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Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Unique Praise of q Piano.

Previous to entering upon his present calling as piano dealer Mir. Pfafflin was locomotive engineer. When the lady reached the store she had the good for tune to find MT. Pfafflin in, and she asked his judgment on the style and brand of piano. ..
 ''That depends upon your taste, mad- am," said he. eff you want to combine elegance with utility, 1would suggest the old-fashioned square piano. It an- swers for an ornament, makes music, and can be used for dining-table and bed when you have company. This kind of an instrument should not be selected for small cab, because it dosn't leave room for firing up. They make just as much steam as the upright, but, owing to the position of the harp, they let down in the flucs much quicker. Being wide guage, the wear and tear are also very great. If you want perfect working, handsome machine, take the upright. It is narrow guage, hung low on the trucks, and has all the modern improvements, in- cluding patent brake and snow-plow. The running-board is the same size as the square, and she carries just as much steam. You can work it in small space and get as much sound out of it as you could with the old-fashioned steamboat whistles. Her woodwork is as neat as Pullman sleeper, and if you keep her we'll packed and oiled she works as slick as old Seventy-four. have run one for five years. ."-Boston Journal,
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
The H0g'S ImOOrtonCe.

The hog is not only of importance at home, but is beginning to make re- spectacle showing in our exports, al- though Bismarck is doing what he can to keep him out of Germany. Meanwhile, we have frequent discussions on eating pork, and the propriety of setting ono side the Mosaic law which prohibits its use as food, a law which our Hebrew friends religiously obey.
 The hog is not, however, to be exter- minated, A newly arrived Irishman once said to the inmate of a pigsty: "Bedad, you are the only gentleman in America, the only being that lives without work" He breaks into gardens and roots under the gates of front yards. He enters into the composition of half your articles of food; he lies down boldly in your meat platter; he gets into your pies and cakes, making sad mess of them. Your cook makes you loaf of bread. The hog is in it. You take slice of ''nice Sarato- ga potato" The hog is all around it in delicate film, giving it flavor and crisp mess. He is at the bottom of much of our dyspepsia and biliousness. We can- not escape him. He is everywhere, dead or alive. We eat hog, breathe hog; our midnight slumbers are disturbed by the yell of his drivers, making night hide. ous;" and finally, our humane sensibili- ties are shocked by his cries, as he is be. ing offered an unwilling victim to our swinish appetites.
 I have somewhere read that some hea- then cosmogonist made the earth to rest on boar, the boar rested on turtle,' and the turtle on an elephant, and the el- ephant did not rest on anything. We take the liberty to question this theory; but it is quite unquestionable that the world of Chistendom rests to certain extent, commercially and dietetically, upon the hog, which the great lawgiver and writer of the first five books of the Bible absolutely prohibited, and that too, doubtless, for sanitary reasons, which are everlasting and immutable.- Ben Perley Poore. ..-. ...a
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Lucky Men Who Get Rich.

s'Some men do have luck in this world, for fact" said seedy-looking individ- ual who had taken a fifteen-cent lunch on State street, near Harrison, and who now stood in front of the Palmer House manipulating his tooth pick, ''but ain't one of them.
 '.In my time I have invested many a good thousand dollars in mining stocks and never made hit yet. A hit was what needed to make about as bad as anybody ever needed it, but I couldn't make one.
 "Now just look at Marshall Field. He hasn't been suffering for dollar for a good while. Yet few years ago, in settling with country merchant, he was induced to take $500 worth of stock in the Chrysolite mine.
 'tHe didn't want to take the stock and offered to make a big discount for cash, but the country merchant was hard up and so the dicker was made.
 'Field took the stock, put it away in his safe, and in seven years has drawn $50, 900 in dividends.
 '1've heard, too, though don't know how true it is, that about all the money he ever invested in mining property was his profits from this first venture.
 ''He has most invariably been lucky, and has probably made more money out of silver mines on smaller investment than any other man in Chicago. A rich man for luck every time. ."-C Chicago Harn16
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
CANAAN, CONN.,, WEDNESDAY, MAY g. 1886,
"The question is, do you looo

