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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Washing Day in a California Camp.

To such depths of degradation had
come at last that | must wash my own
clothes, and thought it ''demnition
grind' indeed. Had been as fastidi-
GUS as some people are, they might have
gone unwashed until the summers end
for all of me and my drudgery, but my
baser nature prevailed, and went forth
laden like a slop-shop peddler, to wash
my clothes. Over the valley and half
way up the hill was pool of warm
mineral water, which was better than
concentrated lye for this purpose, SO
they said. By its side there sat an In
dian, solemn and alone, probably come
here on a mission like mine, and con-
templating, with timorous hesitation;
the event of his annual clean shirt. He
looked at me and smiled. He saw the
burden l bore, realized my intentions,
noticed my hands, the cut of my whis-
kers, and other such items of appear
ance, and almost laughed outright
Well, what of itp
To say that 1 was nettled by his mirth
and evident enjoyment is to put it very
mildly. I could have slain him forth
with had l not feared remonstrance on
his part. AS it was, could only take
revenge, which proved to be ample and
sweet, by teaching him lesson in the
useful art of washing. From the no
ment in which dipped the first garment
into the water he became interested.
When l drew it out and shattered it
around upon the rock which was my
wash-board, and plastered it with soap,
which l rubbed with my knuckles, just
as had seen my vii beg her pardon
my washer woman do, he smiled, not
in derision, but in delight. Then 1
mangled the cloth, tortured it, twisted
it, and wasted the better part of my
strength on it. After a time of exertion,
emerging from sea of lather and suds,
l gave the cleansed garment pull
through the fresh water to rinse it, and.
with many dextrous twirl of hand over
fist, I wrung it dry. Holding it before
his ewes, shook the folds of the flannel
TO the breeze, and 10, they were as blue
as the depths of Heaven at midday.
The stole savage could no longer
contain his admiration within himself,
and he cried in his confusion of tongues,
"You sa6e m,,achon' Which polygot
compliment may be translated to mean.
''You've washed before. Like rs not
your wife takes in washing for iveli-
LoOdr'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Playing it Fine on a Lone Mourner.

Haven't got few roses growing out
in your back yard, l reckon" suggested
a seedy man to the cashier, ga few lit
tie faded roses, with d bit O leaf and a
string to tie 'em up with?"
Haven't got.any back yard to begin
with,' replied the cashier.
'.Not even little Bit of pink or
blue bell or forget-me-not?'' sighed
the seedy man, anxiously.
Nothing of the sort growled the
cashier. Don't keep 'em.''
Couldn't you get me a dandelion or
bunch of grass?'' entreated the seedy
man. just little something to put
on child's grave. A plantain leaf, q
sprig of parsley, just cabbage leaf.
even. I want something green for an
infants tomb. Can't you find me a
little something to decorate my baby's
grave?"
Been dead long?" asked the cashier,
wiping his eyes.
''Three days" sobbed the bereaved.
"If could only get wisp of straw or
a bale of hay, to show that [ had not
entirely forgotten that lone grave"
Take thisr' roared the cashier,
tearing the nosegay from his button
hole.
''God bless your calculated the seedy
man; ''God bless you and yours! Do
you think it will keep fresh while walk
to the cemetery? It's only four miles" :"
walk, manr' clamored the cashier,
with misty eyes. ''Walk! you must
ride to that lone grave and deposit
your offering of love. Here, take this
dollar, and may the sweetness of your
grief last long after the poignancy has
been worn off on the grindstone OF
timer
The seedy man thanked him with
streaming cheeks, but that night he
was frozen out of a jackpot because the
dollar was a counterfeit, and plugged
at that.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
In the Arctic Region.
Thrilling Adventures With the Aborig3nss Of
Alaska.

