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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13
DRASS AND GERMAN SILVER

DHADO AN II bENMhN Dill v Elk
DINSTRUMENTS FOR BANDS; full sets
constantly on hs:. l. A large VARIETY Of or
chestra cOrnets-tOp and side action. Bell
Front, upright and round, in every variety Of
style. illustrated catalogue gratis,
l.haye also made large additions 90 my
stock of foreign goods, and my arrangements
for obtaining them through my agent in Eu-
rope; give me many advantages. NJ stock of
strings comprise some Of the choicest to be
found In the market, among them / have
French, German and Itallan-the latter ought
to be more known to be appreciated. Know.
ing full well the value of first class vielin
strings for professional use, We have taken the
greatest pains to have them made OF the best
stock, and by the most experienced workmen,
and shipped direct for oar trade. Also,
yiolins, guitars, yiolincellos, bows, bow hair
screws, finger boards, pegs, mutes, tallpieces,
buttons, frog screws, bridges, flutes, flies, clai
riOnets, piceolis, fageolets, banios, tambour-
ins, snare and base drums, sucks, heads
snares, cords, metronomes, (plain and hell,)
guitar patent heads, pins. cap d'Astros, Clari.
onet reeds, mouth pieces, holders, hautbOy
and bassoon ree1 q, DO uble bass strings,
string guages, brass and German silver flute
pads, ebony and rosewood bones, castanet,
violin and double bass rosin, triangles, tuning
hammers. forks, pitch pipes, fife mouthpieces.
Turkish cymbals, harmoncas, banjo bridges,
bassoons, French accordeons feyery style.
Violin strings in sets"....I5 cents.
Guitar strings in sets...... So cents,
feel confident after offering the above, that
you will conclude to send me your orders, and
save money, YouInay depend upon receiving
goods Of the very best quality. %rf III
illustrated and descriptive price lists sent
free on application. Send for circulars.
s. II. GORDON,
.l' F0G RrOadWaV Nav YOrk.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13
SPANGLE AT HOME.

sPANGLE AT HOME. ,
l will say though, that of all
The children | have, Spangle is
the biggest baby. 'TiS true he
was through most of the all
ments l have enumerated be-
fore | got him, but in a thous-
and other respects he still is,
and always will remain in that
chronic state of babyhood
which ever attends oVer-in-
dulged and spoiled husbands.
When we were first married
my only baby would almost
break his back to pick up my
fan, and he would kill a fly in
a minute if the fly manifested
any disposition to alight on
my nose.
Now | have to almost liter
ally dress him in the morning.
| have to get his boots tOgeth-
er, one of which he generally
kicks under the bureau, the
other under the bed. l always
have to find his cravat. If |
go to bed first, in the morning
| find his clothes scattered
over the room as only a man
scatters clothes. He never
would put on a clean shirt if it
were not spread out on a chair
before him. His sleeve but.
tons are taken out and put in
by me, when taken out and
put in at all. l do not believe
he has combed his own head
since we were married. He
can't even wash his own face
properly without being told,
like any other child. If | did
not wash him, his. ears and the
back of his neck would be a
sight to behold. o.
sPANGLE ON A SICK BED.
Albeit he has no patience
for Others who have pains and
aches, yet you ought to see
him when anything is the mat
ger with him. He tears, and
groans, and grunts over slight
attacks of collie in a manner
to keep every one awake il
the house, at such times he
always believes he is going tc
die, and will not suffer me t.
leave him for a moment.
Yet with all his faults, /
well, you know, the quotation
/ believe he is the best mar
living, and would not give hin
for a ten acre lot full Of mer
like the scapegrace of a hus
band which your foolish, cred
ulous correspondent, aDolly
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13

GORDON'S SHORT VOLUNTA-
ORlES, for the Organ, sl.5O Bellak's New
Method for Piano Forte, 20 cents; Rich ard
sons New Modern School for Piano Forte,
$780, send for catalogue ofNew Music Socks
ST GORDON,
Publisher No. 7O6 Broadway, New York,
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13

THE SILVER BELL BY c. BUT
L LER. One Of ihe best and most popular
collections ever issued for schools; 25 900
already sold Price, 90 cents, or So per dozen.
THE SILVER CHIME AND THE
l. CANTATA OFTHE CHRISTIAN G RACES,
for Sabbath Schools, by Geo. +. Root. Send
20 cents for sample copy.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13
First National Bank Building
PhiJadelphda,

Where the general business Of the Company
IS transacted, and 10 which all general corre-
spondence should be addressed.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
Flowing with Elephants.

