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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
THE GIRLS.

The following statistics as to the
girls of the principal cities have been
recently compiled, and may be con-
sidered perfectly reliable: 1t is found
that the girls of
Baltimore are the handsomest.
Boston the most intellectual.
New York, the gayest and most ex-
pensiVe in dress.
Washington, the most airy and su-
perficial.
Philadelphia, the most refined and
lady-like.
Chicago, the fastest and most dissi-
-pated. 1i-
Toledo, the biggest feet.
Memphis, the most money-loving.
st. Louis, the most elegant.
New Orleans, the most highly ac-
complished.
Cincinnati, the greatest firts.
Louisville, the proadest.
Detroit, the widest.
Cleveland the most graceful and en-
tertaining in conversion.
San Francisco, the most Indifferent.
Richmond, the most anxious to be
loved.
Mobile, the most liberal entertain
ers.
Vicksburgh, the neatest and pret-
tiest.
Hartford, the best musicians.
Buffalo, the dullest.
Rochester, the longest hair.
Charleston, the most exclusive.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
ALoAEER,s soLII.aonY.

g / wish [ knew where to get cent,
I do. Blest if I don't emigrate to
Kamskatka to dig gold. Moneys
scarcer than wit; can't live by either
at least can't. Sold the, last old
shirt, pawned my boots for three
cents, and went home as rich as a
lord. 6a
g told my landlady had hum
dred thousand dollars, and wanted the
best room in the house. Insulted me
by.saYing the attic was too good for
me. 9i5a ass
" I'm an injured individual. Soci-
ETY. persecutes me. / don't rob wild
der's houses. don't know no wild
ders. Idon't put the bottle to my
neighbor's lips. | a'int got no neigh
bors; the fact is 1 don't own any
bottles. Couldn't fill 'em if I did,
3 g I'm an innocent man. Nobody
can look me in the face and say 1 hurt
'em-nobody and yet haven't roof
to lay my head beneath. My old land
lady rated newly? IcOuldn't pay
and left. Cause why !-ain't it better
to dwell in the corner of the house
top than with brawling woman in a
wide house? But amt got house
top but if had, corner would not
be safe, would it?
''Fln desp'rit man. I'd go to
work if it wasn't for my. excessive
benevolence. I'm afeard of taking
the bread out of somebody's mouth.
Besides, wisdom is the principal thing /;
don't the good book say so9 What's
money to wisdom? Amt 1 studyin'
character? If q man kicks me be-
cause ! can't pay for my liquor, amt
/ getting understanding? Amt it a
lesson to human nature? I'm told the
world owes me living. When is it
going to pay, / wonder. Pm tired
waiting"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
4 BOYS IDEA OF HEADS.

Heads are of different shapes and
sizes. They are full of notions. Large
heads do not always hold the most.
Some folks can tell just what a man
is by the shape of his head. High
heads are the best kind. Very know
ing people are called long headed. A
fellow that won't stop for anything or
anybody, is called hot-headed. If he
isn't quite so bright they call him soft
headed if he wont be coaxed or
turned they call him pig-headed. An
imals have very small heads. The
heads offools slant back. When your
head is cut off you are beheaded.-
Our heads are all covered with hair,
except bald-heads. There are other
kinds Of heads beside our heads
There are barrel-heads, heads of SER
mons-and some ministers have tif-
teen heads 10 one sermon; pin heads,
heads OF cattle, as tho farmef calls his
COWS aud oxen, head winds; drum
heads at loggerheads ;come to a head
heads of chapters; head him of head
of the family; and so ahead--but
first be sure you are right. 4
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
DON'T DO Ir.

