The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-08-28

Business cares weigh heavily on the
overburdened mind, laden with the
responsibilities of other peoples affairs
and charged with the duty of protect
ing their interests. Sometimes they
cause sleepless nights; other times
they rob tteir victims of their wonted
appetites; again, they pursue the
wearied form with visions of possible
mistakes, and worry their composure
by pictures of the terrible consequences
to follow therefrom; OCCASIONALLY,
they cause absent mindedness.
One of our prominent business men
might have been seen ON the streets,
last Thursday, detailing an accurate
description of his horse and buggy for
which he had been diligently search
ing 10! these many hours, and found
them not. With the same regularity
of the ancient Roman Senator, who
closed all his addresses to that august
body with the memorable words '' Car
thago est deleRda y this gentleman had
always hitched his horse in one place.
and now, on looking for his rig to take
a trip in the country, he found them
not. Horse thieves in broad daylight
on the streets of Ravenna! Soon, a
dozen persons, including Sheriff Jones,
were acquainted with his loss, and
things were beginning to look serious
for the thief, when the missing horse
and buggy was discovered on Chest
nut street, the animal patiently wait
ing for its owner, not even trying to
break the hitching strap with which
it was tied. Fear, or remorse of con
science had probably induced the thief
to make restitution of the property,
but some facetious individuals have
intimated that the owner of the rig
had started to drive in the country
when he met man with whom he
went to transact some business, hitch
ing his horse where it was subsequent
ly found. and that at the end of the
business interview, he sought his rig
at the original starting place, and at
once becrme very much puzzled to
know what had become of it. Nearly
awhole forenoon was required to solve
the problem.
There are numerous private libraries in our
city whose contents form an index to the vary
ing tastes of cultured minds. at the same time
evincing the high standard maintained in max
ing selections. The influence of books is most
potent, and it is gratifying to note the variety
of volumes bearing the names of the best Au-
thors, that fill the shelves of SO many Ravenna
libraries silent. but eloquent tributes to the
refined preferences of their owners.
Among those of the higher grade. the collect
ion of Miss Emma Seeley Stuart is notewol thy.
as a perusal of the accompanying list will re.
veal
Disraeli's, Hawthorne's. lrving's. Charlotte
Bronte's. Ainsworths. Jane Austens'. Mnhl-
baehs' Works. Waverly Novels Victor Hugo's
Works, Works of Edmund Bur ,e, Carlyle's
(,oethe's Fielding's, Schill, RS, DeQuincey's'
Anderson's w orks Works OF hdgar Allen Poe
Memoirs of U. s Grant. Reminiscences of DAN
iel Webster History OF Persia Benjamin His
tory of Turkey, by Lane rooie The RI e of the
Dutch Republic. by Motley fhe History of
Barneveid by Motley Rollins Ancient History
Conquest ef Mexico, by Prescott Philip the
Second by Prescott; Ferdinand and Isabella
by Prescott Robertson's Charles the Filth b,
Prescott; Macaulay's History of England
Froutle's History OF England. Captain Marry
mans Gibbons Bome. Guizot's History of
France. Froissart,s Chronicles. Monstele IS
Chronicles. Chambers Encyclopedia. Ten
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