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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Ready Money.

It is good thing to have unlimited
credit, but better still to have ready
money on hand for emergencies.
The richest man on the globe, Baron
Rothschild, learned this lesson one day
when he chanced to ride in a public
conveyance, and found out that he had
"not red in his pocket.
The driver was furious, and demand
ed his pay. Rothschild told him his
name, and gave him his card.
"I never heard of you, and never
want to again but I want my pay and
must have it." and he looked down
threateningly. The money king was in
haste. He had only an order for mill-
ion, and offered the driver a coupon for
fifty thousand francs to change" The
driver started; the passengers laughed,
and Just then an acquaintance came up,
from whom he borrowed six sous, and
paid the angry Jehu.
If it is inconvenient for even a Roths-
child to be without money in his pock-
ct, you may be sure it will be even
more SO for you. The world never re-
spects " state of impecuniosity." 1t
is a most uncomfortable state to be in.
If you have an income of any sort, try
not to spend every cent. Have few
dollars always about you for emergen-
cies that will always be happening. If
you gather it up as the children do their
pennies, one at time, keep your stock
good. When you must break into your
last five dollar bill, replace it as soon as
you can. 1t adds to your comfort more
than you ever guess to feel that there is
snug little sum that you can draw
from in case of urgent need.
Philosophy, religion, or poetry to the
contrary, there is no use in being pen
niless. By common prudence most
people of Industrious habits can keep a
little ahead for a rainy day.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Rothschild,s Career on the Turf.

A London paper says that if the ex-
ample of the late Baron Rothschild's
career on the turf could be more gener-
ally followed this national sport might
yet be saved from the degradation which
threatens it. The professed object of
racing is to improve the breed of horses,
and, no doubt, if rich men would pur-
sue it with this single object they would
do what cannot otherwise be done. To
Baron Rothschild, accordingly, a fine
race-horse was an animal worth produc-
ing for its own sake, and he applied
himself Systematically to breeding race
horses. He never squandered money
in speculative purchases, but kept a
stud which he diligently and patiently
improved, and it was by the qualities of
thorough man of business that he at
length achieved conspicuous success.
When he won, two years ago, the Der
by, the Oaks, and the st. Leger, all the
world felt that piece of good useful
work had been justly rewarded, and
they rejoiced at the evidence thus shown
that the turf was capable of reinvigora-
tiOn.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Better Than Whisky.

"Bill Arp" writes Gentlemen,
there is one thing about drinking. I
almost wish every man was reformed
drunkard. No man who has never
drank liquor knows what luxury cold
water is. have got up in the night,
after I had been spreeing around, and
gone to the pump burning with thirst,
feeling as if the gallows, and the grave
and Internal regions were too good for
me, and when I took up the bucket in
my hands, with my eyebrows trembling
like. had the shaking ague, and put
the water to my lips, it was the most
delicious draught that ever went down
my throat.
I have stood there and drank, until !
could drink no more, and gone back to
bed thanking God for the pure, inno-
cent and cooling beverage, and cursing
myself from the inmost, for ever touch
ing the accursed whisky. In my tor
ment of mind and body, have made
VOWS and promises and broken them
within day. But if you want to know
the luxury of cold water, get drunk and
keep at it until you are on fire, and
then try bucketful at the pump in the
night. You want gourd full-you'll IL
feel like the bucket amt big enough,
and when you begin to drink an earth
| quake couldn't stop you. I know mel
who will swear to the truth of what
say but you see its thing they dom!
mean to talk about it's too humi1iating.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Railroad Across the Andes.

