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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13

Ho drove a policeman into door
way on Woodbridge street Sunday eve
ming and began:
| '.About two hours ago a cadaverous
wooden-head might have been seen
gawping at the river from the foot of
Randolph street. He didn't know
enough to chew gum. That was me-"
"You. ehs Well?"
"Well, he gawped and gawped, and
he knew he had 800 in his pocket, and
he chuckled and tickled and said he had
come to town to look around and see
things and go home and be lion. That
was me again"
81 see."
''He jest fairly ached to have bunko
man come up and slap him on the back
and call him Josepheus Eastwood, and
all got along. He itched to have a
three-card monte man tickle him under
the chin and call him red fox from To-
MIA County, and open up his little game.
His bones all screamed for the man
with the bogus gold pieces, and he drew
down his left eye as he thought how
they'd take him for hay-stack and get
sold. He was an Internal idiot. That's
met"
| "Yes."
"Well. as he was standing there and
feeling how sharp and cute and cum
ming he was, up comes man who was
breathing hard and looking scarf, and
says he to me in whisper: You look
| like friend to the unfortunate. l can
see by the cut of your face that / can
trust you. have wounded man who
insulted my wife, and l must skip to
Canada to escape arrest. l have no
money, but here is a hundred dollar
bond. Lend me 800 and keep the bond
until see you That is what he said.
The double-iinted idiot from the coun-
try took it all in like boy gulping
down sulphur and 'lasses. That's me
| some more"
I'm listening"
1.-The greenhorn was flattered and
tickled. He saw a chance to make $50
on that bond. The bomb-proof, back
action, copper-riveted agricultural
peach-blossom figured as how he'd cash
that bond tomorrow and skip, and as
how the man in haste to reach Canada
would never find him, and as how them
800 would buy yoke of oxen, and so
he passed over his greenbacks and
pOCk6L0U bn6 DOnu. Les, In6 DdIu-
headed, cross-eyed, bow-legged turnip
patch did that very thing That's me
to dot!''
els it possible!''
"And here's the bond-worthless
And here am-strapped! And some
where up town is the sharper-tickled
half to death at the way he played me!
SayP'
"Yes"
Hunt up born fool. catch a crank,
scare up dude, bring in an old man
with third wife, and boil 'em all down
and bag up the bones and call the
thing Josepheus Eastwood! That's
mel"
And he walked off to find the plank
road running West, waving the bogus
bond with one hand and helping to kick
himself with the other. Half block
away he halted and looked back. and
seeing the officer still there he gave
himself three kicks and shouted out in
lonesome voice:
Don't forget it-that's me!''-De-
sroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13
Clouds.

Beautiful cloudlct, floating in mist, =,
Born when the sunlight with dewdrops nave
kissed
Where dost thou roam, and where is thy homer
Where hangs thy mantle in heavens blue do1ne'
Bright golden chariots, drawn by winged
steeds
Sailboats of pleasure, gliding with speed,
Fairy forms lowering DER gi1tterlng seas,
And rocked i'll hammocks that swing with the
breeze,
Gliding in shallops of carmine and pearl,
Cupids are sending their arrows aWhlri,
Trumpets and banners, insignia OF war,
M6rShaling brilliant forces afar,
Heraids and riders, wita beacons ablaze,
All have their hoIne in the clouds winding
maze.
Summer clouds glowing with bushes and
- smiles
Hang in the heavens like love-painted isles;
Golden edged, silver edged, tleecy and white,
Blessing the day and vailing the night.
Autumn clouds, bright cphemeral glow,
Laugh with the brooks when the water is low;
Huzy and soft, with beauteouS gleam,
Flooded through riffs by the sums mellow
beam.
Winter clouds, frigid, limpid and far,
Dim as the light of a luStcricss star,
Shadow and darkcn, with pale Icy ray.
The spirits fond home, fled with the day.
Bright in the heavens, they break with the
tide,
And scattering in fragments the ether divide,
Till the shimmcring waves, in rapturous
smiles,
Encrcie and meet mid the heaven blessed isles
As the rainbow of hope, when shining thro'
tears,
Throws the strongest of lights Ger the darkest
OF fears.
-Vina A. Sumner.
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a Dangerous Doctrine.

