The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-12-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Ihe estimated extent of the coal
fields of Texas is 10000 square miles.
A bitter fight in the Methodist
Church at Walhuck Center, N. j., Gull
minated in the Disagreement of the
church organ and the splitting of the pull
pit into kindling wood,-NeUarb Reg
iSter.
james Reagan, of New York, drank
eighteen glasses of beer after supper
and Knocked out his twelve year-old
girls eye because she was afraid to 90
at midnight for more lager.-M. T.
San.
"A gang of outlaws has been dis
covered in the woods of Long Island,
from whence they issue at intervals to
commit raids and depredations upon
unsuspecting travellers or defenseless
farmers.-N. Y. Times.
The dresses of an actress are
reckoned as ''tools of trade by the
New York Custom House officials, and
are passed free of duty. Mrs. Langtry
successfully raised the point on a $4,000
lot OF tools. ~ Y. Tribune
On the way over Irving's company
had wine supper and toasted President
Arthur. AT the conclusion of the toast
some enthusiastic Briton cried out:
''And Mrs. Arthur The toast was
drunk. So was the Briton.-C Chicago
Heraid.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that the Alfonso incl
dent was not so serious as represented.
There was, he says, no violence and
ugliness. The Parisians merely mani
tested, by jeers and chatting, their con-
tempt for royalty.
"A San Francisco paper saws that
the fastest time ever made between that
port and Honolulu by sailing vessel
was made by the American bark Comet
in lS6l-ten days and twenty hours, and
that the quickest steamers time was
made by the MaripOsa-siX days eight
and one-half hours.
old Commodore Vanderbilt's s advice
to his boys was ''never sell what YOU
haven't got" This wise saving was
forgotten by the bears who have been
raiding the stock market with reckless
audacity, and they have discovered that
there are enough bulls left to give
them the tightest squeeze they have ex-
perienced in long time.-ALJdny
ECe2ejng JoUTnai.
The deepest sea-soundino ever
made, says the Scjcntifc A,nerica,s, was
made in the Pacific Ocean near the
entrance to Behring's Sea Bottom was
struck at 4,65J fathOms. The cast was
made from the United States school
ship TuscarOra. The shallowest water
in the middle of the Atlantic, ISL
fathOms, shows the subsidence of noun
tains 1886 feet.
Texas takes the cuisine in the mat
ter of stories. There is one of a hunter
stalking deer. He fired at one. and the
shot frightened another grazing some
distance of. The two bucks started on
a wild career directly against each other,
collided with great force, one leaping
twenty feet into the air. and both fell
dead. The hunter captured the meat.
Chicago Inter ocean.
When in China, in 1S4S, we were
taken to see tea factories. There we
were shown the cOrpse-like workmen
who made green tea by rubbing the
black tea leaves in hot copper pots
The poor devils were, in q manner, pro-
tected from the copper fumes by wear
ing a damp cloth over the nose and
tied behind the ears to protect their
mouths and nostrils. We are told that
these workmen rarely survived their
second year at this employment.-CO Cor.
~ Y. SalD.
"A lively scene occurred in a den
lists Office at Westlield, Mass. A Young
man who had taken ether to have teeth
extracted, after the operation was over
became temporarily crazed from the
effects of the drug, and, under the inn
preston that he was a Western hero,
made hot attack on the dentist and
physician in attendance. One he
jammed up into the corner and shook
him until his teeth ratified, and the other
he dragged around the floor in his effort
to throw him out of the window. Other
occupants of the building rushed in, but
were quickly put to flight by the ether
lied man, and one of them was chased
around the halls and into his own quar-
ters. The patient was finally secured
by the dentist, and knew nothing of
what had occurred when the effect of
the ether passed off q few minutes later.
BOSTON Herald.
There is a boy living near War
mock $, in Belmont County, o., who has
a penchant for torturing animals. His
latest bit of sport was grinding a Kittens
head off on a grindstOne. Another cat
was found dead, imprisoned in large
jar in the milk house, which he admit
ted having placed there three or four
days previously. On another occasion
he secured a cat in a vacant room on the
second floor of the family residence, and
proceeded to murder it in heinous
manner. He would catch the poor,
frightened animal by the tail, and Civ
ing it sling, would land it against an
opposite wall with such force as to make
the blood squirt from its nose and eyes.
Doing this repeatedly he was at last dis
covered in the act, and in cool, smil-
ing way, he asked the intruders if it
wasn't lots of fun. One of the bystand-
ers hit him with fence rail.-C Cleveland
Leader.