The philosopher of the Logansport
Gnd.) Pharos issues this bulletin of
advice:
Don't invest all your money in lot
terry ticketss Give some other man a
chance for prize.
Don't tell an editor how to run a
newspaper. Let the poor fool find it
out himself.
Don't loaf about the streets and
depend on the Lord for yonr "daily
bread. He isn't running bakery.
Don't discuss scientific questions
with lightning rod man. His argu-
ments are generally solid, and always
pointed. "a + f# Tsal
Don't spend all your time in watch
ing your neighbors. Every one should
be selfish enough to devote a few
hours to his own business.
Don't imagine the Lord will call =
first-class preacher to church pay
ing second class salary. He doesn't
treat his children so shabbily. aai
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

r.
oh there's a power TO make each hour
Assweet as Heaven designedit;
Nor need we roam to bring it home,
Though few there be thar find it,
We seek too high for things close by,
Andlose what nature found us;
For life hath here no charms so dear
As home and friends around us
We oft destroy the present joy Ee
For future hopes, and praise them;
Whilst flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them:
For things afar still sweetest are
When youth's bright speIl hath bound MS;
But soon we're taught the earth hath no@ghi
Like home and friends around us.
The friends that speed in time of need,
When hopes last reed is shaken,
To show us still that come what will,
We are not quite forsaken.
Though allwere night. if but the light
From friendships altar crowned us,
,TWould prove the bliss of earth was this
Our home and friends around u.s.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

A VENERABLE clergyman of this city
informs us as fact that he was one of
two missionaries who were captured
by cannibals, and were about to be
cooked and eaten. His companion
was man who appreciated the good
things of the table, and prided him.
self on his cookery. AS the crisis of
his fate approached, his meanings
were piteous. The other exhorted
him to bear up, telling him that to die
is gain, and all that. "It amt that" !"
groaned the missionary. al am not
afraid to die, but it breaks my heart
to think that those savages don't
know how to make decent gravy"
-EG.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

"IF He DIDN'T THINK He WAS
DRUNK.-Not bad story is told at
the expense of most distinguished
citizen of Philadelphia. 1t seems that
a dinner party was in progress during
the recent brilliant display of north
ern lights, and this gentleman, step
ping out to cool his burning brow,
was startled by the display about the
frostys pole. lie stood perfectly
amazed; then turning to the window
he saw within the wife of his bosom
sitting with the ladies, waiting for
their liege lords to end their cigars
Pushing aside the curtains, he beck
oned Mrs. Agnes to come out. She
complied, when he said to her sol
emnly: "Wagnes, dye see anything
sxtrornry now P" eyes, Dolly, see
you haYe been drinking too much
wine." mol not that, WagEes. I
mean extror'n'ry phornomonoms in
atmosphere" "Why, where Dolly ?"
"Uppef yonner, Wagnes." "Why,
dear me-yes l do, indeed-the most
brilliant aurora | ever see." "Wag-
mes, are things a shootin'?" eyes,
dear" "And a fiashin, Wagnes ?"--
Yes, Dolly.0 Sand softer spread
in and dancin', eh, Wagnes ?" 'AH
that, my dear" "Ho! hol" laughed
the husband, much relieved. EDo yer
know. Wagnes-I mean Hagnes-that
when I came out and saw the celestial
phornomonos glowin' upper yonner,
blowed effer 1 didn't think I was
drunk i" .
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
As some lady visitors were recently

AS some lady visitors were recently
going through penitentiary, under
the escort of the superintendent, they
came to room in which three women
were sewing. "Dear mep one of the
visitors whispered, what vicious
looking creatures Pray, what are
they here for ~ " Because they have
no other home. This is our sitting
room, and they are my wife and two
danghters,o blandly answered the
superintendent. u
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

AN amusing colloquy came off at a
supper table on board of one of our
Mississippi steamboats, between Chi
cago exquisite, reeking with oil and
cologne, who was cursing the walters
and assuming very consequential airs,
and raw Jonathan seated by hissside,
dressed in home-spun. Turning to
his vulgar companion, and pointing
his jeweled finger, he said:
Buttah, sah." m
Yes, see it," said Jonathan,
9 Buttah, sah," repeated the dandy
fiercely. !
"I know it; and first-rate article
it is too"
"Buttah, sah." again cried the. dandy
in a loud and angry voice. 1s
Now, hush up: darn you'll" said
the countryman angrily. 81 know it
is butter. You don't suppose l think
it's lard, do you? If you don't keep
your mouth shut, I'll butter my fist
and stuff it down your Internal
throat. If you don't keep still I'll
get mad" o Hs
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