Several years ago Mr.. Z. r. Barnum put
an>elephant to the pillow on piece of land
he owned on the line of the New York Sc
New Haven RrilrOad, at Bridgeport The
duly cOstumed and turbaned "a static
who tended the elephant was sure to be
seen busily engaged in plowing whenever a
train passed by, and ere long all the papers
in the country noticed this new and won
derful feature in agriculture in Connect
cut. Thousands OF persons came from all
parts of the country to- see Barnum's ele-
phant plOw. Presidents and secretarit 8
of agricultural societies wrote to Barnum
to know whether the elephant really was
valuable addition to the animals used
for farm labor; how much work he could
do; how much food he required, and how
much he could draw.
To which Mr.. Barnum invariably re-
piled that the cost of keeping such an
animal, to say nothing of the original cost
of from $4,000 to $4,000 for an elephant,
would preclude the general introduction
of elephants upon New England farms.
But then, as to how much an elephant
coulddraw, why :he calculated that this elt {.
phant blowing in Bridgeport, would draw
a; least 100, 900 visitors during the summer
to Barnum's Museum in New York
And no doubt it did. There never was
a better bit of outdoor advertising.
But in England they are now manulac-
turing large numbers of elephant plows,
which are sent to India, for there the ami
NAL is made serviceabie in this way. Two
men guide the plow, another man directs
the animal, and the elephant marches
along all day, turning up ridge and leav-
ing furrow three feet deep and four and
half feet broad. This is deep and sub
soil plowing with vengeance York
Erening Post
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
Johns Saturday.

JoHN's Saturday was a complete failure.
In the first place. it rained. Secondly, he
oversight himself, and didn't get up till
breakfast was over. Thirdly, he couldn't
find the mate to his thick boot. FOurthly,
in dressing, he got soap in his eyes and
tooth brush bristle in his throat. Filthy,
he caught his heel in the rope door mat,
and fell hcadlong off the front stoop.
Sixthly, just as he was picking himselfup,
his grandmother called him to come in
again because it was raining. Seventhly,
as soon as he was inside, his mother made
him take off "those forlorn old clothes"
because il was going TO clear off. Eighth
ly, he put his knife and new ball in his
pocket, and on his way TO Bill ScudderS
house, to get Bill to go nutting with him,
he lost the knife out of hole in the pock-
ct. Ninthly, Bill had just been seized
with the measles and couldn't go. Tenth
ly, John cOnsOled himself with pitching
his ball, and it went plump into the corn
field and was lost forever. Elevcnthly, he
ran into Widow Morris's to get drink of
water, and somehow the glass slipped
through his fingers and broke into fifty
pieces. Twelfthly, it was raining hard
when he came out, and he ran in the
widows wOOd-shed for shelter, and tore
his new coat on a nail in the door. Thir-
teenthly, he comforted himself by poking
at a hornets nest with sharp stick, and
one of the hornets stung him
on his eve before he could say
Jack Robinson. Fourteenthly, rushing
out to put mud on the place, he stumbled
and fell into a big puddle. Fif,eenthly,
the widows fierce dog then flew at HIM,
and tore his trowsers. SlNteenthly, II
cleared up suddenly, and while lac was
walking home, all muddy and torn, and
with that swollen cyelid, he met Mamie
Green, the prcttiest little girl in the place.
Seventeenthly, on reaching home, he
found that the hogs had been IN ms garden
and destroyed his pumpkins. Eighteenth,
ly, his brother reminded him that he had
n composition to write for Monday. Nine
teenthly, his eve was so much better that
he was afraid he couldn't have an excuse
for not writing the composition. Twen-
tietbly. his tooth began to ache. Twenty
firstly, company came to supper, and he
had to "wait; :" and, twenty-secondly, he
went to bed.
Poor fellow, How wretched he must
have been, Whyg Who said 500 John
never said it. On the contrary, he Wills
lied all the time he was undressing.
The fun of it all is that John was such
a happy. good natured fellow that nothing
ever troubled him much; and he always
spoke of his Saturday as having the l"l-
liest lot of fixes in it that ever fellow
had.-HearM and Home
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
Learn 10 Observe.

