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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23

Henry Lamb. aged 81, who died in
Fairfax County, Virginia, recently,
long resided near Mount Vernon. To
his dying day he asSe ted that the
vault containing the remains of Wash
ington had been violated and the skull
carried To France, where it was sold to
Il firm of phrcuologists. He said that
the desecration was committed by the
sailors of French ship anchored in
the Potomac near Mount Vernon, and
that the skull which was taken away
was replaced 10y that of a negro SER
want of Col. Fairfax.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23

The faces of Europeans, as rule,
are broader than those of Americans
The common distance in this country
between the ccnterS of the eyes is three
and three eighths inches, but among
foreigners it is three inches and a half.
Sometimes this is increased from ono
to three eighths of an inch more. If
spectaclcs are worn with the frames too
narrow, the focus of one eye conflicts
with that of the other, and an effect is
produced very similar to that of being
cross-eYed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23

Step by step the leading food pro-
duets of Europe are being REPRODUCED
in this country. MaccarOni is made
by Italians in New York. Neuchatel
cheese by Swiss in New Jersey,
Schwezer kase by Germans in Ohio.
Albert biscuit by Englishman in
Albany, and caviare by Russians in
Harem. Nearly all OF these are ex-
ported to Europe. and there sold as do
mestic manufactures,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23

A correspondent, writing from ths
Valley of the Amazon, says that stalks
of fan-gPass are found in that region
which measure thirty-fye feet from the
ground, ---------,--z---,----- -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23

An American company Is engaged in
LAYING all artificial stone pavement in
the City Of Mexico.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-10-23
Business Cards.
j. I'll. DUSSELL
p. Il. CONANT,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Counsel in
"A English aud eierman. onice over +. his
ClOthing Store, Phenix Block, Kavenna,
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e. Ell. GRIFFIN
W. W. WHITE, NJ. D.,

0NENrIsT. Office over Fi:st National Bank
Office hours from q to u. M
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G.. ID. IEGEI.Il

TTORNEY AT LAW and Notary
IA Public. Office in over Mrs. Smiths Silii-
cry Store Nj Mantua station, ONO. o42-t.
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MENTAL oVERWoRK.

The suicide of Judge Colt, of Massachu-
sets, seems to be as fair a warning as can
be of the dangers of mental oyerwork,
worry and strain. He was not only the
possessor Of strong frame and sound
physical health, but OF an abnormally hap
Ply and cheerful disposition when he en-
tered upon his duties as a Judge His
circumstances were all fortunate, and no
family aifl cyion or business misfortune oc.
CURED to disturb his mental balance and
ne was equally fortunate ia escaping any
attack OF eXtrancous disease. Bat he
was conscious of some deficiencies in legal
learning, which he endeavored TO make up
by severe application; but more than this,
he took his cases with him wherever he went,
considering them at all times and hours in
anxiety to fulfill his full duty and render
exact justice. The result OF this was to
break down the tibres Of his strong mind
and all the symptoms Of periodic depression,
self condemnation, and finally doubt and
despair, indicated the exact course of men
tai disease produced by overwork. The
man who cannot drep his work when it
is done is the one who is in danger
and he who finds it filling all his waking
hOut5 has u warning WHICH no strength OF
constitution or general good health should
tempt him to disregard. Persons who
have the fortunate faculty of dismissing
their cares and tsking healthy recreation,
can do an immense amount of mental
work without exhaustion, while stronger
men are driven to insanity or
suicide simply because their work
rides them Ike nightmare. The
warning is individual, but the symp.
toms of the danger are such as every man
can note and take warning from in him.
self, whatever the comparative quantity of
his mental work with wAat he thinks he
ought to do with safety, or has been done
by more fortunately constituted persons. 49,
Providence Journal.
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Is full of interesting details of his career,
but we will con6ne ourselves to his anus
ing account of an interview between the
poet Henri Heine and Meyerbeer. " |
often went 10 see Meyerbeer, he says,
"who interested me for various reasons.
l invariably found him deeply absorbed in
the Partisan newspapers, which he read
solely to see what they said OF him, for he
had great veneration for the press and was
even afraid of il. 1T is, said he, the
great power of the age! Meyerbeer was
known to be very rich, and he received in
Vulnerable letters from Germans estab-
lished at Paris, which always ended with
a request for money. The author of Rob-
ert le Diable, who was not extraordinarily
generous, defended with all his might his
door and bis purse, but there were some
who would not be denied. The poet Heine
was of this number. Extravagant, always
in need, but determined to give some hon.
est return for bis demand for money, the
author of the 'Reisebilder always came
to Meyerbeer with his pockets full Of
lieder and ballads. To refuse as sweetly
as possible was rule with Meyerbeer, and
he almost invariably told Heine that his
poems were too perfect, too sublime to be
set to music but the poet needed some
thing more substantial than mere fattering
words, and when the musician began the
usual strain he rushed frantically into the
street. l met Heine one day at Meyer
beers house and assisted at a very
curious scene. l had been talking with
the musician about the music of the day.
Nursed in the cradle Of the Italian school
l remarked that nowadays the music
was full enough Of discord to shock the
most refined taste. 1t is like the kitchen,
l said Familiarity, where one puts in the
stews and soups a quantity Of strange in
gradients, which only the strongest stom-
achs can support. My culinary compari-
sons did not please Meyer5eer's taste He
rose and said, with great dignity, Il be-
lieve, however, that | am not a cook,
bowed coldly and left the room. was
for had not thought of Meyer
beers productions in making my remarks,
and turned toward Hsine, who was con-
vulsed with restrained laughter. He |
tapped me on the shoulder affectionately, |
and cried, Thank you, Mario, thank you |
with all my heart You have done well !
to put this pround miser in his proper |
place, for you hit it ez actly. That is Just |
it He is nothing but musical cook ? |
And perfectly enchanted with the word,
Heine left the room screaming at the top |
ioor by which Meyerbeer had made his
Exit was half open, and he certainly heard |
5he irreverent words of Heiue, who ceased |
rom this day to trouble Meyerbeer with
lis lieder and ballads" o.
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BOW a STATE BECams RICH.

