davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A Dinner Trick.

A game said by correspondent to
have been practiced in New York : "a
respectable man, occupying good posi-
ton in society, was detected in q restau-
rant in the act Of perpetrating most
contemplate fraud. 1t appears that for
many months he had been swindling the
proprietor out Of succulent meals. His
mode was to enter the place, which is
large. and proceed to the farthest end.
away from the cashier. There he would
order first class dinner, which he
would eat at his leisure, take the usual
check from the waiter, and saunter up
the room. Near the cashiers desk is q
lunch counter, where he would halt,
take slight snack, get fresh check
for twenty cents or SO. which he would
present, pay. and walk leisursly out
3hs fellow = row L lxiea11.Ae,~-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
How Gan You Tell a Good Cigar.

They used to say that good cigar
could be known by the light brown
specks on it. These were made by
worms, the story was. and the worms
were epicures in tobacco and would
touch only the best; but the chemists
soon found way of Stimulating these
worm specks. So that spoiled that test.
Then there was no other guide but the
ashes. Ii they burned white the cigar
was good; if not, bad. But the enter
prising tobacconist soon found way
to make the vilest cabbagenia burn as
spotlessiy white as the best Havana.
Another test gone. Finally, the makers
of choice cigars put little red label
around each. This was thought to be
something which would always be sure
guide; and so it would be, but unfortu-
nately some of the manufacturers have,
by strange mistake, but the labels on
the caDbagenias as well as the Havan-
nas.-B0stOn transcript.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A Sensation in the Woods.

Mr.. George Howard tells the following
snake story: He says he was hunting in
the swamp for squirrel, and that as he
was walking along his attention was
called to tree where two or three
squirrels were making terrible noise.
Thinking he would get shot he crept
to the tree, and on the limb he noticed
large snake. and just rs he came near
the tree the snake fell to the ground,
tightly wrapped around squirrel, which
it soon swallowed. He says the other
squirrels were so terror-stricken that
they came running down the tree and
jumping on trees, at the same time max
ing q noise that was an entreaty for
help. He killed the snake, which was
about eight feet long. and the other two
squirrels, and proceeded ON his hunt
AaHan (Ga.l 1slsqrepA as2 AsssaQsr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
George Laws BeginninR,

George Law, who died a millionaire,
began hfe in Troy, N. Y, without .
friend in the world. One day, while
passing along River street, hod-carrier
who was carrying bricks for the nlasons
on an unfinished building fell from the
ladder and broke his leg. Young Law
stepped up to the foreman and said:
Can have that mans place?" '.Did
you ever carry hod?" asked the fore
man. '.No." 'You will break your
leg, and perhaps your neck" Il will
run the risk" said George Law, and
from this beginning he became one Of
the wealthiest builders in the United
States, always running risks" but for
many years everything he touched turned
into gold.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