SINCE the enforcement of the new
liquor law, began in Massachusetts,,
medicated cider has made its appear
ance in the market. The State con-
Stables are employed in testing it's in
'toxicating qualities, but they cannot
make out what il is,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

AN Illinois editor speaks of an
"eighty -year-old octogenariaH in his
town, who had seen the SHOWS of
three score years -and-ten." What was
the matter with his eyes the other ten
years? '~'S
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

" NELL,
NICHOLS.

Attorney; 90 A. SP1TiIdinr Ravenna. Ohio
Feb. is. 1913.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

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~ IHe,fs z ioci over BraineTd n sons Di"S
Kovemler %. 1s7s- II FfAfAfA S~9-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
GARRETTSVILLE HOUSE.
isaac parker s. Son, Prop'rs.

vTHHE ProprietOrs having leased the above
house respectfully informs their friends and
Ghe public generally, that he has rejuvenated
the Garrettsville House, and is prepared to sup
ply the table with the best the market affords,
at low prices Persons visiting Garrettsville
oven for a day, will hnd this House a home
OHinibusses leave this house FOR all day and
night trains 157-tf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
The Broken-Hearted.

a New Leaf from a well-kpown history.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
M. STUART,

r.o,,,,selor at Law, Ravenna, Ohio Odhee IN
EAST End of Phenix 6Brlckl BLOCK
noo 2 1893
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
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BELDING. s. HUGUs,

Phvsicians and Surgeons. Oflice, Main street
over Belding & Armstrong; Drug Store,
SpeciaI attention paid to the treatment of
IshrouicT Diseases. Once hours, from 10 TO II
a. M 2 tod and to p. m. 10
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10
Rates Of Advertising.
business Cards.
ETNA HOUSE,

RrTssER, Proprietor, west side PnbIic
square. Ravenna, Ohio Sol-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-07-10

WEDpELL HOUSE,
kevs1and Ohio. s2,D per day. 4. a GIL
Fl. .ETTE. Proprietor.
|1lqr 4 1868 ".
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
The Boston Strikers.

In the case of Timothy Hogan, one of the striking horse-shoers, for threat ening and assaulting Peter Pilkington for going to work in the Railroad Com pany's horseshoe shops, at Boston, Judge Parmenter decided that the of fense came within the statute in rela- tion to compelling persons to do acts against their will by threats, the pun ishment for which is imprisonment in the State prison not exceeding ten years, or by @ fine not exceeding $5,- GOO, or by both imprisonment and fine.
 In reviewing the matter, Judge Par menter quoted the following from the records of the Supreme Court in simi- lar case: Freedom is the policy of this country, but freedom does not i'm ply right in one person, either alone or in combination with others, to dis turb or annoy another, either directly or indirectly, in his lawful business or occupation, or to threaten him with an- noyance or injury, for the sake of com polling him to buy his peace, or, in the language of the statute, with intent to extort money or any pecuniary advan- tage whatever, or to compel him to do any act against his will," and added: The facts alleged and proved in this case are peculiarly offensive to the free prin- ciples which prevail in this country, and if such practices could enjoy impunity they would tend to establish tyranny of irresponsible persons over labor and mechanical business, which would be extremely injurious to both.
 Judge Parmenter held Hogan in $1, 800 on both complaints for trial at the Superior Court.
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
Singular Murder Case.

