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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
The Gentlemen Drove Away.

While visiting some friends at the
Arlington parlor few evenings ago We
heard related the following incident by
one of the principal actresses: Out on
Poso creek a certain young lady has
settled on piece of government land,
has built a house and is making an
honest effort to secure a title TO the
same. Some time ago teamster drove
up to the door and began unloading
lumber. Supposing someone had taken
pity on her single blessedness, she
thanked the man kindly for the boards.
1t subsequently transpired that the OBJ
ject in view in bringing the lumber
there was not to increase the lady's
chances of marriage by adding to her
worldly possessions. On the contrary,
a good-looking superintendent told her
his instructions from Ben Ali were to
erect on her claim a warehouse in which
some festive '.brake-beamer' might
store his wardrobe and rest his weary
bones while acquiring title for B. A. to
this self-same quarter section. Not
many days elapsed before a couple of
dashing young carpenters appeared on
the scene, armed with hammers and
saws, prepared TO construct the afore-
said building. As they drove up the
star actress came out of her domicile
with many a smile and courtesy.
and glancing coquettishly along the
barrel of Winchester rifle informed
the "knights of the saw" that if they
attempted to drive nail she would GER
tainly drive bullet 1t is hardly ne
cessary to add that the gentlemen drove
away. The lumber disappeared within
thirty days and the lady is still in pos
session of her land.-Kern County
(CaL) Echo.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
Lightning Holes.

Prof. Brun has published in the
ArckiUeS de GeneCe an interesting study
on the so-called lightning holes to be
found in the High Alps. He and other
investigators have found them at heights
of from 3.348 to 1000 metres, or be-
tween II, 900 and $4,000 feet above the
sea level. Usually they are found on
SUBMITS. Sometimes the rocky mass,
which has been vitrified in the passage
of the electric fluid, presents the appear
ance of small scattered pearls, some
times of series of semispherical cavi-
ties only few millimetres in diameter.
Sometimes there are vitritied rays going
out from a central point to a distance of
four or five inches. Sometimes block
detached from the mass appears as if
bored through by cannon-ball, the
followed passage being quite vitritied.
The thickness of this vitrified coating
or stratum never exceeds n millimetre,
and is sometimes not more than the
quarter of that in depth. The varying
colors which it presents depend on the
qualities and composition of the rock.
The same NAV be said as to its trans
parency. On the Rungfischorn the glass
thus formed by the lightning is black,
owing to the quantity of actinolith
which the rock contains. 1t is brown
on La Ruinette. the rock consisting OF
feldspar mixed with gneiss containing
chloride of iron. Under the microscope
these lightning holes display many in
terror cavities, which must be attributed
to the presence of water in the rock at
the moment of melting by the electric
discharge. This vitriied material has
no influence on polarized light.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
Before Sailing.


Lean closer darling; let thy tender heart
Woe,
Drop thy quick woman's tears, to soothe thy
smart,
All, me! that L could ease my SORROWS sol
But men must work, sweetheart, and women
weep,
So says the song, So runs the worlds be-
hest;
Yet time will pass and tender comfort creep
With hope in company unto thy breast.
Now ere we part, while yet on lip and cheek
Ciose kisses iinger, clnging, passionate.
There Is a farewell word love fam would
speak,
a tender thought love labors to translate
In earnest words, whose memory through thy
years
Shall calm thy soul, and dry the dropping
tears.
If in thy garden when the roses blow,
Or by the shelter of thine evening fire,
In any winter gloom or summer glow,
Thy soul floats Seuwird with a fond de-
sire
(FOnder ana stronger Than thy tender use)
Think thou, "Ohr longs for me across the
foam"
And if, swect-falling like the evening dews.
A special peace cnfoiIS thy heart and home,
Then say thou, dear, with softly bated breui b.
I'm some lone wilderness beyond the sea,
Whether in light of life, or gloom of death,
My lovers spirit speaks To God for meI'
KISS me, beloved, without doubt or dread,
We are not sunderCd. though farewell be
said.
All the Year Round.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
EASTW ARD.
Through Car Arrangement,

