The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

road in Africa.
Boston merchants hang up cards
which say: "No petition for Office
signed by any member of this firm"
"A Philadelphia drug clerk blun.
dered in compOunding a dose for his
own taking, and lost his life thereby.
-Jerusha Revell, of Wakuny Coun-
ty, Fla, has 262 descendants. Eight
, of them are ministers of the Gospel.
She is oighty-five years old, and for ten
years has been blind.
--Ex-Representative Burleigh has q
scheme to domesticate the buffalo,
which, as he argues, is much better
beef animal for the cold Northwest than
the OK. He wants Congress to help
him.
That 0 human bite is as as danger
ous as that Of any animal is shown by
an occurrence in the German city Of
Munster, where man who was bitten
In ono Of his fingers during fight has
had the alternative Of losing his arm or
bis life. Blood poisoning set in, and
speedy amputatiOn at the shoulder be.
came necessary.
Tho elaborate bronze balcony rail-
ing made for the house Of William H.
Vanderbilt, on Fifth Avenue, New York,
is now on exhibition in Philadelphia.
It is . wonderful piece Of hand-beaten
work, and, with other bronze railing
ordered for the house, will cost &60,-
900. Each section is seventeen feet long
and two and quarter feet high.
Two children, born few weeks
ago in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland,
were joined together in the same man
ner as the famous Siamese twins. 1t
was believed that, as infants, the lga-
ment which joined them might, with
success, he severed, and the operation
was accordingly performed. Noappar-
ent permanent injury was caused by it,
and several days afterward the twins
were reported to be doing well.
With the expressed purpose of
keeping dogs out Of the Stockton House,
at Cape May, during the present season,
the Directors issued an announcement
that they would be charged for board at
the rate of ten dollars a week apiece.
That this scheme for carrying out
praisewOrthy purpose is an utter failure
is proved by the fact that six dogs are
now registered at the Stockton House,
that is to say, three Skye terriers, two
lap-dogs and one pug.
"A large natural cave has been dis
covered at the head of Williams Greek,
in Josephine County. Oregon. 1t con-
sists of series of fsubterranean caverns,
or chambers, through which person
can walk for some four or five hundred
yards from the entrance, and there are
still other chambers beyond the en-
frances which are too small to admit
a person, but could be enlarged suffi.
ciently, it is thought, by little labor
with pick and hammer.
-Four disappointed Arabs are in
Boston. They were Sheiks of distinc-
ton in their own country, and one
claims to be the head of Moabite tribe
descended directly from the Mohabites
spoken of in the Bible. They were
brought here for exhibition, and were
told that they would become objects of
social honor here. On the contrary,
they proved unattractive as show,
and, being abandoned by their mana
gers, are paupers, without much pros
pect of getting back home.
Three women were standing side
by side in dry goods store of London,
Ontario. One hung her umbrella by
the handle on the edge of the counter
and moved away. Another laid down
her pocket-book where it fell into the
umbrella unseen, and when it was
missed the third woman was accused OF
stealing it, searched by an officer and
finally released without being able to
relieve herself from suspicion. The
umbrella was rolled up, with the lost
money still In it, and only after
lapse of week was the truth revealed.
John P. Howard, an eccentric mill
ionaire of Burlington, Vt, is described
as "short, perspiring, good-natured
old bachelor" He endowed the Uni
versity of Vermont with $50, 0O0 He also
owns large $4,000 opera house in
Burlington. He told some friends re-
Gently 1.-The town used to assess me
quite fairly and paid my taxes without
grumbling. But they thought they
could stick me. They showed the valu-
alton way up to $75, 900 and supposed /
would pay it, But l got even with
'em. l turned right round and made
over the building to the same institu-
ton I'd given $4,000 to, and they
couldn't tax it dollar"
"A striking" instance of mnemo-
MICS is communicated to Notes and
Queries by one of its correspondents;
Gillies de Retz, Marshal of France (said
to be the veritable Blue Beard, was
sentenced to be led in chains to the
place of execution and to be burnt alive
at the stake. The day appointed was
October %, 1880, "a date" says the
historian, "about which there can be
no doubt, for all the people of Anjou
and Maine, by common consent,
whipped their children on that morn.
ing, so as to impress the precise day
upon their memory" This strange
mnemonic process is still favorite
with the peasants Of Anjou and Brittany.
"A recent writer describes the foat-
ing vegetable gardens of Lake Grina-
gar, in Cashmere: They are made by
first planting poplar poles, twenty-five
or twenty-eight feet long, in two OF
three rows, twelve or fifteen feet apart.
Then the gardener gathers from the
lake lot Of aquatic plants and inter.
weaves them between his poles. This
forms the support of the garden. Then
more plants are collected from the lake
and piled up to the height of three OF
four inches. These soon rot, and form
the soil, and the garden plants first
sprouted on the land are then trans.
planted to the garden. At first they are
watered, but it does not take long for
the roOtlets to find their way to the
water underneath. The vegetables
raised are said to be very fine, and are