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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The Rev Dr. w. N. Miner, of Tren-
ton, n j., relates an anecdote of Abra-
ham Lincoln, which places him among
the peace-makers. DIR. Miner was resi-
dent in Springfield. and gives the nPr-
rative in the words of another resident:
Il had some trouble with neighbor,
and determined to 60 to law with him.
When ! got to Lineolns office, l found
my opponent was already there, and had
stated his case. told my side of the
story, and Lincoln then said, You have
a good case to go to court; but if you do,
you will both lose all your money, and
make yourselves lifelong enemies. Why
don't you settle the matter right here"
We argued for some time without COM
ing to an agreement, and finally Lincoln
said, We'll, I'm going to dinner. Try
and settle it before get back; and, in
order that you may not be disturbed, I'll
lock the door, He locked US in, and
left us there, hut when he returned We
bad compromised our trouble"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
The urhane Owl.

The following note was received
shortly before his death from the Hon.
Grantly F. Berkeley: Il am at present
studying the amount of affection in owls,
horned owls, and that mysterious lesser
owl, the sparrow-owl, about the size of
thrush. keep them in pairs in large
separate wire aviaries, wings uncut,
with room to fly about. As regards the
horned owls and the lesser owls, there
was a good deal of suspicion to watch
things just at first. The lesser owl be-
ing the least acquainted with the habits
of man was the easiest to tame. give
You that curious fact. l have only had
these lesser owls during the SPRING
The hen bird is sitting in her selected
box with hole in it, on three eggs
Dump, as we call her, will let me or my
head keeper put our hands in and take
the eggs from under her and replace
them again without the least anger or
alarm. Her mate. whose name is Toby,
will, if l ask him to do so, dance with
me in the funniest way possible, or with
my parfor maid, to whom he seems also
to have taken fancy. His dance, be-
tween every two differing steps, is the
complete turn of the waltz, but the
quaintness of his executed evOlutions
and the grace he assumes are inimita-
BILE. Then in point of urbanity comes
the horned owl, then the brown owl,
and last the white owl, who has the most
experience of the malevolence of man,
and therefore the least trust in him."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
A Proposal at the Opera.

This, says The Washington Star, is an
actual conversation from real life, and
strictly on the half-shell, between semi
swell, but altogether spoony, couple at
the opera last Monday
1t was overheard by q young lady in
the seat in front, who had sworn off (for
this occasion only) from her Gainsbor-
ough hat.
Moral-Girls, go and do likewise
AT perfectly obvious part of the show
the young man consults the hbretto, as
an excuse for bringing his head nearer
to hers.
She-Oh, my! What nice finger-nails
you have.
He tickled to death )-Pshaw, now.
She-My sister has nice nails. Sister
has the hand of the family,
He-Your hand Is just lovely.
She-I don't like tlattery, so you can
just hush.
Gerster has been singing, and the in
terested and interesting takers are in
terrupted by a rude burst of applause.
A recitative follows. The young girl
don't catch on any too kindly to recita-
tive. and presently resumes:
Oh! l wrote such long letter home
He-What! seven?
She-Yes, and the postman didn't
come, and l opened it and wrote seven
more.
He-I wish you'd write ne letter.
She (tenderly)-Why, what could
He-You needn't write but three
words.
She-Three words? What can they
be?
He-Three nice little words.
She-Oh, my! Amt you strange?
This knocks the young man out of
time for minute, and during that time
the music had chance. But he comes
up again smiling, little disfgured. but
still in the ring.
He-Oh! you know.
She-No; indeed don't.
He-Well, I'll tell you some other
time.
The chorus comes down toward the
foot-lights with 'unmistakable intent to
howl, and during the preliminary fid=
ding the not-too-eurious- -but-just-
enough young girl says, with sweetly
shrinkish timidity:
Cant you tell me while they re sing
ing?"
Then o iiendish yell from the chorus
breaks off shorter than could possibly
be anticipated, and his voice is heard
with startling distinctness:
II love you. Couldn't you write
that?''
''Oh! my, yes, and ever so much
more"
And then the tenor catches the prima
donna by the back hair and yells bloody
murder into her right elbow, and the
young man and the young woman lean
80 hard on the arm of the orchestra
chair that her vaccination mark bushes
like an aurora bOrealiS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
Verdicts,