In DR.. Egglestons illustrated paper in
the January CsHtUrH On Hnsbandry in
Colony Times, he says " The destiny
OF South Carolina was changed by . single
lucky experiment. In 1896, when the
colony was more than thirty years old, the
pioneers were still engaged IN buying furs
iron the Indians, extracting resin, tar and
turpentine from the pines, cutting timber
for shipmen. and growing slender hsrvests
Of grain on the ilgn. soil along the coast,
Attempts had already been made to grow
indigo, ginger and cotton, but these had
not answered expectation. a smsli and
improbable kind of rice had also been
tried IN 1855. But one Thomas Smith
thought that patch of wet land at the
back cf his garden in Charleston resem.
blsd the soil he had seen bearing rice in
Madagascar. Il CHANGED in 1896 that q
brrgsUt,ne from that island anchored in
distress near SUl.lvan's Island. and tie
Captain, 40 old friend of this enter.
prisiug Thomas Smith, was able to
furnish him with q bag Of Madagascar
rice suitable for seed. 1t grew lux.
urlantly IN the wet corner OF the garden,
and the seed from this little harvest
vas widely distributed. In three or four
years the art Of husking the rice was
learned. African slaves were easily pro.
cured in the West Indies, and the face OF
society IN the young State was presently
changed South Carolina became land OF
great planters and 4 multitude OF toiling
negroes. Smith was raised to the rank of
Laudgrave, and made Governor Of the col
ony three years after the success Of his rice
patch. The new grain was az first grown
on uplai ds, but the planters discovered
that the neglected swamps were more con-
genial and less exhaustible. The cruelty
hard labor OF separating the grains from
the adherinP husks crippled the strength
aud even checked the increase OF the
negroes but in the year Just preceding
the Revolution this task came 70 be per-
formed with mills driven by the force of
the incoming and outgoing tides, or turned
by horses OF oxen. One hundred and forty
thousand barrels OF Carolina rice, of 400 or
800 weight apiece, were annually exported
before the War Of Independence. Through
the example of Governor Of Georgia, the |
culture OF rice spread into that colony. and |
completed the ruin OF the silk business.
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ARTIST BRowSISG's PYTHON "A curl.
Gus story is told Of statue of Dryope and
Apollo, which Robert Barrett Browning
has recently finished at Paris. In the
studio, says the correspondent who tells
she story, | saw the model who had stood
for 1t, with the great live snake coiling
around her, and her face was the statues
own. asked if it was not almost cruel
to make her pose thus, snake-embrsced,
but the sculptor assured me that she was
very fond of the serpent. The snake him.
self was veritable python from Senegal,
and had been resident some time at the
Antwerp Museum of Natural History. The
embrace of this one might easily have been
fatal, for he was ten feet long and very
large. But he never so much as frightened
his coils uucomfortably around the model
during the weary hours and days in which
she stood with him entwined about her,
while the statue grew. Mr.. Browning
showed me the box which was the python's
home when his working hours were over.
| say was, for, alas for art this good and
kindly snake is dead. He died during the
absence from Paris of Adele, the model. -
fPall Mall Gazette.
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- GE0yE, Sacramento c0nnty -

