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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15
Walters in the Old Time.

Eyes, [ know tri1e or two about
the waiter business and how it psys,"
remarked an old veteran of the Jacket
and apron order, "but the business ii
not as it used to be-"
Then do you mean to say that onsi
OF our noblest institutions. the spirit
of liberality, is dying out?'
That's just it. Why, can remem.
Der the time when if 1 didn't mako $50
L thought it a very poor day. Now
the boys are happy if they make S.;
They talk about Tweed, but I tell you!
the old man was not as bad rs he 10
painted. Whenever he came in to-
dine l knew he was good for 81; very.
often S5, and sometimes 80" /
'Do you moan to say that he gave
you $40 for waiting on him?"
'Why, certainly. When he had n
little quiet business on hand, them
there was no limit to the cost, and
change was out of the question.
''Yes," continued the man of the.
napkin, ''things are not what thew
used to be, think"
.'Give me some "reminiscences about
old-time customersP" asked a reporter.
''Weil, you remember the old ORR
entail club on East Broadway, when
Judge Shandley Scott, the boss, and
all the other boys were ON deck.
There's where We had the halcyon.
days. Nobody went out of there dry!
and if he got home at all he woke upI
with supply of cigars for week I'M
his pockets. You've heard of the
story of the man who fooled the watt
er once by putting dollar bill under!
his plate and taking it away with him
when he had finished eating. He put
1t there, of course, to see if the ink
would spread, but We walters instinct
lively know such men, and we leave
them severely alone and treat them
with silent contempt"
1--WE never take money, you know
never" said one of Delmonico's men.
Before the regular question could be
pronounced, he remarked: because
we seldom get the chance"
'HoW do your customers treat your"
Il never look for more than a quar-
ter now," said he. ..It was a great
mistake abolishing that currency bus
mess, for then there was no fuss over
slipping a stamp to one. But things
are different now, and men who would
give a quarter before give nothing
now, as they don't want to let every
one know what they are giving. Yes,
sir, that calling in of the currency and
issuing of silver coin took $500 year
from me-" !:
(Which is the best place to make
good receipts?' /:
'.Down about Wall street in the day.
time, if times are good. have found
more than once in my hand for
helping an old speculator on with his
coat. The road is good in the sleigh-
ing time, but not much to boast Of in
the summer. Folks don't want to eat
in the summer evenings and are salts
fled with salad, but for a dead sure
flyer send me couple that have been
behind the bells. tell you they want
the best in the house, and darn the ex-
pense. "-Nelc YORK. Nail aud Express.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15
Feeding the Steer.

A drunken countryman, who fire.
quently brings various articles of pro-
duce to town for sale-and selling
them, puts the proceeds in his pockets.
gets on a ''howl," and never leaves
town as long as il lasts-was in town
last week with load of oats. Know
ING his weakness, Marshal Smart at
tempted to warn him, and the follow
ing colloquy ensued:
YES" said the marshal, land you
are drunk again. The last time you
got drunk you never stopped till you
had slowed away a whole beef steer
under your shirt in whisky, and now
You intend TO follow that with your
load of oats. You'd better go home!"
go! well," hiccoughed the country
man, ''you know that steern (hic)
want some oats anyhow, and you
betch-er-life (hic) he'll get 'em." And
he did.-Batabrtdgs (GGl Democrat,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15

During eight centuries ones direct
ancestors amount to a far greater num-
ber than would at first be contemplate
ed. Taking three generations to
century, one has father and mother (2),
grandparents Qy, great-grandparents
(S). At the end of the second century
the number of ancestors springs to 81.
Following the calculation, you will
find that at the end of eight centuries
one is descended from no less than
16, O0O,0 ancestors. Intermarriage,
of course. would reduce this estimate.
and there is no doubt it must have
largely prevailed. But the figures are
SO enormous that, in spite of all, a
writer ventured to suggest that the
words, "All ye are brethren" are lit
orally true,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15

The letters of Thackeray, which arc
about to be published, are reported to
be- of more than ordinary interest. 1t
is stated that las was his wont, Thack-
eray enriched those letters with num-
berless little pen-and-ink sketches, all
of which will be faithfully reproduced. !"
Further, that "the letters are pub
hshed with the full authorization of the
surviving members of Thackeray's $
family. The gentleman to whom they
were written was very old friend of
Thackeray, and also of Lord Tennyson,
and one of the best of the poet lau-
reate's sonnets is addressed to his
memory"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15
TO PERSONS
HAVING
Property to SensRGnt
OR
THAT Wish TO PURCHASE.

