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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
A MATERIAL MAGNET.

There is no counting on shower, from
whatever source, reaching Paterson, says
the Paterson On. J.) Neaos. About three
miles east of that place there is chain of
hills commonly known as "the Preakness
Mountains" They are spur of the Blue
Ridge. These hills contain large quantities
of iron, and consequently are magnetic.
They are, as it were, a gigantic lightning
an impetus sufficient to drive it over the
magnetic influence of these mountains, it
reaches Paterson, after rallying like demor-
allied armies, and bursts on the city with
redoubled fury. But if it is gentle show
er, impelled by moderate wind, these noun
tains attract it and it follows them around
to the northward as if the range of hills were
a track and the shower a train of cars. The
switching off the track of shower is a Gu
rious phenomenon. The lightning can be
seen playing with the tops of the mountain
like gigantic pyrotechnical grasshoppers
The thunder reverberates, and the black and
green clouds roll and writhe like immense
serpents angry with being molested. The
storm glides along the mountain tops and
over into Bergen county. Not half the
showers that approach Paterson from the
west ever reach the city. It must be q
severe storm to overcome the influences of
the magnetic Preakness Mountains.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
SOME COREINS.

= There was an extraordinary character in
Yorkshire, at the beginning of the present
century, named Jenny Hirst of Rawcliffe,
who was a wellknown figure at Doncaster
and York races, and whose singular eccen-
tricities had spread his fame even as far as
London. When Jenny had made his for
tune as tanner, he resolved to cut the tan
yard and set up as a swell for the re-
mainder of his life. The first step he took
to that that end was to procure handsome
oaken coffin, furnished with a folding lid,
which was let into the corner of his pa,lor
like cupboard, and filed with provisions
and liquor. When Jenny Hirst died, rich
and full of years, he left directions in bis
will that he was to be buried in the afore-
said coffin, and that his body was to be carried
to the grave by eight old maids, who were
to receive half guinea apiece for their ser
vices. The eight old maids. however, were
not forthcoming, and eight buxom widows
were engaged at half crown a head, to do
duty as bearers. The motley procession
was headed by bagpipes and fiddle, and
the country folks focked in by hundreds to
pay their last respects to Jenny Hirst, of
Rawcliffe. He died, I think, in 1926
remember also hearing of Mr. Ellis King,
who lived in Kings Bench Walk some eighty
years ago, and who kept his coffin in his
chambers, filed with wine and spirits to be
drunk b. his friends on the day of his fu-
neral. fhe coffin occupied a conspicuous
place in the room, and was always solemnly
toasted at his convivial parties the last thing
before the guests took their leave.-Notes
and Queries.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
ALAME DRUMMER.

Captain Bugbie is not only an officer but
q soldier, and a good one, too; notable as
strict disciplinarian, and as notable for his
fondness for creature -comforts-a fondness
he found great difficulty in indulging when
marching through a wild bit of country.
One day the column had just left small
hamlet, when the Captain noticed that one
of the drums gave forth no sound He ex-
pressed his anger very emphatically, and or
dered Lieutenent to go and rate the de-
inquent well. By and by the subaltern re-
turned, and whispered to his superior that
the drummer had got a couple of roasted
chickens and two bottles of whisky in his
drum-one bottle and one chick being for
the Captain. "Why didn't the poor fellow
let us know his legs had given out?" cried
Bugbie 81 don't want men to march if
they're dead lame. Put him in the ambu-
lance immediately" The order was obeyed,
and having thus made amends for his injus-
tice to the drummer, the Captain took the
earliest opportunity of going to examine
more particularly into his condition.
CAGn6esss Journal. Hl.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

