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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Queer Notions Concerning America

An English lady who had travelled
over the greater part of Europe said
she had 4 great desire to come to
America, and her principal object in
doing so was to shoot Niagara. l
rather opened my eyes at this, and
said that thought she must refer to
the celebrated trip down the rapids of
the St. Lawrence, but she was very
positive on the subject. and said she
meant Niagara, and nothing else; she
had understood that they did it in a
steamboat, and she knew she should
enjoy tho sensation,
A wcll-educated middle-aged gentle
man told me that the reason our civil
war lasted so long was that we had no
military men in onr country, and that
a az carried on entirely by civilians
could not proceed very rapidly. If
any of you have ever seen an English
atlas you will understand why it is
difficult to get from it a good idea of
America. We shall find, in such an
atlas, full and complete maps of every
European country and principality, II
whole page being sometimes given to
an island, OF to a colony i'll Asia and
Africa; but the entire United States,
with sometimes the whole of North
America besides, is crowded into a
single map. Some of these are so
small that the New England States are
not large enough to contain theiI
names, and are designated by letters
which refer to the names printed in an
open part of the Atlantic Ocean. No
wonder that the people who use these
maps have limited idea of our coun-
trv.
But it is not only English people
who appear to know very little about
America. A German countess once
asked me if we had any theaters in
New York, and when told her that
there were not only great many
theaters in that city, but that it posses
sed two grand opera-houSes at which,
at that time, two of the leading prima
donnas of the world were singing on
the same nights, she was q little sur
prised. 1t is quite common in various
parts of the Continent to hear people
speak of the late war between North
and South America. Tney knew that
the war was between the North and
the South, and as it was in America,
the mistake is natural enough to peo-
pie who have studied only European
geography. Frank II. Stockton, IN st.
Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Russell Sage on Money.

A visitor in Russell Sage's office the
other day asked the great financier
what fun there was in making money
more than he could use.
Merely the pleasure of successful
competition" he said. '.Just the same
pleasure that boy experiences in run
ming faster and climbing higher than
his mates. There are other ways of
surprising that l should think would
give even more of this sort of gratifi-
cation-being the greatest poet, or the
greatest artist, or the greatest inven-
tor. or the greatest scientific author
ity."
Then there is no pleasure in the
mere possession of money!"
what do you mean by the mere
possession he replied. winning
the money and keeping it when all the
rest of the fellows are trying to get it
is just the successful competition was
speaking Of Money in itself has no
power of comforting pleasure, of course,
any more than so much mud. 1t is
the knowledge of what money will do
that gives pleasure.
Are you rich enough. Mr.. SageP"
''Am IP Why, yes. l have a great
deal more money than need and don't
really want any more"
Why don't you go out of business.
then?"
Because there is nothing else that 1
want to do. l don't care about horse
racing or yachting. don't want to
travel. New York like better than
Paris, and Broadway is good enough
for me. In fact. I'd rather stay at No.
II Broadway aud guess ON the prices
of things than anywhere else in the
world. "-New York Mail.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Girls and Ban.jos.

The banjo mania has broken out
again in fashionable society with Il
virulence that exceeds anything ever
known before. All the maidens and
good many of the old women also
strum the instrument. Banjo classes
abound ON every side, and "banjo
recltals' are among the newest diver
sions of fashion. A club of forty play
ers gave concert the other night, and
in the crowded audience were repre-
sentatives of all the swellest names in
town. Teachers get what they please
to ask, and a young woman, who erst-
while starved as a teacher of the piano,
now has her own carriage as profess
sor of the banjo. Youths and elderly
men, too, have caught the fever, and
the brawny young man who only a
few months ago was worshiped as
hero of the tennis field. now finds him.
self neglected unless he can pick the
banjo and sing his little song. The
star strummers among the men are in
demand at the smartest parties. and
have the choosing of society of the
most charming girls, with unlimited
champagne and salad thrown in, all
at the price of little strumming and
singing. Moonlight sleighing parties
that used to be considered complete
with dish of that toothsome delicacy,
'oattish and watffes," as an incidental,
are now voted slow unless banioist
forms one of the company. The bans
joist, in a word, is the boss of the hour.
-EGchange.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Worlds Dispsnsary Medical Association,
66s Main St., BUFFALO, N. Y
BENTON,S HAIR GROWER.