MEssBs. D. S. Brown & Co
Gentlemen-PIease send me another 6-galon
darkness Fire Extinguisher soon as you car. l
had occasion to use the one bought OF you shert
tine ago. Last night The hotel adjoining my store
caught fire in the hallway 10 the second story, from
the explosion Of a lamp, snd the building, being
lined vi h cloth and paper was Immediately on file
in several rooms but IN less than two minutes after
getting the Extingusher TO work the fire vas out.
As soon as this arrives will send the other one
down and have it repleuished. Also, please inform
me if | cannot draw off the fluiG remaining m the
tank and save it for future use, or shall send it
it is? Yours, etc. (Signed.) J. y. ANDREWS.
.lros.T I'r1G-uctf
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ALI of DR.. Prices preparations are relisble
and uneaqsled 10 purity and strength. Dr.
Price's Cream Baking Powder and Special
Fiavoring Extracts have gained reputation
for excellence that no articles Of their kind
have ever yet acquitted. The most careful
physicians and chemists Csc them 10 their own
families.
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The TOE OF ST. PETER.

Close by the baldachin in 81. Peters
Church at Rome is the bronze figure of St.
Peter, the toe of which every good Catholic
who visits st. Peters feels bound to kiss.
It has been kissed by go many millions
that the contact OF soft lips has actually
worn away a portion OF the metal toe
toe made of the hardest possible bronze. A
half hours observation OF the people who
came to kiss the toe Of the metal St Peter
was well spent, as showing the state OF
feeling among the Roman people. 1t being
| a grand festival, an immense number of
people thronged the great church, and the
metal toe was kissed that day by thou
sands. Who kissed the toe? The woman
always. a welldressed, apparently we'll
to. do party-father, mother and children
approach. The mother pressed eagerly
forward aud kissed the toe with a fervor
that meant something an earuestness that
proved beyond doubt that the kiss did
her soul good, and that the privilege was q
comfort to her. Then the children were
carefully hoisted up-What mother would
kiss any thing without giving her children
q chance at it and they kissed it one by
one. But the father As a rule he at.
tempted to escape it, but reproachful
look from the wife and the waiting Of the
children always brought him to his duty.
He kissed, but he did it in the same spirit
that young man kissed an ancient maid
at party in the course of some game
which has kissing as penalty or reward,
because he had to. No man of this class
did this willingly, if the expression of his
face may be taken as an indication.
The peasants from the Campagna-men,
women and children-kissed it reverea.
TALLY, and likewise, in the same way, the
beggars and thieves who thronged the
church. The more ragged the peasant the
more feryent the kiss, and the longer the
lips remained upon the toe. And the
women always. They never failed to 90
through the ceremony with JUNCTION. Il
doesn't make any difference TO the throngs
OF people who most devoutly kiss the toe
of the bronze ST. Peter that the statue is
not of St. Peter at all. 1t is asserted
and, what is worse, proven-that the statue
dates back long way anterior TO st. Pc.
ter, being, in fact, nothing more nor less
than bronze statue of Jupiter, and once
reverenced by the pagans as Jupiter the
same as it is now by Christians as st. Pc.
ter. 1t does just as well, however, and
those who kiss the toe go away as much
benefited by the act as though the toe was
really that of the fisherman. No ore
knows hew st. Peter looked, inasmuch as
he lived before photography was invented,
and as the church has labeled it st. Peter,
st. Peter it is to the faithful It is mat
ter of faith anyhow as they are blest in
believing, why not believe ?-TR. D. Locke !
(Nasby), in Toledo Blade.
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DIR. Q. McLANH'S
CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS

