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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
A CELEBRATED CITY.
Some of the Sights of Venice, the 0uee
of the Adriatic.

Some of the Sights of Venice, the Queen
of the Adriatic.
This place is different from every 9TH
er, and creates quite i new sensation.
had hitherto been accustomed to cars
and busses. but here there is water
everywhere. The highways are canals.
and you glide along in gondolas instead
of riding over macadamized roads. This
is an ancient and celebrated city, con-
tanning many beautiful buildings and
some rare art treasures.
st. Marks, which was begun in 500
and finished in 1071- is remarkable
building. as will be seen from this sinh
pie fact that it has, in and out. 500 COL
umns and $4,000 feet of mosaic pictures
of the most exquisite character. There
is no paint anywhere; nothing but mar
BILE and mosaic. The latter, it is said,
was 900 years in being finished. Each
generation added its contribution to the
work, and the result certainly is most
striking. The grand altar is sup
ported by alabaster columns, said to be
brought from the Temple of Solomon.
These columns are remarkable for their
purity. There are many others brought
from the mosques of Constantinople.
The facade is Venetian Gothic, sur
rounded by the four celebrated horses
brought from Nero's Temble, mt Rome.
The Grand Square is the busiest spot in
all Venice. Arcades run the whole
length on three sides, and are filled
with fancy shops, cafes, etc. 1t is the
fashionable promenade.
The Doge' palace occupies nearl y ono
whole side of the square. 1t is in red
and white marble. Venetian Gothic
style, resting on thirty-six columns. L
crossed the Rialto bridge, which con-
meets Old and New Venice. AT the
end of the bridge, on the old side,
is the square devoted to the
money changers, and, appropriately
enough, in the immediate neighborhood
is the iron-barred house of Shylock-
Among other features of interest arc
the Church of st. John and st.
Paul. the Jesuit Cathedral.
the Church of the Bare-footed
Friars; the Hunchback, or Criminal
Exposure, near to Shylock's house.
| where criminals were placed on mar
BILE pedestal and exposed to the jeers and
scoifings of the passers-by; the Bridge
of Sighs, connecting the prison with the
| Doge's yalace, which prisoners cross for
trial, and many other objects too num-
erOus to describe. / must observe. how
ever, that Venice possesses the largest
oil painting in the world, the work of
Lintorettl. 1t has eight hundred figures,
and took seven years constant work to
finish. In the immense profusion of ar
tistic architectural and other riches in
this fair land of Italy, one gets almost
dazed. The last gallery of pictures, or
the last cathedral, seemed almost finer
than those we saw first. But they are
all so good, have so many beauties pec,,-
liarly their own, that can only use the
language of eulogy regarding the whole.
-Penice Cor. Sacramento Bee.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10

other hurries us all day long, and our
wives hurry us home at night Our
business hurries us, and our creditors
hurry us the worst of all. Even the
weather has caught our lively habits
and hurries us, too.
Our correspondence and conversation
show what a miserably hurried people
we are. And there are entirely too many
phrases in general use in our social and
business intercourse. which on account
of their extreme brevity and explosive
abruptness, CRATE harshly on the sensi-
tive ear. For instance, what could
sound more unpleasant to n man who
hates hurry and worry than this:
'Please rcmit!' or this: "Send check
ut once, or we will draw on you at
sight!' The Japanese have much
pleasanter ways of framing similar little
business messages, and we might be-
come happier people by adopting sug-
gcstions from them.
"Will you, at your convenience, do
me the kindness to hang n check for the
inclosed bill in the vicinity of my eye.
lidsp" certainly sounds less harsh and
gritty than: Enclosed find bill; remit
Mt once"
The japanese do not say: "Keep of
the grass." but: "The municipal au.
thorities will consider it an everlasting
kindness if you will hang yourself of
the verdure." There is nothing coarse
and savage about that, and it don't
make us feel as if we must 90 on the
grass just for spite.
To my mind there is nothing NOR,
debilitating and enervating to our rae.
than the hurry and hustle and five min.
utes for refreshments that mar our so
cial, domestic and business customs
and make our boosted civilization 4
sham and fit subject of ridicule to Older
and calmer nations.
Let us pause and sit down and learr
something from the Japanese. Scot
Way, in Puck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
LEOPOLD Won R.ANKE.
Sketch of the Career of the Recently De
ceased German Historian.

