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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06
Financial,

The San Francisco Bulletin saws that
but for the National Banking Law, an
amount of United States notes would
have gone into circulation, equal to
the amount of National Bank notes
now in use, and, in that case, some
$500, 100000 of the national debt
would have borne no interest. Since
the establishment Of the National
Banks, the Coy ernment has paid, upon
bonds. which but for such banks,
would have been converted into
United States notes, an annual inter-
est of about $20,OOO.OO0, which during
the last ten years has amounted to
100000, 900. All this has been paid
by the Government to the bankers, on
the bonds deposited by them in the
Treasury Department, as security for
their circulation. If these banks had
never been organized, the whole ma
tional debt would not, atpresent have
exceeded $1,000 900, 900, and the inter-
est-bearing portion of it would haye
fallen below 81, 100000. The Ma
tional Banks draw gold interest on
the bonds deposited by them as secur-
ity, and they are, on the whole, sex-
ceedIngiy burthensome and expensive
institutions.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06
4 SUCCESSFUL coNUNpRum.

John has never given you ring ~
said Katie's sister 10 her one day.
John was Katie's betr0thed.
"Never, said Katie, with q regTetful
shake of the head.
sfAnd never will until you ask him
for it, returned the sister.
ssThen fear / shall never get one" /"
was the reply.
4Of course you never will. John is
too stupid 20 think of such things and
and as you never can plHck up courage
to ask him for one, it follows that you
viii never get one.
This set Katie to thinking, and to
what purpose we shall see.
That evening John came to see her.
He was very proud and very happy,
for the beautiful girl by his side had
been for several weeks pledged to
marry him as soon as the business
could be properly done, and John was
a grand good fellow too, notWith-
standing his oblivioasness to certain
polite matters.
John said Katie, at length. look
ing up with an innocent smile. 'sdo
you know what conundrum Is ~
Why, it's puzzIe-a riddle" ans
Wered John,
4Do you think you could ask me
one could not guess %
81 don't know meyer thought of
such things. Could you ask me one ?D
ssI could try"
s'Well, fry, Katie
ssThen answer this: Why is the let
Ter d like q ring2
John puzzled his brain over the
problem for a long time, but was
finally forced to give il up.
@I don't know, Katie. Why is it ?1
Because, replied the maiden with
very soft blush creeping up TO her
temples, taCe cannot be lced without
it,
In less than a week from that date
Katie had her engagement ring.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06
oPEEATIoNs OF THE LOBBYIST.

The New York Times points out the
various devices by which the lobbyist
reaps large income. Here is one:
"A company, let us say, applies to
him to get bill passed. He tells the
agents he shall want at least $4,000
The money is paid and he goes to AL
bany with it, and pays out say 5000
among the bribable members. The
remaining $4,000 he quietly puts in
to his own pocket. fthe bill passes
the company are satisfied and never
ask q question about the affair. If it
does not pass they may ask questions,
but they viii get no information out
of the lobbyist, who goes forth with
bis seventy-fiVe per cent. plunder COM
fOrtably slowed away in his pockets.
It is game in which there is scarcely
the least probability of his being found
out-certainly not one chance in a
thougand.n
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

KIDNAPPING bids fair to become one
of the great industries of the Quaker
City, A few days ago a little boy
hamcd Ross wos spirited away, and
the kidnappers have communicated
with the father, demanding. $4,000
ransom for the child. What is worse
they seem to be in q fair way to get it.
The police are powerless, the profess
sionaI detectives are in di ze, and the
father is frantic with desire to secure
the return of the lad at whatever cost,
or by whatever compromise with
justice. And now the telegraph in
forms us that another boy has been
kidnapped in the. same city. How
long this industry is to flourish de-
pends upon the intelligence and activi-
ty of the police and detectives of that
city. Unfortunately, there is little in
that upon which to build hope that
the practice is not to become chronic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

