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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Danberries.

A ADANBURY young lady whose father
Is at the head of gang of stone-cutters,
explained to a visitor that he was a
geologist.
ORANGES are so plenty now that the
some valuable bone is lacking in public
spirit.
A DANRURY man having proudly pro-
claimed in the presence of his little boy
that his wife was no gadder, the young
man was observed to involuntarily rub
his back, but he said nothing.
ON these rosy spring mornings man
instinctively bounds from his couch at
the first flush of day, and goes forth to
inbale the fresh balmy air, leaving his
wife at the stove to thaw out the dish
cloth.
Nor many men forget the wash-days
of their boyhood, when fond mother
with parboiled and soapy fingers but
toned their collars for them. It's impress
sion upon the heart and nose is rarely
efaced.
A DANBURY man who recently lost
his wife was asked by friend, several
days after, If she did not die suddenly.
Indeed she did," he explained with
much feeling; "why, only a week afore
there was man around here that want.
ed to insure her, but I never. dreamed
of anything happening. And" he
added, apologetically, 81 don't believe
anybody would have thought it to look
at her." - = = ~ - -
A LADY who was in town, Saturday
with spring hat on her head, wa.
observed in one of the stores to be bare
headed, and clerk called her attention
to the fact. She incredulously put hel
hand up to her head and found that ths
hat was surely gone. The store foo
was carefully searched, but withou
success. The lady then went out al
the street, and almost the first obiec
she perceived was the lost hat lying il
the gutter. It had blown from he
head as she was getting out of her car
riage.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Fire.

According to Pliny, fire was long
time unknown to some of the ancient
Egyptians, and when a celebrated as
tronomer showed it to them, they were
absolutely in raptures The Persians.
Phsnicians, Greeks and several other
nations acknowledged that their ances-
tors were without the use of fire, and
the Chinese confess the same of their
progenitors. Pompanion, Mola, Plu-
tarch, and other ancient writer's speak
of nations which, at the time when they
wrote, knew not the use of fire, or had
just learned it. Facts of the same kind
are also attested by modern nations.
Tho inhabitants of the Marian Islands,
which were discovered in 1861, had no
idea of fire. Never was astonishment
greater than theirs when they saw it on
the desert in one of their islands. At
first they believed it was some kind of
animal that fixed to and fed upon the
wood
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Don't Spoil a Sneexe.

The Springfield Mass. Republican,
says One may be pardoned for sneez-
ing under any circumstances, in view
of the experience of q woman from
this city in Westfeld, recently. Being
in company, and attempting to sup
press sneeze, she felt queer sensa-
ton in the left side of her face, which
soon began swelling and drawing out
of shape. A physician was called, but
by the time he arrived her mouth and
the left side of her face had become
drawn up, disfguring her so. that her
most intimate friends could scarcely
recognize her features, while she found
it impossible to close her left eye. The
physicians say it is kind of paralysis,
caused by the great effort she made in
suppressing the sneeze, and give but
faint hopes that her features VIII ever
resume their natural appearance. She
is now in this city seeking medical
advice
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
A Simple Disinfectant.

One pound of green copperas, costing
seven cents, dissolved in one quart of
water, and poured down o water closet,
will effectually concentrate and destroy
the foulest smells. On board ships and
steamboats,, about hotels, and other
public places, there is nothing SO nice
to purify the air. Simple green cop
peras, dissolved in anything under the
bed, will render an hospital, or other
places for the sick, free from unpleas-
ant smells. In fish markets, slaughter
houses, sinks, and wherever there are
offensive gases, dissolve copperas and
sprinkle it about, and in a few days the
smell will all pass away. If cat, rat,
or mouse dies about the house, and
sends forth an offensive gas, place some
dissolved copperas in an open vessel
near the place where the nuisance is,
and it will purify the atmosphere.
Then, keep all clean.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
A Misunderstanding.