One of the grandest works of this age
is now being constructed across the
Peruvian Andes, connecting the Pacific
Ocean with the Amazon river by means
of railroad, and opening the whole
interior of Peru to the commerce of the
world. Hitherto that rich and i'm
mensely productive country, so graphi-
cally described in the United States
reports of Lieuts. Herndon ard Gibbon,
!has been virtually locked up to foreign
trade; the transportation of one ton of
freight from the interior of Peru to the
seaport, Lima, costing about three
times as much as the transportation of
the same amount of freight from Lima
to Europe. The railroad in question
was begun in 1870, and has already cost
over SIC, ,0O0, 900. It is estimated that
it will be finished in 1876. Over 1O, 00O
laborers, mostly Chinese, are constantly
employed on it. The enormous diff
culties that have to be overcome in the
construction of this road may be est
mated from the fact that the Andes rise
there to height of 1920 feet above
the level of the sea. The road itself
rises II, 900 feet, and is by far the high
est railroad in the world. Even the
Mont Gents Railroad sinks into insig
nifcance when compared with this
Peruvian undertaking. The road has
also the highest viaduct in the world,
it being $50 feet long and 800 feet high
in the center. It rests OH three pillars,
of which the first is 166, the secoud 1873,
and the third 253 feet high; is built of
iron, and was manufactured in the
| United States.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Pullman Catches a Pickerel.

Mr.. Pullman, of Hatboro, doesn't
feel as much interest in the study of
natural history as he used to. He has
a fine aquarium, and on Wednesday he
thought he would spend half an hour
studying the movements of the fish and
other animals in it. He was particu-
larly interested in the capers of a large
pickerel, and he thought he would peep
over the edge of the tank and see how
the fish looked through the water. The
nose of Mr.. Pullman is long and red /;
and IS it projected over the water it
naturally attracted the attention of the
pickerel. The fish darted toward it,
snapped at it, and the next moment
Mr.. Pullman was running up stairs
with three-pound pickerel hanging to
his nose. When they knocked it loose
(the fish, not the nose), the nose began
to swell, and it is now as large as a
good-sized Bartlett pear. It will make
a splendid nose for bait, but although
Mr.. Pullman is exceedingly fond of fish
he will probably not use it continually
for that purpose. He has soured on
piscatorial sport.-Ma1 Adeler.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
WHOLE NO. l43.
A Dark Picture.

Mr.. Disraei draws the following dark
picture of Ireland at the present time !:
have made note of the provisions
of the Coercion act, which were extend
ed by the Lord Lieutenant in 1870, and
have been extended subsequently, SO
that now, I believe, they apply to elev-
en-twelfths of the whole country. In
the first place, persons out at night un-
der suspicious circumstances may be ar
rested by any constable. Secondly,
strangers sojourning in a district may
be arrested by a constable, brought be-
fore a magistrate and examined as to
their mode of livelihood, and their OBJ
ject in being in such district, and unless
their answers are satisfactory, or they
can produce persons to find security for
their good behavior, they may be sent
to Jail. Thirdly, newspapers may be
warned, and afterward become forfeited.
Fourthly, the sale of gunpowder and
arms is subjected to stringent rules.
Filthy, grand juries are authorized to
present moneys to be levied for payment
of compensation to persons whose rela-
tives have been murdered, or to persons
who have been themselves injured.
That was in the year 1870. In 1871 this
stringent measure of coercion was not
found adequate. A supplementary bill
was brought in and passed into an act,
and this Peace Preservation act was
continued till the year 1873. And in
1873 it was proposed, and successfully
proposed, to continue these acts until
the year 1875; and Ireland at this mo-
ment, believe may say, is governed
by these laws, which in severity am
not saying that the severity is not nec-
essary refrain from entering on any
question of that knd-but is governed
by laws of coercion and stringent sever
ity that do not exist in any other quar-
ter of the globe. Well, then, is it not
perfectly absurd to pretend to talk of
the tranquility of Ireland, where man
cannot 60 out into his garden after din
ner and look at the stars or see which
way the wind blows without the risk of
being arrested by policeman
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Drinking Warm Blood.

Mention was made recently of gen.
tleman in a very feeble state of health,
who had been for some time at the
Butchers Abattoir in Brighton for med
ical treatment, simply drinking half
tumblerful of warm blood twice a day.
This course the gentleman, Mr.. @. FL.
Stickney, who is willing that his name
shall appear, has followed until week
ago, having been there ten weeks, and
during that time gained ten pounds in
weight, and to use his own words, My
appetite is good I sleep well, and feel
like new man, and am soon to COM
mence business again in Boston" He
also says that there are ten or twelve
others there, drinking the blood, all OF
whom are gaining under his treatment.
One gentleman from Boston, a consump-
tive, SO feeble that it was with difficulty
he could get to this abattoir, is now able
to handle an ak skillfully enough to
"knock down bullock" A lady from
the city who has been sick six years,
stricken with paralysis, is improving
wonderfully by this "blood cure" A
gratifying feature of this cure is that il
is without money and without price. y
-ROStOyl Journal
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Canton.

