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

The human body never ceases to
work. Even in the most profound
slumber some of the functions of life are
going on, as, for instance, breathing,
the circulation of the blood, digestion,
when there is food in the stomach; and
it follows that some part of the nervous
system is therefore awake and attend
ing to business all the day and night
long. In the act of living, some of the
substance of the body is being con-
stantly consumed. The amount Of
work done by the heart in one day in
propelling the blood is now estimated
as equal to the work of q steam engine
in raising 125 tons one foot high. or one
ton 125 feet high. We lose in weight
by working. Weigh a man after sew
eral hours hard labor, and he will be
found two or three, and, in extreme
cases, several pounds lighter. If we do
not wish to become bankrupt, we must
replace by food the amount we have
lost by labor. Hunger and thirst are
the instincts which prompt us to do
this. They are like automatic alarm
clocks, which stop the engine at various
points to take ON fuel and water. In 8
healthy man IS much is taken in as is
required to maintain the weight of the
body against loss. Nature keeps the
account. On one side is so much food
spent in work; on the other, so much
received into the stomach for digestion.
They should balance like the accounts
of an honest book-keeper. In an un-
healthy person the instinct of hunger
becomes disordered and does not sound
the alarm, and so the person goes on
working without eating until he be-
comes pauperized; or the instinct works
too frequently, and he eats too much
and clogs the vital machinery. A eal-
culation of the business done in the
body reveals the fact that for hard
working person about 8! pounds sf food
and drink are used up daily; some bod
les use more and some less, but this is
the average. The profit which tho body
gets on the transaction has been calcu-
lated, and may interest our readers.
The energy stored up in the 81 pounds
of food ought to raise S,400 tons one
foot high. Most of this energy, how
ever, is expended in keeping the body
warm and its functions active. About
one-tenth can be spent in our bodily
movements or in work. The profit,
then, on the process is about ten per
cent. This is enough to raise $40 tons
one foot high each day. A profit which
is quite enough for earning good liv-
ing if rightly expended, and it is prob
ably more than most make; but all
ought to strive to reach this point if pos
Scientific american.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

Ladies have been ever ready to pat
ronize shoemakers prone to discard an
atomical laws and indulge in freaks OF
fancy. An exception was Catherine de
Medici. She was very active in looking
after gardens, walking, riding, and over
looking her architects. 1t is easy to an
derstand, in looking at the boots and
shoes of the seventeenth century, why
the coach became an article of necessity
to the grand seigneur and the court lady.
The heels were very high, and the boot
cumbersome.
Moliore kept to the square-toed shoes
fastened with lace on the instep, which
the bourgeois of Paris had worn for
nearly y century and q half. He was
shod pretty much as an English Puritan,
and was able to rove through France
without needing the assistance of q
chiropodist. In the reign of Louis
Quinze, pedestrian exercise, except on
the fiat, hard terraces of Versailles, be-
came impossible. The extremity of the
heel was placed under the sole of the
foot, and the whole weight of the body
was thrown upon the great toe. Mime.
de Pompadour wore Asiatic slippers in
the house, but she sacrificed herself to
fashion when she appeared at court.
Marie Antoinette's heels were lower,
but the too of her shoe formed sharp
point. She was glad at her rustic
Trianon parties to lean on the crooked
staff of a sheperdess or on the arm of q
courtier. If the shoe said to be worn by
her and the Princess de Lambelle were
only manufactured to be looked at they
would have been charming. The work
manship, SO far as stitching and en-
broidery goes is perfect. But the feet
must have been dreadfully squeezed in
them. Marie Antoinette, according to
tradition, had q superb gait. Chroniclers
of her time likened her to goddess
borne along on clouds. AS she was
brought up in simple German way.
and taught early to dance ballets, she
may have been relatively to the danes
about her, graceful in her movements
when she walked. The ankles of the
Duchess de Berri went in and deformed
her shoes. Her kinswoman, the En-
press Marie Louise, had the same de-
feet. The ladies of the Bonaparte
family had remarkably small and we'll
shaped feet, and wore their shoes straight.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
Lower Berths in Sleepera

