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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04
What Mrs. GrnndY Saws.

That a great deal of the fun people
have on excursions is imaginary.
That at lawn tennis nowadays there
is much more Irritation than scientific
play. F. .r.s.
That all Newport talks about is the
reported trouble between siX-months'
married pair.
That milady finds good deal of
trouble to get Summer hotel-keepers to
accept her dogs.
That great curiosity at Newport is
the married man who pays any atten-
ton to his own wife.
That nowadays n fashionable young
lady must have parasol to match every
costume.
That American girls who wed titled
Engllshlnen soon wish they had not
been so foolish.
That large numbers of American
clergymen are now hurrying around
Europe at great rate.
That cheap paper colored novels are
not regarded as fashionable for seaside
piazza reading.
That ladies at the seaside complain
that salt air plays havoc with their arti-
fetal compilations.
That the troubles of people in fash
ionable life seem to increase now with
disgusting rapidity.
That it is not considered the proper
thing for the young swell of the period
to travel in u straw hat.
b That there are plenty of cottages still
to let at Long Branch, Newport and
other fashionable resorts.
That there are now signs of the wan
ing of the exodus to Europe, which this
season has been SO large.
That fashionable women anxious for
notoriety now do the most improper
and tInheard of tricks.
That the cheapest boarders at the
watering-place hotels are the ones who
make the greatest trouble.
That one of the worst evils at Long
Branch is the gambling houses, kept
open in defiance of the law.
That it is remarked that an unusually
large number OF people at the watering
places are in mourning.
That the young lady from the city
who plays the piano is now in demand
at country boarding houses.
That Stock Exchange brokers' wives
wish stocks would go up so that they
could have some new clothes. S.-NetO
York Mail and EGprcSS
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The Old Reading Glass.


cannot tell you, Genevieve, how oft it comes
That rather young old reading class in District
Number Three.
That row of clocutionists who stood SO straight
In line,
And charged at standard literature with ama-
bic design. -z#-.r
We didn't spare the energy in which our words
were sCl:ri:
We gave the meaning of the text by all the
light we had:
But still fear the one who wrote the lines we
read so free
Would scarce have recognized their work in
District Number Three.
Outside the snow was smooth and clean-the
Winters thiCk-lad dust;
The storm it made the windows speak at every
sudGt@ gust;
Bright sleigl-hells threw pleasant words
when travellers would pass:
The mapc-trces along the road stood shivering
in their G ass;
Beyond the whitc-browed cottages were nest
ling cold aud dumb, .E -.-..
And far away the mighty world seemed beck
uning to come
The wOndrous world, of which We conned
what had been and what might be.
In that old-fashioned reading class of District
Number Three.
We took Il hand at History-its altars spires
And uniformly mspronounced the most impor-
tstnt names;
We wandered through biography, and gave
Dlir fancy pi;lV.
And with some subjects fell in loye-"good
only tor one day" ..- r.. Ter
In Romance and Philosophy we settled many
point,
And made what poems we assaied to creak at
every joint; -s.r.T
And many authors that we love, you with me
will agree,
Were first time introduced to us in District
Number Three. e. - g.
You recollect Susannah Smith, the teachers
Who never stopped Mt any pause-a sort of day
eXpressf
And timid young Sylvester Jones, of inconsist-
Who stumbled on the easy words, and read the
hard ones right?
And Jennie Green, whose doleful voice was al
ways clothed in black?
And Samuel Hick, whose tones induced the
plasterin2 all to crack?
And Andrew Tubbs whose various mouths
were quite show to see? sF-s=-
Alas! we cannot lind them now in District
Number Three. Ls
And Jasper Jcnckes, whose tears would flow
at each pathetic word
(He's in the prize-tght business now, and hits
them hard, I've heard:
And Ben! B:iyne, whose every tone he muir
INJURED us in feNr
(His tongue is not so timid now; he is an
auctOncer);
And Lanty Wood. whose voice was just endeav-
orinq hard to change.
And leapcd from hoarse TO fiercely shrill with
most suT priSlng range; lFf
Also bis sist"r Mary, SO full of prudiSh glee.
AlaSi they re both in higher schools than Dis
trict Number Three. '....7
So back these various voices come, though long
the years have grown,
And sound uncOmmony distinct through
Memory's Telephones:
And some are full of melody, and bring a sense
of cheer
And some can smte the rock of time, and sum
mon forth Il tear;
RIt sweet voice comes b1ck tn mi vel
ever sad griave,
And sings song, and that is yours, o peerless
G"npVicVe!
It bright n UP the olden times, and throws
smile at mo
4 silver star amid the clouds of District Num-
Der Three.
-Harper's Magazine for September
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Edison as an Operator.

