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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16
GIN THE PICKWICKIAN sENSE.u

Let us be fair. We frankly admit
that the pulpit of the day does some
times administer the semblance of a
rebuke. Not to do so much, would
be too palpable an abdication Of the
authority of its office. The expecta-
tiOns of the audience, and the unsat-
isfied prOprieties of the place and of
the pastoral relation, demand it. But
it is unusually painful to a degree TO
assist as auditor at the ceremony.
The manful starts to charge and
the craven recOils, the missiles fairly
aimed aud faint heartedly hurled
short of their mark, the round rebuff
that the neXt-dOOr neighbOr of the
actual sin receives, the apprehension
not well uttered till it is qualified or
withdrawn, the thousand feints to
strike and the continued suspense Of
the blow, and the lOng-drawn breath
at last of mutual relief between
preacher and hearer, when all is over
and nobody is hurt-whO does not
recognize in this description the style
of rebuke most common from the
average pulpit Of the time? Oeca-
sionally, indeed, the matter is man
aged differently. There will be a
kind of implicit understanding be-
tween the pastor and his flock, that
the pastor shall enjoy the privilege OF
clearing his skirts once in a while by
what both parties pleasantly agree
to call a scOldiug" sermon. The
pastor then uses great plainness pl
speech. If you are stranger, you
are amazed at the equanimity of the
audience under such singing re-
proofs. Nobody vines, but a merry
wink belize Of mutual intelligence Is
tipped across from deacon 20 deacon
and from brother to brother At the
close of the sermon the pastor beams
his sunniest on his brethren at the
Misunderstanding, and very likely a little
brisk raileTy is exchanged between
pastor and people about the sermon.
The congregation go home talking
with somewhat unusual animation.
" Did you feel hit to-day >" asks one.
" Not j, - is the answer. Il heard
for Bro. Jones'" The pastor will
feel better now for a while" saws
another" "Oh, yes, it does him
good to free his mind'n And sure
enough, the following Sunday the
pulpit weather is all bland May. The
pastor is not going to be a One-idea
preacher. He has presented that side
of the subject, and now he will pro-
ceed to present the other. Accord
ingly his next sermon will with great
precision neutraliZe the sermon Just
preached. There is no fighting il out
on one line-and the rebuke is rightly
taken by those whom it concerns, il
there are any such, in the Pickwickian
instead of the apostolic sense. We
repeat it with emphasis, that when
sin is once suugly entrenehed in the
practice Of a majority, or even of
a decent minority, Of a respectable
Christian Congregation, it is thence
forth in general safe from pulpit re-
buke. The pulpit is dumb in the face
of it; or the pulpit, if not dumb,
ehokes and mumbles its speech.
ScribHer's Monthly.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16
Humanity 10 Horses..Frosty Bits.

As the cold weather approaches, the
absolute cruelty Of putting frosted
metal into the mouths Of horses is so
frequently brought to mind, that any
suggestions as to a better course ale al
this season time as well as merciful.
No one who has had to do with
horses when the mercury is consider
able below the freezing point but has
witnessed their sometimes almost
frantic efforts to escape the pain that
comes Of putting on the bridl e.
Misunderstanding il many times, the
coarse and brutal hOstler adds blows
to the other brutality, and forces the
animal TO take between its jaws a
piece of iron that freezes its tongue
and sections of its mouth the moment
it touches them, causing not only
present pain, but often liberation,
and almost always sores.
The remedy is a leatheTn bit, in
stead of an iron one. If bit OF this
sort is not easily procured, a common
iron one can be covered, which will
be at least a partial remedy.
To do this, cover the bits with
straps of common bridle-leather, and
as much of the check-piece as will be
likely to touch the flesh, winding
them around the iron while wet, and
then carefully sewing the edges so as
to make the surface as smooth as pos
sible.
A real mOuth-piece can be made by
any haTness-maker at "a small cost,
and would be altogether preferable to
the covered one, as it can be taken
from the head-stall and check rein,
and be replaced by the iron when the
cold weather is past, and be kept in
readiness for ranUther winter. Hearth
ard Home.
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Iron nnd Ifs Mnnnfncfure.

