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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
THE WRoxa INFIRMIrY.

IN a certain Michigan village there
lived, a decade since. man known rs
Judge Simpson. No one could remem-
Der Of his having served in any capacity
TO gain the title, but he acquired IL
somehow, and had dignity enough for a
whole supreme bench. The Judge was
an eccentric citizen, well liked, but he
had a terrible bad breath. No one
would ride with him, few would talk
with him, and everybody wondered why
he didn't eat onions for change. No
one had the courage 10 mention the mat
ter, and yet something must be done or
the Judge would be ostracised. In this
emergency along came one Of the first
tramps ever seen in the State. At the
first house where he called for a bite the
man called him in and said
"My friend, are you brave man2"
"Well, never took back seat yet p
ado you want TO earn S2?"
"Try me once"
every well. You see that white build
ing beside the postoiliceP Coup stairs,
turn to the left, and you will find a red
faced, bald-headed man called Judge.
What 1 went you TO do is TO ask him
why he doesn't chew cloves for his in
trinity"
"Pll do it,"
"That's all. Simply ask the question
and I'll hand you the cash."
The tramp went his way, and the citi-
zen took his station ON a street corner.
He saw the brave man go up, and he
saw him come down. He went up grace
fully enough, but when he came down he
bumped every separate stair, and as he
gathered himself up at the bottom a
boot lifted him clear into the gutter.
He started for the river ON a dead run,
and never stopped for half a mile.
Then the citizen overlook him and
asked
swell, was the Judge inP"
"He was |"
"And you put the question:
"Don't look as if l did? Say, what
infrmity has he got?"
ga bad breath"
"The deuce What fool / was
Why, 1 thought his infrmity was in his
feet, and when he gave me that first lift
1 was so taken back that he got in two
left-handers on my jaw before began
to fall Two dollars ! Why, I'm dam
aged to the extent of two millions ~
Free Press.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
JUST TO KEEP HER WoRD.

"wha, shall bring you when ! come this wayis
asked u Margaret the other day.
"pansies or liles, heliotrope or rOse,
or any flower that IN my garden growai"
"Oh, bring just whist you lko," she answered ma.
"I'n tAke ~haievcr y may chnnoo 70 h."
"You promise that said l. she answered, "Ycs
And, sir, always heep my ptomIscs7
last nieht came again, and when We mot
said ~ her; "rye brought Il, Margaret
The SIT promised 'Tisno, flowers, you "a,
because you left Tho choice of II tome.
"Bui ~ my heart You promised you would tak'
What might bring; and now you must not break
Your word 10 me. 80 make your promise good,
And do dear glrl, lust a. you said you would"
III you insist upon n, suppose
That must DO IN. Not, sir, goodness tnows,
because want your heart Dear, how absurd
But, being honest, Just 10 tocp my world /"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
ExPERIEYcE WTTH A Medical RE-
VIEW.

Some time ago one of the brightest
young physicians in Chicago wrote an
article for a medical review. beginning.
"The recent severe winter of 1886 81
should warn us, etc. After a long time
the editor replied, asking him what he
meant by "the recent winter of
lss6-'s7," TO which "Medicus re-
sponded that, judging from his past ex-
perience with this review, il would be
1887 when his article appeared, and he
wanted it to read right when published.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
GEN BUTLER sTUMPED.

A story is told of Gen. Buffers sar-
castle retort upon a Massachusetts
Judge, whom he was teasing for a ruling
favorable 10 cause he was defending
in court. The Judge got out of patience
at last, and somewhat testify exclaimed:
"Mr. Butler, what do you think sit
here forg" The General quietly
shrugged his shoulder and replied ;
"The court has got me now"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
SHE THOUGHT THE DOCTOR Guam
10 KNOW

A little Oil City girl was taken sick,
and her parents called a doctor whom
she did not like.
care you sick, Oracle ?" asked the
NJ. d., as he bent over his little patient
The little lady looked at him mo-
ment in the utmost disdain, and then, in
a tone of the deepest sarcasm, replied,
as she turned her face from him;
"Well, i should think you ought 10
know. Do you suppose l am lying here
in bed and taking your horrid old medi-
cine for the fun Of itH'
The doctor wilted. u.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
LoSoFE11ow wrote forty-two distinct

