The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-04-01
g0taI ann SflistfIIantOns GNitOriaL
Department.
PENcILL1Nas By LAMPLIaHT. a !.
4 Feminine DeveIopment SO ks5f,l

Feminine Development !
OF the war. seems. to be that Tobacco is
one of the insti-chew-tions in popular esteem
among the bellies of the sunny Southland
for the following narrative gthe reader is in
debted to "Sketches of the War, by Captain
Chas. Mott, of the 9th Iowa Cavalrv''
On foragiug excursion in Tennessee, he
makes visit to Major Thornton, /" a mid
sdle-aged gentleman, who revels in rich farm
and sixty niggers," He then goes on to say:
"But dinner done, at this house speak of,
there came before me another little custom
that may surprise some of my friends. The
mother of the family took her pipe, which /
have often seen before, and was not surprised
at; but the daughter farthest from me diyed
down7iR her pocket, and after rumnaging there
a minute, brought up
:. q sb4 mel @ horrori and o womankindl''
plug of tobacco and then deliberately took
ehew!a The second and third followed /;
and then the three young ladies drew up
around the sacred hearth (Which some of their
cousins were fighting to protect from the pei
luton of us Yankees) and indulged in little
social splitting. Itis elpbauassing,si you are
not used to it, to ask country belle qaes-
ton, and then have her turn her head sud-
denly the other way and spit before she an
swers. The first time we Witnessed this in
teresting ceremony, young officer of our par
ty thought he would do something COOL
be would ask woman for chew of tobacco.
So, marching UP, he said I: Miss. ,willy
be so kind as to give me a chew of your to-
baeeo? The rest of US felt annoyed; but the
girl quietly, and as matter of course, fum-
bled in her pocket and brought out the old
plug.'
Curious Combination
OF mines is represented in the figures 1868,
which will amuse one for moment or two,
for oddity and the ingenuity of the combina-
tions aforesaid Add the first two figures to-
gether thus, and 8, they equal nine; add the
last two, 6 and 9, also producing the inevita-
ble9. Place the figures A18zunder e33, and the
added sum is 81, the figures which added to-
gether, s and l. equal 8; subtract the 19 from
So, and the quotient is 45-the figures of
which added together, and 5, equal 9; di-
vide the 63 by the 18, and the quotient is 8,
with 9 remainder; multiply all the figures to-
gether 1, 8, 6, 8, the result is IA, the figures
of which added, /, I, A. equal 81 Add all the
figures, 1, 8, 6, 8, and the sum is 1s: and
and 8 equals 8; divide 1863 by 8. and the
quotient is 621; add 6, 2, 1, and they equal
8; divide 1863 by 9, and the quotient is 2O7;
add 2, 0, Z, and they equal 8. There are 9TH
er combinations which produce the everlasting
nine. The figures for the year 1881 win
provide large variety of similar combina-
.tions, which the curious reader, as per copy
above, can work out at will or leisure.
Male Dress Makers, PSI sfss9esaa5 z6
1t seems, are employed in other than the
circles of Partisan novelties. The Rev. a.
A. Sterns, an Abyssinian missionary, writes :
! /" Fond as the Abyssinian women are of
embroidered garm ents and other fneries, it is
strange that they should never try to gain
even a slight acquaintance with the use of
the needle. High and low alike depend upon
their male friends for every stitch in their
dress. Tastes, of course, vary in different
countries ;5but L confess that it always pros
voked me to see tall, bearded fellow acting
the dress maker. and a slender girl perform
ing the functions of the groom" - '~%
That the London Times
Is the greatest journal of the old world, is
not SO much to be wondered at, after getting
a view of the industry of the establishment.
That office employs three hundred and seven
ty persons. every branch and department be-
ing managed with the most systematic pre-
cision and discipline. The paper has now a
daily circulation of sixty-five thousand cop
les, requiring eleven tons of paper per day.
The paper used is of linen. The large cyl
inder on which the paperis printed turns, out
eight papers every second and a half, or, al
lowing for stoppages, about twelve thousand,
| five hundred per hour-equal to one thousand
1severy four minutes. After the type is set fol
the days paper, stereotype copies are made
of it. ii order to supply forms from which to
print sufficient issue. for the day. No pa
pers are issued to subscribers directly from the
4 ofice-they being supplied by the newsmen
Love
us q6afntIy de6nedto be a complaint of. The
/ heart, growing out of an inordinate longing
/ after some hing difficult to obtain. It attack.