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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
GEOLOGICAL FACT.

The excavation of tho State House
grounds brings out clearly some of the
operations of nature which are of in
terest to geologists. In the excava-
ton conclusive evidence is found that
the river once flowed where the State
House will stand, and that it changed
its course and came back three times
at least. The evidence is preserved in
the earth itself. After forest had
grown up, the trees being of consider
able size, the river brought in sand
and gravel, filling up about the trees
to the depth of two or three feet.
Then, after a long period. another
forest grew up, tho river again sur
rounded the trees with sand to the
depth of two or three feet, the trees
disappeared and the holes left were
filled up with soil. The workmen are
now using the sand in preparing the
foundation of the State House, and as
they take the sand and gravel away
the soil which filled the holes left by
the trees is left standing, an exact re-
production of the stumps of the trees,
and so natural is the representation
that it is difficult TO believe that they
are the models in mud instead of real
wooden stumps.-Indianapo Jour-
nal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
THE ICE BRIDGE AT NIAGARA.

For some days past an unusually
large quantity of ice for so early in the
season has been passing over the falls.
The mill machinery both above and
below the falls has been greatly inter-
fered with, some of the races aud
wheels being completely blocked up.
The great jam eliminated on Satur-
day night and Sunday last in the form
alton of the finest ice bridge just be-
low the great cataract that has been
seen for many years. The ice is no
doubt in many places forty to fifty
feet deep. The jam is SO complete be-
low the falls. that farther down the
river the water on Monday was OBJ
seaved to be some eight or nine feet
below the ordinary level. On the af
ternoon of Saturday last the ice had
jammed to auch an extent at the head
of Goat Island that there was not q
particle of water running between
Goat Island and the first of the Three
Sisters, place where there is usually
q very swift, deep current. A party of
sight-seers walked along the bed of
the river at this island, up the head of
Goat Island. If the ice above had
given way just at this time the party
might have gone dashing among the
mountains of ice into the roaring
abyss q short distance below. The ice
scenery on Goat Island is very beauti-
full. The trees near the Horseshoe fall
are bending and breaking under their
loads of crystal. The ice mounds in
front Of the American fall are alreany
nearly their usual height, while every
sprig and bramble in the southweste
ly part OF Prospect park is dropping
with its icy burden. 1t is quite unu.
sual for the ice scenery to be SO per.
feet here at this season of the year
and it is particularly Observable JUS
now, as the early part of the wintel
was 80 mild.-[Toronto Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
HE WANTED A CERTlFICATE.


They had a quarrel Sunday evening
He got mad and swore he'd leave her.
Then she got vexed and told him he
could do as he pleased. He left. The
next night he came around again. He
asked to see her alone. She readily
complied. She was all of trem0r.
Her heart went out to him in a gush
of sympathetic love. She stood ready
to throw both her arms around his
neck and cry out her JOY. There was
not much color in his face and his
voice was husky when he said.
L have been with you six months,
Matilda, and tried all that time to do
what was right He paused an in
slant to recover the voice which was
faltering rapidly, while her trembling
increased. Il know that l have got
considerable temper, and that do not
control it always as 1 ought. But I
have tried to be faithful TO you, tried
to do everything that 1 thought would
tend to make you happy. And feeling
.his I have called te-night to see il
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

you'd give me q sort Of testimonial to
this effect, 80 that could show it to
any other young lady might want to
60 with. 1t might help me.
He looked at her anxiously. All
the color left her face In flash. She
made great effort to swallow some.
thing which threatened to suffocate
her. Then she spoke:
You get out of this house as quick
as you can, you miserable whelp, or
nay father shall kick you out
He didn't toy with time. He left
without the testimonial.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
DIPHTHERIA AN ID TREATMENT.

