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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Onaan Yictorin,s Pics.

The Queen of England keeps pigs,
but the Queen of Engiand's pigs are on
an equality in the eye of the law with
any other wOman's pigs. This has been
proven in the Justice Court at Slough.
Slough happens TO be in Buckinham-
shire, and that county was not long ago
proclaimed an '.infected district" un-
der the provisions of the act aimed at
the cattle plague. The royal bailif, ig-
norant of the fact, drove six royal pigs
and one royal calf to the market at
Slough, where the vigilant and fearless
bailitf had no license, sent the animals
to the pound and hailed the royal ser
want before the local magistrates. by
whom he was fined, with costs. Inas-
much as Mr.. Gladstone is premier, and
not Lord Beaconsfield. we are in Il po-
sitiOn to assure our readers that the fine
and costs will be promptly stopped out
of her majesty's wares. and not remit
ted, and that the village Hampdens
who, with dauntiess courage pound the
royal bailiff and the pigs, will not be
beheaded with blunt AK for lese-n1o-
5eSte, or even removed from the COM
mission of peace, which would infalli-
bly, nave been their fate under con-
servativc administration.
The incident is not quite SO romantic
as Sir William GascoiCne sending Prince
Hal to prison for landing him box on
the ear, but ii has TIE superior advan-
tage of being true. Hereafter the royal
bailiff Will have to be careful, or, in the
words of the popular provcrb, he may
find that he has brought his pigs to- "a
pretty market.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Great Men.

Colonel Higginson. who is sad over
the scarcity of great men, may find
food for reflection in the following from
the Springfield Rcpujlicou: One mild
consolation which we can offer to those
who lament the decay of great men is
that great men are great humbugs.
Sixty years ago the country was at the
opening of Il long era of pe:uc and rap
id internal development. Ii was also
an era of great men, at least il
seems so now from u distance, although
Webster, Clay and Calhoun spread over
Il period of forty years seems not Il very
generous distribution. What they did
for the country would puzzle ANYBODY
to tell. 1t was discovered in 1860, mt
any rate, that they had left one prodi-
gious job undone. The country with
out. 4 single great man" on either
side plunged into the greatest civil war
of history. The emergency made COM
mon men great, and men who can be-
come great on an emergency may be
pardoned human weakness in more vul-
gar moments. One sympathizes some
times with that homely character in the
old play, who after much disappoint-
ment with the men of genius and bril-
liancy pressed upon his attention, bursts
cut profanely: Il am tired of your
great men and brilliant fellows. Give
me regular old-fashioned damned
foolr'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Bread Making in the East.

On our return an instructive sight
awaited us. We saw how bread was
baked in an adjoining building. TWAS
done with rapidity which explains
how of old the supply was prepared
every day, and how if some guests ar
rived the housewife could make the ne
cessary preparations without delay
(Gen. xviii, g..
Among the Fellaheen the dough is
generally leavened. A large round hole
in the ground, some one and one-haf
feet deep, and the same in diameter,
forms the oven. In this lie some live
Goals, which, as in Hosea's time, (Ho-
sea, vii, g., are not allowed to 90 out
at night, and when the baking has to be
done, are again revived.
The housewife first forms q lump of
dough with her hand, then suddenly
spreads it out with an indescribably
rapid motion of both hands-which can
as little be initiated as conjurer's
movement-into cake as thin as
leaf, which with a moistened dab or
rag she presses into the hot oven where
it remains sticking. In a minute it be-
gins to move, and is at once taken out
to make room for the following one.
The bread is now ready, not thicker
than parchment, not very relishing, and
somewhat sandy on the outside, but
really enjoyable for one who has good
appetite. Although of the size of
large plate, such slice contains but
little nourishment, and Jeremiah could
hardly be saved from starvation when
only one such piece of bread was given
him every day.-ObeM
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

Prof. Fleming Jenkins has stated That
the following are the main conditions
to be fulfilled in putting house in good
sanitary order: l. The liquid refuse
from the house must have free pas
sage to the town sewer. 2. The air
from the town sewer must not have a
free passage into the house drain. 8.
No air or gas from the drainage chan
nels of the house must enter the house.
f. No water or liquid must leak from
those channels into the ground under
the house. 5. The drinking water
must be stored in such manner as to
run no risk of contamination. 6. The
air of the dwelling-rooms must be sup
piled without contamination.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

