The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-03-13
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Philadelphia wants elevated street railways.
Mis- Calculation: How shall my hat be trimmed,
Alabama clears $50 900 year working out her
conviots.
mules hind leg has only one season. 1t is al
ways beautiful spring.
The municipal authorities Of Paris are to try
electric light.
Spain is becoming large purchaser Of Amerl.
can tobacco
The pank of England is required to make
weekly statement
North Carolina has two'hundred and sixty. one
turpentine distilleries.
A man in Illinois has found a way to make
good lumber out cf compressed straw.
A lady describing an ill.natured man. says he
never smiles but he feels ashamed Of 1t.
Bayard Taylor had kidney complaint and the
physicians doctored him for dropsy.
Caleb Cushing found 5000 errors in Webster's
Dictionary when that work first appeared.
The first women clerks employed in the Nation.
al Treasury were appointed in 1862. There are
now over 1900.
There are 81 theaters, 95 singing saloons, 800
ball rooms and 997 bands and musical societies
in Paris.
1t proposed to label corner loaters with the
name Of streets which they infest for the ConVen,
ience Of strangers.
A Washington court has decided that funeral
expenses are to be regarded as preferred claims
against the estate of the deceased
What would be great invention : A bushel
peach basket that would hold four pecks,
What was the most honest bet that ever was
NADER The alphabet. Its maker was evidently
a man Of letters, too,
A fortune hunter went courting the daughter of
q rich whisky distller, and he sang II see her
still In my dreams"
little stealing is a dangerous part but stealing
| largely is noble art, It's mean to rob henroost
of hen, but stealing thousands makes us gentle
men.
"Bill," said one apprentice to another my boss
is bet er man to work for than your'n. Ny boss
amt always round his shop, interfering with his
| OWE business"
"Vat monster language" said Frenehman,
"here 1 read In ze newspapers Eat a man commit
murder, was committed for trial and zen com.
mitted himself to reportaire. No wonder every
zlng in America Is done by committee"
Rev. spurgeon, the great English pulpit orator,
has published the FIRST of a twenty fifth volume Of
sermons, having Issued a sermon week by week
for twenty-four years., ,45O in ALL
There is q man In Kansas who Is said to have
superintended the lynching of nine men. He is
usually sent for when mob intends 10 hang any
body. His nickname is Jack Ketch and he Is
proud OF 1t.
The average ratio of capital and undivided
profits to liabilities in the banks of Great Britain
is 90 per cent. and seven.hundredths. That in
the United States is 54 per cent, aud seventy
hundredths.
The man who has never seen two women in
Shaker bOnnets trying to kiss each other has nev.
er experienced the reiuvinating power of laugh
that could throw him down and kick him In the
ribs.
School mistress 0ust beginning a nice improv
ing lesson upon minerals to the .juniors)-'Now
what are the principal things we get out Of the
e0rth?' Youthful angler, aged four, Confident
ially) "Wormsp
A dear old lady presented her son, on his de-
parture for sea- with Bible. On opening 1t dur
ing gale it fell from his hands, and out dropped
fine.tooth comb and the admonitsry bookmark
SEARCH dsilY."
"Whar was de sun dis. mornin' p asks the Rev.
Mr.. Jasper why, dat side O. my house." "Whar
is 1t nowP Why dis side OBJ my house. Darfur de,
sun must ha' got round it, and it couldn't do dat
standing still. Wherefur, de sun move sah."
Contrary to the general impression, steamboat
,ravel is less dangerous than any other mode Of
iocomotion, OF 1,5S3, ,91S passengers on Western
river steamers last year, but one was killed and
only three injured
One man In Scotland pays rent for forest, 1885,
900 year, to enjoy the shooting season In 1t. He
spends 81 500 every year in the sport, The result
| is 14O deer killed and few hundred grouse. But
then, what fun he has