The streets of this city are wider THAI.
those of most other Chinese cities, and
are lined with the most costly goods,
such as silks, embroidery, gold and sill
yer work, precious stones, rich cloths,
of every description, abundantly testify
ing both to the enterprise of the mer-
chants and the wealth of city that can
support SO great number of such es-
Establishments. These streets and shops
are comparatively clean and elegant.
The streets are shaded from the sun by
a continuous awning extending from
roof to roof above, and are lighted at
night by huge lanterns, with embroid-
cred silken sides, and chandeliers of
glittering glass, SO that day or night,
they resemble the long halls of an ar
cade, or the corridors of some vast ex-
hibition rather than public streets.
Besides its other ornaments, each shop
is adorned with gilded shrine in the
most conspicuous place, where incense
is constantly kept burning to the god OF
wealth.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Amusing Incident,

A gentleman who is not celebrated for
his benevolence, although he is very
wealthy, the other evening got into q
Fifth avenue omnibus to go uptown.
AS the stage was full and he near the
door he reached forward, and touching
a man on the shoulder asked him to
pass one dollar bill up to the driver
for his fare, remarking, "I'm sorry to
trouble you, but have no change" I"
The person to whom this request was
made smiled, bowed, and, taking small
book from his pocket, wrote something
in it, and put the dollar-bin in his
pocket. All the passengers smiled
audibly, and the gentleman demanded
his money with one or two expressions
such as fool" "swindler," etc. The
person alluded to smiled and bowed
again, but did not give up the dollar.
The passengers laughed louder. The
gentleman grew furious, and pulled the
strap, shouting, "Driver, driver call a
policeman" Suddenly, the man with
the notebook, his face glowing with
pleasure, handed the gentleman slip
of paper, on which was written, "I am
deaf and dumb. I thank you for your
generosity" The joke was too much
for old stingy. He laughed with the
rest, and, telling the driver to go ahead,
passed up second dollar, with his own
hand, to the driver to be changed, the
deaf and dumb man seeming to be as
much amused as the other passengers.
-Nea0 York Hearth and Home.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04

vote on the LIST of July to decide the future
form of government of France has been re-
jected by that body by q vote of $50 to 256.
A RELIGIOUS war has broken out in Bengal
caused by pamphlet written by Parsee that
reflected somewhat upon the character of Mo-
manned. The followers of the sensuous
prophet resented the insult by an attack upon
prominent Parsees, in which several were
killed, and others badly treated.
TWELVE thousand Staffordshire England
coal miners are on q strike.
THE annual rowing race of the English
University crews has resulted in another vic
tory for the Cambridge students
THE recent fighting before Bilboa is repre-
sented to have been very desperate, and the
losses on both sides very heavy.
GEN. WoLsELEY, the hero of the Ashantee
expedition, has been created q Baronet.
BISMARCK threatens to resign.
THE report that Henri Rochefort and Pas
aonia is confirmed. They are now in Austria
liza.
CARLIsT accounts of the battles before Bill
boa state that the Royalists, so far from sus-
tanning defeat, were successful at every
point. They claim to have inflicted a loss Of
4, 900 on the Republicans, while their own cas-
ualties do not exceed 1000.
RocHEFoRr, the escaped Communist, will
shortly visit America.
THE steamship Nile recently foundered be-
tween Hong Kong and Yokohama, and all her
passengers, including the Japanese Commits
sioners to the Vienna Exhibition, were
drowned. The number who persisted is stated
at S5.
A LETTER from Havana says the incendiary
torch is making great havoc in the sugar
plantations of the leland. The destruction
of property is fearful, and is in the most
fertile part Of the sugar growing country.
The whole patriot force on the island is
estimated at $1,000. The impression pre-
walls that Gen. Concha will propose terms
of peace, but no conditions will be accepted
short of the total abandonment of the island
by the spaniards.
THERE is said to be great Improvement in
the condition of the famine-afaicted districts
of India.
ENGLAND has not heard the last of the
Alabama claims. A movement is on foot to
make the Government reimburse the English
sufferers by the depredations of that destruc-
tive craft.
of Boulogne) has been placed under arrest
for violating the ecclesiastical law of the
| country.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has, after all, thought bet
| ter of his resolution to resign the leadership
of the Opposition, and great is the rejoicing
| thereat among the faithful.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Coffee.

