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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
Only An Incident.

A few evenings ago, writes South
ern lady, the conversation turned upon
suitable times and places for courtships.
l said | had once been an accidental eye
aOitness-shall call it?-to proposal
on the cars. ''Oh, tell usr' s'Please do
let US hear!' exclaimed ten young voices
and two mature ones. l could not re-
sist, and after the recital, which was
suitably applauded, a lady, whose opin-
ion value, begged that would send it
to Harper. l hope the parties-un-
known to me-will take no offense if
they recognize the courtship as their
property. l have heard, though, that
at such an absorbing moment the iden-
teal words used are seldom remem-
bered.
/ was sitting on tram about to leave
Richmond, Virginia, for Petersburg,
when bridal party came on, and one
of the bridemaids occupied the vacant
seat by my side. The coach was crowd
ed, and her special escort could not
find seat, but contented himself by
standing in the aisle at her side, convers-
ing about the events of the day. 1t be-
came dark, and Iclosed the book had
been reading, and leaned my head on
the window, and closed my eyes, simply
to rest them. Nothing was farther from
my thoughts than to be an eayes-drop-
per, but so in the event l proved to be;
for in the darkening twilight the abb
sorbed couple, supposing me to be
asleep, settled into ilove's low tone"
each word of which struck upon my ear
clear as bell, for in his earnestness he
leaned on the back of the seat in front
of us, his face, as you can picture for
yourself, forming with the lady's ear
and mine an equi-lateral triangle. In
free America, and on public convey
ance, did not think it necessary to re-
mind them of my presence. Presently
he bent closer, and whispered: You
must know by this time what my atten-
tions to you mean. May hope that
may claim you as mine?"
After a little pause she said, 81 am
very sorry, but l am afraid that our
paths through life will have to daverge." :"
He expostulated, of co rse; then,
heaying deep sigh, walked away.
The twilight deepened, and still
rested my eyes. After a while the dis
consulate lover returned, and renewed
his suit, saying: II have spent fifteen
wretched minutes. Can you give me no
hope?"
Her voice in the cleaning sounded
like music to him, have 40 doubt, as
she answered: Il have been thinking
over what l told you. No one knows
what will be in the future, and perhaps
our paths may conuerge."
just then the whistle blew for nv sta
ton, and gathering up my possessions.
| was preparing to depart, when he ex-
claimed, joyfully. ''Do you get off here?
Allow me to help you with these" And
with shining eyes he took my satchel
and parcels, and helped me of, even
controlling himself so far as to bow re-
| spectfully as left
| On looking back could see the lady
in my seat by the window, and the hap
py lover sitting by her side. The whistle
blew, the train started, and-the curtain
fell.-Harper's Magazine for March.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
Detained on the Road.

''When lived in Kansas" said De-
troiter, who was telling stories in an in
surance office few days ago, II insured
my house with an agent against fire.
Along came another agent who insured
against lightning, and took that in.
In few days chap called on me who
insured against cyclones, and l struck a
bargain with him. The next caller in
sured against water spouts and explo-
sions, and thought l might as well en-
courage him."
"a house couldn't be much safer than
that" remarked one of the listeners
'.And yet i lost it inside of six
months"
''How could it be?"
''Well, there came a. freshet in the
river and house, barn, fences, haystacks
and all went sailing down stream. The
agent who insured against freshets got
there just one day too late. Detroit
Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
Peculiarfties of New York Con-
greSSman.