MOST young people have great respect
for men of science, and are apt 10 thihS
that it is impossible that they can ever
know as much as Doctor or Professor SD
and so. All the persons whose great
knowledge you wonder at were once as
ignorant as anv boy or girl who reads this.
If any of YOU desire To become learned
about natural things-the rocks, trees, an
imals. and the like-you must In the hrst
nlace learn to use your eyes, or make OBJ
servations. as il is called. One OF the
most celebrated naturalists once said TO us
in speaking of some of his important dis
coveries, "All had 10 do was TO look and
see the thing Just as it was made" Of
course. one To make new discoveries, must
know what has been done before, and that
can only be learned from books which re-
cord what other people have done. Every
boy and girl should learn 30 observe and
note down what he or she sees. Keeping
a record of the thermometer Will do much
To fix habit of accuracy and regularity.
Note the first appearance of snow, tne
number of the snow falls and their depih.
The first appearance of the blue-bIrds ana
wrens, the blossoming of the Red Maple
Dogwood, and other early trees and shrubs
should be recorded each year. 1nese
show the comparative eariiness of spring
and how interesting il would be to look
over the notes of many years inose
who begin by carefully observing these
common things will soon wish 10 kho"
something more about them. II Is hcan-
tifnI thing about the study OF nature IN
any form, that the knowledge We obtain
not only prepares us for receiving lnoIe'
but il gives us the desire 10 learn more.
The fountain is Observation-Disclosures"
AgricWltUrSst.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04

A NEW toy, called Mezaagez moi ;eune
honane," is just now the rage in Paris 1t
is sold in the streets in defiance of the law,
though arrests are frequently made. In
one instance, the seryent de ciUe, who ap-
pretended a peripatetic dealer, asked to
have the toy explained to him. "Oh, it is
very simple" replied the other it is, as
you see, little tube of osier, and all you
have to do is to put a finger into each end
| of it, and then pull hard" The police
man did so, and found himself handcuffed.
This is the secret of the toy-the harder
one pulls the more does the tubes tighten
on the fingers. OF course the vender es-
capped.
ONE of the editors of the New York
Observer was thrown into ecstacies on hear
ing the celebrated BELLS of Moscow"
This is the holy city of the Greek Church,
as Jerusalem was the sacred city of the
Jew. Pilgrims go thither at distance of
thousands Of miles, on foot, and sometimes
without shoes. When they are near
enough to hear for the first time the four
hundred bells of the city, sounding in glo-
rious harmony, full, grand, and all pervad-
ing, "like the voice of many waters" they
fall upon their faces and devoutly offer
prayer and thanksgiving to God The
writer declares that all the music he ever
heard was tame and tri1ing compared with
the wonderful effect of these bells.
AMONG the curious names of American
POstoffices are the following: Grizzly Bear
House, Placer county, Cal; Red Dog,
Nevada county, Cal; Red Bone, Talbot
county, Ga; Red Lion, Newcastle county,
DEL; Love Lady, Caldwell county, n. c..
Hay Stack, Surrey county, N. c.; Hay
Meadow, Wilkes county, n. c.; Hog
Creek, Wood county, Ohio; Hog Noun
tain, Hall county, Ga; Good Intent
Washington county, Pa; Kishacoquillas,
Mifiiin county, Pa; Kishkeminitas, Arm
strong county, Pa. Sabbath Rest, Blair
county, Pa; Slab Town, Anderson county,
S. c.; Skull Shoals, Union county, S. c.
Temple of Health, 5. c.; Hit, Scotland
county, Mo.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04

Mental Photographs.

