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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
The Unfortunate Khedive.

The ex-Khedive of Egypt is in an I'M
happy state of mind. BY care and in
dustry, accompanied by large outlay,
he succeeded while in Egypt in collect
ing very fine harem. 1t was especially
rich in what our art critics would call
'' choice examples of Circassia and
Georgia, and it included the best speci-
mems of Egyptian, Turkish and Syrian
girls, besides a small amount of select
French moral bric-a-brac. When, in
compliance with the enthusiastic desire
of his fellow-countrymen and the for
eign Consuls the Khedive abdicated, he
took his harem and such valuables as he
could lay his hands on and went to Ma
pies, intending to live Il quiet lite of
study and meditation, surrounded by his
harem and his portable property.
AT Naples his troubles began. The
Government rented him a fine palace
-popularly known as the Favorra-on
the shore of the bay and at the foot OF
| Vesuvius, where he took up his resi-
dence and arranged his collection OF
wives in a series of pleasant rooms.
1t formed decidedly the best collection
of the kind that any Italian city had seen
since the days of the Roman Empire,
and the ex-Khedive was naturally
proud of it. Before very long, however,
he found that a harem cannot be kept
| together SO easily in Naples as in Cairo.
! The windows of the palace were not
latticed, and the ladies of the harem
could not be prevented from looking
out at the people in the street. Neither
was it practicable to prevent stray Ital-
ians from seeing an occasional wife nj a
window. The eunuchs did their best to
1 Eapr tho haror,, c11hiaatinn hI1{ ti,oi,
efforts were unavailing, and before the
ex-Khedive had occupied his palace
many weeks he was compelled to notice
that his harem was gradually growing
smaller.
He at once spoke about it to the chie1
eunuch, and demanded to know if sew
eral of his wives were not missing. The
eunuch maintained that beyond the
usual loss of wives by the wear and teal
incidental to dressing, no losses hac
occurred. The eX-Khedive could no.
be thus deceived. He was confident
that seven or eight of his best wives
had vanished, and although, owing tt
the want of a trustworthy catalogue
he could not prove that he was right
he resolved that no more losses shoulC
occur without his knowledge.
A careful watch soon showed the leal
in the harem. Every night a throng o.
handsome young Italians would appear
under the windows of the palace. and ;
few wives would jump into their arms
In this way constant drain of wives
was in progress, and the alarmed eN
| Khedive saw that unless it could bt
stopped he would soon be left wfeess
The italian Government showed itsel
cold and heartless. When appealed tc
by the ex-Khedive it explained tha
there was no law under which an Ital
ian could be beheaded for having in hi
possession one of the ex-Khedive's wives
OF the latter prevented from jumping
out of the window. In these circum
! stances he decided to take severe meas
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
Fat and Lean Pork.