Peter Grub sold his share in an iron mine
at Cornwall, Pa, reserving the right to en-
ter upon the premises forever, and take
therefrom sufficient ore for the supply of
one furnace. That was almost one hundred
years ago, when iron ore was smelted in
somewhat crude fashion, and the average
yield of furnace was one thousand five
hundred tons a year. That was about the
amount taken by Mr.. Grub annually during
his lifetime. But the process has been
vastly improved since then, and now fur
mace turns out as much in single month.
The question arose, of coarse, whether the
heirs of Grub were entitled to as much ore
as would supply an eighteenth or nineteenth
century furnace. A lawsuit has been in the
courts for twenty four years, employing
some of the ablest lawyers in the State.
The Supreme Court has just decided, on ap-
peal, that ore can be taken in sufficient guam
tity to supply furnace.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
A STONE CRINOLINE.
Walton Hall had at one time its

Walton Hall had at one time its own corn
mill, and when that inconvenient necessity
no longer existed, the nillstone was laid by
in an orchard and forgotten. The diameter
of this circular stone measured five feet and
a half, while its depth averaged seven inches
throughout; its central hole had diameter
of eleven inches BY mere accident some
bird or squirrel had dropped the fruit of the
flbert tree through this hole onto the earth,
and in 1912 the seeding was seen rising up
through the unwonted channel. As its trunk
gradually grew through this aperture and in
creased, its power to raise the ponderous
mass of stone was speculated upon by many.
Would the filbert tree die in the attempt !?
Would it burst the milestone, or would it lift
ita In the end the little filbert tree lifted
the milestone, and by 1868 wore it like a
crinoline about it's trunk, and Mr.. Waterton
used to sit upon it under the branching
shades. u ....tftE is.ra =sEte -i'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
A REMARKABLE MAN.

A correspondent writes to the London
Times: One day recently had occasion
to go to well-known firm of dentists in this
city to have tooth drawn. As the opera
ton seemed likely to be difficult and very
painful one, it was decided that 1 should be
subjected to the influence of nitrous-oxide
gas, which was administered by DOCTOR
To the astonishment both of dentist and
doctor-but not to me-they found that
when I had INHALED the usual quantity,
about eight DR. nine gallons (this gas being
apparently measured by gallons, and not by
feet), l was not in the least affected, and
they went on until had taken in between
entirely unasphyxiated but just then I
thought the doctor motioned to me to shut
my eyes, which had been wide open. He
had not done SO but, when the eyes closed,
the dentist, thinking was insensible, drew
the tooth, and with it howl of pain from
me. During the whole operation was per-
fectly sensible of what was going on, and
felt the pain as acutely as if no ansesthetic
had been used. In all the wide experience
of the doctor and the dentist, and of several
other medical men to whom the fact has
been mentioned, not one of them ever came
across patient on whom this powerful an
aesthetic Ihad no effect, nor has any of them
known another person take anything like
the quantity administered to me. The usual
sensations after the use of the gas are, I be-
lieve, those of lightness and gayety, but in
this respect also was unaffected Presum-
ably, no quantity of the gas would have had
the desired effect, for the lungs must have
been quite full when the doctor left Of I
may mention, too. that six or seven years
ago took twenty gallons in similar circum-
stances and was wondering when it was go
ing to act, when the gas gave out and the
dentist had to extract the tooth at once.
Whether other kinds of anesthetics would
operate upon me cannot say, not having
taken any," -t-.-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

In the course of experiments with the
new process for coating iron with magnetic
oxide by a current of hot air, it was found
that the action was due to the combination
of atmospheric oxygen with the carbon of
the iron to form carbonic anhydride,s which
was then reduced by the iron, according to
o weli-known equation; hence the insult
ableness of such 4 method for coating
wrought iron or steel The mode now pur-
sued is to heat the articles to be coated in a
current of impure carbonic anhytlride. OBJ
tanned by the combustion of small coal By
this means a coating of magnetic oxide is
obtained slightly contaminated with red
oxide, the conversion Of which into mag
netic oxide is then effected by adjusting
the air supply of the furnace, so as TO sub
stitute Il current of carbonic oxide for the
carbonic anhytlride- The coating thus pro-
duced is very hard and homogeneous.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
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COST OF LIVING IN NEW YORK, 1874.