moodily. "The question is, do you 'o0' mel" r.
 "Maxy' s -' --2
 '.Fannyl No-stay here!" posting him. self, with lightning rapidity, in the door, way. "Unless you jump down the ter race, you can't get away from me. And I'm determined d to have an answer" s
 He had the answer. And the answer was ''Yes." -.-r ..ea.s g-~s eg@ 44ssx-a
 It is very seldom, you see, that thor oughly determined young man allows himself to be baff1ed.
 Mrs. Fielding, the pretty widow, was deeply annoyed; Miss St. Jacquin raved.
 ''But, you see," MT. Lynfeld after ward said, q never should have known how much I cared for Fan, if I hadn't heard those spiteful cats criticising her. !"
 And MT. Leslie wore the selfsame coat to his daughters wedding. u-.-. u
 But, to the end of his learned and scientific life, he never knew who made it.
 Savants are not wise in the ordinary events of everyday life.-Helen Forrest Grnyss
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Lunar F0ncies.

In Devonshire it is believed that on seeing the first new moon of the year, if you take off on stocking and run across l field, you will find between two of your
 toes hair which will be the color of
 the lover you are to have. In Berkshire
 the proceeding is more simple, for you merely look at the new moon and say: ''New moon, new moon, hail theel By all the virtue in thy body, Grant this night that may see He who my true love shall be-"
 Te result is guaranteed to be as satis- factory as it is in Ireland, where the
 people are said to point to the new moon
 with knife, and say:
 ''New moon, true morrow, be true now to me,
 That I, tomorrow, my true love may see.s In Yorkshire, again, the practice was to catch the reflection of the new moon
 in looking glass, the number of rehec- tions signifying the number of years
 which will elapse before marriage. All
 these superstitions are suggestive of that
 which Tylor calls "one of the most in-
 structive astrological doctrines''- shame ly, that of the sympathy of growing
 and declining nature with the waxing
 and waning moon. Tylor says that a
 classical precept was to set eggs under
 the hen at new moon, and that Lithu-
 anian precept was to wean boys on a
 waxing and girls on waning moon-to
 make the boys strong and the girls deli
 cate. On the same grounds, he says,
 orkneymen object to marry except with
 growing moon, and MT. Dyer says that
 in Cornwall, when child is born in the interval between an old and new moon,
 it is believed that he will never live to manho oOd.-AW the Yeny Round
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Not Pretty. But Smart.

A little 4-year-old girl, a resident of Minnesota's capital city, is not noted for her beauty, though possessed of very sweet disposition and remarkably smart mind. She was recently presented to a minister who chanced to be visiting at her home. He took her little face be- tween his two hands and looked down at her in the most scrutinizing manner. She evidently anticipated that her face would not bear the close inspection, as turning her eyes in the direction of his face, she lisped out: 'I ain't pretty, Mither Brown, but Pth mighty 'mart.- st. Paul Gl06s.
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Two Remarkable Children,

Perhaps the two most striking instan- ces of home training that have been given to the world, writes Agnes Repplier in the Atlantic Monthly, are those of John Stuart Mill and Glacomo Leopardi, the principal difference being that while the English boy was crammed scientifically by his father, the Italian boy was per- mitted relentlessly to cram himself. In both cases we see the same melancholy, blighted childhood, the same cold indif- ference to the mother, as to one who had no part or parcel in their lives; the same joyless routine of labor; the same unboy- ish gravity and precocious intelligence. Mill studied Greek at 3, Latin at s, the Organon at il, and Adam Smith at 13. Leopardi, at 10, was we'll acquainted with most Latin authors, and undertook alone and unaided the study of Greek, perfecting himself in that language be- fore he was IA. Mills sole recreation was to walk with his father, narrating to him the substance of bis last days read ing. Leopardi being forbidden to go about Recanati without his tutor, acqui- esced with pathetic resignation and ceased to wander outside of the garden gates. Mill had all boyish enthusiasm and healthy partisanship crushed out of him by his fathers pitiless logic. Leo- pardi's love for his country burned like smothered flame, and added one more to the pang's that ate out his soul in silence. His was truly wonderful intellect; and whereas the English lad was merely forced by training into a precocity for eign to his nature, and which, according to Mir. Bain, failed to produce any great amount of scholarship, the Italian boy fed on books with resistless and crav- ing appetite, his mind growing warped and morbid as his enfeebled body sank more and more under the unwholesome strain. In the long lists of despotically reared children there is no sadder sight than this undisciplined, eager, impetuous soul, burdened alike with physical and moral weakness, meeting tyrannical au- thority with show of insincere submis- sion, and laying up in his lonely infancy the seeds of sorrow which was to find expression in the keynote of his work, 'Life is Only Fit to be Despised.n
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

