The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-11-18
GENERAL NEWS.

AT the American Centennial Exhibi-
ton, Krupp, of Essen, will exhibit a
mammoth 1,000-pounder gun. ' ~ W
The Texas Legislature has fixed the
compensation of the school teachers in
that State at ten cents per day for each
pupil in attendance.
''The Twenty-frst Ward by Gaslight''
is the name of, a new drama now to be
witnessed at the Third Avenue Theater,
New York City.
Some Carmelite monks from Germany
are building monastery at Paterson,
New Jersey.
An historic flag, the one borne by the
Confederate steamer Shenandoah during
Fhe war, is now on exhibition in Rich.
mond, Va.
The Norton Iron Works, Ashland, Ky.,
are again in full operation both in mill
and nail department, and the furnace is
nearly ready to blow again.
The result of the late competition be-
tween the cable companies is that both
have agreed to charge the same rate
seventy-five cents in gold per word.
The trustees of the Wesleyan Univer-
sity, Middletown, Conn, have resolved
to commemorate the centennial year by
an addition of $500,00O to the endowment
of the college. ,t}
If Mexican reports may be credited,
the miserable fanatics to the number of
five, who assassinated the young Ameri.
can missionary, Stephens, in Ahatuluco,
a year or two ago, have been hanged or
shot. t )E,l llii8 II5IJi
The celebration of the Tooth birthday
of the Portland, Me-, postofice was made
interesting by the original commission
granted by Postmaster General Benjamin
Franklin to Samuel Freeman, dated 1775.
The Hartford tConn.) ,.Coufart an
nounced last Friday week the one hun
dred and twelfth anniversary of its birth
day, coupled with an invitation to its
original subscribers to call at its Office and
receive congratulations and obtain a copy
the newspaper for 1875 free of charge.
It is not generally known that the
United States Treasury Department en-
ploys two learned and skilled chemists,
one of whom is constantly engaged in
fabricating indelible inks, while the 9TH
er devotes his talents to washing out the
inks, and thus far chemistry has devised
no ink which chemistry cannot eface.
The new boot in Paris which ladies are
looking forward to with eagerness is the
Pompeiian. 1t is black velvet, and very
high; the Logging in front all Venetian
cut work, embroidered with tiny silver
cord. The pink, red, or scarlet Pompei-
ian silk stocking is thus seen through the
open clover or acknowledged pattern.
Plain stockings, of decided high colors,
are all clocked on the edges of the feet
and around the ankles in white silk, or
some strongly contrasting colors.
The Japanese soldier is a Sybarite
compared with the average European
man-at-arms. He neither builds his own
shelter, digs in the trenches, nor cooks
his own food. All this is done by coolies,
who bring him his meals in his tent. The
Japanese rations are extravagantly plo-
fuse, and include beer and spirits; and
for the soldiers comfort when off duty,
he is supplied with loose cotton robes
and straw slippers, which are issued to
all upon demand.
AThe Bryant History of the United
! htes is being rapidly pushed forward.
Y lore than half the first volume is al
Ready in type, and the canvassers will be
at work in two or three weeks, although
it is not hoped to publish this volume
before 1S76-the Centennial year itself.
About $4,000 have been expended on
the work, and it will call for $4,000 be-
fore the first volume is published The
complete work will comprise four octave
volumes, Of more than 800 pages each,
and viii cost about 500, ,000-so that it is
one of the greatest undertakings in the
history of the American book trade.