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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11
A NEW REMEDY FOR CONSUME.
TlON.


For some weeks past, says the Lon
don Lancet, the German medical press
has been discussing a new cure for
phthisis, and accounts, more or less
accurate, of the method and its bene-
fits haye found their way into the
daily and weekly papers, both on the
Continent and IN England, and have
excited considerable amount of at
tention. DR.. Krocksak, the assistant
to Professor Rokitansky, of Innsbruck,
has been treating the consumptive pa
tients in his wards by the new method,
and, it is said, with results that have
far surpassed his expectations; but as
yet no definite statistics of the cases
and their course have been published.
The remedy is simple enough. A
per cent. solution of benzote of soda
is to be inhaled twice daily for seven
weeks by means Of Siegle's atomizing
inhaler, in the proportion of one part
of the salt to a one-thousandth part of
the body weight. The quantity nec-
essary for patient one hundred and
forty pounds in weight would, there
fore, be about two and one-half
ounces at each Inhalation and the in
haler must be carefully adjusted fDr
such large amount to be taken into
the air passages. A certain proper
ton will always escape into and per-
meate the air of the room, and the pa
tient should remain therein for an
hour after each inhalation. We can
easily understand, says the Lancet,
that inalations of benzoate of soda
may be of some benefit in checking
the formation of mucus or pus in
bronchiectic and even in phthisical
cavities; in fact the old Frier's balsam
has long been, and is still, frequently
employed with advantage for this pur-
pose. This, however, is not the re-
suit that is to be secured by the new
scure.' The benzoate of soda is sup
posed to destroy the specific bacteria
to which the tubercurizing process is
due, and then the common inf1amma.
tory charges lose their destructive
character and slowly heal. The facts
on which such theory can be based
are almost entirely wanting. 1t seems
to us more likely to benefit chronic
cases of phthisis with profuse expec.
toration than those in which true tu-
berculOsis is taken place.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11

A REVEREND gentleman was called
to oficiate at the funeral of 3 child.
The parents and few relatives were
gathered in the small room where the
body lay in a coffin. The clergyman
had seated himself for a few moments
before beginning the services, and all
was still as possible. In minute the
father, who sat at the right of the
minister, little distance away, with
two or three persons seated between,
leaned forward, craned his neck so as
to take in view of that good man,
then he hemmed and hawed to invite
attention, and finally, in confused
sort of way, stammered out, Il say,
-Mr.-Mr.-D-n it all, parsOn,
what in - is your name anyhow z
Later on, when in the middle of his
prayer, as the clergyman was calling
down blessings on the parents, the
gravity and solemnity of the occasion
was upset by the voice of the old man,
saying, sD-n it, parson, don't mind
me. Just go in and pray for tothers,
and the old manll take care of him.
SELF
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11

A mother noticing her little daugh-
ter wiping her mouth with her dress
sleeve, asked her what her handker-
chief was for. 1T is to shake at the
ladies in the street. That 10 what papa
does with his.' -s
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11
THE GREAT PUZZLE,
over Which the Whole Country is
Becoming Crazy.
IT'S SOLUTION.

Since the advent of the game of fif-
teen," when three or four are gathered
together it is safe to bet your bottom
dollar that they are puzzling over it's
mysteries. 1t beats everything 1t is
to be found in the stores, ,on the trains,
at the depots, hotels everywhere.
Children don't exactly cry for it, but
grown men actually neglect their bust
ness for it. 1t has leaped into public
favor with the suddenness Of a meteor
1t is worked upon and talked about
everywhere. It has already become a
nuisance in the public schools, bat a
source of joy in the lonely boarding
house halls. Mathematicians vie with
each other in reporting the gigantic
equations arising from it. The puzzle
is the popular furore. and as such is
entitled to the attention of the press.
The puzzle consists of square box,
into which are fitted Is wooden
squares, numbering consecutively
from to Is. There is room for four
rows of four in row. The absence
of the sixteenth block in the box af-
fords room for the movement of the
others. The game is to disarrange'
the blocks and then to bring the num-
bers into consecutive order by shift
ing them into place without lifting
one off the bottom OF the box. The in
tricacies of this apparently simple ex-
ercise is startling. A mathematician
reports that the number of possible
movements is 1,3O7, ,674 .3OS 900. There
are said to be q number of combina-
tions that are either very difficult. of
solution or, as some believe, impossi-
BILE. Two unfortunate men in Boston
who encountered these combinations
are now insane and in an asylum.
The complication that seems to give
the most trouble is this:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11
and SALE STABLE.