The Tontine House, under the care of
Mr.. Hyde, is the best hotel in New York.
He sets from twelve to sixteen dishes every
day. He charges for years board, with
out liquor, three hundred and fifty to four
hundred dollars. Butter in the market is
thirty-seven and o half cents per pound;
beef, compared with English beef, is poor;
turkeys are sixty-two and half cents each
common fowls are twenty-five cents each.
OF " Albany beef, ~. sturgeon, you can get
enough for twelve and half cents to feed
family. Oysters are plenty and large.
Peaches sell two cents for three to six of
them. AL ranks of people smoke cigars
six or seven inches long. Silver money is
plenty, but gold is rarely seen. The popu-
lation of the city is about thirty thousand.
There are two places of public entertain
ment in the enyirons of the city that are
much visited in the Summer one is called
Belvidere, (on Bunker's Hill, and the other
Bundling's Garden's.-Magazine of -Anle,I-
can History.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
STRANGE N.ARCOTICs.

The great narcotic IL India is the bete1
nut, of which Anglo io-Saxons-perhaps for
tunately-know nothing. The betel nut is the
seed of the areca palm which is extensively
cultivated. AS nearly every native chews
betel, the consumption of areca nuts is in
credibly great In the Philippines the la
borer is paid in betel rolls as he is with
cocoa leaves in some parts of Peru, and the
betel nut is one of the most valuable articles
of produce in Sumatra. The greater part
of this islands export goes to China The
betel nut is about the size of cherry,
slightly pear-shaped, very hard, and ex-
ternally not unlike nutmeg of inferior
quality. In India it is prepared for chew
ing by being cut into long, narrow strips,
and wrapped in leaves of the so-called betel
pepper, previously busted on one side with
the quicllime of calcined shells. In the
Philippines, a 6uyO, as the betel roll is called,
is offered to every >one who enters
house. just as pinch of snuff or pipe is
in Western countries. Every one who can
afford it puts a fresh buyO in his mouth
every hour, which he can chew and suck
for half an hour at least. The visible eff
fects of the betel are that it promotes the
flow of the saliva and lessons perspiration.
1t tinges the mouth, the teeth and lips with
a vivid red which is not ornamental; but as
an offset it imparts an agreeable odor to the
breath, and is supposed 70 -fasten the teeth,
cleanse the gums, and cool the mouth. The
juice is usually, but not always swallowed.
On those who are accustomed to use it, the
betel exerts a weak but continuous and sus-
tanned exhilaratins influence. All through
Southern India and the Spice Islands every
person who owns little bit of land usually
grows the leaves of the paun or betel pep
per, for his own consumption. Only tobac-
co, among the narcotics in common use, is
consumed in larger quantities than the betel
nut. In India indeed, where, on an aver
age, not more than sixpence head is an
nually paid for clothing, indulgence in betel
forms the second great necessary of common
life.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
THE PRUSSIAN HURRAH.',

A French military correspondent says
that while watching the instruction of the
German troops at Strasbourg, he was par
ticularly struck by the great pains taken to
make the men of an attacking party . hur-
rah " vigorously as they finally rushed for
ward to close and cross bayonets with the
imaginary enemy. The manceuvre was of
ten repeated over and over again, simply
because the men failed to shout with snffi-
cient life and energy. The Austrians, Prus-
slams and English use the same cry, al
though the English pronunciation differs,
but the French have no characteristic. cry to
animate their soldiers at a critical moment.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
A PROTRACTED DUEL.

