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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

HOW AN INDIAN RUNS DOWN DRRR.
When sufficiently near the hunter takes
his aim, and making slight noise with his
foot on the ground, which causes the deer
to turn toward him, has good chance to
hit it in the middle of the forehead. But if
he misses the mark, or his gun misses fire,
then the fun begins in earnest, and one of
the finest races in the world can be witnessed
"a naked Indian and frightened deer at
full speed If the deer should happen to
be not more than year old, it is of no use
following it, al it will outrun any Indian,
and run longer without giving out, but if
two or three years old, or older, good run
ner will bring it down in few hours, or
certainly within fifty or sixty miles. A good
runner among the Apaches can run one
hundred and twenty live miles in twenty
four hours easily.
The deer starts at full speed, making long
leaps of from ten to thirty feet. At first he
gains rapidly on the Indian, but the latter
follows, every now and then uttering fright
full yells, but never for a moment halting or
losing the trail. The deer, when out of
sight, halts and looks back, but soon his
pursuer comes in sight, when he bounds on
with longer leaps than at first; finally he
makes for water, spring or stream, and
when he gets there halts and drinks all he
wants. Now there is no hope for him, for
after he drinks he cannot run SO fast or leap
so far. Pretty soon the Indian comes in
sight again, while the tired deer rests a mo-
ment, but the tired hunter never halts to
drink, not if his mouth is as dry as ashes,
for by so doing he not only loses time, but
cannot run SO well afterward
On he goes, never resting, either on the
hill or on the mountain. If the deer takes
to the top of the highest mountain, right on
his track the Apache follows BY and by
the Indian sees q blood stain on a rock,
where the deer has stumbled and skinned
his knee or struck his nose. He knows now
the race will soon be ended, and runs faster
than at first, while the deer loses ground
every minute. When the deer sees the
Apache close upon him he stops suddenly
by rock or bush and turns. Sometimes as
soon as he stops he drops down fainting, or
even dead from fatigue. Hnot dead already
when the Indian seizes him by the head and
hind legs, he makes but little resistance and
is despatched with the knife. The hunter
now cuts out q fine piece and eats it, taking
not o moments rest for fear of getting stiff,
but puts the deer on his shoulders, or, if too
heavy, part of it, placing the rest in a Sc
cure place, and then trots back to his camp,
having travelled perhaps hundred miles
without resting. The next day some one
the game.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
A DARING EsCAPADE.


A recent escapade, as daring as it was
harmless, performed by the Countess Bardi,
nee Princess Adelgunde of Braganza, has
obtained q publicity in the columns of a
leading Vienna cotemporary. 1t will be re-
membered that the late Don Miguel, an un-
successful Pretender to the Portuguese
throne, was compelled to quit his native
country ON the first of June, 1884, sentence
of perpetual banishment from the kingdom
having been pronounced on him and his off
spring. That sentence has not heretofore
been revoked; but, in defiance of its pre-
scnptions, and prompted by an irresistible
yearning to visit her fathers native country,
this spirited young lady, during her late So
journ at Biarritz, contrived to obtain an Eng
lish passport for her confidential maid, in
which document she herself was described
as the attendant of the personated English
cham5re, travelled undetected through Spain
and Portugal to Lisbon, where she took up
her quarters at one Of the small hotels
Having driven with her mistress maid
through all the chief thoroughfares of the
Portuguese capital, visited the royal resi-
dences of Belem and Adjuda, and made fly
ing excursions to Cintra and Queluz, her
royal highness called on an old and trusted
friend of her family, the Countess de Red
inha, and quilted Lisbon by the next train.
None of her relatives knew aught of her ex-
pedition until her sister, the Princess Maria
das Neves, received from her the following
characteristic letter:
"DEAR SISTER You need not be fright
ened. am writing to you from Lisbon,
from our adored and unfortunate native
land It is indeed beautiful. This may
seem a daring exploit, but it resulted from
the natural instinct of Portuguese woman.
Thy loving sister, ADELauNDE."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