We experienced no trouble with the
natives, except that in the early part Of
Winter they would come and stand
about our doors and windows and get in
our way generally, so that they became
d. a nuisance. When the frost gathered
on our windows they kept peep-holes
open by licking off the frost with their
tongues. This was finally got rid of by
making strong decoction of cayenne
pepper, and painting the outside of the
glass, so that licking was not all COM
Portable. A few of the respectable ones
were occasionally let into the house. If
any of these did not behave themselves
we treated them with very little cere-
mony, so that they soon became afraid
of us, and were very civil: At first
some of them had the habit Of opening
the door and walking into the house as
If they were the owners; and after
short time we got tired of this and kick
ed n few of them out, and by that
means they have improved in their man.
ners considerably. There is very little
fight in them, and they never stick to-
gether or stand up for each other If
you cuff one, the rest stand around and
look on and laugh and say it is ma
koomp" (good) and the fellow getting
chastised is Arseeruk' (bad). They
are not at all handsome, but then they
are quite we'll for savages. The women
when young are much better looking
than the men. but all are dirty. and new
er dream of washing any part Of theis
bodies. The men wear large pair Of
bone buttons like shirt studs in thofr u1-
der lips, and it gives them anything but
pleasant appearance. The women
tattoo their chins, which they consider
great mark of beauty, but l cannot
say that agree with them on that
point.
We have built small bloek-house, in
which the Gatling gun is mounted SO ae
70 command all the approaches Of our
house, SO that if We ever have to fight
We can do so with every advantage
During the Winter q Noownk msn
named ''Oonhleena" came down, Il is
said with the intention Of cleaning eas the
whole kabloonRs twhftsso; but Is he was
accompanied by his wife. his intsabions
were not ct very desperate character.
At al events. he came and had sst1fr
talk" 1oftered about for eorpfe q
days, and finally took his departure for
home, and sent as down a deer as d
present. That was the nearest approach
10 trouble we have had-SdH Framesseo
Bu1letts.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Why Kerosene Lamps Explode.

EsTosen5 8 not explosive. A lighted
taper may tfs thrust into it, or fame
applied in any way, and it does not ex-
plode. On the contrary, it extinguishes
flame, if experinented with at the usual
temperatures of our rooms. Kerosene
accidents occur from two causes; first,
imperfect manufacture of the article;
second, adulterations. An imperfectly
manufactured oil is that which results
when the distillation has been carried
on at too low temperature, and a part
of the naphtha remained in it. Adul-
terations are largely made by unprinci-
pied dealers, who add 20 or 80 per cent.
of naphtha, after it leaves the manu-
facturer's hands. The light naphtha
which has been spoken of as known in
commerce under the names OF benzine,
benzoline, gasoline, etc., is very vola-
tile, inflammable and dangerous. They,
however in themselves are not explo-
sive; neither are they, when placed in
lamps, capable of furnishing any gas
which is explosive.
Accidents of this nature are due en-
tirely to the facility with which vapor is
produced from them at low tempera-
lures. But the vapor by itself is mex
ploSlNCj ~ ISLu6l IL So IL HuSG Dc
mixed with air. A lamp may be filed
with bad kerosene, or with the vapor
even. and in no possible way Can 1t
detonate or explode, unless atmospheric
air has somehow got mixed with the
vapor. A lamp, therefore, full or near
ly full Of the liquid, is safe, and also
one full of pure, warm vapor is safe.
Explosions generally occur when the
lamp is first lighted without being filled,
and also late in the evening, when the
fluid is nearly exhausted.
The reason of this will readily be
seen. In using imperfect or adulter-
ated kerosene. the space above the line
Of oil is always filled with vapors. and,
so long as it is warm and rising freely,
no air can reach it, and it is safe. At
bedtime, when the family retire, the
light is extinguished, the lamp cools,
and a portion of the vapor is con-
densed; this creates partial vacuum in
the space, which is instantly filed with
air. The mixture Is now more or less
explosive. and when. upon the next
evening, the lamp is lighted without re-
plenishing with oil, rs is eften done, an
explosion is liable 70 take place. Late
in the evening, when The Oh 10 nearly
consumed, and the space above filled
with vapor, the lamp cannot explode 50
long as it remains at rest upon the
table. But. take it in hand, agitate it,
carry it into cool room, the vapor is
cooled, air passes in, snd the mixture
becomes explosive. - Toronto Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
IncOnCru;tv,

Our attention has been called recent
ly to IN illustration by Hopkins in the
work called Forty Liars, in which a
miner is represented as sliding down a
mountain in gold pan with handle
on it. Mr.. Hopkins, no doubt, labors
under n wrong impression Of some kind,
relative to the gold pan. He seems to
consider the gold pan and the frying
pan as Synonymous. In this he is
wrong.
The gold pan is large low pan with
out handle and made of very different
metal from a skillet or frying pan.
The artist should study as far rs pos
sible to initiate nature. and not make
fool of himself. Some artists sconsider
it funny to represent farmer milking >
COW on the wrong side. They also show
the same farmer, later on, plowing with
a plow that turns the furrow over to the
left, another eccentricity of genius
There are many little things like this
that the artist should look into more
closely so as not to bust up the eternal
fitness of things.
We presume that Mr.. Hopkins would
represent g gang of miners working q
placer with giant powder and washing
out smelling ore in tin dipper. Its
pretty hard though, for an artist, who
never saw a mining camp, to sit and
! watch New York beer tournament and
draw pictures of life in mining camp,
and people ought not to expect too
much. Nye.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Statistics of the Postal Union.

