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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
STARTLING DISHONESTY.
How Count Esterhazy's Domestic Cleaned
Out His Chateau.

Out His Chateau.
Wondrous stories arc forthcoming
from time to time of the tricks played
by servants, but the palm in this respect
may readily be assigned to couple
named Gengout, whom in an unlucl<y
moment Connt Esterhazy decided on
leaving in charge of his Chateau de
Dommartin la Planchette, in the de-
partment of the Marne. Gengout, who
is gardener, entered the Counts serv-
ice with his wife just a twelvemonth
ago. The Count and his family were
returning to Paris for the winter and
the Gengouts were to look after the
place. They set about their duties in a
novel not to say eccentric manner. To
begin with the grounds, they denuded
the trees of their branches, which they
used for fuel. There was large stock
of poultry, and they ate every bird.
The woman took home with her 200 bot
ties of choice wines, without prejudice
to the 260 bottles which her husband
emptied at the chateau solus or with
friends. Indeed, the Gengouts enter
tanned their acquaintances right royalty,
and the Indictment set forth that their
parties degenerated into orgies, the
neighbors being disturbed of night by
their cries and songs The wife stole
all the linen that she needed for herself
and her children, making for the latter
couches covered with Arab silk of great
price. When the linen was dirty, in
stead of washing it she flung it on
dung-heap and helped herself to more.
oh ~, th.,
lage for food. She went aboutin Countess
Esterhazy's toilets, while her husband,
vino had taken up his quarters in his
masters bedroom, received his friends
there, regaling them ad libitum with
rare vintages and the best cognac. He
also smoked, so the Indictment runs, and
gave them to smoke, the pipes of Count
Esterhazy, and if they took fancy to
the pipes they were allowed to keep
them. He ''sported" the masters attire,
even to his eyeglass, while he wore his
watch and staggered about with his re-
volver. He invited his friends to shoot
hazy's guns and consuming 1,20O car
tridges which he had found in the cha
teau. The Gengouts also took all the
jewelry on which they could lay their
hands and sold it, together with some
decorations which were family heir
looms, and some old coins. Not content |
with all these atrocities, they lent or
gave away number of rare books. 1t |
seems incredible that they should have |
been able to behave in this extraordina-
ry manner without the Count hearing of |
their exploits: but as a mattar of fact
the chateau and the grounds were COM
pletely sacked ere he had any inkling of
the melancholy truth. For all the Of
fences Gengout and his helpmate have
Just been tried at the Marne assizes, to-
gether with half-dozen of their boon
The man and his wife were
found guilty and sentenced to eight and
five years imprisonment respectively,
but their friends were acquitted.
Cor. London Telegraph.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
MARKING AND GRADING.
'ome of the Defects of Modern Educa-
tionaI Methods.

tionaI Methods.
At a recent educational conference at
Providence, II. l., Professor Ballet, OF
Springfield, Mass, said that nobody
could do good teaching who undertakes
to mark each pupil during every recita-
tion. Imagine the attempt to do such a
thing in chemical laboratory. How
would the teacher succeed who should
occupy three-quartcrs of the hour while
the boys were at work in putting down
marks by which he should attempt to do
justice to each one? Suppose that the
father of five children, say six, eight,
nine, ten and twelve years old, should
undertake the marking system in the
family. This man has q bad cook in the
kitchen, who has by degrees saddled the
dyspepsia on the whole flock, so that no
one of them can relish his breakfast.
So when they gather around the
table some morning the father makes
q little speech to them after this
fashion: "Children, 1 have for some
little time observed an indisposi'
ton on your part to eat, which must
in some way be counteracted because 1T
is absolutely necessary to eat in order to
sustain life Now propose to inaugu-
rate the marking system on the scale Of
100. To-day the boy who eats all of his
meals as he should eat them will receive
100 for each; the girl who swallows only
three-quarters of her breakfast will only
get rs, and If any child refuses to touch
his food, a mark of zero will be scored
against his name. Then at the end of
q month | shall draw off an average
from these marks" Don't you think
that it would be better plan for that
father to discharge his bad cook?
But how would the graded system, as
we often see it carried out, work in the
family? Suppose that this same father
should carefully estimate just how much
food, how many pounds of beefsteak and
loaves of bread the six-year-old boy
ought to eat between the first Monday
in September and the last Friday in
June, and should set himself to work to
see the programme faithfully carried
out. OF course, if half the prescribed
amount is not consumed during the first
twenty weeks of the course, a large pro-
portion must be made way with in the
second twenty, so that the boy can be
promoted into the next grade. But i'm
agine this father taking a longer look
ahead and making out a bill of fare for
the boy from the time he is six, when he
is supposed to enter the primary school
till he is eighteen, when he is supposed
to leave the high school, or suppose
when he is six he takes the boy to a
tailor and orders suit of clothes that
shall fit him when he is fourteen. The
tailor does the best he can under the
and then the father takes
the boy home and begins to feed him
with the idea of making him grow to
the suit.-N. Y. Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
What to Do II Anybody FaInts.