The "grumbling husband an individual
who, of all his fraternity, has generally the
least cause for complaint, is one Of those
advanced pessimists who renders existence
as obnoxious as it is possible to make it to
those who have the misfortune to share his
earthly pilgrimage. 1t may be an affection
at the best of times, but the grumbler makes
it ten times worse. He will begin the day
by abusing his breakfast; and man who
scowls over his coffee, eggs and daily paper
may be pronounced as not likely to improve
in temper as the hours advance. The in
fuence of a grumbling woman is particularly
depressing; but that of a man q chronic
grumbler is worse. We may expect to find
some capricious brightness or ephemeral ex-
altation at times surmount her narrow
minded morbid complaints, for women's
moods constantly vary; but with a man all
this is different. There is more of the
''granite " in his composition. His intui-
tions are duller, and his sympathies less ac-
tive. He will take o positive pleasure in
nursing his gloom. 1t may proceed from
physical or mental causes incessant disap-
ROAAsAACuto, VI pun uASC5tiOh1 Ous sAAo
grumbling husband is in American parlance
"a caution the most hopeless selfish spe-
cimen of mankind we can meet, disqualified
for society, unfit for home, a dead weight
on every ones spirit. Who can combat his
prejudices or move his spiritless misan-
thropy? He takes delight in seeing others
as depressed as himself. You are enthusias-
tic over music, painting, poetry, literature,
or any of the arts that remove the old pro-
saism of matter-of-fact reality he will en-
deavor to destroy the fervor and happiness
you have experienced in the company of the
tabled Muses. -and why? Because the dull
leaden matter that forms his brain cannot
soar to those high pinnacles of imagination
and fancy; and he will envy another's ca
pacity for appreciating the works which
represent nothing or less than nothing to
him. All grumblers, if nonentities, are, as
a rule, essentially practical; they love their
creature comforts as dearly rs they love
themselves; their predominant materialism
makes them resent the slightest flaw in the
management of the household as an injury
to themselves; and woe betide the woman
the grumbling husband has made his miser-
able spouse if the peas are hard for his Sun
days dinner, or the potatoes waxy when he
prefers aoury vegetable! What antidote-
can be offered to resist the effects of these
intolerable croakers? None. 1t is in the
very blood and bones of the animal, irradi-
cable as blight. - 7Insley's Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
ATTEMPTS TO AsSASSINATE LOUIS
NAPOLEON.

It was in 1852 that this sovereign's life
was tried for the first time, and another at
tempt was made upon it by Radical shoe
maker IN 1853. This year-1S53-was pro-
life in regicidal outrages, for a traitor called
Libenyi tried in February to murder the
Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna, while IN
March a soldier tried to dispose of the reign
ing Duke of Parma, Charles III. Three
years passed now without any more crimes
of this sort, but in 1856 Napoleon III. was
twice put in peril of his life, both his aggres
sors Pianori and Bellamare) being Italians.
It is said that after the attempt of Bellamare
the Emperor took to wearing shirt of mail
under his linen. 1t was not, however, until
after the fearful enterprise of Orsini, on
Jan. IA, 1858, that he got to be SO seriously
unnerved as to live in constant dread of as
sassination. Count Felice Orsini was not
mere vulgar fanatic, but gentleman by
birth, education and fortune. An ardent
patriot, and q partisan of the unitication
of Italy, his grudge against Napoleon III.
was that the latter, when political refugee
in Italy, had joined Free Mason lodge, and
sworn certain oaths which, by and by, as
Emperor, he had neglected to fulfill. Prin-
cipally as regards Rome, Orsini was furious
at seeing the temporal power of the Pope
maintained by French garrison of Is, 900
men; and two years before attempting Ma
paleon's life he wrote anonymously to warn
him that the Carbonaro lodges had decreed
his death, and that the sentence would in
fallibly be carried out if the imperial policy
toward Italy were not altered. Had Count
Orsini's accompices-Pierri, Rudio, and
Gomez-been men of his mettle and deter
mination, the attempt against Napoleon on
the night of Jan. II, 1883, must have been
crowned with success but they were poor,
ignorant cravens, who did their work for
pay, not from conviction, and their hearts
failed them at the critical moment. Each
of them had been provided with two explo-
sive shells, which were to be thrown under
the Emperor's carriage as it drove up to the
opera. Orsini threw his two shells, and
Pierri one, but the other two men ran off in
fright when they heard the first explosion.
The damage done by the shells was CHASTITY.
Five people were killed outright, and nine
wounded; all the soldiers of the mounted
escort we're bruised or scrstohe4i the Em-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

