The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-19
MISCELLANY

An old colored preacher in Atlanta,
Ga, was lecturing a youth of his fold
about the sin Of dancing, when the latter
protested that the Bible plainly said,
There's q time to dancep "Yes, dar
am q time to dance said the dark di-
vine, IAN it's when boy gets q Yhippin
for gwine TO ball"
|, Important discoveries have rewarded
the efforts OF the Archaeological Society
at Athens. At the foot of the precipice
in which the Parthenon stands, they
have unearthed the remains of o. bpild'
ing which is believed to be the Temple
OF Esculapius and others Many ,frag.
mentary Inscriptions have been found; q
much mutilated head Of Esculapius, q
female torso and some votive tablets, with
the usual symbolic or commemorative
reliefs. But the great 'fnd' consisted Of
an inscription Of eighty lines, setting
forth the treaty concluded between the
Athenians and Chalcidians, when, as
mentioned by Thucydides, the former
under Pericss had subdued the whole Ol
Euboea. From the fragments of the
temple that have been discovered, it is
clearly seen that it was Of the Ionic or
der 7"o 20. N, A"'I't ''''"
Acar propelled by compressed air has
been used successfully for more thantwo
months on a street railway near Paisley,
Scotland, under every condition of traffic
and weather, performing trip of three
miles for each charge of air at a cost OF
about one cent a mile. When the rails
are not slippery with mud or ice, con-
siderable surplusage of air is left in the
tanks. 1.go1. "N' il'' '' ?. ."l"
A witness for the prosecution in mur-
der case was thus questioned by his
Honor: "You say you saw the man shot
at and killed2' 'Yes, sir" "You said,
Think, the charge struck the deceased
on his body, between the diaphragm and
the duodenum2" mo, sir, l didn't say
any such thing. I said he was shot be-
tween the hog-pen and the wood house" I"
Bishop Whipple illustrates the cost of
the Indian war rather strikinglv. He
recently remarked to a correspondent of
the Omaha Herald, that if ten soldiers
were placed in line with an Indian at
one end, and the american people could
be brought to understand that in order
to secure the scalp of that one Indian it
would require the sacrifice of the ten
soldiers and an expenditure of $500,000
in money, they might be led to inquire
whether the scalp was really. worth the
outlay. I t1Af '". io.'
In the chequered life of human exper-
ience the seasons arc all mingled as in
the golden age; fruit and blossom hang
together; in the same moment the sickle
is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one
tends the green cluster and one treads
the wine press. Nay, in each of our lives
harvest and spring-time are continually
one, until Death himself gathers us and
sows us in his invisible fields,
"Irish wit and humor" was the subject
Of a recent lecture in the Free Trade hall
in Manchester, England. 1t proved a
brilliant entertainment, illustrated with
the most vivid pictures of life in Ireland,
and full of hits that were not only side
splitting but head-splitting. Soon after
the meeting opened, a question on Home
Rule, addressed to the lecturer, became
the occasion of the livelest controversy.
Tables, benches and chairs moved as un-
der the influence of the most powerful
mediums. The legs of these objects
were instantaneou,ly transformed into
shillalehs, and surgical operations were
performed by which the joke was made
to penetrate the thickest skull. Mr. Big
gar, the member of Parliament presiding
was taken out with his head on sling.