Diphtheria is disease which springs
from the growth of real fungus on
some of the mucous surfaces of the
system, more generally of the throat.
1t may be spread by contact of the
mucous surfaces of q healthy person,
as in kissing, and is to a limited de-
gree epidemic. From the local parts
affected it spreads to the whole body,
affecting the muscular and nervous
systems, vitiating the lymph and nu-
TRENT fluids, and producing paralysis.
AS soon as the bacterium or fungue
appears in white patches on the throat.
it should no more be neglected than q
bleeding cash or broken arm, and
there is almost as little need of fatal
termination of one incident as of the
other. 1t has been found by actual
experiment, both in and out of tho hu
man system, that bacteriam is killed
by several drugs, the safest and most
certain of which is chlorine water, di-
luted with the addition of from two
or four times the volume of water.
This wash is harmless even when
swallowed, and is pretty certain to ar
rest the disease.
The great cyclop@dia of Ziemessen,
on the practice of medicine, gives the
highest place to this method of treat
ment. To keep the patient we'll housed
and warm, with additional flannel
clothing if necessary, and to keep the
system we'll nourished and the bowels
open are matters of nursing often ne
elected; but, with care in these res
poets and early applications of the
remedies above suggested d, there is no
need of the disease producing fatal
termination, Or even the debilitating
illness and painful cauterizations
which 60 together in its later stages.
AS to the origin of diphtheria. the
weight Of testimony is that it belongs
to the class of filth diseases, but fur
ther than that it's source is not clear.
Families which would be scandalized
at the suggestion of untidiness are At
tackled, while others of filthy sur
roundings escape. This simply shows
that our sense Of cleanliness needs cul-
tivation, SO that we may discriminate
between what Is offensive to our false
ly educated tastes. The farmers wife
to whom the closed and carefully
dusted parlOr or the preternaturally
scrubbed floor are the essentials of
neatness, may endure the proximity
of a sour swamp or of the kitchen
cesspool for years without taking Of
fense. To many careful and labori-
Gus housekeeper, q chance cobweb or
the little children's sitter of few
hours play will outrank in heinous'
ness a defective drain for the cellar or
a badly conducted privy.-Springield
(Mass.) Republican,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
VERY LIVELY CONNECTICUT
CIDER.

A Norwich man put up twelve bot
ties of cider against the no-license
law this season, and when he went
down cellar to get bottle for friend
the other night he found that five OF
them had burst. He picked up q
sound one, and returned above stairs
He held the bottle at an angle of 621a
degrees north latitude, between his
knees, and cut the wires that girt the
cork. There was . flash and report.
the cork struck the northern brink of
his wife's left ear, while the entire
pint of cider, making nearly as good
time as the cork, struck the expectant
friend full in the mouth. Never hav-
ing accustomed himself to drinking
cider in this way, that is, on the fly,
he reminded the detected possessor OF
the bottle that he had been able to get
only smell of the liquor, and advised
HIM to open another bottle. The re-
quest was complied with, and tho host
brought up another bottle, and in Or
der to avoid accidents and also save
the cider, he turned the neck of the
bottle into q pitcher before he cut the
wires. Then he severed the cords in
the presence of small but highly ap-
preclative and attentive audience.
The second maneuver, a. far as getting
the cider out of the bottle and into the
pitcher was concerned, was complete
success, but the idea that it might re-
fuse to stay there does not appear to
have struck him half 80 fiercely as did
the cider when, with unimpaired agil-
ity and strength, it shot forth and
raked him from the bottom button Of
his vest to the back part of his hair.
About thimbleful Of the liquid re-
mained in the bottom of the pitcher,
and this was drank in solemn silence
by tho guest, who pronounced it to be
exceedingly good, but nervousIy,
mustered something about setting the
children a bad example of extrava-
gance and waste when the opening of
third bottle was suggested.-Nor-
wich (Conn.) Bulletin.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
Medical Notice.
To The Afflicted.
DR.. JOHN GoUcHER