The verdicts of juries pass all under
standing. We remember the famous
verdict of Welsh jury: Not guilty
but we recommend him not to do it
again" Mackenzie relates that an
English jury, not very bright having a
prisoner before them charged with bur
glary, and being unwilling to convict
him capitally, as no personal violence
accompanied the robbery, gave the YER
dict: Guilty of getting out of the win
dow.' He adds that the most original
was that of an Irish jury before whom a
prisoner pleaded guilty, throwing him
self on the mercy of the court The
verdict was: Not guilty" The Judge,
in surprise, exclaimed: why, he has
confessed his crime"' The foreman
responded: "Ah. my lord, you do not
know that fellow, but we do. He is
the most notorious liar in the whole
country, and no twelve men who know
his character can believe word that
he says" And as the jurors adhered
to their verdict, the liar escaped A
remarkable verdict was once given by a
New York jury. The case was that of
young woman who was heartlessly de-
serted by her husband, butcher She
finally discovered him at slaughter
house talking to a woman, who wore at
the moment what she recognized as her
own best dress, which she had bought
with her own earnings before marriage
He refused to talk with her, The next
morning he was seen to take proffered
cake from the hands of a young woman,
divide it with some companions, and in
a few hours was dead, his companions
being taken very sick. hut surviving
The police, investigating the matter,
found that the deceased had three wives,
or rather three women supposed them
selves his wives, All three were arrest
ed, but two were speedily released, as
our heroine admitted that she had done
the business. The case for the defense
was weak, but only after a few minutes
absence the jury returned with YER
diet of not guilty. The prisoners coun-
sci asked one of the jurors ON what
ground she had been acquitted. ''It
served him right" was the answer
Evidently these men believed In poeti-
cal justice.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

Great truths are often said in the few
est words.
Perseverance is the best school for
manly virtue.
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are
to humanity.
Poverty is in want of much, but ava
rice of everything.
Wit is a merchandise that is sold but
can never be bought.
| 1t is much easier to settle a point than
to act on it.-CecH
inclination and interest determine the
will. Idiieurdnd.
We are no longer happy as soon as we
wish to be happier.
The winner is he who gives himself to
his work body and soul.
Sow good services; sweet remem-
brances will grow from them.
lie that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Troubles borrowed and stolen out
number by far all others in the world.
Great men and geniuses find their true
places in times of great events.
1t is easy to look down on others; to
look down on ourselves is difficulty.
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken us to duty. and not keep US
from it.
On the neck of a young man sparkles
no gem SO gracious as enterprise
fz.
The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance; the virtue of adversely is fortitude.
Bacon
Out in the world men show us two
sides in their character; by their fire.
side, only one.
Action will not always bring happi-
ness; but there is no happiness without
action.-Bcaconsfeld
q Clergymen consider this world only as
diligence in which they can travel to
ther.-Napoleon.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
A Life Of Elegant Leisure.
Or the Trials Of Foreign Diplomat-sweu

! VI 'ie AAidLS oI d Oreign DIplOmat-SwCU
Chaps
The following interesting sketch of
| the ills of those swell legation fellows at
Washington is given by acorrespondens'
OF the Buffalo Commercial Adrertiser.
10 the world outside of Washington,
which has an insane reverence for i'm
portant dignity, it may seem that the
young gentlemen who come here from
abroad in official capacities are over
whelmed with business in every con-
ceivable shape. No doubt they fancy
(that is. the outside world) that these
foreign ducks get up early in the morn
ing. by the bright light, and are kept
busy till a late hour in the evening in
sending important private communica-
tons to their home Governments about
the condition of republicanism in the
United States, and the prospects of its
doctrines eating out the monarchies of
Europe
So much for the theory, and now q
word or SO about the practice and the
actual facts of diplomacy from Wash
ington standpoint.
Il am SICK" said one. ''of this whole
diplomatic life. 1t is one continued
round of idleness and sloth. How do I
pass my time? 1t makes me ashamed
when think of it. Well, my servant
has standing orders to wake me up at
IL O'Clock. When he comes, tell him
to come again at ~ o'clock, and then l
again tell him to come at o'clock, be-
cause it is an irksome duty to confront
the sunshine and see other people busy,
and always put it off till the latest
moment"
''What then?'
'Well, order my bath, and next my
breakfast, and it is about o'clock be-
fore l am ready to go on the street. You
want to know what next? Well, from
that time on till bedtime it is one con-
stant battle to kill the hours. drop in
at the legation, and we smoke few
cigars and drink some wine and tell q
few of the latest stories. That is our
entire business. The relations between
the United States and my native Spain
are so friendly that we poor diplomats
are going to seed. Do not make a mis-
take, my friends. You think it is an
easy life. You are wrong. Nothing is
more wearying than idleness when forced
on you by the circumstances of the case.
We are invited out to receptions? o,
yes; but that soon loses its charms
Every month 1 receive handsome re-
mittance from my family, over and
above my salary with the legation, but
| am tired of spending it in the old ways.
have exhausted the opportunities for
pleasure, and sometimes I feel as if I
could envy the common mechanic who
has regular hours for his work.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
A curious event has taken place in the