LOSGFRLLow wrote forty-two distinct
works. Many of them have been trans
lated into thirteen different languages.
The sale of Longfellow's works from
1889 TO 1867 amounted to 1925. $50 vol
umes. From 1867 TO 1882 there were
sold 1884, 200 copies of his collected
works, in four different editions. In
1881 more than $1,000 copies of his
works were sold, and in the same year
$1,000 copies of the Birthday Book, Z"
edited by Miss Bates. 1t is estimated
that in Great Britain and Ireland not
less than $4,000 of his books are sold
annually.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
aoSAPARrrs HANDWRITING

Francis l.. +, of Austria, said of his SON.
in-law after the battle of Waterloo: at
always thought that man would end
badly; he wrote such n villainous
hand" And, indeed, it became so bad
as to be almost wholly illegible. Hread
at all it is by guess, or that second sight
which the "blind clerks" of the dead
letter Office are popularity supposed to
possess. Much of il is represented by
blanks in the transcriptions, and there
are many words at the translation Of
which 10y an expert the well-tried reader
OF manuscript can only shake a doubt
ing head. But this was not always so.
While he was a subaltern Of artillery his
hand, although never good, was at least
human, and clear and legible. There
was a sort Of correspondence between it
and his simple, direct bearing of those
days when he disdained personal APP
pearance, AMI the long, fiat, straight
black hair partly hid and heightened
the sallow face, and everything about
him was grave, rude, austere. He was
not born to bad hand, although, like
Lamartine, Byron and many other great
men, he could never learn to spell and,
after the 18th Brumaire, the laws of or
biography incommoded him quite as
little as any othors. But, no matter how
bad his writing was, ola plume entire
sesmanis, as Lamartine wrote, "nous
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18

IT was a man from the great State Of
Ohio who unpinned the tidy from a chair
in Washington parlor and wiped his
nose ON il. He thought il was great
improvement over hunting around for a
handkerchief.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18

In dress trimmings, the taste for en-
broidery increases. The former is
worked ON the material in eyelets, etc.,
like Madeira or Scotch work, and used
as scanty frills and borders, and it is
now seen ON satins and yelyets.
Flounces are gathered, not killed. and
tie lower edge is often cut into scallops,
and lined with contrasting color.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18

VAUDEVILLE could give forty editors
$500, 900 each and then have more money
than he knew what 10 do with. just
think how those forty editors would puff
his early garden truck i--Erohange.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
TIM damage done by rats on the pub

Tue damage done by rats on the pubs
lie slaughter houses of Paris represents
an annual loss 10 the city Of $4,000
francs. II is impossible 10 eXterminato
the destructive animals. All that can
be done is 10 thin their ranks little
now and again by organizing monster
battues.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
rHE NAME or FRELINGHUrsEN

Secretary of State Frelinghuysen is a
nephew of Theodore Frelinghuysen,
who ran for Vice President on the ticket
with Henry Clay, and was distin-
guished member of what was called the
"singing wing Of the Wing party. "
The name of Frelinghuysen was for
some time stumper to the campaign
song writers-that was a singing cam
paign-but was finally got over as fol-
lows:
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18

And clapped DIS wihgh ana cfoNsu' nc uoT
For Clay and frehnghuysen
The Democrats found out that II also
rhymed with "pizen "a discovery
which they celebrated in verse. Mrs.
Frelinghuysen was daughter of George
Griswold, a merchant prince Of New
York, man of cultivated literary tastes
aud the friend of Irving. n. p. Willis,
and the men Of letters OF New York fifty
wears ago.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-18
rnEr RrpENTED or TnEMsELVEs

