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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
4 HUDSON Romance.

The Ardain Times thus describes q
romantic affair which recently trans
pired at the village of Hudson, Mich:
The neighbOring village of Hudson
l furnishes romantic story as its latest
contribution to the gossip of the eOun-
try. A young man became desperate
ly enamOred of a young unmarried
lady ofthat place. We are aware that
to have been exactly en- regEe for Hud-
son, the lady should have had a hgs-
band, but she was lacking in that es-
sential, and the young man proposed
to provide her with one, and had
made up his mind that she was his af-
fnity, his Heaven-decreed bride, and
all that sort of thing. He felt BASH
full about laying himself, his unpaid
wash-bill, and all his other wealth at
her feet in 4 parlOr, and so invited
her to take a ride. She accepted the
invitation; most young ladies would.
Out in the open country, beneath
the light of the pale moon, and when
the scent of the new-mOwn hay per-
vaded the atmosphere, he grew more
bold, and offered her a seat at his
clearinghouse table, half his dOrmi-
tory, his heart, his hand, and sundry
other trifles which lovers usually
throw In to make the bargain more
attractive. But strange to say, the
young lady could'ent concern any
"money" in it. She was mot for JO-
decidedly declined the honor he had
done herin prOffering himself to fill
out the page of her life.
The ride was nice, the evening fine,
the road good, and she liked him,
but she eOulden't think of marrying
him. He grew desperate. He was
bound to wed her-Or death, and he
rather preferred the latter. He drew
his pocket book and a revolver. The
former he handed her, with the latter
he proposed to end q life that was in
without her, She gently
the pocket book. There was
not much in it. Then she touched !
his arm, intimating that she might !
possibly reconsider her determination, |
besought him not to rashly rush into /
the other world and leave her alone /
on a country road, 20 drive the horse |
home, and tell the tale of bis death. /
Her pleadings succeeded. She gave |
him back his pocket book and secured ]
his revolver. Then they drove home. |
Reaching her home, she jumped 4
from the buggy and as she ran into the 4
house the midnight air bore to him 4
the stinging words, "NoW you can 60 /
on with your funeral. 1 am out of
the scrape." Aud the young lady
keeps the revolver, and will have
to do with her too ardent adj
mIrer. Ill-natured gossips say that
had the pocket-bOok been well filed
there would have been a tragedy on
that lonely provided the young
mans courage had not faltered. Such
"a life-ip Hudson.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
About Words.

It has been calculated that our Ian
guage, including the nomenclature oi
arts and sciences, contains 100, ,O00
words vet, of this immense number,
it is surprising how few are in COM
mon use. To the great majority,
even of educated men, three-fOurths
of these words are almost IS unfamil-
lar as Greek or Choctaw. Strike from
! the lexiton all the words nearly 0bso-
lel1, all.the words confined in their US
age 70 particular localities, all the
words which even the educated speak
er uses only in homeopathic doses, and
| it is astonishing into what Lillipu-
tan volume your Brobdignagian
| Webster or Worcester will have
shrunk. 1t has been calculated that
a child only uses about one hundred
words; and usless he belongs to the
educated classes, he will never EN-
plOy more than three or four hundreds
A distinguished American scholar es-
Inmates that few speakers or writers
use as many as ten thousand words
ordinary persons of fair intelligence,
not over three or four thousand.
Even the great orator who is able to
bring into the field, in a war of words,
half the vast array OF light ahd heavy
troops which the vocabulary affords,
yet contents himself with a lar less
imposing display of verbal forces.
Even the all-knOwing Milton, whose
wealth of words seems amazing, and
whom DR.. Johnson charges with US
ing a ''BabylOndish dialect" uses on
ly 5000; and Shakespeare himself,
"the myriad-minded," only 1900.
These facts show that the difficulty Of
mastering the vocabula of a new
tongue is greatly derrated and they
show, too, how absurd is the boast of
every new dietiOnary-maker that his
vocabulary contains so many thOus-
and words more than those of his pre- |
decessors.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
Peril, Of cirens Riders.