A better time to secure home in Ravenna
Village than the present, will never occur
Property is cheaper than it ever will be again
vacant Lots are cheap, m. terIal is cheap, labor
Is cheap. and money plenty at lair rates.
The laborlng man should secure u home and
save rent. and the we'll to- do should save mon
ey by purchasing flne residence at much less
than the cost of building.
A pleasant home on w alnut, near Main St.
Centrally located near the business part of the
town: very desirable to person doing busi-
ness in the village. In first class repair, Terms
easy.
A fns residence, new barn, good fruit. a,ley
In rear, location first class. ON East Main ST.
Price low and terms easy.
$50 feet vacant land on west side Sycamore
st., wilt be sold in lots to suit purchasers.
One of she most valuable pieces of p1 1operty
Only one square from Etna House Block The
only rare bargain so near the center of the vii
lage. Purchasers should look at this property.
A PLEASANT HOME-New House-Terms
easy. at $780, Page street
A SPLENDID PLACE, North Day Street.
Very cheap, Terms easy.
A FINE HOUSE AND LOT, South Sycamore
parts or the city, at very low prices.
A GOOD HOUSE and Barn, large lot Fruit
&C. Terms to suit. $780,
RARE CHANCE to purchase good house
all in first class order. Pratt street.
AVAILABLE PROPERTY, corner of Cedar
and Kim streets. Large lot Very cheap
IS VACANT LOTS in Tappan's Addition
at prices from 8sa5 to $3.50, In a very desirable
location, one of the finest buildings in town
being erected on same property.
II ACRES, good House and Barn, plenty OF
Fruit. One mile from town.
OTHER Farm Property for sale.
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Through Car Arrangement,

Through Car Arrangement,
No ], Pullman Palace Sleeping Coach Hor-
nellsville to Cincinnati.
No. 3, Pullman Palace Sleeping Coaches, and
regular Day Coaches. New York to Chicago via
Marion. and Chicago 4 Atlantic Railway zoo
change for any class of passengers) Also,
Pullman Sleeping Coach Kent to Cincinnati,
and Parlor Car Kent to Indianapolis via
Springfield and l., B. W. R'y.
No.b. Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach New
York to st. Louis. via. Cincinnati. in connec-
Buffet sleeping Coach. New York to Cleveland.
Solid Train, New York to Chicago, consisting
OF Pullman Smoking, Day, Sleeping and HoIei
Coaches, via. Marion and Chicago & Atlantic
Railway.
No. {. Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach and
Regular Day Coaches, Cincinnati to New York
(no change for any class of passengers). Also,
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach. Cleveland to
New York.
No 8. Pullman Sleeping Coach, Cincinnati
to Hernellsville; Pullman Palace Sleeping and
Hotel Coach. Chicago to New York. via. MARI
ON. and Chicago h Atlantic Railway.
and regular Day Coaches. Chicago to New ork
via. Marion, and Chicago & Atlantic Railway
lno change for any class of passengers). Also,
Pullman Sleeping Coach, Chicago to Albany
and Boston. via. Marion, and Chicago & A tlan-
tic Railway, and Pullman Palace sleeping
Coach. Cincinnati to Kent.
No "stop-over" +" allowed upon Local Tickets.
A. CLARK. General Passenger and Ticket
Agent Cleveland, O.
CHARLES PAINE. General Superintendent
Cleveland, Ohio.
J.E. SHARP. Aget.
Ravenna. o,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15

After that night life did not go on
quite as before in the doctors house
hold.
Nita had ceased suddenly through
some mysterious process, to be the
weird, curious. ELF. like child she had
been; she seemed to have developed in
to a woman.
If possible, she was more silent,
more reticent than before. Her eyes,
in her small haggard face, looked more
intense than ever. Her manners to-
ward the doctor had changed little.
She watched for his coming just as
eagerly, but when he appeared she
would shrink back with a shyness new
| to her.
At times shs had passionate outhursts
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-10-15

o. p. SPERRA,
Assermey ae Law. ONCE In Wheeler's
RnffdinG, Main st., RAyenna. eo0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