THEY REPENIED OF IHEMAHLTHS'
A Pennsylyapia grand jury recently
indicted man for stealing an umbrella,
and later, as they came out of the jury
room 10 go home and observed that it
had come ON TO rain, they gazed at lot
Of umbrellas that stood in rack and
muttered softly 10 themselves, "What a
fool a fool il r'-B Boston Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
CANTON OHIO, SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 1882

cred into two glitteFing palisades on Ell
ther side. The billOws reared as Gods
hand pulled back upon their crystal bits.
Wheel into line, o Israeli March!
March! Pearls crash under their feet;
the flying spray springs a rainbow arch
over the VictOrs. The shout of hosts
mounting the beach answers the shout
of hosts midsea, until, as the last line of
the Israelites have gained the beach, the
shields clang and the cymbals clap; and
as the waters whelIn the pursuing foe,
the swift-fngered winds on the white
keys of the foam, play the grand march
of Israel delivered to thu awful dirge of
Egyptian overthrow. So we go forth
and stretch out the hand of prayer and
Christian effort over these dark, boiling
waters of crime and suffering. "Ahal
ahap' says the deriding world. But
wait. The winds of Divine help will be-
gin to blow; the way win clear for the
great army of Christian philanthrOpists
and the glittering treasures of the
worlds beneficence, will line the path of
our feet; and to the other shore we will
be greeted with the clash of all heav'
ems cymbals; while those who resist,
and deride, and pursue US, will fall un-
der the sea, and there will be nothing
left of them but here and there, cast
high and dry upon the beach, the splin-
tered wheel of a chariot, and thrust out
from the surf the breathless nOstril of
riderless charger.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

now end. The audience had, up to this
time, suspected that this was surprise
introduced into the play, and that it Was
mere play; some had even applauded
Many, however, suspected an accident,
put none seemed to have known it. Up
10 thls time not moan or a cry had
Deen uttered on the stage. Mrs. SlOcum
IelI WlthOut moan and lay mOtiOnless.
81 SlOcum lay in a swoOni behind her,
The actors were discreetly silent. and
as soon as the curtain fell Miss Won Be-
hren was carefully borne to her dressing
room. surgeon arrived immediately,
Out 1t was of no use. In fifteen min
utes after the bullet struck her she was
corpse, without a moan or motion.
frayne was carried to his room. As
soon as he recovered sufficiently. he
came and knelt by the side of the almost
llfeless girl and pleaded with her to
speak. She heard nothing and gave no
sign OF motion, or other sign of consei-
BUSINESS. The actors rushed to their
rooms after the death scenes and gave
way to overwhelming grief. Frank
Frayne, when taken to the station, said
10 the officers: Make the charge as
severe as you can make it the worst"
The ball entered the forehead two
inches above the left eye and half an
inch to the left of the median line. The
apple on her head rested ON a hat, and
the bottom of the apple was four inches
ABOVE the girls head. though with the
makeup of her hair and hat it appeared
much nearer. The shot was Fravne's
usual back shot, using the mirror. The
place where the ball struck the girls
forehead was directly plumb line be-
low the center of the apple. The rife
used was a 32-caliber 'bPeech loader
cartridge rifle, of the j. Stevens pattern,
made for Frank FTayne, and used by
him six years in this act. He SAYS the
spring catch, near the breech of the bar
rel which holds it down, after loading
brake or failed, and that the stroke of |
the hammer on the cartridge threw the |
0reech up and depressed the muzzle at |
the moment of firing so as to throw the |
ball downward. About six years ago,
at woods Theater, in the same piece, |
with his wife, who has since died, he |
snOt one OF the stage supes in the foot. |
passed through the apple and heavy |
butt OF oak wood placed behind it to |
stop 1t. He then explained how careful |
he was in examining his rifle on such |
occasions; and how he used to employ a |
navy revolver and shO1t apples off sew.
eral peoples head till the authorities |
forbade it. He also explained that out |
of sight of the audience the breech of |
his gun was held tight to the prosce- |
MUM jamb by clamp and screw,
which he carried for that purpose. 1t |
appears that he omitted this precau- |
tiOn of late. Popular feeling here is |
sympathetic with the man, but bitter |
against his business. Frayne SAYS he |
will never shoot again.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
MANUFACTURING STATS
TICS.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-The special
census bulletin just issued contains
table of statistics compiled from the
census returns of 1880, and relating to
all the manufacturing industries lex
cept gas) in each of the states and terri
tories. This table shows that there were
in the United States 252, $40 establish
ments employing 2,025,279 males above
sixteen years of age; 53l, 1853 females
above the age of sixteen, and 1888
children and youths. $2,79O,322,5 sos cap
ital was invested, and the value of the
materials used amounted to 1894, ,340-
029; the value of the manufactured pro-
ducts amounted to $5,369, ,667, 706, and
the total amount paid in wages during
the year was $947, ,919,674. New York
state takes the lead in the number of es-
Establishments, capital invested, ETC., with
42,739 establishments; Pennsylvania is
second, with 81 ,225; Ohio third, with 20.
$50; Illinois has 14,349; Massachusetts
has Ia, 1852; Indiana IL, ,128; Michigan g.
1913; Missouri 1892; New Jersey Z, 7,12S, and
Iowa 1921 establishments.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
FRAYNE's FATAL SHOT.