Mark Twain recently received from
New York publisher printed page O
questions, with blanks for answers, accom-
panied by a request to fill these blanks
lie says: Nothing could induce me to fill
these blanks but the asseveratiOn of thes
gentlemen that it will benefit my race b,
enabling young people to see what am
and giving them an opportunity to become
like somebody else. This candOr over
comes my scruples have but little char
acter, but what / have | am willing to par
with for the public good. | would hav,
been better man if had had chance
but things have always been against me
L never had any parents, hardly-Only
just father and mOther-and so have
had to struggle along the best way
could. do not boast of this character
further than that built it up for myself
at odd hours, during the last 80 years, and
without other educational aid than / was
able to pick up in the ordinary schools
and colleges. l have filed the blanks as
follows
WHIT Is your faoorite
Color Anything but dun.
Flowcr?-The night-blOOming Sirius.
Tree ANY that bears forbidden fruit.
Object in nature "A dumb belle
Hour in the day THE leisure hour.
Season of the year The lecture sea-
son.
Perfume Gent. per cent.
Gem?-The Jack of diamonds when il is
trumps.
Style of beauty ?-The subscribers.
Names, male and female ?-Naimoz
CMaimie) for female, and Tacus and Ma
rims, for males
Painters Sign painters
Musicians Harper & Bro
Piece of sculpture ?-The Greek slave
with his hOd
Poet Robert Browning, when he has
lucid interval
Poetess :-Timothy Titcomb.
Prose author Noah Webster, LII. ID.
Characters in romance THE Byron
family
In history Jack the Giant Killer.
Book to take up for an hour?-Vander-
bits pocket book
What epoch would you choose to have
lived in ?-Before the present Erie-it was
safer.
What book mot relgious) would you
part with last The one might happen
To be reading on a railroad during the dis
aster season.
Where would you like to live?-In the
moon, because there is no water there.
FavOrite amusement ?-Hunting the "ti-
ger" or some kindred game.
Favorite occupation =" Like dew on
the gOwan-lying."
What trait of character do you most adj
mire in man THE nOblest form of canni-
balism-lOve for his fellow-man
In woman ?-lOve for her fellow man.
What trait do you most detcst in each?-
That trait which you put cor" to to de-
scribe its pOssessOr.
If not yourself who would you rather
be?-The Wandering Jew, with nice an
nuity
What is your idea of happiness Find
ing the buttons all on.
Your idea of misery ?-Breaking an egg
In your pocket
What is your bete noir ?-[ What is my
which?l
What is your dream Nightmare, as a
general thing.
What do you most dread ?-Exposure.
What do you believe to be your distin-
gushing characteristic ?-Hunger.
What is the sublimest passion of which
human nature is capable your
sweethearG's enemies
What are the sweetest words i'm the
world p" Not guilty.
What are the saddest ?-"Dust unto
dust"
What is you aim in life ITO endeavor
To be absent when my time comes.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
The Spider Trap.

| A spider living in the country, and
having followed his business for time in
| an obscure corner, determined to travel a
little for improvement of taste, and also
for any advantage in business which might
turn up. By his good fortune he turned
his steps to flower garden, where were
displayed thousand blossoms of every
variety and hue. AS we always compare
new things to something we have seen be-
fore, so in his mind he compared the col
ors of brilliant flowers to the various in
| sects which in his chronological studies
he had become acquainted with Elated
with all he saw he passed on, sometimes
| creeping, sometimes throwing a suspen-
sion bridge from pier to pier of flower
| stalks, until the thought occurred to him
that he had not dined or supped. Accord
ingly he looked around for place where
| on to spread his table, for spiders are
accustomed to spread their table first, and
then to sit down on it or near il TO see
what good fortune will send them.
AT length. after several selections and
re-selections, he found a saloon of the
most admirable description. IT was moth
ing less than morning glory If he had
only known the name which ii bore in
the catalogue he would, / suppose, have
been still more prsud than he was Of his
tent. For that must be a sumptuous flower
which can boast name asl long as Span
ish princess, as this did. Ut was the Ipo-
naed hederdced superJd grdradt tt0ry)
Across the opening of this splendid bell
the spider stretched his web. In the
morning first saw him there. The dew
was fresh on all the leaves He said To
himself: "This is the very cell of pleasure
There will be enough hungry flies or other
in pOp1inO haro for honey If shall
be my business to entertain them when
they comep
Alas for day dreams While he was
thus fondly expecting his guests, saw
bumble-bee of the largest size, heavily fly
ing from blossom to blossom, from colvul-
vuli bell to bell, and the thought crossed
my mind how queer it would be if he
should visit the spider Sure enough he
seemed to have caught up my thought, for
in a second he carried his great blunder-
ing body right down to the bells and dashed
his head through the web; but not liking
it he made off, like Samson, with a part of
his prison on his shoulders
Meanwhile the spider seemed far more
alarmed than the bee, and sank back into
its flower house. Misfortunes never come
single it is said. About an hour after this
encounter / went out to see how the
travelled spider was enjoying himself He
and both had forgotten one thing, and
that is that on fair summer mornings the
cOnvulvuli shuts up its blossoms by ten
o'clock While the spider lay securely in
side, the edges had folded down and closed
the opening entirely! The flower had
proved prisonl
All, We who spin webs of evil across the
places of pleasure, and lurk for the des-
truction of the simple, may your refuge
prove snare, and may you be caught in
the very net which you spread for Othersl
Ward Bntcl.er
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
POETRY.
SUMNER WEATHER.