Sketch of the Career of tho Recently De-
ceased German Historian.
The late DR.. Leopold Won Ranke was
Germany's greatest historian. His life
was devoted to study, and his works
evidence vast research and mastery OF
materials. He had planned for the great
work of his life history of the world,
which was to be in nine volumes, but
had completed but six volumes at the
time of his death.
Leopold Won Ranke was born at
Wiehe. in Thuringia, on December 81,
1895, and completed his sixtieth year as
professor in the University of Berlin on
March 81, 1885. He began life rs Il
student, his position being that of tutor
at the college of Frankfort-on-the.
Oder. His first work was published
in 1924. Four years after he was sent
officially to examine the public archives
accessible to him in Vienna, Venice,
Florence and Rome, an occupation ex-
tending over four years. During this
period he obtained the materials for the
books which successfully appeared.
The book which first gave him Euro
pean reputation was entitled 1.-The
Popes of Rome.'s This great work APP
peared in 1884. Lord Macaulay's re-
view of it in the Edinburgh Reuiew is a
masterpiece. 1t made .Ranke's name
familiar to English and American
readers. In 1S4l Won Rankc was APP
pointed Royal Historiographer. 1t was
in 1865 that he was made president OF
the Historical Commission of Munich,
and at the same time entitled to prefix
| Won to his name.
Won Ranke married an Irish lady,
Miss Graves, n very superior woman,
but of retiring disposition, and who
never shared his literary work. He had
a son and two daughters.
| He held command of his surprising
power of mental concentration up to
within short time of his death. Last
January the writer of fifty learned books
conversed with tirmness, fuency and
continuity, convincing his visitors that
he was as skilful with his tongue as with
his pen. Weather permitting, the vet.
cran of more than ninety years old
walked two hours Il day in the open air,
and wrote or dictated eight hours of the
twenty-four. He lived among his books,
thirty thousand of which lined the walls
of his study.
He was II great favorite with the En-
peror William, who presented him with
u full-sized portrait of himself on his
last birthday. On the mantel-piece Of
his study stood a full-length photograph
of the Crown Prince in his Cuirassiel
uniform, also gift from the original.
Springfield Republican.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
IN A ROW-BOAT.
4 Maine Doctor Who Believes That the
Atlantic Can BE Crossed In IA Dory.

A Maine Doctor Who Believes That the
Atlantic Can BE Crossed in IA Dory.
DR.. II. ID. Bibber, of Bath. is the gen.
tleman who equipped John Traynor for
his proposed voyage across the Atlantic
in a ROY boat. Traynor started on the
Goth of last September, and no tidings
of him have been received. DIR. Bibber
thinks his little boat must have been cut
in two by some big ocean traveller, but
is confident row-boat can cross the
Atlantic, and is bound to have another
attempt to do it made. Said the doctor
to me the other day: "I know that q
row-boat can cross the western ocean.
A dory can live where ship can If the
right man is in the dory. Traynor was
not exactly the right kind of man.
I'm going to build another dory and
send man across the Atlantic in her if
can find the man, and l guess can.
l have received Il letter from Cape
Cod fisherman, who wants to try it. I
have in mind perfect life-boat. Tray
nor's boat was a perfect life-boat, but
my next. / have Il design in mind for
SuTI-DOut IOT llNc-SuNluS SlutiOuos W
be operated by machinery. which can
go where it is impossible to put boat
with oars. There Is great demand for
such boat. The boat that l propose
to send across the Atlantic will be about
twelve and one-half feet long, and will
be propelled wholly with oars. Talk
about risk! A man takes no more
chances when he starts on q summer
voyage across the Atlantic in dory
than he takes when he ships for win
tor trip on our coast in a schooner.
Traynor's boat could not have been
sunk ualess she had been cut in two. II
is a little too late to talk OF trying the
adventure this summer. l propose 10
start another dory across next year in
May. A man ought to row across in
sixty days. honestly believe that a
dory can make the trip safely, and the
achievement will make the fortune OF
the men engaged in it," DR.. Bibber'S I
dory scheme seems to be rather matter
OF enthusiasm than one of speculation.
-LeVisloa (Me.) Journal
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
TRAVELLING DRESSES.
The Rage For Taiior-Made Costumes OF
Small or Underlined Pin Checks.