edison used to work the other end of
circuit with me-" says telegraph
operator interviewed in the Vicksburg
Herald, land knew him when he was
in Memphis some thirteen or fourteen
years ago. Ho always looked ratty and
never spent his money ON clothes, but
the reason was that he was always tink-
ering with some new contrivance or
other. and spent his money in paying
for material to work out his invention.
He used to take press in Memphis He
was rs fast as they make 'em, and his
copy never gave telegraph editor Il bit
of trouble. He had a way while wait
ing for copy of drawing caricatures, il
Illustrating the character of news he was
getting, and putting them along In the
spaces OF the copy he sent into the press.
This made one of the papers up there,
forgot which. red hot, and it opened on
him and had IL good deal to do with his
being fired by the manager. Edison
didn't want the fool editor to print his
funny pictures in his telegraphic news.
He only drew them for his own amuse-
ment. When he went to Boston with
his yellow linen breeches on in the mid
die of winter, the manager of the office,
tinding he was an expert. hired him to
keep the repeaters in order. Edison
worked part of two days, and then
was caught by the manager of the Office
foolin% witbsome cOntrivance of his own.
Thought l hired you to keep those re-
peaters in order said the manager
You did, said Edison, but I've put a
kink or two into them that will make
them keep themselves in ORDER From
that day his fortune was made"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04
Hsr Head Cot 4Syn.a.

Perry Penselp' writes in the Boston
Iraoeller: "By way of telling what eff
feet the world has upon . woman, let
me tell what it has for . woman whose
name is known from East TO West. iu
every home where good literature is
seen. About fifteen years ago she be-
gan to write Each. bit was her best,
till ON the appearance, of one neyes a
book that stirred this country and Eng-
land, 1t was said: The next book she
writes viii be the great American novel;
she is the best writer of our country
She was the worshipped woman of the
finest. most learned, most cultivated So
ciety of the city whore she lived. Then.
she met some gayer people in this lifc.
of ovation; more SNOWY, but less true.
Her head got turned; her idcas and her
ideals became changeds and some por-
Hons of her last newell were; expurgatedI
by the publishers as being 700. sugges-
tive! The woman, who of all America
could have had her country at her feet.
wears upon her arm rs a bracelet the
collar OF the smallest pug dog in the
world, given her by senseless fop of
this very city. The duties she owes her
husband, if not the husband himself,
are forgotten in the gay whirl of the
world into which her desire for name
and a reputation have led her. She 10
. woman of the working world. God
blG ueks
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How Things appear to the Insane.