Some of our readers may think this 4
contradiction, but it is quite possible to
grow pork with that happy medium of
tat and lean SO much relished. The
greatest obstacle to it is the general
method adopted in feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on fat, and with a scant proportion of
albuminoids to grow the muscles or lean
meat. Pigs have thus been grown and
fattened for SO long q time that they
seem, to have taken on only lean meat
enough to hold the body together. Ex-
cept when on grass, the pig is piled al
most wholly with corn, which is excess
lively rich in starch and fat. Some
breeds have become so constituted that
they will get fat on grass. The pig, in
its natural state, does not get excess
lively fat, but is nearly as lean as beef
animal. Ii young pigs are fed on nitro
genous food. such as skinned milk and
grass, they will be found to grow rap
idly-extend the frame and muscular
system, having only fat enough to round
out the body to comeiy shape. Pigs
should always be full fed; but this does
not necessarily mean cramming with
corn, which merely piles on the fat till
the young pig becomes diseased. 1t is
this mode of feeding for so many hundred
generations that has transformed our
swine into Jumps of fat with a few strings
of muscle to tie the ball together. To
reverse this work of improper feeding
will take some time, but it can and must
be done. Witness the great change
from those overgrown fat hogs which
were Dragged of years ago, but are now
seldom seen, because the market does
not call for them. We do not under
value corn, which is the best fatteEing
food the American farmer possesses;
but we should be glad to have them
avoid its too free use in feeding pigs,
| and substitute q more njtrOgenous food,
such as oats, peas. wheat, bran or mid
dlings, a little oil meal, decorticated
cotton-seed meal, rye, bran OF barley
any of these. Corn may be fed sparingly
with clover or skinned milk. Our Ca
madam neighbors can raise fat and lean
| pork with grass, peas, barley and corn.
! We must have Il grass diet for pigs gen
| orally, and, with this grain may be fed.
| Farmers sometimes forget that the pig
is a grass-eating animal as much as the
| horse, and needs fibrous food to keep
him healthy. Nicely cured clover is
relished by pigs in winter, especially
when raised on grass. If you want fat
| and lean pork, Il strictly corn diet must
be reserved to the last stage of feeding,
simply to harden the pork; yet q little
corn may be fed all through the life of
the pig, only giving these other nitro
genous foods with it. Pork grown in
this way is relished by most people, and
will always find ready local market.
No more important question than the
above has ever been discussed in our
columns. At one time lard was the
most valuable of all the hog product
but it has ceased to possess exceptional
value, and now the desideratum in pork
production is to bring about q good de-
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
Cooperative Life Insurance Inyesti.
cation.

The last Ohio State Legislature ap-
pointed a committee to investigate the
system and the frauds committed, and
to recommend such additional legisla-.
tion as may be necessary to protect our
citizens from loss and fraud. 1t also
adopted the following resolution almost
unanimously:
WHEREAS. A large number of Mutual Aid
Associations have been organized for the pur-
pose of mutual protection and relief OF their
members and for the payment of stipulated
sums Of money to the families or heirs of the
Citations, and furnish no security to their
patrons for the faithful performance OF their
obligation to the insured and
WHEREAS, There are complaints upon the
part of the friends of those insured that such
claims, as agreed with the insured, and
WHEREAS, Charges have been made that in
many instances such companies or associations
have continued to collect assessments upon
the policies of persons long after the death OF
such persons; and r5
WHEREAS it is claimed that assessments
have been made and collected upon the poll
cies of persons who died prior to the persons
in whose interest such assessments and col
lections were claimed to be made: and
WHEREAS, The manner of conducting busl-
| ness of such companies and associations has
created distress and alarm in the minds of
| many of the insured in such companies or as
| sociations, as well as a belief generally that
| such companies associations should be SO
| regulated by law to furnish greater security
| and protection to its members ar a to the pub
| lie; therefore
| RcsO1ped, That a select committee of five be
| appointed, which committee Eay sit during
| vacation, and shall have power to send for
| persons and papers, and whOsc duty it shall be
TO make thorough examination into the re-
! sponsibility aud manner Of doing business
| practiced by such companie.; or associations
| which are responsible and safe organizations
| with which to do business, and what legisa-
| tion if any, is necessary, to protect the citi
| zens of the State against loss or fraud by such
| companies or. associations organized within
| this State, or by similar companies or assncia
| tions organized under the laws of other States
| doing business in this State.
| The following named gentlemen were ap
| pointed as the select committee: Hon. L. G
| Sawyer. st. Mary's, o.; Hon. George T. Chap
| man, Cleveland, o.; DIR. j. NJ. Greene, Fair
| field, O.: Hon. Charles C. Davis Cincinnati
| O., and Hon. William III. Reed, Chillieothe, o
Any one who has complaint to make agains
| any Mutual Aid Association may address any
one Of the above named gentlemen and have
| their claims and rights thoroughly investigated
| free of charge. '-.--
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
IS ScOurs'' in Calves.