The Rabbins have a tradition that
before the fall Adam and Eve were en-
cased in a hard, rosy, shell-like skin,
which. after their doleful expulsion
from Paradise, became tender and sem
sitive, as it is with their children to-
day. Only on the tips of the fingers
and toes did the skin remain in its
original state as a token of what it had
been. With this tough cuticle our first
parents may have stalked about bare
footed with comfort; but their children
were reduced to straits enough to pro-
tect their tender soles from the ground
until some ingenious wight discove red
that ''to him whose feet are shod the
whole earth is covered with leather"
Boots are said to have been invented
by the Cartons somewhere in the dim
past, and to have been made of iron,
brass and leather. Homer mentions
leather boots among the Greeks in 9O7
B. c., and undoubtedly they were COM
mon among the ancients at a much
earlier date.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Concerning Parlors.
London Society,

LOnuOn society.
The word ..parlor'' is the remnant of
bygone state of things. The days are
gone past when Sir Charles Grandson
made his stately bow in the cedar par
lor. ''There are no parlors nowadays,
my DEAR" said an old lady, whom we
may call Mrs. Partington, ''except. I
believe. in the public houses" We have
dining-room, draw ing-room, studios,
libraries, smoking-rooms. but the parlor
in the ordinary British mansion has al
most become q thing of the past It re-
mains, in a highly fossilized condition,
as y venerable institution priced by the
lower middle class. ''Will you walk
fly" and always recognize the wretch
ed feelings of that suicidal fly when 1
am invited into what people call par
lor. Very probably it is only used on
state occasions. The family may bur-
row in some subterranean apartment in
the basement. We perceive by hum
dred signs that such parlor is not a
living room, but a dead room. 1t is full
of stiffness and angularities, hard chairs
and still harder sofas. The region in
which the parlor retains any vitality is
the agricultural region. In multitudes
of m-houses, and in some vicarages,
this kind of apartment is still found.
But the British farmer follows hard on
the tracks of the Squire, and gives up
the humber for the more ambitious
nomenclature. 1t is the better class of
laborer and the thriving artisan who
are now aiming at the possession of
parlors. Among them the parlOr is
really happy and an educating influ-
ence. So prevalent have been peace
and plenty of recent years, that in the
suburbs of great towns you may pass
whole rows of tenements in which you
may distinguish pleasant parlors, with
Towering plants filling the windows
and the sound of pianos clashing all
down the row. Still, in special eases,
the name of parlor yet survives. and of
these l would say Il few words. The
parlor or parloir La. po'dbOt0''e;: Fr.
pd,'Oler, pa,iO1), as the name indicates,
is n place wherein to converse. The
waitislT-room of 4 club is essentially 4
parlor; in a less formal, but more real,
sense So is the smoking-room. The old
lady was perfectly correct in her allu-
sion-which, however, was hardly to be
expected of her-tO public houses. 1t
would have been more decent If she
had talked about taverns. And what
glorious talk there has been in tavern
parlors before now! We think of Ben
JonsOn at the Mermaid and Sam John
son ut the Turks Head. There are
still few wits and scholars who haunt
the sanded parlors of hostels about Fleet
street:
"When all his warm heart, sherris-warmed,
Flashed forth in random speeches"
Such men have felt and said that there
is no throne like the easy chair of a
tavern parlor. Perhaps there are other
attractions besides wit and liquor for a
tavern parlor. l know great firm
that advertises for pretty bar maids,
and always sends them home at nights
in special conveyance, to be intrusted
to the charge of most respectable
matron.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
How to Wash Clothes Without Fading.

