The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Henry George has completed weeks
course OF lectures 10 the Skye Cr0flers.
lie was listened 10 with great enthus-
iaam.
by rubbing a cats back In the dark
you can see the electricity fly, and when
the eat claws your hand You can feel
the shock.
The hey OF Tunis has given NJ. Rou-
daire authority 10 carry out his scheme
OF transforming the Desert OF Sahara In
10 an inland sea.
Senator Anthony, OF Rhode Island,
attributes hia recent illness TO the use
OF cigarettes, He might move Into a
larger State and smoke cigars.
A drinking man upon reading In a
novel that the herOine'a beautiful face
"c0lOred with pleasure" remarked:
NOW know what's the matter with my
nose"
Tue Columbus Daily Times was sold
last week TO j. II. Collins, attorney Of
the Baltimore ~ Ohio road, for 5000.
IL IL understood that s. X. Donayan Will
have editorial charge.
The Rev. DR.. VIM. r. Williams, OF the
Trinity Baptist Church, OF New York, IL
nearly 80 years OF age, and has been pas
Tor OF that church % years. He ILLS the
pulpit nearly every Sunday.
The sins OF the father shall be visited
upon hls children. Two OF Brigham
Y0ung'a sons have died drunkarda, two
VI hia daughters are married 10 the same
husband, aud another sou writes poetry.
Az Akron the other day Wellington
Warner, aged Ia, was thrown from "A
wagon by q runaway horse. The lad's
back was broken and one eye was torn
from the socket In horrible manner,
lilo will probably die.
What can DO done with river that
rises seventy feet fyom its bed except 10
dam NY We mean 10 dam II up on its
upper waters, aud no store water In
reservoirs M 10 make II nayigable Ut all
seasons.
Willis Klsaee and Jack Kellogg, Of
GunnisOn, Col, engaged In little game
Of poker. Zach held three OF O kind and
a pistol, each wanted tho stakes, and
each reached for them. Both drew pis.
tolls and lred aud both died.
The Archaeological Society OF Athens
In going TO search the sea bottom In the
Bay of Salamia for relica OF the famous
naval battle OF Salamla, fought between
the Greeks aud Persians. fho Greeks
lost fifty, and the PersiaDs 200 galleye.
In a case before the Michigan Supreme
Court, whrre the point Oi controversy
WAS whether the elopement OF wife
from u husband, with another man, bars
hOr from n claim 10 her rights In her
husbands estate, the court claimed that
II did.
At Augusta, Georgia, George p. Curry,
banker and cotton man nfacturer, has
assigned. Liabilities 100000. Assets,
n0minally t200,0O0. Large improve
ments " the mill were recently made
aud the inability 10 realize on manufac1
tured goods caused the embarrassment.
There are now forty.eight lady stu.
dents In the Harvard annex, and IL IL
the testimony Of some OF the Harvard
professors that the average scholarship
Of the annex Ia above that OF the classes
Of the college. Two enthusiastic Texas
girls sold land and travelled 1000 miles
20 get to the college.
The house In which Gen. Burgoyne, q
prisoner OF war, partook OF the hospl
tality OF Gen. Philip Schuyler, Is still
standing In Albany, N. Y. II was built
by Mira, Schuyler in 1861, while the Gen
elal was In kurope, from whence many
articles for furnishing the house were
sent, and was their town residence. The
mansion at Schuyler, with the General's
mills. was burned by Bnrg0yne In l777.
fhe mansion was their country seat,
handsomely furnished, and far sur
passed the Albany house In point OF
grandeur and costly nttings.