The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-27
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PERSONALS AND VARIETY.

Gen. Prado, the President elect of the
Peruvian republic, visited Philadelphia
last week and was escorted through the
city and to the edi6ces of the exposition.
The party returned to New York by the a
o'clock train and were taken down the
bay to the forts by the United States cut
ter Grant They were properly saluted.
Gen. Prado and his staff are to sail for
Europeat 10 oclock Saturday morning in
the Germanic.
An Indiana girl at Vassar College
writes to her parents "This is the most
stlish hairpin ofa boarding school | ever
tumbled to- can eat four times a day
if want to, and get fair hack at the
hash every time,
A fast youth asked at a Frisco restau-
rant: "What have you got T" almost
everything" was the reply. "Almost
everything2 Well, give me plate of
ofthat." Certainly. One plate ofhash!'
yelled the water,
The King of Burmah is to have a Jour
nal. He will be the proprietor himself,
and in the prospectus he says that all his
subjects who do not subscribe will be in
stantly killed. His inducements are even
more powerful than gift chrome.
Eleven years ago last Friday, on Good
Friday, the I4lh of April, 1865 Abraham
n Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's The
atre, Washington.
A Scotch lassie, while watching her
fathers sheep at atGlenquaich in the Perth
shire Highlands, found on a rocky shelf
avase, almost covered by moss and ferns,
containing several hundred coins of cop
per and silver, of the date of 1910, all in
good preservation.
Trowsers obtained on credit are
breeChes of trust.
High colors-Those in the rainbow
A0rYiStOUA Herald.
Is it right that 'Lent lectures" should
very often be composed Of borrowed SER
mons2
A reporter once aptly called an unsuc-
cessful printers strike Typographical
error.
When a lady is proud of her small feet,
hasn't she a limited understanding p
Boston TaVeiler.
A man may be said to have been drink
ing like fish when he finds that he has
taken enough to make his head swim.
"What do you take for your cold?'
said lady to Mr.. -Four pocket
handkerchiefs day, madam" was the
answer.
The revival feeling is spreading, but it
hasn't yet got down deep enough to
affect arrearages on the country news
paper books.-Dan6Wy Ne7OS.
The bull-frog was the first circulating
greenbak, and the entire breed have been
notorious inhationists ever since the flood.
-MeV York E0entng Mail,
A physician boasted at dinner that he
cured his own hams, when one of his
guests remarked: Doctor, I'd sooner
be your ham than your patient"
Chicago, ever fertile in novelties, has
a new name for the barkeeper. He is
now known as the cocktail architect"
-Ne1V York C0mnercfOk AdVertiSer.
"ls your house warm one, landlord?
asked gentleman in search of house.
ut ought to be" was the reply; "the
painter gave it two coats recently"
Wheat is four fee. high in Texas. They
have tarantulas in Florida oranges in
In California, and influenza in Boston.
Come, gentle Spring. .-MeaV Yor6 GyabANI
ic.
The largest feet known to history must
be those of the Maryland editor who
writes 1--WE black our boots with Is,-
100000 boxes of domestic blacking a
year,
Wanted-A cover for bare suspicion,
veil for the face of nature, buttons for the |
breaches of privileges, binding for vo-
lGRe of smoke, cement for broken en-
gagements.
There is woman In Jersey so econom-
ical that the other night, while her hus-
band was abed, she turned and made
over his last pair ofpantaloons for one Of
the children.
A Denver paper says that an Indian
chief left his squaw in a saloon there, the |
other day, as security for the payment of
a whiskey bill. Probably one of the
Pawn-ee tribe.-Mew York Commercial
AdVerhSer.