The Rage For TaltOr-Made Costumes of
Small or Underlined Pin Checks.
Tailor-made dresses are the fashion
for travelling, and are oftenest of small
checks, either clearly marked or else the
underlined pin checks that are merely
one or two threads of white crossing
others of color-brown, blue, red or
black. These must be all of pure wool
that will not cookie, yet of light weight
that they may not be too warm or too
heavy for midsummer Journeys. For
these reasons the slcazily-woven
Cheviots and serges are made up by
tailors, and the designs for Shese are ex-
ceedingly simple. Two Extremes are
seen in these dresses; one, intended for
slight figures, has short drapery and a
kilt skirt of very wide or Of very mar
row plait, while the other for those who
are inclined to stOutness, has long drap-
cry nearly covering foundation skirt
that has no plaits at the foot. Some
times compromise between these is
seen in deep over-skirt made of
double-width wool goods, draped around
the figure, with only one seam, and
perhaps with the lower edge left to
show its selvage. The basque is
an exceedingly plain position,
with two rows of stitching
on its edges, and otherwise without
trimming. The plaits in the back of the
basque must be pressed fatty, and Sc
cured SO that they will not spread open,
no matter how large the tournure may
be The collar may be a high standing
band, or else it may be notchedrolling
collar that can be worn with chemis.
ette of pique, or percale, or of tucked
linen; and it is also good plan to have
a separate chomisette and collar of the
dress material, to be used inside tho
rolling collar, closing the dress up high
about the throat, making it more con.
venient on long journeys. The coat
with such dress is of the material cut
in a skeleton sacque-that is, without
lining-and may be closely fitted by Il
dart in each front, single-breasted, and
buttoned by small braid buttons, or else
ii may have loose double-brcasted
fronts, with closely adjusted back, The
Norfolk jacket, with hood, length.
wise plaits, and a belt, is also liked in
the rough homespun cloths which tail
ors use for travelling outfits; sometimes
this jacket alono is made of checked
goods, while the dress may be Ola solid
color, such as the ecru, tan or blue
twilled serge OF homespun, --Ha'psr',
Rasar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
A WARNING.

loathc all books I hntc to soc
THE world and men through others eyu;
Aiy own are good enough for mo.
These scribbling fellows despiso;
I1hey bore me.
fused to try and read bit,
But, VIXEN did, u sleepy fit
Cume DER me,
Yet here sit with pepsIve look.
Gaznn n my pipe with y. ,rasrant loads.
free translation of the Odes
OF Horace.
IT'S owned by sweet Elizabeth,
And breathee a subtle. fragrant breath
OF Orrls.
ionged for something that was hers
TO cheer me when I'm feeling low;
saw this book OF paltry verse,
And asked to take It home-nnd
Iloved her deep and tenderly,
Yet dare not tel! my love, lest she
Resent 1t.
I'll learn to quote stanza here,
"A couplet there. I'm very sure
wouid d, a,d y, hnSy my suit ,, could ~ appear
I'll do 1t.
This Jingle can quickly learn;
Then, hid in roses, I'll return
Her poet!
rue natelui man 'TWOuld vex satntI
nAround my pretty, cherished book
The odor vile, the noisOme faint
OF horrld, stale tobacco smoke
Yet fingers!
The hateful man, my hook to spoil!
Patrick, the tongs-lest should soil
My fingers!
This lovely rose, these lilies frail.
These violets he has sent to me
The odor OF his pipe exhale!
AMI to blame that should be
Engaged?
Tell Mr. Simpson every time
He calls upon me, Patrick, I'm
Engaged!
arthur LoreU in Century.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
Indian Ideas of Oecorum.

We heard of girl the other day who
was ''as wild as an Indian" But an
Indian girl is not Wild No girl is more
submissive to the rules of her race and
tribe than an Indian girl who is not yet
corrupted by the proximity of the white
man. She never goes anywhere alone.
and she never passes a man ON the high
way without turning away her head. II
man comes into her wigwam she con-
ceals her face, and she does not stand
within hearing distance of men who are
talking. She lives up to her idea and
her tribes idea of what is proper and
becoming. If she fails to do so, she
places herself beyond the protection of
her tribe, There is no safe place in this
world for tho girl who knows no law
but her own will.--M Y. Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10

In Folsom prison the other day
visitor saw Chinaman walking up and
down quite cheerful and happy. He
did not seem to have any thing ON his
mind at all, and he was indeed in excel
lent spirits. Tho visitor went up To
him. "Hello, John. are you a prts-
onerp" "Yes. Me in Jail allo right
"What are you in forp" "Killum
Chinaman. Show long have you
gotp" "Oh, allo tine, allo timo" He
was imprisoned for lits. -.Saa Francisco
Chronicle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10

Peroxide of hydrogen will make an
elephants hide white, K. SUM-
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
A Bleyciist Pleased the shah.