The French papers state that an obstinate
but bloodless duel with swords was fought
recently on the Belgium frontier by the
Prince de Santo Severins and NJ. Salvador
Caggegi. The cause of the encounter a
dispute in Paris catS. 1t was agreed by
the seconds that the fight should cease at the
first blood. The combat then commenced,
and continued for long time without re-
suit twice the adversaries had to cease to
recruit their strength. After the third bout
the seconds held a consultation it was evil
dent from the skill of the swordsmen in par
rying each others thrusts, or from their ex-
cessive caution, that the duel might last all
day without blood being drawn. Another
trial was, however, decided on. The fourth
engagement lasted even longer than those
which had preceded it, but, as before, when
the combatants separated, exhausted, they
we're still unscathed The seconds then de-
clared the fight at an end, and assured the
combatants that they had conducted them
selves according to the rules of chivalry,
and drew up an official report of the encoun-
ter to be sent to the society Journals.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

BY means of an improved process of smelt-
ing, there are now obtained from ordinary
iron blooms which are said to be equal in
uniform excellence To the Swedish and Nor
way stock The ore, instead of being thrown
cold upon the forge fire, descends through a
retort or chamber III the rear, into which it
has been charged, mixed with charcoal
braize. By the time it has reached the bot
tom of this chamber, and is raked forward
into the fire, it is not only thoroughly heated,
but it is also reduced to metallic sponge
The chamber is heated by the flame products
of the forge fire, and also by the combustion
of carbonic oxide, gene,ated from the forge
and braize, and escaping through the pprts
in the WALL to burn in the surrounding 1ue.
Another popularity is the charging of the
very fine ore dust into another chamber,
where it is pre- cheated and then taken by
screw conveyer and carried through hollow
journal and small gas pipe into the tuyere,
which conveys it into the forge fire and de-
posts it upon the surface of the sloup
Finally, the loup is introduced into Sweets
furnace, and thoroughly heated before
shingling. .t ...st=t, t.asss~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

The happiness of your life depends upon
the quality of your thoughts; therefore,
guard accordingly, and take care that you
ente - no notions unsuitable to virtue and
unreasonable to nature.-Mdrcus Anto-
MUS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

The great centre in Germany for the pro-
duction of tobacco pipes, is stated to be
Ruhla, in Thuringia In this place and its
immediate vicinity the annual manufacture
for the past few years is said to have aver
aged GAG, 900 genuine meerschaum bowls or
heads, and 5, 400, 600 artificial or imitation
meerschaum bowls, while the number of
polished lacquered and variously mounted
wooden pipe heads reaches an annual
amount of nearly five millions. OF the COM
mon porcelain bowls, there are manufac-
tured yearly some 9,6OOO 900, and of fine
clay or lava bowls 100000. There has
also been an annual average production of
Is, 900, 900 of pipe stems or tubes of differ
ent sizes and materials; 100000 dozen
miscellaneous adjuncts, such as flexible
tubes, chains, tops, tufts, &c, $4,000 dozen
meerschaum pipe cases; SOC, 600 dozen
mouth pieces and cigar holders of amber,
horn, meerschaum, wood, or cocoanut shell;
and, finally, Is, 600, 900 complete pipes COM
posed of various materials. F...-...-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

We ought always to deal justly, not
only with those who are just to us, but like
wise with those who endeavor to injure us;
and this, too, for fear lest, by rendering
them evil for evil, we should fall into the
same vice.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

''ToNIo glycerine consists of 1900
grammes of pure glyeerine, 80 drops of tine
ture of iodine, and 30 centigrames of iodide
of potassium. 1t is good substitute for
cod d-liver-oil and the dose is a tablespoonful
a tIuarler of an hour before each meal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
There C0mcfh Rest.