for forty years, both Private
and Hospital, is prepared
to render satisfaction
in the different
varieties.
Among the diseases treated have
been many miraculous cures OF the
two true species of Cancsr-the Hard
and the soft or the Scirrus or Chron-
ic Cancer, characterized by predom-
nance of fibrous tissue, and but few
Acute Soft Cancer, characterized by
an excess of Cancerous cells.
Also, the different varieties OF
GRAVEL, and disease of the Kidneys
and Urinary Organs. Tumors, Rheu-
sm-Infammatory and Chronic
Fistula in Ano, PrOlapsus of the
Phincture. Ami and Rectum. Piles,
Tape Worms, Seat or Pin Worms, In
testinal Worms, Hip Disease, Goiter,
Enlarged Glands, Scrofula, and all
Impurities Of the Blood.
CATARRH-thatm most insidions of
all diseases, which is destroying its
tens of thousands annually-Invaria-
bly, cured. Also, SCALD HEAD, and
the different diseases of the Skin.
MALES,
Arising from Uterine Derangements,
Enlargement, Inflammation, Uicera-
tion, Tumor, Polypus, and all their
sympathetic accompaniments, on the
latest scientific principles, without the
use of the knife or caustics, but by
constitutional treatment and local alb
sorbents, which we believe to be the
true method of cure, If timely and
properly applied.
CALCUoUs CONCRETIONs OF THE KID
NEYs AND BLADDER.
We have in our possession several
varieties of Gravel from different in
dividuals in this locality, which we
have removed through the natural
urinary passage.
The Doctor is a graduate in the Eye
and Ear Infirmary of New York City.
and has had a large and successful
practice in that department. He abb
serbs the differant varieties of Cata-
ract while they remain soft, and re-
moves films and specks from the eye
without the use of the knife.
The Doctor is q graduate Of several
of the leading schools of his profess
sion, the Diplomas of which are hang
ing up in his Office for everybody to
read and investigate.
The Doctor can be consulted at his
Office, No. 1196, Euclid Avenue, Cup
stairs,) Cleveland, ..
REsIDENCE-7OSW Wilson Avenue.
OFFICE HOURS-From 10 A. NJ.
to II NJ; and from to P. M.
The Doctor will leave his Cleveland
Office for Ravenna, at 1.45 P. M. every
Saturday, returning to Cleveland at
10 A. NJ. the following Monday,
JOHN GOUCHER, NJ. D.
l@Patients will be visited at their
homes, when desired.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
ANOTHER LINCOLN ANECDoTE.

Lincoln, during his term of Office,
used to secure the support in Con.
gress of many Senators and Represen-
tatives by appearing to defer to their
superior knowledge of the fitness of
candidates for place. He had no
choice. Would the Congressman be
so good as to name q suitable man ?
OF course, he was named with enthu-
siasm; aud the vicious system by
which, latterly, Congressman were
the real appointing power, and the
Executive simply q register, undoubt-
edly was strengthened by this prac-
tice. It is a melancholy reflection that
the good Presidents anxieties were
thus increased, and that he was oblig-
ed to secure from members Of his
own party, by these artifices, the cup
port to which he was juetly entitled,
On one occasion, when rival Congress.
men could not agree, and rival inte.
rests worried the good old man be.
yond endurance, delegation in favor
of a certain applicants claims waited
upon him with great solemnity. The
spokesman, person of weight and in
fluence, having in mind the condition
of the country-for it was just aftel
the second battle of Bull Run-begau
somewhere down the ages aud traced
the course of civil liberty up to thai
time, showing how the President now
bore upon his shoulders the hopes ol
mankind. Sometimes he (the speak.
ers) feared that the weight would be
too much for the President. Lincoln,
impatiently interrupting the orator.
said: oh, can stand all that. IT.
this confounded Syracuse Post Office
that's worrying the life out of me-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

The public schools of the United
States require $2.O2 from each inhabi-
tant for their support, and military
purposes $1.3O. In other countries
these two items of expenditure are az
follows: Prussia, 81 cents and $3.50 ;
Austria, "a and $1.39; France, % and
$3.50; Italy 13 and 81 81; England and
Wales, 66 and $3.50; Switzerland, SO
and $l.OO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
THERE are 10000 clergymen and

