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

accounting for tastes.
The Emperor William has given $l25
toward o monument to the composer OF
the "Watch on the Rhine"
~ De Bulow can't play the piano when
ladies fan themselves. Their bad time
destroys his inspiration. doa
Mrs. Abbie Sage Richardson is giving
a series of twelve Familiar Talks on
English Literature" in New York.
P. I. Barnum has advertised to sell off
all his show property and is going to en-
ter the lecture field. 1t pays better.
King Oscar, of Sweden, having pub
lished volume of his own poems, an
exchange protests against this influx of
this 'os car poetry.
Mrs. Hendrick Van Rensselaer,, for
merly of Albany, celebrated her one
hundreth birthday recently at Randolph,
Cattaraugus county, N. Y.
Charles Francis Adams received 1000
votes for Governor of Massachusetts.
Sam Bowles voted for him 1899 times,
and the other fellow escaped into
Canada.
There is girl in Charlestown who
has four legs And yet we dare say she
expects tired men to give her their seats
in street-cars when she is going home
after dime shopping expedition.
Jennie Bennett, of San Francisco,
dresses in male attire and catches frogs
for living. This police keep arresting
her, but the Magistrates refuse to lock
her up, as everybody knows who she is.
Won Bulow says that the classical"
ladies of Boston don't know enough
about music to tell when mosquito is
filing Yankee Doodle. 1t is barely pos
sible, however, that it wasn't Won Bulow
who said so.
Horatio Stone, the sculptor, has fin
ished at Carrara, Italy, the statue of
Senator Baker, of Oregon, which was Or
dered by Congress, and has written to
Washington that it will be shipped at
the earliest opportunity.
A man has been lodged in jail in In
on the charge of having stolen
a trunk and quantity Of clothing mark
ed Ell Perkins" Now let Eli appear
and pretend that he ever came by that
much property honestly,if he dare.
We are told that Senator Jones, of
Nevada, won't smoke five-cent cigar"
But that's nothing. There are men in
this town, not half as rich as Jones, who
won't smoke twenty-fve-cent cigar. 1t
would make them sick if they did, so
they don It smoke at all. .s I
John Crossley, M. p, and Mr.. N. V.
Squarey, too English capitalists noted for
commercial shrewdness and energy, have
taken charge of scheme for organizing
annual excursions Of English capitalists
to this country to investigate American
investL ents.
1t is not generally known that the son
born to the Princess Imperial of
Brazil, Comtesse d'Eu, was delivered by
the C@sarian operation. The delivery
was very painful, and the Princess life
was for long time despaired Of The
child is heir to the throne of Brazil.
May he not prove another Cesar
Gen. Dodge, of Council Bluffs, Iowa
acting under the advice of his physician,
DR.. Hammond, of New York City, has
spent the summer fishing off the banks
Of Newfoundland. He bore his part in
working the vessel, stood his watch at
night, and received his share of the fish,
to $1,000. The amount, how
ever, he donated to the crew, feeling
amply repaid by the benefit received.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, somewhat
known as platform orator, has lecture
for this season, entitled, "Old Boys" If
she had slightly modified her topic, 30
that it would have read "The Old Boy
How to Raise Him." she would have !
been compelled to hire squads of police |
men, double-shotted with lignum-vit@,
10 keep the crowds from overwhelming
ner with curiosity and money. Thus |
nearly did Matilda attain to absolute |
lame and fortune.
THERE'S remarkable waiter at a ho-
,el in Antwerp. He waits at the table |
With great attention and receives the |
smallest fee with gratitude, yet he has |
up in one Of the rooms of the
same hotel pictures worth at least $780, |
700. Among them are works of Teniers,
Vandyke, and other famous artists, all |
undoubtedly originals. He has been of
ered 800, 300 for one Holy Family, and |
$4,000 for another picture, but he is deaf
% all inducements to sell. He will show
lis pictures to visitors only after for
nal introduction, and then he shows
hem with dignity and talks about them |
with great intelligence. efi-tr
The Empress Of Austria's pet poodle is
Valued at $4,000.
Charles O'Connor is expected to con-
luct the prosecution against the Brook.
yn ring, .
Miss Bismarck is a plump brunette.
She is an expert in needlework, and has
vi the homely and honest German vir-
ues. ID fn'alH',.. p"
The Viceroy of Egypt has applied
;65, 900, subscribed for monument to
lim, to found great public school in AL
xandria.
August Belmont has been elected
President of the Manhattan Club, New
York, for the year 1876.
The ubiquity of Mr.! Smith is strikingly
Indicated by the fact that he breaches to
go Baptist congregations in this country.
Don Pedro, of Brazil, will bring two
hundred thousand dollars worth of dia-
nonds when comes to visit this country.
Ex-senator Schurz has cancelled all his
ecture engagements for the first half of
November, in consequence of the illness
f Mrs. Schurz.
Gen. Meredith, who died lately in In
lana, was six feet seven inches high,
nd President Lincoln used to say that
he General was one Of the few men he
ooked up to.
George Metzger, of Carlisle, Pa, now
n his 95th year, is the oldest person who