All who are BALD, all who are be-
coming BALD, all who do not want to
be BALD, all who are troubled with
DANDRUFF, or ITCHING of the scalp.
should use BentOn's Hair Grower
EIGHTY PER CENT of those using it
have grown hair. 1t never fails to
stop the hair from falling. Through
sickness and fevers the hair sometimes
falls off in 8 short time, and although
the person may have remained bald
for years, if you use Benton's Hair
Grower according to directions, you
are sure of growth of hair. Ia hun
DIR: ds Vt cases we have produced good
gr. with o hair on persons who have
be bal and glsZed for years. We
have fully substantiated the following
facts.
We grow hair in every case no mat
ter how long bald.
Unlike other preparations it contains
no sugar of lead. or vegetable or min.
eral poisons.
1t is a specific for falling hair, dan.
druff, and itching of the scalp.
The Hair Grower is hair food, and
it's com position is almost exactly like
the oil which supplies the hair with
its vitality.
Ifyour druggists have not got it we
will send it prepaid on receipt of price.
BENTON HAIR GROWER Co,
Cleveland, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Family Marks.

From the most remote times, the
beneficent springs that jet from the
interior of the earth have excited the
gratitude and admiration of men. Like
the sea and rivers, they have been
deitied by the people of the Indo-Euro-
pean family; and the worship that has
been given to them, and the fables
with which superstition has invested
them, express the degree to which popu-
lar Imagination has been struck by
their mysterious origin, their inexhaus-
tible flow, and their secret properties.
The Greeks attributed to the fountain
of Dodona, in Epirus, the faculty of dis
covering hidden truths and uttering
oracles. The fountain of Egeria was
supposed to possess the same power,
and was intrusted to the guardianship
of the Vestal Virgins. T:.e fountains
of Castalia, on the flank of Parnassus,
and of Hippocrene, near Helicon,
were believed to communicate the
poetic spirit.
The Gauls had special veneration
for the springs to which they went in
search of health. The old romances
of chyalry in their fancies of fount-
ain of youth, where spent forces and
lost charms could be recovered, were
only reproducing a myth of old
Greece.
The perennial nature of springs,
which was for long time regarded as
IA sacred mystery, was also their most
striking characteristic to those who
sought to explain it without reference
to religion and poetry. According to
AristotIe's idea, which was adopted by
Seneca and prevailed till the sixteenth
century, 1.-THE interior of the earth con-
tains deep cavities and much air, which
must necessarily be cooled there.
Motionless and stagnant, it is not long
in being converted into water. by u
metamorphosis like that which. in the
atmosphere, produces rain-drops.
That thick shadow. that eternal cold.
that condensation which is disturbed
| by no movement, are the always sub
sisting and necessarily acting causes
of the transmutation OF air. Popular
Science Monthly.
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Tall Swearing.

The other day, writes correspond
ent, was told the following story by
one of the members of the Montreal
(Canada) bar, who was actually en-
gagged as counsel in the trial:
''The prosecution was for nuisance,
and was brought nominally by her
Majesty against the owners of one OF
the largest iron-works in that city.
The residents of the neighbor ood had
subscribed funds and retained counsel,
true bill was found, and the case
proceeded before the Court of Queens
Bench (crown side.) The usual testi-
mony was adduced. HouseholIcrs
told dreadful tales of the damage done
to property by the immense quantity
of smoke emitted from the low CHM
news of the defendants furnaces;
housewives testified that their washing
was constantly spoiled when hung out
to dry in their yards or on their roofs;
and medical mcu swOre to the deleter-
ious effects of the smoke on the public
health. Toward the conclusion OF the
case we put Il gentleman from the
Emerald Isle on the stand. He owned
small property close to the rolling
mills, and thus proceeded: Yer amer
and gintlemin av the jury, oil will tell
ME shtory in me own way vi live
mkt door to a party be the name av
Grogan-Jerry Grogan, yer anner-a
dacint married man wild wolfe and
four ships av bhoys. Wan day whiu
the chimneys av the rollin' mills was
putin out smoke like the divil, oi
hears terrible row goin' an in Jerry
Grogans house, shoutin' and shcream-
in and yellin'. goes up to the door,
and sez OF, Let me in Come in, for
Gods sake sez Mrs. Grogani Jerry
is KILN me- sez she. Aud in OF goes,
and sees Jerry wailupin' the wolfe.
jerry seq OF, what are ye batin' tue
wolfe for?' sez OF. Sez jerry 10 me.
scz he, She's got niggers in the house,
seq he. 'Niggers?' sez oi. Yes, sez
he Where is the niggers? sez OF:
In the room beyant, seq Jerry. And
so OF goes into the room beyant, and
sings out to Jerry, Jerry. ye're fool,
seq oi. WHAT for?' seq he. 'Beca'se,
seq OF, 'thim's no niggers.' SEE OF.
Well, what the diyil are they?' sez he.
| Jerry sez oi, 'ye're mad, sez oi.
And, yer amer and gintlemen ay the
Jury, thin niggers was Jerry's own
| children, be@rimed by the shmoke
| from the defendants facthory chin
neys.
"'Witness,' sternly said the Judge
do you swear that this extraordinary
story is true?
"'Oi do, yer amer
"'That will do HarperS Maya
| zine.
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Practical Arithmetic.