This disease, so fatal to young calves,
is most common where COWS and calves
are housed and among calves brought
up artificially. Apart from hereditary
tendency and the new demands on the
digestive functions of the young thing,
it is mainly due, especially in calves
brought up at the pail, to long fasts
and subsequent rapid gorging, or being
compelled to drink sour, stale milk,
sometimes given too warm. Some
times, even when fed naturally, the
milk contains injurious matters, owing
to the COW being over-driven, excited,
or having access to foul water, or on
account of the milk having been re-
tanned too long in the udder. The
early symptoms are: a dirty tail, dull
ness, disregard of food and abdominal
fullness, with fluid, bad-smelling yellow
or whitish faces discharged with vio-
lence or pain. AS treatment, the pa
tient should be removedto clean, airy
but warm box. If put on the milk of a
farrow COW, it should have that of one
that has calved more recently; and if
the health of the nurse fails or the bag
cakes, the calf should be supplied from
more healthy source. If the little
thing is given to rapid drinking, an ar
tifcial teat in the pail for it to suck at
will partially remedy the habit. The
stomach should be cleared of irritating
food and acrid discharges by a dose OF
one or two ounces of castor oil and a
teaspoonful of laudanum. If the skin
or membranes of the mouth, nose Oh
eyes, are of yellowish tint, two grains
of calomel and twenty grains OF chalk
may be added and repeated daily fol
some time. A tablespoonful of tincture
of cinnamon, with twenty grains each OF
chalk and gum arabic, will be an excel
lent addition. Finally, if the abdomen
is tense or tender to the touch, it SHOULD
be rubbed over with thin pulp made
of the best ground mustard and tepid
water, and covered with bandage tt
prevent drying until it has taken etfec
on the skin.-RuraI NeW Yorker.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22

ures, and ordered his entire harem to
be tied together by the ankles and
chained to a post. To his great dismay
he found that his servants had been cor
rupted by civilization, and were unwill-
| ing to obey orders that would bring
them into difficulties with the Italian
police. They fatty refused to lay ille-
gal hands upon a single ankle, and the
ex-khedive sadly realized that he was
living in a free and Christian country.
There was nothing for him to do but
to sit up at night and watch his family.
He walked up and down the corridors
! of the palace, bursting into q room
whenever he heard noise, and occa-
sionally catching a wife in the act of
climbing out of the window. But this
could not last. The want of sleep soon
told upon him. Moreover, his wives
| resented his conduct in watching them,
and whenever he put his head out of
| the window, the Italians that stood be-
| low in the street watching for wives,
| and making bets us to who would catch
| the next enc, addressed disrespectful
language to him. Thus he was forced
! to see his harem melting away. Day
/ after day he would walk through the
rooms in which he had arranged his col
| lection and note how many valuable
| specimens were missing. One day it
would be his most costly Circassian who
| had left him, taking all her back hair
| with her, and another day it would be a
favorite Egyptian who had gone, after
solemnly pledging herself never to leave
/ her lord and master. At last it became e
more than the eX-Khedive could bear.
| When no less than fifty-seven valuable
wives had been lost, the eX-khediye
abandoned the palace and fled to Rome,
! leaving the remnants of his once unique
! harem behind him.
1t is said that the five wives which he
left at Naples will probably prove faith
/ full to him, rs they are the most unattrac-
tive of the lot, aud have hitherto failed
to find any Italian who would consent to
take them. The eN-khedive, however,
! has expressed the opinion that he does
not care what becomes Of them. He
has definitely given up the profession OF
Il wife-collector, and he is now living at
a Roman hotel as Il single man. Per
haps he will try to console himself by
collecting postal stamps or other OBJ
! iects less elusive than wives. Mean
while the young Neapolitan dandy no
! longer blocks up the street i'll front OF
the Favorita Palace, and his recent ath-
letic sport of catching the eX-khedive's S
wives as they threw themselves from
the windows is at an end.-N. Y. Times.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
SpaSmOdic Action.