THERE are 10000 clergymen and
preachers of all denominations, In the
United States, and fifty-one of these
were arrested last year for criminal
of5enses. twenty-five were convicted
of offenses of various grades against
women. six of drunkenness, four Of
theft, two of poisoning. two Of con.
spiracy, two of forgery and one each
of murder, riotous conduct, desertion,
suicide, embezzlement and Illicit dis
tilling and slander.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
wHYARE SO MANY THINGS 50

WHY ARE SO MANY THINGS so.
Why is it right to steal from the
Government
Why is it wrong to kill the man who
says he told you SOP
Why people always discussEuropean
politics a. though they understood
them?
Why a man should always get mad
if you frankly and for his own good
tell him he is making an ass Of him
self?
Why is it so hard to find q man
when you want to borrow money from
him2
Why 10 it SO hard to borrow the
money after you have found him2
Why a man always wishes he had
chosen some other profession2
Why man is always going to take
q vacation next summer?'
Why a man thinks every year that
he won't be as big q fool this year as
he was last7
And why he is, though, all the
same?
Why a man never tries to beat
down the price of q railroad ticket?
Why everybody affects profound
knowledge of growing crops and
crop prospects7
Why men always lie about the size
of the fish they catch and the number
of ducks they shoot2
What girl even sees in great sell
fish decietful hulking animal of mar
to marry him for, any how?
Why it takes five grown people te
take one sleeping infant to the circus
to 'see the animals = Burlington
Hawk Eye.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

AN old colored preacher in Atlanta,
Ga, was lecturing youth Of his fold
about the sin OF dancing, when the
latter protested that the Bible plainly
said There 3 time TO dance.' yes,
dar am time to dance,' said the dark
divine: 'and it's when q boy gets a
whippin' for gwine to ball.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

Never mind, younker,' assured
John, i've been here afore-some
years afOre-but-
But what will never be known; for
just then the sled, of its own accord,
started down hill, and even John him
self has not been able to recall what
he was about to observe. The sur.
prise at the sled's unexpected moye-
ment was general.
'Look outP yelled the boy.
'Oh, John + sreamed Mrs. S.
whoa, there = yelled John.
But the sled wouldn't whoa. 1t
seemed to have set off down that hill
to beat its best time. John had chance
only to clutch hold Of both sides and
hold his breath for fear the wind
would blow of the top of his head.
The only thought he had time to fos-
ter was that the boy must have greas-
ed the sled's runners as q practical
joke. And if this was coasting, he had
never coasted, if his recollection serv-
ed him right.
Two-thirds way down the hill the
sled struck an ice hummock, and i'm
msdiately his course was changed to
a parabolic curve.
Whackl bang crash clinkI
The bring up was awfully sudden
and uncertain. Sanscript and the sled
disappeared as abruptly as q shooting
star. The latter lay shivered to atoms
against lamp-post, and Sanscript lay
shivering in the grocery just opposite.
When the off-runner of the sled col.
lided with the lamp-post and stopped
the vehicle, Sanscript rose like cir
cus-leaper and went right on turning
twenty somersaults to the second. He
went through the grocery window a.
the circus-leaper goes through a pa
per hoop. Tho grocer appeared soon
after and compromised upon John
paying the following bill:
Window sash. Observation-Disclosures $IO W
Crushed cheese. se................1 IL w
HOgshead mOlasses. .......... AZ ~
Christmas goods. L 10
Total. .$7l Sc
Then the boy came in with q bill of
SIS for his sled, to say nothing of the
loss of . suit of clothes, surgeons
bill for plasteriag suDdry skinned sur
faces, and the bill of hackman who
conveyed the fainting wife home. In
-. ~E 4nkk k4 rt.k
Sanscript reckoned it up and discov-
cred that it had cost him SlO9.78 to
recall recollections of fifty years ago,
and required but one minute and five
seconds of old Father Time in which
to do the neutrality-suspicious..
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

