The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-19
VARIETY SCRAPS.

Sheet understanding,
In Vermont good whisky is called Poland wa.
| ter.
The penalty Of success Is to be bored by atten.
tiens Of people who used to snub you.
An exchange says: VERY few hens lay at the
point OF DEATH" Perhaps they would II they could
see the point.
Our ancestors, the monkeys, couldn't have been
so Ignorant after all, They were all educated in
the higher branches.
Kansas school teacher: Where does your grain
go to~ Into the hopper "What hopper ?"
"Grasshopper," triumphantly shouted pupil.
The next man who takes the position Of Brit.
ish Resident at Cabu had better stay on the
other side OF the frontier and do his work by tele
| phone.
"Poor Richard has given both chapter and verse
For living on sxpenee a dayl
| Fut the Tanner receipt Is far better for purse
Air, water, and nothing to pay.
The only way to bring up child Is to show
him what good life is by living 1t yourself
The old scotchman was right when he said:
Trot feyther, trot mlther; hoo can foal am
| be?'
A stranger calling at the house Of gentleman
the other day met a German friend at the gate
and inquired OF the latter, "Is Mr. - in ~
Yes" was the reply When about to pull the
bell the Teuton called him back and said HE is
in, but he is det."
"YOur future husband seems very exactlng; he
has been sipulating for all sorts OF things" said
mother to her daughter, who was on the point
of being married. Never mind, mamma" said
the affectionate girl, who was already dressed for
the wedding, these are his last wishes"
| 1t Is so common for Freeman to whip his wife
at Memphis that the neighbors paid little atten
tlon to the bruises that she constantly bore. She
never complained Of them and was seemingly re.
signed; but few days ago pistol shot was heard
| in her house and her husband was found with
bullet In his head 81 concluded that I'd stood
1t lcng enough" she said land Lordy sakes,
wasn't he surprised when hauled out my pistol
and popped at him"
| poor shop girl, in London, recently killed her
self in fit Of nervous prostraton and despair,
resulting from incessant labor and poor returns
therefor. 1t is the Song of the Shirt to new air.
Since the days Of Hood, however there has been
q blCot Improvement III llO OI WOTKeIb
everywhere, and particularly in this country,
though even here many Of them lead hard lives
working night and day, week after week, for
! wages that serve only for scant daily support
In this city there is one very good association for
| the amelioration Of the condition OF working wo.
men-that which provides for their legal proteG-
ton and secures for them at least the wages they
may have earned 1t is sadly true that, in some
cases, even this poor return is denied them Small
wonder then, that occasionally one hears Of a
working woman driven by her hard lot to despair
and suicide In the ideal world workers would
not be required to overtax their strength in
labor nor spend all their time at tread mill and
they would receive remuneration sufficient to en-
able them to live and save enough for their sup
port In old age, The ideal is spreading over the
real world gradually, but there are still many
thousands of workers who, If they stopped to con.
slider their future, would see little In it for hope
Legislators can do little II anything to help
them, but philOnthropists, particularly employ.
ers, can do much, as has been shown by the ad-
vances made since the Song Of the Shirt was first
translated into words.
The prevalent opinion that the South will lose
| eight or ten COngressm en- by the apportlonment
under the nsw census is not borne out by the ear.
| lier returns. Virginia has enumerated 4O6 ,149
people in the second supervisor district, and a
similar increase throughout the State would give
a population of l,6OOOOO-a gain OF 100000 since
1870. North Carolina figures out total Of 1885,
people from the returns of nine repl esentatve
counties In different parts Of the State, against
i07l361 ten years ago. South Carolina has appa-
rently barely held their own, If she has not lost
but Floridas vote In recent years indicates a
steady growth. Georgia's cities have all gained
in such healthy fashion that the State must have
| shared In the general increase. Missouri gains
215 525 In forty three Counsies, and counts on O.,
$4,000 altogether, an increase Of 653,9SO for the
State Eleven Tennessee counties about Chatta-
nooga have gained all the way from to 1O2 per
cent Kentucky finds an increase Of ISL ,S15 In
forty-two counties and hopes that she has grown
from 1,321 Oil in 1870 to 1,734 381 The Second
| Congressional District In West Virginia, In the
southern end Of the State, has grown 60 per cent,
| or Ga 240 In twenty one parishes, and Texas al
ready foots up ninetyone counties, less than half
with an average gain Of over 90 per cent, which
would give the State 1900 900 ofpeople. The "solld
South" is not dying out as fast as has been repre-
sented, and II 1t fails to equal the growth Of the
Republican Northwest, 1t seems to more than hold
Its own on the plantations and in the halls Of
Congress as far as mere numbers are concerned
The general gain OF the Southern States already
reported exceeds in fact the % per cent, gaiu
counted on for the country at large.
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