Burleigh is one of the characters OF
Congress. He was born in Canaan, N.
H., fifty odd years ago, and has never
been naturalized, although he moved
across the line into Northern New York
many years ago in order to come to
Congress. He is perfect type of the
tireless Yankee with steel spring inside
of him. He has slim body, without a
spare ounce of flesh on it, a small head,
close-trimmed beard, thin face and
aguiline nose. He is a swift cruiser in
any kind of weather. He deals in lum-
Der and coal mines, iron ore, and runs
steamboats, and canalboats and politics
with equal success. He never keeps his
seat in the House for more than five
consecutive minutes, yet he always votes,
and his bills 60 through like creased
lightning.
One day last Winter he couldn't get
Acting Speaker Joe Blackburn to give
him the floor to railroad through the
Troy Public Building bill, so he waited
till Blackburn was out for luncheon, got
a Minnesota Congressman who had the
floor to let him have it, and before any,
body could say Jack Robinson the bill
| was passed.
Then Burleigh was afraid that War
ner Miller would not move the bill fast
enough in the Senate. He rushed out
to the telegraph office and stirred up
one hundred Troy business men to send
messages to Miller. The Senator was
driven to the verge of distraction that
| night by the messengers who rang his
door bell,. and the next day he got the
bill passed through the Senate in self
defense. He reflected over the zeal of
the Troy business men for several days
before he understood it, and finally he
ventured to say to the Whitehall Con-
gresham, ''Burleigh, believe you got
| those fellows to stir me up"
Next to Silas B. butcher, Burleigh was
Arthur's right-hand man at the Chicago
| Convention. He is a practical politi-
| clan, and did not take much stock in
| the efforts of the New York business
| mems delegation to secure Arthur's
nomination. Long after midnight one
night newspaper man tapped gently
| at Burleigh' door at the Grand Pacific
who's thereP" shouted Burleigh in
| bed.
"A New York business man." was the
reply.
"All right. Just shove your check un-
der the door and 60 to bed," said Bur-
leigh. "It's time all honest men were
abed. am myself"
Two of Burleigh's strong points are
his emphatic language and his aversion
to dress coats. When he left home his
wife said Nov, MIR. Burleigh, have
only two things to ask of you. l want
you to give up swearing and to wear a
dress coat on proper occasions"
Il would do anything, my dear, to
please you,' was the Congressman's re-
ply, ''and have fully determined not
to swear any more, but will be id
if will wear dress coat" NJ T. Mail
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
RuckIen,s ArnicaSalye.

The BEST SALvE in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,
fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chill
bIains, corns, and all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
hox. For sale by q. P. Reed, Rsvenna
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25

Acetic ether, a few drops administered
in water, is said to revive persons who
have been made insensible by inhaling
Illuminating gas. &------------
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25

President Anderson, of Rochester Uni
verify, expresses the opinion that small
colleges are preferable to large eneA
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
A Few Nor. Points
INN Referring to the nm 4
I11 above letter, we ma
OOOs will simnlY saw = " " =


we have had the exclusive sale of the
Rockford Quick Train Railroad Watch
for the past three years. No OTHER
PARTY CAN BUY THEM FROM THE FAC
TORY, OR HAS ANY RIGHT TO SELL
THEM. 1t seems to US much like bOys'
play to get angry and advertise prices
because they cannot buy the goods.
We trust the publication of prices will
continue through the whole list, as We
have no money to advertise goods not
in stock. Such desperate efforts. will
not deceive any. The people know
that we have never cursed the place as
ready to be fenced in, because we were
going to leave it. They know that We
are not q travelling experimental insti-
tuition, and they will continue to buy
their Watches, Silver Ware, etc., of
the Old Reliable Ravenna Jewellers,
Swift's Block.
WAIT BROTHERS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25

There are two clip Top post-offices
in the country, one in Kentucky and
the other i'm Arizona.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
OOWNV'PATENT sELE-G0RNET
DUN lND ADJUSTING UUllNHI
IMPROVED

Is the only perfect lifting. truly comfortable
aud health preserving Corset made. Has an
Elastic Section above and below Corded Cen
terpieee. Entirely different from any other. Ev-
ery Corset is STAN ped and absolutely Guaran-
teed in every particular. Be sure TO get the
Dozens Patent. Manufactured only by the
GAGE DoloaS Corset Co.. Chicago. and for sale by
irst-cIass dry-goOds stores everywhere. Price
SI.5O. S79-1y
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25
Special Noticel
OFFICE OF
Rockford Watch Co.,

ROCKFORD, ILL, May 18th, 1854.
Referring to the fact that we have
appointed WAIT BROTHERS, of
Ravenna, Sole Agents for the sale of
our Quick Train Railroad Watches in
Portage County, Ohio, we desire TO say
that no parties other than WAIT BROS.
or their employees, are authorised to
offer these Goods for sale in the terri
tory indicated and that no warranty
whatever attaches to our goods when
offered for sale by others than our duly
authorised agents. Our goods are sold
directly from the factory, and only
through competent and well known
dealers.
As the movements leave our hands
carefully adjusted and regulated Tor
immediate use, we hold ourselves di-
rectly responsible to the wearer o. the
watch for its satisfactory performance,
BUT ONLY WHEN SOLD BY OUR CHOSEN
AGENTS. We understand the extraor-
dinary guarantee of excellence made
by WAIT BROS, and given out by
them to the public, and are prepared
to make good the assertions of our
representatives in that particular.
Very Respectfully,
ROCKFORD WATCH co.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-03-25