A CERTAIN professor was noted for
having a certain set of illustrations,
from which he could not well deviate
without running the risk ofa blunder.
In illustrating the powerful effects of
prussic acid, he was wont to inform
the class that a drop placed on
dogs tongue was sufficient to kill him.
On one occasion, when lecturing to
his class, he said, Mr.. Smith, ad-
dressing young man whose chance
Of passing was very slender, what can
you say of prusslc acid2 Is it power
full or otherwiseT tIt is rather pow
erful,' said the student, dubiously.
8 Rather powerful ? said the professor
Indignantly; put q drop on your
tongue, and it would kill q dogl' The
shout of laughter which followed and
Smiths confusion, revealed to the pro-
fessor that his illustration had served
q double purpose.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
Business Cards.

FRANCIS L. CLARK,
Aecnanieal and Architectural Draughts-
man. Patent Office Drawing q Speciality,
No. ~ Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
June6, 1917. 1857.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23
p. B. CONANT.

TTOSNEY AT LAW, Ravenna, Ohio
~ Office in Phenix Block, over Richardson
Hardware store. S,s2-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-01-23

1. H. & NJ. W. PHELPS,
Attorneys sandCounsellors at Law, ,Ravenna.
Ohio. Office over First National Bank. 1856 =
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

~ The need of another food
has been suggested. A Toronto
minister starved to death, while
Bob Ingersoll received $4,000
for denonncing the bible.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13

~ We find the following in
the Washington city Gazette of
March I'd. The members of the
committee did credit to them
selves in publicly acknowledging
the efficient service of their chair
man and clerk, and we congTat-
tilate those gentlemen upon the
friendly and eminently just APP
probation of them as officers,
herewith noted:
"DEMIsE OF THE CLAIMS CON-
mTTEE-AN AGREEABLE IN
1fskcHANGE OF CIvILITTEs-The
House Committee of Claims adj
iourned sine de on Friday last,
after having performed an extra
ordinary amount of work. The
final meeting was characterized
by the most agreeable inter
change Of civilities between the
members. A warm and frater-
nal spirit was manifested at par
ting and remarks commendato-
nv of the chairman, Hon. John
M. Bright, and evidencing the
high esteem in which he is held,
were made by the members of
both political parties. The chair
man made a very felicitous re-
Spouse, and one SO full of feeling
that all present were visibly af-
fected. A resolution comph-
lnenting the clerk of the COM
naittee. Mr.. John b. Smith OF
Tennessee, was then unanimous
" adopted, signed by all the
members, and presented to that
gentleman. These little episodes
3 are very pleasant to record, as
they reveal a bright side OF Con-
rressional life.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
Something Elise.

IF MY LINIMENT don't do what ! claim
i after giving it fair trial for any Of the
following diseases, such as sprains, bruises
nervous pains, contracted muscles, weak
back and breast, kidney complaint, burns,
swellings, corns, by applying regularly for
two or three days it will not take them out
but soften them down as natural as ever,
never any more troub'e; also, neuralgia and
tOoihaehe where there is a nerve exposed
it will cure fistula, poll evil and sweeney
in its primary s'ages, big head, big jaw
and big shoulder, in any stage whatever,
rheumatism, il never fails only in cases Of
ten or fifteen years standing. There is no
ole that buys any other linIment after try
ing mine as much as one bathing. Gener-
ally the first question after meeting anyone
is. have you got any Of that lininent on
hand? And tue first man hls yet to come
up and say Il at he was not satisfied and
more than that, IL | was goirg to humbug
would 60 Somewhere else besides my own
county, and more yet, I'd choose some other
plaza besides bumbuggingthe afflicted, which
is next to grave robbing, / consider. You
will find it at Smith & Miles, Fayetteville,
Rawls or Montgomery, Pleasant Village,
Rawls & Griffis or Byers, at Blanche, Sim
mons Store, A labama. Sherrel's, Merryyille,
and at Pu ask. claim that it will cure
all the above diseases, if not return me the
bottle and get your moEcy.
j. l. MADDOX,
Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer.
Blanche, Lincoln County, Tenn.
feb.13