The muscles are endowed with con-
tractile power. They tend of themselves
to draw their extremities toward their
center. The heart is double hollow
muscle, whose alternate contraction and
dilation constitutes it's 50 beatin9.'' The
contraction throws out the blood into the
system, and the dilation opens the heart
for more. The working of this central
engine is so essential that its power to
dilate and contract is, to some extent,
provided for within ITSELF So much so
is this the case that the heart will beat
for considerable time after it has been
removed from vigorous animal. Ger
tain ganglia at the base of the brain
supply the force necessary to motion
the motor nerve-foree. as it is called.
The supply is generated by the nerve
cells in the motor centers, directly from
arterial blood. Withhold the blood
from the motor cells and all motion at
once ceases. The same effect follows
when the blood is sufficiently vitiated
through the failure of the lungs, liver or
kidneys to eliminate it's constantly ac-
cumulating impurities. The motor
nerve-force acts by extending the mus
cles; or, when they are in a state of ap-
parent rest, by simply counteracting the
ooIIuI dCtIlo IeHueHCy. LII tHe CAST Oh
the heart the motor and the contractile
force act alternately. If, through any
cause, the motor force is suddenly
checked, the muscles yield to their nor
NAL tendency, and the result is spasms.
Hence spasms in the dying do not gen
orally indicate suffering, for the nerves
of sensation also, at the same time, fail
of their nervous supply. On the con-
trary, cramps in the limbs at night,
caused by an over use of the muscles,
which has partially exhausted the sup
ply of motor-force, are attended with
pain, inasmuch as there is no diminu-
tiOn of sensational nerve-force. The
| arteries have a muscular coat, by the
action of which the arterial blood is in
creased or diminished. In the case of
the dying and often under other cir
cumstanees-th lessening of the motor
force allows the arterial muscles to con-
tract along their entire course, thus
greatly diminishing the blood supply to
all the nervous centers, and lowering
the power of sensation. Hence the act
of dying is ordinarily painless. Hence,
too, the pallor of the face Youth $
Companion.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
THE EDIrORS SHOES.

By an unseen hand propelled one day,
Ger an area gate came a pair of old shoes,
And when they landed there they lay,
But little apart in the alleys refuse.
few minutes passed, then, like the wind
Ihat mournfully whistles lorn ana lone,
Down the chimney in winter two voices were
heard,
And this their story in cracked minor tone:
Were the editors Shoes worn out and old,
We've served him long and steadily,
Through summers heat and winters cold,
We've borne him oft and readily.
When never nickel for fare had he,
We carried him home without a word.
He walked for his health, he said, and we
Never made a sign that we knew or heard.
And narly's the poet we've helped down
And many 5 the dun we've lodged with him,
And manys the dog we've bounced una-
And often the table we've mounted for him,
And rested sereneiy in all our pride,
While copy he wrote and handed in,
Or proof he read and swore, aside
We were with him always, thick and thin,
When friends grew distant, one by. one,
When his paper languished and the tin
10 keep it running did not forthcome
Then his round, red face grew long each day,
For under his waistcoat, kept apart
2 From all the world, picture lay
OF fair-haired girl, kept in his heart.
He never told her of his love,
But Westward came to work and wait,
His secret kept till he could prove
His worthiness for such a take
And SO he'd pinched and laughed along,
j And ioked and kept his honest way;
He never, knowing, did wrong
Z Or pied MS SICK TIL one Dllck uay-
He put us on the table, tn en-
He smoked his old stub pipe and sighed
1 As, tilted back, he stuck pen
Behind his ear and vainly tried
To make a plan to pay his men
: A meager bill but great to him
To.pay for paper, press-work, when
: The postman tossed a letter in,
Z He picked it up, half reading it,
4 And, reading then, he seemed to bend;
He laid it down. then groaned a bit
And said: "She s dead; this is the end.
Dead. buried, ahi my pretty lass,
I Ny bonnie one, with sweetest name,
! loved her well, but let it pass
1 She's gone, I'll never work again..
We knew it, too, and late that night
He dragged us sttimblng to his home,
And in the gray of morning light
| He shot himself; we saw it done.
I He and his paper both are dead,
! Flied for this world forevernore,.
His copys done, his last proof read,
! locked up the forms, his work is Ger.
With scars and dirt our portion, we,
! Devoid of polish, muddy and worn,
Are flung by vulgar hands to be
I Kicked in the dirt, with ribald scorn-
A gurglng wall, the voices stopped
But the editors shoes lay just the same,
A little apart, right where they dropped
Detroit Free Press.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
Colorado Excursion.

