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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-25

Group, whooping cough aad bronchi-
tbs Immediately relieved BY Shiloh's
Cure. For sale a. Thaxter's.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-25

Don't forget to go to Cohn's grand
clearance sale.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-25
New goods and lowest prices at M.
Cohn's grand clearance sale.

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you have IA printed guarantee on every
bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. 1t never
fails to cure.
A Nasal Injector free with each bottle
of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price 80
cents.
The Rev. George H. Thayer, of
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and wife owe our lives to Shiloh's Con-
sumption Cure"
Are you made miserable by indiges-
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mouth.
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ShilOh's Cure will Immediately re-
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-25

All goods marked in plain fgrues at
NJ. Cohn's grand clearance sale.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05

No one wants to read tiowery writing
nowadays. Common sense rules the
pen. A poetic youth wanted to inform
the prOsaic world that there had been -
fall of snow: "Thc angels Iust1ed their
wings at the hour when Aurora goes
forth to fulfil her mission, and the earth
was covered with iloecy mantle of
white" But the editor quietly dropped
it into the basket, and wrote in
stead: ''Snow fell Lhis morning." Here
is an example, from country paper, of
the ambitious style of a weather para
graph: ''Aftcr "a long period of unset
tied weather, it must have gladdened
every one yesterday morning when the
sun, with all his glorious brilliancy and
splendor, shonc forth, with golden ray
scattering cloud and mist, and with his
cheering beams and glowing smile
causing the birds to sing, the trees of
the forest to rejoice, and the flowers of
the field to unfold themselves in bright
array" Why not have simply stated
that fine weather had ut last set in? 1t
was also a country brother who thus be-
gan a paragraph announcing the sud
den demise of q local shoemaker: 1--WE
are being constantly reminded Of the
inexorability of death-the certain, and
it may be sudden, visit of the angel
with the amaranthine wreath, as death
is 50 beautifully designated by Longtel-
low-and it is our painful duty to-day
to chronicle the melancholy fact that
one who has played his part, and played
it well in life, has passed through ma
turc to eternity" No editor would
pay penny line for that sort of thing
in these enlightened times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
How Tarautulas Fight.

There was recently received in Dem
yer, for store exhibition, two full-growu
tarantulas, one of the brown and the
other of the black variety. The brown
fellow was Gagged in common 0igar
box and the black one in a glass Jar. As
they could not be exhibited to advant.
age in contrivances of this kind and as
they were not very pleasant company to
have running about loose, q box almost
two feet square with a glass top was
procured, on the bottom of which lay
er OF sand was spread to make the ami
mails feel at home. The cover was then
drawn and the two spider pitched into
it from their separate cages. No SOON
er did the one discover the others pres
ence than they rushed at each other as
viciously as two panthers, and immedi-
ately closed in deadly embrace. They
came together with bound, and then
twining their long hairy legs about
each other rolled over and over in the
sand, biting each other savagely, and
then tugging with all their might as il
endeavoring to crush each other by
sheer muscular power. Incredible rs il
may seem, this sort of warfare was kept
up for six hours, during most of which
time it could not be seen that either was
gaining the slightest advantage, as
neither showed any sign of disposition
to end the fight except by the death OF
his adversary. At last the black one
succumbed and rolled over dead on the
sand, while the victor Immediately pro-
ceeded to reap the spoils of his long
battle. Selling his vanquished enemy
in his stout horns, or pincers, or what
ever contrivance he has for that pur.
pose, he rapidly tore him limb from
limb, and coolly proceeded. in true can.
nibalistic fashion, to make meal OF
him. In very short time nothing vas
left except little pile of legs and pieces
of shell to mark the spot where one tar
antula had fallen and another had dined
Denrer Tribune
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
Gastronomic Gossip,