A curious event has taken place in the
Bohemian town of Neustadt. Judge
Rychlik, Kapelmeister Bauer and mer-
chant named Kohn met at a room in the
inn every evening of the past winter, for
social purposes. At one of these meet
ings, in merry humor, they swore COM
mon oath to continue this companion
ship in death as well as in life, and to
fulfill the spirit of this compact. each
took pledge that if one of the brother
hood died, he would, within fourteen
davs, follow him to the land of shades.
The men being in middle age and in ro-
bust health, 1t was expected that years
would intervene before the compact
would call for fulfillment; but about six
weeks ago Judge Rychlik died in his
sleep from the fumes of n defective coal
stove in his bedroom. Twelve days
later, the merchant Kohn was dead of
congestion of the lungs; and the COM
pact was completed and closed when,
terrified by the fate of his brothers there
in. kapelmeister, Bauer, took to his bed
and died on the tenth day after kohn
had followed Rychlik.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
The Extras.

"While sharpeningmy razor one day."
says a retired barber in his memoirs"
land drawing its keen edges across my
thumb, the thought come into my head
what a formidable weapon this is, and
how completely at my mercy mankind
is. Why then should not turn its use
to more advantage to myself, and, in
stead of being satisfied with the paltry
ten or fifteen cents, devise some plan
which will bring me in an amount more
proportionate to the power WELD?
Il pondered over the subject for
long time, and was still turning it oven
and over in my mind, when a customer
entered the shop and seated himself in
my chair. I went through the process
of shaving him in a mechanical manner,
and began my usual conversation in q
listless way, quite unlike my wonted
energetic style. Your hair needs trim
ming said. He replied that he did
not want 1t touched to-day. AS he said
this, unconsciously let the cold blade
of the razor fall upon his neck. A look
of terror came over his face. Like a
flash, saw and grasped my opportun-
ity. Keeping the razor against his neck,
and looking him firmly in the eyes, ! in
quired:
Did you say you would have your
hair cut to-day?'
. i did, he whispered.
And shampoo?' l continued.
And shampoo
with a bath?'
With a bath
DO you Use bay rum?'
Always he said, with beseech-
ing look.
Il was half wild with excitement, but
l preserved my habitual manner. as we'll
rs possible, and daring the day had Zee
peated my operation several times, =
Each day brought mo greater confidence
and equal success. and ut the aG3 of six
months had sufficient money laid away
to buy little shop"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
The Anglers RaVeille.