WE. the undersigned will occupy the GEO.
w POE BARN, in rear of the First National
Bank, as q Feed and Sale Stable, Will keep
Baled Hay and Straw on hand for sale; handle
colts and vicious horses. take orders to buy and
sell; have for sale the best Condition Powder
now in use and with twenty five years expert
ence we think we can heal the lame, make well
the sick, and bring in condition anything that
is durable about the horse.
TERMS:-Twenty cents a feed for oats, ten
cents for hay, and all other charges reasonable.
j. L. CHRISTY.
- "A, TAYLOR. VS..
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11

A. BELDING, M. D.,
y svsfcian and Surgeon. Office over Belding
4 Armstrong; Drug Store, north side OF
public Square. Ravenna. Ohio. 571
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-03-11

PB. CoSANT
DAY CONANT,
rrORNEYSA AT LAW, Ravenna, o.:
a. omcs N 5s2 IF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Fashionable Gallantry.

In that age of ga;lantry, the reign of
Charles H., it was customary when a
gentleman drank 81 lady's health to
throw some part Of his dress into the
flames, in order to do her still greater
honor. This was well enough for Il
lover. but the folly did not stop here,
for his companions were obliged to fol-
low him in this proof of his veneration
by consuming q similar article. what
ever it might be. Sir Char es Sedley.
dining ut 4 tavern, one Of his friends
perceiving he had a vcryrich ace cravat
on. named the lady to whom honor was
to be done, and then made a sacrifice Of
hisown cravat; Sir Charles and the rest
of the company were obliged to follow
his example. Sir Charles bore his loss
with great composurc, observing it was
a good joke, but that he would have rs
good q frolic at some other time. On Il
subsequent day, dining with the same
party, Sir Charles drank q bumper to
the health Of some beauty of the day,
then bidding the waiter call q dentist,
whom he had previously placed in an
adjoining room. made him extract a
carious tooth which had long plagued
him. The rules Of good fellowship
clearly required that every one OF the
company should lose a tooth. They re-
monstrated, but in vain. and each gen.
tleman present successfully put himself
into the hands Of the op .rator, but pro-
testing against the cruel test to which
their friendship and g~allantry had been
put.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
A Boy Who Resembles q Frog.

Five miles southwest of Kenton,
Tenn, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
is the greatest m~onstrosity of the age
a human being who resembles q frog.
He is the son of R. Newell, is twenty
six inches high, weighs forty-eight
pounds. was born in Orblon county,
Tenn, March 10, 1875. His body and
arms are regularly formed and well de-
veloped, his fingers are short, and the
manner in which they are set on his
hands gives them the appearance of q
frogs feet; his legs are small, and are
set ut right angles with the regular line
of walk; his feet are small and badly
formed; his face is eight or nine inches
long, and makes IN angle of sixty-two
degrees with the base of skull-facial-
angle; his head is almosL conical; his
eyes are small and without expression;
his upper jaw projects far over the
lower one; his lower jaw is small and
has . superabundance Of flesh attached,
which renders him quite froggy. He
can't talk. If you throw a nicklc on the
floor, he will light on it like a chicken
on q .June-bug. He can't walk, but
what is wanting in walking is made up
in jumping. saw him jump eight feet
after q dime. If a tub of water is placed
near him, he will Jump into it like n duck.
In rainy weather be goes to the door
and leaps out, and remains outdoors
until the rain is over. Oblon county
has given birth to the following: The
female dwafs, the mud-negro, the Sleep
ing beauty. and the frog child. She is
justly ..entitled to the a%ppellation,
Mother of Monstrosities." - Troy
(Tenn.) Mevs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Two ~Centenarians.