Nothing is more amusing to the OK
perienced physician than the conduct
of the average layman when a person
may have tainted Nine times out
of ten the anxious spectator will seize
the head OF the unfortunate, elevate it,
and rush for water with which to
sprinkle tho prostrate patient. What
should one do? Why, remain perfectly
cool, and instead of raising the head of
the patient, do just the opposite-lower
1t and elevate the rest of the body.
Painting, or syncope, as 1t is called in
medical works, is a temporary failure of
the heart by which the brain is deprived
Of it's arterial blood. So by lowering
the heod and elevating tho rest of the
body the arterial blood, by the force of
gravity. is sent to the brain, and recov-
cry is almost instantaneous
natl Commercial.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
MAKING cAReoLlc ACID.
How tho Pure Article Is Extracted 4 rroI
Coal Tar.

IRON
Coal Tar.
The following method of obtaining
pure carbolic acid from coal tar is given
by Hugo Mueller (Zeitschrift fur Chemie,
1865, page 270:) The aqueous solution
obtained by treating coal tar with caus-
tic soda or milk of lime, or mixture of
the two, which contains, besides car
bolic acid, certain easily oxidizable SUBJ
stances and not inconsiderable guam
tity of napthaline is diluted with water
MS long as napthaline is thereby separa-
ted, and the liquid which soon turns dark
brown, is exposed to the air in shallow
vessels for several days, and frequently
stirred. The brown solution is then
filtered, the quantity of carbolic acid
contained in given quantity of it is
determined, and the proportion of acid
required occecipitate the entire amount
is calculated therefrom. If now, one
sixth to one-eighth of this quantity of
acid be added to the liquid, with con-
slant stirring, the resinous substances
altered by the action of the air are first
precipitated, together with larger or
smaller quantities of cresol and xylol.
A further addition of acid precipitates
chiefly cresol, and after few trials it is
generally possible so to adjust the guam
tity of acid that the third and last pre-
cipitation shall yield nearly pure car
bolic acid. which crystalizes after q
single distillation. AS even small
quantity of water prevents it's crystaliza-
tion, it is necessary to remove this water
completely by heating tho carbolic acid
nearly to the boiling point, while a
stream of dry airis passed over it, The
crystallization may be accelerated by
cooling or by the introduction of a
small quantity of crystallized carbolic
acid. Crude carbolic acid, such as is OBJ
tanned from tar refineries, may be con-
veniently purified by treating it several
times in succession with soda ley. The
first extracts contain the purer products;
the precipitation of the carbolic acid,
must, however. be preceded by dilution
with water and exposure to the air.
Carbolic acid commonly contains
small quantity of very disagreeably
smelling sulphur compound (phenyl sui
phide) which may be removed by distil-
lation over small quantity of lead
oXlde. FOR the preparation OF crystal
lized carbolic aid Bickerdike recon-
mends that the commercial product
purified by one rectification, be dehY-
drafted with one or two per cent of
anhydrous sulphate of copper. The dis
tillato solidifies for most part at sixteen
deg. c., especially in contact with solid
carbolic acid. (2.) AS vitrol is solu-
BILE sulphate of either of the metals,
there are, consequently, several kinds
of vitriol in commerce, namely, white
vitriol, sulphate of zinc; blue vitriol,
sulphate of copper; green vitriol, sui
phate of iron; and red vitriol, sulphate
of cobalt. The term vitriol is also gem
orally applied to the corrosive fluid
known as sulphuric acid, sometimes
called oil of vitriol. ol.-Toledo Blade.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
GLADSTONE ON AMERICA.
He Advises Englishmen to study the His
tory of the American Revolution.