once
1t has been generally imagined that
there was only one picture in existence
which was painted by Gen. Grant, and
that one was in possession of the Borie
family. Another production has been
brought to light belonging to w. E.
Rotheray of Camden, n. j., who has
been offered, and who has refused to
take, $1,000 for it. The picture is an
ordinary-looking water-color landscape.
Close inspection shows in the left-hand
corner the name ''U. III. Grant" The
initials stand for Ulysses Hiram Grant,
baptismal name Mr. Rotheray got the
picture from. his mother, resident of
New York State, who, in her girlhood,
was a native of Galena. She received
it from the dead General herself. He
painted it in 1843, while he was cadet
at West Point, and presented it to her
as memento of having escorted Mrs.
Rotheray on trip East when he went
to West Point. George w. Childs has
been shown the picture, and. having
been told its history, asserted there was
NO doubt that Gen. Grant painted it.
The conduct of James d. Fish and
Ferdinand Ward in prison is said by a
prison official, whose duties have taken
him to Auburn and to Sing-Sing, to
show marked difference. "When Fish
entered the Auburn State Prison." said
this official, ''he looked the situation
squarely in the face. declared his will
ingness to accept his fate, to live up to
the rules like a man, and do everything
that was required of him. He had no
favors to ask. Wards course was
nearly the opposite. To be sure, he
talked willingness to accept the situa-
ton and make the most of it. But as
soon as the reporters had left him he
began to play the baby act. Fish took
his brown bread and black coffee like a
man. Ward complained of his food;
he must have delicacies. His stomach
could not stand prison fare, he whim-
pered. So he was allowed to write to his
wife to send him delicacies, and he has
kept writing in that line ever since.
Ward has been whimpering ever since
the prison doors closed upon him"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
RICHES.

m. cotter.s wife stood at her easement
small, a,...rt hill
Ana LOOKED iadx lived in naughty pride
In the Hall so grand and still.
.Mv lady, ste :nurmured, "can SIT AT ease
Gy,th ,cver afthouyht of work or caro-;
NO CHI hiren to tumble her house about.
An me, II could be there"
NJ lady stood at the window wide
And parted the folds of curtain lace:
And she looked far down to the cotter nome
With sweet, sad look on her lace.
az suppose my station and wealth ana ease
MY ne ghbor down there envies me-
n sbe'd rive her children to me.
As though some thought of tbs came 10 het 5
The cOtters wife turned TO the snowy peg
Where her children slept, so fair ana sweet
..Nay. I'm richer than she!" she said.
j. X. Ludlum. In Chtcd0o'Adod"es.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
FOR DUB YOUNG FOLKS


kueW little youngeter
Who would Z sailor %;
He ala not care for top or Dali.
For marbles, kites or trinkets sman
He AID not care for these at all
For he would 90 TO SEA
The things he really cared Tor
Were queer things such - these:
ODD knots OF rope, and DTS OF ssr.nss
A mariine-spike, hammock rinss
India ink, or any thing
That might sailor please.
He liked to read Of voyages.
And naVigntors' lore.
= And can tell you how, ne seio.
- TO make splice or Turk neaos -.
10 hold the reeL or neave ieao'
And-oh! great deal more.
And II perchance you missed him,
when others were ct play.
You'd flud him slowed in some ooo nsoA
on cruising in his sailor Dook
With Frobieher or Captain COOK.
In regions far away.
He has not gone from home - yes
TO ship before the mast;
But only wait and you shall eee-
sailors are made FROM sucn as mes
I'm very sure that he Will %
An Admiral e last xH..
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
BABY AT THE TABLE.
Everyday Meal-Time Scenes Recorded ny
Trustworthy Secretary.