No !, Pullman Palace Sleeping Coach. Ior-
nellsville TO Cincinnati.
No 3, Pullman Palace Sleeping Coaches, and
regular Day Coaches. New York TO Chicago VIA.
Marion. and Chicago u Atlantic Railway (nO
change for any class of passengers) Also,
Pullman Sleeping coach Kent to Cincinnati.
and Parlor Gar Kent 10 Peoria via Spring.
field and l., Il. u w. R'y. Parlor Car Salaman-
Gu to Cleveland.
Nos Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach. New
York TO St. Louis, via. Cincinnati, in connec-
ton with Ohio Il Mississippi KY, also Pullman
Buffet Sleeping Coach, New York to cleveland. /.
Solid Train, New York W Chicago, consisting
OF Pullman Smoking, Day, Sleeping and iiOLel
Coaches, via. Marion and Chicago Atlantic
Railway.
No. 4. Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach and
Regular Day Coaches, Cincinnati to New York
mo change lor any class Of passengerS). Also,
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Coach, Cleveland to
New York.
Nos. Pullman Sleeping Coach, Cincinnati
to Hornellsville; Pullman Palace Sleeping and
Hotel Coach. Chicago TO New York. via. Mari
on, and Chicago Y, Atlantic Railway.
No. -. Pullman Palace Sleeping Coaches
and regular Day Coaches, Chicago to New y ork
via. Nj arion. and Chicago Atlantic Railway
(no ch an ge for any class of passengers) Also,
Pullman Slee ping Coach, Chicago to Albany
and hos. on, via. Marion and Chicago u 4 tlan-
tic Railway, ard Pullman Palace oleeping Z
Coach, cincinnati to Kent
No stop-over" allowed up On Local Tickets.
A. + CLARK, Asst General Passenger and
'TicketA gent Cleveland, o..
W.M. CLEMENTS, General Superintendent
Cleveland, Ohio.
j. (. SHARP. Aget,
Ravenna, .,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

Colorado Desert, the vessel. missing the
mouth of the Colorado River, was final
ly driven by storm OF ran ashore where
the prOspector found 1T centuries later
The writer, whose curiosity was great
ly stimulated by the tale, consulted one
OF the old padres about it, and from
him he learned that in certain ancient
historical volumes III his possession he
bad found an account of how some YES
sells laden with gold and all manner of
valuable commodities in transit from
the East Indies had been dispatched to
the northward from Acapulco during
the sixteenth century, in the expectation
that a route would be found by which
the valuable cargo might be taken
directly to Spain. instead of being
transported across the wilds of Mexico
and reshipped on the Atlantic coast.
These ships had never after been heard
from, and they disappeared as myster-
iOusly from sight as the mirage of the
desert.
1t was entirely within the bounds of
reason TO suppose that one of these gal
Icons, mistaking the Gulf of California
for the wished-for passage, had finally
been lost in what is now the desert At
all events, there is enough to show that
perhaps no more than 800 years have
elapsed since the recedence of the wa
ters of the gulf to their present bounds,
and hence it requires no violent stretch
OF the Imagination to identify the wreck
with one of the lost vessels and to load
it with an imperishable store of gold
and silver.
Three or four enthusiastic souls were
enlisted, and it was proposed to make a
systematic effort to reach the wreck. 1t
was finally decided that the only feasi-
BILE plan for overcoming the obstacles
presented by the crust and the alkali of
the valley was to employ broad f1at-bot-
toned boats made of sheet-iron, such as
duck-hunters occasionally use. These
are made in sections and are easily
transported long distances. A supply
of light but strong rope was to be taken,
and 1t was thought that it would be pos
sible to "pole" the boat over the crust
to the wreck without breaking through,
since it would present broad. resistant
surface and sustain a considerable
weight
Calculations were made as to the
amount of food and water necessary for
the party and the teams that would be
required to haul the outfit to the desired
spot. and the entire plan certainly SEEM
ed most feasible. But the fact that for
at least three days the discoverer had
beeu suffering SO severely as to be un-
able to tell in what direction he had
been wandering after leaving the scene
of the wreck; that he had taken little
notice of the course followed in reach
ing it, thereby rendering the retracing
of his steps exceedingly problematical;
and that during that very season no less
than fifteen persons were known to
have lost their lives on the desert, led
finally to the abandonment of the
scheme.
So the vessel lies there unvisited to
this day, awaiting the advent of some
daring adventurer that Is willing to risk
his life in the search.-GeOrge F. Weeks
fn the Cosmopolitan.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
Charming Girl sweethearts.