We advise our little friends. Jass entering 81
the study OF grammar. % cor NIT % nemOr
the following lines:
l. Three little words you often see
Are articles. .. an. ard the.
,, A nouns the name o. any shtag.
As school or garden hoop o. swing
AdjectiEes tell the Ezad Or moan
As great. small, Pret-y. white o. brown.
4. Instead Of nouns the pFon6ras st3Ed,
Her head. his face. yeur arm. my hand,
5. Verbs ten OF something to be done.
TO race. count. sing. laugh, jump or run
g. How things are done the adverbs tell,
As slowly. quickly, IL or well.
a. conjunctEons join words together.
As house and land. wind and weather..
3. The proposition stands before
a noun, As or or through door.
q The inteEJection shows surprise.
As oh how pretty, ola how wise.
The whole are called nine parts of speech.
Which reading, writing. speaking teach.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06
CALDWEIL'S
VINE Ind IRON BITTERS !

These celebrated Bitters are pure, safe and
reliable; composed of Roots, BarkS and Herbs
with Citrate of Iron and pure native Wine made
from the native grapes of California. the ingre-
dlents are choice strengthening, purifying and
life-glvIng medicinal agents. forming the most
healthy and pleasant stimulating tonic and
siren gthening Bitters for improving the appe-
tlte. giving tone and energy to the Blood and
System For medicinal purposes, for family
nSe, travellers, voyagers, etc, they cannot be
surpassed.
These Bitters are in Fan eminent degree
engthening, purifying. diuretic, stimulatin e
and nonrishing TO the whole system, giving new
life and activity to every organ and part alike.
without that ever recurring reaction that fol-
lows the use of most all other tonics and stimu-
ants in the market. For
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

"I'vE got 'em again !" shouted Mis-
sissippi boatman when the first comet
burst upon his bewildered vision. And
then he wildly proceeded to relate his
experience: "Snakes PYe had before,
and now the stars have got tails on
1em. Pm dead man !" SO much for
knowing too much OF whisky and too
little of astronomy
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06
AS 4 MORNING iPPETISER

No other Bitters in the universe can eoual
them. lack space for detailing the ayaiIabiIity
Oh these BItters but will briefly state its geneT
al eHects upon the human system as follows.
I6absoInteIy puriIieS the Blood 1t speefliIy
correets all morbid changes i'm the blood Il
eqnaIzes the eIfcnlation OF the Blood. 1t reeu-
prepars the Blood to furnish proper support TO
sutuents OF the Blood upon which the vital
energy of the system is dependent. If
muses. the proper degree of heat into the
system 1t pufges from the system the morbid
nthhofs WhIch retard its natural functions. 1T
lmpaf5s vitality and elasticity to every organ of
the the Mpoay. !t eorrects all arrangements. however
tflVlaf, which are the first origin of Disease 1t
promotes the operation of the digestive organs
1t improves the appetite and removes ali disa-
greeable feeling after eating. 1t perfects diges-
ton; rendering it natural and easy 1t acts as
Il mid and enfIcacious stomachic. 1t eIeyateS
the standard OF all the vital forces 1t Strength
ems the nervous fbers and diffuses a calm
throughout the nervous system. 1t DESTROYS all
morbid conditions of the mind. 1t dfsperses
dUllness and languor- 1t promotes buoyancy of
spirit and feeling. 1t banishes those clogs upon
pleasure which produce gloom. It drives ayly
those distressing symptoms which rob us of hap,
plness. 1t revIves The physical energies by in
iusing new life and power into the system 1t
ioftlhes the system against the dangers of ma
!afla, nuctuatIohs of the temperature changes
IN the climate &c. In short it prepares the sys-
tenn for the radical change to be wrought in its
conalt!oh, ana restores u to perfect health and
natural vigor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

A YOUNG man from the country
going into shoe store for a pair OF
boots, the clerk blandly asked "What
number do you wear r. Why, teCo,
of course, exclaimed the indignant
countryman.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-08-06

AN editor, referring to air-tight cof-
Tins, says, "No person having once
tried one of these cofEins viii ever use
any other.p
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
rnE PHtNOE ot MALES.
nDebt over ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
on 100000 a Year

