The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-06-10
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VARIETY

Recently, while fruit dealer in Bloom
ington Ill.,. was unpacKing box OF fruit
from the South, he discovered an I'M
mense tarantua lurking in the straw
around bunch of bananas.
A man hanged himself in Paris in the
presence of his paralyzed wife, who was
nnable to move or cry for assistance, and
who was obliged to witness the horriiy-
ing sight of his death struggles.
The manufacture of caoutchonc from
milk weed (dSclepias) has been underta!-
ken by company in Canada with capi.
tai of 100000. The milky juice yields
about four per cent of caoutchouc
The effect Of the new license law in
Pennsylvania has been to close up quite
a number of small housesin each county.
The high rate Of license, and the bond
required, are the causes of this result.
The gold Of California was noticed by
early Spanish explorers, and was again
discovered on the Colorado river just
century since, in l775, but attracted no
attention till its re-discovery in l848,
when the existence of very rich gold al
luyions was made known.
The criminal authorities in Belgium
have made treaty with distinguished
prisoner to remit three yeurs of his pen
atty in virtue of his disclosure of various
methods of getting out of prison. His
disclos es induced them to change all
the locks on their prisons.
The Fort Scott Monitor, claims that the
prairie chickens and quail sent to market
from Kansas last year would have de-
voured at least 60,0O0,00O grasshoppers
had they been left unmolested, and urges
the people to prevent the slaughter of
those birds this season.
Col. Scott, in reply to toast during his
recent trip, expressed the belief that the
Texas Pacific Railroad would be COM
pleted to Texarkana this sumner, and
said that he fully expected at the next
session of Congress to obtain the aid
asked for from the Government.
A smoker in Doylestown, Pa, stage
mo ladies in the vehicle) dropped match
with which he had just lighted a cigar;
The match lit the newspaper mail, and
all that was saved of the venerable ve'
hicle, after cooling off in milldam, was
the running gears.
A French scientist proposes plan
whereby ocean steamers may avoid the
danger of collision with icebergs in
foggy weather by carrying a submerged
electric thermometer, which shall ring a
bell when the lower temperature OF the
water indicates the proximity of large
pillars of ice.
The discovery of boiling lake in the
Island of Dominica is announced. 1t is
stated to be situated in the forest-covered
mountain behind the town Of Rosseau,
2,500 feet above the sea, and to be two
miles in circumference. The margin OF
the lake consists Of beds of sulphur, and
its overflow finds exit by a waterfall of
great height.
A curious cl3e Of kidnapping came up
for trial in the Washington Police Court
the other day. One Brooks is charged
with tying boy of nineteen, in 1873,
taxing him to schooner in Baltimore,
and selling him to the Captain. He did
not have opportunity to return home till
few days since. The case was sent up
for the action of the grand jury. r3,o----
The body of the wife of a we'll known
citizen of Westfeld Mass, who 'appar-
emily died year ard half ago, was re-
Gently eXhumed for burial in another lot,
Some persons present had the curiosity
to open the coffin, and discovered, to
their horror, that the corpse was turned
over, and the hands of the dead woman
were clutched into the hair of her head,
while her burial clothes were torn to
shreds in many places. ,-
A boy in Williamstown, Massachusetts,
becamea man in this way; While hoe
ing corn one afternoon he turned to his
father who was working with him, and
said: "What time is 1t father?" "Half
past two" replied the senior farmer,
Throwing down his hoe, the son grad
uated from his farmer life with this re-
marx f'Twenty-one years ago, father, at
half-pa,, two in the afternoon, was
born; you can do your own hoelng after
this +
An official report shows that the cost
and equipments of the street railways OF
New YORK City aggregate over $4,000,
600; the bonded and hoatingdebt about
$1l,OOO,OOO; the entire single track is
over 175 miles; they are using nearly
12,OOO horses and 5000 men as motive
power; they use nearly | 400 cars, and
during the last fiscal year have transport
cd (every ride being counted as one) the
immense number of 3S,00O,OOO passen-
gers. aN.
An engineer at Dublin. who is build
ing break waters and harbor-wOrKs, con-
structs concrete blocks that weigh three
hundred and fifty tons EACH and then,
! by clever contrivance, sinks them to
their place at the bottom of the sea, and
thus in comparatively short time,
brings the work above the low water
marx, when the upper portions can be
built in the usual way. This saves all
the trouble and cost of coffer-dams and
pumps, and must be regarded as a tri-
Ilmph of engineering.