Thomas Stevens, the young American
who is Journnying around the globe on
a bicycle, writes from Teheran that he
had the distinction Of an audience with
the shah of lersia, who was profoundly
interested in the novel steed. The shah
is humorist, for, after seeing the wheel
man art illustrated in various ways.
be requested Stevens to make a squirt
down long, smooth footpath.
The garden, writes the adventurous
American. lis traversed by network
of irrgatirg bitches but his ma esty
solemnly assures me that there il moth
ing of the kind across the path he wishes
to see me ride down as fast as possible.
Two hundred yards from the spot where
this assurance ID given sees me execut.
ing lightning like dismount, while
going at twelve.mile pace, to avoid
running into the very thing had ust
been told didn't exist. When the shah
was assured that the cycler had ieop-
Ardized his limbs, il not his neck. his
ma esty was put into excellent humor
and laughed heartily.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
Principle o. the sAcc ,srimstsr.

English manufacturers of sugar were
for a long time disinclined to the use of
the centrifugal machine, although so
early and eagerly ado ted in the
nited States. where it originated,
and now its popularity is well known.
In both countries, at the present
time, the saccharimeter is favorite
instrument for determining the strength
OF raw sugar, its ,erations in this re-
spect being well nigh marvellous. II is
based, in word, upon the scientific
fact that beam Of polarized light. in
passing through solution of given
strength of pure cane sugar in water,
is rotated or twisted toward the right TO
a certain and uniform extent, and the
relative extent to which similar solu.
ton Of any other sugar, un er the same
conditions, rotates the light, indicates
the relative purity and crystalizing
power of that sugar The arrangement
of lenses in the instrument is such that
the operation in itself is very simple.
only requiring care, the result being
read in figures on a scale attached to
the ad listing thumb screw.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
An Eyelash Makes an Error.
washingt, VI Ha'chet.

A Washington financier, who is we'll
acquainted with Col. Lew Washington,
the genial teller of Lewis ohnson "
Co.'S bank, told The Ratchet a good
story on the colonel IL YVES at the
close of business hours, and Col. Wash
ington was pouring and perspiring over
a long column of figures on the balance
sheet. The sum total of the column
should have read $1,000. Instead of
that amount, however, it showed total
of 1870, or 5000 more than he could
account for.
The vexatious mistake caused the
colonel to scratch his head vigorously
and wonder where the excess was in the
column of agonizing figures. While go
ing carefully over the column for the
twentieth time he discovered the error
and it was one that would hardly occur
once in a thousand Years. ne of the
colonel's eye-lashes had fallen OH the
balance sheet and adhered to the first 0
in the line of figures $1,000, making a
perfect figure of the naught and in
creasing the whole amount to 50, $50 in.
stead of 5000. In going down the
column the twentieth time he brushed
the eyelash away with his forefnger.
Hereafter, Col. washington says he will
90 over his balance sheets with street
scraper before he commences to add the
cOlumnA
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
'i;ub nag the SaIsm ,nder."

' WIZ - " sun
This has been heard Of the world over,
more or less vaguely, as q performance
I erman students meetings. How
many people suppose it to be an in
human treatment OF an inc ensive little
ANN II do no. know; but il is nothing
e.,e rnan a simultaneous and vigorous
rub in. OF the bottom o, the eer glasses
upon the bare table, first straight in and
out from the edge of the Ia le and then
around and around in a narrow circuit
y all at the table, every ones eyes in
tently ii ed upon tine face of the com.
rale opposite; it is not necessary to fix
them upon the glasses TO see that the
beer does not slop over, for every glass
is closed with an overlapping decorated
cover. 1t is a queer caper, but it 10
done with an energetic earnestness that
demands respect; and still more queer
is its name, clubbing the salamander, "
the origin of which no one seems to
know
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
A COLONY OF FIRE ANTS.
-za.s % B~ Observation-Disclosures Of Courage
--Herribls sight.