= It is great study to travel on sleeps
or, and watch the different kinds of peo
pie. 1t Is great thing to feel that you
own q lower berth, and that many OF
those around you are only common. oE>
dinary, upper berth people, who have
got to take fire escape and crawl up to
the roof after you have got to sleep. ]
always have lower berth, until bed
time. 1t has been habit with me, fo1
years. to telegraph ahead for lower
berth. and get it, and sit in a seat until
bed time, and then have a real nice gen-
tleman come to me with story about q
poor lady who is i'll, and who is senteno>
cd to sleep in an upper berth. and ask.
ing me If had not Just as soon change
with her. And the poor sick woman
says she is so sorry to ask it, and then ]
say L had just as soon sleep in an upper
berth, and she can have the lower berth
peril ones immortal soul by lying so.
when he knows he will not sleep wink
up there, but it makes the sick woman
feel better. How do these sick people
who get upper berths know man who.
will give up his lower berthp Can there
be look of vacancy, or idiocy, or gem
erosity in my face that tells them they
have soft thing on my bertha There
were sixteen lower berths, If | remem-
ber right, and yet all the other occu-
pants were safe in their possessions, be-
cause they had faces that showed that
they had made up their minds to sleep
down stairs, and after looking them all
over, the searcher for a lower berth
fastens on me, and weaken. In such
cases I usually lay awake all night and
listen to tho peaceful slumber of the oc-
eupant of my berth, and speculate as
to whether will strike the floor head
first or feet first, if fall out Last
Thursday morning at daybreak, when
woke up and found my left ear on a
nickle plated cuspidore, one leg over the
bell rope, the train stopped, and the
conductor and porter trying to find out
what stopped the train for, and the
woman in my berth snoring as peace-
fully, that is, peacefully for an Invalid.
and they took 1ne up and let me sit on q
marble wash-stand in the toilet-room
until the passengers got up. went out
on the platform while crossing the Mis-
souri, River, and when exactly between
the two States of Iowa and Nebraska.
where an oath would be binding, I
swore with uplifted right hand, and left
hand on the place where struck q
hard travelling bag when I fell, that by
the great bald headed Elijah, would
never telegraph for lower berth again.
and that hereafter l would cnly travel
in sleepers with three rows of berths,
and take the top one. and fence myself
in with barbed wire. Henceforth the
lower berth will only be a memoryto to me.
an ancient superstition, and resign
forever my claim to lower berth to,
those who are sick and who have got
George W. Peck. !
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
Napkin Fashions.

If man be known by the cut of
his coat, and the company he keeps, so
it seems can his nativity be told by the
way he handles his napkin. A Boston
man uses his energetically, with sort
of rap-saw motion across his mouth. A
New Yorker uses his with piston-rod
plunge towards his lips. The western
or spreads it over his bosom like a
Yachts mainsail. The southerner con-
ceals his in his lap like jewel box. The
philosopher who discovered these things
failed to tell US of the Germans wind
mill napkin flourish; the Frenchman's
serviette jerk; the Italian balloon nap
kin act. We supply these, however.
If Lilliput was divided into those who
broke their eggs at the big and those
who Clipped them at the little end, why
cannot the two great American parties,
for want of any actual political issue.
divide on those who favor the aristoc-
ratio napkins and those who think the
corner of the tablecloth good enough for
the citizens of an untrammeled gepuh-
Hcg-N. Z; A9rnIsa x2ssl4sg!; ----s~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
Badness.