The following statistics for 1881 have
been issued by the central authority of
the postal union in Switzerland. During
the year the union was reinforced b7
the accession Of Chill, Columbia, the
Little Antilles, Grenada, St, Lucia, To-
bago, the Tucks Islands, Barbados, ST.
Vincent, Guatemala, Haiti, and Para
quay, while, since the commencement
of the present year, Hawai- and Nicara-
qua have also joined. In round num-
bers, the amount of business carried on
during 1881 included the transmission Of
1856, 100000 letters, 649, 900, 900 postal
cards, 100000 cards with paid an
ewers, 1888, 900, 900 newspapers, 1,O25,-
100000 printed packets, 64,000,000 pat
terms, and $4,000, 900 small parcels The
postof1ice orders granted were 5,OOO,-
900, representing a value of S,O45, ,OOO,-
900 francs. Daily throughout the globe
the postal union expedites upward of
100000 letters and postal-eards,
without counting printed matter, while
the distribution Of each year includes
3,448, 100000 letters in Europe. 1,246,-
100000 in America, 100000 in Asia,
$4,000, 900 in Australia, and 1900, 900
in Africa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Recovering Lost Gold,

UP to the commencement OF the war
there had passed through the branch
mint at Dahlonega over 500, ,000, 600 Of
gold dust, and low estimate win place
the amount of gold extracted by the Or
dinary methods, in the State of Georgia,
at $40, 100000. 1t has been known all
the while that by the crude, simple
ways of amalgamation practiced at the
gold mills, much of the gold escaped
with the tailings and was lost forever
in the beds of streams.
Some publication has been made of a
new process for saving gold, invented
by Dr. S. F. Charles, Of Forsyth Co.,
Ga. DR.. Charles is Bavarian, grad
uate of the royal engineering and min
ing schools of Freiburg in Saxony, and
gained valuable practical experience
among the mines of the Hartz Noun
tains. A modest, unassuming man, DR..
Charles is, perhaps, the best posted gold
mining and gold milling expert in the
country. He is the owner of an inn
mense lead of refractory ore on the
Etowall River, in Forsyth County, which
it is impossible to work profitably by
the present system of amalgamation
with quicksilver on copper plates. To
save the gold in this ore, DR.. Charles in
vented process which he attaches to
the ordinary stamp mill, beginning
where it leaves off, that is, he takes the
ore pulp that has been crushed by the
stamp and passed over the copper
plates. direct into his apparatus instead
of letting it flow away as tailings, and
further manipulates it, getting five
times as much gold on his sllvered
clothes, precipitated there by electricity
generated by small dynamo-electro
machine, as is saved by the copper
plates of the stamp mill, over which it
has passed.
Last week DR.. Charles, having at
tached a somewhat incomplete appara-
tus to the first-class ten-stamp mill at
the Franklin and Mcdonald gold mines,
under the management of Col A. H
Moore, in Cherokee County, In two
days run, practically demonstrated the
entire success of the invention. After
the mercury tables of the stamp mills
had done their best, and the pulp had
left them, ordinarily to flow into the
Etowah River, it was run directly into
DR.. Charles silvered cloth, electric
amalgamator, which retained and saved
five times more gold than the mercury
tables of the stamp mill retained and
saved. This invention which DR..
Charles proposes to give to the mining
world is of incalculable value to the
owners of the universally refractory
gold ores of Georgia. Virginia, tho Car
olinas and Alabama, as well as to tho
whole country. Just think Of it! In or
der to obtain $40, 900, 900 of gold, $500,
900, O,000has been wasted in Georgiaalone!
DR.. Charles process will revolution
ize the milling and reduction of refrac-
tory gold ores and render immensely
profitable what has hitherto been COM
paratiyely alueless.-AtlantG ConStitst-
tfO2
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
How a Woman Kaans Accounts.