'I'm getting to be considerable of g
believer in the Darwinian theory" said
a well-known joker last evening as he
sat conversing with group of cronies.
Il certainly believe in the theory of the
survival of the fittest."
"You dol" exclaimed friend in an
incredulous tone of voice.
sYcs, l DOR
"Well, of all things in the world, that
is the most foolish for you to believe
It's suicidal, MANI
elbow so?'
"Why. if that plan werein operation.
you would live just about two minutes
longer"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13

The question ''Where do all the pins
goP' is again revived. A country editor
confesses that it cannot be said, perhaps,
where they all 60, but when ones wife
is away and one is standing on one leg,
grinding ones teeth and trying to pin
q collar together in the absence of shirt
buttons, some of them 60 into ones
peck,-M ]. Commercial,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13

Mrs. Frank Leslie denies that she is
going to marry any French count or
German baron. That's right. What's
the use of going abroad for a nobleman
when YOU can find one behind chair
in any barber shop in this broad repuo-
licp
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13

Here, waiter,n the seaside hotel
Keeper says cheerfully, as he sizes up the
economical guest, Il guess Wen have
" give this gentleman that nice room
tn st. Inc annex. Show him to 721 on the
fifth floor, back
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13

I, In one respect the bootblack resem.
rains.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13
CHARLESToWN, O.,

CHARLESTOWN, O.,
Offers to the people of Portage County the fol-
lowing unexcelled varieties, which have inva-
riably received the higeest concentrations
wherever exhibited. taking the First Premiums
in every competitive test as to Hardness, Size,
Flavor, and Prolific Bearing.
WHITE ANN ARBOR GRAPE-Hardy, pro-
life, large and delicious. RipenS ten days or
two weeks before the Concord. Never mildews
nor rots. Second size, one year old, small, so
cents each.
We, the Undersigned. having been appointed
| by the Agricultural and horticultural Society
of w ashtenaw Co Michigan, to act as Judges
in the Pathological Department at their Fair in
eties of Grapes and it was their decided opin-
ion that the " w hite Ann Arbor" Seeding was
far the most desirable of the lot.
For siee fdUor and beauty, it teok the lead OF
all our standard varieties and we believe it
will yet become one Of the most popular Grapes
| in this country. MARTIN CLARK,
J,D. WILLIAMS,
Committee.
ANN ARBOR, MICH, Dec 23 1882.
RUSSIAN. AN.MULBERRY-H beau
| titul. quick growing tree for the lawn while
the fruit is valuable for table use. By mail.
IL to IS inch size, is cents each, 81 80 per dozen
THE WAGER PEACH-This is, without ex-
ception, the best and richest Peach we are ac-
quainted with. for table use and canning pur-
poses. 1t is f good size, yellow skin, and flesh
| rs yellow as gold thick meated, small pit very
| hardy, and one of the most abundant bearers OF
| any sort known. 1t reproduces itself every time
| from the pit. One year old trees. by express, 2
| TO feet, 25 ceuts each; $3.50 per dozen.
! WATERLOO PEACH-2 to 8 it. 25 cts each
| 7 he largest and best very early peach grown
| Ripens about middle Of July.
"BIG BOB"-THK COMING Strawberry
| The biggest and most uniform in size. the best
| favored and most productive, and the vines the
| hardest, Price by mail. 81 co per dOz or 81
| per 100. A. Z. STEPHENSON.
Ravenna, March 30, 1888 762-2m
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All Necessaries for the Burial
of the Dead Furnished on short
able Terms, COnsiderate At
tentiOn Guaranteed.
A. B. FAIRCHILD.
Undertaken,
Residence on Pratt street, third house South
on West side.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-09-13
J. H. NICHOLS
7. RI. DUSSELl

attorney at Law and Notary Public. Offoe
in Phenix Block over Second National Bank.
Ravcnna, Ohio.
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Business Cards.