Fish and shell-tish dinners are being
carried to extremes.
Eight out of dozen salads are ruin.
ed by inferior olive oil.
Van au vent of frogs maketh the cpl.
cures hair stand on end.
1t is only the French cook who can
make the toughest steak tender.
There has been a considerable amount
of mushroom literature of late.
An authority says the best way to eat
oranges at a table is with spoon.
Spoony couples should bear this fact in
mind.
The caster is no longer necessary
article of table furniture-in fact, it is
dispensed with altogether on many
handsomely-set tables: its place is sup
piled by pretty jug-shaped bottles al
each end of the table, which is certain
ly a more convenient arrangement
The Same tables are provided with pret.
ty and quaint individual bottles at each
plate.
Cookery is an art for which peculiar
talent IS necessary to bring forth good
results. 4 serious error is to suppose
that the subject of what one eats and
drinks is unimportant, for the fact re.
mains that scarcely one material con-
sideration is of so far reaching effect as
that of the kitchen. When one reflects
upon the dependence of the mind and
character upon the bodily condition,
and how closely the latter is involved
in the material that supplies it, one can.
not escape the conviction that a good
cook is a public benefactor, and the ca
terer who feeds his fellow-creatures
wisely and well is greater than he who
takes city.-Hotet Mail. -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
Kentucky Philosophy.

YOU Wtyam, come ere, sab. dis nstunce. WI
DO ~pnt no foolin'-yo1 hear me2 wut you
peshs IL ne g you9 ovdashns 16i sJSfS pficler spos
m dcys Nv new kline.
IN dee take look at dem rocks. Hi vel der
tou THINK dat rs bllne?
calls dFt plain waterTnillfon, you scamp, an
Knows whah it growed;
It come FUN de Jjmmerson Gavin ficl, dab on
ter side cr dc road.
You stole It, you rasoal-you stole it! watch
ed you fun down in de lot,
En- time gits though wild you. nigger, you
won't eb'n be grease spot!
TIL fix YOU: Mirapdyi Mirandyl go cut me a
En- cut me de TOUCHES en- you c'n fine any
whar on de place.
TIL larn you. Mr.. Wfyam Joe vetters, ter steal
On ter lie, you young sinner
DlssraGfn 20 ole Christian nanny, en- max
in her leave cookin' dinner!
Now amt you ashamed er yo'se'f, SURF / is
rs 'shamed you's my son!
En- de. holy accorjan angel he's shamed er wut
you has done;
En- he's tuck IT down ND yander in cOaI-black
blood-red letters
Zone watermillion stolen by Wi'yam Josephus
Vetters.'
En- what you sposon Brer Bascom, yo' teach
cr Mt Sunday-school,
I'd say Of he knSwea nov hoy you's broke de good
Boy, whah's de raisin' give your Is you boun'
fun to be black villion?
rs Gprised dat chile er 20 manImy 'ud steal
any mans watcrmiliion.
En- rs now gw1ner cut it right open, en- you
shan't have nary bite.
Fun boy who'll stca watermilions-en dat
TN dc days broad light
Amt Iawdy! it's green! Mirandy! Mi
randy come on wi dat switch!
We'll, stcalin' n g-r-f,-e-n watermellon! Who ev-
er yeorod tell cr des sich.
Can't tell won dey's ripe? wy, you thuGlp
um en- wen dey go pank dcy Ia green;
But " en- dey 50 punk, now you mine me, deys
ripe-en dat's des wat l mean
Bn mex time you hook watermllions-you
hcered me, you ign ant, you hunk
Ri you do want lickin' all over, be sho dat
dey alters TO "punkI'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
Mt to buy drink there wan nene