1t is touching sight, observes the
Atlanta Constitution, to see a woman
begin to put down every csnt she
spends, SO as to find out how to eeono-
mize, and where all the money goes.
Procuring small book. she makes q
due entry, and on the Monday after the
first Saturday in which her husband
brings home his pay, she carefully tears
the margin off newspaper and, with
blunt pencil, strikes q trial balance
something in this way:
John brought me home $48.40 and
$1.43 had is $49.93, and $1.09 lent
Mrs. Dixon is $50. 93-but hold on,
ought not to enter that, because when
she returns it, it II 90 down. That was
$40 93, and what have | done with
thatP'
Then she puts down the figures,
leaving out the items to save time-a
process which enables her to leave out
most of the items to where q round sum
rs involved, on the supposition that they
have already been put down. AS thus:
''Six dollars and fourteen cents for
meat, and 10 cents for celery, and 10
cents On the street-cars, and bad s.
cent piece got in exchange, and 1921
paid the milkman-who owes me 1S
cents-that's So, and Is cents at church
and the groceries-they were either
$3.50 or $3.50, and don't remember
which they were, but I guess it might
have been $500 for the grocer said
that if l would give him dime he
would give me half dollar, which
would make even change, and | couldn't
because the smallest | had was quar-
ter-and $2.75 for mending Katie S
shoes, which is the last money that
shoemaker ever gets from me, and 10
cents for celery-no, put that down"
Finally, she sums up her trial-balance
sheet, and finds that it foots up SOAPS,
which is about $15 more than she had
originally. She goes over the list sew
eral times and checks it carefully, but
all the items are correct, and she is just
about in despair when her good angel
hints that there may be possible mis-
take in the addition. Acting upon the
suggestion, foots up the column and
finds that the total is S44. %, and that
according to the principles of the arith-
metic she ought to have S5.65. Then
she counts her cash several times, the
result varying from S1.40 to S1.97, but
then she happily discovers that she has
been mistaking 50 gold piece for a
cent. and remembers that she gave the
baby trade dollar to cut its gums with.
On the whole, she has come within sc
cents of balance, and that she says is
close enough, and she enters in one line
of the account book: ''Dr.-by house
hold expenses" so much; and is very
happy until she remembers, just before
going to bed, that she has omitted $2.75
for her husbands hat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Toole on Theatrical Deadheads,

Mr.. Toole, in his speech at the theat-
rical fund dinner, lately, was very
amusing in his allusion to the people
who hunt up orders, and who object to
pay to visit theatre. He said: II
got letter the other day to this effect:
''My dear sir, my uncle once met your
father on a Ramsgate steamer: send me
two stalls for two" From chemist
in Cheapside l received this applica-
ton: Dear sir, you must remember
me, made you up wrong prescrip-
ton. Send me an order for two to the
pit People send ME tragedies to read;
why, know not. Igenerally tell them to
send them to Mr.. Irving. An old lady had
written to me some months ago, and when
l was in Bristol last week, she asked me
if | would speak to her. She appeared
as though she had something heavy in
her arms. She said it was a play in
five acts. l said: MY dear lady,
have no time She said: oh you
should read them. l have written four
or five, and my husband always reads
Them Has he read this one,' | asked.
No. she replied. 'he is. now in luna
tic asylum Well, 1 didn't read that
Dlayn
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
The Anterior Turkey.

One day an old Turkey took Walk
through the Meadow to sec how the
Crops we're getting along, Seeing a
Fondly Imagined she could Hatch out
the contents. So she Sat down upon It,
and did Hatch out the contents in about
two Seconds. Five Minutes later she
stood upon bit of Looking-Glass, fill
ed with Humiliation, Running her Bill
through her Feathers and Attempting
to Count the number of Perforations in
her Breast, which looked very much
like a Nutmeg-Grater. The Moral of
this Fable teaches rs that Squatting Or
other Peoples Property is Perilous
Proceeding; and that there are some
Humble Institutions which cannot be
Sat Upon,-Puck.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Individuality of NEWSPAPERS,

Every newspaper man knows there is
no other such delicate and sensitive
commodity as news. There is nothing
else that depends so largely for value
upon the source whence it emanates.-
There is nothing which comes before
the public on which the '1aber' is so
carefully scrutinized. Newspapers have
characters as various as the individuals
who conduct and control them. 1t is
Just as true now as it was in the morn
ing of the Christian era. that ''men do
not gather grapes of thorns or figs of
thistles." The character of the news
not only depends upon the label-the
name of the journal in which it appears
but upon the character for truth and
veracity of the persons who furnish it.
--1renton Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
How to Get Rid of Rats and Mice.