Joseph GAMER was born in Montreal
in It'll. He was married in that city in
1889. In 1901 he moved with his family
to Scottsburs (now Scottsville), Monroe
county. N. Y. His wife bore him SIX
teen children, and died Il year ago ut the
age of l03 years. She was only four
teen years of age when she was married.
GAMER is still living in ScottSville with
his daughter. When he was ninety
years Of age he became blind, but six
years later his vision vas restored.
When his wife became s%peechless, a
year ago. it so affected him that lie lost
his eyesjght again. He has eight chill
dren living, thirty-eight grandchildren,
twenty-thrcc great-grandchildren, thir-
teen great reat-grandchildren, eight
eat-grandchildren and six
neutrality-suspicious. t-grandchildren-
ninety-six descendants living.
Lewis Rockwell, OF Green township,
P ike county, Pa. is l0l ears of age.
He was IL leading politician in North
eastern Pennsylvania sixty years ago,
having been sheriff and treasurer of the
county, and until he lost his eyesight
twelve years ago, he vas court consta-
BILE, an office that he held for twenty
five years. His wife is still living, and
is nincty-five years of age. Some years
ago. although they had well-to-do chill
dren, the old couple became a charge
upon the town. The old gentleman had
used tobacco all his life, and his wife
was an invetcrate tea drinker. These
luxuries the town refused to furnish.
A ncighbor contributed tobacco and tea
for their use for Il long time. Then the
old folks applied the courts to compel
their children to support them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Cinnamon in a Sunday.SchO0I.

In the Sunday school of the Reformed
PRESBYTERIAN church, in Clinton street,
Cincinnati, there are about twenty five
Cinnamon, each of whom is provided
with a teacher. At a recent festival of
the school they gave their teachers the
Lords prayer printed in the Chinese
tongue and neatly framed, and in every
Chinese laundry in the city the prayer
may now ne found on the wall. The
Cinnamon say they repeat it every night.
The owner of one of the laundries has
been trying to induce his customers to
call for their clothes on Saturday night
instead OF Sunday morning, but he has
had some difficulty in doing so: Nearly
all the laundrics lave adopted the plan
of closing on Sunday noon in order to
attend afternoon service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
How Drinking Causes Apoplexy.

1t is the essential nature of all wines
and spirits to send an increased amount
ofhlood TO the brain. The first effect of
taking u glass of wine or stronger form
Of alcohol is to send the blood there
faster than common, hence the c~ircula-
ton that gives the red face. 1t increases
the activity of the brain, and it works
faster, and so does the tongue. But as
the blood goes faster to- the brain than
common. it returns faster, and no i'm
mediate harm ma result. But suppos
a mar keeps on drinking-thc blood is
sent to the brain so taso in large quaint
ties, that in order to make roo tor it
the arteries have to charge themselves;
they increase in size, and in doing so
they press against the more yielding
haccid veins, which carry the blood
out of the brain and thus diminish the
size of their pores, the result being that
the blood is not only carried to the
arteries of the brain faster than
is natural or healtlhful, but it
is prevented from leaving it rs
fast :ts usual; hence q double set of
causes of death are in operation. Hence
Il man may drink enough of brandy or
other spirits in 4 few hours, or even
minutes, to bring on u fatal attack OF
apoplexy. This is literally being very
drunk.-CoNage Hearth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
CellulOid.

