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The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
The Inference.

a very clear illustration Of the dis
tinctions between strength Of will and
strength of mind was once given by a
gay young fellow who had probably
never read a page Of metaphysics in
his life. This young gentleman, whose
friends called him Bob for shOrtness,
was Of an exceedingly nervous tenn
perament, and an unusual indulgence
in wine was sure to leave him in q
shaky and unhappy condition. Bob
had consequential acquaintance nam
ed Wafiies, who was gifted with the
absorbing qualities Of a sponge, and
who, although IN the habit Of drink
ing much more freely than Bob, was
never known to exhibit any signs Of
inebriety. One morning Waffies cal
led upon his friend, whom he found
seated upon the stool Of repentance
with a wet towel bound round his
head, and several empty soda bottles
by his side, and, shocked az the sight
he began to mOraliZe.
$50 you were tight again, last night
eh 81 said Waffies. ''NOW, why don't
you do as 1 do? When I have drank
enough, l stop. You should have
more strength Of mind, and initiate
me.D
"Stregnth Of mind ?'' snarIed Rob.
who, nervous and irritable, had very
little disposition TO submit TO a tenn
perance lecture from such a source :
''what the deuce has strength Of mind
70 do with it? Strength Of viii YOU
meau.n
well" quoth Waf1es, "what is the
differenee?n
"Pll tell you the difference - retort-
ed Bob vindietively; "brutes have
no mind at all, but a jaekass has more
strength Of viii than any other being
that lives.n
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
4 Yankee In Love.

Oh, dear what nonsense people talk
aboUt love, don't they? Sleepless
nights broken dreams--beatini hearts
pale faces-a pinin' away to shad-
ders-fits of absence-lOss of appe-
tite-narvOus fiutterins-and all that.
l haven't got the symptoms, but Pll
swear to the disease. Folks talk
this talk, 1 guess from poets /;
and they are miserable, moOny sort
of critters, half mad and whole lazy,
who would rather take a days dream
than q days work any time and catch
rhymes as niggers catch flies, TO pass
time-hearts and darts, cupid and stu
pid, purlin' streams and purlin'
dreams, and so on. It's all Buneum E?
SpoOney looks and spOOney words
may do for schOol-bOys and seminary
girls; but for anan ike me, and an an
gelliferous critter like SOphy, love
must be like electricity-eye for eye,
heart for heart, telegraphed backwards
and forwards like lied lightning?
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
At the North Pole.

Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, in
his recent lecture in New York, was
reported thus: "When he shall stand
on the North Pole there is one thing
that will trouble him, and that is how
shall he keep his chTOnOmeters regu-
lated? How shall he tell whether
they are gaining or losing? Every
direction then will be south. There
will be no north no east, mo west. The
North Star will be directly overhead,
or nearly so, and on the first day of
March the sun will just appear above
the horizon and go round and round,
day by day, never rising or setting,
but gradually attaining a greater alti-
tude until finally it will go to a height
of twenty-three and a half degrees,
and then gradually get lower and low
er, until on the twenty-third of Sep
tember it will disappear, to beseen no
more for six months. What object
can hectic to regulate his chrOnOme-
ters? "He asked the question of the
best talent in the country, and no one
can answer him. In the winter of
1872 he will be where no sun can shine,
but in a fine place for people fond Of
eating, for it will always be dinner
time-always u O'Clock.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
The Russian Navy