peror's coachman fell off his box stunned on
to the earcase of one of his horses, who lay
dead, and one of the footmen was blown
twenty yards off. with his skull battered in.
Meanwhile, hundreds of panes of glass in
the street had been smashed, all the gas
lamps were extinguished, and in the dark
ness there resounded an appalling tumult of
plunging horses and shrieking women
Lanterns and torches had to be brought out
of the opera, and then it was seen that the
imperial coach was complete wreck. How
the Emperor and Empress managed to es-
cape, with not SO much rs a singed hair or
a cut finger, is nothing short of marvellous.
Apparently not daunted in the least by what
had happened, the Empress said to the En-
peror, 6 We must go into the house 10 show
them we are not afraid" and IA few minutes
later the entry of the imperial couple into
their box became the signal for magnifi-
cent ovation, all the spectators rising en-
masse and cheering to the echo. Neverthe-
less, from this time Napoleon III. was an
altered man. In the following year he IN
dertook the war against Austria for the
liberation of Italy, and ever afterward he
went in fear of his life. Not a cowards
fear, for he was a brave man, but a fear
which the French call c1unte 2uis6aaee.
He expected to be murdered, and took the
minutest precautions to insure that the Gov
ment should be carried on by strong re-
gency in case of his demise He never
went out without leaving directions as to
where the latest copy of his will was to be
found and at times, when he was in low
spirits, he used to say that he had dreamed
he should be assassinated within such and
such time. During the remainder of his
reign all Italians visiting France were re-
quired to exhibit passports and if not per-
sons of undoubted responsibility, were close
ly watched till an excuse was found for ex
these precautions, Napoleon's life was again
attempted, by an Italian, in 1868, while in
1866 three other intriguers of Orsini's inter
esting country-Greco, Trabuco, and I'M
peratore-entered into a mprderous plot
against his life, which was happily nipped in
the bud by the police. There is said to
have been another and more mysterious at
tempt against the Emperor, of which the
public heard nothing except by rumor. A
gamekeeper of the forest of Compiegneshot
at his Majesty while the latter was engaged
in pleasant 5attNe, but one of the equerries
in attendance upon Napoleon discharged
both the barrels of his breech- loader into
the head of the murderer and killed him on
the spot. So the story runs but whether
it be true one or not will probably never
be known till some of the secret memoirs of
the imperial era come to ight.-1He Corn
AiH Magazine. .sryir
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

Sleep they meath tombstones gray,
Nor mind the blue-bird's lay,
Nor see the sunny day
Breaking through clouds away;
Weep we for young and gay,
Aouldring meath tombstones gray.
Mothers but memories fold
To hearts 80 sorrow-cold;
For they, with curls Of gold,
Cherished with Joys untold.
Sleep In the silent mold
Under the tombstones old.
Fathers IN grief deplore
Darling ones now no more,
Who glanced their way before,
Like rays from Heavens shore;
Could grief or love restore,
Tears would no longer pour.
Resting meath tombstones gray,
Through life's brief sunny day;
While other dear ones play
They with the MOWERS decay;
Oh, weep for young and gay,
Sleeping meath tombstones gray.
Sad windA are moaning low,
Fining the air with woe,
Where the dark grasses grow;
Oh, let thr hearts tears fiow;
Let wet eyes sorrow show,
For the dsar dead laid low.
dI.' t5+iit -LGthey @. Riggs
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
AFEATHERED INFANT.

