The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-10
An INDIAN sQUAw DAGUERREO-
TYPED.

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AN INDIAN soUAw DAGUERREo-
| TYPED
Lieutenant Doyle, who was some
time ago degraded from the position
of q reporter fora Louisville paper to
the rank of lieutenant in the army, is
now having some funny experiences
among the Comanehe Indians. The
last story we got from him-and as he
was newspaper reporter it must be
true-is of an old Camauche who
brought his young wife, of whom he
was very jealous, to have her daguer-
reotype taken. The artist got the
squaw in position, and stepped into
his dark tent for some purpose. The
old Comanche thought he'd take a
look into that funny box the artist
had his head in and see how it was
done. He inserted his head under
the cloth and looked, and, oh, horror!
there was his squaw standing ON her
head. He jerked out with savage
look at her, and wanted to know what
capers she was cutting before all the.
soldiers. She denied doing anything,
at which he told her she lied, that he
had seen her.
He resumed his investigation, stuck
his head under the cloth again, and
there was the wretched sIuaw stand
ing on her head again. He gave
yell, and, rushing at her gave her a
whack on the head, and told her not
to try that on again with him, but she
stoutly denied doing anything. And
now to catch her at it. He kept an
eye on her, and raised the cloth slow
ly, and tried to look at her with one
eye and through the camera with the
other. He could not do ID, so he
moved his head down slowly, and as
she disappeared from the eye he had
on her, there she was standing on her
head as seen through the camera. He
jerked his head up quickly, and there
she was standing placidly before him,
jerked down and she was on her head
again. He then walked off in a brown
atudy, and, as he philosophical, ,he con-
cluded that machine was an exceed
ingly bad machine that conld stand q
equaw on her head in half a second :
so he wrapped his blanket around him
and walked off but nothing could
ever induce him to have anything to
do with dagucrreotyping again.
LouisciUe Commercial.
II PROVERBS BY JOSH BILLINGS. N
It's human to err, but devilish to
brag on it.
Blessed are the single, for. they can
double at leisure.
Blessed is he who has a good wife,
and knows how to sail her.
Blessed be he that has a good pile,
and knows how to spread it,, s
Blessed is them who have no eye
for key-hole, no ear for a knot-nole.
Blessed is he that always carries
big stun in hiz hand, but never gheaYes
her.
He that will follow good advice, il
greater man than he who gives it.
The minds of the young are easily
trained it IL hard to get an old hop
vine to travel a new pole.
Happiness consists in being perfect
ly satisfied with what we have got
and what we haint got. lzk
If you want to learn child to steal,
oats in the bundle, make him beg out
Of yu eyry thing yu Civ him. iis g
just in proportion that man is
thankful to Heaven and hiz nabor, just
in that same proportion IL he happy.
! never knew emmy body yet to get
stung by hornets who KEEP away from
where8the wuz-it il just,so with bad |
luck. 6 5ssl53as 7tlsl q II s5fses fs
1t il dredful fine thing to whip
young one just enuff, and not emmy
more. I take it that the spot il locat-
ed just where thare pride ends and
thare mad begins.
s, l think every man and woman on
earth ought to wear on their hat-band
these words in large letters, Lead
us not intu temptashun.n
I have seen those swho were az full
of all sorts Of learning a2,the heavens
are Of winds; they are jist the things
to cut up into Weathercocks.
IF we take ali the hard shedding of |
this life, and make four times az much
it won't amount tew the afiicktions
that men pile on each uther.
You kin judge of q mans relijun
very well by hearing him talk, but yu
can't judge of his piety by what he
sez, emmy more than you can judge ov I
the amount ov his linen by the stick
out sofehizi collar and wristbands.
1t IL alwas good purchase tew pay
out our last surviving dollar for wis
dom, and wisdom IL like the misteri-
Gus hens egg, it amt laid IN yure I
hand, but il laid away under the barn,
and you hev got to sarch for it.
The conversion OF. Kit Burns rat
pit, in New York, into a place of re-
ligious worship, by the Methodists,
affords us the following: g
The killing of rats by a man, with
his teeth, is the lowest and most re-
voting asport" of which human naturs
has been capable since the days of the
gladiators and the martyrs, vixen the
most refined Roman ladies enjoyed the +
'.sports" of the Coliseum, and watched