Nine Greviile, in a recent letter from
New York. says Paris correspondent,
gives me some glimpses into the vicissi-
tudes of her American tour. Il lectured
twice at girls college near Philadel-
phia. The eighty-two young ladies
Immediately fell in love with me, and
never miss an occasion now for sending
me their eighty-two loves. Such nice
little dears! l gave them my eighty
two autographs. and never saw n
prettier sight than all these young,
bright faces looking at me so kindly
while / was writing in their little birth
day books"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

The Town of Dodham is under pro-
hbition law, apothecaries alone being
permitted to sell alcoholic srinalants.
The other day son of the Emerald
Isle entered a drug store there, and TAX
ing q bottle from his pocket asked for
a quart OF whisky. The salesman asked
to what use it was to be put, and the re-
ply was ITO soak roots in" The order
was filled and the clerk, after handing
over the bottle and its contents, inquir-
ed in a conversational manner. What
kind of roots are you going TO soak?"
Pocketing the bottle the customer said,
1.-The roots of me tongue, be Jabersr'--
North BerlOicE AelUS
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

She (after private theatrical enter
tainmenO O-''How cleverly the parts of
Romeo and Juliet were played, MIR.
Smith" He-''Very; almost equal to
professional work. She-"Did you
know that the gentleman and lady who
played the parts are husband and wifeP"
He-"You astonish mel Husband and
wife? Why it was wonderful acting"
-Llfg
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

One of the physicians in attendance
at Potter-ville, where PA persons were
poisoned by eating icc-crea,a. has a
theory that arsenic was put ia the freezer
by some ''mischIefmaker." This is very
forcible language 1t reminds one of
the case of the man who came TO the
place where his house bad stood. and,
finding his home burned aud Iris wife
and children with IL, raised his hands,
and, in the extremity of his grief. sx>
claimed: "Well, l declare. This is
ridiculous! Washington HGtcAeL
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

Got any eggs to-day, Mr.. Cold
cheese?" Yes, sir plenty of them"
Are they fresh?" Fresh, sir, as the
flowers that-ahemr' Then l don't
want any" Don't want any?" mo,
sir. I'm gong to lecture tonight, and
l thought if could run across some
stale eggs" stale. sir! There
hain't an egg in that barrel that was
laid this year. ."-PailadsLphia GGlI
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
Mount Union College.

A Coed, Cheap school for both sexes. Stu
fepts can enter any time. Regular Courses OF
mai and Preparatory. Special Courses-Mu-
sical Comm erciai and Painting. Expenses very
low SPECIAL attention given to the Normal
Course. ,,, =,
For information Catalogue and Circulars,
address PROF. JOSEPH l.. SKUNK. A. NJ Mt
Union Stark Co.. q. LEwIs MILLER. Pres. OF
Trustees. station and Telephone. Alliance, o.
Attendance large, and rapidly Increasing
9S2-1v'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11

An eccentric character in Susquehan-
ma County, Pennsylvania, has an i'm
mense cage. in which are confined 200
rattlesnakes. He captured them early
in the spring when they were coming
from their winter homes.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
g. Fl. GRIFFIN,

~ENTIsT. ONCE over First National Bank
Ip Ohice hours from a. m. to D. M.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-11-11
Dr.Fenner's 'sKidney
WBaCk-aChe Cure.

", "a L, L
Elder NJ, E Church, Meadville, Pa,
writes
tApri! lf, 1Sa4.) DIR FENNER's Kidney and
Rack-acbe Cure gave me almost instant re
lief 1t effected cure so completely 1 have
needed noiIiug since l took it four years ago
FRANKF rERCIvAI., Rochester, N. Y, writes ::
(April r. 1874 "0ne bottle Of DIR. Fenner's
kidney and Back ache Cure helped me more
than ull the Kidney RcmedieS taken in the pas
two years; six h0ttlCs entirely cured me-
MRs.JAMES FULLER Fredouia. N. Y. writes :
tAnrrh . Is1t) "Isr. Fenner's Kidney and
Bach = che Cure has relieved me OF Kidney
Disease Heart Disease, and Female Weakness
| never hal medicine help - quickly"
iiARFY 4rnRs Hamlet :. Y. writes:
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celebrated Kidney Remedies and Doctors lad
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For sale by Belding d Gibbons.
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G.. ID. INGEl4L,

Ce De KNWEIA1k4,
TTOaSNfX AT LAW and Notary
IN Public. Office in over Mrs. Smiths MILL
ery Store III antua station. Ohio. 642-u
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16
DELICIOUS CAKE.

