The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-03
GENERAL.

tnaI AlcnlSan copper mines yield more
profit than California's gold mines or
Colorado's silver deposits.
Grow Dog, who killed Spotted Tail,
Is not bad-lOoking Indian. He wears
blue uniform, and on his shoulders are
the straps of a first lieutenant of the
United States army.
Two hundred and twenty-five trains
leave the nine railway stations in Boston
daily for towns lying within radius of
eleven miles-an increase of nearly 100
per cent. in ten years.
AT least five hundred persons are
now securing Stone River, in Ruther-
ford County, Tenn, for muscles Weld
ing pearls. The range of value in
pearls which have been found is so cents
to $25.
The will of the late John o. White
house, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, be-
queathing between three and four mil
lions, was composed of less than a hum
dred words. His brother, who died sew
eral years ago, was said to have been
worth S18, 100000
To guard against another capture,
Paris has, during the last few years,
been greatly fortified. Saint Dennis,
versailles, Sevres and st. Cloud are al
so now fully protected. An investing
army, to succeed, would now have to be
three times greater than the Prussian
army in 1870.
AN experienced stableman saws that
the best livery horse is one not too
heavy, that will steadily travel five or
six miles an hour without urging. A
% free traveller" can not stand livery
work; and if he goes from eight to ten
miles an hour will be in very poor con-
dltion and will soon be used up.
Andrew Miner, of Salem, Conn,
raises many potatoes, and the obliging
skunks dig them. In one large field,
Mr.. Miner says, every hill has been
opened. The skunks do not eat the DO
tatoes. They look for worms, mice and
moles which they find in the hills, and
throw out the potatoes when they come
across them. The owner goes over the
lot each morning and picks up the tub
ers tossed out on the preceding night.
OF Boston girls somebody writes
"They are self-pClsed, ready for any
emergency, and carry mental quivers
full OF Emersonian tracts. They are
largely ceramical. The fair booths here
are filled with their efforts in amateur
ceramics. Music is Il general accom-
plishment. But seldom are these girls
heard in the streets late at night raising
their voices in discordant chorus. They
wear red mitts on their,h hands and blue
or red leggings on their legs"
AT Danbury, Conn, George Rae,
an employee of the New York & New
England Railroad, lost his arm recently
by an accident, and it,was buried. AT
terward he was troubled by the seeming
cramping of his fingers on the side
where the arm once was. He felt the
pain as though the arm and fingers were
there. A friend suggested that he dig
up the buried arm. He did so, and
found that the fingers were cramped the
same as he said he felt they were. They
were put in proper condition and the
arm again buried. Rae was relieved of
the pain Immediately and has suffered
no more since.
--Healdsburg, Sonoma County, Cal,
has been paying $4,000 annually to the
local Chinese laundries. Such q heavy
contribution to the heather seems too
much, and there is call for the united
support of white laundry recently es-
tablished. The Chinese swear that If
their business be interfered with to any
extent they will drop rates so low that
the whites will be forced to retire from
the contest, and, on the other hand, the
local papers advise all citizens to take
every cent of their patronage from the
Mongoians, and to pay white laundry
fair prices for work, rather than to ac-
cept free washing and a chrome from
the Chinese. The war goes on.
"A letter from Naples announces the
capture recently of a daring brigand,
Gennaro Salzano by name, who was the
terror of all the respectable people in
the district. When stripped preparatory
to clothing him In the prison parb he
was found to have his body tattooed in
q remarkable manner. There was a
large picture on his breast, representing
him standing in commanding attitude.
a pistol in each hand, and the corpses
OF several gendarmes lying around. In
the background was the sea-; to the
right was sketched small village sur
rounded with trees and gardens Instead
OF a frame the picture was surrounded
by chain tattooed in green.
The execution of q Persian nIaraud-
er, which recently took place at Tehe-
ran, is described by an Armenian Jour
nal as being very 90 brilliant. {" This
journal says: early in the morning a
large crowd filed the parade ground, and
about II O'Clock the condemned man
was led out in great pomp to the sound
OF trumpets. Upon large platform in
the middle of the square was placed.
cannon with its muzzle raised upward
After Djalel Agha had recited a brief
prayer, the executioner and his assist
ants attached him securely to the mouth
OF the cannon, and then applied a match
to the touch-hole as coolly as if they
were lighting their pipes. The explo-
sion followed instantaneously, and the
body of Djalel Agha, blown a into thou
sand pieces, was hurled into the air. OF
all his bones only one rib was found
whole, and this was given up to his
wives, who had been present at the exc
cution. In 8 short time this will be
looked upon as a sacred relic"