In Debt Over $4,000, 900 Bankruptcy
ON 100000 Year.
A London letter says a report has
suddenly gained currency that the long
expected crisis had occurred in the
financial affairs of the Ptinee Of Wales
and that the ministry have Ifiade up
their minds to propose to the house OF
commons next session to pay his debts.
The SUM named is 640, 600 pounds ster-
ling. four times the sum voted IN 19SI
to appease creditors OF that pattern OF
ROYALTY who afterwards became George
the Fourth. About paying the bills
there are certain TO be two powerful and
contradictory sentiments, one that the
honor of the nation is concerned in pro-
viding for the debts Of its future king ;
the other that these debts are Of & char
| acter which ought 20 be paid out Of the
/ accumulated fortune of the Queen.
| The latter view rests on the we'll known
| fact that the Queen has been receiving
| ever since the death of Prince Albert
| the whole of her income 0alculated a
her accession to support the expenses
| of court in the usual degree of splendor
| that her majesty has, however, lived
during this period for the most part II
retirement, and that the cost of draw
in0-room levees and other royal pa
| geantries have in fact fallen upon the
Prince and Princess of Wales, WhOs'
income has been unequal to such bur
den. The existing debts, or q consider
able part of them, have, according Z
this theory, been incurred IN the dis
charge of these duties. Hence it i
urged that the Queen, who has had ans
kept the money given her by the stat
for such purposes, ought to pay them
The Prince of Wales has s40, 900 yea
plus the revenue of the Duchy of Corn
wall, which now amount to over &lOO,
600 per annum.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Canary Birds.

A writer in the Baltimore American,
who has been making a tour of the bird
fanciers' establishments in that city,
says; The canaryis above all sing
ing birds the most popular. These
birds were introduced into Europe dur
ing the sixteenth century. They we're
first imported to Italy, and from there
spread to the adjoining countries. The
German birds are the best singers, and
in the Kingdom of Hanover no less
than 0,000 are raised annually. There
are imported to this country from
France and Germany about GO, 900 every
year. While the German bird fanciers
have bestowed their whole efforts upon
the vocal power of the country, French
fanciers have by judicious breeding
greatly increased the size and symme-
try of the birds. The German canaries
in most cases lose their musical power
about one year after they are imported.
The American bred canaries, although
not as fine singers, last from five to
seven years. 1t is said that the reason
of the success of German fanoiers l.
training their birds is due to their plac-
ing their young canaries in cages with
larks and other European soDgsters,
from whom the canaries learn MANY of
their most beautiful melodies. I'M
ported birds sell at from SO to $50,
American birds from 50 to $40. The
mocking-bird is the only rival the cana
~ has. Their characteristics are too
well known to need comment. The best
singers come from Georgia and Florida.
They bring from Sl5 to so each. What
fanciers consider fine singers are exceed
ingly scarce, net one bird in three hun
bred being first-class. These fine birds
bring 500 and upwards apiece. The
compass and variety of its voice make
it a great favorite in Europe. The bird
IS found ina II European countries, but
Is by fanciers in this country considered
rare, They bring from $50 to $50 each. 4"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Manners in Iceland.


