The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-07-21
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1t reads: Here rest In the Lord, 10
SET Moritz, SEN, who died in his sixty
second year. He was shot by his son.
Frau Josef MoIitez, SEN, who died in
her 47th year. She was shot by her
daughter. Elizabeth Moritz, who died
by her own hand in her seventeenth
year, after shooting her mother. Jo-
sef Moritz, Jr., who died in prison, aged
twenty-seven years. He had shot his
father. May the Lord have mercy on
their poor sinful souls" The stone
was erected by a literary society to
which the last of the family bequeath-
ed large sum Of money
A new and. one would imagine, not
very congenial occupation for women.
has just been opened in Vienna.
There. in the "gayest city of the
world" a woman grave digger has
been added since the first OF this
month. to the list of municipal en-
ployes. She is the widow of the late
grave digger of the district. and during
her husbands life she had been so use
full to him in his vocation that now.
without let or hindrance, she has been
allowed to step into his shoes. as 1t
we're, and become the first professional
woman grave digger in civilized Eu-
rope.
A nervous curate in an English
church the other Sunday announced
from the reading desk Here begin,
meth the second chapter of the duke Of
Deuteronomy" His vicar looked Sc
verely at him. and the young man
blushed, coughed and repeated: THE
Boot Of Deuteronomy" There must
have been germs of mispronunciation
lurking in the air. for at later period
in the service the vicar read out: II
publish the manns Of barriage," etc.
The curate beamed with satisfaction.
in spite of the solemnity of the occas-
ion.
The Rev. D. M. Edwards, pastor OF
the Methodist church, is the most in
dustrious preacher we ever had here.
He does not expect the peopl to wait
on him simply bcause he is a preach
er, but does his own work. He chops
his wood builds his own fires, milks
the COW, and when his wife is gone,
does his own cooking, and the other
day, after suffering with the toothache
twentyfour hours. sent to the dentist,
and got the necessary grabs" and
pulled his own tooth.-Dahlonega Ga,
Nugget.
A Chinese Emperor once started on
a campaign against some of his rebel
lious subjects by saying: Aud now
we go to destroy our enemies" No
sooner did he come near them than he
gave them distinguishing marks of low
ing kindness. Some of his impetuous
soldiers said: I'VE thought that you
had determined to destroy your enc
niles rather than to show them these
acts of kindness" He replied: "Thus
have really destroyed my enemies,
for have converted them unto my
friends"
Mrs Hetty Green. who is said to be
the richest woman in America, is so
pursued by beggars that she conceals
her address from the public, and her
door plate bears the inscription, &C
Dewey" This is the name of her
daughters little dog, Commodore
Dewey" born on the day OF the battle
of Manila. "This little terrier simply
runs this whole household" Mrs. Green
said, the other day, to a reporter for
the New Voice. I'VE live with him
not he with u.s."
There is a special class of farm la
borers in Sweden who are given so
many acres of land for their own use
in consideration of so many days la
the farm. These "torpares" are a sort
OF fixture to an estate, and their like
exists in no other country. Their
movements, however, are not con-
trolled and "turpare" can leave the
"jortorp" at the expiration of his con-
tract. or these tenants there are l69,-
739.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
expectation of German girls to the
German colonies with the object OF
preventing the evils caused by the
union Of white colonists with black
women was recently proposed in the
Reichstag The proposition was de-
feated, but the basis for it was not
nonsense, as some Americans, members
of whose families are soldiers in the
Philippines. can testify.-Springheld
Republican.
There is yet living a woman wnom
Goethe loved. This is Freifraeulein
Ulrike Won Levetzow, of Trebitz, VIII
recently celebrated her 95th birthday.
When Goethe met her in 1923 at Mar
ienbad, he. was IA and she was 10, but
he conceived so strong a passion for
her that he wanted to marry her. At
ter his refusal he celebrated her
charms and his grief in his 'Marien-
bader Elegie."
Heinrich Kiepert, the greatest au-
Lhority on the geography of antiquity,