The first that remember of my at
tack was while was riding in a rail-
road car. 1t seemed to me that the
passengers in. the forward part were
getting up amateur theatricals. The
fact that this did not surprise me, nor
appear. ut all out of place, illustrates
one curious feature of insanity, and that
is, its close similarity in many respects
TO dreaming, 1t is well known that
the strange phantasmagoria attendant
ppon most of our dreams never strikes
rs at the time as at all astonishing, il
logical, or contradictory, because the
critical faculty in sleep is partially and
perhaps wholly dormant. And SO also
y it in insanity. And as sound or a
touch will suggest or give direction to
an ordinary dream, so everything that
occurs within the sight or hearing of an
insane man effects him in like manner.
Also. he has no more control over his
words and actions, when the insanity is
complete, than q Somnambulist. And,
when patient comes to himself, afteI
having been insane, he feels as if he
had been having long and. sometimes
q very unpleasant dream. Some of nv
delusions were of frightful character.
and resembled nightmare more than
anything else; but more often they were
by no means disagreeable. OF course,
it seemed strange to me afterward that
could have been carried away b
such absurdities At one time thought
that the end of the world had come,
and that the day of judgement was af
hand. This was somewhat remarkable,
becAuse L bad not for wears been a be.
liever In the scripturai prophecies relat-
ing to those two events. Nor had any
faith in the doctrine that there is he'll
of fire; yet, in Imagination, I visited
that place of torment, and witnessed
the tortures of the damned-without
however, getting seorched myself
Some strange coneeits, that had como
across in. books, occasionally suggested
material for my mind to work on.
saw men whose souls / believed had
been taken from their bodies, leaving
behind the intelligent personal identity
IAN idea suggested by character des-
cribeds in Bulwer's Strange Story"
Again, / thought that demons OCCASION
ally reanimated human bodies after
death; and this fancy must have got
from q dramatic work by Bishop Coke.
entitled ''Saub' in which the evil spirit
sent to trouble that unfortunate mon
arch terminated and took possession OF
the body of a priest whom Saul had
slain. I mention these instances as
serving to show the dream-like char
acter OF insanity.-Pop. Science Monthly.
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Wiss for Women.

A wignaker talked me into secret
the other day. TWAS becoming ,fash-i
ionable, he said. for women to wear
wigs. Wigs are net worn to cover up
badness, or because the hair is thin. but
to save trouble and rs 3 precaution
against accident. A woman who has
straight hair is just now out of fashion
rs far as her head goes. She must
crimp her hsir and paste it into little
waves and putfs around her forehead
and down the sides of her head. This
requires great care, and becomes bur
densome after a time. Besides hair that
is not inclined to curl at all is apt to.
defy crimping pins and po,nade and
straighten out at an inopportune mo
ment. The wigmaker, therefore, has
come to the rescue of women so unfor-
tunate as to have rebellious hair. He
makes wigs that may be worn on the
front of the head, between the linsof the
forehead and the crown. The false hair
is crimped and never straightens out.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04
Raidino the Sutlar.

A famous and favorite kind Of sport,
| especially when we had been lying in
camp for some time in summer, or were
| established in winter quarters, was what
| was known as 'traiding the suffer-"
The suffers establishment was large
wall tent which was usually pitched on
the side of the camp farthest away from
the Colonels quarters. 1t was, there
fore, in somewhat exposed and tempt
ing position. Whenever it was thought
we'll to raid him, the men of his own
regiment would make to the men of
some neighboring regiment 3 PROPOSE
ton In some such terms as this:
'You fellows come over here some
night and raid our sutler, and we'll
come over to your camp some night
and raid yours. Will you do it?''
''This courteous offer of friendly
offices was usually agreed to; and great
was the sport which often resulted. For,
when all was duly arranged and made
ready. on 81 dark night when the sutler
was sleeping soundly in his tent, skir-
mish line from the neighboring regi-
ment would cautiously pick its way
down the hill and through the brush.
and silently surround the tent One
party, creeping close in by the wall of
the tent, would loosen the ropes and re-
move them from the stakes on one side,
while another party on the other side,
at given signal. would pull the whole
concern down over the suffers head.
And then would arise yells and cheers
for a few moments, followed by inn
mediate silence, as the raiding party
would steal quietly away.
Did they steal his goodsP Very sell
dom. For soldiers were not THE YES, and
plumber was not the object, but only
fun. Why did not the officers punish
the men for doing thisP Well, some
times they did But sometimes the
officers believed the sutler to be exor-
bitant in his charges and oppressive to
the men, and cared little how soon he
was cleared out and sent a-packing;
and therefore they enjoyed the sport
quite as we'll as the men, and often imi-
tated Nelson's example when he put his
blind eye to the telescope and declared
he did not SEQ the signal to cease firing
They winked at the frolic. and came on
the scene usually in ample time to con-
dole with the sutler, but quite too late
to do him any service. September st.
Nicholas
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04

