The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-14
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being elected to the Office of church
warden.
The British Archaeological School in
Greece has resumed the work of exca-
walton in Milo.
At leady lie, this past winter, the
snowfall was q feet. and at Ruby, Col,
| it was 43 feet inches.
The Peace Society of Copenhagen
had succeeded on March 81 in collect
ing 100000 signatures to an appeal for
disarmament.
An artificial rubber, as good as the
real thing, Is now made OF glue and
glycerine mixed with sulphur oil,
such as ichthyol.
An electric arc lamp for use under
water-a contamination that has batil-
ed electricians for years-has been
produced by a German firm.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis has brok-
en- out among farm horses in the vicin-
ity Of Gratersford. Montgomery county,
Pa, and many are dying.
The German army includes more
than 10000 military musicians. Other
powerful nations on the continent en-
ploy rather less numbers in military
bands.
In 20 years the American Bible So
ciety has distributed 350.000 bibles in
Mexico. In the same time the Brit
ish and Foreign Society has distribut
ed 157 900 copies.
Most of the animals for American
ZOOS came from the Old World, but the
young hippUpotamus Cyrus is to be
sent from the New York zoo to Ger
many.
Statistics published in Montreal show
that 10000 people have left the prov
ince of Quebec for the States this year.
Most of the emigrants have gone te
manufacturing centers.
Norwegian legislators propose that
girls who do not know how to knit,
sew, wash and cook should be refused
permission to marry. Daughters OF
wealthy men are not to be exempted.
In Russia $4,000 students are engaged
in a sympathy strike. They have ceas-
ed to attend lectures because the stu
dents in the University of st. Peters,
burg were prohibited from enjoying
holiday revels.
Since the Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills, the new pastor of Plymouth
Church Brooklyn, has been preaching
sermons on the characters in we'll
known novels librarians throughout
the city report a greatly increased de-
mand for the novels themselves. and
the men at the street book stands are
hardly able to meet the new demand.
A Manchester, England, doctor, af-
ter five years observation and expert,
ence of influenza, states that CHINA
man is the best drug to cure the disc
ease. 1t may be taken as a decoction
or in the form Of tabloids.
r. ,rhe Arkansas Supreme Court has
decided that q man cannot exCape jury
duty because he has not paid his poll
tax. Heretofore the fact that a man
had failed or had refused to pay poll
tax has excused him from such ser
vice.
"Manjak" Is the name OF a new min
eral, of lustrous black, discovered on
the island Of Barbados. According to
experts, it is petrified petroleum mixed
with solid organic matter. 1t will form
a valuable fuel, far superior to coal.
The story of the finding of the sea
serpent on the island of Suwarrow, on
the British Columbia coast, has been
explored by Sydney scientist who de-
clares the bones found are those of a
zithoid, rare species of the whole
family.
Coils P. Huntington and associates
have purchased the Texas Mexican
Railroad, which runs from Corpus
Christi to Laredo, Tex, a distance of
160 miles 1t is a narrow gauge line,
and it will be Immediately changed to
width.
The American Church Missionary
Society has charge of a movement to
build Protestant Episcopal hospitals
1t Havana and Mata2zas Committees
have already been appointed to under
AXE the raising OF a fund of 100000
'or the purpose.
Estimated expenditure for the Brit
sh navy during the coming year is, in
American values, 1892 2,970,00O. Our
ywn Congress appropriated for similar
purposes this spring $50, O9S, 1888. Ten
ears ago, in 1889, Great Britain spent
,nly $69.2100O0 on it's navy and the
United States $21, 1878, 800.
A doctor was summoned at Gosport
England, for riding a bicycle on the
and he raised a novel de.
enSe. He stated that there was an act
# Parliament which gave doctor
permission to take the shortest cut
when on his way to an urgent case. Az
er an adjournment to allow him to
produce the act, the magistrates have
ecided in his favor.
The recently published army returns
-, ,aor 1907 o.i,o