The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-06
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RARAGRAPHS OFALL SORTS

AEip around the world can be made
for 81 600.
Money makes the mare go, but pluck
makes Chicago,
Tom Collins was first mentioned in
Marryatt's "Peter Simple"
Mount Vesuyius is to have railroad
to the top, costing s4,0O0,0OO !
The Chinese law will not permit two
persons of the same surname to be united |
in marriage. ID rasI t--
New regulations for registered letters
will be issued by the Postoffice Depart
ment shortly, tr I-f
The reflection of the late Chicago fire
was plainly seen at Kankakee, fifty-six
miles distant.
Sunday school teacher-"Anna, what
must one do to be forgiven" Anna
"He must sin" A\"tJ >
An Iowa justice, to encourage matri-
mony, has reduced his fee to twenty-five
cents per couple. 4 Z "a
Chewing guhis so cheapat Waterbury,
Conn, that female seminary is to be
established there
Worse than mad dogs is bad drainage.
The,dog kills one IN a million, the bad
drainage one in hundred.
Cuban dollar is now worth only fifteen
cents, but they keep on calling it dollar
Just for the fun of the thing.
The price current of girls for wives in
American villages is quoted lat SlO@SQs
according to age and quality. p 4 (
\ James T. Fields says that whenever he
hears of a "pretty good scholar" he is re-
minded ofa pretty good egg.
Snag remarks, in philosophic re1erie
that he wasa Mephistopholian Cuss who
first termed murder man slaughter.
To remove dandrulT-Go out on the
plains and insult an Indian. 1t goes
right to the spot-or rather the Indian
does. ~
A man who in tallSingto young lady
lays his head upon her shoulder may be
thought too touching in his remarks,
A Jewish paper says that the present
fashion of ladies' costume is almost ex-
actly what it was in the days of King Sol
onion. l..i.. '..' |ta To.
1t is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills would cure Il great many diseases, ii
the patient would only make his own
sawdust.
"Would you like to smoke in your
death bed2" isthe last argument address
ed by an ant-tobacco man to consumers
of the weed.
AAonnecticut editor announces that
he lh& bought $500 dog, and can now
meet the most irascible caller with smile
of calm content.
A singular diflerence-Call q girl q
young witch and she is pleased; call hel
an elderly woman an old witch and hei
Indignation knows no bounds.
At Decatur, ILL.,, the streets are drained
by sinking wells forty feet, (which deptl
there are quicksands which do the work
very etlectually.
Chicago boasts of an Italian count anC
countess, the latter turning the crank o
a hand-organ, and the former turning
over the money earned.
The pleasures of Summer-sitting a
your second-story window and listening
to your neighbor ON the first floor scan
,dalizing yourself and wife
The editor of the Panama Star appolo
gizes for the non-appeamnce of his pape
by saying that he had to haul off TO dig
buck shot out of his legs,
Said Young America to his papa :
"Pa, are you Britisher?" eyes, my sou
was born in England" "Well, we whip
ped you" retorted the youngster
A AWestern moralist acknowledgement
that it is painful to hear an mgodly mai
say, ats as hot as ginger" when yoI
know that he doesn't mean "gingert a
all.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, it is said, offere,
to bet $500 the other day that he woul,
be as hale and active as he is now, forth
next fifteen years. He is a youth of onl
eighty.
Eyes, George Washington was purt
great and high, I" said a Missouri steam
boat captain, "but then, stranger, heney
er owned a steamboat which could hitcl
past the White Queen" Tt
There are forty-two catacombs in an
around Rome, with galleries 5S7 mile
long, andit is estimated that from fou
to seven millions of bodies have fOun
sepulture therein. a. ~