went to buy a drink there want ll9ne
thar.
T. I'm sorry your whisky's all
gone, but. my friend, why don't you
play the balance Of that tune?
s. It's got no balance to it.
t. mean you don't play the whole
of it.
S. Stranger, can you play the hddul!
T. Yes; little, sometimes.
S. You don't look like tiddlur, but
eff you think you can play any more on
to that thar tune, you kin just try it,
(The traveller takes. the fiddle and
plays the whole of it.)
S. Stranger, tuck half-a- dozen cheers
and sot down. Sal, stir yourself round
like Six-horse team in mud-hofe. Go
round in the holler where | killed that
buck this mornin', cut off some of the
best pieces, and fetch it and cook it for
me and this gentleman Directly. Raise
up the board under the head of the bed,
and get the old black jug / hid from
Dick, and gin us some whisky. [
know there's some left yit. Til, drive
ole Bose out'n the bread-tray; then
climb up in the loft and git the rag
that's got the sugar tied in it. Dick,
carry the gentleman's hoss round under
the shed, and give him some fodder and
corn. much rs he kin eat.
Til. Dad, they amt knifes enuff for
to sot the table.
S. Whar's big butch, little butch,
old case, cob-handle, grannY's knife,
and the one / handled yesterday? That's
ehuff' to sot any gentleman's table, out'n
you lost um. Durn me, stranger, ef
you can't stay rs long as you please,
and Fll give you plenty to eat and
drink. Will you have coffey for supper?
T. Yes, sir.
S. I'll be hanged if you do, tho.
We don't have nothin' that way here
but grub HysOn. and | reckon it's
mighty good with sweetenin'. Play
away, stranger; you kin sleep on the
dry spot tonight.
It. (After about two hours fiddling.)
My friend, can't you tell me about the
road I'm to travel tomorrow
S, Tomorrow! Stranger, you won't
get out'n these diggins for six weeks.
But when it gifts SO you kin start, you
see that big sloo over thar? Well, you
have to git crost that; then you take the
road up the bank, and in about mile
you Ii come to Il atwo-acre-and-a-half corn
patch. The corn's mitily in the weeds,
but you needn't mind that; just ride on.
About mile and 4 half or two miles
from there you'll come to the d-dest
swamp you ever struck in all your
travels; it's boggy cnuff to mire a sad
dle-blanket. Thar's u fust-rate road
about six feet under thar.
T. How am to get at it?
S. You can't get at it nary time
till the weather stiffens down sum.
Wen, about a mile bycant you come to
place whar thar's no roads. You kin
take the right hand eff you want to;
you'H folier it a mile or SO, and you'll
find it's run out; you'll then have to
come back and try the left; when you
git about two miles on that you'll know
you are wrong, fur they amt any road
thar. You'll then think you're nifty
lucky to lind the way back to my house,
whar you kin come and play on that ar
tune as long as you please.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
Socrates,

Great men with great ideas are mis-
understood by our world. Socrates,
who opposed the Sophists by using their
own weapons, was confounded with
these Sophists. Aristophanes, in his
COMEDY of the Clouds" makes So
crates figure as the chief of Sophists
HIS teaching, which insisted more on
living moral life than the mere formal
oil rvance of the service OF the gods,
was said to be ''corrupting in its infu-
ence upon the youth and undermining
all true discipline and morality" He
was accused of introducing new gods.
He was tried, and on account of his
naughty bearing condemned to death.
He told his judges that so far from be-
ing condemned, he ought to be support
ed at public expense for the rest of his
life as benefactor of the state.
He brayed his judges. Socrates
could plead his own cause; his friends
were true to him. 20. Athenians, had
you waited n short time the thing would
have happened without your agency,
for you see my years; l am far advanc-
ed in life and near to death" at is
now time that we depart, / to die, you
to live; but which has the better destiny
is unknown to all except the God" So
crates would have been put to death on
the morrow after his condemnation but
that it was the first day of festival.
He waited thirty days.
During the thirty days which he spent,
in prison he was engaged with his
friends in cheerful conversation. These
companions gathered around him, lis
tening to his every word. He talked of
the life beyond. Socrates was an old
man compared with his friends. He
had seen the three-score years and ten.
He was ready to give up life. He had
ascended the hill-he had seen life from
its height. No young hopes and am
bitions filled his soul. The thirty days
were up. The day he was to drink had
come. The hour came, and with it the
administrator of the poison. elbow
shall take it?" asked Socrates. s'Simp-
ly drink it, then walk round until
heaviness comes upon you. After this,
lie down, and soon the poison will have
done it's work" This Socrates did.
Soon the heaviness came, the body be-
came cold, and the spirit quietly passed
away. 1t was at sunset, and the rays
of that setting sun still give glory to the
prison of Socrates. es.-ReU. Albert Walk
Iou
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
Snmnanhnlism in DOGS.

