The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-04-08


The sugar makers of Vermont haven't
made any this season.
The public debt of France now amounts
in round numbers to $4,000, 100000.
In Minnesota, recently, it is said, 800
locust eggs were found in a single peck OF
earth.
The oyster beds along the Shrewsbury
river, near Long Branch, have been serl-
ously damaged by the cold weather of
the past winter.
A Chicago deputy sheriff was refused
free admission to a Chicago theatre. by
way ofrevenge heimpannelled the mana
ger on petit jury.
A chance for rhymersl-The Rev. DR.,
Hatfield has offered 500 for the best
home mission hymn sent to l40 West
Thirty fourth street before next July.
The ghost of Noah Webster came to a
spiritual medium in Alabama, not long
since, and wrote on a slip of paper; 1T
is tite times" Noah was right, but we
are sorry to see he has gone back on his
dictionary.
A porking establishment in Houston
was partially burned recently, and thou
sands of pounds of meat roasted. AS soon
as the fire was over throng of poor peo-
pie invaded the ruins and carried OIL the
cooked pork.
There are young men who cannothold
skein of yarn for their mothers without
wincing, but will hold 1926 pounds of a
neighboring family for the best part of
the night with patience and docllity
that are certainly phenomenal.
A bashful Connecticut drug clerk was
puzzled the other day by having one of
the female jubilee signers ask him for
flesh colored court plaster" but after
some thought he handed out black and
lodged under the counter for safety.
A prominent Detroit Universalist some
months ago married a red-headed wo-
man with four children, and last week he
remarked to friend, II was blind when
l believed there was no hell. see now y
Mr.. Spinks is not going to do any more
in conundrums. He asked his wife why
he was like donkey, and she said be-
cause he was born so; and he says the
answei is very different from that.
Il American paper.
"If was a horse now," mused big
boy as he struggled up Griswold street
yesterday, "I'd be stabbed, rubbed down,
and fed; but Pm a boy, and have got to
90 home, clean off snow, bring in wood,
tote water and rock the damned old
baby for an hour or two."- Detroit Free
Press.
go awayl Leave me with my dead
Let me fling myselfon his coffin and die
therew This was in Nebraska about six
months ago, and now the widow, has won
another trusting soul, and number ones
portrait is in the attic, face to the wall.
The duties of a Connecticut school
master in 1861 were as follows: "To act
as court messenger, to serve summon
SEES, to conduct services in the church, to
lead the choir on Sundays, to ring the
bell for public worship, to dig the hegraves,
to take charge of tht school, and to per-
form other occasional duties"
Half a dozen Harvard sophomoI es
made a bet Of Il wine supper that they
could pass entirely through the Fifth
Ward of Boston on St. Patrick's Day
with orange ribbons in their buttonholes.
When they were nearly through, a crowd
pitched into them, but they ran in the
direction they had started, and won the
bet.
The prepared pages for country news
papers, known as patent insides," some
times make ridiculous blunders. Not
long ago the cable announced the bad
news that "the Pope has had another
chill" and shortly afterward came from
forty-seven Wisconsin newspapers with
patent insides the announcement that
'the Pope has had another child"
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