A case of misunderstanding occurred
up in the country last week. Riding
up to hotel in Courtiand county, we
saw the big, smart landlord, with his
boys, smoking short pipes on the bal
cony, while his wife was sweeping aroud
the chairs.
"Hello Do you keep this hotel ?"
"No, sir, reckon not; this tavern
keeps me-"
81 mean are you master here?"
Waal, sometimes I am (poking at
the old lady's broom, but guess the
boys an I run the stable; take your
horse ?"
"Got any thing to drink around
here?"
"Yes; every thing drinks around
here"
"Any ales?"
"Touch of the rheumatic myself I;
folks generally healthy, though"
"I mean have you any porter ?'
Yes Johns our porter. Hold his
hoss, John"
CT mean any porter to drink"
Porter to drink? Why, John can
drink, an if he can't drink enough, I
kin whip right smart O. ticker myself. !"
Pshaw stupid have got to come
down and see myself?"
"You kin come down, Shaw Stupid,
and see yourself, eff you want to there's
good looking-glass in the bar-room." "
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Comb Manufacture.

One of the greatest comb manufac-
tories in the world is in Aberdeen, Scot
land. In this establishment there are
an immense number of furnaces for
preparing horns aud tortoise-shells for
the combs, and between one and two
hundred iron screw presses are con-
stantly employed in stamping them.
Steam-power is employed to cut the
combs, the operation being performed
by this means with great efficiency.
The coarse combs are stamped or cut
out, two. being cut in a place at one
time by ingenious machinery. The fine
dressing combs and all small tooth
combs are cut by fine circular saws,
some so fine as to cut forty teeth in the
space of one inch, and they revolve
thousands of times IN q minute. There
are about two thousand varieties of
combs made, and the aggregate num-
ber produced, of all these different
sorts of combs, is about nine millions
annually. The annual consumption of
OK horns, hoofs, tortoise-shen and buff
falo horn, is, of course, prodigious !;
even the waste, consisting of horn
shavings and parings3 of hoofs, amounts
to hundreds of tons in year, and this
becomes valuable material in the man
ufacture of prussiate of potash, etc.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
A Misused Title.

: The title of Esquire with us frequent
ly abbreviated to Squire) originated in
chivalric times, when SONS of gentle
men, from the age of seven years, were
brought up in the castles of superior
lords-which was an inestimable advant-
age to the poorer nobility, who could
not otherwise have given their children
the accomplishments of their station
From seven to fourteen, these boys
were called pages, or Wallets at four
teen, they bore the name of esquire.
They were instructed in the manage
ment of arms, in the art of horseman-
ship, in exercises of strength and acti-
witty, 80 as to fit them for tournament
and battle, and the milder glories of
chivalrous gallantry. Long after the
decline of chivalry the word was only
used in limited sense, for the sons and
peers of knights, or such as obtained
the title by creation or some other legal
means. Blackstone defines esquire to-
be all who bear Office of trust under the,
crown, and who are styled esquires by
the king in their commissions and sp-
pointment ; and being once honored by
the king with the title of esquire, they,
and only they, have right to that dis
tinction for life.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Sore Ewes.

A prominent oculist says that conta-
gious Egyptian or granular infiamma-
ton of the eyes is spreading rapidly
throughout the country, and adds "I
have in many, and may say in tho ma
iority of cases. been able to trace the
disease to the use of the so-called roll
ing towels. Such towels are generally
found in our country hotels and the
sleeping apartments of the working
classes, and, being thus used by nearly
everyone, are made the carriers of one
of the most dangerous, and, as regard
its symptoms, most troublesome dis
ease to the eye. therefore would
strongly recommend that the use of the
rolling towel be abolished, for thereby
we will discard one of the great instru-
ments for the spread of such danger
GUS disease of the eye, by which thou
sands of workingmen are annually de-
prived of their means of support.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Drunkenness a Disease.