They have been species of feld-university
for natural science, and among the graduates
stand the names of Cope, Marsh, Hayden,
Powell, Chamberlain Newberry, Whitney,
Foster, Lesquereux, Coulter, Jordan, Serene
Watson, Hunt, Gill, Baird, Coues and score
of others, whose reports and researches have
been the glory of American science. These
surveys have been built up and fostered by
Republican administration, and it is useless to
attempt to belittle their grandeur either to
science or economics.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey is almost
purely scientific in character, and has run al
most unmolested through the course Of vari-
Gus parties and administrations for nearly a
century. 1t has not only mapped the coast
lines with the utmost accuracy, but has fur
nished the primary triangulations for the in
terror which is the basis for all accurate map
ping of the entire country. 1t also controls
of the needle, and has also charge of the
standard weights and measures. The latter is
of the utmost Importance, and involves the
use of the most delicate instruments of pre-
cision.
These surveys are little understood by the
Masses but they constitute one of the chief
glories of modern science, and they have been
kept to the front by the party which has al
ways aided and been synonymous with social,
scientific and economic progress. The errors
and evils in their conduct and administration
have been of little moment and no branch Of
the government service has, on the whole,
been carried out with such signal purity and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

nail" matched the 'hard cider" and the '1atch
string" Demagogue hit demagogue with his
own weapon. In every Democratic parade
there was pole, with a pair of shoes big
enough for Goliah hung to the top by rope,
the soles showing nails like the teeth of
shark. Songs were made on the "hob- nail"
speeches were built on the suggestions of the
text party clubs took their names from it, and
it was worked for all it was worth in contest
so evenly balanced that it is not at all unlikely
the decision was made by the influence of
this bit of foolery. The elections to Parlia-
ment in the early days Of the reign Of George
the Third were said to have been influenced
considerably by the display Of big deformed
boot in the party parades of the Wings in
ridicule of the Marquis of Butte, the Prime
Minister of the dominant Tory party. That
was just about fair match for the Wing
cause of 1910, just as irrelevant, unmeaning
and absurd.
We need not felictate ourselves in this day
of telephones and electric lights, "evolution'
theories and the supremacy of liquor, that we
are very much more sensible than our ances-
tors. We can make transparencies for torch
light parades that are not whit more apt or
humorous than the coons and big shoes of the
last generation. We don't sing as many
songs nor as silly ones, but if we don't make
as silly speeches, and as many of them,
it is because the dawn of the millennium is
shedding unconscious light in on our percep-
tionS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
OLD WORLD EMIGRATION.

Railways and the cheapening of travel are
causing migrations of European people more
general, extensive and complex than ever be
fore in the course of history. These move
ments are almost irrespective of peoples or
language. The greatest nomads of Europe
are the Italians. Prolific, living on little,
skilled as artisans and sober in habit, the
laborers and artisans of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland cannot compete with them.
Scarcity of food and Of work is made up by
longer hours lower wages and harder work.
The Italians excel in stone-cutting, and
have monopoly of it in some parts of south
and middle Europe Italian masons built the
ST. Gothard railway, and are doing the greater
part of the stone work in France. The Ger
mans, Austrians and Swiss, which are dis
placed, push north and west; many of
them 60 to England and the United
States. Twenty-Five dollars will set
an italian down in New Orleans or Chicago,
and give him capital to commence business.
Commenting on these new movements as fac
tors in present European history, the Specta-
tor says that emigration is most rife in dis
tricts where two races are in conflict, and
that those most prone to emigrate are of
the German race. In Bohemia and Moravia,
where the Slav and Teutonic elements are
struggling for supremacy, the Teutons leave.
In Gallicia, where the people are Polish and
German, with Jewish element constantly
coming from Russia, the Germans give way.
This is not because they cannot hold their
own, but because they are more enterprising
and far-seeing than their Slavic neighbors,
are better Informed as to the chances in the
outside world, especially in the United States,
and are also better provided with means to
migrate These migrations have developed
so rapidly in South Europe that they are
amenable to no general law 1t is the natural
result of inter communication due to cheap
postage, universal printing and steam travel.
The total result is to knit the various states
of Europe together in common interests, and
to make each more solicitous than of old for
the others welfare.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
DIR, TaImage in Europe.