OldWinter is gone and young Spring now comes
tripping;
Sweet fiowers are springing wherever she
treads
While the bee, lowering DER them, keeps hum
ming and slipping,
And birds sing her welcome in woodlands and
meads.
The snow wreath NO more on the hillside IS
The leaf buds are bursting, bright green, on
each tree;
Iio, anglersi arouse ye! the streams are worth
Fit your rods and away to the fishing with
me.
Haste awayl haste away, for the sound wind is
blowing,
And ripping SO gently the face of the
stream,
Which neither too full nor too fine yet Is flow
ing
Now clouded, now bright with sunshiny
At the foot of the fall where the bright trouts
are lCaping,
In the stream where the current is rapid and
strong,
Or just by tho bank, where tho skeggers seem
sleeping
Then throw your fly lightly, and you cannot
throw wrong.
There's Joy in the chase, over hedge and ditch
'Tis pleasing to bring down the grouse on the
The partridge to bag. through the low stubble
The pheasant to shoot as he flies through the
dell:
But what are such joys to the pleasures of
straying
By the side of stream, a long line casting
free,
The salmon and trout with neat fly betray-
ing?-
Fit your rods and away to the fishing with
me!
To awaken the milkmaid the cock is yet crow
ing
She was out late last night with her lover, 1
swear!-
To be MIXED yet the cows in the cow-fold are
lowing;
we'll be at our sport ere young Nelly be
there!
The weather is prime and the stream in good
order;
Arouse We, then, anglers! wherever you be-
In Scotland, in ireland, in Wales, on the bor-
der;
Fit your rods and away to the fishing with
mel
-[Angler's Song Book.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

Scarecrows have had tneIr DAY ana
New England farmers and indeed farm
ers everywhere this side of Mason and
Dixon's line may put up their shotguns.
The crow is no longer devastator. He
is the friend of man, and the bad habit
supposed to be inherent in crow nature
of pulling up the young and tender
shoots of grain is not bad but beneiicent.
as he thus unearths the larv8 of beetles
which he devours on the spot, 3 All this
is proved by Professor Linden, who has
given several years OF investigation to
the habits OF crows, and has recently
made the results public. Now it is the
turn of the English sparrow, and we
wait for Il paper from his defender.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The new tortlncations of Strasburg
will be completed during the present
Spring. An idea of their enormous ex-
tent may be formed from the following
figures: They enclose on the left bank
of the Rhine, besides the town and SUI
burbs, twelve Alsatian villages, and on
the right bank four other villages, with
total superficial area of over $1,000
acres. The distance of the advance forts
from the townis from three to five miles,
and the ayerageadiameter of the entire
works nine miles. The total cost is put
down at $4,000, 900.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The highest mine in the United States,
and probably in the world, is the ''Pres-
ent Help" situated on Mount Lincoln,
in the main range of the Rock Noun
tains, in Park county, Colorado. Ac-
cording to Prof Hayden, Mount Lincoln
has an altitude of 14.297 feet. The
Present Help boarding-house, built
alongside of the entrance to the main
drift, is about two hundred yards away
from the extreme summit of the noun
tain, and one hundred and forty feet
lower down. This leaves it IA, l57 feet
above the sea level, and it is undoubted-
ly the highest inhabited house in the
whole world.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The action of sunlight upon glass has
been tried by NJ. L. Gaffield with largo
number of different kinds of colorless
and colored glass, the changes of colors
being from white to yellowish white,
green to yellowish green, yellowish
brown to purple, greenish white to blue,
blue and other shades to corresponding
ly darker shades. He attributes the
colorations to the presence of ferric OK
ide, arsenic, charcoal. or snlphates in
glass. but more especially to the pres
ence of manganese used to decolorize
glass.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
A White Man on Exhibition.

Itis quite a common thing to see in
our country men of savage tribes on ex-
hibition in museums. The tables are
now turned, for white man was lately
on exhibition In Africa. Mr. Jos.
Thompson, recent explorer of the Gen.
tral African lakes, writes of his expert
ence with the Mahenge tribe:
A royal proclamation was sent over
the country, making it known in African
fashion that the chief, ever mindful of
his loving subjects, had, regardless of
expense, secured a real white man, and
that all who desired to see this great Gu
riosity must come at once, as he could
only be detained a few days.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

Marshall P. Wilder, the horticultuf"
ist, says that he found, on visiting the
famous vineyard of Johannisberg, that
the wine made from grapes grown on
the top of the hill brought $40 bottle;
that on the side. half way down, %. and
that at The bottom Only 2 trane& -..a~Sr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The Supreme Court of Maine decides
that Il Masonic lodge is not charitable
or benevolent institution within the
meaning of the laws of Maine, and con-
sequently that its real and personal es-
tate is subject to taxation like other
prOperty.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

All Necessaries for the Burial
of the Dead Furnished on short
Notice and on the most ReasOn-
able Terms. COnsiderate At
tkntiOn Guaranteed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