There is really more mental force in
cup of coffee than the uninitiated
dream. 7 have always had grounds
for respecting the scientist who decided,
after years of testing its efficacy, that
coffee prevented the waste of muscular
tissue. Though do think that Schiller,
with all his philosophy, made mistake
in diluting it with old cognac. A uni
ted aroma of Java and Maracaibo is
sufficient in itself, to say nothing of the
fumes of luscious Mocha. The French
manner of distilling coffee is a fine art,
understood in it's perfection only by a
native or Swiss expert who has served
an apprenticeship in Partisan cafes.
Those who resort to boiling process
should never use anything but an earth
en- vessel or porcelain Lined coffee-pot.
It should be carefully cleared and kept
closely covered to preserve the fra
GRANGE, which otherwise goes to waste
with the steam. The rank expression
which coffee oftentimes INDUCES comes
from the tin in which it is boiled and
left standing. If possible, the cups
in which it is served should be heated,
to prevent stagnation of the delicate
efferyeScence
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Texas.
When every other land rejects us,
That is the land that takes us (Texas)."

That is the land that takes us CTexas)."
The New Orleans Picdyatae estimates
that since 1870 100, 900 negroes have
gone to Texas, and 800, 900 whites. In
Alabama the departure of blacks is con-
solidating permanent Democratic pow
er, and in Mississippi and Louisiana,
where the blacks were more numerous
than the whites in 1870, the white vote
will soon be the largest. Georgia finds
it difficult to spare this labor, although
her white laboring population is on the
increase. The colored population are
among the most restless people in the
world, though caring but little for the
North, and very rarely coming north of
the Mason and Dixon line. In Texas
they are tempted by more virgin soil
better climate, but most of all, we
think, allured by the old story which
followed the civil war, of forty acres
and mule" to everyone who would
vote the Republican ticket and pitch
into the Democracy. The mule-and-
land story having lost its charm in Lou
isiana, Alabama, and other States, the
once clone Star " is pointed out as
the true Ell Dorado, where the broad
acres and the mules can be found
Neao York Express.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Epicurean Coffee

There is such a thing IS science even
in making, and the French under
stand it better, perhaps, than any other
people in the world. They can COM
bine different coffees, like the parts OF
a fine wine, to produce certain rare
bouquets, or aromas, for the epicure.
Not more than half pound of coffee
should be roasted at time for domes-
tic use it should be ground only just
before going into the pot i; an ounce
should be allowed for every three cups
in its mixture with the white of an egg
to clear it there should be some warmth
before the water is added, and it should
never be allowed to reach a boil. OBJ
serve these rules, which are based on
scientific reasons, and you may make
from an inferior coffee-bean beverage
far superior to what generally goes by
that name. 1t will never be black nor
bitter, and can be kept indefinitely
without stating.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Wars Waste.

Give me the money that has been
spent in the war, and will purchase
every foot of land upon the globe. I
will clothe every man, woman and child
in an attire of which kings and queens
might be proud. will build school
house on every hillside and in every
valley upon the earth; I will build
an academy in every town, and will en-
dow it; college in every State, and
fill it with able professors will crown
every hill with place of worship, con-
secrated to the PRONUNCIATION of the
gospel of peace will support in every
pulpit an able teacher of righteousness,
so that on every Sabbath morning the
chime on one hill should answer to the
chime on another around the earth g
wide circumference and the voice of
prayer and the song of praise should
ascend like a universal holocaust to
heaven.-Rufus Stevens.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
MIR. Summers First Election.

