The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-03-18
PERSONAL VARIETY.

At Denver Friday morning the mercury mark.
ed deg. below zero, and at Virginia City, Mon.
tana, 20 below.
william F. Taylor, late Auditor Of Public Ac.
counts. Virginia, was found dead in bed Friday
morning Of heart disease, Age, 81.
PA. Sawyer, having testified before the Com.
mIttee Of the Maine Legislature, was discharged
from arrest.
The universal material for mems and boys
suits in Scotland is the celebrated "Bannockburn
CLOTH" so'Called from the factories which now
turn 1t out in immense quantities on the site Of
the famous battlefield. The sedan chair, hoWev-
er, was not due to the battle OF Sedan, nor Vir.
ginia cider to the apple tree at Appomattox G. H,
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philanthropist,
In a curious tract compares the relative cost Of
religion, living, education, rum, and tobacco
Rum costs the country yearly 1867 63S 502 relig.
ion s47 6S6 45O; and'education, $685. 4C6,727. Rum,
she says, costs each person s17 year, whether
they drink It or not, The question naturally
arises, Why not drink 1t, theni
Ohio wants law passed providing that when
a Judge sentences an offender to the Peniten-
tiary It shall be ssCeItained II he has a family
depending upon him for support. The fact shall
be certified to the warden who shall keep re.
cord of the conVict's earnings and, after deduct.
ing 25 cents day for his food and clothing shall
pass the balance 10 his ere dit and apply 1t to the
support of his legal dependents,
The Family Physician says that there is no more
valuable indication Of disease than the temperR.
ture Of the body as measured by the thermome-
ter, and especially in the case Of children. It
gives early information Of disease, and admits Of
an infected child being set apart before mischief
is done. The Physician consequently advises
mothers to learn how TO use clinical theImom.
eter-a very simple process, The proper temper
ature of the body is 9S4 deg, Fahrenheit.
The First American patent for an invention
was issued to Samuel Hopkins Of New York, July
81, 1890 and was for an improved method Of
making pearlash and potash. It is written in o
plain, round, old.faFhioned hand, Is signed by
George Washington. and certified by ed" Ran
dolph, Attorney General as being coniormable
10 the act of Congress 10 promote the useful arts
and It's delivery to the grantee is certified with
the seal Of the United States,
Harten over heard his wife telling Cox at Eaton
Ohio that she would marry him as soon as her
husband died, which would be speedily, as he
was almost gone with consumption. Harten
spoiled the plan at once by shooting Cox through
the heart,
A somewhat foolhardy act has been performed
at Calais by an actress who entered the lions
cage at the mensgerie and there recited Victor
Hugos Caravan" Her musical voice evident.
ly had the traditional effect Of soothing the say.
age breast" as the lions never attempted to in.
terrupt her performance.
A lawyer in GreenVllle, Miss, married, was di.
Yorced and remarked. Having the misfortune"
says the Herald Of that city naively ITO lese his
second wife by death, he and the first Mrs. NJ
who had not married again, met here few
months ago, and both, no doubt, concluded that
they would be happier as one, especially as the
fruit of tn cir first marriage beautiful little girl,
would be benefited by their uHited love and
| care"
There was quiet msrrisge of dwarfs in Roch-
ester on Sunday, Colonel Reuben steere, who Is
SO years old and 81 inches high being united to
Miss Rebecca Ann Myers, second soprano of the
Liliputan Opera Company, six years younger
than her husband and one inch shorter. "Admi'
raj" Dot, General" Totman, Miss Jennie Quig.
ley, and Miss Sadie Bolton acted as groomsmen
and bridesmaids.
A bill repeating the Virginia miscegenation
laws has been defeated by the Legislature Of that
State In the lower House the repeal bill receiV-
ed only the votes Of two colored members. In
the Senate it received ten votes.
The Rev. Joe Cook says that the dull city boy
is In the midst Of more temptations than the dull
country boy. But the former is not tempted to
become pirate or a baHk burglar by having to
turn a grlndstOne an hour and half in one
inning.
The will Of the late Senator Chandler canno
be proved in Washington, as it has but two wit
nesses instead Of three and this omission will
cause all the property owned there by the late
Senator to he sold by auction in order that clear
title may be kept,
The New London Comm Telegram says that
all the indications point to Tilden delegation
from Connecticut to Cincinnati although 1t Is
possible that the delegation may give Governor
English a complimentary vote on the first ballot,
It is promised that the new edition Of Sir Wal
ter scotts works, which Flrmin, Didot & Co. Of
Paris, have already announced will be the most
sumptuous ever issued, and that is saying good
DEAL for there are few authors who have been
put into handsomer volumes.