In Offering to the public Dr c. McLaae,s CeIs-
b~dted Luer Pills as a remedy for Ligey and Bilious
Complaints, We presume no apology will be needed.
The great prevalence Of L,rer Complaint aud b.
toltS Diseases of al kinds throughout tac United
States, aud particularly in The West and South
where, IN the majority Of cases The patent is not
within The reach OF a regular physician, requires
that some remedy should be provided that would
not in the least impair the constitution and yet be
safe and 5ffectull That such is the character OF
Dr. C. NcLaus's Ljrer Pills, there can be no doubt.
The great success which has invariably attended
their use, viii, we thiak be suti 'eut to convince
the most iucretuous Il has been our sincere wish
that these pills should be fairly tested and stand
or fall by the effects produced That they have been
SO tested, and that the result has been in every re
sPect favorable, We call tens Of Thousands to wit.
ness who have experienced their bened ial effects.
DR.. C. McLAEE'S LIVER PILLS
are not held forth or recommended like most Of the
popular medicines OF the day) us universal .ure
ails, but simply as specific for Liger Complaints,
and those symptoms connected with derauged
state Of that organ.
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ST. DAVlp'S,

4 FIRST CLASS LODGING HOUSE, CON.
"A tains 100 rooms rs Howard street, near
Third, San Francisco. This house is especially de-
signed comfortable home for ladies and gentle
men visiting the city from the interior. No dark
rooms. Gas and running water in each room. The
floors are covered with body Brussels carpet and all
the furniture is made OF solid black walnut. Each
bed has spring mattress, with an additional hair
top mattress, Masking them the most luxurious and
healthy beds in the world. Hot and cold
baths; isrge parlor and reading room, containing
Grand t1ano-all free 70 guests. Price, single
rooms per night so cents per week, from 81 n.y.
warJis. House open ell night.
R. HUGHES, Proprietor
At Harket-strees Ferry, tako Omnibus line OF
street cars 10 corner Of Third and Howard
tYSTuTs1
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ds.1IWSkw1v
MoMUNN'S ELIXIR OF
OPIUM.

rs THE PURE EXTRACT FROM THE DRUG
Z from which all the hurttul properties are
moved and the medical ones retained. No headache,
costiyeness or sickness OF the stomach attend its
use. Price, so CENTS. All druggists. mI-1yTuThS
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HEcEntS,s CtsTEIcHr

4 specific for Dyspepsia Sold by druggists.
y sud 30 cents per box. Sent by mail J. y.
hEGEMAS L Co, PROPRIETOR, New York.
Bedingtou L Co, Agents, san Frsucisco. Cal.
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WHEN TO MARRY are thirty.
two days in the year on which it is ur-
lucky to marry, upon the authority of
manuscript dated in the fifteenth century.
These days are January LIST, ID, 4th, 18th,
9TH, l0th, 18th February 9th, 7th, 18th
March, lsr, 9Th, Sth; April 9th, 18th :
May 5sh, 9th, 9TH June It'll, 18th July
9Th, 10Th; August 18th, 18Th; Septem-
Der 9th, 9TH October 9Th; November
18th, 10th, and December 18th, 18th 18th.
Consequently January is the worst month,
and October the best month, in the year
for marriage. The records show, however,
that in Boston, and in fact throughout
New England, November is the banner
month for matrimony, October holding Sec
ond place in nuptial favor. For this
Thanksgiving Day is mainly responsible.
1t has been consecrated to marriage festi.
walls for many generations. Fast day is
another favorite day for connubial ven-
lures, and, with large proportion of our
population, Easter Sunday is regarded as
an auspicious occasion for the wedding of
the matrimonial letters. Thousands of
couples have welded New Years week,
unwilling the risk they ran as above set
forth, and it is hardly to be expected that
the publication Ct this list will increase
the number of happy families or lessen the
regular long roll of divorce suits upon the
dockets of the Courts. Boston Globe.
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orders.
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GOOD NEws.-It is now entirely unnecsz-
sary b purchase any imported perfumes. -
he very best are Peck's Premium Perfumes
and Elite Bouquet, home manufacture.
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And makes the complexion fair and rosy. As for
blood faint, there is such sor, fail /, cures
that have long withsioed other sorts Of treat
meut, and without any of those recurring troubles
that generally follow mercuual and ether sc-called
cures. T. L. MASSEY 81 re. Macon Ca
Cur treatise on Blood ard Skin Diseases mailed
free TO applicants. THE SWIFT SPE IFIC co
jalO-IUrh>Iy Drawer 3, Atlanta Ga
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MANHOOD RESTORED.

