquiry to q
banker in that locality. The reply was
He isdead but he pays now as vel
as he ever did. y
Some people complain about theii
children being non-observing, but we {
like to see the child who wont observe
how the family pie is cut and who get
the biggest pieces.
At meeting of Congregational minis
tiers, one gentleman who stated that ht
had been eastward with his superintend
ent, was interrupted by brother cler
gyman, who asked if he meant hi!
wife. rr
Human nature is grand and myste
rious study, and no one can count on /
with any safety. For instance, who
would have thought that Mrs. Taylor
of Fort Scott, would have hung hersel
because her sisters hair would curl anC
hers wouldn't. Even straight-haireC
people have a few little things in thi
world worth living for.
The Baltimore express, due at Gin
cinnati by the M. and c. railroad at
o'clock on the morning of the 18th, me
with an accident at 5o'clock at Abanyor
bridge, east of Loveland, wrecking tn,
locomotive and tender, both Of which
went through the bridge. Engineer DaT
Perdew and fireman Joseph Parent
both of ChilIicothe, were instantly
killed. Both might have saved them
selves by jumping as the train was no
running over twelve miles an hour, Il
they died at their posts, and thereb!
saved the passengers, none OF whom
were hurt.
The schooner Halst ad, from Eri
laden with coal for Chicago, collidet
with the schooner City of Painesville
from Chicago loaded with grain 70
Buffalo, at four o'clock on the morning
of the 18th, off Ashtabula. The latte
sank in thirteen fathoms Of water, witt
a cargo Of $1,000 to 10000 bushels o
wheat. Nolives were lost. No particu
lars have been received as to insurance
The Halstead was towed to Cleveland il
a disabled condition
For several days past Kearny juno
ton, Nebraska, has been overrun wit
a lot of Texas herders, who have com
mitted many depredations, but the cit
zens are afraid to attempt their ares
Matters eliminated last night in row. il
which two citizens were killed. Tn
herders then reueated to an island in tn
Platte river and have fortified them
selves. The citizens have telegraphe
Governor Furnas for arms and ammun
ton, and he has ordered them forwvrd
ed without delay. In the meantime tn
citizens will do all they can to confn
the desperadoes to the island.
Mr.. Joseph Medillwrites from Switzer
land that hundreds Of English ladie
may be met tramping through the mour
tains, Alpen stock in hand, keeping u
with their male captives or friends, The
think nothing of a tramp of fifteen G
twenty miles a day, half up and tn
other half down"a steep mountain, o.
narrow, difficult mule paths. "But, h
says, whenever meet woman car
.,ried on sedan chair by four Switzer
up a mountain, to see a glacier, an avs