"Singular," mused an old Delaware
fisherman rs he sat picking bones out
of himself like pin feathers after din
ner; singular, a shad has got 100000
bones an a shadder hain't got nary =
one. | kain't understand no sich o.
prammer like that, no how. Marthy
Ann, whur's them thar nets you lowed
we'd done got mended afore turn o the
tideP'' And as the cares OF life surged
over his soul once more all contempla-
tion of the normal structure passed
from his busy mind, even as an ephem-
eral Joke that tlutters family to the
GROUND at the Concord Summer School
Of Philosophy.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04

The German medical journals are o,s-
cussing new medical agent, recently
discovered by Professor Fisher, Of
Munich. In the course of long series
of investigations concerning the nature
and action of quinine, he found that by
means of certain chemical transforma-
tions. a substance can be obtained, in
the form of white crystalline powder.
from coal tar, which greatly resembles
quinine in its action on the human or
ganism. He has given this new agent
the namo of "kairin.'' The chief effect
produced by itappears to be the dimin-
ution of feverheat, and in this respect il
bids fair to be useful. 1t is even hoped
that it will render the use of ice in fever
cases unnecessary. Karin is also said
to be, less unpleasant to the stomach
than qnlnine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04

James Underhill, of Mexico. Oswege
county, N. Y, has an English verge
watch, which was made by Charles Tay-,
llor, Of London, in 1876. Mr.. Underhill
received it sixty years ago from his
grandfather. who, to preserve it during
the ReyolutionaryWar, removed a stone,
from his cellar wall and put the watch
,in,. then replaced the stone. 1t remain.
ed iE its hiding place about two years.,
1t is still in good running order and
keeps good time
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REASONABLE PRICES
A. d. STEPHENSON.
CHARLESTOWN, o.


Offers to the people of Portage County tho fol-
lowing uneNceled Varieties, which Lave inva-
riahly received tho higeest concentrations
whercvcr exhibitedtaking the First Premiums
IN every competitive test as TO Hardness Size
Flavor. and Prolific Bearing.
WHITE ANN ARBoR GRAPE-Hariy, pro-
life, large and delicious. Ripens ten days or
two weeks before the Concord Never milticws
nor rots. Second size, one year cid. small Sc
cents each,
We, the undersigned. having been appointed
by the Agricultural and horticultural Society
OF w aslitenaw Co Michigan, to act as Judges
IN the Pomological Department at their Fair in
october 1882. had under consideration a9 vari-
ion that the white Ann Arbor seeding was
far the most desira BILE of the lot
FOR siSe Fdpor and beauty, it took the lead of
ail our standard varieties. and we believe it
will yet become one of the most popular GRAPES
In this country. MARTINt LARK
j, d. WILLIAMS
AZ ttee,
ANN ARBoR. MICH, Dec %. 1882 @ -.
RUSSIAN. N.MULBERRY-HAR beau
tiiui, quick growing tree for the lawn while
tue fruit is valuable for table use, BY mail
IL to 10 inch size, 10 cents each 81 so per dozen
TIE 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 sf good size, yellow skin, and fe. h
as yellow gold; thick meated small pit very
hardy, and one of the most abundant bearers OF
from the pit One year old trees by express, 2
to feet IS ceuts each; $25O per dozen.
WATERLOO PEACH a to #. IS cts. each.
The largest and best very early peach grown
Ripens about middle OF July. -
"BIG BOB n-THE COMING STRAwBExRY.-
The biggest and most uniform in size. the best
Favored and most productive, and the vines the
hardest, Price by mail. 81 60 per doz or &c
per 100. A. <. STEPHENSON.
Rayenna, March 30, 1888 762-am
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To Make Maidens Forever Young and
-. - Fair --

A ray of JOY shines upon the pathway
of the elderly belle whose physician in
sists upon sea bathing, but whose COM
ploxion .savors painfully OF the antique,
A friend of humanity-a Frenchman, OF
course-has invented set of cosmetics
that resists the effect of saltwater to
wash them off or injure the delicacy of
their bloom, SO that the well-rouged
will come out all rosy and blushing, or
as ii the bathing had put health and Wig
or into them, and the frozen yellow and
blue tinges will be hidden from the
carping gaze of heartless world. No
more azure noses and old gold cheeks
for these elderly maidens, but peach
like, ocean-defying snow white and
rose red. fair and fresh as the bushes
OF dawn. The damsel who has hither-
to emerged from the waves grim and
Palild as a damaged mermaid too long
Kept ON exhibition may now rise, like a
new Aprodite, perennially young and
falr.-Boston Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-04

commercial travellers or drummers
sometimes meet with o questioner who
Paralyzes them. A certain Boston
drummer u. felt all tore up when, in his
boarding house, at the dinuer table, re-.
csenuy, his little 9-year-old sister from
!ns .M5, country innocently asked him;
"nsn are you going peddling againe"
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Business Cards.

