The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-01-26

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A Row on Top OF a Row-How the Fur
Flew and How Fur'' it Flew.

The fact that Mr.. Oliver lived In a
uniform row of houses. in the Four
teenth ward, was the reason why he
was unfortunate. One moonlight
night last week the noise made by the
cats on his roof was simply awful.
! Mr.. Oliver lay in bed trying in vain
to get to sleep and grinding his teeth
! in rage, until at last the uproar over
head became uncomfortable. Mr.. Oliver
crept out of bed softly, so that his
wife would not be awakened. He
put on his slippers, seized boot with
each hand, and clad in the snowy robes
of night. he opened the trap door and
emerged upon the roof. There were
thirty or forty cats out there holding
kind of general synod in the cool of
the evening, enjoying the bracing air
and singing glees. AS Mr.. Oliver ap-
preached, the cats moved over to the
next root. Mr.. Oliver advanced and
flung a boot at them. They then adj
journed suddenly to the summit OF
the adjoining residence. Mr.. Oliver
projected another boot, and went over
after the first one. In this manner the
synod retreated, and Oliver advanced
until the last of the row of twenty
houses was reached, when the cats ar
ranged themselves In line along the
parapet, rufIled up, their fur, curved
their spines, and spat furiously at Oh
| liver.
That bold warrior gathered up his
boots and determined to retreat. He
walked back over a dozen houses and
descended through trap door. There
was man in the room in the act of
Ii 1.aH Hxr
Before Oliver had recovered from his
amazement, the man flung the baby
upon the bed, and seiZing a revolver,
began firing rapidly at Oliver. 1t
then dawned upon Oliver that he had
come down the wrong trap door. He
/ proceeded up stairs again suddenly,
the man with the revolver practicing
at him in a painful manner. When
Oliver reached the door he shut the
trap quickly and stood upon If. The
and then hooked the door upon the
inside. A moment after Oliver heard
him springing a watchman's rattle
from the front window. AS soon as
the neighbors knew there was a man
on the roof they all flew up stairs and
fastened their trap doors, and Mrs.
OlIVCI 1dolCACd AlCIS Will tuC liz III
conviction that some pedatory villain
had entered while she slept and stolen
her Oliver. When he tried the door
1T was fast, and Mrs. Oliver was
screaming so fiercely that he sceuld
not make himself heard. By this time
the street was filled with policemen,
all of whom were blazing away at
Oliver with their revolvers, while the
young men in the houses across the
street kept up a steady fire with
pistols, shot guns and miscellaneous
missels. Oliver, with every advan-
tage for forming an opinion, said that
Getty sburg was a mere skirmish to it.
He hid behind the chimney and lay
up against the bricks TO keep himself
warm, while the policemen stationed
themselves all around the square to
capture him when he slid down one
of the water spouts. But Oliver did
not slide. He sat ON that roof all
night, with the bitter air circulating
through his too trifiing garments,
listening to the growing cats and the
occasional shouts of the picket line
below, and thinking of the old Jews
who used to pray from their house
tops and wonder if Musselmen were
ever shot at or bothered with cats or
policemen when they .practiced; their
evening devotions on their roofs. And
then he wondered how it would do 10,
take off his night shirt and wave it
over the edge as a flag of trucel He
concluded not 10, because of the dan
ger of a bullet from some misguided
policeman not familiar with the rules
of war. When daylight came, the
neighbors rallied in a crowd, armed
with all kinds of weapons, from how
itzers down., and mounted the roof
Oliver was taken down and put to
bed, and he has now more influenza
for man of his size than any other
citizen of the Fourteenth ward. He
says he is going to move as soon as. he
gets weIl-Ee is going to move into d
house that is next door to nobody. a.
house that stands in the middle Of a
prairie of some kind, and he intends
to stencil his name iii white on. the
trap d r.-P,tiladelphiG. Sunday
Dispatch. sl9tisssa ! pi's' ! y -
LITTLE LETHHGsANDsGREATREsULTs.
l "A gnat choked Pope Adrian : to,
death, which caused wonderful chan
ges in the nation and and history of the
whole world.
A counsellor of Rome was stran7
gled by hair in the milk which he
drank. This. event caused the most
serious results of anything that ever
transpired in his family. saifr,Fr fyqy
5aAnacreon, one of the lyric poets, is
said to have lost his life by. swallow
ing the skin Of, d sraisin.. The world
then lost one Of the most illnstrious
poets and writer's I.o-yf H. 81 sees
"A destructive war between France
and England was occasiened by a
quarrel between two boy princes.
The Grasshoppers War; which
took place about the time the Pilgrims
came to New England. in the May
flower, between two Indian tribes,
was brought about in this way: AN
Indian woman, with her little son,
went TO visit q friend belonging to
another tribe. The little fellow caught
carried It with him. * lad from the
other tribe wanted it, but. he refused
to give it up.t a quarrel ensued,
which soon, drew the fathers, and
mothers into, the dispute, and ere long
the chiefs were engaged in war
which nearly exterminated one tribe
d Several centuries ago. some. soldiers
of Modena carried away bucket
from public well at Bologna, which
was the cause of long war; and the
King of Sardinia was Imprisoned for
twenty-five years, where he died.
An English and French vessel had
a quarrel about which should be sup
piled first from a certain well of wa
ter,which induced a war that cost
1 900 lives.
The great philosopher, Newton, saw
a child placing with soap bubbles
which led him to his most Important
discoveries in optical instruments.
Stephen MontgoIfiere saw a shirt
waving, when hung before fire, from