The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-27
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Senator Morrill, was the only member
of the present Senate who wrote with
quill pen,
Hyenas alwayg fight kneeling, the
foreleg being the most vulnerable part
of their body.
An ordinance providing "0r all-night
street cars in Baltimore was recently
rejected by the City Council.
Australian newspapers report the
complete disappearance of Metis Is
land, which as late as 1880 projected
$50 feet above the ocean.
While the wedding service is pro-
ceeding in Japan, the bride kindles a
torch and the bridegroom lights fire
from it and burns the wife's play
things.
More than a century ago a meeting
house was erected at the head of the
Tuckahoe river, near Tuckahoe, N. j..
and 1t was painted for the first time
three weeks ago. Red was the color.
In every city or town in the Meth
street. In olden days only undertakers
lived in them, the rosemary being, in
the language of flowers, specially dedi-
Gated to the dead.
An Anglesea IN. J.) gunner killed
duck a few days ago and attached
to Que of the ducks feet was large
clam. The duck had evidently been
wading in shallow water and had
stepped on feeding bivalve.
Hunters at South Seaville. N. j..
have exhausted all their ingenuity in
trying to capture a white crow that
for more than a year has been living
in the woods adjacent to the town with
several hundred Of it's black compan-
ions.
A Belfast (Me.) citizen reports him
self as the champion absent-minded
man. He got the fire in the kitchen
stove running nicely the other morn
ing; then he went to the we'll. drew a
pail of water, brought the water in
and poured it into the stove.
Jake Horn, of Corson's Inlet. N. j..
who is known as the "eel king" Of
South Jersey, has caught, with the
use Of a spear, more than 100000 cells
during the past 30 years. Their aggre-
gate length was more than so miles,
and their combined weight was more
than fifty tons.
At the recent annual meeting Of the
Egyptian exploration fund Sir E.
Maunde Thompson declared that 1t
would not be surprising if whole books
Of the New. Testament dating from the
second century should be found among
the papyri now being discovered in
Central Egypt.
John Logan, one of the oldest post
masters in the United States, is dead
at his home at Crossroads, says a
York, Pa, dispatch He was appointed
postmaster In the administration of
President Van Buren,, in 1897. and
filed the same office continuously up
to the time of his death. Mr.. Logan
was SO years old.
Elisha Hunt, of Hawley. Mass, has
two cords Of wood, stove length, which
has been in his shed thirty years.
which he is burning this winter, sound
and in as good condition as the day it
was put in the shed. He also has two
piles Of fourteen-foot wood, two cords
each; one pile has been in forty years
and the other fifty-two years. He has
no wood on his own farm, and has to
buy all he uses.
The setting Of plaster Of Paris may
be retarded by the addition of two to
four per cent of powdered althea root
This addition not only retards the
hardening Of the plaster, but also en-
ables 1t to be cut, filed, sawed and
turned. An addition OF eight per cent
retards the complete setting of the |
plaster for about an hour, so that the |
mass may be used for any purpose,
where it is to remain plastic during at |
least a portion of that time.
Maurice Corson, a Palermo, N. J.,
storekeeper, who died a few days ago,
bought quantity of calico during the |
Civil War paying so cents a yard for
{. When the price fell to eight cents
lfter the war Corson declared he would |
lot sell yard of his goods unless he
'ealized sum equivalent to the price
lie had paid for 1t. The goods remain
ID on the shelves in Corson's store for
hirty-eight years, and were sold last
week for two and three cents a yard.
Chickens are sold by the piece in
3uenos Ayres. They are dressed be-
ore being offered for sale, the only
Gathers being left upon them being
hose Of the tail. The same custom
'revails in China as to dogs, where a
lit OF the dogs hair is always left on
he end of the tail. even when the ami
nal is cooked, But this is because the
'hinese consider the flesh of black
ogs the best, and most certain to nut
brave spirit into the body of the
ater.
A physician quoted by the Richmond
Dispatch says that snow is healthful.
nd that there is now less sickness in
hat city than usual "The amount |