| ports OF rifles ana the norc0 yeuS q
Indians foated up through the little val
| ley. and the camp was reused in mo
| ment. r
.The devils have jumped in ON Joseph
and his brother" whispered one of the
men, as he stood on knoll and bent his
head to listen.
Good nuff! Cowards have no bus
mess out here" growled the Texan.
The first speaker, wheeled, struck the
| ruffian a sledge-hammer blow in the face
and then running for the horses. cried
| out: .-t
Come on! come on. A dozen of us
| can be spared for the rescue"
Sixteen men swept down the valley
like the wind. The firing and yelling
| continued, proving that the man who
fad been called q coward was making q
heroic fight. In ten minutes they came
down upon the lone camp, made light -
day by the burning wagon. Fifty feet
from the bonfire and hemmed in by .
circle of dancing, leaping, bowling saw
ages, was Joseph's dead body. The
gold hunters heard the pop! pop! popl
OF the boys revolver as they burst into
view, and the next moment they were
charging down upon the demons, using
rifle and revolver with terrible effect. In
two minutes not a living Indian was in
sight. Joseph's brother stood over the
dead body, turning him over with his
hand. The men cheered wildly as they
looked around, but the boy looked up m
their faces without exultation, surprise
or gladness.
There were three dead Indians beside
the wagon. killed where the fight COM
menced, and the corpses in front of Jo-
seph's brother numbered more than the
victims of sixteen men.
us Joseph badly hurt?" asked one Of
the men, as he halted his horse beside
the boy. -
He is deadr whispered the white
faced defender
rs he? God forgive me for the part I
took last nightr'
You called him 4 cowafdrn cried Jo-
seph' brother, land you are to blame
for this! Was he coward? Look here!
and there! and there! We drove them
back from the wagon-drove them off
out here! Joseph is dead! You are his
murderersr'
Every man was near enough to hear
his voice and to note his action as he
picked up the rife Of an Indian and sent
= bullet. through his own head. With
exclamations of grief and alarm trenib-
ling on their lips, the men sprang from
their saddles. The boy was dead-dead
as Joseph-and both eOrpses were bleed
ing from a dozen wounds.
''We'u carry them up to the train and
have burial in the morning." said one
Of the men; and the bodies were taken
up behind two of the horsemen. They
did have funeral, and the men looked
into the grave with tears in their eyes.
for they had discovered thH' Joseplis
brother was woman-ycs. woman
with the whitest throat and the softest
hands. 1t might have been Joseph's
wife, or sister, or sweetheart No one
could tell that; but they could tell how
they had wronged her; and they said
rs they stood around the grave: 1--WE
hope the Lord won't lay it up against
u.s."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Hard of Hearing.

One OF our Boston millionaire rail-
road kings, says the Courier" has a
brother who is quite hard of hearing,
while he himself is known from here to
Burlington in Missouri as having very
prominent nose. Once he went to New
York and dincd at friends house,
whore ne sat between two young ladies.
The ladies talked to him very loudly,
and rather to his annoyance, but he said
nothing Finally one OF them fairly
yelled little. commonplace remark at
him, and then said, in an ordinary tone,
to the other,-
..Did YOU ever see such nose in all
your life?''
Pardon me. ladies'" said our mil
lionnaire; lit is my brother who is deaf. "
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A Woman's Wit,

1t is related that while Wagner was
at Naples he was shaved by barber
who bargained in advance with certain
admirers of the composer to sell them
locks of his iron gray hair. To'his con-
sternation, however, the composers wife
carefully gathered up every hair which
fell from the shears. The barber went
home in despair, but his wife was equal
to the occasion.
1.-The master is a great composer, no
doubt" said she, .'but his hair and that
of our neighbor, the butcher, are much
alike"
The barber took the hint, and those
who had contracted with him received
locks which they resgiously placed
under glass for eternal preservation.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A sDiretions,

A good story is told in connection
with an English Town Council which,
after protracted sitting, was desirous
of adjournirg for lunch. The PROPOSE
ton was opposed by the Mayor. who,
perhaps, thought that under the stimulus
Of hunger his fellow-councillors would
be as much facilitated in the dispatch of
business as was the jury, the other day,
in the NVilberforce case. AT last an illit-
crate member got up and exclaimed, 4
ham astonished. l ham surprised, and I
ham amazed. MIR. Mayor, that you will
not let us go to lunch I'm sur
prised.'' exclaimed one of his colleagues,
THAT gentleman who has got SO much
ham in his mouth wants any lunch at
all -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Good News.

81 have good news for you," said old
Buyerton 10 clerk in his office. ''Your
uncle who died last week left his Ohio
farm to your cousin Ben, and you get
nothing" The clerk laughed loud
laugh Of joyous relief. by George"
he said, that takes load of me. I'm
Gle Ezra was SO mad at me the day be-
fore he died he swore he would leave me
that farm. 1t has two tax titles and
three mortgages on it; there is flaw in
the original patent; five families are
fighting for it; and there is stranger
in posscssion. Ben must have made
the old man awful mad somehow"
And the happy clerk turned to his desk
with q glad livht heart
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Treating an Endemic.