Manners are simple in Iceland, as in
deed in all the Scandinavian countries
and all the simpler here because there
is really no distinction of ranks. no
body is rich, and hardly anybody alb
jectly poor everybody has to work for
himself. and works Except to be sure,
few storekeepers In Reykiavik, and at
one or two spots on the COAST with his
own hands. Wealth would not raise
man above his fellows, and there are
indeed no means of employing 1t except
in supplying house with what would
be Thought in England indispensable
comforts. Wealth, therefore, is not
greatly coveted (although the Icelander
likes a good bargain, especially In
horsehesh), and an air of cheerful con-
tentment reigns. The farm servant
scarcely differs from the farmer, and
probably, if a steady fellow, ends by
| marrying the farmers daughter and get
| ting farm himself. There is no title
| of respect, save Herra TO the bishop and
| Sira to priest not even such q title
Mr.. or Mrs. or Esquire. If you go to
call for a lady you tap at the door and
| ask if InjibjOrg or Halerdr IS In or II
you wish to give her full name, Injib-
| lord Thorvaldsdottir, or EiriksdOtsir,
I OF DldIudEAObIlI d bA4C Cdl6C A44eF w.
for there is no title of politeness to ap
ply, Her name, moreover, is her Owl
name, unchanged from birth to death
for as there are no surnames or fam
lily names among the Icelanders, but
only Christian names, there is no rea
son for a wife assuming her hUsbandI
name, and she is Thorvaldsdottir aftel
her marriage with -Gudmundr just a
before, while her children are Gud
mundsson and Gudmundsdottir. WheI
such a concession is made to thu
rights of women, it is little suppris
ing to find that she is in any other re
spect treated as an inferior, not usual,
sitting down to the table with the mel
of the family, but waiting on them anG
dining separately. Otherwise, how
ever, women seem sufficiently we'll of
having full rights of property, and rid
ing vigorously about the country wheI
ever they will /; and we could not hea
that there vas any movement for thei
emancipation, or indeed for social re
form of any kind, though to be sure
imperfect knowledge of the languag
restricted our inquiries In one regard
the women of Iceland have obtained
completer equality than their sisters i
continental Europe.-They receive e1
actly the same education as the men dc
There are no schools in the islam
! naturally, as families live mostly
! dozen miles apart and instruction
! therefore given by the father TO his son
and daughters alike and together, til
priest, where there is a priest. some
times adding a little Latin or DaRisl
Thus the girl learns all her parents ca
teach her, and is as good an arithm'
tician, and as familiar with the Says
as her brothers. CornhiU Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Turkish Beds.

A correspondent, writing of Turk
isb harem, says: each lady had three
rooms to herself, and the furnishing of
them was generally left to her taste or
caprice. They were arranged very well,
and the furniture was very handsome,
but curious in form. A regular Turk
ish bed is something quite different
from ours. There is no bedstead OF
mattress, but about thirty very thickIy
padded quilts, covered with silk or sat
in, laid one on top of the other on the
floor, until they are about two feet
deep. The sheets are invariably of silk,
embroidered, and the coverIid is a mar
vel of gold and silver embroidery on
satin orVelvet, The pillows are of pink,
blue or yellow satin, covered with beau
tiful lace. From the ceiling hangs a
large jeweled and .gilded, hoop, and
from this rich lace curtains, which en-
circle the bed. To hold their robes they
have innumerable brass-nailed camphor-
wood trunks, and as one of these after
another was turned out for me to see
the contents, I began almost to lose nv
head in the confusion of eolors and
beauty of materials. Z" s1rsy .--a.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
A Purely Irish Ideal.

IDEAL wives, according to an Irish
writer, are of low stature and extreme
~ fair. They are soft and gentle in
manner and slow of motion. They have
blue eyes, golden hair, rich mezzo-
soprano voices, and wear moderate dress
improvers. Their hair and its color are
their own, and they fear strong men,
but like to look at them from windows,
balconies, carriages, and other places
of security. They are a trifie happy,
and have not been married to their first
love. They cannot sew overwell, but
they have a positively maddening way
of leaning over the backs of chairs
while they are asking their husbands if
they shall wear blue or pink ribbons.
They have no mother living. They care
little for going into society. They
never desire to obtain the good wishes
of other men, save when their hus-
bands interest is to that effect. They
are not painfully clever musicians, but
they know some sweet, simple airs, and
sing those at evening by the open win
dow. They are liable to be defrauded
by the servants, and are imposed upon
by tradespeople. They regard their
husbands AS supreme arbiters in all
matters. They would stay as they are
or fly to New Zealand with him, as b B
desired. .E. 'r- ~ Cd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
Lying.