The correspondent of n New York
City daily" who writes from Pestb,
Hungary, has the following concern
ing the Russian marine:
"The treaty of 1856 permits Russia
and Turkey each to have six war
steamers of 800 tuns and four light
steamers or sailing-vessels of 200 tuns
in the Black Sea, and the right to keep
two war-vessels at the mouth of the
Danube. 1t has been asserted, and
credited in official circles in Vienna,
that Russia can command a number
of Black Sea passenger-steamers at
any time she wishes, they being built
so that they can carry each two or
more cannon of large caliber. These
vessels belong to a company at Odessa,
their charter being granted only on
the above conditions. The number
has been stated from 40 to 80. Russia
has large dOck-yard at NikOlief,
where war-vessels can be built and
launched. ASt. Petersburg telegraph
ic message brought the information
some time ago that Russia had fifty
irOn-plated turret rams in NikOlieff-
q number more than oil the European
powers together" Here follows a
list of six irOn-clad steam frigates and
eight irOn-elad turret ships. Besides
these are ten irOn-elad monitors, the
armament of which consists of nine
and thirteen-inch smOOtR-bOre cast
iron cannon, and in part of eight and
nine-inch rified steel cannon. Each
monitor has two turret guns. The
tunnage of each is about 1850; the
horsepower, 1,5O0. There are two
iron-plated frigates in process of
building. The remainder of the Rus
sian fleet is composed of six ships of
the line, eight frigates, eighteen cor
vettes, seven clippers, sixty-twO can
nOn-bCats, six steam frigates, fOurim-
peTlal yachts, thirteen schOOners,
twenty two transport vessels, forty
eight avisOs, sixteen slOops-GltOgeth-
er, two hundred and ten wooden
steamers. There are also thiTty-seyen
sailing-vessels, five yachts, four
schOOners, fifteen transpOrt-vessels
and fifteen slOOps. Thus Russia has
really very formidable feet, wooden,
and especially iron-clads. The marine
is to be armed with q breech-lOading
arm, capable Of firing eighteen shots
per minute, to be used for the landing
of troops in hostile territory.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
..27.,
The Cincinnati Gazette has the fol-
lowing:

The Cincinnati Gazette has the fol-
lowing:
The number q seems to be a fortu-
nate one for the German armies. On
the 9th of September Strasbourg ca
pitulated. On the 9th of October
Metz surrendered. On the 9th OF
November the PrUssians achieved i'm
pOrtant victories over the Army OF
the Loire and the Garibaldian forces
in the Department of the Vosges. On
the 9th of December commenced the
bOmbardment of Mont AvrOn, the
first of the Partisan forts assailed, and
which soon yielded to the enemy.
And now comes the intelligence thBt
on the 9th Of January the terms OF
the capitulatiOn Of Paris were agreed
upon. IL, now, after three weeks
armistice which has been arranged,
the treaty Of peace should be cOnclud-
ed on the 9th of February, as il not
improbable, the chain would be COM
plete. Verify, ifthis were a supersti-
tiOus age, the Germans might be ex-
pected to commence all their iInpor-
tant enterprises on the 9th of the
month. The coincidence is, to say
the least, remarkable and noteworthy.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

The doubtful States in these lists
are more numerous on the Democrat
ic than on the Republican side, as the
Tribune argues in the following
Missouri was not carried by the
Democrats in 1870, but by the Schurz
and GratZ Brown Republicans; but
we assume that enough of these will
probably go clear over to put the
State against Us in II. We trust that
they will get sick of their strange
company, and come back in season
for 10.
Connecticut was carried by the
Democrats in the April State election
of '63, but went Republican in the en-
suing Presidential contest, as she
probably will in '72.
Oregon went Democrat in 30 by a
far smaller majority than at her
State election of '8S; yet, when she
came to vote for President she gave
Seymour but 164 majority over Grant;
while California (alsO Democrat in
her preceding State election went for
Grant by 514 majority. We regard
both of them, with Nevada, as very
doubtful for 1872.
NIRlllAhf luuAhAd anu AA4DdAiud
were barely carried Democratic in
1870, and may all be recovered upon
the full vote always cast for President
So may North Carolina, especially if
the Democracy turn Governor Hold
en- out of office,as they are quite likely
to do.
OF the States we have placed in the
Republican column, only Pennsylva-
MIA, Florida and Arkansas, are at all
questionable. Arkansas gave some
1000 Republican majority on Con-
gress, though We threw away two of
three Representative in Congress by
personal feuds; but the Legislature is
very strongly Republican. PenDsyl-
vania was close on the popular vote
last October, but, if a fair allowance
is made for the districts distracted by
personal feuds, there is a Republican
majority. Florida is disputed, but
Republican by close vote.
We drifted astern much further in
1862 than in 1870, but more than re-
covered our lost ground when we
came to Presidential year, when al
most every legal voter came to the
front. We purpose to repeat those in
1872.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
PUBLISHED EVERY
TH HTRCn EVENTNG
Bona Flde Circulation, 1.ssO.
From the Woman's Journal
WHEN | AM 4 WOMAN GROWN.

a SCHOOL RECITATION FOR FIVE GIRLS.
BY MRS. ADA POTTER.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
23-NUMBER II
wins Born on q RaIIEarTraln.