The epidemic which has broken. out
among the bank cashiers attracts a
great deal of attention. The effect of
the disease is to make the cashier lose
all power to distinguish what belongs to
him and what to the depositors Of the
bank. No system of treatment has as
yet been definitely shown to be the best,
but in two of the most prominent cases
the following methods have been adopted.
i. Newark treatment: rather homeo-
pathic. Take the cashier to court, have
him give bail, and then send him back
to the bank to straighten out his &C
counts. BY going overthe figures again
he will be convinced he did wrong and
will agree never to do 50 any more.
Cure guaranteed, but the attack may
occur again. a 1,.
2. Kansas treatment: eclectic . little
heroic. Take the cashier aud tell him
you want your money. IF you don't
get it, take long rope with a moose ct
one end. Then, holding the cashiers
nose. insert his, head in the moose. Pass
the other end Of the rope over the limb
Of tree, then pull on that end until the
distance from the point of the rope
touching the tree to the toe of the cash
ier's boot is less than the distance from
the limb Of the tree to the ground. Con-
tinue this treatment for several minutes
Cure guaranteed. Attacks never occur
again.-Ncu YorE San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
How to Carve a Turkey.

Place your fork in the lower part of
the breast. so as to have the turkey at
perfect command If you understand
your business. the entire carving of the
fowl may be done without extracting the
fork. First remove wing and leg on one
side, then the oths- wing and leg. Then
slice off the breast. remove the ..wish-
bonc," the neck bones and the neck
itself Then cut through the ribs and the
job is fairly done With proper care
there is no necessity of tn,ing the bird
off the table into anybody's lap, but if
this should happen it is perfectly proper
to ask the person to please pass the tur-
key I1adiQnapOlis Times.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
FARM

The origin Of farm-wOrds is one Of the
most interesting Of studies. Take, for
instance, the word farm" which is
one of the most familiar Of our house
hold words. The estates which in time
of the Saxons the lords of manors grant
ed to the freemen, were but for years
at first, with render Of rent, which
in those days contemporary reminds us,
WAS of corn or victuals. Thence the
leases so made were called formes or
farmes. which word signifed merely
victuals In time victuals were turned
into money. and terms of years to terms
of life and inheritance, retaining the
rents, and those called quit-rents. or the
rents of those persons that We're free or
acquitted.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

An Elmirs clergyman reports that the
war ON mutilatsd coins has been good
thing for the oontribution-bOx. A man
who has tried in vain to pass half-dol-
despair and drops it into the Sunday
collection, to which he was formerly in
the habit Of contributing nothing, or at
sell as bullion, at an average reduction
Of B per cent, Of their face value, much
to the advantage Of foreign missionaries
end peor peoHk q la1ae1 -.-..----
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A Erisoo Trick.

or the many tricks Of those who live
by their wits to take in the unwnry, the
''gold nugget pin dodge" is the most
successful This oft-practiced game
was played recently. upon citizen who
prides himself upon being mo fool. -
As he was passing the Baldwin hotel he
saw q seedy, semi-respectable looking
party, who was walking few steps
ahead of him. stop, and STOPPING appear
to pick up something bright, which.
when held up to the light, was seen to
be a nugget pin, evidently solid gold.
and weighing fully an ounce. ''What a
lucky fnd!" remarked the overjoyed
stranger to the citizen. as he gleefully
held It up for the latter's inspection.
''Ifs worth considerable, !" continued he,
land it's windfall to me, for I'm dead
broke. wish could sell it.''
What do you want for it, asked the
unsuspecting victim. who thought he
scented chance to turn an honest pen
ny BY q neat business stroke.
''Well, / don't know what it's worth.
l wish there was a pawnshop open.
Give me 91O and you can have it.''
Ten dollars for 800 nugget; too
much, :" thought the victim, and then
Cant do it, remarked he aloud.
We'll. I am hard up. Now, what
will you giver' persevered the stranger,
who appeared to hesitate to take less.
The shrewd citizen finally secured the
pin for $3.50, only to find when he had
his purchase examined, that it was q
good imitation Of gold, but, being only
made OF brass, it was not worth as much
as he paid for it by GAS The victim
has cut another eyetooth and declares
that he would not buy a gold mine at
any price from stranger. F. Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