A very able address was delivered az
the American Institute by A. w.
Humphreys, upon "Iron and its
Manufacture in America
Mr.. Humphreys sketched at length
the early methods employed in work
ing iron, until he came down to the
establishment Of the first known iron
works on this continent, at James
town, Virginia, l6l5. The first we'll
established fOrges were at Braintree,
Mass. From 1899 dates the employ
ment of anthracite coal for smelling
iron in the United States. The pro-
duetiOn of this description Of iron
reached, in 1859, 81, 600 tons.
In 1910, not a rail was rolled IN the
United States. Steal was only made
at great cost by the slow old-time pro-
cess. David HimrOd is said to have
been the first to use raw bituminOus
coal in lS45; he was driven to the
necessity Of the experiment by a
strike among his workmen. He there
by opened the door To the manufac-
ture of $50, 600 tons of metal il 1859.
Since 1910 the blast has been made
hotter, even to ] 200 or more degrees.
This is done by two methods; one by
a special combustion chamber Of iron
pipes; another is by q heated brick
work chamber. By the use Of cellu-
lar stoves, &c, the blast can be raised
to / 400 degrees An unexplained ad-
vantage of the heated blast is thus
shown: If the air supplied to a COM
mon laboratory blOw-pipes be heated
to say 500 degrees, many substances
previously infesible to the ordinary
blow-pipe flame are readily melted.
The use of the hot blast has enabled
many ores to be profitably smelted
that were previously worthless. The
inferiOrity of iron sometimes made by
the hot blast has been charged upon
the heated air, but that has not been
verified as a fact. The complete clos
ing of the tops of the furnaces is a
great improvement with the most Of
ores; where flame is visible at the
tunnel head, we may be sure that
there is some waste. The combine
ton of improvements Lreviewed at
length since lS40 results in the pro-
ductiOn of 200 tons per week, at one
furnace, in lS70-mOre than double
the quantity that all Great Britain
made in 1T40, by the use OF less than
a ton of coal to ton OF iron. The
total quantity Of pig iron made in the
United States in 1869 had a greater
value in this crude state, at average
prices, than all the gold and silver
produced in the same period, by some
So, 600, 900. The rapid growth Of Troy,
Pittsburg, Cleveland, st. Louis and
their suburbs indicates the profitable
result of the development Of our vast
mineral resources. The first rail was
rolled in 1913. Last year 600, 900 tons
were made-more than half in Penn
sylvania, the rest in New York, Troy,
Rome, Syracuse, Elmira and Buffalo.
Most of these were of superior quality
to those imported. The supply Of ore
is inexhaustible. With patient ener-
gy and industry we may finally
the success which, as thor
Ough Americans, no less than enthusi-
astic iron masters, we are working
for, and be able to proftably supply
not only the heaviest demands of the
home market, but also the reverse Of
our present position, and export in
stead Of import this really precious
metal,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16

After fourteen years Of untiring Ia
Dor and great pTivatiOn, a German
cabinetmaker of Troy, named Joseph
Bergman, has produced a cOmbina-
tiOn of machinery which battles the
descriptive Efforts Of the local" of
the Troy Times, who desparingly
calls upon Us 10 Imagine a beautiful
miniature structure SET upon a huge
mass OF rocks, with road beds wind
ing up the sides Of the rocks, and
streams Of running water cOursing
down PERCEPTIONS bluffs. In this
house a miller sits reading a news
paper, while his face is made to dis
play all the sensations of pleasure,
surprise and pain. Then there is a
mill showing a man working at a hop
per, woman spinning, men unload
ing canalhOats, man rowing in a
lake horses moving back and forth
under loads of flour, a sawmill work
ing, a fountain playing, and a man
hanging up bird cage, al working
in harmony. The most curious fact
connected with this wonderful piece
OF mechanism Is that it was COM
meuced an finished through the in
huenoe of a dream.n
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THE DOUBLE CHILD.