The Pacific express train on the
Panhandle Railroad left the COlun-
bus depot on Friday evening last at
5 O'Clock, under the charge Of eOndue-
tor Drury. Nothing transpired tOdis-
turb the mOnOtOny Of the conductors
call on drowsy passengers for tickets
gentlemen" until the train was be-
tween DennisOn and Steubenville.-
Then he was notified that lady pas
senger desired his presence He
found the lady evidently in some trOu-
ble and embarrassment. To his az
firmative answer to the query wheth-
er he was a married man, the lady
stated that she was on her way rom
Cincinnati to meet her husband IN
New York and that q crisis was i'm
pending involving the appearance of
another passenger. This startled the
conductor, of course; but with heart
as big as an elephant, he set TO work
to make the lady comfortable. All
the passengers were hastily shufied
into another car, and such female
assistance as could reproduced on the
train was brought into requisitiOn.-
In a brief time, the little stran-
ger "A fine, bouncing girl is the
phrase-put in an appearance, and
the conductor congratulated himself
on his happy escape from dilemma.
With heart OverdOwing with sym
pathy, he arranged an imprOmptu
wardrobe fort very young lady from
his own underelothing. 1t was not
exactly in the style of those ''infant
outfits" advertised in the New York
papers, vet it served q good purpose.
But this WAS not all. The train left
Steubenville on time, and was soon
laundering through and around the
hills Of West Virginia, when the con-
duetOr received another shock. This
time it was fine bouncing bOy."-
Twins, by jove! One Buckeye and the
other a Pan-HandIer. TheremainderO of
Drury's linen went to start the little
fellow on his journey through the
world Then for fear of what mighthap-
pen, the train was hurried up; in due
time, it reached Pittsburg, and the
lady and her two unticketed passen-
gers were tenderly conveyed to COM
Portable quarters at the Union Depot
Hotel, when q telegram was forward
ed to the husband in New York,
which will probably lift him out of
his boots. At last adviees the mother
and children were doing well.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

FFrst Speaker
When ] am a woman grown,
And upon the world am thrown,
I'll make my mark" il I can-and I will.
III teach in a school house four stories high,
And no man inthat building shall work bet
terthan 1.
And for equal work there shall be equal pay,
For the "might with the right" shall be in
that day;
The rooms will visit that I superinisnd,
And much time I'm helping the teacher III
spend
When am a woman grown.
Second Speaker
When / am a woman grown,
And upon the world am thrown,
III ''make my mark" If can-and will.
III write up some speeches and travel
around
To say that for ruin the country IS bound,
II whisky-rings rule. and dishonesty
rejEns,
And the wicked accumulate unlawful gains;
That II woman would vote, and the seepter
help sway,
Temperance, virtue and honesty would sure
gain the day
when am a woman grown.
Third Speaker
When I am a woman grown,
And upon the world am thrown,
Pll ''make my mark if can-and Will.
III relieve tired housekeepers, mothers and
wives
From half OF the toll and the care OF their
lives.
I'll build me a kitchen, high, light, long and
wide.
And employment for Mollys and Bsidgets
provide;
Wen engage for the people to boil, stew and
bake,
So with less labor and money their meals
they may take
When am a woman grown.
Fourth Speaker
When I am a woman grown,
And upon the world am thrown,
III "make my marlz' If l can-and will.
I'll make the 'iscienee Of healing" my study
and care,
III prescribe for my patients more sunlight
and air,
I'n insist on more exercise, bathing-"and
SUCH
And not allow the children to study too
much.
I'll cut women's hair short, burn chigpons
uncouth-
For comfort makes beauty, and good health
makes youth
When am woman grown.
gTVlh Speaker
When am q woman grown,
And upon the world am thrown,
I'll "nake my mark" if can-and will.
I'll study the Bible, its doctrines III teach,
Love, goodness and service I'll faithfully
preach.
Ny hearers shall ind me ne'er tedious or
dull,
For body nor conscience to sleep will lull-
Giving ''stones Of theology" or scorpions OF
strife,
For the "miIk OF the word or the pure
"bread Of life'-
When am a woman grown.
Together
When we are women grown,
And upon the world are thrown,
Wen "make our mark" we can-and we
viii.
Wen cultivate graees OF heart, more than
form,
Wen encourage no vices, but will strive to
reform
The intemperate, dishonest, the vulgar and
rude;
And feel when life ends we "haye done what
we could -
"Our sphere" will be ever where duty shall
call
To the home and the schooIroom, the pulpit
or hall
When we are women grown.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