Toothsome Morsels Made According to
Miss Parloa's Recipes.
At one of the lessons given by Miss
Parloa in Boston. the following cake
was made: A generous cupful of but.
ter was beaten to a cream, two of sugar
added gradually, the juice of a lemon.
the yelks of five eggs and the whites o.
three, small cup of milk, and three
cups of pastry flour, through which was
sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der. The whole mixture was stirred
rapidly and thoroughly, and baked in
two sheets in moderate oven for twen-
ty-five minutes. 1t was then cut into
small squares, a portion of the crust re-
moved from each, and the cavity filled
with preserved strawberries. This was
not done until the cake was cold. The
crust was replaced and covered with an
icing made as above. This is called
Viennois cake.
Fairy gingerbread will be appreciated
by the little ones. Beat until light a
cup of butter and two of sugar, stir in
one tablespoonful of ginger and one
cup of mix in which has been dis
solved three-fourths of teaspoonful of
soda. Str in four small cups of sifted
down, wipe very clean, butter lavishly
and spread the mixture upon them very
thinly Bake in moderate oven until
brown, and while still hot, cut into
squares with case-knife and slip off
the pan. The two important points to
remember are that the batter must be
spread very thin, and cut the instant it
is taken from the oven. 1t should be
kept in tin box. A large dish can be
made with the quantities given above.
1t is quite possible to make very de-
lightful cream cakes in the precincts of
ones own kitchen, as | know from ex-
per.ence. The friend who gave me this
recipe superintended the first operation,
and the result was very satisfactory in
deed. Boil together one pint of water
with half pound of butter; as soon as
it reaches the boiling point stir in three
quarters of a pound of flour; let it cook
a moment. and when cool add ten eggs
we'll beaten and a scant teaspoonfuI of
saleratus and one of salt, dissolved in a
very little boiling water. Drop with
spoon on buttered tins little distance
apart. Bake in quick oven; they VIII
puff in baking. When done and cold,
cut one side large enough to insert TIE
cream with spoon. This will make
sixty cakes The cream is made by
beat ne two cups of sugar with four
eggs; add cup of flour and as much of
a quart of milk as is required to make q
smooth and thin paste: heat the re-
mainder of the milk to boiling, and
pour the above mixture nto it: stir
constantly until it is sufficiently thick
ened; flavor with vanilla. Do not use
it until it is cold 1t should be made in
custard or farina kettle. Cor. Rural
NeU Yorker.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16
GOVERNMENT DOCKS.
The Insignificant Capacity of the United
States Yards for Dockage.

The Insignificant Capacity of the United
States Yards for Dockage.
In the course of the rehabilitation OF
the United States navy, docks and navy
yards require very serious considera-
ton. for, after ships and guns, there
are no requirements of more Importance
for naval purposes. The capacity of
the Government yards for dockage is
very insignificant, owing to which the
bottoms of our ships are but seldom
subjected to scrutiny, and this, above all
others, is the part of the integrity OF
which we need to be most assured. The
few docks that we have are generally APP
propriated by vessels under repair, and
the cruising ship is debarred the use of
this means of guarding her safety and
providing for her speed. very slight
accident NAV disturb the copper on the
bottom of wooden ship, which may
result in serious consequences II she be
sent to cruise in waters where she will
be exposed to the influence of the teredo,
and the neglect to clean the bottom when
loaded with grass or barnacles might so
impair speed as to make the difference
between capture and failure in chase.
Docking for such purposes as inspect
ing and cleaning the bottom is the ex-
ception in our practice. as the demands
OF repairs are considered paramount.
A ship in which the repairs approach or
lie below the water line must be placed
in Il dock. and months being often re-
quired to complete the work, the dock
is closed to all other purposes, and our
ships are frequently sent from one navy
yard to another to take advantage of Il
dock that may be vacant.
The embarrassments that have at
tended this course in the past, while our
fleet has consisted of copper-sheathed
wooden ships, will be increased by the
Introduction of iron and steel hulls.
which demand much more care and
more frequent removals of such hinder
ances to speed as will attach themselves
to their bottoms.
The Government has at present but
three stone dry docks and one floating
dock The latter is in use at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire; the stone
docks are at the navy yards in Boston,
New York and Norfolk.
A stone dock is in process of con-
struction at Mare Island, California;
thi- is of Dimensions capable of receiv-
ing ships of the first class. Its length
is $50 feet; breadth, 70 feet; depth of
water over the sill, 27.6 feet, and it will
admit ship of $50 feet in length. When
completed it will supply great want
on the Pacific coast.
1t requires no argument to show that
the Government needs a great increase
in its facilities for dockage; the neces-
sity of plentiful supply of docks is
recognized by all powers, and we can
not pretend to be blind TO our own de-
ficiency. This is want that must be
provided for, but it is well to study all
points that bear or the subject, and to
mature some plan of operations before
we embark in work which involves
great expense, and the success of which
must depend on the thoroughness with
which all the factors are considered be-
forehand. Rear AdmiraL E. Simpson,
~ Harler's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16
MEXICAN PlNTOS.
People Who Are Painted bv Nature With
Huge Polka Dots.