III. STUART. ID. L. ROCKWELL.
STUART & ROCKWELL,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS
l. LAW, Ravenna, Ohio Offices in Poe
Brllding, nearly opposite the Etna House
and Court House,
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p. r.. CONANT

d. ii. DO OOELb,
a TTORNEY AT LAW Counsel In
IN English aud German, ONCE over Flath q
GiOthtng Store. Phenix BLOCK, kavcnna, u
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[. I'll. PHELPS

"A TTORNEY AT Law, Ravenna, O.
IA Unice in Blackstone Block, North Chest
nut street, Ravenna, Ohio.
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q. Fl. GRIFFIN,

@ENTIST. Ofice over First National Bank
ONCE hours from g. m. to D. m.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28

tumbler full always mean exactly half
pint. and keep cup of that size. Or use a
small tin crp-9ne with side handle being
preferat lie
Spoon measuring is more important espe-
cially in giving medicines. The top is so
broad aud it is so difficult to know when a
spoon is evenly full, that "teaspoonful
dose" of any medicine. or il havoring ex-
tract in cooking, may be double what is Ere
scribed The standard teaspoon, evenly full.
holds one eighth of a fluid ounce, or 12S TO
a pint; and standard tablespoon just three
times as much. or forty-two to the pint. Sixty
drops OF water equal one teaspoonfal, but
drops of different liquids vary in size
Every family should have "Minim glass
(minim means drop This is a little glass
tube or cup having broad base and lip for
pouring out he liquids. There are marks on
the side and figures 10, 20. 80, 40. 30, GO, for
so many drops-the figure GO making just
standard teaspoonful. With this at hand
one is always able to measure off exact tea
spoonfuls Of anything In giving medicine,
such regularity OF doses may mean recovery
OF he alth. These glasses can be bought at
most druggists for Is to 30 cents each.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
His Loyalty and His Silent Deeds q
Charity.

His Loyalty and His silent Deeds of
Charity.
Washington Correspondence Cleveland Leader.
Buchanan's loyalty will receive a new
proof in the Autograph letter which is here
published for the first time 1t was written
Just after the defeat of Bull Run to Hon j.
z. q. Kennedy, the man who eSta blished the
Census Bureau, aud who was one, of Buchan-
ans most intimate friends and advisers:
WHEATLANDs, NEAR LANCASTER. July "a 1861.
MY DEAR SIR have received your favor OF the
22d inst. l feel the deepest sympathy for the suf-
Wednesday last, but am not discouraged. The
spirit OF our people Will meet the emergency with
frnness and vgor. They viii fly TO the rescue,
and in victory viii wipe out the memory of the de
feat. sometimes feel strongly tempted TO leave
my retirement far as 10 take an active and pub
lie part in assisting to rally the people of the eoan
glorious flag; but the abuse which received from
the Republican journals in consequence of my
letter 10 Mr.. Seaton, editor of the National Intel
gencer, admonishes me TO desisf, but my opinions
are freely expressed on fall suitable occasions.
feel no apprehensions for Washington, and have
great confidence in the veteran commander (Gen-
eral Scottl By the blessing of God my health has
been almost perfectly restored. though / regain
strength but slowly. have no news TO com mani-
cate from this retired but az reeable spot. Please
remember me very kindly TO Mrs. Kennedy and
the whole family aud believe me to be sincerely
and respectfully your friend,
To Hon. J. C c. Kennedy Washington. D. G
Mr.. Kennedy is a delightful talker, and
when / asked, What kind of man was
Buchanan" he replied: The purest. kind
esr, and apparently the coolest man you
could meet He was honest to the core,
verv retiring and very charitable. When he
was elected TO the Presidency and first took
possession of the White House he said to me:
Mr. Kennedy, my duties now will engross
my whole time and / will not have much
leisure TO devote TO charities, but / wish 70
spend every dollar of my Presidential salary
over my actual expenses in charity, and il
TO call upon me without hesitation.' did
so, and l am sure that not one dollar of his
salary accompanied him when he went out
of the White House,
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tered, and an increase of dose is desirable,
this may be safely done If the skin, bowels,
and kidneys maintain their normal function
al activity. 8 In many cases OF remittent
and intermittent fever the com animation of
the drug with cloride of ammonium or a salt
of potash or soda is likely 70 be more easily
tolerated as well as more useful than il il be
administered in pure form. 4. During the
administration of quinine should a headache
come on or increase i'm intensity the case re.
quires the most careful attention.
The Indian may dwell with the Caucasian
for years, and live as the white lives, but on
returning to his tribe he will fall into the
habits of savage life and will prefer that
life" Indian Agent Gardner said in an in
teryiew with reporter for the Denver Trib
une, and he insianced Chipeta, the wife of
the Colorado Chief OuraY. She had little
communication with the whites, but her
husband taught her to live as they do. Her
house was well furnished, and provided with
many conveniences that are luxuries in
border life. She always had her cook, and
her table was supplied with good food, well
cooked, served in an elegant platter, and
eaten with knives, forks and spoon. Ouray
died in 1880. About a year ago Chipeta
married again, and returned to the old WAYS
OF her childhood among her tribe. She has
three trunks full OF valuables stored away in
the agency storehouse. One of them is filed
with silverware presented to her by the ladies
in the City of Washington. For these she has
no
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28
CURIOUS, UsEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.