When Charles Sumner was elected a
Senator, in 1851, George 8. Boutwell,
was Governor of Massachusetts, Henry
Wilson, President of the Massachusetts,
Senate, and Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr :,
Speaker of the House in the Massachu-
setts Legislature. Sumner and Wilson
represented 27,8t3 Free Soil votes, and
Boutwell, and Banks represented 81, 1868
Democratic votes, in coalition, %
against 57,364 Wings. The "coai-
ton" shocked the established order in
Massachusetts in more ways than one.
1t was raid by young and aggressive
men, of whom the current inquiry was,
"Who are they It was trick in
politics so shrewd that subsequently, by
common consent, the way to it's repeti-
ton was barred by constitutional
amendment, introducing the plurality
system in all elections with fixed num-
Der of seats in the Legislature. To ex-
plain how it was done: The "Coali-
tionists" voted separate party-tickets
for Governor, and united on candidates
for the Legislature, electing, in the
House, 210 members against 174 Wings.
The majority in the House filed the
vacancies in the Senate. which was
made to consist of 81 Coalitionists and
ID Wings. Then the two bodies, in
concurrence, elected the Governor and
other State officers. It was compare
lively easy to carry out that part of the
programme which involved Boutwelfs
election as Governor, and it was also
easy to elect Rantoul (Democrat) to the
unexpired six weeks of the Senatorial
term; but to elect Sumner, an Aboli-
ZIONIST, to the full Senatorial term, there
was the rub. The contest was protract-
ed at the State House from January
into May, large number of Democrats
scattering their votes, fearing to go on
the record as voting for an Abolitionist,
but fearing more that by absenting
themselves Wing CRobert G. Win
throp) should be chosen. In that Leg
islature were, we believe, Ben Butler
and Caleb Gushing, Democrats, not
openly voting for Sumner and Samuel
Hooper and Henry l. Dawes, Wings,
voting for Winthrop. Finally the Leg
islature framed what was famously
known in Massachusetts for some years
| (untl abolished), the "Sealed- Ballot
act" for all elections and, on the first
count of votes under the "sealed bal
| lot," Charles Sumner was found to be
chosen. When, subsequently,, Caleb
Gushing was in Pierces Cabinet, and
Ben Butler was the Democratic candi.
date (against Banks, Republican, fol
| Governor of Massachusetts, and when
Democrats had patronage and South.
ern constituency, responsibility fol
Charles Sumner in the Senate was read.
lily shirked by an appeal to the record
of viva voce votes, and the secrets oi
the "sealed ballot" were ever sealed
| Chicago Tribune.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
The Indian FiascO,

The Greeley (Col.) Tribune says that
the great Indian tiasco is about played
out. 1t is summed up in the fact that
two Indians stole couple of horses (;
then several white vagabonds, engaged
in selling iqusr to the Indians, stole
twenty Of their ponies, and, application
being made to the military, no atten-
was paid to it. Then the Indians, forty
in all, murdered two white men and at
tackled squad of troops. Out of these
operations, the saloon-keepers and the
agents who furnish army supplies have
manufactured an Indian war for the
purpose of preventing Congress from
cutting down appropriations. The
Tribune affirms that the Indians have no
intention of making war, and that, if
the control of Indian affairs were given
to the army, there would be no trouble
of any sort
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-04
Dreams.

Some philosopher, who evidently
knows how it is himself, interprets
dreams as follows:
IF a man dreams the devil is after
MIN, it is sign he had better settle his
subscription bill.
If he dreams of an earthquake, and
turmoil generally, it is sign that he
is going to get married.
If he (being married man) dreams
of some fearful mysterious danger, 1t Is
to spend few days with her darling
daughter.
If he dreams that his head is in dan
ger and his hair all falls out, it is sign
he will have quarrel with his wife.
If he dreams of being accosted by a
strange man. who insists on talking with
him, it is a sign that he had better
know all the policemen.
If he dreams of making fool of HIM
self, it is a true sign that it is so.