DIR. Congdon, Superintendent of the
New York State 1nebriate Asylum, treats
drunkenness as disease. He says that
in the incipiency of intemperance men
are free moral agents, morally account
able, but stage is reached in which
the conscience and will power are rem
dered inactive-the tissues of the brain
become so thoroughly diseased that it
ceases to perform its functions. After
the physician has brought the patient
out of the first paroxysm of the disease,
physical reconstruction goes on, and as
the bodily strength increases, the facul-
ties approach their normal condition,
and conscience and will begin to assume
control. The majority of the patients
are professional men, including lawyers,
physicians and clergymen.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
rus = .he season when the industri-

THIS is the season when the industri-
GUS housewife prepares for new car
pet for the back kitchen, and the unsus-
picious husband misses his dark green
pants and light blue vest and catches
his feet into endless wooden lines, or
loses his balance on large, black coils
which he comes Unexpectedly upon in
the dark. And during tho coming
month he will inhale variety of chemi-
cal steam, while blue fingers will warm
his potatoes, yellow fingers draw his tea,
and red fingers cut his bread. And at
the end of that time little old woman
in black bombaxipe dress, and with
snuff on her nose, Suddenly appears, and
is Immediately hurried into another
room by his wife, where both remain
closeted in the greatest secrecy. And
later still he is further mystified by
short boy in heavy shoes, with frcckled
face, and unpleasantly polished jacket
sleeves, who turns up at unexpected
times, to the great agitation OF the in
dustrious housewife, who is heard to
gasp, What? More color ?" as she
hurries him into another room. and
from sight Nesos.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Royal Incomes.

The following is the list of royal IN
comes given in the German Dahheim
Kalender for 1874 The Emperor of
Russia, $3.50, 900 thalers the Sultan
of Turkey 5000, 900 thalers the EN-
peror of Austria, $500, 900; the Emperor
of Germany, Gas King of Prussia) 4, ,5OO,-
600; the King of Italy, $500, 900 tina
lers the Queen of England, $500, 600
thalers. In proportion to the national
income of these countries, the Queen of
England receives the lowest civil list
namely, 7-1Oths per cent; the Sultan
receives the highest, II per cent. The
second chamber of Saxony has fixed
$50, 600 thalers the civil list of King AL
bert. A thaler is equal to about seven
ty cents of United States money.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Useful Hints for the Home Circle.

To clean Drowned porcelain kettle,
boil peeled potatoes in it. The porce-
lain will be rendered nearly as white as
when new.
Consumptives, and others in feeble
health, we learn have been greatly ben
Gifted by drinking half tumblerful of
warm blood twice a day. At the last
accounts dozen persons were daily
visiting the slaughter-house near Bos-
ton for the purpose stated. One person
asserts that he has gained ten pounds
in ten weeks. Another, thought to be a
confirmed consumptive, says he is now
strong enough to ''knock down a bull
lock p and lady, suffering from para
lysis for six years, is improving beyond
her most sanguine hopes. s,..
A hot shovel held over vanished fur
niture will take out white spots.
Save your suds for garpen plants, or
for garden yards, when sandy.
If your fat-irons are rough, rub them
with fine salt, and it will make them
smooth.
Wood ashes and common salt made
compact with water, viii stop the cracks
of a stove, and prevent the smoke from
escaping.
A gallon of strong lye put into bar
rel of hard water viii make it as soft
as rain water.
If you are buying carpets for dura-
blllty, choose small figures.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Skin Grating.

DIR. Bells method of skin grating, as
performed in numerous cases at the
Royal Infrmary, Edinburgh, has
proved very successful In procuring
portions of skin for this purpose he
takes them from some sound portion of
the patients body, preferably from the
arm. A piece of skin is pinched up by
q pair of common catch-forceps; and
cut off to the required size with pair
of scissors. This piece is divided into
smaller pieces about the size of grain
of rice, and is planted among the gran
ulations of the ulcer by means of a
probe, one small piece being sufficient
for about q square inch Of surface.
Over each of the gratis is laid gutta-
percha tissue, half a square inch in size,
previously dipped in some antiseptic
solution. The ulcer is then covered by
two layers of similar pieces of gutta-
percha tissue, placed on each other in
an imbricated manner, and over these
a dressing of antiseptic gauze and q
bandage /; this dressing is not removed
for two or three days, when it is re-
placed as at first. To insure success,
before grating the ulcers should be
free from fetor, and the dressing
changed under spray. ss6&
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
PrslOr Juggling.