Robert Garrett's small hobby is his through railroad line to Philadelphia and New York; but his big hobby is walk ing-sticks. ''His canes, hats, and patent leather shoes," says Baltimore corre- spondent, ''are positively numberless. People who go into the hallway of his house, while he is at dinner, usually con- clude after brief study of the hat rack that he is entertaining vast con- gregation of his friends, whereas there is no one there but his mildly eccentric self. If he should ever be dragged down to poverty, he can subsist in comfort during the balance of his days upon the sales of his old canes and clothes."
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Forgive

 Forgive the hand that harshly strikes V In anger's reckless mood, Perhaps the heart behind it mourns ~ The action hot and rude; And though the insult sends the bloo. Indignant to the face, Its pardon to the injured brings No sorrow or disgrace. Forgive the tongue whose nasty words Like flaming arrows burn, Behind it, too, heart may sigh, And for forbearance yearn; Since there is none of human kind That doth not sometimes need An ill-used neighbours clemency For grievous word or deed. Though, hate should follow, hard and close With every cruel wrong, r, This thought will always cheer the soul It cannot be for long; .. While on an easier bed he lies, Who from revenge is free, Who says, My heart forgives chem all As God forgiveth mel"
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

The correspondent of the Cleveland Leader says that old friends of the Pres;- dent whisper that he will never marry.
 They say the only woman that he ever really loved has been in her grave more than twenty-five years. He met her, they say, when he was a school teacher in a little town of New York, when the down had just begun to come upon his lips, and she was sweet 16. They loved, but they were too poor to marry. Cleveland had decided to go west to make for tun, when his sweetheart became sick, and, within few days, died.
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Dangers Tn Africas

''The most dangerous savage foes VIC have to fear" says MT. Stanley, fare the crocodile, hippopotamus and the buffalo. We lost five men during my last visit to the Congo from these animals; three were killed by crocodiles, one by a hippopota- mus and one by a buffalo. There are a large number of hippopotami along the Congo and its tributaries, and thousands upon thousands of crocodiles. The lat ter are by far the most insidious foes we have, because they are so silent and so swift. You see man bathing in the river," said MT. Stanley, with one of his vivid graphic touches; ''he is standing near the shore laughing at you, perhaps, laughing in the keen enjoyment of his bath; suddenly he falls over and you sec him no more. A crocodile has approach ed unseen, has struck him blow with its tail that knocks him over, and he is instantly seized and carried off. Or, it may be that the man IS swimming; he is totally unconscious of danger; there is nothing in sight, nothing to stir a tremor of apprehension; but there, in deep wa ter. under the shadow of that rock, or hidden beneath the shelter of the trees wonder, is huge crocodile; it has spot ted the swimmer, and is watching the opportunity; the swimmer approaches; he is within striking distance; stealthily, silently, unperceived, the creature makes for its prey; the man knows nothing till he is seized by the leg and dragged un- der, and he knows no morel A bubble or two indicates the place where 10 hany
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

The song of the shirt can be given to an instrumental accompaniment now. A Berlin inventor has attached musical box to sewing which doles out its melody as long as the machine is in operation. What with this and the sewing machine itself, Tom Hoods famous lyric is becoming decidedly old fashioned. But its sentiment holds good, however, the attendant circumstance may have changed it.
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
General Doubleday Beaten.

