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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Administrators Sale!

4 administrator of Austin Risley. de-
n ceased will sell at Public Auction at the
late residence of the deceased in the South part
of Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, on
Saturday, February 10, 1883,
Commencing at ten O'Clock a. m. the following
prperty, viz:
SIS Cows yearlings, l two-year old Bull,
Horses and Colts. a quantity of Hay; Pota-
toes Oats Corn and Wheat by the 'bushel, one
Top Buggy, Harnesses. Wagons, Plows and
variety of Farming Utensils and Household
Furniture.
S3 co. nine months credit, with two approved
sure ties N EGG LESION,
Admir- of A, r. Risley. decd.
P. H. BEAN Auctioneer. 75S-at
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08

Rogers Combined Iron Fence Crest
ing and Farm Fence Posts. For sale
Mt BALDWIN & WAILER'S.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08

U. 5, BONDS of all kinds bought and sold,
and exchanged nt current IN arket rates.
on hand for immediate delivery.
Il, Il. RICHARDSON, Pres t
D.. O GOODMAN, VIM. II. BEEBE,
bn Vice President. Cashier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Hams Smoked

At Reasonable Prices.
MRS. II a
No
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
ROAD NOTICE,

ROAD NOTICE,
NOTICE is hereby given that there will be a
~ petition presented to the Commissioners of
Portage Countv at their annual meeting on the
first Monday in March next. praying for the
location Of a county road in Shalersville town.
ship, commencing on the north and south road,
in the cast part of said township near the res
idence of George Cooley. and on the N. e. cor
ner of land owned by j L Cooley in lot twenty
three 23); thence running west on land owned
by J. l. Cooley in said lot twenty three (23) and
through land owned by B. Rabc ck in lot
thirty eight (3s), until it inte sects the north
and south road on lot thirty eight 1857. south or
near the dwelling house of z. B Babcock.
Shalersville. January 29th. 1888.
3. S. SKIFF,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08

'Tis Lent now.
New moon yesterday.
Moving time just ahead.
Court closed it's session Friday night.
There are no 'skeeters now, but the
frost bites.
The spring candidates have not yet
sprouted.
There is no present prospect of a
thaw.
The County Commissioners held a
brief session on Monday.
1t is not as difficult as it was to pre-
serve ones perpendicular.
Hope the prophecies of an early
Spring will be realized.
The shop windows are full of Valen-
tines-some sublime, many ridiculous.
There will be no services In the Uni
versaIist Church next Sunday evening,
Risdon & VanNess have the largest
stock and greatest. variety of soap in
this market.
st. Valentines day next Wednesday.
Then look out for a rush.o business at
the postofiice.
The weather is very tickle, and what
a day may bring forth is what no one
can tell.
See what nice box of toilet soap
you can buy for % cents at Risdon &
! VanNess.'
All the Farmers Institutes held in
the State this year have been crowned
with success.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08

IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS.
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS are offered you
by The BURLINGTON ROUTE. 1t will pay
you 70 read their advsrtissmsAt - As found
alasuhsRe I'm thia iasnA
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Surprise PARTY

MRS. P. L. KING. Sec.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
PEARLS OF THOUGHT,

On the day of victory no WEAKNESS
is felt.
A wise man reflects before he speaks,
and reflects on what he has uttered.
The head, however strong it may be,
can accomplish nothing against the
heart.
The most important part of every
business is to know what ought to ba
done.
1t is better to be reproached by
friend than complimented by flat
terer.
The wise man looks for happiness
beyond the narrow ken of personal
interest.
Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away mist, but by ascendinga
little you may often look over it
altogether.
Never leave what you undertake
until you can reach your arms around
it and clench your hands on the other
side.
You can't judge of the value of a
man by his talk any more than you can
Judge of the value of the tree by its
bark.
One should be careful not to carry
any of his follies of youth into old
age; for old age has follies enough of
its own.
Do not despise the opinion of the
world you might as well say that you
sare not for light of the sun because
YOU can use candle.
Some minds are so constructed as
not to be amsnable to the ordinary
rules of judgment; they deserve pity
rather than censure.
Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear
as the thought of sorrow coming.
Airy ghosts that work no harm do
terrify lis more than men in steel with
bloody purpose.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