The Nature reports an extraordinary case
OF subsistence near Bona, Naiba, an isolated
mountain, more than 900 feet high, is slow
ly sinking into the bosom of the earth. A
deem ditch has been made all around the en-.
Quilted mass.
Herr Krupp's gun establishment as Essen
has its own water and gas works. 1t con tains
$4,000 gas burners in addition to the electric
lamps. Ii has its own chemical laboratory,
Photographic and photographic establish
; ments, and printing and binding shops.
There are about so miles of telegraph wires
and 80 telegraph stations belonging to the
works.
There is talk of bridging the Mississippi at
New Orleans, where the river is :, 400 feet
wide. An engineer proposes seven spans Of
500 feet each, one TO be draw. The piers
are to be creoSoted piles. driven in clusters
and heavily capped and cased with iron.
The depth of the water will be no obstacle as
the piers can be spliced The estimated cost
is to be Sl3, 100000.
NJ. Vieusse, principal medical officer of the
medical hospital at Gran, states that Excess
sive sweating of the feet, under whatever
form 1T appears, can be quickly cured by
carefully conducted friction with the submit
trate of bismuth. and even in the few cases
this suppresses the abundant sweating only
temporarily it still removes the severe pain
and the fetidity which often accompany the
secre ton. DIR. Vieusse has never found any
i'll consequences to follow the suppression OF
the sweating.
A couple of Bostonians have invented a
hoop-making machine which, it is said,
makes from 10000 to $4,000 half-round hoops
day. cutting two, three or four from pole,
as occasion requires. One of the results of
the introduction of this new machine will BE
the utilization OF ironwood saplings for
hoops. This tough and almost indestructible
wood, which resists the tools of the cooper, is
said to be handled without difficulty by the
Bostoa hoop-making machine.
In many of the business houses of Paris,
and especially in those of which the cellars
are used as offices, glass is now being extern
sively employed instead of boards for floor
ing. At the headquarters of the Credit Ly-
onnais, on the Boulevard des Italiens, the
whole of the ground floor is paved with large
squares of roughened glass embedded in a
strong iron frame, and in the cellars beneath
there is, even on dull days, sufficient light TO
enable the clerks to work without gas
DR.. David Young, in the Practitioner, sums
up his experience in administering quinine:
l.. Never give quinine in antipyretic doses
when there is constipation or scanty secre-
ton. ?. In cases where il is being admins
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28
Retter Than Butter.

W. ID. Boynton, Esq, of Appleton, Wis,
writes TO the American Agriculturist:
when a farmer is remote from markets
which give fancy prices for fresh gilt-edge'
butter, does it pay to take the milk from the
calves, hire extra help. neglect other i'm
portant farm work, and take day every lit
tie while to 60 to market? 1t seems to me
that at twenty cents pound for butter the
margin for profit is pretty small. In large,
we'll equipped dairy handsome profits no
doubt arc realized, but not where one has
only eight or ten COWS. The early morning
hours when he should be in the field, are oc-
cupied in milking and churning, and the
time spent in marketing often compels neg
lect of other farm work, resulting in serious
loss
Would it not be more profitable to let the
calves have the milk and thereby double
the value OF the stock growl4? A large stock
raiser of my acquaintance recently gave itas
his experience that one good COW would raise
two calves. and that he proposed to pursue
that method altogether hereafter He gives
the calves all the feed they can stand from
the very first, and sells them for beef when
about fourteen months old, at which age
they weigh about $50 pounds At seven cents
per pound, they bring him the nice little
sum of $3.50.
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Hints on Poultry Raising.