At last the rG,a GUis has been found:
has ever been since the world existed has
been discovered" We quote from the
Vi;gie de Che,6oury, (France,) which is re-
sponsible for the authenticity of the follow
ing details concerning the living infant Won
der at present domiciled at Cherbourg, but
shortly to be dispatched to Paris in order to
be presented to the French Academy of
Medicine. The phenomenon is baby,
aged six months, named Augustine Lavir,
the nape of whose neck has the singular
sion of feathers. Twenty-three have al
ready sprouted, reached maturity, and fallen
of, to be carefully stored up by the infants
father, workman, whose fortune may be
considered made if the amazing story turns
out correct. The manner in which these
feathers grow is thus described: A pimple
forms on the nape of the neck, quite close
to the roots of the hair. At the expiration
of certain time the pimple blossoms into a
feather, the child, at the moment when it
appears, bcoihliS W oApoiioHoo a ohSh. I'LL
easiness. The feather, which is curved and
gilded, attains, when fully grown, from ten
to twelve centimetres in length. When it
falls, a few drops of whitish color issue from
the pimple, which then heals, leaving no
trace of its existence for while until an
other appears, enclosing the germ of an
other feather. A curious circumstance, says
the Tigae, is that the feather remains six
days on the infants neck when fully grown
before falling, and that its successor takes
as many days to sprout as its predecessor to
reach maturity. The father of the phe-
nomenal child intends bringing it to Paris
in order to ask science to investigate the
cause of this freak of nature, which, if it
really exists, is certainly one of the strangest
one has heard of recently.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
WHAT HE THOUGHT OF HIS PARENTS.

There was, perhaps, some justice in the
unflial speech of the Circassian robber
chieftain who was hanged at Tiflis recently.
Having permission to speak, he bowed and
said: Respectful public! I am, as you
doubtless are aware, about to be hanged
That have been a murderer and thief,
is not my fault, but that of my parents.
passed good examination at the Tiflis
Gymnasium, but even in those youthful
days was already animated by predatory
instincts, which my parents had omitted to
subdue in me. My death be upon their
heads Personally do not regret life.
Fare you well, one and ALL" Instead
of weeping over the sins of his parents, ~
would have become his situation and his
sentiments, he coolly rolled cigarette,
smoked half of it in perfect composure, and
ordered the hangman to adjust the moose
with the voice and manner of an absolute
monarch addressing slave. 80.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
GIVING AND TAKING ADVICE.

Giving advice is certainly one of the
hardest things in the world, both for the
speaker and the person spoken to. 1t is
the property of few to be able to say just
the right thing in the best way and at the
proper time; and stin fewer are able to re-
ceive advice precisely as they ought, with
out misunderstanding or suspicion, and
With determination TO profit By y TO the
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

For some years past, large number of
Germans, Christians and Jews have been
establishing themselves in Jerusalem, and
our readers will probably be surprised to
hear that the dominant language in that
town is German; twelve thousand Jews
speak it. Recently the Germans in Jerrlsa-
lem started a quarterly review, devoted
mainly to local interests, which is very ably
conducted
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the
divine nature to be so to the utmost of our
abilities is the glory of mankind
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

DIR. Gatling, inven1p of the famous gun,
has just perfected another instrument of
war that is said to be most complete in its
deadly properties It is capable of firing
LOCO shots in minute; and by the use of
the instrument three men can do the work of
300 fifemen. Ii is capable of killing a
man or horse one mile away. 1t is some
what in the form of the present Gatling
gun, but more complete, and may be taken
to pieces at will. and therefore can easily be
moved about About $780, 900 We're spent
in experimenting on it. .
The works now in course of execution in
Paris, in the Pavilion of Flora and in the
wings of the Tulleries facing on the Seine,
have brought to light a number of secret
st.lirways and passages, the existence OF
which was unknown even to the keepers
The cellars form perfect labyrinth. The
old Louvre built under Francois l. is hon.:
eyoombed with secret passages and STAIR
cases, and it was in these places that most
of the artistic riches of the museum
were hidden in 1870, when the Prussians
were advancing on Paris
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24

NYOTARY PUBLIC, Aantua. o. Con
N-vsyaneing, Collecsions and Reusion Busi-
1sss prnmptly attsnded TO on the most reason
s.nfe trrmx 619-tf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-06-24
Business Cards.