There is something peculiar about
somnambulism when considered from
scientific and philosophical standpoint.
The sleep-walker. it will be found, still
retains dim idea, even while he is
asleep, of the condition of affairs when
he went to sleep. For instance, if he
leaves his clothes in a certain part of
the room on retiring, he knows when he
rises just where to find them, even in
the dark. This is Il question which
opens up a wonderful field for physio-
logical and mental research.
While young and giddy we became
sOmnambulist and excited great deal
OF curiosity by our strange freaks dur
ing sleep, and this one question of the
slumbering mind and its memory of
facts existing prior to sleep was the
most remarkable thing about it all to
us. We puzzled over that good deal.
At night we would retire to rest and the
next thing we would know we would
wake up in the middle of q contiguous
melon patch, and there would be two
or three other somnambulists there in
the same patch, and as much surprised
rs we were. Still there is the same
truth staring us in the face. Every
somnambulist there bad through his
sleep retained in his semi-conscious
state a perfect recollection of where ev-
cry article of his clothing was and how
to get out of the upstairs window with
out waking the old people
Bye and bye the owner of the melon
patch procured, at great expense,
large humorous bulldog, who was also
y somnambulist He walked in his sleep
good deal. That is why we quit. We
didn't propose to descend to the level of
the brute creation. We just said, if
bulldog wants to somnam, he can do so
and we will leave the field to him.
We made this resolution one night
just after we had plugged waterlnel-
on. While STOPPING over in the act, we
felt q pang of conscience and heard our
suspenders break.
Perhaps the casual reader has never
sat down on buzz saw and felt himself
gradually fading away. If 50 he does not
know what it is to form the acquaint-
ance of a somnambulist bulldog in the
prime of life.
After that, somnambulism didn't have
such run in our family for awhile.
We never slept SO sound that we didn't
remember places and objects that had
made an impression on us prior to slum-
ber, and that is why we say that there
is something in this matter that scien-
lists would do we'll to look into
Boomerang.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
A Readers COMPLAINT,

I have never wished that had been
born in some other century than the
nineteenth. Our age, if not pictures
que one-and | think it has its pictures
que aspects-is, without doubt, the most
comfortable to live in, take it on the
whole, the world has yet known. 1t
seems to me that persons of rational
mind and humane disposition cannot be
too thankful to belong to it, for it is
hard to see how such persons could ever
have enioved life in earlier times as we
of the latest days can. The world has
certainly gone forward, and the feature
of its progress that I chiefly rejoice in
is its advance in humanity. The elder
world-the world but very little elder
than our own-was such q terribly cruel
one! The only objection to living in the
present time that l know of is the in
creased quantity of things one must
know, or would like to know. Eight
eenth-ceLaury people didn't have to read
Leckv's history of their times in four
volumes, or hundred thousand other
books it now seems obligatory upon all
cultivated persons to acquaint them
selves with. Nowadays one is required
to read a small library every year, If
one would have even q smattering OF
knowledge on the various subjects that
invite an intelligent mans interest The
specialists, in the abundance of whom
we glory, carry investigations so far for
ward, each in his own line, that the
general reader cannot hope to do more
than accept a number of things at sec
ond hand, or be content to have no un-
derstanding of them at all. 1t is hard
to resign ones self to ignorance of so
many Interesting matters, and yet that
is what one seems driven to. One finds
that the first thing to learn is 'how
much need not be KNOWN" which is
perhaps sort of sour-grapes wisdom,
bat apparently the only wisdom obtain
able -AUl7itic
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
He Scorned Dishonesty.

An easy-going, honest-minded old
country merchant in Iowa had been in
trade for dozen years when he took in
his son as partner. The boy had
lived in Chicago for three or four years
and was up to.snuff. One day after the
partnership had lasted about seven
months, the old man came down in
the morning and found the doors of the
store closed and sign up to the effect
that the firm had failed. He walked ovel
to his sons house and asked: james,
did you lock the store?' Il did. "
What is the matter?'' why, we
have failed, and can only pay Is cents
on the dollar" James," continued
the old man as he pulled down his hat,
Pm going down and open the door
with a crow-bar, and resume business
at 100 cents on the dollar! For thirteen
long years have given fifteen ounces
to the pound and measured both fin
fers with every yard of cloth, and the
idea of taking any further advantage ol
the Lord goes sgin my conscience. Just
consider that we have resumed, ano
come along and scrape out them sugal
barrels, ,"-IFalt Street NeU$.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
o., A Tornedo Launch,