The German papers recommend car
bonate of baryta as an excellent exter-
minator of rats and mice. 1t is hardly
ever injurious to large animals, and 10
be preferred for this reason alone to
strychnine and phosphorus. The fol-
lowing formula has been found the
best: Five grains precipitated carbonate
of baryta, one grain sugar, and twenty
grains bread made into mass and di-
vided into 100 pills. These are then
rolled in flour, after being previously
wetted
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

A fact probably but little known is
that the United States nickel ive-cent
piece furnishes keyto metric measures
and weights. This coin is two cent?
metres in diameter and its weight is five
grammes. Five of them placed in q
row will give the length Of decimetre
and two of them will weigh a deca-
gramme. As kilolitre is a cubic metre,
the key of the measure is also the key
to a measure of capacity.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

Zion's Cooperative Mercantile insti-
tuition, of Salt Lake City, had sales
during its last business year of 81, ,573,-
9O5, on purchases which aggregated
81, ,326, 500. Freight charges we're $177,-
933; wages amounted to 500, 200, and
other expenses and other expenses ami
losses left a net profit on the years
business of SS8, ,497, from which per
cent dividend has been declared, and
$33.597 goes to the reserve fund, now
amounting to $91 ,2iS, .-,.--
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

1t is told of a Jealous female member
of an anti-cruelty-to-animals society in
New Hampshire that she has been in
the habit during the summer of catch
ing her house flies in the wire cage
traps, and then relieving her conscience
by taking them up to the other end of
the street and discharging her prisoners
we hope not under the open windows
of other people. - ---7--- --
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
Miss Lollipop's Housekeeping.

Little Miss Lollipop thought she must help
To wash up the dishes, and wipe up the shelf,
To brush up the table and sweep up the floor,
And clean off the stains from the paint on the
door.
She put on her apron and pulled up her
sleeves
She didn't want work that was only make be-
lieve:
For muzzers who've dot yittle chillens," said
she,
Must have. yittle housekeepers: dat's what
I'll be"
Little Miss Lollipop went through the room,
Whisked the dust high with the edge of the
broom,
Broke the poor cup which she dropped on the
floor,
Left the paint twenty times worse than be-
Spattered and splashsd-but OIL how could 1
The little heart swelling with sweet, helpful
pride?
For how would my muZzer be able" said shcS
TO get frOO her work if she didn't have me?'
Dearer the love in the sunny blue eyes,
IMAM the dust she is raising, which fades as it
flies;
Better to miss the best cup on the shelf,
Than chill the dear heart which is enjoying
itself
Dear little Lolipop, we are like you
Spelling the work we are trying to do
But surely the Father who loves us will heed
And take in his kindness the will for the deed
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
p r. CONANT,
j. II. DLSSELL,

TTORNEY AZ LAW, RaVcnna, o.
n Ohiae in Phenix Block, over Richardson :
nariwarc store. H9t
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

NOTARY PUBLIC, Mantua, o. Con-
~ yeyancing, collections and Pension Bnsl-
ness promptly attended 10 on the most reasoh
.nlo ,erms 6l2-Jf.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07

TTOKNEY Az LAW, Counsel in
n Erg,iSh lHd German. Office over Bel
u,ag a Arm ms,rUng's Drug store, Main street
k.tlenna, ONO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-07
BIG STOCK Oh NOTIONS!

HOSIERY for Ladies, Gents and
Children.
KID, SILK aud Isle THREAD
GLOVES
BLACK and COLORED SILK MlTS
Hamburg Edgings and InSeTtings.
Plain and Dotted S,oiSSeS.
Lace Curtains, dc.
TubIc Linen and Red DGmdShS,
Linen Napkins and To,oeJs.
Floor and Table OIL Cloths.
Oil Shades, WindOaO Pictures, Curtain
TringeS, scc.
Ladies and Gents Summer Under-
Uedr.
Large stock Of Gtnghan'S, Prints,
SheetjngS, Ticks, Denims, dc.
Ladies' and ChiIdren's Shoes, MEMS
Fine Boots and Shoes.
We keep constantly on hand q choice
stock Of GROCERIES,.
BE We cordially invite the public
10 give Us call. as we feel confdeut
we can SELL GOODS AS LOW AS
ANY HOUSE IN THIS COUNTY.
SNYDER & FREEMAN .