MISS L. e. JACKSON,
nHILLI merry GOODS OF all kinds. Opera
Nk Block, Ravenns. ..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Personal

William Luders, of Milwaukee, and
some years ago business man here, was
a visitor in town the early part Of the
week.
Max Gebhardt, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has been in the city for few days past,
called here to perform the sad duty of at
tending the funeral of his brother,
Eugene.
District Attorney A. G. Steiner and
wife have returned from their visit of
several weeks to Davenport, Iowa.
Hon. l.. B. Caswell, M. c., of Fl. At
kinson was a visitor in town last We'd
nesday and paid his respects to The
REPUBLICAN office.
E. Florida, of Berlin, is visiting at A.
J. Carlin's.
A. J. Carlin started Wednesday morn
ing for the Black Hills, to look after his
mining interests in that country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17

Mr.. EDTTOR:-Permit me through
your columns to ask few questions; al
so to make few suggestions:
/ read an article in the last Watertown
Democrat which gave me great shock
in fact knocked out all the glory that |
had been treasuring up for the last sever
al years. Now, what has done this?
Why, Tommy has made discovery.
Found ga double dyed traitor won
der if any one told him where to hunt?
If not, perhaps Tommy has been dream
ing. "Tis said' that when children
have worms, they have bad dreams, and
are apt to talk in their sleep. Mothers
tell you that when this is the case, the
children often, when awake, say that
they see double, and that they have
second sight; can see what others around
them fail to see, and when in this I'M
natural state they talk and say many
strange things. Now if Tommy is in
such condition, he is not morally re-
sponsible for what he writes for when
the worms bite, they may so derange his
nervous system, that he may see double,
and imagine that he sees ''double dyed
lIdIe luUO VIC w llUC IIOtioC.
Would it not be good idea for him to
consult some Veterinary Surgeon; and,
if it is found that he is a victim of the
above disorder, to take the proper RENE
dies to restore him to normal condition.
Please have him attend to this immediate
ly for it is well known, that these para
sites propagate rapidly, and who knows
what they may lead him to record. I
would advise him not to send any of his
papers far from home, for fear that Grant
might learn what has been said. Tom
my ought to remember that the General
has not yet announced his coming cabi-
net, or sent in any recommendations for
foreign missions, therefore Tommy had
better keep quiet, not say too much, and
he will not be forgotten. 1t is well under
stood that congress intends to make
quite an appropriation this summer to
keep the mouth of Silver Creek clear of
mud hens. Now here is an opening for
him, he should not shout Excelsior! Elk
celsior! too loud at first, lest he ''Peter
OUT before he reaches the first round in
the ladder, he is young yet and should
not overtax his brain, but first of all get
rid of the worms. Then he can see as
others see him
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Fire Department.

The annual meeting of the Watertown
Fire Department was held at Turner
Hall Monday evening and the following
officers were chosen:
Chief Engineer-Wm. Schultz.
Assistant Engineer-Wm. G. Stone.
FIRE WARDENs.
I'd and 9th Wards-L. Jhearling.
LIST and 18th e. Wiggenhorn.
Sd and 4th J. Kopp.
9Th ward-W. Ready.
Regarding Fire Wardens there should
be care exercised in the selection of these
officers of the department and also their
duties should be more clearly defined
than they are at present. The wardens
should be clothed with proper authority
by the city council to enable them to
perform the important functions that pro-
perly come within their province.
THE discovery of well-executed coun-
terfeit hundred-dollar note upon the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, ofPittsburg, is
announced from Washington. 1t is of the
series of 1875, and is printed upon an
imitation of the fiber paper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
Il Hard WO3'EeT.

One of the hardest worked men in
town is Rev. Lewis O. Thompson of the
Second Presbyterian church. He pre-
pares two sermons each week; directs the
weekly prayer meeting; superintends a
history class; furnishes The Homiletic
Monthly several articles each month,
giving expositions of prayer meeting
topics, notes and queries, for every week;
writes several columns per week of the
Nineteen Christian Centuries" now run
ming through this paper; edits little
monthly religious paper for the Second
Presbyterian church; contributes articles
to the religious and secular press On var
ious topics; and finds time now and then
to write successful book, of which one
on prayer Meetings" has run through
several editions and still meets with
lively sale. He has just published another
book, companion to the one above men
toned, which comes from the press of d.
Lothrop & Co.-Peoria (IlI.) Euenimg
Call.