Toll on, and never cease,
o troubled brain weary with pain
With thoughts opprest, while seeking reslv
Nor ask from toll release
After the pain, as after rain,
There cometh rest.
Keep watch, o heavy eyesi
Nor rest in sleep, but vigils keep,
Through the lone night, till day dawns bright,
Nor pine for sunny skies
Thy lone watch past, sweetly at last.
There cometh sleep
Throb on, o aching heart,
Nor seek release till time shall cease!
o weary heart $50 faint thou art!
o heart play well thy part
Hope sure shall bring from pain surcease
And sweetest peace
-LuGker G.. R01e,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

If you wish to live the life of a man and
not of a fungus, be social, be sympathetic,
be brotherly, be charitable and always speak
a kind word when you can.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

One of the hardest lessons to learn in life
is that the man who differs with you not only
in opinions, but in principles, may be as
honest and sincere as yourself.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

Men who complain that they have much
to bear from the faults of their fellow-men
should think how much others have to bear
from them.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

By over-sugaring of all good qualities You
may turn them to acidites.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

When a man begins to think he is so great
that moral laws are not made for him, he is
probably going to the bad as fast as time
can take him there. tHe@si4s"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

Never does a man portray his own char
acter SO wildly as in his manner of portray
ing another's.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

81 -sf= ~ 80. f-rets tHSUf
Ingratitude is, of all crimes, what in our
selves we account the most venal-in others
he most mpardonahle. -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

We hand folks over to Gods mercy but
show none oursely es.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

There are two stars which rise and set with
man, and whose beneficial rays encircle him,
viz hone and remembrance.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

A talent without tact has been said to be
like a fiddle without fddlestick.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

Jules Verne, the novelist, whose scien-
tific romances have been so much enjoyed,
not only by the young and unlearned, but
by older persons and students as well,
struck out fifteen years ago from his work
as dramatist into the field which he now
occupies. In that fifteen years he has
made $25O, 600 by his pen and at the age of
52 years he enjoys good health content and
the ability to do as much work as be ever
cnlald
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08

Speech is noble only when, like honest
money, it represents the gold of thought.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
Scientific.

Much interest was recently excited al one
of the aIassachusetts musical conyentions,
by the exhibition of An ancient spinet.
This instrument is in shape somewhat like
grand pianoforte in dimensions seven and
one-haf feet Oh the strslight side, three feet
! at the key board end, and~aeout one foot
depth of case ltrests nponsa stapdard,
which is detachable .unl easily folded to
gether. Instead of Pedals, Knobs at the
sides of the key board allow mechanism to
give take extra volume of tone; and the
action, SO called, consists of a = jjack at
at the end of the lever, a wooden upright,
with projecting pieces of leather To twang
the string as it passes upward, and little
cloth damper to stop the vibration when the
jack is lowered. The strings are of copper,
brass and steel, the lowest of about the same
dimensions the highest in modern piano
fortes. The ''eyes" at the further end of
the strings are regularly and evenly made
as those of the present day, whlethe tuning
ends are merely wound about the bins, with
out passing through the holes in Them Five
octaves of keys give tones from the fourth
above the treble. ; z -
st . ----TrT- fIT
NEW kind of rejecting telescope Of light
weight and short tube, constructed by M.
Fritsch of Vienna, has attracted considerable
attention The instrument is described as
being SO light, that it can beliftedabont with
its stand from place to place by a single pair
of hands-a telescope of ordinary construc-
ton being, for the same power, of far great
er length and weight. The rays of light
sent from the object fall first upon tie large
concave reflector, inclined at any determined
angle to the optical axis of the instrument,
and converge thence to fall without OBJ
struction on the small convex mirror placed
at the top part of the aprs9atus.s The
image is formed behind the large reflector,
when it is seen magnified through thelens
in the eyepiece. Both mirrors are made of
silvered glass, and have p:arabolic surfaces.
The instrument is said to do a great deal of
work at low cost-an evidence of its
powers of accomplishment being afforded in
the fact, as represented, that, with four inch
reflector, the double stars, gamma Virgins,
beta orionis, the Polar star, the pair of dou-
BILE stars, beta Svyre, ETC., are distinctly
separated. 800
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-07-08
Business Cards.

MISS L. e.. JACKSON,
NEILLINERY GOODS of all kinds, opera
Nl Block. kavenna, u. Ei
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De (NompareiD shall constitute square