A lady correspondent sends us the
following receipt, which she has tried
with success on all kinds of fabrics:
Wash and peel Irish potatoes, and then
CRATE them into cold water. Saturate
the articles to be washed into this pota-
to water, and they then can be washed
with soap without any running of the
color 1 have taken oil out of carpets
saturated with this potato water, when
simple cold water would make the color
run rIinously; have set the color in fig
ured black muslins, in colored merinos,
in ribbons and other silk goods. Often
the potato water cleanses sufficiently
without the use of soap; but the latter
is necessary where there is any grease.
In such eases (without soap) take the
grated potato itself and rub the goods
with flannel rag. In woolen goods it
is necessary to strain the water. else
the particles will adhere, but this is not
necessary in goods from which they can
be we'll shaken.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Church Keno.

While the most of our travelling men.
our commercial tourists, are nice
Christian gentlemen, there is OCCASION
ally one that is as full of the old Nick
as an egg at this time of the year is
full of malaria. There was one of
them stopped at a country town a few
nights ago where there was a church
fair. He is blonde, good-natured
looking, serious chap, and having
stopped at that town every month for
dozen years, every body knows him.
He always chips in toward q collection,
a wake or a rooster fight, and the town
swears by him. He attended the fair,
and a jolly little sister of the church, q
married lady, took him by the hand
and led him through the green fields,
where the girls sold him ten cent
chances in sawdust dolls, and beside
still waters, where a girl sold him
sweetened water with sour stomach,
for lemonade, from Rebecca's well.
The sister finally stood beside him
while the deacon was reading off num-
bers. They were drawing q quilt, and
as the numbers were drawn all were
anxious to know who drew it. Finally,
after several numbers were drawn, it
was announced by the deacon that
number fifteen drew the quilt, and tho
little sister turned to the traveller and
said, ''My! that is my number. have
drawn it. What shall do?' '.Hold
up your ticket and shout keno" he
said. The little deaconess did not stop
to think there might be guile lurking
in the travelling man, but being full 81
joy at drawing the quilt, and ice-cream
because the travelling man bought it,
she rushed into the crowd toward the
deacon, holding her number. and
shouted so they could hear it all over
the house. ''kenop' If a bank had burst
in the building there couldn't have
been so much establishment The dea-
con turned pale and looked at his poor
little sister as though she had fallen
from grace, and all the church people
looked sadly at her, while the worldly
minded people snickered. The little
woman saw that she had got her foot
into something. and asked the travelling
man what keno meant. He said he
didn't know exactly, but he had always
seen people. when they won anything
at that game, yell ''keno." She isn't
exactly clear yet what keno is. but she
says she has sworn off taking advice
from pious looking travelling men.
They call her Little Keno now.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Cheap Floor Paint,

Soak glue over night in cold water,
boil it to jelly, mix yellow ochre and
whiting with little water to a light
tint, and stir it into the glue, and apply
warm to the floor, which must be free
from grease. 1t quickly dries, when it
needs coating of boiled linseed oil.
This is not expensive, as half pound
of the cheapest quality of glue will do.
costing twenty-five cents pound, and
in two quarts of water will cover floor
fourteen feet square. 1t must be boiled
in the water in which it was soaked.
The ochre is five cents pound, and a
quart of oil costing twenty cents should
be enough for the second coat, which
will dry over night. 1t is best applied
early in the af rnOon, some day when
an early dinner allows the kitchen to be
shut up till next morning. g.-tMi,iey
Dare.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Mark Twain's Advice to Scribblers.

Here are some words of sarcastic ad-
vice from Mark Twain which are often
put into an editors head by matters not
wholly unconnected with the contents
of his letter-boX; Don't write too
plainly; it is Il sign of plebeian origin,
Scrawl your article with your eyes shut,
and make every word rs illegible as
you can. Avoid all pains taking with
proper names. We know the full name
of every man. or woman. and child in
the United States. and the merest hint
ut the name is sufficient. For instance,
if you write a character somewhat like
a drunken figure 8 and then draw
wave line, we know at once that you
mean Samuel Morrison even though
you think you may mean .Lemuel
Messenger
How we love to get hold of articles
written in this style! And how we
should like to get hold of the man that
sends them-just ten minutes alone
in the woods. with a revolver in our
hip-pocketr'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Sun Storm.
Providence Journal.

