The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-27
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Beautiful lie Of the Sea"-whale oil.
Seventeen new women doctors left Philadelphia
last week.
Florida girls are going to picnics in thin CATERS
and aeecy dresses,
Farmers have learned that II takes the best of
soil to raise mortgage city Derrick,
Again is America triumphant. Jerusaem's
streets are lighted with American kerosene.
The largest bell on this continent is that of the
Church of Notre Dame, in Montreal.
Women are generally pretty smart; but they
cannot hold candle to can of kerosene with
safety.
Hearing that Pennsylvania man had got an
Office, the Philadelphia Bulletin shrleks "Has
Ohio gin out?"
A resentful man said of tailor whom he didn't
like, that there was never fit in his shop unless
a customer fell in one.
GoOd-natured doctor: "stay, those eyes can be
cured. l will undertake the operation and restore
the sight" Beggar And deprive me of my
livelihood A pretty idea Do you want 10 ruin
me e?'-Tiulny Folks.
A brother of the late Vice President Wilson po.
lllClJ OpCllh uOOA AOI NloltOIS " luG DCudt5
chamber, and brother of Senator Blaine, who
only slightly resembles him, helps fold speeches,
etc., in the document room
An old California pioneer says that the early
| California workingman was like blood horse,
but that an inferior breed has grown up. "Ifo one
of the latter knew of a situation a hundred miles
away he would starve before he would seek it un.
ess some one would pay his fare in q palace car"
The telephone has been adopted by the Chinese,
the telegraph being useless, as they have no al
phabet. Five hundred miles have already been
spoken over in China. 1t would be very singular
ifiwe should receive back from the Chinese sug.
gestions for the practical use of the telephone.
The original seal with which President Wash
ington authenticated his private and State papers
is said by writer In the Educational Weekly to be
owned by Bushrod D. Washington, of Watseka,
Illinois. 1t is supposed to be the seal impressed
upon the death warrant Of Major Andre
The cultivation of gardens affords interesting
and invigorating employment, This isa truth uni.
Versally understood, and we produce 1t only for
the purpose of refreshing the minds ofprofession-
al and business men, who need an antidOte to the
worry and care incidental to close application to
brain labor.
A paragraph is going the rounds Of the press,
explaining on scientific grounds why a girl can
not throw stone. If some scientist would kind
ly point out what is the safest position the by.
stander can occupy-whether behind or before
when she attempts 1t, he would be to some extent
public benefactor. York Mail
There lives six miles from Richmond, Virginia.
Mrs Martha T. Hopkins. who is only thirty-nine
years old and has just been married to her sixth
husband. She was first married at twenty years
Of age; took her second husband at twenty-four
years old her third husband when twenty.seVen
years old her fourth husband when thirty-two
yearso old, and her fifth husband when thirty.seven
years old.
always keep smile for mother" is the latest
sentimental song published:
always keep smile for mother,
Do not drain the festive jug,
Leave enough, some how or other
Just to mosten her old mug.
Touch 1t lightly, leave some in 1t.
Just a swallow, that's the style
What you'd drink in half minute
Is enough for mothers smile"
The chorus is too long Burlington RdWkeye
Hon. Montgomery Blair resides in one of the
most elegant mansions in Washington, directly
opposite the Executive park and the magnificent
State, War and Navy departments. He has a
country residence In Montgomery county Mary.
land and thus secures seat in the Legislature of
Maryland, Ny Maryland" He has charming
family, and an invitation to soree at the Blair
mansion is considered the acme of social super
iority.
What Is a Communist One who hath yearnings
For equal divisions of unequal earnings;
Idler, or burglar, or BOTH he is willing |
To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling
old Com-LGw Rhyme Amended.
Very few brass bands in military parade can |
play as many airs as the drum-msjor puts on.
The Chinese have notion that the soul .of the |
poet passes into grasshopper, because 1t sings |
till it starves,
In what two cases are precisely the same means |
used for directly opposite purposes7 Why, bars,
to be sure. They are put on bank windows to |
keep thieves out, and on Jail windows to keep |
them in.
pretty girl Of twenty.three was offered $1,000 |
by very old man If she would marry him. One
can imagine her indlgnation-how her eyes fash
ed, how she stamped her foot, how she said she
would rather be young mans slave, etc., and |
how the old man turned sadly away, deeming |