It is said that the most certain way
to take attraction out of a drama is to
spend an hour behind the scenes, and
the most effectual way of sickening O
person of desiring to become a circus
rider is to take him to the dressing
room dgrilg s performance. One
who has been there says he saw per-
formers preparing for their respective
acts, and while they were naked were
seen upon their bodies in every con-
ceiYable place formidable bandages
and plasters. These were for strains
and bruises, of which every one mad
his share-and no small share at that.
One, a well-knOwn bareback and
four-hOrse rider, while in the act OF
putting on q pair of elastic knee-eaps,
to strengthen his knees, explained
thai the most serious strains resulting
from Riding ana tumbling came upon
the kidneys, which we're 6ften badly
injured. The breast was also strained
at times, though not so frequently.
Such trivial matters as shoulder and
ankle sprains are continually occur
ring, and unworthy of notice. Heaps
of porous plasters and quantities Of
glyeerine enough to stock an apothe-
cary's shop were used by q circus
ip season.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
No. 1853
Something New in Iron.

A recent English patent relates es-
Lsentially to the production of spiege-
I leisn. Spiegeleisen is cast iron con-
tanning a few per cent. of manganese,
and it is now made from manganifer-
Gus iron ores. The inventor takes
east-irOn, preferably that rich in car
| bon, in the combined state rather than
in the graphite state, and brings it to
a fine state Of division by any of the
/ we'll known means. He mixes there
with so much tar, oil, or other liauid
or pasty hydrO-carbOn as VIII coat the
/ particles Of metal an excess will not
be prejudicial. He takes Oxyde of
manganese preferably in excess of the
quantity necessary to give the amount
Of metallic manganese in the spiege1e-
isen to be made, and he mixes there
with about one-seventh more charcoal
dust than the amount required to re-
duce the manganese therein to the
metallic state. He then mixes all the
materials together, viz; the tar coat
ed particles, charcoal, dust, and OK
yde of manganese, and blends them
thoroughly together, with the intent
that the iron particles shall be in in
innate contact with both carbon and
Oxyde of manganese.
He then puts the mixed materials
in the erucibles or a reverberatOry
furnace, such as is used for melting
steel. The TeverberatOry furnace is
preferred for this purpose, in which
the fuel used is in the form of dust
carried in by current of air. The
inventor melts the materials down
with as little access Of air as possible.
It will be found chat iron, carbon and
manganese unite and forms spiegele-
isen, which he runs into cast iron
moulds of other shapes. For oxide of
manganese reducible by charcoal,
such as the carbonate may be substi-
tuted. The inventor prefers to use an
ore as rich in manganese, as it is read ]
lily obtainable, and should it contain !
above five per cent. of SILICA, he adds I
lime to fiux it. In place Of employ /
ing east-iron, wrought iron in a divid-
ed state of deoxydized ores may be /
He then increases the |
of carbon for the foregoing /
process and other processes in the |
of iron or its alloys |
wherein dust fuel is used. The in
further includes the proper |
tiOning of the air to fuel by causing !
a current Of air, or part Of it, in it pas
sege to the furnace, to work a rotating |
or reeiprocating apparatus, from |
which power is communicated TO the /
dust feeder.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
CAR PFnnLFRS-

And there were the peddlers.
bought out the popcorn boy to get
rid of him, because l Was trying tC
compose q poem for a young ladyis
album, and did not want to be dis.
turbed. But he came right back with
stock of peanuts. 1 took few and
hurried him away, and he returned
with some ice cream candy I don't
like ice cream candy and peanuts
together, but / invested ut once, be-
cause an inspired rhyme had been
borne to me, and 1 waited to see il
down before it slipped my mind
Then the scOundrel came back to me
with tobacco and cigars, and after
wards with oranges, imitation ivory
baby-whistles, figpaste, and apples
then he went away and was gone
some time, and was encouraged to
hope the train had run over him. He
was only keeping his most malignant
outrage to the last. He was getting
his literature ready.
And from that time forward that
degraded youth did nothing but march
from one car to another, and afflict
the passengers with the vilest blood
and-thundcr romances on EARTH
THE PeGurer's Doom" and 1.-THE
ResperadO's Revenge" were some of
his milder works, and on their backs
were pictures of stabbing affrays and
duels. and people showing other peo-
pie over preeipiees, and wretched
wOOd-cuts of women being rescued
from terrible perils of all kinds; and
they are always women who are so
hOmely that any right
minded man would take a placid
satisfaction in seeing them suffer sud-
den and violent death. But that ped
dler boy peddled those atrocious books
right along for hours together, and I
gave up my poem at last, and devoted
all my energies to driving him away,
and trying to say things that would
make him uRhappy,-AGrk TtOain.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
The North Pole Expedition.