You can't add different things to-
gether," said teacher in one of the
New York public schools. ''if you
add sheep and a COW together it does
not make two sheep or two cows"
A little boy who was t e son of a
Harlem milkinan held up his hand and
said:
THAT may do with sheep and cows,
but if you add a quart of milk and a
quart of water it makes two quarts OF
milk. I've seen it done moren q
thousand times. TEXAS SJttngs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Administrators Sale of Real
Estate.

TN pursuance of an order of sale of the Pro-
Il bate Court of Forage Countv, Ohio. l offer
at private sale TO the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing real estate. fixtures and machinery, or
any part thereof. to wit:
Being one acre of land of the farm OF which
Geo WILDER died seized. in LOT No. 6S. shall
ersville Township. Portage County Ohio and
contains he saw mill I offer the boiler ard
engine two turbine wheels. and all the ma
chinery attached thereto. any part there Jf
or of said items and the one acre Of land.
also offer one other ttact OF land belonging
10 the estate OF said george +. Wilber. deceas
ed to wit: Situate In said Township of Shall
erSville, Portage County. and State o. ohio.
and is known as being part Of lot No 70 and
bounded as fsllows: Beginning at the south.
east corner of said lot, thence north on the east
line of said lot IS chains. to the center of the
Cuyahoga river; thence down the center of said
river to tho south line of said lot; thence east
4 chairs, to the place of beginning, containing
ten acres and % 100 of land.
All of which property or any part thereoJ
will be sold at private sale within four weeks
from date. TEENS, CASE.
Enquire Of LAFAYETTE SMITH. Admr,
Freedom Street. Ravenna, Ohio.
ioia.4R ]. u. pUssEL, Atty.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Bucklon's APnicaSaIye

The BEST SALvE in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum
fever sores, letter, chapped hands, chill
blsins, corns, and all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles, 1t is guar.
anteed to give perfect Satisfaction, or
meney refunded. Price 25 cents per
hox. For sale by g. p. Reed, Ravsnns
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
'sssloV qeIV 10 uourlIodXs loQlInJ on
ps4!q!qoId seq GeHInL 10 uslInS 9qL
English SPAWN Lipimept reno

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps
and Blemishes from horses, Blood
SPAWN, Curbs, Splints. Sweeney, Sti-
fes, S2rains, Sore and Swollen throat,
Coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted. Sold by Belding
Il Gibbons, Druggists. .Ravenns, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Some of the society men of Paris a

SUHI6 UI GHB sOCI6Iy IHeH OF dTIs are
advocating the adoption of a more
suitable style of evening dress. The
costume proposed consists of buckle
shoes, silk stockings, knee breeches,
velvet coat (curtailed), lace ruffles,
etc. The promoters are ANXIOUS to
avoid the dress which causes, some
times, mistaking resemblance between
guest and waiter,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
CURES AL HUM0RS,

from a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the
worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Feyer-sores,"
Scaly OF Rough Skin, in short, all diseases
powerful, purifying, and invigorating medi-
cine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influence. Especially has it mani
Erysipelas Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrof-
ulolls Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease,
white Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck,
stamps for a large Treatise, with colored
plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount
for Treatise on Serofulous Affections.
"FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE"
Thoroughly cleanse it by using Dr. Plerce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and good
digestion, fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and bodily health will be established
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05

Baron Hirsch de Gerenth, who has
been raised to the Austrian House of
Peers by the Emperor Francis Joseph,
Is the first Hebrew to receive such an
honor. It cost him $50, 0QQ, 900 in char
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05