In an article recently contributed to
the Gessndheit-a paper, as its name
imports, devoted to sanitary subjects
Professor RECLAIM, German Gelehrter,
makes some timely and useful observa-
tions on the subject of badness. After
describing, in a vein of pleasantly, the
vast array of bare polls which NAV be
seen any evening in the pit of theater
or the body of a lecture-room, he dis
cusses the causes of badness. He does
not think, as is sometimes said, that
loss of hair is the result either of ini-
paired health or of much study. The
strongest men are often bareheaded and
German professors, who are nothing if
not studious, are distinguished above all
men by the profusion of their locks. On
the other hand, soldiers and postillions
who wear heavy helmets and leather
caps, and wear them good deal. are
frequently as bald as billiard balls
From these facts Herr Reclaim draws
the conclusion that badness comes
chiefly of the artificial determination of
blood to the head, and to the heat and
perspiration thence arising. The result
is relaxed condition of the scalp and
loss of hair. If the skin of the head be
kept in healthy state, contends the
professor, the hair will not fall Off To
keepit healthy, the head-covering should
be lightan porous, the head kept clean
by washings with water, and the hair
cut short. The nostrums yended as hair
restorers, and on which a fabulous
amount of money is wasted by the ignor-
ant for the benefit of quacks, he de-
nounced as worse than useless. In
ninety mine cases out of hundred they
are worse than useless. Cleanliness and
cold water are the sole trustworthy spe-
citics; but when once the hair-roots are
destroyed, not all the oil of Macassar,
the bears grease of Siberia, nor the
cantharides of Spain will WOO back the
vanished locks
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
y Summers Last Day in the Sonata. ~

~ Summers Last Day in the Senate. ~S
81 shall never forget" Washington
letter reports MIR. Hayden, late Chief
Engineer of the Senate. as saying, "the
last time that Mr. Sumner was Ia the
Senate was sitting In my usual place
when l saw Mr.. Sumner rise, take his
hat and cane both in his right hand. as
he was accustomed to do, and start to
leave the chamber. As he rose from
his seat he put his left hand quickly to
his left breast as if in pain, and seemed
to press it hard. Then he stood. I
should say for full minute. casting his
eyes around the entire range of the gal
leries twice, as if looking for familiar
face. He then, standing there, deliber-
ately surveyed the whole Senate, and
then started for the east door AS he
started he dropped his left hand from
his left breast. AS he reached the east
door he once more put his left hand to
his breast, with a quicker motion, and
inclined his body slightly to the right
Once more he turned and l can see the
wonderful expression upon his face now.
It turned first pale, deadly pale then be-
came pearly gray. l should never
have known the face was that of Mr..
summer. 1nere was upon IL an express
sion of pain, but a deeper expression of
agonizing sorrow. He stood a few sec
onds in this position, surveyed once
more the whole Senate floor, straighten-
ed himself little from his partly ir-
clining position toward the right, and
darted through the eastern folding doors
as if shot from cannon. In two days
he was dead. I could not account for
MIR. Summers strange conduct and that
terrible expression in his face. 1t haunt
ed me. The next day 1 learned he was
sick, and the next that he was dead and
it occurred to me in moment that pos
sibly Mr.. Summer, as he stood there with
his hand upon his breast and surveyed
the Senate Chamber, might have had 3
presentiment that that look was the
last which he was ever to give upon
that body"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
A Couple Go their Diverse Ways.

An amusing incident occurred the
other day south of the State line. A
Cecil county pair had not been living
very happily together for some time
past. and they agreed to remove to Tex
as, Lancaster county. Together their
worldly effects filled three wagons. She
possessed the most property and occu-
pied two vehicles. He seemed safe and
contented in one wagon with his effects.
Both received the farewells and best
wishes of q crowd of amused spectators.
The horses were started and the trio of
conveyances disappeared in the west.
When few miles this side of Texas the
pair arrived at forked roads. There
they stopped, and after considerable
conversation of a spicy character they
mutually agreed to part and separate
forever. They leaned from the fronts
of their wagons, each taking farewell
look at the other, and after some excla-
nations slowly drove down different
road and were seen no more.- West
Cehster pa Record. .-x--
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
The Kramlin