THE CABLE.-Take a piece of tarred
cable about fifteen inches in length, cut
it carefully In two with sharp knife,
and then try to chew the ends together.
You can try as long as you like.
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The MAGIC EGGs.-Put twelve fresh
eggs carefully into green worsted bag.
Swing the bag rapidly about your head,
hitting it each time against the door
post. Then ask the company If they
will have them boiled, scrambled, or
fried. Ii Will make no oinerence wnicn
they cnoose'
The MAGIC Sr1oK.-To do this trick
properly you will need pearl handled
knife and stout hard wood stick, some
two inches in length. Sharpen the two
ends of the stick and then try to crush
il endways. either between your hands
or by sitting on it. This, to your
astonishment. YOU will find it impossible
to do.
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LIE young peopte ts wiz ,nna. mmu 'so 1e;,;ur ~;
somrce Of on,nsement Thev are ail
suscent;ble Of ernlanat;on mon naturaT
nr;ncinles and no narent can consis-
tantin oh;act to than On tha oronnd
that 4 there ia sutb;n' wrong ahouf 'em. "
These The tricks are not onIv bealthlv but
nerfectIv sure in their results.
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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
Affecting Romance.

A young gentleman living near Terre
Haute felt that life had no charms if q
young lady of whom he thought great
deal didn't consent to marry him. She
didn't, and he Immediately went West.
and employed a sympathetic friend to
write to her saying that he was dead,
and begging her as his parting request
to stop and drop a weed or flower or a
tear upon his lonesome grave if she hap
pened to be passing in that direction.
Mark the parcticality of the modern
young lady No thrill of anguish desc
lated her soul she calmly wrote back
to the friend that if he had any consid-
Grafton for her feelings to send her the
dear departed's watch and chain and
money. The things were sent and their
owner speedily followed to observe the
effect of his beau stratagem. Alas he
met her walking with another, and wear
ing all his jewelry. Appalled, by this
sudden apparition OF a dead man, An
other fled, but the young lady had
sharper eyes for her unappreciated
suitor. All's well that ends we'll she
was SO displeased with Another for run
ming away in terror, that now she is
about to marry the ghost.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
rHE nEAooN.s corvkRsron.
BIZ WILL N. cARLzToS.


Deacon Hodge must walk tonight;
He has no time to wait or daily;
He is expected early and bright,
By the widow across the valley.
Old enough say people, is he,
Long ago to have left such folly;
But as wise cage is she,
And as maiden bright and jolly,
Gay and beaming, good and kind,
Laden with forty winters only.
She is light to his gloomy mind,
Making his downward steps less lonely.
Each in the same opinions clad,
Each the same good future seeing,
They in the main have seldom had
Even the sport Of disagreeing.
But as the Deacon wends his way
Under the sky's fast dark,ning azure,
He is pondering Of the day
When he incurred her first displeasure.
Talking concerning life and death,
And the Importance of conversion,
She was telling of her great faith
In the ordinance Of immersion
And, as men in an evil hour
Oft will do, he feebly doubted
But her argumentative power
Soon beheld him completely routed.
Till he asserted, if folks desire.
Such baptism, they might receive 1t;
But for it's ever being required,
Hewasnt fool enough to believe It.
Then the widow had bridled, and said,
TIL he had known such saving leayen,
She wouldn't take it upon her head
To marry the best man out of heaven
So the Deacon, as he walks on
Grieves that such ideas have got her;
For he has, in the long years gone,
Kept his head above the water;
And he feels that the rich reward
OF this widow and her caressing,
For a sacrifice TO the Lord,
Hardly would merit heavenly blessing.
But, most stubborn Of all, his will
Mems most troublesome attendant
Bids him cling to his old creed still,
Lest the widow get the ascendant.
SO he sums his conclusion Of it.
After the whole affair rehearsiDg,
Widow or not, I'll ne'er submit
To her doctrines nor her immersing."
Now from bridge, where lazily flows
Water full six feet below him,
Gone is q plank, and down he goes,
And for moment the waves DER flow him.
But 10 the widow upon the shore,
Reaches good stout stick unto himi
And he, in minutes time or more,
Lands, with the cold chills creeping through hir
Quick she led his unto her house,
Dried him by every good exertion,
And then remarked to him, sly mouse,
That he a convert to Immersion.
Vain his objections-vain each doubt;
Vainly he argued, mixed and changed It;
No odds how it came about,
She insisted. the Lord arranged IL.
And full many a marital draught,
Bitter and sweet, the Deacon drank up,
Ere he discovered that, creature Of craft,
She was the one who pulled the plank up
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11