Rev Dr. T. Dewitt Talmage, of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. who has been in Europe since about
the 1st of July, will on Sunday. Aug. Is. preach
from the pulpit once filled by John Wesley, in
City Road Chapel, London. The Journal Of
Monday, Aug II, will contain full report of
his discourse. During his stay in Europe the
Doctor will deliver two other sermons, which
will be printed in the Journal In addition to
this, letter on current European topics from
che pen of DR.. Talmage will be presented to
readers of the Journal in the near future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN THE WEST,

The geological survey of the West, as car
ried on by the Interior Department the last
twenty years, has challenged the wonder and
admiration Of the scientists and biologists Of
all countries Its functions are several, and
have been carried out on gigantic scale 1t
determines the geological structure of the
country, and joins and completes the scat
tered details of the several State surveys, thus
developing in their entirety the principles of
geological science. Mr.. Geike, who is at the
head of the British Geological Survey, visited
the West two years ago the present summer,
and in his public and scientific addresses
as we'll as in the new edition of his
standard textbook, passed the highest enco-
miums on the work of the survey-"the most
stupendous and successful ever undertaken by
any government" The survey, from an
economic point of view, has been Of inesti-
mable service. 1t has investigated fully the
mineral resources of the Rocky mountain and
Lake Superior regions, and has rendered these
industries, amounting to nearly five hundred
millions annually, more definite, productive
and munerative. Its researches have tended
to increase the value of public lands, to direct
the course of railroads and settlement.
Accurate knowledge as to the great areas
covered by such surveys as Hayden's and
Powelrs is essential to intelligent govern
ment The government throughout these
surveys has had in view the growth of mate
rial resources, and even the taxes, which in
final analysis fall on the resources of thecoun-
try, cannot be wisely levied and adjusted un-
less these are known.
The geological survey deals also with to-
Biography and prepares maps Of the greatest
utility. The survey has made its mark in
science--the greatest biologists, botanists, 70
ologists, Psychologists lithologists and met
allurgists have contributed reports Of price
less value, and even ethnology and phi
ioiogy have made acquisitions of worldwide
merit BY means of these surveys.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
SUEZ CANAL. ETC,
To the Ed


To the Editor OF the indianapolis journal;
a. When was the Suez canal begun? (2) How
long is it! 3D. What did it costa a. Who was it
dug by! 81 How many horse power the engines
at the water works at Indianapolis (6) How many
persons in the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis 60
How many pupils in the Deaf and Dumbl
SwAYzEE. JACK MARION.
~ In 1859; opened to commerce Nov II, 1869.
~ One hundred miles. (3) Capital of the COM
pany $90000000 (4l La Compagnie Uni
verselle Ferdinand De Lesseps. engineer. (5l
The works are now running by water, three
wheels. SIS horse power for the three They
have, in addition, for use when needed 500 horse
power, steam. and 175 horse power, also steam,
a total of ,250 horse power. (6 One thousand
three hundred patients. 800 attendants and other
employees. ~ Three hundred and fifty.
HEBREWS AND SUNDAY.
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Jou rnal:
Are the Hebrews compelled, according to the Su-
preme Court decisions of the State of Indiana to OBJ
serve the Christian Sabbath commonly called Sunday
notl If not is there law upon the statute books
of Indiana compelling them to observe their Sabbath
on Saturday. READER AND SUBSCRIBER.
City.
The State statute says, after specifying that
none shall pursue their usual vocations on Sun
day, etc, that nothing shall be construed TO
affect such as conscientiously observe tho
seventh day of the week az the Sabbath" So u
Hebrew who closes his store on Saturday, OBJ.
serving that day, might keep open all day
Sunday.
A GRANT MEDAL OF 1868
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
What is the value of a Grant badge, medal with
bust of Grant side and the motto Il propose
to fight it out this line if it takes all SUMMER 1t 10
the size of silver hafdolar the date is 1868. Who
is buying such thingsi INQUIRER
WESTFIELD.
Don't know. Such medals are still too numerous
to have any great value.
COAL OIL JOHNNY.
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal
What was the extent of Coal Oil Johnnys wealth in
his best days' Into whose hands did his wells passs
KNIGHTsvILLE READER.
H. No one could ever get at the facts as to
Johnuy's wealth 1t did not probably at the
best exceed half million. He leased the oil
ground, and got royalty (2.) We do not
know.
THE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
TO the Editor Of the Indianapolis journal:
What the popular vote for Blaine and Cleys
land at the last electioni II. S. X JB
WAyELAND.
Cleveland, 4, S74 986; Blaine H. S5l, 1881; Butler,
10, $40; St john $50, 369
UNITED STATES SENATOR'S SALARY
To the Editor OF the indianapolis journal:
What is tho salary of United States senators
WORTHWHILE. Ut Ne
Five thousand yeal. .
THE LONGEST WORD.
In answer to the query published last Sunday.
asking what is the longest word il the English
language, a phlologist furnishes the words,
ydrometeorologically' and ''photogalyano
graphically" the first word containing twenty
one and tho latter twenty three letters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
The Nobility in Danger.