An extraordinary amount of capital is
being invested in sheep and cattle rails
ing in Cuba. Including the horses and
mules owned by the planters. it is cal
culated that the value of the cattle of all
sorts in Trinidad valley amounts to S.
100000. Great care is being bestowed
upon the breeding, and the importation
Of sheep, cows, and bulls is increasing
largely, no less than thousand head
having been delivered from England and
the United States at Clenfuegos alone
in Q single week.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
~ 70
The Fall,

Here is a boys, composition on Fall:
This is Fall, because it falls on this sea-
son of the year. Leaves fall. too. as
well IS Thermometers and the price of
straw hats. Old topers, who sign the
pledge in Summer, are liable to fall
when Fall cider-making opens, for
straws show which way the cider goes.
Husking corn is one of the pleasures of
Fall, but pleasure isn't good for boys, l
don't think. :, Old men want a little fun;
let them husk. A husky old man can
GO through good deal of corn, some
times. Digging taters is another of our
Fall amusemenfs.- The way Like to
dig taters is to wait until they are baked
nicely, and then dig them out of their
skins. Most Winter schools open in the
Fall. The best Winter school I ever
went to. didn't open until Spring. and
the first day it opened the teacher took
sick, and the school house was locked up
for the season. Once in while we have
avery severe fall, but nothing like the
fall Of Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden. Summer is misnamed. 1t should
be called pride, for doesn't pride 60 be-
fore a fall?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

Whatp Seven dollars for thisi WHY,
you only charged me $3.50 for-that fine
large oil piece on the wall there" Great
artist: Exactly SO. That little bit in
your hand is done in water-color. They
come high now on account OF the recent
drought
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

1t is calculated that f5. .000, 600, 900 of
gold and silver have been extracted from
the earth since the discovery of gold
mines in California.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

A young married lady of Youngstown.
O., has been suddenly stricken with
paralysis Of the tongue. end is unable to
axticalate q Wega -- -~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

The only really fine poem, SO far az Is
eKubsa Khan ----~---~-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12

An ordinary eight-wheeled passenger
locomotive sells for $13, 500.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Business Cards.

MSS L g. JACKSON,
AEfLEINERY GOODS OF all kinds. Opera
NI Block, Ravenna. %.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A. N. EARR.
j. III. DUcSELL.

TTOSsN Ar Law, Counsel in
IN Eneiirh and German. Ofice over Bel
aIa.s T. Armstrong's Drug Store. Main street.
Ravenna. Ohio
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12

ters, without any connection with the peas
ants, and destined to be for long time
crushed by the majority. This minority i.
potentially the people of the future. 1t
is the martyr OF hum znity." In the wear
lS49, Nine. Sand corresponds with Bar
bes and with Mazzini. She is in de-
spair; everything is going wrong. She is
fallen from her Sinai; she sees the tide of
reaction rising everywhere. She has even
ceased 10 believe in many men; she sees
through Ledru RolliD, through Louis Blanc.
through Proudhon; the leaders of the popu-
lar cause ere not much in her eyes. She
preserves her love for the people in the alb
suact; Il have ten times day" she writes
10 M.zzini, "a serious desire 10 see no more
OF all this, and to blow my brains out.D
She is irTitated al the slowness aud ponder
ousne<s of progress. She has come to the
conclusion that there is really "nothing
to do"
Mime. Sand was cheerful by nature. but
she writes now in a despairing mood. She
says to Mazzini: 81 am yery happv and
tranquil here at Nohan', if one only looks
at the surface. The misfortune OF nv life
is in myself. 1t is my secret appreciation of
all the things which seem 30 cheerful and
which make vibrate in the bottom of nv
soul such lugubrious chords. Be
easy. L wear my costume we'll, but nobody
will probably ever suspect that / am
dying of sorrow" This is probably little
exaggerated. Still, it is clear that Nine.
Sand was not happy, though she had been
educated without any moral ideas, and came
OF a stock in which morality seemed to be
extinct Tread her nemOirs). She was proba-
bly, conscious that she had taken a wrong
view of life and its duties. She was not
contented with the world. She was made
for quiet country life, and she had been
thrown into a tempest of passions.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12
Colored Professors for. Liberia.