Providence Journal.
1t is pitiful to witness the condition
of the sun. The great fire-ball is in
scanned and SCARED in every direction,
with black spots that indicate the dis
turbing elements at work in his chaotic
mass. Occasionally, for day or two,
| the blemishes disappear, and the glor-
| iOus king of day shows Il face like a
shield of glowing gold. But the aspect
quickly changes; spots come rushing in
all directions and assuming all forms.
They appear singly and in pairs, and
again in groups and rows. Immense
groups break up into small ones, and
small onessunite to form great chasms,
into which half q dozen worlds might
be dropped and there would still be
room for more. Sometimes the spots
are visible to the naked eye, and at
that time a good opera glass or spy
glass will make them easily perceptible.
Hundreds of observers all over the
world watch the suns face every clear
day, and keep n record of the number
of spots, their size, and the direction in
which they move, for as the sun turns
on his axis they turn with him, some of
them remaing for months without much
change. some taking on new forms and
some disappearing entirely. Very little
is known of this mysterious sun or the
spots that are visible more than ninety
millions of miles away.
Once in about eleven years the sun
takes on his present sun-spot phase,
and we are approaching the maximum
of disturbance. No one knows the
cause. Some believe that it is plan
etary attraction, some that it is the fall
of great masses of meteoric matter, and
some that it is the result of internal
cOmmotion and the rush upward of
gaseous explosions in comparison with
which our fiercest volcanic eruptions
are but the flicker of flame. Besides
the sun-spot agitation, the gaseous out
bursts are marked and vivid. The
tongues of flame or rosy protuberances
are darting forth in all directions and
bearing their testimony to the solar
commotion. Mr.. Trouvelot, of Cam
bridge, who makes daily observation of
the suns schromosphere, gives a graphic
description of remarkable solar pro-
tuberance that he witnessed on the 10th
of November. When first seen it was
large and complicated, extending up
ward from the sun about hundred
thousand miles. Three or four hours
after it had developed into huge pro-
portions, extending far out into space,
and vanishing gradually to regions
where it could not be perceived. AS
nearly as it could be measured, it
reached Il height of over Il quarter of
the suns diameter, or about two hum
dred and thirty-iive thousand miles.
Such = prOtuberance hurled upward |
from the earth would almost reach the |
moon! Two hours after, the whole |
structure had collapsed, and was only |
about eighteen thousand miles high. |
Observations like.this give an idea of |
the mighty forces at work in the solar |
orb, and make observers long for the |
time when a satisfactory solution may |
be found for this mysterious periodical |
solar disturbance, so intimately con-
nected with the meteorological condition
of the earth.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
German Feast Bread.

When fresh German or compressed
yeast can be obtained, very nice light
bread can be made and baked in about
three hours time. For two large loaves
of bread use three pounds of flour. one
quart of Iukewarm water, one table
spoonful of salt and two ounces of
yeast; dissolve the yeast in the water;
add to it enough of the flour to make q
batter thick enough to hold the drops
from the stirring-spoon when they are
shaken from its surface, and set this
batter or sponge near the stove to rise;
it must be placed where the hand can
be laid without burning, and must be
covered with folded towel. When it
is light and foaming mix in the rest of
the flour and salt, and knead it for five
minutes. using enough more -four to
keep it from sticking to the hands or to
the bread-board, upon which it is
kneaded; form it into two loaves, place
them in separate pans near the stove.
and let them grow double in size; then
prick them with fork and bake them
for an hour in a moderate oven, taking
care that they do not burn.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
Yield of Corn.

During the first season the yield per
acre of corn exceeds the average, COW
ering the period of the last twenty
years, but is less than last year. The
low and flat lands show the largest
yields per acre. The present corn crop
of 250, ,696, ,O56 bushels has been exceed
ed during the past twenty years but
three times, namely, in 1875. 1876, 1879.
The average price per bushel realized
on the 1880 corn crop is 33 cents, which
is six cents per bushel less than the av-
erage price for the past twenty years.
The value of the livestock market in
1880 in Illinois, as confined to hogs and
cattle, aggregated: Hogs, 1922, 1877, 461;
cattle, $17, ,026. 16O.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
The Pathetic Old Man.