New 1otk Graphic.
Mr.. Pearce, a member of the royal commission
investigating the depression of British trade.
has been thrashed by the father of the young
girl whom he is accused Of having seduced aud
maltreated We shouldn't be surprised to heas
that new bodyguard had been appointed 10
guard the Prince Of Wales against-well, say
O'Donoyan Rosa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16
QUERIES AND ANSWERS.

All proper questions of general interest will be ad
mtted to this column and answered, if possible.
If the answers cannot be given the questions will bs
is for the mutual pleasure and profit of readers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

THE horrors of next season in the way of litho
graphic advertisements and bill board atrocities,
to say nothing of the plays themselves. may be
family anticipated on learning that no less
than eighty nine so-called farcical comedies are
to 90 on the road
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

THE boys should not be told of it, but in Mex
leo no circus man thinks of stopping at town for
less time than four weeks, while in the city of
Mexico it keeps running for seven months at a
clip. The land of the Montezumas could give
us points on the way to entertain youth. And a
man seldom reaches an age when he is too old to
go to circus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

THE Atlanta Constitution with all its boosted
educational advantages, insists that the proper
way to eat watermelon is to make wise selec-
ton in the patch at daybreak, and then gulp it
down in kind of savage delight, gustatory
spree That's all very well, but the man who
doesn't set watermelon on ice for twenty four
hours, and eat it at a temperature that makes
his back hair ache. doesn't know the first prln-
ciples of a watermelon education.
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men for whom they are spreading nets were to
come. the majority would no longer be on the
girls side, and the boasted attraction would be
no mora

FROM distant points comes the prophecy that
prohibition is destined to be the practice of the
people. Georgia paper predicts that Sin less
than three years, at the longest there will not be
asingle retail liquor shopin the State of Georgia.
The same paper expresses the belief that in less
than generation children will have to be told
what bari was In the same line Dako-
ia paper says that within five years there will
not be saloon in South Dakota.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

SUMNER resorts are trying to work up an
eleventh-hour boom by giving out that gentle
men who are fortunate enough to be among the
visitors are congratuatine themselves on their
good luck. The presence of from ten to twenty
girls to one man at the resorts is said to make
soJourn there 80 attractive to the male
tourist that he prolongs his stay indefinitely.
The anxious advertisers who promulgate this
interesting fact have forgot that if oil the other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

utility
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-16

programme of lectures, classes and meetings of
the various sub organizations for the improve
ment OF the mind. The orgnators and managers
of the Chantauqua plan evidently proceed upon
the principle that the human mind is a sponge,
capable of absorbing any amount of intellectual
nutriment which may be poured in., Students
who 80 there are impressed with the same belief.
if reports are to be believed, and serenely at
tempt to take in all the departments of learning,
covering the whole range of knowledge, in a
single summer. No one will but wish them
success but the weary pilgrim who wants to
loaf and invite his soul" will wend his way
elsewhere.