Many of the villages in the Pennsyl-
vania coal regions are undermined by
the excavation OF coal, and are said %
b. liable to cave in at aRY time.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

The Wilmington Star says that the
people of North Carolina have never
elected man as Governor who was not
native of the State One Governor
was born abroad, bat he was ehosea by
the Legislature.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
w w WHITE. M. d.,

W. W. WHITE, N. d,
Pbysician and Surgeon. Office over F. IL.
SiiIes Phenix Block, RaVeDna. D. Residence
on Pratt Street, west side, first house south OF
Main. U0-sM~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01
Business Cards.
l.. &. JACKSON

AEILLINERY GOODS of ali kinds. operi
Nl Block, Ravenna, y.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-06-01

NOTARY PUBLIC, Mantua, o. Con-
IN veynncing, Collections and Pension Busi-
mess promptly attended TO on the most reasoh
AbIo terns 6l2-tf.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17
BEN BUTLERo pERFIDY

After all the democratic rejoicings
over Ben Buffers recent election a.
Governor of Massachusetts, after the
Jealous offer OF the Dalias Times to
prove that he never stole u spoon in
New Orleans or anywhere else in
the face Of alI this Butler has the su-
dlcily to turn right around and throw
damper upon the jubiIation- Of the
democrats who have been welcoming
him back to the fold. lie makes no
bones of saying that he doesn't owe
the democrats any thauk- for hi. vic
tory. "Itcpubli9n-. says Butler
-"elcctcd me- A. proof Of this he
cites the election figures. While his
own plurAlity wn- 1879 votes, all the
other state officers elected were re-
publlcaus, and they had plurahiie-
ranging from 1863 to 25lj2 This,
says Butler, is proof pp-iiiy that the
republicans were di,gusted with their
own gubernnto-ml candidate and in
the plcuitudc Of their disgust they
transferred their votes 10 him
lBu,lor) and elected him. Aud he
has even had the audacity to tell Mrs.
Blaine, the wife Of the oN-secretary
of state, that in grateful rcmcm-
briuce Of what the Massachusetts re-
puDllcaus have dOGo for him he in
tDnds to bc II republican governor
This settles it aud uuua-k- the gay
dcccyer, lie wont do To- tie to, aud
tue promp. course OF the DnuA-
Times, in recalling It's oil r. to provo
that he didn't rrouL.o the ,uoon-,wii
be appreciated and commended by
all Jncob Townscnd, biowu.u-lhc.
hattie atuInsrlf-
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

The republican ciyll service re-
formers in cougrts-, having failed to
pass civil service reform measure in
twenty years now declare that they
will pa-s no bin except one of their
own deyisiug, and are determined TO
substitute the hasson bill for the
Pend.etou bill Taey know the food
is coming, but they heroically resolve
10 be drowned if they are not per-
uilted to build an ark Of their own.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

The house ways and means com.
mittee were busy yesterday consid.
ering that part of 'hc report Of the
tAriil commission relating TO reduc.
tion Of duties on metals. As was to
be expected the IRON men locked to
Washington to give their yicws on
the subject. II iz not stated that
they were heard.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

The male students OF Kingston
medical college, Canada, have de-
ciined TO leave the Institution unless
women are excluded from the classes.
Some people are willing to crowd
women out of every ayocstlon except
toll at the Warhtuh or with needle.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

Waco gets congratulations right
aud lett on her school tax vote. 1t is
refreshing aud encouraging to have
our neighbor-, after years of miscou-
ception, awaken to the knowledge
that Waco has some other aspirations
than the getting Offices for her sou-.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

Congress is working mighty hard
to try to pass - bill that will prevent
the congressional campaign commit
tee from leVying assessments on The
government clcrks, tut it does not
seem to enter into the congressional
miud that the best way to stop levy.
lug assessments would be to stop.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-12-17

You can know u man 10y the dog he
keeps, aud you can know u statesman
by th1 followers which support IN
Blainc has publicly declared that he
will under no circumstances be can
didare for President in 1854; yet hi,
admirers, particularly in P0nnsyI-
vanln, are forming Blaine clubs
with the syowed intention Of max ing
the Maine statesman the next
President