The Delaware. (Ohio) Gazette gives
this full description Of the double
ehild":
''Ten DAYS ago the wife Of Samuel
Finley, a farmer residing In Morrow
county, about five miles southeast OI
Ashley, gave birth to one Of the most
singular malfOrmatiOns OF the human
species ever heard of in any age or
country. The mother was not allow
ed a sight of her offspring until after
the physician who had been summon
ed arrived, when il was exhibited 10
her, and, as we are told, caused her 20
swOOn. And no wonder, for human
eyes probably never looked upon such
an anomalous development Of the hu-
man form.
'One Of our prominent physicians
who has seen and examined this
strange freak Of nature, fayOrs Us with
the following clear and accurate de-
scriptiOn:
This wonderful thing can be l. -
called a double child. There is Dut
one spine, at each extremity Of which
there is a perfectly formed head and
face. Each has we!l-fOrmed shOul-
ders, arms and hands, and a good
chest, containing lungs and heart, as
any other human being. Each has
also a stomach and a liver. There is
but one navel, which T. in the center
OF the abdomen, equidistant from the
two heads. It is at the middle OF the
body that the two are grown together.
The abdomen appears to be but one,
and the organs contained in il, below
the stomach and small insestines, are
probably common to the two, as there
Is but one external outlet.
Upon one side, at right angles to
the body, there is a well-fOrmed pair
Of hips, legs and feet. Upon the
opposite side there is one large Lex
lprObably the consolidation Of two
legs upon the extremity of which
there are eight toes. Most mOnstrosi-
ties are repugnant to look upon. This
one IS not so in any respect, excepting
this leg.
This child, or those children, are
now ten days old, and are doing ~
well as children mostly do at that
period Of existence. It nurses 81 both
heads One will be asleep while the
other is crying, and sometimes both
sleep or cry at the same time. The
natural outlets from the body are in
their natural position, between the
perfect pair Of legs, and are common
10 the two, there being outlets upon
the opposite side. in sex IL is 4
female. The length from the top OF
one head to the top Of the other is
twenty inches, and the weight at
birth was ten pounds.
There are no terms in our language
applicable to such a phenomenon il
is sOmetl8ng for which the dictionary
makers have made no provision what
ever, and which utterly cOnfounds all
grammatical rules as to gender, num-
ber and person. Let any one under
take to so write about it, being precise
as th meaning and application OF
terms, and he will at once recognize
the poverty of language.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16

LoaAN, O.. Nov. 2. lsI0.

Gou<A4Ni Osg ANOhs - AotV-
To the Ohio State Journal.
As editors are supposed to know
everything others do not know, will
you be kind enough TO inform the
readers Of your paper whether in the
top line Of page 749 of Swan & Saylor's
Stat, the word ten is left out or is the
law published as it left the Legisla-
ture2 Also, whether in volume s.,
Ohio Laws, page l02, in the 7th sec
tiOn, 18th line from top, q part OF the
word giving is not left out or is il
an omission of the Legislature. In
either case, what effect will IL have
should the Courts find it necessary to
enforce either Of these sections in the
parts referred to?
Repy.-We learn by inquiry at the
Secretary States Office, that in the
first line of page T49, Swan & Saylor's
Supplement TO Revised Statutes, the
word ten" is omitted after the words
mot less than" This word appears
in the original act as printed on page
l4y, Ohio Laws, volume So, and the
error Of the proof reader OF s. & s.
Statutes, will not effect the act a.
originally passed by the Legislature.
The last syllable Of the word 'giv-
ing" in line Il Of section Of the act
of April Is, 1870, amendatOry OF the
act regulating the sale Of intoxicating
liquors, o. l., vol. s., page IO2, was
omitted by error Of the State Printer.
but the full word appears in the
original oct on file in the Secretary of
States Office.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16
Beauty.

y clever writer ays Providence
meant woman to make the world
beautiful as much rs flowers and but
tertiies, and there is no sin in tasteful
dress, but Cnly in devOting to it too
much money or too much time" This
Is a most sensible view, and is the
true ground Of mediumship between
the one extreme Of straight and rigid
simplicity and the devotion Of the
hest energies of a lifetime to vanity
and frivOlity. But, after all. what j.
this rage for dress but an effort after
rhe beautiful? The reason why the
beautiful is not always the result IS
because 50 many women are ignorant
or merely initiative. They have no
sense of fitness the short wear what
belongs to the tall, and brunettes sac
rifice their natural beauty to look like
blondes. That which is inapprOpri-
ate is never beautiful, no matter how
fashionable but who does not know
some woman whose taste and train
ing are so perfect that fashion becomes
to her means OF grace instead of a
despOt; so that even the worst OF
fashions seems to them but a chain Of
roses.
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\ few Sundays ago, rs Mr.. BeecheI
was about commencing his sermon, a
stout, fatherly-lOOking man was en-
deavoring to make his way through
the crowd, to get within a better hear
ing distance of the distinguished ora
tor. At that moment Mr.. Beeeher's
voice rang OCt the words Of the text ;
"WhO art thou % "WhO art thou ?'i
again cried out the dramatic preacher.
The stout party, thinking himself in
the wrong, perhaps, by pressing fer
ward, and believing himself to be per-
sonally addressed, startled the breth-
rem and nOnplussed their reverend
chieftain by sedately replyings "I'm
a pig merchant from Chicago, sir; /
hope you ain't mad. There amt
nary chair, or else I'd n sot down. +"
Plymouth Church didn't recover its
serenity for ten minutes.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16
GIANTS.