SO great that I had time to notice all
this. Would it hurt me much when /
struck !? Would it kill me outright?
And that was all
When came to, found myself in
well-remembered room. Bessie, my
Bessie now, hung tenderly over me,
waiting for the light of recognition to
appear in my fevered eye.
All was soon told. The boiler must
have burst the very instant I struck.
Hardness was killed by flying piece
of machinery the would-be- murderer
had exchanged places with his victim,
for I, strange as it may seem, was dug
out of the ruins alive, and got off with
only broken arm God forgive him.
Bessie insists that if it hadn't been
for the accident, / should never have
"spoken out" So, after all, it was a
blessing in disguise.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11
YNked with aCalf.

A correspondent of neighboring
journal tells of county clerk in a rural
town who had a pet calf which he was
training mp in the ways of the OK. The
calf walked around very peaceably un-
der one end of the yoke while Mr.. Clerk
held up the other end, but in an unfor-
tunate moment the man conceived the
idea of putting his own neck in the
yoke, to let the calf see how it would
work with partner. This frightened
the calf, and elevating his tail, he struck
Clerk went along with his head down,
and his plug hat in his hand. strain
out at the top of his voice, Here !
here Confound It'll Somebody head
us off |" =
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11

BITTERs.- boneset, wild cherry
bark and poplar bark make an infu-
sion by adding quart of warm water
let it cool anu drink when thirsty. This
is a certain cure for fever and ague. I
received it frem an Indian, and found it
to be the master of ague.-H. c. In
Country Gentleman,
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11

The patentee of the punch now used
by the passenger railroad companies
makes over $50, 600 per annum he re-
ceives royalty of twenty cents q day
for each punch ip use. q =
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11

For spring costumes, round waists
with tight sleeves will be the rule.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-04-11

o4iO AooAJs
All the salary was spent--was intend
ed to be spent-and the only question
was whether it should be put in the
body or on the body. The habit of ax-
travagance was there, and all the thrift
and economy which Mrs. Farmer knew,
was to save money for new dresses.
She and Mrs. Bradley were on init
mate terms with each other, and, as
may be readily supposed, the subject
of dress was frequently discussed.
A few days after the conversation of
Mrs. Bradley with her mother, her
neighbor was making a call" Mrs.
Farmer could talk of nothing but dress.
It was the study of her life-what she
lived for-what she most hoped for in
the future. As usual, the conversation
Immediately degenerated into dress-it
was all Mrs. Farmer knew.
How do you like my new raw silk?"
asked she, after several adroit passes,
in order to introduce this matter.
eft is very pretty, indeed. You come
out in a new dress almost every Sunday,
Ellen" replied Mrs. Bradley.
CT wish could"
"I wonder how many nice dresses
you have in your wardrobe ?"
L udNc Ouly OhC eh&o 10 he " WS6i,
replied Mrs. Farmer, indifferently.
"Only one |"
"That is fit to wear anywhere"
"You have at least three silks"
Gall old ld-fsshioned-made last fall
and all out of date. I tried to make
John give me a berage, but he would
not.
''I am sure if had your dresses, I
should think were Princess."
Pshaw If my husband don't give
me another next week, I shan't go to
church but once month"
eff 1 had your dresses, Ellen, I
should not think of another, for year,
at least"
.'Why don't you dress better, SarahP"
"I can't afford to do so."
"Pooh II
"My mother thinks I dress well
enough"