If Captain Halls North Pole expe.
| dition is destined to prove a failure il
| will not be because of an insufficien.
cy in the means and supplies deemed
necessary toinsure success. The Sec
retary of the Navy has given him a
steamship expressly prepared and
strengthened in every way for a cam
paign among the icebergs and foes OF
the Arctic Circle; the ship has been
equipped and prOyisiOned expressly
for long siege in those desOlate re-
gions and her officers, crew and sci
entific men have been carefully select
ed from experienced cruisers in the
Arctic seas. The Captain himself is
an old campaigneri in Baffin's Bay and
its tributary sounds and inlets, and
knows everything that is known Of
the hardships and the dangers before
him.
The last duty of the Navy Depart
ment in reference to this expedition
has been discharged in the equipment
of the United States ship Congress,
and in loading her with provisions
and other supplies for Captain Hall,
to be delivered to him at or near his
winter quarters in Greenland. We
understand that Secretary Robson
personally attended to the collection
of these supplies, in order that the
best of everything should be furnish
ed, and that in Captain Davenport, of
the ship Congress, he has one of the
most reliable officers in the service for
the special duty assigned him in the
careful delivery of these supplies,
amounting to one thousand barrels of
stores and three hundred tons Of coal.
Upon these supplies, together with
the seals, white bears, sea fowl, &c,
which may fail in the way Of Captain
Hall, he and his ships crew and at
tendants will have to depend through
the coming winter at their winter
quarters and in their expedition to-
ward the North Pole in the spring,
and on their return in the fall to their
Greenland base of operations. We
have great faith that the daring cap
tain and crew will return to report
the complete success of their enter
prise. But even if successful in reach !
ing the North Pole, the question re-
ours, what good will be the result /
Much good to science and for the gem
eral benefit of mankind, we expect, /
III OeLtIlululuH TIE movements OF the I
northern currents of the OceIn and |
the atmosphere, including tile cleo !
trical currents of the Arctic Circle |
and their effects upon the climate and |
the fluctuations of the seasons down /
In our temperate zone, all round the I
globe. And last, though not least in /
our whistles, we desire that TO the
United States shall belong the credit
)f solving the mysteries connected
with the North Pole and we look to
Captain Hall to solve them. In other
we hope that the first flag
planted on the North Pole, right un-
Ter the north star, will be from the
rood ship Polaris, and the glorious
lag of our country. AS we estimate
{, this one thing will be glory enough
o pay for the expedition; for it viii
De a splendid advertisement to the
world in behalf of the enterprisiug
pirit of the American people, and
hus a good card for every American,
whatever he may BEN Y. Herald.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
Warrantlng Fruit Trees to Gron.

In his address before the Minnesota
I State horticultural Society, at the
meeting last winter, J. s. Harris, the
retiring President, spoke as follows
l notice the practice of Warranting
trees to I've is becoming very preva-
lent among nurserymen. think this
/ practice Is very unwise and a disad-
vantage to the honest purchaser. It
gives the tree peddler who halls from
unknown parts and never expects to
sell in the same locality q second time,
an advantage over the honest nursery
man who is striving to build up and
maintain his reputation by selling
only hardy and perfect stock, because
this peddler's trash can be furnished
for less than half the cost Of raising
and marketing such trees as are want
ed in this State, consequently the
nurseryman is compelled 70 raise
cheaper stock and the purchaser is
tempted to neglect giving the proper
care in planting and cultivation, be-
cause he expects 20 get new tree for
every one that dies.
/ know Of one man that has his
row of dead trees, keeping them as
carefully as Others DO the living, and
Will not purchase any more because
he expects the agent to come around
and give him some live ones. I think
those dry branches will bud. blossom
and bring forth fruit long before that
agent comes back and makes the war
rant good. Also If the nurseryman is
compelled to make good the losses OF
the careless planter, he must make
up for the loss by charging a higher
price to the careful, which, to say the
least, is unjust. I do not know that
we can take any direct action upon
this but it is worthy of our notice.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
Rdneafed L.ahnr.