People Who Are Painted bv Nature With
Huge Polka Dots.
The State of Guerrero covers an area
of little less than sixty-four thousand
kilometres, and is eminently an agr.
cultural and mining region, although
at present-from lack of funds and
energy-the mining industry is at s
standstill, notwithstanding the rich
placer deposits.
Every variety of most luscious tropi-
cal fruits abounds in this section-also
cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar cane, medi-
cinal plants, dry and precious woods
hes DIES god, silver, iron, lead, copper.
coal, cinnabar, petroleum, platina,
mercury, nitrate of potash and asbestos.
Government lands sell at the rate OF
twenty-nine cents per American acre
aud some of the most fertile sections are
still unoccupied. in the vicinity of the
PapagayO and Ometepe rivers and be-
tween the slopes of the Sierra Madre del
Sur and the Tepastepec mountains.
In that section known as the terra
colorado a very curious but harmless
eutaneous affection prevails, here known
as amiricurG, which causes people to
appear spotted, as if painted all over
the face and body in huge polka dots.
and hence the natives are dubbed Pintos
or painted people" That much more
dreaded disease, known to the world as
cretinism. is as alarmingly prevalent in
the mountain valleys of Guerrero as in
some portions of Switzerland In
Europe the disease is rarely encountered
at higher altitude than three thou
sand feet, and chiefly haunts
those valleys that are surrounded
by high, steep walls of rock, that
exclude the light and limit free circula-
ton of air; but in Guerrero it appears
to be confined to no mixed elevation or
especial CONFORMATION of soil. Goitre
is often found in connection with it here,
as IN the lower Alpine valleys, not only
of Switzerland and Italy. but of the
Pyrcnees, Syria, India and China. The
cause of cretinism is still imperfectly
understood. but the researches of the
EN- nent scientist, Virchow. tend to the
conclusion that it is merely physical
degeneration. dependent upon the re-
cention of an undue amount of cal
careous matter into the system. and, Ike
goitre. is confined exclusively to
sections where calcareous waters alone
are accessible 10 the inhabitants.
Cretins, of whatever nationality, are al
WAYS most pitiable objects, but here
they are regarded with a degree of ven-
grafton, o, rather. of rel gious sup rsti-
ton, as those who, from their state OF
faulty. can commit no S n. They are
invariably the most shameless. dirty and
obscene creatures that the imagination
can conce We, with abnol mally vora-
cious appel ties, tongue hanging from
the open mouth, eyes small, nose flat
and broad. for head retreating. COM
plexion cadaverous, body dwartish, iegs
rickety and abdomen protuberant-
Fannie b. Yards 70 Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16

were dispersed in all directions. The
old Condos were famous for their torch
light hunts, and the Due d Aumale now
and then gave one, which left a be-
wildering and fairylike impression on
the spectator not Injured to field sports.
and usually got him so knocked about
that he was glad to return to town and
seek out his physician early the next
day. 1t is said that the Dukes hunting
parties were decidedly more splendid
than those given at Compiegne when
the imperial court was there in the
early days of the second empire. Now
the De Salvertes, the De Berteux. the
De Chazelies, the d'Hedouvilles, the
DE Beauregards, the De Lubersacs,. the
DE La Rochefoucaulds, the De La
Maussayes, the Seules, the Gold
schmidts, the Bouquets, the Fleurys,
the De MacMahons and the Rouhers
will have to keep up the reputation of
gentlemanly sport in France without
the courteous and generous Due d'Au.
male to help them. Boston Journal