THE Chicago, Burlington d Quincy r. r.
Co., will commence May 1st, 1850, and con-
tinue during tie season the sale of Firs t.
Glass EXCLUSION TICKETS from Chicago and
local points, to Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo, by SIX (6) DIFFERENT ROUTES
fifteen Q5) days from date of sale, and to re-
turn until October 31st following. Pullman
Palace Cars are run by this Company from
sa. City, forming a line with but one change
of cars to Denver and Pueblo. Dining Cars
are attached to all through trains, in which
meals can be obtained at the reasonable price
of seyenty-fiye cents. .H. -...
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
-Cocoanut Custard.-To one pour

-Cocoanut Custard.-To one pound
of grated cocoanut allow one pint
of milk and six ounces of sugar;
beat well the yelks of six eggs,
ald stir them alternately in the
milk with the cocoanut and sugar.
Put into pail or pitcher, set it into
boiling water and stir all the time till
very smooth and thick; us soon as it
comes to hard boil take it off and
serve in cups or tumblers.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22

IT is wonderful what fools boys are. A
charming widow of our city owns nice boy,
and a man from st. Paul wants to be appoint
ed deputy father to the lad. 1t was only last
Sunday that while the St. Paul man was
strolling down Chestnut street with the lad,
he asked: "Bub, does your mamma bang
80, no, but you ought to see her bang dad $
head. Guess the minister didn't know every
thing when he told pa to prepare to die.
Prepare why he was aching to die.'-StiA-
ap0ter Lata1aberpan7a. =, -l-.-l5 . lt-.-.-t-,
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22
l.. +.

The following communication from highly esteemed
citizen of Boston comes unsolicted; the writer
for obvious reasons publish his
time he desires to make known the fact of
his discovery for the benefit of others similarly afflicted:
t-t- BOSTON, MASS
Iessrs. JOSEPH BURNETT & Co.:
GeHttenen-1ou may not be aware of the fact that
your kaiston affords relief in distressing
Complaint called Itching pies. made the discovery
some weeks ago during night of intense discomfort
and suffering by simply applying Kalston bottle Of
seemed TO magical; the itching ceased almost in
stantly, and have had no recurrence.
feel II TO be my duty to make this statement to
hoping that thereby other sufferers be relieved.
Very truly, your Obliged and obedient servant,
Since receiving the above. the proprietors of Kaston
have endeavored fairly its value a specific for
Itching Piles having caused it be used in many ag
relief.
The following letter VIII prove interesting to those
who suffer from this disagrceablc disease:
JANUARY % 1880.
have had the Itching Piles off and since the
war Sometimes have suffered agony, and YOU
nobody knows what pain and misery is, unless they
have had the Itching Piles
Somebody told me that your Kalliston would cure
me- got lotte, and the very first time used it the
| pain and itching was all gone in few minutes. [
think am cured, as have had any trouble from
| for a fortnight.
Another thing about the Kalliston it nice and Clean
N'''' F'F' y NS'' JOS JOSIE E. FOSTER
'- IL Lowell Street.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22

THERE are moments when we think that
the phonetic system of spelling would save a
great deal of sorrow and misunderstanding.
Now there was Toddlekins of our boarding
house who wrote some lines in his girls
album Son a Tear" The poor fellow meant
the crystal article, but his fair one thought
he alluded to a "bust," and sent back his
presents, with a brief note, saying, C Me and
you must part, strangirs yit, farewell; SO it's
all up. .''-Neo York Commercial AdOertiser.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-22

Is past, and DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery will not raise the dead will not cure
YOU if YOUR lungs are half wasted by con-
sumption, or your system sinking under can
cerous disease. 1t is, however, unsurpassed
both as pectoral and alternative, and will
cure obstinate and severe disease of The
throat and lungs, coughs and bronchial affcc-
tions. By virtue of its wonderful Alternative
properties it cleanscs and enriches the blood,
thus curing pimplcs, blotches, and eruptions,
and causing even great eating ulcers to heal.
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