Petroleum v. Nasty, who is said to
have made 1,5O0, 900 by his -humor.
was earning but few dollars a week
when he began his famous letters.
Josh Billings sold his Essay on the
Mule" for $1.50, and Artemus Ward,
before he tried fun. was a newspaper
reporter at $12 week.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
HAHsA :
AIS
$ = YOU2

Do you feel dull. languid, low-spirited, life
leeu, and indesoribably miserable, both physi-
cally and mentally; experience a sense of
fullnesS or blOatiny after eating, or of syonO-
ness" or emptiness of stomach in the morn
ing, tongue coated, bitter or bad taste in
headaches, blurred eyesght, floating spccks"
before the eyes. nervous ProstrHtion Or ex-
haustio1, irritabiity of temper. hot fiushes,
alternating with chilly sensations. sharp,
biting, trIn Insicnt pains Ecrc a;i'l there, cold
feet, droW sincsS after meals, wakefIiness, or
disturbed aud undressing sleep. constant,
indcscribable feeling of dread, OF OF ilnpend-
ing calGmityP
If you have all, or any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering from
Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The moro
complicated your disease has become, the
greater the number and diversity of symp-
toms. No matter what stage it has reached,
DIR. Pierce,s Golden Medical Discovery
tions for a reasonable length of time. If not
cured, complications multiply Snd COnsump-
ton of the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart Disease,
rheumatism, Kidney Disease or other grave
maladeS are quite liable to set in and, sooner
or later, induce a fatal termination.
Dr. Pierce,S Golden Medical Dis.
CCVery acts powerfully upon Thc Liver, and
through thut great blood -purifying organ,
clcau5eS the system Of all bloDd-taints ana iul-
purities from whatever cause arising. II is
equally eiiCaciGus i'll acting upon the Kid
neys, and other eXcretory organs, cleansing.
strengthening, aud healing their diseases. As
an appCtiZing, restorative tonic, it promotes
digestion and nutrition, thereby building up
both flesh and strength. In malarial districts,
this wonderful medicine has gained great
celebrity IL curing Fever and Ague, Chills and
Fever, Dumb Ague, and kindred diseases
DIR. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis
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EASTWARD.

SDailY.
Connections at Gallery junction with North
ern Division Trains:
No. for Butler.
- S. for Butler and Foxburg..
?. gets condection from Foxburg and
BuGier.
" from Clarion, Foxburg and Butler.
Through Sleeping Car b.tween Allegheny
and ChioSgo on nos. and +. daily.
LAKE DIEISI n.
Painesville and YoungstoKn Mail daily, ex-
sept Sundays, Lssres faiLesyilie 80 .. N |;
CLARION 6 Of East Claridon 80; Burton SIS
Middle6eld 46; West FaImirgton n.i0; War
rem 50; Niles 10 0i; Girard lO Is; arrives At
Youngstown 1850. RetpTninE, leaves Youngs-
town 81 D. m /; t4irard So; Niles %; W arren
2a2; West Farmin0ton 3O4; Midde6sld 3 % /;
Burton "a; East Claridon = s5; Chardon 4.0S |;
arrives PainesvIlle a. 40.
j, T. JOHNSON, sup't
O, w. BASSETT.
General Passenger gent:
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Teachers Examinations.

1nN PER PROFIT and SAMPLES FREE
lOQCENT to men and cauvassers for DIR
Scott's Genuine Electric Belts, Brushes,
&c Lady Agents wanted for Electric Corsets.
Quick sales Write at once for terms. DIR.
Scott. s4s B'way, n. \.
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CONSUMPTION.

which is ScrOfula of the Lungs, is arrested
and cured by this remedy, if taken in the
earlier stages of the disease. From its mar
yelous power over this terribly fatal disease,
when first Offering this now world-tamed rem
edy to the public, DIR. Pierce thought seriously
of calling it his " CONSUMPTION CURE" but
abandoned that name as too restrictive for
a medicine which, from its wonderful COM
bination of tonic, or streng thening, Alternative,
or blood-cleansng, anti-biious, pectoral ana
nutritive properties, is unequaled. not only
as a remedy. for Consumption, but for all
EyU, ~. Of
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Depart.
w EST WARD,
EASTWARD.

Nc" "stop-over" allowed upD Dn Local Tickets.
L. P. FARMER, G. p. A, New York City.
W. C. RINEA kSOE, A. G. p. a. Cincinnati o.
j. r SHALER, Geu Sup't Cleveland, O..
j. K. SHARP. Aget.
Ravenna, O.,
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Custom Work.

