The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-12-04

PA CttICoG SiSSO III slO w hoiS Ae.pSS "
heraldry. 1t consists of miniature
cornet, underlined with feur-de-lis, &
scrap of mullet of gold. The contras
between metal and cloth is elegantly
maintained, as required by the best
usages of noble families.
"A PRACTICAL CALCULATING
s4:.t MACHINE.
The earithmometer or calculating ma.
chine of M. Thomas, of Colmar, was
invented in 1920. Since then it has
undergone many improvements at the
hands of the inventor and latterly oil
his son, M. Thomas de Bojano, go that
now it is offered in a form which M.
Sebert, in recent report to the Paris
Societe d'Encouragement, pronounccs
to be thoroughly adapted for practical
use. The machine performs all ordin.
ary arithmetical operations, compris-
ing the extraction Of roots. Among
the more important recent improve
ments (for details of which we must
refer to the bulletin of the society just
named) is the counter of the number
of turns of the motor handle, and the
automatic inscription of successive fig
ures of results, in divisions and ex-
fractions of roots and of multipiiers
of multiplications, relieving the mind
of the operator greatly. An idea of
the progress of the machine may be
had from the fact that the product of
the number SO. .999 ,999 by itself is form
ed by the new machine in twenty
four seconds; it took nearly minute
in 1851. The new machine can also
go beyond the former in giving the
product of the lumber formed of ten
times by itself, which it does in twen-
ty-eight seconds. The product of the
number formed of eight mines by the
number formed Of eight fives is now
obtained in seventeen seconds, as
against forty-five seconds in 1851.
Process of addition alone are not per-
formed much more quickly than by
expert calculators, but mental fatigue
is at least saved. The machine is well
adapted for complex operations, as in
calculations of algebraic formu1e, for
ordinary calculations relative to con-
structions, cubages, estimates, ETC., for
calculation of formul8 into which trig-
onometrical values enter, and here it
allows of dispensing with the use of
tables of natural trigo-
nometrical lines being used. In con-
struction of tables of multiplication,
ready-reckoners, ETC., the machine
gives results that are truly marvellous.
THE YOUNG MANS FIRST HAT.
The first time you wear stove-pipe
hat everybody looks at you. Not, as
you may yainly imagine, because you
are the first young man who ever wore
a stove-pipe hat, but because it is ap.
sits in the back pew, without any
cushions, away back under the gall
lery, where the poor have the gospel
preached at them, that it is the first
time you ever wore hat of that de-
scription. Your old father claps one
on the back of his head, puts his hands
into his pockets, holds up his head
and walks off down the street in
gale of wind and never thinks of his
hat. But you, son, pull yours on at
the most graceful angle it can be posed,
and you go teetering along, both hands
ready to fly at the hat at the slightest
provocation of the ghostliest phantom
of puff of wind.
You don't look comfortable, son.
Your hat is always trying to come off
you bump it against everything you
pass you rub it the wrong way when
you try to brush the dust off it !; when
you carry it ia your hand up the aisle,
everybody smiles, because you first
hold 1t by the brim and let the crown
tip gracefully over your arm, and by
the time you have hit three or four
in the head with it, you
change and turn it under your arm
and try to carry it that way without
touching it and the first thing you do
in that pose, you butt woman's eye
out with your elbow. Then, when
you sit down. you put the hat on the
floor, setting it ou the briln; fatal
mistake. And then, before the SER
mon is half through, you put your
feet on it three or four times. Bnt
never mind; you have to learn some
lime. Only don't imagine that peo-
pie never saw anything of the kind
before, because they have.
CHINESE proverb-Man cannot be-
come perfect in hundred years; he
IAN become corrupt in less than day.
DURING the last two or three years
nearly seven millions of people haye
died in the interior provinces of China
from famine.
LEADvILLE already has three daily
four churches and pub
lie school system; but there are, also,
los gambling houses.
omen should not allow their wives
to split wood" says a contemporary.
This is rather inconsiderate. How can
q man refuse when his wife comes up
with tears in her eyes, and says, "Now
do, dear, let me go down in the cellar
and split wood for an hour to get up
an appetite"