The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-12-22

There was young Indian Sioux
Who said to- his comI7tdes: "Oh, phioux
Are thy numbers. q braves,
But we still can NIL graves
With the Yankees, without much adioux
The four principal druggists OF Us
wego. N. Y, are said to have 345 regu-
lar morphine customers. Many OF
them are from the country round about
the village
A clerk in a large down town hard
ware store, saws the Boston Journal
has been unfortunate enough within two
years to sell pistols to six persons who
have bought them. as it afterward
proved, for self destruction
A lady in Kinds county, Mississippi.
has been managing her husbands farm
during his absence for the past year.
She has paid all her supply bills and
also lifted a heavy mortgage of the
land with the proceeds of her crops
A cry from the heart-Little Ounce
Cooking up suddenly from her history
book: "Oh. mummy. darling, Il do
wish had lived under James H."
.Why?' Little Ounce: ''Becausc. 1
see here that education was very much
neglected in his rcignr'
Is your wife n democrat or republic
camp asked one Rockland citizen of
another in a store this morning. "She's
neither" was the prompt responses and
then glancing cautiously around and
sinking his voice to hoarse whisper,
he explained, .she's Il home ruler.
A very absent-minded man, who Of
ten asked n friend to dino with him.
but almost always forgot to be himself
at home on the day named. meeting
his friend in the street. said: Come
and dine with me on Thursday" and
added. graciously: Il will be there.
A gentleman in conversation with q
lady, vaunted the grace and wit OF q
new acquaintance whom he had met at
a watering place. ''Is she pretty?"
asked the lady. "Not so bad" he an
swered. ..indeed she resembles you
somewhat-in look"
A late French caprice is to wear ear
rings made of real Brazilian beetles.
Another style is that of tiny bird
about an inch long made OF fine, beau
tiful dyed crimson and green. The
ewes of the bird are formed of dia-
monds.-F'ashion Exchange. Wehave
ordered case of each.-Net0 York
Star.
A party of men at Milton, Oregon,
the other night, took DR.. Rinearson
out, stripped him. gave him a coat OF
tar and feathers, and ordered him to
leave. The cause was that he brag ged
about seducing mans wife,. The doc-
tor failed to leave town, and has been
locked up. p.}i
j. A. Bell, an ex-member of the Ken
tucky legislature, who, having become
incenscd at u negro, took him, with the,
aid of two companions, to stable,
tied his hands ard feet. and gave him O.
furious whipping, has been forced to
pay $3.50.
Isaac Nj. Phybe, an old resident OF
New York. died in Brooklyn recently.
He remembered going hunting in the
woods near Canal street. and seeing a
whipping post in City hall park. He
enjoyed the honor of seeing every pres
ident from Washington to Grant, ana
he was also one of the pall-bearers at
the funeral of Henry Clay. He was
captain in the war of 1912.
The San Antonia Times publishes an
account of the deliberate suicide Of o
horse as follows: The horse was in a
lot next to the river. and went into the
water apparently to drink. Its head
was refined up with check rein, and
the animal could not get his head down
TO the water. 1t made several ineffect-
ual attempts TO drink. and. falling, de-
liberately laid down in the water and
was drowned.
Adam Boyle. of Battleford, Canada,
has hit on new way Of raising pota-
toes Being pressed for time in the
spring. he dug holes in the sod and
dropped in the cuttings, covering them
lightly with earth. This was all the at
tc.,tion they received, and lie realized
i heavy crop Of large and fine looking
potatoes.
Few people," says "a writer, ''realize
what a wonderfully delicate structure
the human ear is II is a remarkable
organ. that's n fact. Ask "A man for the
loan of SO. and the chances are that
his ear won't hear you. Softly whisper
''come up and take something" and
the ear manifests an acuteness that is
really marvellous. Noi13stOocR Her
all
A letter from Niagara Falls says:
''1he Oneida Community are moving
their works here from Waliingford,
Conn, the water power there not being
sufficient They are going to manufac-
ture spoons of all kinds, and every kind
of chain, from tho finest gold watch
chain TO the heaviest OK chain- They
will employ abont two hundred men.
They have already received $25, 600
worth of orders.''
The organization known as 'the Har-
founded by Father Rapp ut
Economy, Pa. many years ago, has ac-
property 10 the value of TO-
Geo, coo. There are about one hundred
oil men and women belonging to the
and in Il few years mt
most they will pass away. As there
are no legitimate heirs the State will
likely administer upon the estate and
inherit the wealth.
A young couple in Trousdale county. 1
professed religion on the
same day in the same church; were 4
in the same creek in the same
hour, by the same minister. and wetc
united in marriage before changing |
local paper pronounces .'progress.n
1t is estimated that the SUMS light is !
equal to four hundred billion billion |
gas Jets. But this is not particle of |
value to our people. To borrow the |
idea of some other fellow, the sun
doesn't shine at night. when we most
need light. and in the day time it is
light enough without it.-No1TisfOUn
Herald
company of minslrels were in Ii
tusviIle, Pa, recently. and the wicked
boys played liitle game on the door
lender that is worth telling Half a
dozen of them got some Western Union
Telegraph envelopes and. sealing them.
up to the door one at time
and asked if they might please go in
and deliver this message. The ac-
door-tender allowed the
boys to pass until four or five were
within the hail. Just as two more came
up the manager of the telegraph Office
happened to come along, and lie quick
y put the astonished door-keeper up to
.he dodge. 4zpgs
Specimens of a new method of coun-
silver coins were received at
he Treasury Department recently. The
,oin is cut in three pieces and portions
,f it filed off. The pieces are then put
ogether again by the use of solder
Coins manipulated in this way are not1
ID much smaller than the original that