The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-06-30
PERSONAL VARIETY.

Vanderbilt wears Ill fitting seedy looking
clOthes-[Hartiord Post. He can afford to; his
credit is unquestioned.
A Kansas youth has eloped with married
woman with nine childr n. Nothing like getting
good start In life.
Bret Harte dOsn't admire Beatrice.-I Boston
Post. We have heard Of beat sugar, but what is
Beat rice H-[Phila, News. Well, II you must
know, tell the first patrolman you come to that
he isn't the best possible man for chief Of police,
and the time 1t takes him to arrest you wall Beat
rice.-BOston Giobe.
Mr. Walter N Hill, who has been employed by
the United States authorities at the torpedo sta
tion at New Port, Rhode Island, in the superviS.
ion OF the manufacture Of explosives and In the
instruction Of classes Of commissioned officers Of
the navy, has rendered his resignation to the gov.
eminent to accept a private position.
According to Secretary Blaine, there are more
than 1000 900 applications for office on file in the
various departments at Washington.
Prince Bismarck says worlds fairs ar! largely
responsible for spelling the world, and is obsti.
nately opposed to the holding of one In Berlin.
Three Americans, Burns, Hamilton and Wilkes
caught In Italy counterfeitiDg It's paper money,
are now galley slaves at Gaeta, serving out a 20
years sentence each.
"A celebrated Lyons physician, NJ Nj ntain, says
that smoking tobacco cOlorS the bones There is
In France society which has been formed 10
carry on crusade against the use Of the weed.
Mr. Russell Sage, one Of New York's men Of mil.
lions, said to reporter the other day; "Yes; be.
gan at the bottom Of the ladder in Troy, N Y.
When was young man my wife assisted me to
earn living by marking collars and cuffs for
Trojan manufacturers.
The story com 20 from Paris that Mrs Mackay,
when making arrangements for her recent ball,
was very anxious to have calcium light upon
Arc de Triomphe, which should throw It's rays
upon her house. The municipal authorities,
however, refused their permission, when Mrs
MackRy, nettled at such treatment exclaimed
"GO and ask then how mHch they want for their
old arch, and will buy itE'
Some MormOns maintain that the following
passage was In the unmutilated Book Of Mormon:
Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hesrken
to the word Of the Lord: for there shall not any
man among you have save 1t by one wife, and
Concubines he shall have none, for l, the Lord
God, delighteth in the chastity Of woman"
The New York Sun says: The pictures in this
season's circus advertisements are more reckles
than ever before. The country newspapers are
alive with eephan which, judging them by the
men alongside, are not less than thirty feet in
height, while COWS and horses are shown at 70
feet, and eight-feet gisnls become fifteen.
Some New York houHeholders who have been
accustomed to deal with grocers by means Of q
paSS.book, settling their accounts monthly, have
recently discovered why their bills were 80 Is rye
The grocers treat the servants with liquor, and
even loan them money, disgusting the entry
under the head Of sugar or other articles In com
mon use
zone swallow don't make a summer but 1t low.
ers glass Of beer dreadfuly. y."-[Carl schuIz.
The late Tom Scott married on $50 month and
left s18,OOOOOO What excuse can a man have for
living bachelor after that1
N C Mcfarland, appointed by Garfield as Com
missioner Of the General Land Office, though
hsiling from Kansas, is an Ohio man.
Prof, Proctor says that in 100000 years more
all the water will have disappeared from the
face Of the earth. Kentucky people should not
be alsrmed; Prof, Proctor said nothing about
Whiskey,
Corruption Is brought pretty close home to the
President himself when State Senator atAlbany
testified that he was offered an important Federal
office to vote against Conkllng and Plat. But
then nobody is surprised by any such develop.
ment as this.
The city Of Elizabeth, N J., according to the
latest figures, owes s564l,29l, and Its property
assessments amounts to only Sl2,OOOOOO. In other
words, the debt Of the city is nearly fifty per cen
Of The assessed value Of all the property. This is
enough to appal the most stout'hearted tax
payer.
One Of the sensations at Albany last week wal
the assertion Of StalWart Strahan that he had
been offered q United States Marshalship by
Johnny Davenport last May, in behalf Of the Ad-
mlniBtratOn TO secure his vote for an Admins
| tration Senator. This is a very bad business for
the Administration II 1t can be proved outside Of
StTahan.
An army OF Crlckets seven miles wide, In Lake
county, Oregon, near Goose Lake, Is reported by
cattle men to be travelling southeast, direct fol
Modoc county, California. They travel two miles
day, and eat every species Of VOgeRtion. There
are myriads of grssshoppers in sprague valley
Lake county.
The salmon fisheries Of the Pacific coast are OF
far greater Importance as one Of the Productive
interests Of the country than many peopl, sup.
pose, The total amount Of the annual catch az
shown by the recent census returns is 81 1902 900,
Of which 98, 5000 were taken in the Columbia
river, and 100000 pounds In the saeramen to .
The total amount Of capital employed In these
asheEeS in 81 1881 ,2O0 and the value ithe annua
product iS S8,SS9,s34.
The Duke Of Wellington, whose life was for
years almost daily In peril on the battlefield, WAS
for years afraid to travel by railroad, having con-
Ceived terror Of locomotive engines from see
ing Mr.. HuskIssOn killed by one. At length, in
1Sl9, he made his first journey, beiug In attend
Rnce on the Queen who herself did not use them
until 1912. The injury done 10 the railroad cause
by the death Of HuskisSon was in great measure
neutrAliEed by the simultaneous news that Mr.
stephenlon'B locomotive engine carried the
wounded man fifteen miles In twenty-five mil.
u,es. To the end Of their lives some people in
England never could be brought to travel by
railroad. ... ..".... ..... .u.
II have no great confidence" says Dumas the
younger, In folk who do not work, and who on
coming into the world and their lives alre ady
made for them"
Ms Matilda Fletcher, who Is considered one Of
IOWa's most brilliant women, is lecturing In re-
ply 70 Colonel Ingeroll.
London Punch:- Brown (Pi illiStine)-'I hear d
It was all Off between you and Miss RoWeshe tt )"
WObbinson (@sthete)-"Ya.as. Incom paubility
Of complixIonl-she don't suit my furnltchsTl"
A Holyoks (Msss,) Miss oferH to head band Of
one hundred girls from that place, where there
are ave women to one man, and 60 far West
where there are Qomea, employment--and bach
elorg. ...
Many woman dusts billiard chalk of her hus.
bands coat, and big tear stands in her eye a.
she thinks how late he works nights OF his desk
by the whitewRshed walls. "-
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