"AVINO purchased the machinery of the
h Hub Factory" and leased the premises
am prepared to do all kinds of
CUSTOM planning, SAVING, &c.
In a satisfactory manner. Will also continue
the manufacture Of Sash, Doors and Blinds.
Give me call
HENRY GR0HR-
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A. E. STEPHENSON,

cHARLEST0wH. O..
Ofers to the people of Portage. Csuntv the fnl
lowing unexcelled Varieties which rave iuya-
rlsDly received the higeest commentators
Wherever exhibited taking the First Preniams
IN every competitive test as 10 Hardness, Size.
Flavor. and Prolific Bearing.
WHITE ANN ARBoR GEAPE-Hardv. nro.
me, large and delicious. Ripens ten days or
two weeks before the Concord, Never milaews
cents each.
We, the undersigned, having been appointed
BY the Agricultural and Horticnisural Society
Of w ashteaaW Co. Michigan, 20 act as Judges
In the Pomological Department at their Fair in
eties ef Grapes. and it was their decided opin-
ion that the White Ann Arbor." Seeding was
far the most desirable of the lot.
For sire, Il Issr and 6saaty, it took the lead of
all our sta ldard varieties. and we believe It
VIII yet be oorne one OF the most popular Grapes
In this country. MAETIN CLARK,
I'D. WILLIAMS,
Committee.
ANN ARBoR. MICE, Dec %. 1889.
RUSSIAN. .MULBERRY-HARDY bean.
tiful: quick growing tree for the lawn while
tile frutt is valuable for table use, By mail,
10 to IS inch size. is cents each. 80 per dozen
THE WAGER PEACH-This is, without ex-
ception. the best and richest Peach we are ac-
quainted with. for table use and canning pur-
poses. 1t is ef good size, yellow skin. and flesh
hardy. and one of the most abundant bearers cf
any sort knowa. 1t reproduces itself every time
from the pit. One year old trees, by express, 2
to feet, IS ceuts each; S9.t0 per dozen.
WATERLOO PEACH.-a to Q It. IS cts. each.
he largest and best very early peach grown.
Ripens about middle eli July.
"BIG BOB"-THR COMING STRAwBERRY-
The biggest and most uniform in size the best
favored and most productive, and the viEes the
hardest, Price by mail. 81 GO per toz or 81
| per 100. A. e. STEPHENSON.
Ravenna. March 80. 1888 7oa-am
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Liver, Blood. and Lunqs.

For Weak Lungs. Splitting of Blood, Short
ness of Breath, Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Bron,
chitis Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred
affections, it is an efficient remedy.
Sold by Druggists, at S1.OO. or Six Bottles
for $500.
~ Send ten cents in stamps for DR.. Pierce's
book on Consumption. Address,
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Through Coaches from Ravenna to Pitts
burgh.
PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS.
On Fast Line to Philadelphia and New York,
without change, Connecting in Union Station,
Pittsburgh, with Through Cars to Baltimore
ani Washington.
No. Sc makes close connection at Alli-
ance with last through trains for Chicago and
Western points.
For lime Tables, Rates of Fare, Through
tickets and Baggage Checks, and further in
ormation regarding the running of trains
nply to
W d. ARMSTRONG,
Ticket Agt., Ravenne, o.
JAS MCCREA e. A. FORD,
Genl Manager, Gen. Passenger Agt.
Pittsburgh. Piitsburg
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-09-21
RANDOM SHOTS.


THE Department of Kansas has 40
posts OF the Grand Army.
The post system OF Sons OF Veterans
has n membership of nearly 5000.
The proposed soldiers monument at
Minneapolis, Mimi, is to cost $4,000.
The death is announced OF Mrs. Liz
zle Clark Swift, the famous hospital
nurse of the Second Army Corps in the
Virginia campaigns Of 1868 and 1864.
CHARLES i. STONE, of Philadelphia,
Pa. now claims to be the youngest
war veteran. He was fourteen years of
age when he carrieda gun at the battle
OF Gettysburg.
The sword on Sheridan's bier was
the sword that helped split the rebel
lion. II was Il $3 auction sword and II
was sold to Sheridan by an officer who
bought it IN Chicago. Sheridan's or
namental swords were worth $1,000.
ENoAMPMENT No |, Union Veteran
Legion, Pittsburgh, Pa, has member
ship OF nearly 700, the different
branches OF service being represented
as follows: Infantry, l43, cavalry reg
iments, 25; batteries, 25i besides thu
navy and marine corps,