A victim Of early imprudence, causing nervous
debility, premature decay, etc having tried in vain
every known remedy has DISCOVERIES simple means
az self cure, which he will send FIRE. to hs fellow
sufferers. Address, J. Il. REEVES, 4S Chatham
street New York yls.lyTUThS
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WEAK AND uMoEvELoPgp PARTS

or the eIumaa Body Enlarged, De-
Vrloped and sdrengtheRed." Etc,
rs AN INTERESTING ADVERTISEMENT LONG
1 run in our paper In reply to inquiries we will
say that there is no evidence of humbug about this
On the contrary, the advertisers very highly in
dorsed Interested persons may get sealed circulars
giving a., particulars by addressing Enc Medical Co.
p O. Box 5l3, Buffalo, n. Y.-l'Ioled1 Evening Bee.
si5-lyTuThS
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DR.. cFFEVERS ELECTRIC BTiT. o. Rs-ta,-slol & rn.df
sIprcsily for tie cErr OF p-rcavs or-ant
Hha.cver any deb - -lasra-e or s ,cri 1- nat
sTsr case the eontasoui stFeS OF ELECTRICITY pesa:HE
ta-ozCh tas part, E7rs tro t0a.v a-.tu. There
70 mistake shoot this HIt-uen frr have te d. uod
tho1santl Of cureI testified TslE1l Ilrrscn.
lncaFaci.y IseE Of Nrur Ssr:vi7 g. w 80 II thetS
organs L. cured Do ret contour! ta 81 % elective belts sdver
tied 70 all Ia from head 70 1i ls ONE rreefs
P1rros, Fer circular giving n 1-, rsSF CliEEN E&
EIGCEEstC BELT CO., TO- t=-.,, III.
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ASAwAR 2
Applied with the


a1I LIglID gH SHUTF'
4 few applications relieve. thorough treatment
iriH cure. Agreeable to use. Send Tor circular:
Price, so cents by mail at druggists. ELY
BFOiBERS, Druggists, Oweg9, \. Y.
ON-lNtuIh SNWlY
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From - W earine5S
BY the stiffness and shadow surrounded
| lie on the mystical i hit,
Where the limits of vision are bounded
Alone by the confines Of night.
Der the silence of city ard river,
Nights scntilllnt splsndors blaze still,
Like beacon fires indlCd forever
Ger rampart5 Of mountain and hill.
Through the infinite spaces upleading
Faint silveFcd and crced with light,
Still watch the white pathways receding
That traverse the kingdom OF night.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co. San Fran
cisco, we have of the press of G. p. Put
mans Sous, New York. Henry j. Wisner's
Manuslfod Tourists in the Yellowstone Ma
tionsl Park" II is freely illustrated and
accompanied by railroad msp and an appen-
dix of travel and land statistics and tables
for the great Northwest From the same
firms we have also the Guide t. the North
ern Pacific Railroad and It's Allied Lines"
By Mr.. Wisner. 1t is a guide book and
itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers,
aud appears 10 be very complete. More pre-
tentious and full is the elaborate volume from
the same sources, by Eugene V. Smslley, en-.
titled History of the Northern Pacific
Railroad" It is q large octave of 436 pages,
accompanied by an elaborate map and pro-
fusely illustrated. 1t is d complete exposi.
ton of the resources and topography of the
country trsversed by the new line. together
with history of the Northern Pacific enter
prise and the vicissitudes through which it
hag passed.
From Bancroft & Co., San Francisco, we
have aHother of the Harper Bros English
Men of Lettersi series, being the life of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Mrs. Oil
plant. Moore's life of Sheridan, published
in 1926, was the best work on the dramatist,
and probably still is. Moors had the sdvsn-
tsee Of free access TO Sheridan's papers, and
the aid of his family, but his book had it's
chief value il It's authoritative character. AS
p criticism it was not satisfactory to Sheri-
dams friends. The next most important con-
tributioa WAS the sketch by Professor Smyth
Since then several small works "reminiscences,
apecdotal collections, etc, have appeared
Airs. Oiphsnt's book hoVzver, is the most
orderly and exhaustive biography. It's su-
thoritative character cannot rise above that
Of Moore's volume, but it Is a better told tale
IF the dramstist's life, It's cOnciseness, ele-