Pity the sorrows of poor old man
Whose trembling limbs have borne him ro
your door.
Whose mill Of life grinds out the coarsest
bran!
shore;
Whose path of life winds through desert
waste,
Whose cup of life is bitter to the taste.
" He has no fircsde where a cheerful light
Shines on the faces of his children dear,
He has no children where his fireside bright
Fills all his cottage with its gentle cheer;
He has no cottage where he lives alone,
He begs you for a rest within your own.
He has no lamp to send gladstone beam
Out from his window, as he ncars his home:
He has no window whence the light may
stream,
When he returns resolved no more to
No nodding harvest fills his fertile field;
He has no meadow any grain to yield"
The housewife listened to the woe confessed
And bade him for awhile forget to grieve;
He took her kind advice. and took his rest,
And took her gifts, and humbly took his
leave.
The housewife sitting in her easy chair,
Thought on the man with SO much pain tc
bear:
Thought on his manner-artless, mild and
rare; .t
Thought on the rich, with warmth and food tc
spare:
Thought on the good they might, but would
not share; -s
Thought on the toilworn frame, and silver
hair;
Thought on her silver spoons, with anxious
care;
And thought to go, and gaze a moment where
She left them last-but could not find them
there.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
The Princess Beatrice.

Beatrice, Princess of Great Britain
and Ireland. leads Il ,lreary soU of life
divided between Osborne, Windsor. and
Balmoral. She has no definite duties eN-
ccpt now and again to stand i'll full
dress near her Royal mother at some
exceedingly uninteresting State cere-
monial. Ii she drives out, it is with the
Queen; if she walks in Windsor Park
the Majesty OF England is still with her.
Full of fun and high animal spirits, she
is bound down by rigid Court etiquet
which must be insullerably CALLING.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

The young milkman and his girl
stood before the justice af the peace.
You take this milk-ahem man
for butter or for worse?'' the mighty
man of the law inquired. The girl said
it never a-curd TO her before. but she
supposed she would if that was the
whey.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

Leichardt, young botanist, set ont
years ago to explore Australia lie
went into the Blackall region, and no
tidings of him ever reached his friends.
Recently bushman named Skulthorpe
found Leichardts grave and the botar
pists diary as well, --'------------ -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

The bee is said to be resident of any
climate of the globe. 1t will prosper in
hollow trees in Canada, where mercury
will freeze in the open air, as we'll % at
the equator. 49, ----
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

The vapors of nitrous ether are rec
commended by NJ. Peyrusson as dis
infectant and antiseptic. They have
neither a disagreeable nor hurtful
smell,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

"You are weak" said woman to
her son. who was demonstrating against
her marrying again. "Yes, mother, [
am," he replied; Il am SO weak that I
can't go step-father.'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

In the town of Plattekill, Ulster cOun-
ty, N. Y, there are said to be seventeen
pensioners of the war of 18l2-tWo
soldiers and fifteen widows.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

Ali the popular lighthouses in France
are soon to be provided with electric
lighting apparatus. The contracts have
been already awarded.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

Mother reading: "And every morning
and evening Elijah was fed by the raw
ems, who brought him broad to eat.
Lucy. aged four: ..And was the hgeDd
hutteged, motherpm ---.-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

hopes-is generally known. by those
who only look on and laugh, as ..Only
a lovers quarrelr'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

All Necessaries for the Burial of the ID cad
Furnished Short Notice and on the
Most ReasonabIe Terms. Considerate At
teEtion Guaranteed
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19
A. N. EARR.

A. N. FARR,
AYOTARY PUBLIC, Mantua, o. Con-
IN veyancing, Collections and Pension Busi-
ness promptly attended TO on the most reasoA
abIe terms 6l2-tf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-05-19

Around you once again"
And what dear JOY was ours at last,
to be lost no more forever. Love had
quite conquered pride, and suffering
had taught us a bitter lesson. There is
little danger, think, of our ever again
risking peace and happiness, in the
cruel, bitter, tOrturing misunderstand-
ing, which-while it too often breaks
human hearts, and wrecks human