Although the devil be the father of
lies, he seems, like other great inven-
torss to have lost much of his reputation
by the continual improvements that
have been made upon him.-Sacift
The most intangible, and therefore
the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth.
This is the peculiar device of " con-
scientious" detractor.- Washington HI
Ston.
No lie you can speak or act, but it
will come, after longer or shorter cal
culation, like a bill drawn on natures
reality, and be presented there for pay
ment-with the answer No Effects
Carlyle.
Habitual liars invent faIsehoods not
to gain any end or even to deceive their
hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is
partly practice and partly habit. It re-
quires an effort in them to speak the
truth.--HdzLttt.
Lying is disgraceful vice, and one
that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful
colors, when he says that it is Clifford
| ing testimony that one despises God,
| and then fears men," 1t is not possible
more happily to describe its horrible,
| disgusting, and abandoned nature foI
can we imagine anything more vile than
| TO be towards with regard to men, and
brave with regard to God MOntafg7e.
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand
| but it has WINGS and can fly far and
w.de.- WarbUTtol.
The gain of lying is nothing else but
not to be trusted of any, nor to be be
| lieved when we say the truth.-iSiT
| Waller Raleigh.
After a tongue has once got the knack
| of lying, it is not to be imagined how
impossible, almost, it is to reclaim it.
Whence it comes to pass, that we see
some men, who are otherwise very hon
! est, so subject to this vice. MontaiQ11e.
When thou art obliged to speak, be
sure to speak the truth for equivoca-
ton is halfway to lying, and lying is
] the whole way to hell WjILia81 Penn.
He who has not a good memory should
never take upon him the trade Of lying.
MoRtaigne.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given
! to lying l-ShdEspeGre.
He who tells lie is not sensible how
great a task he undertakes for he must
| be forced to invent twenty more tc
maintain one.-Pope.
Truth is always consistent with it.
self, and needs nothing to help it out
it is always near at hand, sits upon ou1
lips, and is ready to drop out before we
are aware a lie is troublesome. and
sets a mans invention upon the rack
and one trick needs a great many more
to make it good. It is like building
! upon false foundation, which continu,
ally stands in need of props to. shore il
| up, and proves at last more chargeabls
than to have raised substantial build.
ing at first upon true and solid foun
L a a M
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-20
The Career of a Notable swindIer.

The death by his own hand of Lord
Gordon.G Gordon ends not unity the
career of one of the most remarkable
scoundrels of the age. What name
and station were truly his there is now
no chance of discovering. He appeared
first in New York, rot quite three years
ago, under the title Of Lord George
Gordon, and lived at the Metropolitan
hotel in a sumptuous style in accord
with his rank attended by valet and
private secretary, and served with meals
In his room on plate adorned with armo-
rial bearings. It was at the time when
general interest was felt IN the romantic
life and fate of the lost carl of Aber-
deem, whose family name he bore, and
the story was circulated that the earl
had not been drowned, but had appear
ed in the person of Lord Gordon. This
idle tale, however, is one that he was
not responsible for. He appeared as the
representative of English and continen-
tai shareholders IN the Erie railway,
and laid his plans for no petty con-
quests. He invited Horace Greeley
and Col. Thomas A. Scott to meet each
other at dinner with him, his private
secretary representing to each that Lord
Gordon was the particular friend of the
other. After dinner, over the wine, he
preached q daring scheme of railway
enterprise which slmost captured the
faith and assent of his guests. Col.
Scott, however, took the matter home
to think of. With the shrewd Jay
| Gould he was Immediately successful,
and he gained also the cont dence of
| other leading capitalists, including the
| late Horace F. Clark, from whom he
! obtained large advances on the pretext of
| desiripgth settle his Scotch tenRntry on
| lands in Minnesota Gould, also, was
| induced to put into his hands stocks
and money amounting to half million
! of dollars. He was arrested as a
swindler, before getting off with his
booty, slipped his bail and went to
! Manitoba. The attempt of two detec-
| tives from st. Paul to kidnap him there,
and their consequent imprisonment by
! the Manitoban authorities, gave rise to
long diplomatic correspondence be-
] tween the governments of the Domin-
ion and the United States, and a recent
| sequel in the villainous attack on the
Manitoban district attorney IN st. Paul.
Since his arrival in Manitoba, Lord
/ Gordon's schemes of colonization have
been the wonder of the inhabitants.
Lately he had instructed firm of Win
nipeg lawyers to sue those Minneso-
tans who shared in his illegal arrest,
which as, of course, a mere black-
mailing dodge, Gordon had an aristo-
cratic bearing, and affected familiarity
with the British nobility he possessed
an intelligence, Yigor and ingenuity that
would have given him success in an
honorable life.