Everv-day Meal-Time Scenes Recorded BY
a Trustworthy Secretary.
The meeting was called together at
eight O'Clock a. M, with the baby in
the chair. After rapping the table
violently to secure the attention OF
those present, the chairman made
motion to upset the butter. The
motion was seconded, but not in time,
and the butter was carried.
The minutes of the last meeting were
then read and disapproved. During
the recital, the chairman emphasized
his displeasure by throwing muffin at
the secretary. The report, however,
was completed, and the muffin laid on
the table.
The regular business was then taken
| mn. II was voted to allow the chair
man a glass of milk, muffin and
small piece of steak. Exception being
taken to the latter, it was allowed TO
take the floor in its own defense. The
chairman demanded a larger piece, and,
after a brief consultation, the demand
was granted.
The matter of a bib for the chair
man having been brought up. by the
discovery that that article had been
surreptitiously removed and deposited
under the table, the nurse was requested
to replace the same. The chairman
objected, on the ground that bibs were
unnecessary and undignified. Objec
tion oyerruled, and bib replaced.
At this point the chairman called at
tention to a large existing deficit in the
supply of milk, and suggested an as
sessment on the creampitcher. 1t was
thought best, however, to supply tns
i deficiency from the diurnal endowment
| in the pantry, and the matter was dis
, cussed in a very animated manner b.
, | the chairman and several members o
. the convention. The chairman's OBJ
| lection was finally overruled, as a vet!
for cream only, and the bill was passed
, On motion of the nurse, the chair
man was tied into his chair, to proven
q his taking the floor-a very unpal
, liamentary proceeding. Upon discov
: ering this piece of strategy on the pal
y of the opposition, the chairman wa
4 very indignant, and objected with sue
: force and yehemence that his count
enance became fairly florid. Will
e emphasizing his remarks by successiv
> gestures, he removed the cutlery
. crockery and glassware from his in
9 mediate vicinity, and drew large SCI
a ton of the table-cloth into his lap. !.
e A motion to adjourn was hasti
: made by the nurse, and was partit
a pated in by the chairman. The NEE
r ing, being thus left without a quorur
n was declared adjourned by the seer
" tary, subject to the call of thee chat
y man, Raul Pastnor. IN Puck
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
SCHOOL AND. CHURCH.

There are ninety-two distinctively |
acientitic schools in this country with
IA. 7O9 students.
Edinburgh University has decided
to establish degree OF Bachelor OF
Science in Agriculture.
The Catholic priests IN New York
meet four times month and discuss
theological subjects in the Latin IAN
Close application to study in school
will affect a bows mind. 1t will gen.
orally affect it favorably. however,
Chicago Tribune.
"A presiding elder congratulated
pastor in his district on the saiuorlous
afr he was living in. Eyes. he nalveiy
replied, eff could live on 1T as veal as
in it my lot would be happy one. -
N. Y. Null.
The Baptist Weekly asserts that the
concert halls and other resorts where
amusements are provided, with the ac-
cessory of intoxicating liquors, have
proved far more helpful in leading
vouno men, and often older ones, astray
than any other agency of evil in New
York.
"A Lowell. (Mass.) paper says:
Undoubtedly the most extraordinary
| class in point of height that will DC
| graduated from any institution IN
America this year is that OF Nicholas
Latin School in this city. The total
beicht of the seven members is forty
two feet, an average OF six feet eacn.
-Twenty-seven boys in the junior
class of Dickinson College refused to
engage in the annual oratorical contest
if the one young lady member OF the
class was allowed to compete. Sne
stood to her guns and spouted while
the bows rang the college bell to drown
her voice, but she carried off the gold
medal just the same. Boston JoHrr'd'.
English students are less overbur-
dened with reverence than their
American brothers. At the recent
commemorative celebration at Oxford
the appearance of the vice chancellor
in his robes was greeted with noisy
Shouts of Don't try to initiate lrving!
and when DIR. Holmes was presented
a voice inquired: II say. did you come
up in the one-horse shayP'-bossoT
Budget.
The word '.fiend," says an ex
: change, is now used so commonly as
: balf-humorous name for all kinds o
people who make nuisances OF them
selves that it is in danger OF losing It's
< original meaning. Here is Western
8 paper referring to a certain clergyman
rs the slong-sermon fiend, and an
o other which talks about ''the church
r going fiend.'' In this part OF tn
v Country there are number OF non
J, church going fiends.-N Y. Observer
in June the missionaries OF tn
9 American Sunday School Union. in tn
q Northwestern district, under the a
g reetion of Mr.. F. G. Ensign. estat
q lished eighty-five new Sunday school ,
y and brought 315 teachers and 2.4o
q scholars into them, besides aiding ~
old schools which have membershl
:, of 51S teachers and 1880 scholar
= They also held 24s religious meeting ::
- distributed 1851 worth OF religious Il
y erature and conducted some twent
,e I've couyentiOns.-C Chicago Interior.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-25
AvA.s JOKE.