It is asserted by Brazilian that
coffee is a natural antidote to alcohol,
and that the consumption of alcoholic
stimulants is comparatively small
where coffee is popular drink, as in
his own country.
What has been called "sewer gas" is
composed of air, vapor and gases in
constantly varying proportions, to-
gether with living germs-vegetable
and animal-and minute particles of
putrescent matter.
The skeleton of Dinosaurin reptile
thirty-five feet long, has been unearthed
in the Bad Lands of Dakota. The
creature is supposed to have stood
twenty-five feet high. The weight of
the skull is 694 pounds, and of the
whole skeleton 1000 pounds
Dogs, under favorable conditions,
live to an age much beyond that which
is usually assigned to them. Mr.. r.
Cordiner, of Oxford, England. knows a
black ratriever aged thirty-one, and
there is no doubt that others are ac-
quainted with like aged individuals of
the canine species.
1t is well known that minute metal
lie particles are often collected in
places remote from terrestrial sources
of dust. Recent investigation shows
that many of these particles must have
undergone fusion, which evidently
proves that they have come from the
smoke of factories, from volcanic fires
of that they had a meteoric origin.
A mixture of twenty parts of hard
soap, forty parts of kerosene, and one
part of fir balsam had been found very
effective in destroying the insects
which damage the orange tree. Pro
fessor C. V. Riley is the authority.
Other valuable plants, notably the vine
might be similarly protected by a spray
from an application of the same recipe.
1t can be diluted at Will with water SO
as not to interfere with the constitu-
ton of the plant.
The coal supplied to the Nagasaki
market comes from field in Japan
situated along the coast line between
Cape Mono and the mouth of Nagasa-
XII IIarbor and thence to- nearly the
most northerly of the Goto ISLANDS. 1t
is referred to the tertiary period, and
is highly btuminous, of irregular frac-
ture, but somewhat eubical. When
freshly broken it has lustrous black
appearance, which changes by pro-
tracted exposure to the atmosphere to
dull, rusty black.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
A Remarkable Fish.

During the recent scientific cruise of
the Travailleur there was taken off the
coasts of Morocco, and from depth of
about 1870 fathoms, fish of very
singular character. 1t is about foot
and half long and of a deep black
color. It's most distinguishing feature,
however, is a huge mouth cavity, which
is quite disproportionate to the small
tapering body, and capable, through
the arrangement of the jaws, presence
of extensible membranes, etc, of very
wide enlargement of the cavity. 1t
may be ftly compared to the we'll
known pouch of the pelican, and NJ
Valiant thinks it probable that food
accumulates in the pouch and is there
partly digested. The locomotive organs
are of the most rudimentary nature
The paired fins are represented merely
by tive very small appendices, which
may be considered pectoral fins; there
are no ventral fins, but dorsal anC
anal are present. The respiratory ap
paratus is of unique composition
There is no swimming bladder.-Lon
don Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16
SkObeleH.

Skobeleff has been called the poet OF
war. Perhaps it would be more accur-
ate to define him as the military Byron
of Russia. A more daring, more in
subordinate, and more original mind
it has not been the fate of Europe to
see for many long day. If we want
to find his equal it is almost necessary
to go back to the times of Charles
NIL, for we shall not find him within
the limits of our conventional nine
teenth century. He delighted in battle,
yet confessed frequently that it was
not the bubble reputation, but sol
dier's grave, which he sought at the
lannon's mouth. He went forth to
battle in his newest and brightest uni
form, mounted on his famous white
charger, and waving his white cap in
the air. SkObeleff was wonderful
military artist. lie must have studied
the soldier closely to have acquired so
accurate a knowledge of his heart. On
one occasion, at the third battle of
Plevna, he met his troops flying panic
stricken back to the camp. On seeing
him they drew up and saluted. "Ah,
my fine fellows" he exclaimed, "you
have fought like lionsw The troops
recovered their self-rcspect. Seeing
the effect his words had produced upon
them, Skobeleff pretended only to have
discovered that they were without
their muskets. "Where are your mus
kets?" he shouted. No one dared
answer. "Cowards l do not want to
command such dogs as you. Come,
pick up your muskets and follow me
at once !" and, proceeding in the direc-
| ton where the Turkish fire was thick
est, he put them through their facings
as though they were raw recruits
drilling in the quiet back yard of a
provincial barrack. When they had
gone through their evolutions he led
them against the enemy, and not one
of them thought of running away
London Athendetlm.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Fortress Monroe, Virginia, is the
largest single fertilization in the world.
1t has already cost the government
over S3,000,000. The water battery is
considered one of the finest military
works in the world.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