Celluloid is a composition of fine
tissue pape and camphor, treated with
chemicals by a patent process. A rather
common impression that it contains gun
cotton is a mistake, which arises from
confounding it with collodion. Cellu-
loid, it is said, is entirely non-explosive,
and burns only when in direct contact
with flame. When crude it looks like a
transparent gum, and its color is a light
yellow brown. 1t Il be made as hard
rs ivory, but is always elastic, and can
be readily moulded into every conceiv-
able torn. With equal ease it can be
colored in any tint desired, the dye run
ming through the entire substance, and
peing, therefore, ineffaceable. AS close
imitation of ivory, celluloid has made
great inroads in the business Of the
ivory manufacturers. Its makers assert
that in durability it is much superior to
ivory, rs it sustains hard knocks with
out injury, and it is not discolored by
age or use. Great quantities of it are
used for piano and organ keys, to the
manufacture of which one company is
devoted.
So extensive is its use for this pur-
Dose that the ivory manufacturers have
reduced their price for keys below that
of celluloid, in the hope of checking the
competition. cit it only a question of
who can hold out longest" said q cellu-
loid manufacturer, "sut we a make
our W elephants. and the ivory men
have got to. catch theirs" Within the
last year and a half a branch Of ceiluloid
manufacture has been developed, which
promises to reach enormous proportions.
It is the use of celluloid as q substitute
for linen or paper shirt cuffs, collars,
etc. 1t has the appearance of we'll
starched linen, is sufficiently light ana
by %perspiration, and can be worn for
months without injury. 1t becomes
soilcd much less readily than linen, and
when dirty is quickly cleaned by the
application of a little soap and water
with a sponge or rag.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21

The reception at the White House on New
Years day was largely attended by members
of the diplomatic corps, army and navy OH
Gers and others. During the reception Col
onel De Alma, e1.collector of customs tor
Sitkn, Alaska, approached the President and
denounced him as a despot, saying: "For
eighteen months you have denied me justice"
While the colonel was talking the police
pushed him into another room and the recep-
ton went on.
During December the various United States
minis coined 590,S6O gold pieces, worth
Sc ,4S7, 900; 2,384,200 silver pieces, worth
So, 1858, 1925 50, and 3,l03,250 minor coins,
worth $3l, 433.5O. Total coinage-6,078,3l $40
pieces, worth So, 876, 466.
The public debt was decreased S4,25l,2l7. 96
during December. On January l, 1880, there
was cash in tho Treasury, $207, 983, 800. 80,
and the national debt, less cash in the
Treasury, was 50, OIL, 79S, 504.87.
The United States co~nsul-general at Mon
treal reports to the State department that
Canadian trade with Great Britain has de-
creased, while with tho United States it has
increased nearly $2,0 00, 900 during the last
year. The effect OF the new tariff, in the
opinion OF the Canadian authorities, will be to
reverse the above results.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Living.
Not all Of Lying lies

Not all OF Lying lies
In tho swift ebb and flow that men call breath!
Some lives SroHs mightier IRON the touch of
death,
And scale Immortal skies.
Most truly do those live
Who's" deeds above the clinging mists OF time,
Shlue like Il star from cloudless height SUBJ
lime,
And such deep yearnings give,
That the pulse throbs and thrills,
10 .ain the submits whence the radiance
streams.
a nohlcr strain has echoed through our
dreams,
And all our being fills.
We list with eager cars,
We trace tho path which scales the mountain
steep,
We know they fingered not for rest or sleep,
Those men whose hopes and fears
Still pointed upward, where
Truths mountain stream CLEANS white be-
neali Inc SKY;
They coald not Stake their thirst in founts that
lie
Beneath that upper sky.
For them there is no death;
Immortal grew they in immortal quest,
AND to their goal, a noble band abreast,
Strive on with bated breath.
Nay, living is not life;
You cannot win it in a selfish dream,
In sheltered wales beside a lotus stream;
But in a ceaseless strife
A strife like mis- OF yore
Who, to save others, dared the dragons told
And still the r~avening wrong, though strong
and bold,
Men conquer as before.
M. B. Williams.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
From Washington.