/.
The sun was shining on the hills.
And gliding the purple heather,
As you and 1 were roaming, love,
In Summer weather.
The birds were singing in the trees.
The lark sung in the sky,
But ah needed not their songs
AS they winged by.
For sweeter than the sweetest song
OF birds upon a tree
WIS me music OF your voice, love,
As you spoke to me.
Blne was the sunny streamlet
And blue the Summer skies.
Bu. bluer. oh , a thousand times
Were your soft eyes
Sweet is the breath of wild flowers
With dew-drops newly wet.
But sweeter was the moment, love,
When our lips met.
Warm was the golden sunlight
On fields that gladly shine,
But warmer was your true heart
That beat with mine.
The year is growing old. love,
The sun has hid his light.
My life is growing dark. too,
And turning into night.
The flowers bloom no longer.
The birds have hushed their song.
And the music Of the streamlet
Nol0nger flows along.
But sweeter than the sweetest song
OF bird upon tree.
Is the music of your voice, love,
As you speak to me.
Come, love. and sit beside me,
And lay your hand in mine,
Look full into my heart, love.
With those true eyes of thine.
j. there aught changed within its
Has ii grown strange or cold,
OlOve though life is weary,
Now that the year is old:
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04

ACCOUNTS are given in some of the
foreign journals, of the healing properties
of new oil. 1t is easily made, from the
yolks of eggs, and is said to be much en-
ployed by the German colonists of South
Russia, as a means of curing cuts, bruises,
scratches, etc. The eggs are boiled hard,
the yolks removed and crushed, and then
placed over fire and stirred carefully,
till the whole substance is on the point of
catching fire, when the oil separates and
may be poured off Hens eggs are con-
sidered the best, and nearly two teaspoon
fulls of oil may be gained from n single
yolk.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04

BOY named Robert Niles, 13 years
cid, after p hard fight, killed panther, in
Douglas county, Oregon, in September,
measuring ten feet from tip to tip.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04

"A recent dispatch from Sheridan,
Kansas, says: "A vein of excellent coal,
northward, has just been struck on the
immediate line of the Kansas Pacific Rail
road, seventy five miles east of Denver and
$50 miles west of Kansas City. The dis
covery shows that the workable coal beds
of the Rocky Mountain base, extending
miles eastward into the Great Plains, is OF
the greatest importance, both Ia the set
tiers and the railway. Nearly onciourth
Of the entire operating expense of the
Kansas Pacific Railway is now for fuel,
and this bids fair To reduce the cost of fuel
along the whole line TO about one-filth of
the present rates"
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
BABYS FIRST TOOTH.

BY PRUDY.
CoxE look AT the dainty darling!
As fresh 81 q new-bl0wn rose.
From the top of his head so golden
To the dear. little. restless toes:
You can tell by the dancing dimples.
By the smiles that come and GO,
He Is keeping q wonderful secret
YOu'd give half your kingdom TO know.
Now kiss him on cheek and forehead,
And kise him on lip and chin;
The little red mouth is hiding
The rarest Of pearls within.
All. see when the lips in smiling
Have parted their tender red-
Do you see the tiny. white jewel,
Set deep In its choral beds.
Now where are the sage reporters,
Who wait oy hamlet and hill,
To tell to the listening nation
The news of its good or ills
Come weave with your idle gossip
This golden blossom of truth
Just half a year old this morning,
And one Little Iearly tooth,
Liff[e (1yOOr0f.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-11-04
NOVEL EXPRESS Goops-The Ameri-

NOVEL EXPRESS GooDS.-The Ameri-
can Express Agent at Jackson, Michigan, brought
"A boy into the Cleveland Office this morning.
named Charlie Denning. lie was abrighi-eyed, in
telligent and wclldressed little shaver about nine
years of ag,, and seemed To enjoy the novelty of
his position lie wore the usual express tag, fas-
tened to button hole of his coat, which read :
"To II. c. Demng, Parkersburg, West Virginia :"
The messengers say that they have no trouble with
boys. blanket j. provided and folded mp for bed
ding, and upon this they are slowed away uIon
some Eavoraby located box, where they ENJOY
much of the luxury of sleeping car. Girls aud
young women are sent by express. but not of, n.
They cannot he slowed away like boys, and are
more trouble in every way, increasing the rate oi
freight. The charge ON this boy Is SIS, including
the board bill. While he remained in the office the
clerks and patrons of the place had much To say to
him, and his intelligence made the conversation IN
teresting.- eGsidnd Hdisoiedter
We learn that this is a iact. The little fellow was
regularly shipped from here by friends whom ne
was visiting. ON Monday last We hope that he has
ere this arrived AT his destination in good oondi
ton Jackson Citizen.