The difference between educated Ia
Dor and mere brutestrength, force and
application must be apparent to the
least observant. Education, teehni-
cal education is the great leveller. II
harmonizes all pursuits, by showing
the eonvertibility of idea, no less than
that of matter, since there is no fact
in the universe which does not bear,
more or less remotely, on every other
fact. 1t means to teach the iron found
er and the dryer the intelligent basis
of their work, and to show the sdUdHt
and the philosopher the dignity and
profit which learning finds in its prac-
tieal relations, A poet or a painter,
risen from any rank. may be the
haughtiest and narrOwest of aristO-
Gratis; the man of science must be
republican forever from the force OF
the convictions nature is constantly
teaching him. There is an electric
thrill passing straight between the
phrases popular sovereignty" and
industrial educa ation.", Every work
man in the shops with his sleeves
above his elbows is a sovereign. so
politicians delight to remind him.
Very well; then let him have the
edU cation, the manners, the oppOtuni-
ties of q soYereign-the desert as well
as the dignity Of one. This is the
true levelling theory. Make his toll
intelligent labor, aud its value will
be increased literally four fold.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02

Twenty-Five gentlemen graduate
from the College Department, and
twenty-three ladies from the Ladies'
Department. The theological gradu-
ates number ten.
Oberlin is preparing herself for the
great crowd that annually visits her.
Arrangements are about complete,
and already the visitors are beginning
to arrive. Perhaps no other one
thing attracts as many people to
Oberlin as her commencement music.
Great pains have been taken this
year to make that especially success
full. Heretofore a few have complain
ed that there was not enough popular
music in the Unions concerts. This
year much more of that has been in
troduced and some of the difficult and
highly wrought has been omitted.
The Union, numbering over n
hundred good singers, is in good con-
dition, with Professor Steele swing
ing the baton. Professor Rice pre-
sides at the organ, and Miss Wattles
at the piano. Persons who have new
er heard a large body of well trained
singers ought not to miss this OppOr-
tunity. TRUMBULL.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
The Largest Cheese aver Made.

A few years ago, the IngersOll Fac
tory Of Canada, under the manage
ment,Of James Harris & Co., under
took to ''beat the worldii in the pro-
duetiOn OF large cheese, and in this
they were quite successful, as the larg-
est cheese, concerning which we have
any record, was made at that estab-
lsshment. And although this cheese
was properly pressed and cured and
exhibited at different fairs without
accident, and then shipped in fafety
to England, the experiment proved q
peeuniary loss to the faetOry-that is
TO say, the money received from all
sources, after paying expenses, was
less than would have been obtained
had the eurds been made into a num-
Der of small eheeses. This cheese
weighed 1000 pounds. 1T was six
feet ten Inches in diameter, three feet
in hight and about twenty-one feet in
circumference. To make it, thirty
five tons Of milk were required, or
one milking Z, 900 COWS. It was ban
daged with wire cloth, and its shape
was in every respect perfect.
To transport this immense cheese
TO the railroads and from place to
place, very heavy wagon was spe-
eially manufactured for it. Then the
hoop in which it was pressed was
placed upon the mammoth, and the
ends inelOsed with heavy plank above
and below, held in place by rods Of
iron firmely secured with nuts.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
season and Crons in EnrInnd.

Mr. james Wick writing from Ports
mouth, England to the Rural New
Yorker, June -, in speaking Of the
season and crops there, says
The present season has been very
unfavOrable for vegetation, cod. vim
dy and dry until about ten days ago,
and since that almost incessant rains.
Crops do not look well in this section;
in fact they were poor all the way.
from Liverpool to London. as we'll as
in portions of Sussex and Berkshire.
through which have travelled. I
expected to find crops much in ad-
vance of our own at this season, but
in this was appOinted-paFticular
in regard to grass. The cut OF grass is
light and short. / have seen hundreds
Of acres cut, lying spelling upon the
ground, where it had lain for about
two weeks waiting for q ray Of sun =
shine. IF the sun appears, and there
Is prospect of a few hours Of fne
weather, the ''Tedding MachiDeF is
brought out, which keeps the grass in
motion. tossing it high in the air, as
every passage OF the machine. and
drying t rapidly, II the weather gives
but half a chance. Hay is now worth
about S4S a ton, owing to a short crop
last season. The present prOpeef.
therefore, causes a good deal ofanxiety.
The farmers, however, with their
large crops Of ruta-baga and mangOld
wurtzel for winter use, and vetch-
es and TTipOli clover for summer
feed, are In a measure independant of
the hay crop. t
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02