The New York Times says that the con-
gregations of the two largest colored
churches in that city-Shiloh Presbyterian
and Bethel African Methodist Episcopal-
were surprised last evening when their re-
spectiye pastors announced their resignations
from their psstorstes and their intentions to
accept professorships in the colored college
of Liberia, Africa, The Rev. II. NJ Browne,
of the former congregation, was called from
his studies abroad soon after the death OF
the Rev. DR.. Garnet, and had not yet been
installed, having been preaching in Shiloh
church for only three weeks. He has been
elected by the Boston trustees OF donations
for education n Liberia to the Charles
Hodge professorship Of intellectual and
moral philosophy in Liberia College. The
Rev. I. McCAnts Stewart, of Bethel Met ho-
dist Episcopal church, has been elected
Charles Sumner professor of bellies Iettres his
tory and law in the same institution. Both
are very young men. Mr.. Browne is thirty
one years of age, and was born in Washing
ton, D. C. He studied in Howard University,
in his native city, and alterwsrd entered
Princeton Seminary, from which he was grad
uated in 1878. He then studied philosophy
for two years in Edinburgh University, in
Scotland, aftef which be read theology and
studied the languages in Germany. He is
unm arried. Mr.. Stewart is twenty-eight
years of age. He was born OF free parents
in Charleston, S. c., and was graduated from
the University of South Carolina in 1875.
For two, years he practiced law in South
Carolina, and wss professor Of Mathematics IN
the State Agricultural College for two years.
Mr.. Stewart then entered Princeton Seminary.
but after studying for two years was obliged
to give up on account of failing health. In
1850 he was called TO Bethel Methodist Epis-
copal church 10 succeed the Rev. William
F. Dickerson. who is now bishop of South
Carolina. The two young professors will
start for their new field of labor together in
February. They go by way of Liverpool,
and will spend q month 10 Scotland, En-
gland. France and Germany.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12

close examination Of the tables of the
census OF 1870 shows no uniform rate or pro-
portion between suicide and insanity. The
difference is inexplicable by any known law.
DR.. ODea thinks that causes which tend 10
increase insanity also tends to increase sui
eide. About thirty per cent. of the insane
are inclined to melancholis, and about
thirty-hve per cent OF melancholic insane
develop suicidal tendencies. In Europe
about one-third OF the suicides are insane.
Authorities are quoted On. M. Bronc and
DIR. Lisle) who believe that the diffusion OF
education and intelligence increases the rate
OF suicides in France, but Mr.. Bell seems in.
clined to question this
A number OF tables as to nationalities and
| so on are then given, and the remark is made
| that the proportion of suicides in San Fran
cisco aud the cities of Nevada is very large
| ly In excess of Nav York, PhiIadelphia Of
Brooklyn. From another table il appear
that Portugal has the smallest ratio Of sui
eide and Denmark the largest of all nations
In Portugal there are seven to 1000 popu
lation and in Denmark 288. In Saxon]
there are Isl, in Switzerland FOG, in Franc
lilo, in Ireland only sixteen, in the Unitet
States forty and in England and Wales sixty
eight.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-12
The aIRLs.
Hear the laughter Of the girls

Hear the laughter of the girls
Pretty girls.
What fund of merrimen emit each ruby lip unfurls
How they chat ter, chatter, chatter,
In the balmy air of night
While he stars that over spatter
All the heavens hear their clatter
In a soft and mild delight,
To the tintinnabulatlon that. unceasng, ever puri
From the girls, girls girls,
Girls girls girls
From the wild, capricious, saucy, jaunty girls,
See the flirting of the girls,
Radiant cir 81
How the lovers softened brain wildly whirls
Through the mazes of the ball,
Up and down the stately hall
How he skips TO and fro
And perspiresl
Would that we could tell the idiot all we know
OF the hres
Into which the false one hurls
Each new whim-see the hAme-how 1t swtrs
How it curlsl
How IL curlsi
Better far that they were churls,
Than tall victims to the girls;
To the prattle and the rattle
OF the girls girls, girls,
Or the girls, girls girls, girls.
Girls, girls, girls
To the sackiDg and heart-racking OF the girlsl