Doctor John BuTnham, formerly a
resident of the eastern part Of Maine,
was a man Of high standing, and held
several Offices of trust under the Ma
tiOnal and State administrations.
Besides attending to the duties Of his
profession as a,practicing physician, he
sometimes improved his gift" as a
preacher. Originally Baptist, he ar
terward embraced the doctrine Of
universal salvation. In relating the
story of his conversion, on a certain
occasion, he said he resisted the assent
Of his heart to the truth Of the doc
trines Of Universalism for a long time
after he saw light, because he was
Unwilling to give M the idea that
there ought to be a hell for the Stick
neys down in Orland.n
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
Obligations of Religion to the Secular

Obligations Of Religion 10 the Secular
Press.
On this subject the Methodist makes
the following sensible observation:
Inasmuch as we are not of those
who regard the whole mission of the
secular press to be news papers, sim
ply reporters of facts, but believe that
mission to include the high function
of the discussion of these facts in their
relation to great principles, we do not
fail to recognize the obligations of re-
ligiOn to it because of the freedom
with which it canvasses the claims
of Christianity. The deadliest hurt
which the newspaper could intlict on
the Christian religion would be to let
it alone, to treat its sublime preten-
tiOns with cold indifference, as if not
of sufficient Importance for animad-
version. The Gospel does not shun
agitation. Christ called upon his
hearers to search and prove for them
selves. A system whose first syllable
was a protest against tradition and
fostering abuses does not ask to be re-
lieved from questioning its authority.
Christianity does not fear the light.
It only asks for fair and candid criti-
cism at the hands of great leaders of
secular thought, and, as a rule, journ-
alism tends to make a man broad in
his views and sympathies, and Chris
tianity demands that it be dealt with
in such a temper, and that sound dis
elimination shall be distinguished be-
tween it and the fOllies committed in
its name. One of the signs of the
times is, an increasing fairT ess and
seriousness of the Christian and ethi-
cal discussions of the secular papers.
A higher wisdom, a profounder sense
of responsibility is ruling out the
scurrilous methods Of a past genera
ton, and is introducing a sedate, just,
simple, and dignified tone, which
benefit the treatment of the gravest
problem of human welfare and desti-
ny. Never, it may be safely affirmed,
was the journalism, of the English
speaking tongues at least, conducted
with greater justice and fairness to
revealed religion, and to all the ques-
tions which involve its progress.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

Two Dutch farmers, at KinderhOok
whose farms were adjacent, were out
in their respective fields, when one
heard an unusually loud hallOoing in
the direction of a gap in a high stone
wall, and ran with all speed to the
place, and the following brief cOnyer-
satiOn ensued "ShOn, vat ish te mat
ter ~ ''Vell, den," says Shon, Il vas
trying TO climb on te top, of dish high
stone wall, and I fell off and all te
stone wall tUmbled down onto me,
and has broke one Of mine legs and
both of mine arms, smashed my rib
in, and deese pig stones are lying on
de top Of mine body" ''Ish dat all 81
says the other; ivy, you hollow so
loud I tot you got te tOOthach-"
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
from Bret Harte's poems
GRIZZLY.
Dward-ofheroie size.

Coward-Of heroic size.
In whose lazy muscle lies
Strength We fear and yet dsspise;
Sayage-whOse relentless tusks
Are content with acorn husBs:
Robber-whOse exploits ne'er scared
Ger the bees OF squirrels hoard:
WhiSkered chin, and feeble nose,
Claws Of steel on baby toes
Here, in solitude and shade,
Shambling. shufiing, plantigrade,
Be Thy courses undismayed-
Here, where nature makes thy bed,
Let thy rude, half human tread
Point 20 hidden Indian springs.
Lost in ferns and fragrant grasses,
Hovered DER by tinid wings,
Where the wood duck lightly passes,
Where the wild b9e holds her sweets
Epicurean retreats,
Fit for thee, and better than
Fearful spOlls Of dangerous man.
In thy Fat jowled deviltry
Friar Tuck shall live in thee;
Thou mayst levy 1.-THE and dole;
Thou shalt spread the.wOOdland eheel
From the pilgrim taking toll;
Match thy cunning with his fears
Eat, and drink, and have thy MI;
Yet remain an outlaw still!
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