There are many interesting phases of
life at Newport (writes a correspond
enD upon which one may hope to find
time to touch, but the diversified chap
pening things of this week rightly
claim present attention. Monday dawn
ing clear and bright after hot Sunday,
showed the New York yacht squadron
in the harbor, and promised most in
teresting exhibition in the afternoon at
the torpedo station, to which .Capt.Ei
Selfridge Gan old Boston boy) had bid
den number of his friends, including,
besides a large delegation from the
aforesaid yachts, Chief Justice Waite
and Mr. Justice Blatchford, of the su
preme court, ex-Gov. Morgan, and
seventeen torpedoes had been success
fully fired, we had an opportunity of
witnessing the most wonderful perform
ances of the torpedo launch invented by
Lieut.. Mclean, y. S. N, of which it
seems to me that far too little notice
has thus far been taken. Suppose we
wish to attack a certain port, and the
entrance to its harbor is thickly sown
with the most deadly of modern fixed
torpedoes. Naturally we wish to destroy
those tornedoes, or at least break all
the connections with them. Well, along
side vessel a mile away from the OBJ
jective point lies a Misunderstanding lit
tie launch without soul on board and
on the deck of said vessel stand two na-
val officers, one of them with his fingers
on the keys of just such a little box az
the late Jim Fisk used to call the heads
OF the departments of the Erie railway.
GO ahead" says the officer, looking
through his glass. His comrade de-
presses the index finger, and the launch
starts straight to its destination. "Star-
board littler Down goes his forefin-
ger. ''Starboard it ISL and, like
thing of life, the boat turns ''Steadp!
Port littlen' and again it obeys. This
is not the Alaska, but it is making good
time, and coming up to the line of tor
pedoes. OF course the enemy is firing
at it, but it is small object, and there
are no lives to risk. Stop her Let
go?' The finger is again on the button,
and then there is one more command.
''tire!' There is a tremendous explo-
sion, q volume of water rises into the
air and-the road is open, and the ad-
miral can make the signal for the ad-
vance. Something like this happened
on Monday, on a reduced scale. There
WAS no enemy to speak of, and every
body was SO friendly that none could be
improvised, but do not see why this
wonderful launch should not do in real
war just as well rs it did at Goat Island.
Where the necromancy comes in is the
handling of all the machinery by sim
ole wire
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-10-05
A Gentle Horse.

Eli Perkins writes: Ny wife, having
been run away with once, is always
afraid the horse is going to run away
with her again. Yesterday when Har-
rington, who runs the Maplewood Hall
stables, brought up span, he had to
stand the usual questioning:
''Now, are they very gentle?''
80, certainly--kind as Kittens"
'tDid they ever run away?"
'.Never"
''Do you think they could run away?i
Harrington looked at the horses sadly
and said: Madame to be frank with
you, l don't think they could"
''Well, have they ever been frighten-
edP"
''No, never. Nothin' could frighten
EN-" said Harrington.
HAS anything ever happened to them
that would have frightened them if they
had been skittish?" continued my wife,
earnestly.
"Wel1, yes, ma am; su' thin did hap
pen thuther day that would have skeer-
ed 'em eff they'd been skittish."
''What, Harrington-what?"
"Why, was drivin' along down the
Woolsey hill; storm came up, an six
stTedhs ssl HS Sntuln SbEucK Inem nOrteS
right on the head, and
''Did they runp"
mo, ma'am; they didn't move; they
jest stood still and paved the ground for
more lightnin'. They liked it.''
"An', the next day." continued liar
rington, "a city feller was drivin' yi,is
team, an he let railroad train 90 rig ht
through EN-
Ibid it kill themP''
mo, hut the city feller was all used
up. But you oughter a seen them
horses. They acted so human like
Why, when they picked them out of the
trees, they walked straight up to the city
feller, took him by the seat of his pam
talOons-''
''Oh, myr'
Lifted him right back into the wagon
again, and"
my gracious mep'
'And then they hitched themselves
back onto the wagon and drove them
selves home. Didn't they Mr.. Ket-
telleP' York Commercial AdUey-
tiSer