An average days work for brick
layer is 1900 bricks on outside and
inside walls on facing and angles and
finishing around wood or stone work
not more than half of this number can
be laid.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

1t is estimated that not less than
100000 barrels of ale and beer will
be brewed in the United States during
the current year, an increase of about
II per cent. over the year previous.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

In Australia and New Zealand A, OOO,-
600 people have already 90,000,000
sheep. and have an area sufficient for
the easy pasture of 200,000,000 sheep
at the least. With one-twelfth of our
population. they have twice our aggre-
gate stock of sheep.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Three of the Swiss cantonG wnch
abolished capital punishment several
years ago have restored it. They think
that there is no other way of prevent
ing crime.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

The United States postonice depart
ment wants the name and address of
those who send transient newspapers
by mail written on the wrappers.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

.b5 condition of Russia, according
to a st. Petersburg correspondent is
chatoic. He thinks that the empire is
rapidly going to pieces.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

A young lady at a ball called hel
partner an Indian because he was or
her trail all the time.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

dollar per acre, if thought proper, then
purchase government bonds with the
money, and each year use Or their sap
port, through the commissioner of In
dian affairs and their agent, the inter
est upon the bonds, without touching
the principal. This interest would be
very much more than is now approp-
rated yearly, and the Indians by these
means would have perpetual fund,
the principal of,which should never be
touched except by acts of Congress. In
fact, if all Indians and their reserva-
lions were treated in this way better
system of government for the Indians
could be obtained. 1t would also be a
good bargain for the government, as
the purchased land could be sold to
actual settlers for an advance, and be
occupied by people paying taxes, to say
nothing of the opening up of the
country"
That the country is healthier than
the city is generally understood, but
the mortality statistics of the census
furnish data upon which to base an
opinion as to the difference in their
sanitary advantages. The death-rate
in the census of 1860 was 1875 pei
thousand of the population, 1913 in the
census of 1870, and 151 in the census
of 1880. The increase is attributed tC
the greater accuracy in the work of the
enumerators for each successive census
rather than to any increase in the
actual mortality. 1t is believed that
the enumerators have yet failed to OBJ
tain the full mortality statistics, for &
canvass in two States has shown that
about thirty per per cent. of the deaths
are not included in the census Stats
tics. 1t is therefore supposed that the
true death-rate is not far from eighteen
per thousand of the population. AZ
the death rate for our cities averages
about twenty-five per thousand, thu
chances of long life are vastly greater
in the country than in the town.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

While in most kinds of business
capitalists, or large firms or corpora
tions are swallowing smaller ones, it is
gratifying to learn from census reports
that the number of farms is multiply
ing, and the soil is not becoming pos
sessed by large landholders.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

having their trunks smashed while
travelling will be gratined to learn that
redress has been obtained by at least
one victim. Joseph Mitsche, of San
Francisco, sued the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company for damages inflicted on
his trunks while in care of that com
pany. A verdict was given in his
favor, and damages assessed at $423.73.
The court charged that, when rail
way company assumes charge of a pas
senger's trunk by giving him a check
for it, it becomes responsible for its re-
Turn to him in good condition. This
ruling, with statement of the DANA
ges awarded Mr.. Mitsche, should be
posted in large type in every baggage
room in the country.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

A New York man has invented
machine for playing the piano. 1t is
not an organette or an orchestrion, but
case placed over the keyboard with
strikes that hit the keys, which are
turned by crank that is moved by
pedals. The correspondent of the Phi
ladelphia Record, who has heard 1t,
saws that all the time he was listening
he felt as though he was at a board
ing-school commencement" and the
crack pianist of the school was playing
her crack piece. There was a labored
attempt at expression and girlish dis
regard for time; but, aside from that,
the touch was powerful and the execu-
ton brilliant. Mr.. Gally, the inventor,
saws that he can initiate the playing of
any pianist in the world, and he war
rants to give his patent all the fire and
passion of List if any one orders it.
When this is perfected, with an electric
motor to turn the crank, Il man who is
able to own piano will not have to
spend the rest of his fortune educating
his daughter to play it.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Over 100000 ounces of quinine are
consumed annually throughout the
world, and it has become the universal
medicine since its discovery in 1640,
when it was introduced into Europe by
the Countess Cinchon, after whom the
bark was named. It's abundance or
scarcity may be said to be matter of
international concern. Wars and cpl
denies operate to advance its price. 1t
occupies about the same place in ma
terra medica that breadstuffs do among
articles of food. Yet it is said the nat
ural supply of the cinchona bark is
failing, and that resort must be made
to cultivation in order to supply the
worlds demand. Cultivation has al
ready begun in the East Iudies, but
mt. - --;tended to every country pro
hducing this indispensable bark.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