MysruAnr. D.L. ROCKWELL. Z
- STUART & ROCK WELL,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS
"A O. IA w, RAvenna, Ohio Offices IA Poe
asnItiInz. nearly opposite the Etna House
and Court House, 'i .'fi 20
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-05
Tho American Medics.

Special Dispatch t. THE BKB.
CLEVELAND, Juae 4 The h'oeri-
can Msc ISL association meets here to-
morrow in their thirty fourth annual
session, to continue four days. The
address of welcome will be delivered
by Gsn. El. S. Meyer. The fore
Moons will be devoted to general bust
ness; the afternoons will bo divided
into seven sections, meeting separately
to hear pspers on and discuss practical
medicine, msteria medica and physi-
ology in one section; obstetrics and
diseases of women In another; surgery
and anatomy In another; stale medi-
cine another; optholmology, otology
and laryngology another; diseases of
children another, and dental and oral
surgery another.
Several hundred delegates and 9th.
era have already arrived. A grand
reception and banquet will be given
In the Eaclid Avenue opera house to-
morrow night and large number OF
receptions at private residences on
Wednesday and Thursday even
ings. The officers of the association
are; Doctors John l. Atlee, Penn
sVlvanis, president; Eugene Grisson
North Carolina; A. j Stone, Mime
sofa; j. A Oclerdong, Kentucky, snc
and II. S Orme, California, vict
presidents; VIM. b Atkinson, Penn
syivanis, secretary; j. N. Hines
Cleveland, assistant secretary; Rich
ard j. Dunglison, Pennsylvania
treasurer; G. II. Kleinschmidt, Wash
lngtou, librarian,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-05
POStmaSterS Already Applying
for Leaves Of Absence on AC-
count of GreSham'S Order.
The Civil Service Commission
Debate the Meaning cf the
lone Family" Clause.
Brewster, Attorney Gsnoral,' will
wrestle with tho Qaesttor.
CApITEL NOTES.
Sp, cial Dispatches to THE BER.
PoIsMASTERs sQUEALING,


PoTsMAsTERs sQUEALING.
WASHINGTON, juno 4.-Owirg to
the order issued by Postn-ns'er Gen
eral Gresham repairing hlst ana, sec
ond class postmaaters to attend per
Conally to the duties of their offices, a
number of applications for leaves OF
absence are already received as the
department.
The Mexican mail service from New
Orleans and Galveston has been re-
sumed.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
held meeting to-day at which q
number of question: of detail relating
to examination of candidates for
places In the civil service and to tho
application of the new rules governing
appointments, were discussed. The
most important of these questions
was what Interpretation should be
given the words lone family" In that
clause of the civil service reform bill
which provides that when two persons
of one family are employed In the
civil service of the government no
other member of that family shall be
eligible to appointment. As the
commissioners do not care to ex.
anime persons who are ineligible
they wish to have this question
definitely settled, and will ask the
opinion of the attorney general upon
1t. They desire to know whether
zone family" means only parents and
their children, o. whether, taking into
consideration the intent of the law
(Which was plainly the prevention of
nepotism), the prohibition Is to be un'
derstood as extending to nephews and
nleces, brothers, sister, grandchildren,
cousins or relations by marriages, Of
persons holding places in the civil ser
vice.
WASHINGTON, June 4-The i,sue
Of standard silver dollars for the week
ending June I'd was 166 900; CORE
spending period last yesr, III 600
In the star rou.e trial, Merrick re
sumed his address to the jusy, anC
after crltioising Brady's policy looking
to daily mail on every star route
the court and counsel discussed tn,
evidence concerning the expedition OIL
the Tongue river line.