| He Advises Englishmen to study the His
tory of the American Revolution.
In his recent speech at the opening of
a free library at Saltney, near Chester,
England, Mr.. Gladstone said:
MY last recommendation to the stu
dent is one | have been in the habit of
making for the last fifty years, because
/ then adopted the sentiments upon
which it is founded, and now make it,
therefore, with greater confidence after
the lapse of fifty years. That recon-
mendation is to those who are able to
carry it out to study the history of the
American revolution. That is an extra
ordinary history. 1t is highly honora-
BILE to those who brought that revolu-
tion about, but also honorable in no
insignificant degree to this country, be-
cause it was by this country seeds of
freedom we're sown in America-because
it was by this country that the love of
freedom was sown in America. In
this country we have happily had
to a great eXtent-and / hope we
shall have it still more-what is
called local self-government; not mere
ly one government at a central point
composed of parties and exerting a
vast power over their fellow-citizens,
but system under which the duties of
government are distributed according to
the capacities of the different divisions
Of the country and the different classes
of the people who perform them, in such
way that government should be prac-
ticed not only in the metropolis, but in
every county, in every borough, over
erery district, and in every parish, and
that has tended to bring home to the
mind of every father of family a sense
of the public duty which he is called
upon to perform.
That is the secret of the strength of
America. The colonial system in which
America was reared, was in the main
free colonial system, and you had that
in America. These two things combined,
the love of freedom and respect for
law and desire for the maintenance
of order, and where you find these two
things combined-the love of freedom,
together with respect for law and the
desire of order--you have the elements
of personal excellence and national
greatness. believe it is not extrava-
giant to say that, although there were
but 1000, 600 of people in the thirteen
American colonies at the time of the
American revolution, yet from am ong
these 100000 of people there proceeded
at that epoch group of statesmen th at
might defy the whole history of the |
world to compare with them in any one
country or at any period of time. Such
were the consequences of well-regula-
ted and muscular freedom"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
CONSOLATION.

Pale grief came in and dwclt with me,
said; "Unbidden guest. thou art
Not welcomc;n said she: "VCrily
Thou and will never part"
My head was bowed with weight of woe.
My heart was trembling with its fears,
could not see the way to go,
So blinded were my eyes with tears,
And every thing seemed mocltng me,
The golden glory of the sun;
And singing birds, and humming bee,
wished the weary day were done.
When evening shades did softly fall,
sat within my lonely room,
And seemed to hear dear voice call
Gently to me through the gloom.
Grief fled away, cen as to me
The message came that solacc brought;
All sorrow banshed utterly,
For a diviner strain caught,
1t swcetly said: Heart, be OF cheer,
In Paradise above the blue
Where love perfected casts out fcnr,
wait for you, wait for YOU"
Nellie C. Tucker, in Christian at Work.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04

1t is declared by those who ought to
know that well-built wooden houses arc
healthier, warmer and loss damp than
those OF brick or stone.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04