and shone brightly over the little
world of departed glory. We again
explored some Of the main points of
interest, and in the night, quite too
late for comfortable and undisturbed
rest, we sought repose on our narrow
camp-beds.
The next morning, we broke camp
early, and were soon OH the way down
the valley. The only object of inter-
est OH the way was the sticking of
some of our horses and mules in the
mire, produced by the melting SHOWS,
and the passing Of the alleged tomb
of NOah-which, by the way, is two
hundred and ten feet long. 1t is
nothing in the world but an old aque-
duct. The following day we ascend
ed Lebanon, and crossed the range
without having TO penetrate a single
snOw-bank, so advanced was the sea-
son; but there was snow here and
there on either hand. On gaining the
top, we saw the blue Mediterranean
once more, after a months absence
a most welcome sight-with Beirut
lying at our feet, yet still four hours
off. As we descended from our horses
before the Bellevue Hotel, n sense of
relief came over Us all. We Lad gone
our last mile on horseback in Pales-
tine and Syria, and were ready for the
first sound of the steamers bell, to be
borne westward and homeward.-Let-
ter from DR.. Huysf to ". Y. Methodist.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
AL RIGHT.

A man passing up street last even
ing saw. some one leaning against the
door OF a church and on looking more
closely observed that he was in the
act Of taking drink from a bottle
On seeing the man apprOaehl and
probably thinking him to be a patrol
man, the fellow reeled around, and
taking hold of the door-hanGle said I:
SOL right, sir, board here SIR and
allus tAk'r drink fore I go to bed.'i
The man called his attention 10 the
fact that the building on which he
leaned for support was a church, and
suggested that he had best 70 home
before the bottle hal him in the gut
ter; whereupon tipsy corked his bot
tie and said, diseOuragingly:
This Their third time'f been mis-
taken, an ef find many more meet
in houses that look like my bOardin'-
place bottle won't hold out. Glad yoa
aiu't p'leceman, s'I-"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-02
From the New York Times,
Searching fer 0Papa,n

Late in the day (Thursday) young
woman, leading by the hand a boy
and girl, aged respectively five and
six years, applied for admittanee at
the Morgue. She exclaimed that she
was in quest of her husband, Dennis
McMahon. He had been shot in the
right hip and OhdOmen, and conveyed
to the hospital, but died shortly after
being admitted. The officer in at
tendance explained the case to the
woman in as few words as possible,
and kindly asked what disposition
abe wished 20 make OF the body,
Trembling like an aspen Leaf, she lis
tened to the story, her face changing
from pale to ashy white, and her lips
moving as if to contradict the story.
While listening to the details Of
the death of her husband, whose last
moments had been spent in receiving
the consolation of his priest, the chill
dren, unconscious of the magnitude
OF their loss, were meanwhile running
round among the piles Of collins, ask
ing fol" r"papa." The little boy point
ed innocently to q pile of childrens'
collins, and said to his baby sister.
"See where they put little girls. oh /!
pretty pretty I" rubbing the side of
the little coffin with his hand. In the
meantime the little girl, in search for
papa" was endeavoring to lift up the
lid of coffin, and peeping through
the space between the lid and edge OF
the coffin, said, "Here's papa, all ice"
"No, God forbid darling" said the
mother, "papa is not here"
Thainpidsnt moved 10 tears all who
witnessed 1t, and when the woman
explained that she had not money
enough to pay her car fare to Catha-
rine Ferry, which she wished to cross
to see her priest. a dozen hands went
into as many pockets, and 9 good
little purse was INSTANTLY made up
for her, Z