CINCINNATI, November 3O.-This after
noon, at the Coliseum Theater, in the
fourth act of the play Isl SlOcum, 4"
Frank Frayne, in shooting an apple off
the head of Lucy SlOcum, persOnated by
Miss Annie Won Behren. missed the
apple. and shot Miss Won Behren in the
head.
1t was Thanksgiving Day, and people
and performers were in good humOr and
in apparently perfect sympathy with
each other. The people appeared de-
lighted and applauded generously and
the performers were stimulated to the
top of their bent. Everything went off
brilliantly till the end of the fourth act
where the villain Markham, who has
captured Isl SlOcum," says "I'll have
you shoot the apple off your wife's head,
and with the backward shoot"
Miss Annie Won BehreD, who has been
in that role two years, persOnating that
character since the deaJh of Frank
Faayne's own wife, was in the character
of Lucy this afternoon. She stepped
gaily TO her post, where she stood with
the apple on her head looking the very
personificatiOn of Wifely trustfulness
and confidence. ST SlOcum adjusted his
mirror slowly, the wife was thirty feet
away, his aim was deliberate and slow,
and he was never more steady of nerve.
Bang went the rifle. The apple didn't
fall but the girl dropped full length
backward with a dun heavy thud on
the floor, and the apple rolled away
toward the foot lights. Her face was
partly hidden behind a wing of the
scenes. With the flash of his rifle,
FrayL himself sprang as if he had been
shot, and turning toward her ran in a
wild. plunging. staggering sort of way
till he fell on the floor beside her, one
arm resting on her body. The curtain
then fell over all. Immediately after
the manager came out and announced
that slight accident had occurred, and
it was thought best to not give the fifth
act, for which reason the play would
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
jackson Township,

A pretty good hotel is kept in this
place by Mir. Strauser.
McDOnaldsyille has graded school,
in departments, of which Mr.. VIM. Nor
row and Miss Alice Gallagher now have
charge.
One of the teachers one evening last
week gave lecture on Common Schools,
in the house where he teaches. The au-
dIence was not large, but the address
was we'll received.
The present cold snap has caught
some of the farmers with part of their
corn unhusked and in the field. A few
have it all housed. and are ready for the
onslaught of winter.
A band of gypsies passed through this
township recently. They passed through
New Berlin, and by a :lrcuitous route
went towards Canal Fulton, and the
next day were seen going toward Can
ton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

covery. A heavy snow storm was pre-
vailing at the time.
Congressman Updegraff is deaed. His
age was sixty.
General Sherman says that he would
not accept a Presidential nomination
from either party if it was rendered
him. Neither party will tempt him.
On Sunday the family of Thomas
Hughes, living near SpOttsville, KY,
went to church to be gone all day, leaV-
ing an infant in charge of cOlOred
girl, The girl went to a neighbOr's,
leaving the child on the floor and was
also gone all day. When the family re-
turned they found the child dead, and
most horribly eaten by rats.
The closing of the rubber factories in
New England next month, which was
agreed upon by the recent New York
convention, promises to be more
serious event than most people think.
1t is estimated that if the programme
be carried out, 10000 people in New
York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
New Jersey will be deprived of employ
ment.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, November 28.-John
Mueller, German saloon keeper, resid-
ing at Ill Second street, Allegheny City,
walked quietly out of his bar-rOOm this
evening to front bedroom where his
wife was, and, seizing a razor, threw
her on the floor, and deliberately cut her
throat from ear to ear. almost seVeTing
the head from the trunk. He then
turned the weapon against himself and
cut his own throat, death being almost
instantaneous. There was no struggle
or Outcry, and the first discovery of the
crime was by small child, daughter
of the victims.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
WREClkING A BANK.
The Brief Career. of IL Buffalo
Young Man.