- b Ia ExfermIbated---Test of Courage
--Herribls sight
lTrxa. No- Philadelphia Timssl
nv camp was once invaded by fire
unfs. IL was good place. convenient
. vood and water, and hated to leave.
Idhputed the right of occupancy with
which time incontinently surrendered
md fed. During that three weeks
ding them out, burned them out and
drowned them out, but they didn't seem
80 mind it in the least. They went on
s1nrrowing and building and exploring
The surrounding country, and when my
isn't got full of them, and had been
hitten in about 3, 900, 900 different places
thought IL time to move.
The bite Of the tire ant is like the
ling of the singing lizard They In
crease with a rapidity that is alarming,
--aAd the more you try to eXterminate
them the more numerous they become. IL
znsed to be test of courage among the
Comanche Indians for brave to
thrust his barred arm into nest of fire
ants and hold &c there without tlinthing,
while his companions went through the
@ONCluOuto VI q oOuCW utt toiupllShttd
dance around fits tortured body. They
don't do it any more.
Once near Pope's Crossing, on the
sRecos river. reached q village of fire
ants and started to make detonr We
discovered Indian signs of recent date,
--nnd halted to invest gate. A band of
Indians had camped on the edge of the
ant village, and prisoner, who after
ward proved to be a bear-tamer named
Goggin vas stripped, bound hand and
foot, and laid down among the ant
hills- You can imagine his horrible
,safferings. We found his bones and
gave them decent burial. The fire ant
II pusnacious, and his mode of warfare
i always aggressive. In the aggregate
he will attack any living thing. from an
elephant down. kill him by sheer force
a numbers, and devour all but tho
.honax
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07

d.. Morrell- Mackenzie, the famous
throat speci list. lives in the midst of
almost Oriental magnifcence, and quite
after the fashion of "1he Arabian
Nights" Everything in the way of in
sstrumsnts or suggestion of disease is
carefully hidden away behind exquisite
carvings or rich hangings; doors open
end shut noiselessly, patients are sum
nsoned and dismissed by mysterious
electric bells. In one Of the doctor s
nsoms he has something clever enough
N device to be adopted by many a
0sary physician in our own country.
Rehind the chair where he examines
PATENTS is a heavy portiere, through
which he snishes when q PATIENT shows
. disposition to dwell unduly on his
rni1me0tSn -
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07
49, H.
Nss~Atts and 0snsus


Isupposs everybody Is resdy to admit
that two complete born fools are Got at
all likely to become the proud father
and happy mother OF q Shakespeare or
. Aewton. i, SUPPOSE everybody will
unhesita.ingly allow that great math-
ematician could hardly by any conceiv-
able chance arise among the South
African Bushmen. who can not under
stand the arduous arithmetical PROPOSE
ton that two and two make four. such
leaps as these would be little short Of
pure miracles. They would be equiva-
lent to the sudden creation, without an
tecedent cause, of a whole vast system
of nerves and nerve-centers in the pro-
digious brain of some infant phenome-
non.
On the other hand, much of the COM
monplace, shallow fashionable talk
about hereditary genius is itself fully
30 absurd in its own way rs the idea
that something can come out of moth
ing. or it is 40 explanation of the OK.
istence of genius to say that it is
hereditary. on only put the difficulty
one place back. Granting that young
Alsstor Jones is budding poet because
bis father, Ferry Bysshe Jones, was a
poet before him, why, pray, was Jones
the elder poet at all to start with This
kind of explanation, in fact, explains
nothing it begins by posting the ex-
isteAce of one original genius, abso-
lntely unaccounted for, and then pro-
ceeds blandly to point out that the
other geniuses derive their character
istics from him, by virtue of descent,
Just as all the sons of q peer are born
honorables. The elephant supports the
earth, and the tortoise supports the
elephant, but who, pray, supports the
tortoise. II the first chicken came out
of an egg what was the origin of the
hen that laid itl
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-01-07

Among other army contractors OF
high and low degree at or about Wash
ington was one who had purchased, as
the highest bidder, the dead horses oil
the Army of the Potomac, for which be
paid 81. .; each, delivered at his 'estab-
lishment." They averaged in the win
ter, fifty day, and were thus disposed
Of: irst, the shoes were pulled off;
then the hoofs were cut Oft; then the
names and tails were sheared. The
animal was then skinned, the carcass
was boiled that the tallow might be ex-
tracted, the best of the bones were
sold for knife handles, and the re-
mainder to be ground up for fertilizers.
The total result was that these different
parts Of the dead nag we're worth, when
prepared for market, at least So head,
and the pro Is of the contractor were
consequently yery large.