Perpetrsted By One Little Girl Upon An
other Little Girl 1t School.
I think it was the best joke / even
knew Of one little girl playing on an
other, though it wasn't an April fool.
It couldn't be, you know, because it
happened some time after the first day
Of April. 1t was when Ava was FIVE
years old, and just beginning to 60 to
school, q blue-eyed, sunny-halred little
maid. who seemed to find her chief de-
light in doing pleasant things for peo-
PIE.
One day mamma put an extra nice
dinner in the pretty tin luncheon-box.
| There was q slice OF frosted cake, and
| two ielly tarts, and piece OF lemon
pie, and sandwich with turkey, in
stead of ham, which Ava didn't Ike.
Right in front Of Ava at school sat
little Why Gates, who never in the
world brought any thing for her dinner
but : biscuit. l suppose may be she
didn't have any thing else to bring.
That was what Ava thought, too, deep
down in her plying little heart
| Well, this day Ava was swinging
her feet while she studied hel
lesson, and she hit her toes against
something that ratified. She looked
down, and there was Why's dinner.
pail that had somehow got pushed
back-an old, little bruised-up pail
with only . biscuit in it, Ava knew
A bright thought popped into her heat
that minute. It was so funny she hat
to put her hand over her mouth Il
2 keep from laughing right out loud II
school. Why was saying her lesson
and quick as fash Ava took off tn
cover Of tte pail and took out the biz
. cult, and put in her own nice luncheo
and put on the cover again.
And at noon when Why Gates wen
to eat her dinner, what do you SUI
pose she said? She said:
Z '.Ob, where'd ! get emp where
y get 'em?'' And she almost cried; b.
y not because she felt bad.
. And Ava, full of glce, ran all the wa
home to get her own dinner, and te
= mamma about it
: "She was so s'prised, mamma, al
glad'' she cried.
y And mamma was glad, too--vel
q glad; but somehow she felt her ey
~ grow warm as she kissed the II title glo'
ing face. - Youths ConpGnios.
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....r;rc hope
small. and Tony was tnin.Ls I'd
fnily Of bottle of benzine. VIII VIII nav Az
4 very bad smell and wondel.u' n
81 Of sending away the sPo's -
bov's Jacket. A.,r
f,ut the trousers were past al nS an
Tony had taken too many Thor
the hitching- post-and granom: .I her
shook her head and went on VIZ take
much notice. So fine q lady as h sne
could not be exPecteo ~ se.hes
self about little boys old CLONES.
Tony took last look down inc .yS
and then went out to pour his g.iJ -.
as he always did, into the ears " As
net sheen.
..Oh, Chippyr' he cried; mng,ng . n ~
tears ..the picnic's tomorrow, and my
clothes amt made. ! cant CO. anu
much. Iwant to go. oh! oh! ana my
trousers are all torn. IN, CnAPPy
wish / had nice, soft wool ike yours:
that Sarah Jane didn't have TO MAKE.
He STAYED with his f1eecy frieno unsa
II was dusky enough to hide MS YEAR
stained face. then ate his bowl OF Dreao
and milk and went TO bel r,
.Here. Tonyr .'Quick, lony:
"Hond that, Tonyr' Garry TINS;
Tonyr' Such calling MN nerc an.
therc and everywhere Tony had never
heard. as grandmother and Aunt Elea-
nor filled baskets and packed them -
: the spring wagon. And no one coulu
I have guessed how heavy his heart was
as his feet flew nimbly IN answer +"
each demand.
..Now run and dress yourself oeai'
said grandmother.
e Tony looked at her in amazemenl'
with a tear gathering in each eye;
.sWhv. grandmother. don't you kno"
NV clothes amt madeP"
L "Tonyr' called Aunt Eleanor: Nv ASH
Yourself and come up here. You VIII
he Iate.''
7, Late for whatP 1t could not De tnas
any one expected him to 60 IN ms oio
s clothes!
y But Tony always obeyed. and ne
d obeyed now, and ran upstairs.
What was that which Aunt Eleanor
e held mn before himp Just out OF the
J. sunshine which played around the
]. wash-bench under the spout. the room
ID seemed almost dark. and it looked as
y If a bow might be standing there; pu'
Is the how had neither head nor feet
ID .Ouickr' SAID Aunt Eleanor, unbut'
toninU his old Jacket
y And in ten minutes he stood before
h r, - !. ~,ovu cs1ik of soft. light