One of the most singular murder trials on record has recently been con- cluded in Bordeaux. Some months ago the house of a postman named Mano, situated in the wild flats of the Landes, was entered in the night in the absence of the postman, and his wife, her father and mother and two of their children were brutally murdered in their beds, the weapon used being pickaxe. The only person left alive in the house was Bernard Mano, son of the postman, eight years of age. There were several lunatics roaming about the forests of the Landes, and at first it was supposed that one of these had committed the bloody deed. Some months after the murder the boy Bernard one day was sharpening knife, and in answer to an inquiry said that he intended to kill his papa with it because the latter had kill ed the boys brother, sister, mother, and grandparents. On this evidence Mano, who was not a man of bad char acter, was arrested. It was proved that Office, twenty-four miles distant from his house, on the evening of the murder. He walked habitually in making his rounds thirty miles day, and if he was the guilty person he must have got up after having done his usual days work and walked twenty-four miles to murder his family without any apparent motive, and twenty miles back again after doing the deed, making seventy-eight miles of pedestrianism during the twen- ty-four hours. It was shown that the boy was addicted to lying, and in his evidence he contradicted himself. He said that the man with the pickaxe look ed like his father, but he could not be sure that it was he; that he heard his mother crying murder, and hid his face under the bed clothes. When asked by the man with pickaxe whether he was sleep, he did not answer from fear. The presiding Judge, according to the French custom, pressed the ex- animation of the boy very closely, and after good deal of coaxing induced him to repeat several times that the man he saw was his father, and that he did not divulge the secret at first for fear of be- ing beaten. Solely on the evidence of this boy the prisoner was convicted, the verdict of the jury being "Guilty with extenuating circumstances" The ex- tenuating circumstances undoubtedly consisted only of the scruples of the jury in regard to condemning man to death on such testimony, method of compromising with the conscience quite customary with French juries. The sentence in this case was Imprisonment with hard labor for life.
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
A Telegraphic Decision.

A decision of some interest and i'm portance to business men was delivered in the Supreme Court of Illinois, at Chicago, by Judge Breeze. The case and decision were as follows:
 James B. Tyler telegraphed, October 30, 1872, by the Western Union Tele- graph Company, to John Wrenn, of New York, to purchase 100 shares of Western Union stock. The message was transmitted and received "1, ,000 shares" MT. Tyler brought suit in assumpsit for damages, and was award cost of the message.% A motion for new trial was overruled by an appeal taken to the Supreme Court.
 In reversing the judgment of the Cir cult Court, and remanding the cause for further proceedings, Judge Breeze held that " the conditions of the company have evidently been designed so as to relieve the company of responsibility. Content to receive the compensation, they shrink from fulfilling the obliga- tions. That the courts should not be swift to exempt the companies from li- ability is dictate of public policy. To such perfection has the art of telegraphy been brought that, though many mil lions of dispatches have been sent, the English and American court records only show some fifty cases instituted against companies for losses occasioned by their negligence. Under these cir cumstances their bold claim to exemp- tion should meet with no favor from the courts. The doctrine to benefit the public must be that which the Court en- deavors to establish mistake in transmission is prima facie evidence of negligence, and that the burden is on the company to prove the contrary. If the company relies upon contracts to restrict it's liability it must show a valid contract, freely entered into by the sen- der, and for valuable consideration paid by the company or acknowledged by the sender. But even such contract will not relieve the company from gross negligence"
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
A Diving Torpedo.

There is now lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard torpedo-boat, invented by Abraham Halstead, of Jersey City. It is built of iron, about thirtytwo feet long and seven feet wide at the middle. In shape, it resembles very fat cigar, it's rounded back only lying out of the water. Its appearance entities 1t to the name of |" Intelligent Whale" bestow- ed on it by it's inventor. In principle it is boatzshaped diving-bell, the bot tom being open, to enable it's occupants to work upon the bottom or sides of the vessel or other object to be destroyed. In each end is an air-tank, and when in use air is allowed to escape till the boat is entirely under water, when it is pro- pelled by an ordinary propeller screw turned by hand. It has two rudders placed at right angles to each other, and can be guided up or down as well as to explosive may be taken in tow or carried in the prov, ready to be attached to the enemy's vessel, where it is to be explod- ed with carefully graduated fuse, with an arrangement of clockwork, or with electric wires which are paid out of the torpedo boat as it withdraws safe dis tance.
 The boat as thus described does not greatly differ from other inventions of its kind. Its distinguished character istic is an apparatus by which the car bonic acid gas exhaled from the lungs is absorbed and oxygen supplied. This process is, as yet, a secret. A recent experiment. near the dry dock resulted very satisfactorily to the officers of the Navy Yard. MT. Halstead and his fam ly have, on several occasions, remained in the boat under water for periods of three or four hours.
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
A Wonderful Balloon.