In one of his recent lectures, Prof.
Silliman, the younger, alluded To the
discovery Of the skeleton of an enor-
nous lizard of eighty feet. The Pro
fessOr inferred, as no living specimen
of such magnitude has been found,
that the species which it represents
had degenerated. The verify of his
position he rather singularly endeav-
Ored TO enforce by an allusiOn TO the
well known existence of giants i'm old
times. The following list is the data
upon which the singular hypothesis
Is based:
The giant exhibited at Rouen, in
1880, the Professor says, measured
nearly eighteen feet.
Garapius saw a girl that was ten
feet high.
The giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome, under Claudius CR-
sar, was ten feet high.
Fannunl, who lived in the time OF
Eugene IL, measured eleven and a
half feet.
The Chevalier Scrogg, in his voy
age to the Peak of Teneriffe, found in
one of the caverns Of that mountain,
the head of a Gunich, who had sixty
teeth, and was not less than fifteen
feet high.
The giant Farragus, slain by Or
lando, nephew of Charlemagne, was
twenty feet high.
In 1900, near Rome, was found a
skeleton whose head held a bushel OF
corn, and who was nineteen feet high.
The giant Racart was thirty-three
feet high his thigh bones were found
in I7O3, near the river MOderi.
In 1923, near the castle in Dauph-
inc, a tomb was thirty feet long, six
teen feet wide and eight feet high,
on which was cut in gray stone, these
words KeutOlO ;hus Rex" The
skeleton was found entire, twenty
five and a fourth feet long, ten feet
across the shoulders, and five feet
from the breast bone to the back.
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1916,
was found the skeleton of a giant
thirty feet high, and in 1909, another
fOrty-four feet high.
Near MazarinO, in Sicily, in 1915,
was found the skeleton of a giant
thirty feet high. The head was the
size Of a hogshead, and each Of the
teeth weigh five ounces.
We have no doubt there were giants
in these days, and the past was more
prolific in producing them than the
present. But the history Of giants
during the olden time was not more
than that of dwaTfs, several of whom
were even smaller than the Thumbs
and Nuts Of our time.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16
ALRSSON FOR STARERS.

Paw-Paw, Michigan, can furnish its
full quota of those feathered bipeds,
yclept "lOafers," whose principal Oc-
cupatiOn is lettering about the public
houses, staring at ladies who pass
by, watching the crossings on windy
DAYS, their vacant faces radiating
with a satisfied grin, if by chance a
bit of petticOat or ankle is exposed to
their gazs. As three of these wOr-
thies were lounging on the steps Of
the R House, a day or two since,
a young lady, stranger, and exceed
ingly beautiful, passed by, regardless
of the admiring stare which the group
gave her, and entered LIS dental
rooms. The trio, after voting her q
sumner" and wondering "whO the
deuce she could be-" determined to
follow her, one of the party extern
porizing a toOthache for the occasion.
AS it happened, the lady, who was an
acquaintance of Is, had called to
make friendly visit, so there was no
excuse for delay, the sufferer from
tOOthache was at once placed in the
chair. But when l. glanced into
his mouth, he found, to his surprise,
not a trace of decay, but, on the
contrary, found thirty-twO perfectly
sound teeth. He saw through the
affair at once, and thinking to make
it interesting, he began feeling about
with a pair of fOrceps; then, with
firm grasp seizing the bieuspid mOlar,
he turned it with a single wrench
completely around in its socket. The
fellow hOwled and kicked and strug-
gled, but l., with a firm grasp,
held him in the chair, saying sOOth-
inl ly, Be perfectly passive, I'll have
it out in a minute" and in another
instant the tooth was on the table.
The fellow sprang from the chair, and
as he spat the blood from his mouth,
L handed him a glass Of water,
saying quietly, Rinse your mouth.
half a dollar, sir" He passed over
his fifty, and the trio, looking ex-
tremely wilted, sneaked out Of the
Office.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-11-16