Senator Cameron, chairman OF the national
Republican committee, has issued the follow
ing call: A national convention of tho Re.
publican party will meet at Chicago on
Wednesday, the second day OF June next,
ut twelve o'clock noon, for tina nomination OF
candidates to be supported for President and
Vice. President ut the next election. ltepub-
leans, and I'LL wEo will cooperate with them
in supporting the nominees OF the party, nrc
invited to choose two delegates from euch
congressional district, four at large from each
Suite, two from each territory, and two from
the District OF Columbia, to represent them in
the convention.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21

Queer fellows these Partisan artists.
Daubigny used to have q studio ar.
ranged in a boat, Jean Beraud, the
painter Of charming Partisan scenes,
makes q cab his studio, now De Nettis
has started an omnibus studio with q
stove in it. You frequently see the
vehicle about the avenues and on the
uuais.-Boston Culttvator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21

Salep is used for bread in the East
Indies, Syria and Turkey, and it is said
that one ounce of bread a day made from
it is sufficient to sustain a man: The
taca in the South Sea Islands, the bread.
nut in Africa, the lotus in Africa and
Barbary are used for bread. Bread is
made from the bark of the pine, from
the seeds of the stone-pine, from fern
roots, and q learned professor in Tubin.
gen gives a singular account of wood
which. prepared in a certain manner
which we have not space to give in de-
tail, makes 4 palatable and nutritious
bread, closely resembling corn bread.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Crop Returns for 1873 and 1879.

An interesting table has been pre-
pared at the agricultural department in
Washington from estimated and re-
ported crop returns of the United States
for the season Just closed. The state
ment, which was carefully prepared,
shows the amounts Of the several staples
raised in the whole United States, to-
gether with the amounts produced In
the preceding year. The values given
are not the quoted prices in the market.
but the values to producers. 1t will be
seen that the total increase of value OF
agricultural productions for the past
season, as compared with the values OF
the preceding year, is nearly Sale, 0OO,-
600. The table is rs follows:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Close Of a Promising Career.

The New Orleans Times of q recent
date says: Irwin Russell, p native Of
Port Gibson, and 4 frequent contributor
to Scr1bner'S Monthly, and for a short
while past employed upon the Times,
died last evening after q short but
severe illness. lie was.a young man of
he practiced law in Port Gibson for a
while, but becoming enaMored of a
Bohemian life. set out in search of fame
and fortune. Few men ever got 80 many
Bullets from the hands of fate, and still
fewer so little benefit. His existence
was q struggle with necessity from the
time he left his home, and although his
prospects were always fine, he never
lived to establish himself permanently
anywhere. His health failing him in
New York, and finding if he remained
there he would certainly die in . few
weeks, the poor boy shipped on board q
steamer and worked his way here. near
his c%hildhood's home. He was en-
ployed occasionally upon this paper,
and, while so, wrote many q pretty little
poem and many r little catch which re-
vealed IN inner life which hard lines hid
from the view of the world. His fund
OF humor showed itself best in dialect
writing, and some things lie has written
have already found permanent resting
places in the compiled editions of Ameri-
can humorous verse. By a strange CO.
incidence. his last published lines were
written upon the subject of his own
grave. Let the reader see what is the
lesson this just-complcted life teaches:
Fl CEMETERY.
stand within this solemn place
And think OF days gone by
think of many an old-time face
Here's where those faces lie.
think OF when, what time God please,
The hour shall come to me,
That, covered by the clay, like these,
My face shall masked be.
No marble monument will rise
Above that grave OF mine
No loving friends will wipe their eyes,
When lie l shall resign.
But when 1 leave my life have left
My very present care
find Il home OF care bereit;
AIy friends are living there!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
Sl,4S8,570,866
&l,9O4,4S0,659

The statistician of the agricultural
department is gathering material upon
which to base a careful estimate of the
total increase in certain other values
during the year just closing. This will
include the increased value of real estate
and of mining property. He expresses
the opinion, based upon material al
ready gathered, that it will not tall below
81, 200, 200, OOO.-New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21

II your nvocations are mentally or physi.
caly laborious, il they subject you to expos
ure in inclement weather, if they confne you
to the desk and arc OF a nature to involve
wear and tear of brain and nervous strain,
you may occasionally require some renovat-
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mind. 1t enables the system to throw off the
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the liver when inactive, which it very often is
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bealthful repose. Its ingredients are safe, and
it's credentials, which consist. in the hearty
endorsement of persons of every class OF So
ciety, are most convincing. Admirably is it
adapted to the medical wants of workers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21

Dr.. ANARCHISTS UTERINE CATHOLICON will POSI-
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