The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

AOAh AOi 0N0hJ minute SiAOO i''SS ~"
YEARS. day.
Philadelphia and New York are
connected by more telegraph wires than
any two other cities in the world.
Engagement rings are going out of
style. Engagement bracelets are the
things. They are more snowy and more
binding.
The French learned something's at our
Centennial, and now over one hundred
French daily papers are printed or
American newspaper printing presses
Twenty years ago, Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore says, there were but eleven
employments open to women, and now
there are no less than two hundred and
eighty-seven.
Jimmy Hope, lately sent to prison
in California, lays claim to the title OF
boss bank burglar of the world. He
has cracked seventeen different banks
in the last twenty years, and he wants
some rival to show better record than
that.
Charles Harris, of Hardwick, N. j.,
left his horse standing for few mo-
ments in the potato patch that he was
blowing, and the animal bit off some
tops upon which Paris green had been
sprinkled. On the following morning
the horse was found dead in his stall.
The weather vane on barn at Vim
centown, N. j., would not work. In
vestigation showed that a swarm of
bees had gained access to the cavity of
the vane and stored therein large
amount of honey, the weight of which
prevented the vane from turning.
Some of the Indian girls at Mr..
Moody's Northtield, (Mass.) school are
said to be very Jealous of their dignity.
They are the daughters of quite wealthy
chiefs, and consider themselves very
aristocratic. They make rapid improve
ment
The New York papers contain some
queer advertisements. One landlady,
innocent of grammatical knowledge. adj
vertises that she has "a fine, airy, we'll
furnished bedroom for a, gentleman
twelve feet square," another ''has a
cheap and desirable suite of rooms for
family in good repair;" still another
has ''a small bedroom for single wom-
an 8x12."
"A letter addressed to "The Hon.
William M. Evarts, United States Com
missioner, Paris, France" has been re-
turned by the postal authorities of France
dress was incomplete. An official OF
the Postoffice remarked that it was evil
dent that the necessity for civil service
reform is not confined to the United
States.
DIR. Lucius Maddox, of Clinch
County, Ga, recently sold to the pro-
prietor of Cincinnati pleasure garden
for $400 and the expenses of his journey
to and fro a century plant which had
been in his possession forty years.
Three weeks after it's sale the plant
bloomed, producing more than six
thousand flowers, and in one night the
new proprietor made about $4,000 by
exhibiting it to a multitude of curious
visitors.
Mr.. Worth, the famous Paris dress
maker, is said to have large aviary
filed with beautiful birds of every hue
from all parts of the world, and he
spends hours in studying them. From
these, and the strange harmonies
brought out OF discord by one magical
bit of perfectly unexpected coloring
which combines and reconciles all, it is
asserted that he derives his inspiration
for his most charming but somewhat ex-
pensive dresses.
The late Duke of Richmond, whL
was aide-de-camp to the Duke of We'll
lington all through the Peninsular war,
was shot down at Salamanca. The ball
was never removed, and he carried it to
his death. A few months after he re-
ceived it he was able to resume his du-
ties, and was present at the after battles
of the campaign and at Waterloo. Sir
Richard England, then Captain In the
Twenty-third Fusileers, was shot down
at the siege of Badajos, and carried the
ball to his death at the age of eighty
three. He led division in the Crimea.
1t is not every man who knows how
to bate his business hook in an attract
i've fashion. A clever photographer,
whose patrons are mostly from the class
who struggle to be genteel, owns q re-
markably successful business to the fact
that he keeps a sealskin sicque for the
use of his lady sitters. Every girl in
America wants sealskin. If she can't
have it she can at least go to this know
ing artist and have cabinet taken
in all the glory of two-hundred dollar
Sacque, and kill her friends with envy.
"A significant movement is gong on
in England to promote the emigration
of young women whose chances for
happy and useful lives at home are
small. The excess of the female popu-
lation, on an average of decennial CEN
suses, has been computed at half mill
ion, and large proportion of this ex-
cess would be welcomed in the English
colonies. The Echo points out that the
chief obstacle to such deportation ex-
lists in the disinclination of English
women to emigrate. Their home ties
are stronger than those of men, they
are not so animated by the spirit of adj
venture, and they do not so easily yield
to the inspiration of new fortunes and
new surroundings.
+" Perkins was sharp San Francisco
stock speculator, and Montgomery was
dull one. Perkins said to Montgom-
cry: al have just bet $4,000 that
1 own 125,00O shares of Tombstone.
Now, haven't a share, but you have,
and if you'll transfer them to me for
single hour can win the wager
Montgomery obligingly transferred the
stock, the market value of which was
S125,000 and was disappointed when,
at the end of the hour, it was not re-
turned. When he found Perkins, that
bold operator announced himself the
legal owner of the property, and refused
to give it up. Subsequently he agreed,
with great reluctance, and under q
threat of dire vengeance, to restore
$50, 900; but he broke his word and