The Brief Career. of IL Buffalo
Young Man.
SYRACUSE, Nov. 3O.-Reuben Porter
Lee of Buffalo, who was convicted in
the U. s. Circuit Court of embeZZling
about 100000 from the First National
Bank of Buffalo, went into the employ
of that institution at the age of fifteen
as messenger boy. He became sue
cessively bOOk-kaepeT, teller, cashier,
Vice President and President. The last
named Office he attained in January last
at the age of 80, At that time the stock
was worth 100. In three months the
bank closed its doors, hOpelessly insOlv-
ent. Herman j. Hall & Co., appear to
have been the chief customers of the
bank. When Lee became President of
the bank he owned real estate in Buffalo
to the value of about $4,000. He con-
cOcted plan by which Hall was to be-
come a director in the bank, and sold
him large block of stock, part of which
was at the time hypOthecated as cOllat-
eTal. Lee discounted his own, his wife's
and his fathers notes, each in amounts
greater than 10 per cent of the banks
capital stock, and permitted the reserve
to be drawn down below the 10 per cent
required by law. When directors retir-
ed he did not fill the vacancies, so that
when the bank suspended, there were
only two directors. The New York cor
respondent was the Fourth National
Bank, and the immediate cause of the
suspension of the Buffalo bank was the
Fourth Nationals demand for more col
lateral. At times Lees bank was carry
ing over a million dollars of Hall Il Cos
paper.
Lee received his sentence of ten years
in the Erie county penitentiary with
cOmpOsuTe. He was taken there imme
diately, accompanied by his heartbrO-
ken young wife and other sorrOwing
frinnha
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

DIR. d. F. Murray, the Dentist, has met
with great success in removing tartar
and stains from the teeth while here
and has treated several hundred cases
during his stay here.
He goes TO Massillon next week, and
we recommend him as a master of his
profession,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. Hassoldt gave very
handsome Thanksgiving reception dim
ner to some thirty of their friends, who
did ample justice to the feast of good
things that loaded the tables.
In fact last Thursday was a general
feast day" in all parts of the city, and
a general good time was had in many a
private household.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

The Union Thanksgiving services in
the Baptist Church were largely attend
ed, and the pastor, Rev. Z. W. LOuns-
bury preached an eloquent and eminent.
ly practical sermon. A large collection
was taken up for the poor of the city.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

The wOrkingmen's Aid Society gave a
bal on Thanksgiving night in KlOpfen-
stine's Hall with a good attendance.
The proceeds are to be devoted to pur-
chasing a new flag. Dancing was kept
up until an early hour in the morning.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

There is something soft and tender in
the fall of single snowflake. but it al
ways reminds us to look after our hottie
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,-our I'D
standby in the. days of Coughs and Colds
for we have always found ft reliable.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

Burdette's lecture in the Opera House,
on the pilgrimage of a Funny Man"
was very we'll rendered, and fairly at
tended. He speaks very much as he
writes, and afforded very pleasant ev-
ening's entertainment.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

Services at the Trinity Reformed
Church to morrow morning and evening.
Preaching by the Pastor Rev. j. NJ. Ken
Pc O'Clock p. IN. by Elder SchennOt.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

Just received an immense line of
misses garments, suitable for children
from four to fourteen years old, at prices
that defy competition.
GOLDBERG BROS.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

The COncOrdia Society gave very en-
jOyable reception and dance in their
hall on THANKSGIVING night. A large
number attended.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02

The County Commissioners will meet
in regular session on Monday next,
when j. NJ. Shelter will succeed Mr..
Guest.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
ADDITIONALLOCAL

Goldberg Bros, Saxt0n Block, have
new and elegant line of fur lined clOaks.
Look at them.