The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-16

PERSONALS AND VARIETY.

A man In Northampton county, Pa,
has contracted to ship $4,000 school states
to Japan.
There are $4,000 persons employed in
watch making in Switzerland, of which
number one third are women.
1t is said that figures won't lie; but the
figures of some women are very decept-
i've to say the least.
A Persian proverb says: "There are
only two days for which to feel anxious.
One is the day that is past, the other is
the day to come"
The first white child was born in Iowa
thirty-six years ago, and Is now living,
To-day there are over 100000 Hawkeyes
by birth.
"What fortunate thing it is to be an
editor" says a Someryille, Tenn, paper.
ave have just been presented with liz
ard with two tails"
A single English firm has built 10000
iron bridges for the Bombay, Baroda,
Central India, and other Fast India Rail
roads. The last one sent to India will
be 9,O6S feet in length.
In the old record book of a Connecti-
cut church, dated 1902, is thisitem "For
making noise in church, Ann Bolton,
Bpinster, is to sit three days in the poor
pew, and pay fine of five shillings."
Chicago has a new way of heating her
horse cars. A red-hot 10O-pound shot is
placed in box under the car with regis
ters to admit the heat. Five of these
will heat railway car for four hours,
the inventor says.
The Nagasaki Rising Sun says that the
Buddhist religion is fast declining. In
Yamashima Ken alone II Buddhist tenn
and during the six years nearly 700 tenn
pies have been converted to other pur-
poses than those for which they were
built
A tank, in which 5000 barrels of oil
were placed five years ago, was recently
emptied at Petroleum Centre, Pa, and
only 3,700 barrels of mercantile crude
oil were obtained, showing that 1900 bar
Hels had been lost by evaporation, sedi-
ment, and other causes, a loss of nearly
30 per cent.
Paul Haupt, of Denver, served through
out the war without receiving a wound,
and when his regiment was sent to Ari-
soma, he, on one occasion, fought five
ApaChes single handed, killing three of
the number. The other day he was
crushed to death between two blocks of
ice in an ice house.
A North Carolina negro thought he
could outrun locomotive the other day
on the Air Line road, and when he
picked himself up, after being thrown
twenty feet, landing on his head, he said
"Yer don't ketch dis yer chile doin' dat
agin. It's right smart wonder didn't
tear desc britches clean off,"
A hunting party in CRANKY, VT, re-
Gently slaughtered IA deer the crust be-
ing such that the men could go along on
it easily, while the deer cut through.
Two arrests have bean made, this sort of
sport being unlawful.
A man, who said he was very poor,
nearly blind, and unable to work, was
recently. in London, fined six cents and
two shillings costs for not sending his
son to school. He was unable to pay it,
and was sent to jail for five days
A statue of the late Dr. Livingstone has
been completed and will be erected on
the site set apart Cor it on the North
bridge, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A strange old bibiopole died in Wen
ma a short time ago. He conducted an
eating house, waiting personally upon his
customers, and yet he collected library
of2l 900 volumes, many of them editions
of rare value.
Forty thousand pounds of nitro-glycer-
inc is to be exploded under He'll Gate,
in New York Harbor, next Fourth of
July and Brooklyn is six or seven miles
away, and entirely out of the range.
Otherwise we might possibly have some
thing to rejoice over this year, after all.
The Dayton (O.) car works are now
running full time on large Western Or
ders, employing seven hundred men. A
California order calls for 100 narrow
gauge cars and ten fine sleeping cars.
A street car, moved by means of COM
pressed air, has been tried in Paris and
has proved completely successful. The
air is stored in reservoirs beneath the
truck, and it expends itself in cylinders,
which operate directly upon the front
wheels.
William Holmes, young man of 1S,
met with fatal accident while crossing
marsh in Hardin county, Ohio, few
days ago. A gun which he was carrying
was accidentally discharged by coming
in contact with branch of a tree. The
young man received the charge in his
hip, and then falling into the water was
drowned.
A frightful accident occurred a few
days ago at Kelley's Island, which is de-
BCrbed by correspondent as follows:
"a little child about four years old, be-
longing to Mr.. Slaven, fell from chair
and caught on large silver, which stuck
out from the door casing, under bis law,
and it went up through his mouth and
cheek, the end coming out little under
his eye. His mother looked up, and see.
ing his predicament, went to him, and
had to lift him up to unhook him from
She silver. His feet were a few inches
from the floor as he hung there speech
less, He is getting along well.
ut frequently happens" wrote trav-
eler in the wilds of Buenos Ayres, that
the owner ofa thousand oxen and horses,
and five times as many sheep, has not a
bed in his house, and is too lazy to take
the wool from the Sleeps back to spread
on the ground beneath him. The skull
of an OK serves him for seat, and the
horn cup, and this is all his household
furniture"
M. Johansen, editor of the Flen8borg
Avis, and M. Moldt, the editor of the
DuppeI Post are both undergoing SEN
tence of two months imprisonment in a
Prussian fortress on account of articles
staining the return of North Sleswick to
Denmark, while teacher at a public
school in Hadersleben has been dis
missed because he had walked with his
non an officer in the Danish drapoOns in