The lack of discipline in the Union ar- my in the early part of the war is exem- plifed by couple of anecdotes told by Col. w. A. James, an old and we'll known veteran: ''When we were in the defenses before Washington in 1861 Gen. eral Doubleday, rigin martinet, was in command of the brigade, which was made up almost entirely of young and untrained soldiers. One of them, lank and overgrown Westerner, was doing picket duty one day when Doubleday, glorious in gilt and brass, rode by on his charger, accompanied by his entire staff. As they passed the big Westerner stared at them with open-mouthed wonder, and neglected to salute. The General mo- ticed the error, and rode back with fire in his eye.
 "What is yonr name9" he asked the picket.
 The picket told him.
 "'Well, I am General Doubleday, commanding the defenses of Washing ton.'
 "tAre ye, indeed! said the soldier, nonchalantly. sWaal, ye hev a gosh fired fine job, and I hope ye can hold it. ,
 The General galloped off again without a word.
 At another time soldier who was dig ging trench hit his captain on the head with clod of dirt. The officer rushed up and reprimanded the private.
 "Now, look-a-here, Cap" said the lat ter, ''my business here is digging and yours is bossing the company on parade, and if you attend to your business I'll at tend to mine."
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

A curious fact connected with some modern chemical preparations is that they are liable to be affected by the presence of certain gases in the atmosphere. The presence of ordinary Illuminating gas in the air will cause some cosmetics to change to sickly yellow or a dull brown color upon the cheeks and shoulders of some belles of the ball room,
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
A Correct Map.

ssHow far is it from the new capitol to the Colorado river?" asked Hostetter Me- Ginnis of Gus De Smith.
 According to the city map it is mile, but I think it is much longer. I've walked it, and it took me longer than it should take to walk mile."
 ''That discrepancy is easily explained. The city map doesn't go out of its way to take drinks at all the saloons between the two places. It isn't that kind of a map. '-l l6ifttn1s. ssss sss
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Circumstances Alter Cases.

Lawyer (o client)-Your old uncle Isaac died this morning. Twas just on my way to your office to tell you.
 Client-What? That old lunatic?
 Lawyer-Yea, and what's more, he left you all his money.
 Client-Well, I declare, this is terribly sudden. l trust he died peacefully. Poor, dear, old man, do hope that he didn't suffer. -Neso Fork Graphic.
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
MO-. 45.

The City of Mexico is progressing rapidly and putting on the best habili- ments of modern civilization. It is pro- jecting the best sanitary system on the continent, and will soon be illuminated from centre to suburb with the electric
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

The drink bill of Great Britain for 1885 was less than that for 1884. The amount of this drink bill is equal to the nations expenditure for bread, butter and cheese, is not much less than the rents paid for farms and houses, is three times the amount spent for tea, sugar, coffee and cocoa, and six times the amount spent for linen and cotton goods.
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Dahodlls.

The golden sun looks gladly down
 On golden rows of daffodils. Ho crowns them with his golden crown, With golden rays each blossom fills, And every blighting breeze he stills With golden trumpets in their hands,
 On pliant stems they lightly swing; In cheerful, dauntless gorgeous bands, Their trumpets to the breeze they fling, '. And sound the overture to spring. Gone is the winters dreaded power,
 Gone are the cold and weary days; Now comes the soul-refreshing shower, Now sheds the sun his brightest rays; Their golden trumps are turned to praise. Praise Him, ye trumpeters of spring, Whose mighty love new life distills! My heart shall with your music ring Until your rapture through me thrills Ye golden-throated daffodilsl
 -Caroline Hazord, ia badependent
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05

A man hearing of another who was a hundred years old said contemptously: ''Pshaw! what fuss about nothing. Why, if my grandfather were alive he would now be hundred and fifty years old. n
Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11

JosHPH chopin, aged ninety'fOur
years. died near Cincinnati on Saturday.
Three years ago he made for himself a
burial case, which he called "the great
American cOllln" II In Of dressed pine,
with three panels on each side and one
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11

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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11

THE III 2 John PirIer a vii fe re-
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11

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