dancers who always manage to get some
thing about them unhitched or dis
ordered We had not gone round the
room twice, when / startled him with a
burst of uncomfortable laughter.
80, Tom, for pity ssakc, come outside
Your cravat is skating round on your
collar, to inspect the back of your head. {"
so, bother, never mind though, that's
all right. Well just finish this dance,
if you please, and then you can fix it for
mo- ] mean, you must, because my coats
SO tight can't raise my arm two inches.
Vanitas vanitatum, ia ra ia, whatever it
is"
The dance was over, and we looked
about for some place where VIC would be
unseen. Tom knew of little balcony
outside one of the windows, and we
quickly made our way there, passing by
DIR. John as we did so.
Give mo a pin. Now put your head
way over on the other side. Look here,
keep your hands TO yourself! Now, Tom,
no cheating" The pin bent and had
to get another. The band struck up the
next dance. / put up both hands, and
hau diHhooO pun phc pm ocOuiciJ ehioubh
the stiff, starched linen, and we were
laughing softly, when figure darkened
the window and DIR. John stepped out.
For an instant his eyes met mine, and
then the handsome face was distorted
by an expression of the bitterest scorn.
In the semi-darkness he could SEQ that
my arms were upraised to Toms neck
and that our heads were very near
81 beg pardon. 1t was not my inten-
tion TO intrude or interrupt. / merely
came to claim the next dance. Under
the circumstances, of course, waive all
rights"
"Hang the man." burst out Tom, as
soon as DR.. John stepped back into the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04
THE GRIMALDI FAMILY.
One of the Oldest and Richest of Europe's
Princely Houses.


Tho Grimaldi family, from which tho
rulers over Monaco have sprung, is an
cient and distinguished. Several foolish
statements are current about the origin
of the Grimaldis The authority for these
fables is Charles de Venasque, secretary
to Honore H., the first ruler who as
sumcd the title of Prince of Monaco
after 1T had been ascribed to him, proba-
bly, through error, in the official report
of the French General who, in 1916, re-
captured the Lerins Islands. Charles
de Vcnasque drew up pedigree of the
family to which his master belonged,
and he may have thought that Honore
III. would be gratified by being assured
that he had a distinguished ancestor liv-
ing in 7l2, and another who was Lord of
Monaco in the tenth century. These
particulars have been printed, and have
been reproduced as authentic. Indeed,
genealogical fiction has tenacious
life. a long and illustrious pedigree is
possession which once acquired is not
easily renounced, every member of the
family to which it relates having a per-
sonal interest and natural pride in cher
vier-who was tutor, we believe. to tho
late Prince of Monaco-wrote the largo
and able work on Monaco and it's
Princess" which appeared in 1865, he in
corporated into it the family fables
which Charles do Venasque fabricated
or copied in 1647. The facts relating to
the origin of the Grimaldis and to their
careers IS sovereign Princes of Monaco
do not require any coloring or varnish
either to attract the student of history
or to fascinate tho reader who likes to
be diverted or thrilled. There is no
lack of amusing particulars IN the his
1t are as tragic as any witt which Shakes
pearo has dealt.-Quarterly Review.
Others Got the Diamonds.
1t is not always, perhaps not often,
that an important discovery particularly
benefits the discoverer. The opening of
the diamond fields of South Africa from
which thousand million dollars worth
of diamonds have been taken, was due
to the pertinacity of man named
O'Reilly, who was trader among the
natives and first conceived the idea that
the country was rich in diamonds and
gold. OReilly himself did not go to the
diggings and did not profit by them. On
the contrary, the rush to the diamond
fields ruined his trade with the natives
and South African correspondent says
that he Is now working for his living
There is probably moral in this story,
II we could only get at it.'-Philadelphia
Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-01-04

Very many people do not keep the
skin active and healthy as they ought;
the fear of catching cold leads them to
neglect to maintain perfect cleanliness
of the body, and. as the functions of the
skin are impaired, the work of throwing
out waste material, which rightfully be.
longs to it, falls upon the internal or.
gans, which will bear the imposition for
time, and will labor to do tho work
forced upon them, but will sooner or
later become weakened by the strain.
Then the waste OF the system accumu-
lates within the body and assists in do.
pressing the vital forces. Thus by neg
lect to keep the skin in healthy state
many a person becomes dull and slug
gish and disinclined to mental or bodily
effort; all the organs concerned in life
share in the disturbance, and become
indolent and torpid. The need to main
tain perfect cleanliness OF the body is,
if possible, greater in winter than in
summer--a fact which but few appreci-
ate; and to the neglect OF this essential
may be attributed much OF the sickness
prevailing in cold weather, which really
ought to be the healthiest portion of tho
year.-N. Y. Ledger.
1t is declared by those who ought to
know that well-built wooden houses arc
healthier, warmer and loss damp than
those OF brick or stone.
An exchange chronicles the fact
that Mrs. Sophia bennington, OF Xcnia,
Ohio, aged forty, has givcn birth to her
twenty-ffth child.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-26
Proposals for Bids.

