The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


tNp Gays pay for saying to a citizens:
"You would swear the le gs oil an iron
pot. ~ Y. Mail
"A man in California, aged ninety
seven years, has applied for natiraliza-
tion papers. It's never too late to
mend San francisco Chronicle.
If the object of pilgrimage to q
summer resort is to keep cool, the
Devils Slide' in the Yellowstone
Park is the place to 90 II freezes
there every night in the year Chicago
HcIaid.
AT Georgetown,O o. some boys under
took to smoke a ten cent rabbit out of
hollow log and burned over fifteen
acres OF valuable woodland, the rabbit
gravely enjoying the show from a
neighboring ledge.
The Iron Mountain Railroad com
pany sent nine tons of documents to
England, giving facts and figures in
viting immigration, but sent no money
to pay the freight or distribute them,
and they are going as waste to the
paper mills.-St. Louis Post.
Michael Crosby arrived in New
York recently from Hamburg, bound
for Mauch Chunk He said he in
tended to walk there. He had plenty
OF money, but declared that he enjoyed
walking, having often tramped one
hundred miles in twenty-four hours in
his native land.-N Y. Sun.
In New York, VIM. Ruborkie, aged
eight, said to John Klrchner, aged four,
that if he, John, would put his hands
on the floor, he, William, would chop
his fingers off with the hatchet. Johnny
readily accepted the profitable offer,
and in an instant his fingers lay with
unstudied carelessness about the floor
N y. Times.
According to London Truth. Daniel
Wilson, the son-in-law of the President
OF the French Republic, was almost the
playmate of his wife when he was
schoolboy and she a growing girl.
They knew each other so well that it
did not occur to them to get married
until they were both getting on toward
middle age.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, Den
mis- Killer, drunken young loafer,
overlook Mr.. John Clair, a well known
citizen, who had but one leg, and told
him to walk faster. Mr.. Clair replied
that he was walking as fast as an arti-
fetal leg would let him, and without
more ado, the loafer shot him fatally,
firing four bullets into him after the
first one had dropped him. Pittsburgh
Post.
John Huntington, of Cleveland,
cannot be blamed if he favors monopo-
lies. Some years ago he put S26, 900
into the Standard Oil Company, and
has drawn large dividends ever since.
The other day in New York he was Of
fered S1,00O,000 for his interest and
sold it, He came home with deed for
a 100000 house in one pocket and
drafts for $780, 900 in the other.-CBeUe-
land Herald
George Macdonald was pretty near
the right of it. In urging the nobility
OF labor he says: 81 would gladly see
a boy of mine choose rather to be a
blacksmith or matchmaker or book
binder than clerk. Production, max
ing, is a higher thing in the scale of
reality than any mere transmission,
such as buying or selling" He be-
lieves in having boys educated to a
trade. - Chicago Inter ocean.
Mrs. Mackay's country residence is
the Chateau de Villebon, quaint old
pile of the fourteenth century, situated
near Palasien, about twenty miles from
Paris, and surrounded with immense
park estates. The California million
aires wife is devOut Catholic and
keeps her purse string open for the
church. When they they rot up
benefit for the sufferers by the Ischia
disaster she was asked to buy some
tickets. Her reply was quiet check
for 5000 francs.
The Boston Herald tells of a re-
markable feat of memory accomplished
by DR.. Hedge in that city. He delivered
without notes, and repeated word for
word with all the energy of one en-
gagged in extempore speaking, dis
course which makes thirteen pages of
closely-printed matter in the Atlantic.
Macaulay might have done this
week before his death, but he did not
pass his sixtieth year. Dr. Hedge
wrought this surprising feat when with
in month of his seventy-eighth birth
day.
DR.. j. H. Sidall, a successful dent
ist, recently became insane and was
sent to Jail. Six years ago he shot and
killed Matt Mcclure, brother of ex-Con-
gresham Mcclure, of Wooster, in
quarrel about a woman. He acted very
strange lately. One freak was the pur-
chase of half dozen market baskets,
which he carried through the streets all
together. Another was trying to buy
all the real estate he could find for
sale. The other day he created a SEN
sation in Methodist Church by walk
ing up the aisle with a cigar in his
mouth. He made five attempts to shoot
DIR. Dougherty, rival dentist, but was
prevented His insanity is the result of
brooding over the killing of Mcclure, of
which he was acquitted on the ground
of self.defense. He claims the dead
mans form rises before him threaten
ing vengeance.-G GeUeLand Herald.