Le Valiant, the African traveller, tells some wonderful stories about the in- stinct of the baboon. He travelled with one for long time as a guide. Its name was Snees. He knew the shops where the best sherbert was to be got. Being short of butter once, Snees brought him number of cncoa-nuts, which he had thrown about till the milk inside had become churned. He watch ed by his masters side every night, kill ing the mosquitos and feas which swarm about the banks of the Nile. He often helped Le Valiant in unrolling the mummies and packing his trunks. Le Valiant brought his baboon to Europe, and Snees showed his gratitude by saving his masters life. Thieves were plum dering the house, when Snees ran to the alarm-bell, and never ceased pull ing 1t till the inmates were alarmed :; the thieves were apprehended just in time, for Le Valiant says when he awoke there were two gentlemen at his bedside, one with a pistol, and the other with carving knife. The day Le Valiant died, the sagacious baboon broke a blacking- g-bottle-whether acci- dently or not is not proved-which blacked him from head to foot but many persons, who knew Snees well, declare this was done purposely, from 8 desire of the faithful animal to show re- spect to the memory of his kind master by going into mourning for him.
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
Wool Growing in California.

The importance which the wool-grow- ing interest in California has attained may be in great measure ascribed to the example afforded in the energy and pluck of one man, who, in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties, practically demonstrated the feasibility of making the business of sheep raising exceedingly remunerative in that State. This man, Col. William w. Hollister, emigrated from Licking county, Ohio, some twenty years ago, driving before him flock of eight hundred sheep. It was an extremely hazardous undertaking to cross the continent inthose days with such flock, and owing to the difficult ties and hardships he encountered on the way, when he arrived at last in Southern California the number of his sheep had been reduced by more than one-half. Beginning the business of sheep breeding in debt, he carried it on so successfully that in time he became very wealthy, his fortune at present be- ing estimated at not less than $3, ,000,- 900. He is the owner of over one hun dred thousand acres of soil, with hocks in proportion to his lands. He says that each one of the three hundred sheep u0 udu TOuldlu1uS Wu0u uS IcdClcu O@I- ifornia earned him one thousand dol-- lars before it died. Col. Hollister thinks the different grades of merino sheep the best adapted to the business of sheep raising on large scale, because the merino is more gregarious and herds better in large bands, while its fleece furnishes the great staple for the cloth ing wools. The average annual increase of sheep under fair conditions in Cali fornia Col. Hollister estimates to be, with merinos, on a small scale, one hun dred per cent. but on 8 large scale only eighty per cent. The average annual yield of wool in his focks has been about six pounds for each animal. Where the business is conducted on an extensive scale the owner is obliged to leave it's supervision with subordinates to great extent, which accounts for the falling off in the increase under such circumstances. The great enemies of California wool7growers are wolves and the scab.
Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
Adulterating Tea.

The praiseworthy desire of Cler- kenwen (Eng.) grocer to e advance with the times" has brought him into serious trouble. MT. George Brown, the enter prising trader in question, had adver- tised a startlingly cheap tea-a "noted mixture, in fact only eighteenpence per pound. A customer who had reason to quarrel with the quality of this re- markable article, submitted it to andy sis, and found that it was very notable indeed. It consisted of "1ron filings and clippings, gritty matter, foreign stalks, and small fragments of wood. ," A magnet which was thrust into the mixture brought out of it 8 large num- Der of iron particles. MT. Browns ad- vocate pleaded caveot ea,a2otor, of course, and asked the people of Clerkenwell what kind of tea they expected to get for eighteenpence pound. The mag istrate did not swallow this excuse, and in consequence sent the defendant to prison for six months under the new adulteration act.