A New York lawyer thus expresses
himself about Jim Fisk: fWby, ev-
cry Yankee boy from the part Of the
country from which Fisk halls, on
hearing Of this blOat becoming so
CONSPICUOUS in the newspapers and
getting so much money, and coming
Sardanapulus and Belshazza- with
harlots over the people Of New York
Why, the innocent little boy in
Yankee land, with his stomach full Of
beans and his head full of Ralph Wal
do Emerson, wants to go and do like
wise"
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
4 Cheap Breakfast for Eight Persons

"a good breakfast for eight persons
for about a dime. Put half a pound
of rice and half a pound Scotch barley
into one gallon Of soft water; stew
them gently for four hours. Then add
four ounces of mOlasses and a little
cinnamon; boil another half hour.
This will produce eight pounds ofgOOd
food"
The above quotation, clipped from
a journal Ostensibly devoted to the
promotion of health, is a fair sample
of the teaching of many Of these
pseudo-medical publications. The
entire amount Of solid matter coll
tanned in this "mess" is twenty Ounc-
es, which gives each person Of the
eight two ounces of farinaceOus food
and one half an ounce of molasses for
a breakfast. The writer of this recipe
ought to be made to take three meals
per diem Of his "papn for three weeks
If at the end of that time he should
retain strength to write another, we
will concede that six ounces Of mixed
rice and barley, and an ounce and one
half of molasses are liberal days ra-
tions for an adult.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

Most of US have witnessed a funeral
scene that were anything but funeral.
A lady in EImira, \. Y, mentions a
touching instance of the proprieties in
a good woman of that place at the fu-
neral of her husband. Just before the
sexton was about to screw down the
coffin-lid the angUished widow came
forward and said, "Wait a minute;
let me dust George off" and, taking
a cloth, coolly busted off the face OF
the defunct, and then busted off the
the coffin; after which, as an old bal
lad hath it:
The corpse with care was borne away,
To mingle with It's native clay.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

Said loving wife to her husband
"Will you ever learn, my dear, the
difference between real and exchang-
able value?n The husband, tired Of
political economists in petticOats, re-
piled, "Ah. yes, my dear, know
your great learning and many vir-
tues. That's your real value. But I
know also that none of my married
friends would exchange wives with
me. That's your exehangeable val
ueu
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
"A Law, and interpreter In the German,
French and Italian languages before the
civil and criminal Courts Of the state. A
close study and application TO these and
other languages, IN a sOjOurn Of nye years
IN France, Germany, Switzerland ltaly1
Greece Syria, Palestine, Iurkey-Proper ana
England, viii, IL IS believed the better rec
siOn. once with DR.. Crawford.
Eeh Il
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

A TTORNEY AT LAW. Special atten-
a ton sgiven 70 all kinds Of Military
Claims, Back pay, Bounty, Pensions, &c
once in National Exchange Bank Block
opposite the Court House, Tlnlns Ohio
Jan. n.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
MERCHANT TAILoRs.
YoLLMER z KIRCHNER.

MERCHANT TAILORs and dealers In
wi Ready-made Clothing, Gents Furnish
ing Goods, Hats, Caps, &C. Constantly on
hand BrOadcl0ths, Cassimeres and Nestings.
Washington street, THIN, Ohio. Particular
attention given 10 Custom Work. All orders
Will meet with prompt attention. n. B.
We have the agency FOR the best Sewing Ma
chine now in use. Nov. :;
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
Presidential Prospects.

1t having been remarked that, if
the elections of 1872 copy those of1S7O
a Democrat will be chosen President,
the New York Tribune shows the
miscalculations by the following table:
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
III SURGEON, Thin, Ohio. Ofice hours
from TO 10 A. NJ, and from 2 70 =. M.
Saturdays from 10 A, n. 10 p. n. Once on
Market street, ID door east Of the u. l.
church. lApril IL.