/ handsome child, about two years old
lies stretched upon the damp floor,
sleeping the tranquil sleep Of inno-
eence, its breast exposed to the dews
of heaven and its little arm resting on
the green sward a new blanket, the
gift of her Majesty the Queen, covers
the lower part Of its bOuy, while a
large kangaroo hound lies with its
sagaciOus-lOOking head resting upon
the infants shoulder. What a con-
trast is this. Behind US the wild cor
roboree dance is still going OF, fast
and furious, while in front Of Us Is a
picture that I4andseer would love 70
paint. From this we wander home
through the bush, having spent a very
pleasant night with some Of the re-
manning abOrigines Of New South
Wales
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Warren. Nov. ? Is7O.tL.
IDRIDGE NOTICE.
Id AUDrroRis OFFICE, !
WARREN, TrumbuIl 60. Ohio,

DRIDGE NOTICE.
Id AUDITORS OFFICE,
WARREN, TrumbuIl 60. Ohio,
October p, 1870.
Notice is hereby given that the Commis-
sioners Of Trumbull county intend 70 build
an iron bridge across the east branch OF the
MahOutnE river, at Earlville, in Newton
t1wnship, and that Monday, the nth day OF
Decembe 1870, is fixed fOr the hearing OF
any objections that may be made against
the same. Q. K WOLCOTT,l 70
+. A. REED, tC~r,
Attest: I.B.P PAYNE. CoIn s.
JAS D. KENNEDY. Co. Auditor.
Notice is also hereby given that the Com
misSioners of Trumbull county, Ohio. Will
receive sealed proposals up TO y o'clock, NJ.
Of the 9Th day OF Decent Der, 1870, at the Aud
itnr's Office OF said county for the cOnstruc-
tion OF wrought iron bridge Of one hundred
and fOrty-six feet span, with hfteen feet
roadway, across the east branch OF the Ma
honing river, at Eariyille, In Newton town
The flooring to be two and one-haIf inches
thick and eight inches vide, 70 be laid dag
oRaIly; the jOists 70 be two and One-half
inches thick. and twelve inches wide, and 70
be laid twenty inches apart from center 70
center. Alkthe lumber 10 be the best Of live
oak The iron 70 be all well painted with
two coats Of mineral paint. All the mate
rials to be Of the best quality, aud the work
10 be done In the most thorough and work.
manlike manner. and the bridge warranted
in every respect 30 have sustaining power
OF twOthousard pounds per lineal foot. The
contractor 10 give good and Sufficient secur-
fly for the performances nf the contract ai.d
the bridge 10 be completed by the first day
OF April, lSIl.
The Commissioners reserve the right to
reject any or all bids received.
0. K. WoLCOTT,1 n
Z A. REED, CO.
I B. PAYNE, Soi-- D
JAS D. KENNEDY, Auditor.
F. W. MEssE ERsNrTa, Surveyor. Oct 23-6t
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T. ]. McLAIN & SON,
BANKERS, Warren, o.

BaukiuE BuIIuess. Of all kinds done.
B0ndI. Coin and Coupons, bought ana sold
Interest allowed on Deposits.
Eoney 70 Loan good Notes bought
DrIfts on Europe bought and sold
PrEsare Tickets 70 and from Europe iurnlshed.
ReTenue Stamps for sale at q discount
Insurance AZ low rates
aReneraI Real E~tate business done
Ample means and twenty-five years eI-
perience enable Us 10 transact al depart
. OF Customers.
Warren, o., sept Z, Is7o-lyr.
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A Lamp-wick, equally good with
those We buy, may be made out OF
canton flannel. Take a strip three
times as wide as you wish the wick to
be, and as long as you like. Fold il
with the fleecy side in, so that it will
have three thicknesses, and baste OF
overcast it up the side. Almost every
hOusekeeper has bits Of canton flannel
which would be used for nothing else,
and it saves quite little item OF ex-
pense, to say nothing Of the con-
Yenience Of being able to make a new
lamp-wiek whenever it is needed
Erchanqe.
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The CHRONICLE.
PASSING AWAY.
BY MRS. 5. J. sTEwAR,

On Times chariot wheels
We are passing away;
We are nearer our home
At the close Of each day.
We are nearer the brink
OF the cold, silent stream
That all must soon pass,
HOwe'er dark it may seem.
We are passing away
From this earthly life;
From its cares, and its sorrows,
Its tolls, and its strife.
Each and each day,
How swiftly they glide;
Each bearing us nearer
The dark rivers side.
'Tis only a step,
And we stand on the shore,
Awaiting the bOatman
To ferry us DER
To the other side,
Where we hope TO gain
A sweet release
From all earthly pain.
We are almost there
Each swift gliding day
Tells Us, but too truly,
We are passing away.