The ancient palaces of the Gar at
Moscow, known as the Kremlin, are
probably the most gorgeous example OF
mans capacity to adorn and beautify
that exists on the face of the globe A
New York Herald correspondent SAYS:
A walk through the halls of the Kremlin
as prepared for the imperial pageant
reveals splendors almost impossible to
describe. To talk of them as reception
rooms suggests nothing of the lavish
beauty of decoration and the imperial
splendor of the different halls and
saloons. Every fresco has been restor-
ed, every carving regilded. All the en-
broideries, brocades, and tapestries
have been especially made for the oc-
casion. Baron Kohne had the direction
of all the heraldic decoration. His taste
in everything that concerns antiquity,
ceremonials, and the science of imperial
display is evident. from the great golden
throne and draperies, over which the
black eagle is seen in flight, down to
the tabards of the heralds and the
badges of the pursuivants.
In the Banquet Hall the embroidered
cloth, which surrounds the lower tie1
and falls to the raised dais on which the
buffet stands, is of crimson velvet, and
is covered with the most elaborate EN-.
broidery of Byzantine design in colors
and three tones in gold. This table
cover and carpet, which covers the floor
of the halls, about seventy feet square,
are the work of nuns, whose signatures
are found in it, worked in Slay charac-
ters. In the right corner rises a throne
of carved black oak, its roof supported,
for it is almost building in itself, by
four pillars and raised on three steps
The whole is covered with crimson
plush, backed with draperies of cloth OF
gold and ermine. A small table, which
is also covered with crimson plush,
stands before the imperial seats
The floor of the Hall st. Alexandra is
probably the finest piece of marqueterie
known. Every kind of colored wood is
used to produce the most intricate pat
terms of scroll and flower
The Throne Room: 80 much magnifi-
cence is displayed in this floor, that one
is scarcely prepared for the rich display
which meets the spectator in the Throne
Room or Sale Saint Andre. Architec.
ture and decoration combine the severi-
ty of a Gothic abbey with the marvels
of the renaissance, resplendent shrine.
At the far end of the hall rises shrine
in gold, for indeed it is more like shrine
than canopy. 1t has gold draperies
on silver and gold background, on
which are the arms of the Emperor OF
All the Russias. The throne is support
ed by the gold griiiins of the house OF
Romanoff, fringed with black, gold, and
silver, the colors of the imperial stand.
ard. Enormous gilt chandeliers, each
supporting thousands of wax lights, the
wicks of which are all connected so az
to light up simultaneously, hang from
the roof and fall with weblike grace.
Imagination can picture them ablaze
and fill the glorious palace with the
splendors of royalty, courtiers, and the
fairest danes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
A Horsewoman's Narrow Escape.

Miss Mary Valentine was riding down
the road leading toward Cornwall from
Mountainville, N. Y. Half mile from
the Houghton farm, the horse became
unmanageable. Miss Valentine was un-
able to check its career, and he dashed
down the road with headlong speed for
a mile.
At Mountainville there is bend in
the road where it is entered by another
that crosses Il creek over an iron bridge.
Miss Valentine tried to keep the frantic
horse headed toward Cornwall, but
failed. The horse veered to the left to-
ward the bridge, and plunged off tho
approach into the creek twenty feet be-
low, falling a distance of thirty-iive feet.
The water in the creek was six feet deep.
Miss Valentine held the bride tightly
grasped, and her head just grazed the
limb of a tree that grew within five feet
of the iron truss of the bridge, between
which and the tr,lsstho horse had found
his way. She managed to extricate her.
self from the saddle, and two men who
were near at hand rescued her from the
water after she had sunk twice. Her
only injuries were slight bruise of the
hip, but the horse, it is thought, receiv-
ed fatal hurt.-N Y. Tribune.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
CHURCHES.

UNIVERSA LIST - Rev. ANDREW WILLsoH
PastDr Services every sunday ut lO :5o ~ IL.
and z 80 d. m. Sunday School at IL p in
PASTORS residence on Diamond street, first door
north OF Main. a. ~;
LONGREG ATIOEAL - REV, A. M. Hills;
Pastor. Services ON Sunday at 1O 30 A. M, anu
30 Sunday School AT IL :l5 T. NJ frayer
MeetJrg on Thursday Evening at :5O. =,
MEi uODlST RAW. Il. nj. rREbhWATEN, n
A. Pastor Ser vices on Sunday at lO:3VA. N >
aud 90 p ". sunday school at l2Io Z.
PRAYER Meeting Oh Thursday Evening nt w.
DiSCIPLE- REV. M j.. aTREATok, nastor
Services on SUNDAY at 10 30 A, NJ, and ~ N.
lu,lay School atI2-l5 Z. NJ. Prayer Meeting
On Thursday Evening at z 30. ~
IMMACUL ATE CONCEP fiON q AIi1oLISI
-.KEv. los, -, BOwLEs Pastor. Services ato anu ~
VI SO each alternate sunday Suniay ocIoo, oa.h q"
1902 N high Mass, sunday, July 4. anu ehcn
a eernate Sunday thereafter. Mass every week
Jay morning at 30. 49,, g,
GRACE Gnu NCH H-EPISCOPAL-Cedat 81
REV j. w. GILMAN. Rector services ~; y"
eppday ut 10. 10 NJ, and sabbath SchooI I'm
. a lately after service. Evening Service aI
the usual hour. n,
, CAKWuO CHAPEL Oakwood street. rev
ID. w. Burdick Pastor. Services sunday eve
ming at7 80. Union Sunday School at 8 O'CLOCK
D. N. each Sundas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