Mr.. A. NJ Halstead, an Eastern poultry
raiser and the author OF a recent work on
artificial incubation, gives the following sug-
gestions on the location of a yard and the
construction and arrangement of the build
ings: In the first place, the site of the yard
should be dry situation, with southern or
southeastern slope. If on the bank of a lake or
pond, well but a small running stream is pref
cradle. A rough piece of land, with some uH-
derbrush and rocks, is not Objectionable. un
less the rocks are broken or piled up, so as TO
make harbor for rats or weasels. Some un-
derbrush is desirable for shade. Curraht
bushes make good shade, and their fruit is
good tor the fowls In the buildings to
shelter the fowls it is better to have a number
of small houses rather than one of large size
for the breeding stock. Aconvenient as well
as economical way is to build each house
double, that Is to shelter two yards OF fowls,
letting the dividing fence join the house in
the center. Houses twelve feet long by six feet
wide will make two apartments, each large
enough to accommodate fifty hens and
four cocks, which are many should be
kept together. Ventilation must not be
overlooked, aud in hot weather should be
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-11-28
ANDREW JAoKsoN's SENSE.
why He Did Not Want to be Buried in a
Roman Emperor,s Coffin.

Roman Emperor's Coffin.
Philadelphia dispatch to New York sun.
At the meeting of the Board of City Trusts,
to-day, the report of Vice President Gregory,
of Girard College, in regard to the sarcopha-
gus recently discovered in the cellar of the
College was received and placed upon the
minutes. The sarcophagus will remain in
the College museum. 1t was presented to
the College by Commodore Elliott in 1888.
aud when an investigation of the records of
the Councils of this city was made recently
the following letter from Andrew Jackson
was found, together with Commodore lots
letter, presenting him with the sarcophagus.
In this letter the Commodore said: Il pray
YOU, General, to live on in the fear of the
Lord. Dying the death OF a Roman soldier,
an Emperor's Coffin awaits YOU" The fol-
lowing was General Jackson's reply: With
the warmest sensations that can inspire
grateful heart, l must decline accepting the
honor intended TO be bestowed. | can not
consent that my mortal body shall be laid in
a repository prepared for an Emperor or a
King My Republican feeliags and prnci-
piles forbid il. Every monument erected to
perpetuate the memory OF our heroes and
Statesmen ought TO bear evidence of the sim
plicity and economy of our Republican lnsti-
buttons and the plainnesS of our Republican
citizens. who are the sovereigns of our glOr-
Gus Union, and whose virtue is to perpetuate
il True virtue can not exist where pomp
and parade are the governing passions. 1t
can only dwell with the people-the great
labOring and producing classes that form the
bone and sinews of our COhfederacy. | have
prepared an humble depository for my NOR
tai body beside that wherein lies my beloved
wife, where, without any pomp or parade,
have requested, when my God calls me to
my Fathers, to be laid, for both of US there
to remain until the last trumpet sounds to
call the dead to judgment, when we, hope,
shall rise together clothed with that heavenly
body promised to all who believe in our
glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we
might live, and for whose atonement hope
for a blessed Immortality. Andrew Jack
son." Professor Gregory's report gives a
translation of the inscription on the sarco-
phagus, and says:
The inscription translated is, Julia, the
daughter of Caius Mammaa, aged 80. Julia
Donna was the wife of the Emperor Sep
umius Severus Her sister. Julia Mesa
wieldt great influence at court, and had a
daughter. Julia Mammaa. born like the
other Julias at Emesa, in Syria. But this
can not be the lady, as she was much older
than thirty when she lost her life. 1t is
reasonable 10 conclude that Julia Cali Fila
mamm@a, whose sarcophagus was found at
Berytus. sixty miles from the Emperor
birthplace at Arce, and about 100 miles from
his mothers native town, was one of the
objects of the imperial bounty Of Alexander
Severus." The date of the erection was
probably $50 A. ID.