General Sheridan's explorations in
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana last Au-
gust and September, of which he has
recently sent report to the adjutant-
general, suggested to his mind new
Indian policy. The Crow nation num-
bers $40 souls, and its reservation, on
which few cattle Craze and few ber-
ries grow, contains 100000 acres of
valuable land. Il would recommend
writes General Sheridan, "that the gov
eminent give eighty acres to the head
of each family, buy the balance from
the Indians, paying them, say, half 4
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

AT the crematory in Gotha, which is
located in the new cemetery, and is the
only one in Germany, erected at a cost
of $4,000, the incarceration is started
with the body incased in metal, usually
zinc. The zinc case rapidly melts, then
the garments are consumed and the
body burns for IA period lasting from
one hour and three-quarters to two
hours. The ashes fall into receiver,
which, after the burning, is drawn out
from below. They are then placed in
an urn and stationed in the columa-
barium, or in a tin cylinder prepared for
the purpose, and taken away by the
friends of the deceased. 1t takes a
day and night to heat the apparatus
thoroughly, so that bodies that reach
Gotha one day cannot be cremated till
the next. Those who desire cremating
generally belong 70 the weather. classes
of society. The charge for crematlng
is $3.50, paid in advance.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

NJ. Pasteur, French scientist, for
the last ten years has been spending
much of his time in the company of
mad dogs, in order to test the value of
his incubation theory. He has just
communicated the most recent results
of his investigations to the French
Academy of Sciences. He states that
all the dogs which he had inoculated
with the virus, and which had been
cured of the disease thus commune
Gated, enjoyed perfect immunity from
a second attack. Hence he argues that
dogs, being the originators of hydropho-
bia, should be compelled to pass
through the ordeal of incubation in
order, that they might thenceforth be
powerless to drive men mad.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Since the close of the war the Amer
lean people have paid out $53O,OOO,OOO
in pensions. At the end of the present
fiscal year there were 85,697 names on
the roll, representing an annual outgo
of $54,296,290, and in the last year
27,644 new pensions and 10,231 in
creased pensions have been granted,
and there are yet 269,67S applications.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Since the astronomers who originally
predicted terrible things from the fall
ing of the great comet into the sun a
few months hence have found out that
the comet is not coming back in nearly
800 years, popular interest in the celes-
tial visitor has rapidly waned. The
comet, however, says the New York
Sun, continues to be puzzle to the
men of Science, who do not appear to
be much nearer the solution of the
question what comets are composed of
than they were years ago. The world
was formerly scared by stories of
comets that were about to strike it,
and Of comets whose tails, sweeping
the earth, would produce pestilence
and death. The latest scarecrow of
this kinda comet which was going
to burn the surface of the earth by
falling into the sun and stirring up his
! fires-has turned out to be rs harmless
as the old stories. When astronomers
have found out what comets really are,
it will be time enough to predict what
harm they are going to do to the earth.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Those people who have suffered from
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

The worlds stock of locomotives
consists of $4,000; of passenger cars,
there are 100000; and of freight cars
100000. The capital invested in
railways, which are in all 200, 900 miles
long, is $2O,O00,000,000. The commerce
of the seas is carried by 10000 steamers
and 100000 sailing vessels, whose ton
mage amounts to over 20,000,00O tons.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

What is called the biggest copper
mine in the world has been discovered
in Nevada, 100 miles northeast of
Bodie. Nearly 1000 feet up the
mountain above Soda Springs Valley
the ore bed shows width of 100 feet,
and in many shafts the ore assays
eighteen per cent. copper. The ore
now uncovered is estimated at $4,000
tons, valued at over 100000,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-16

Beavers are building aero $ Feather
river, in California, a dam, by which
they are using large cottonwood trees.
All the dams that the miners have
built for protection against spring
freshets have been washed away, and
as it is said that beaver dams are never
thus destroyed, the miners are watch
ing with deep interest the results of the
little animals engineering.