Oscar Wilde has cut his hair and the
English say he is crazy.-Es. The
English press Is not very discerning
The American press discovered this sad
mental condition of the young man long
before he cut his hair.-NorrtStowf
Herald.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

''May leave few tracts?'' asked q
travelling quack doctor of lady who
responded, to his knock. Leave some
tracts? Certainly you may" said she.
looking at him most benignly over her
specs; "leave them with the heel toward
the house, If you please" ''- Ill,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

When Miss Wixom-"Emma Neva-
da'-made her debut in Paris in ''The
Pearl of Brazil" that other brilliant
American prima donna, Marie Van
Zandt, occupied prominent box. At
the close of one of Miss Whom most
brilliant passages, when the audience
was hushed with admiration, single
''Hurrah!'' in clear soprano voice, but
with an unmistakable Yankee accent,
rang through the house. Every eye
was instantly turned to where Miss Van
Zandt sat, her face glowing with mingled
embarrassment and enthusiasm, and
then for five minutes the house rang
with q storm of Bravo! Van Zandt!
Bravo! Nevadar'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02
A. e e. STEPHENSON,
CAARLESTOWN, o.,

Offers TO the people of Portage County the fol-
lowing uncXcciied varieties, which gave ihya-
riably received the higeest Communications
wherever eXhihited. taking tho First Premiums
i'll every competitive test as to Hardness Size,
Flavor, and Prolific Bearing.
WHITE ANN ARBOR RGRAPE-Hardy. pro
life, large and delicious. Ripens ten DAYS OF
two weeks before the Concord Never mildcws
NOR rots. Second size, one year old. small, 90
cents each.
We, the undersigned. having been appointed
by the Agricultural and horticultural Society
OF W Washtenaw Co Michigan, to acE as Judges
in the Pathological Department ut their Fair in
October. 1882. had under consideration 80 va:i
etics 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 size f00or and beauty, it took the lead OF
all our standard varieties. and we believe il
will yet become one OF the most popular Grapes
i'll this country. MARTIN CLARK,
j, ID. WILLIAMS.
Committee.
ANN ARBOR. MICH, Dec %. 1882
RUSSIAN MULBERRY-HARDY.- beau
tirul. quick growing tree for the lawn while
the fruit is vaiuabge for table use. BY mail
IL to Is inch size Id cents each. 81 so per dozen
THE WAGER PEACH.-Thfs is, " ithout ex-
ceptiOn. the best and richest Peach we are ac-
qIainted with. for Table use and canning pur-
poses. II is ef good size, yellow skin, and flesh
as yellow gold; thick meated nall pit very
hardy. and one OF the most abundant bearers or
from the pit. One year old trees, by express,
to feet IS ceuts each; $3.50 per dozen.
WATERLOO PEACH,-a tos #. s5 cts, each.
he largest and best worry early peach grown
Ripens about middle Of July.
"BIG BOB THE COMING STRAWBERRY
The biggest and most uniform in size the best
favored and most productive. and the vines the
hardest, Price by mall 81 co per dog or as
per 100. A. L. STEPHENSON
Ravenna, March 80, 1883 782-9m
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

Once upon a time, says a story teller.
"Ouida" asked Charles Reade to sug-
gest q name for new pet dog. TON,
il" quoth he, insta:. ter, for ii is sure
to be q mig bark, steal and
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-08-02

The New York custom officials have
discovered a captain smuggling in ci-
gars in the hollow legs of writing
desk. Let alone custom house officials
for finding cigars when there are any
around. They will even take them
right out of your hand and be looking
the other way all the time.