dds will be received by the Board OF
ID Commissioners of Marion county up
to O'Clock p. M, April IL 1890, for the re-
building Of the bridge across the Villa
mette river, at Salem, Oregon, on its orig
inal site The original maps OF survey. in
cluding profile of river at site of bridge,
soundings and current courses, will be
found at the office of the county judge at
boar of commissioners to reject any and
all bids. Bids will be received:
First-For the rebuilding of the bridge
as 1t was before it was carried away, in
Guiding the west approach, with the addl-
ton OF crib protection in accordance with
plans and specifications on file at the
comfy court.
Second-FoI the rebuilding of the bridge
ing west approach, with the addition OF
SUFFICIENT pier protection in accordance
with plans and soecifications to be fur
nished by the bidder.
Bids will also be received for the con-
struction of combination truss bridge
complete, In accordance with plans and
specifications to be furnished by the bid
der.
Also for the con structiolI of an iron or
steel truss bridge in accordance with plans
and specifications to be furnished by the
bidder. All the material of the old bridge
included in sub-structure, superstructure
and approach to become the property of
the contractor, but no material shall be
used except such as is soued, perfectly
good and fit for the purpose for which II
is used. All questions which may arise In
regard to the quality of the material or Ia
Dor 10 be decided by the superintendent'
cision OF the board of commissioners OF
Marion county to DC final.
A deposit is required from each bidder
of 5per cent. of the amount OF his bid.
County Judge of Marion county.
Salem, Oregon, March IA, 1890.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-26
pesoent Into tho Grand Canyon,

al went 10 the bottom of the Grand
Canyon OF the Colorado last winter" said
W. T. Hart TO IT. Louis Globe Democrat
reporter, "and am one Of the few men who
ever attempted the descent. / went there
TO examine mine said 10 exist in the bot
tom Of the canyon. have been all through
the Rockies, from Montana 10 Central
America, and know what chasm Is, but
the sight Of that abyss took my breath
away. From tho top 10 the bottom II Is
fully six thousand feet. Over mile below
you can see the river tearing through the
gorge, but not a sound can be heard, it is so
far away. From one bank 10 the other 1t Is,
apparently, not over quarter OF a mile,
but, as a matter Of fact, II is fully nineteen
miles. My guide told mel would never be
able 70 reach the bottom, but 1 was deter
mined 10 go, and went. IL was a terrible
climb, and II took US eight hours TO reach
the bottom. 1t is cert inly the most desc
late place In the world. There 10 not Q
living thing down there-no insects, rep
tiles or animals Of any kind. Every thing
is absolutely dead. The mining prospect
was worthless Before the sun was up the
next morning we were on our way out, and
il took Us until ten O'Clock that night 70
climb the wall OF the canyon"
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-26
THE
RUNS

Fast trains with Pullman Vestibule
Drawing room sleepers, dining ears and
coaches of latest design, between Chicago
and Milwaukee and St. Paul and Mime
apOlis.
Fast Trains with Pullman vestibuled
drawing room sleepers, dining cars and
coaches of latest design, between Chicago
and Milwaukee and Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman vestibule drawing
room and colonist sleepers via the North
ern Pacific railroad between Chicago and
Portland, Or. .s...
Convenient trains TO and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and central Wiscon-
sin points, affording unequaled service to
and from Waukesha Fond du Lac, Osh-
kosh, Neenab. Menesha, Chippewa Falls,
Eau Claire, Hurley, Wis, and Ironwood
and Bessemer, Mich.
For tickets. sleeping car reservations,
time tables and other Information, apply
to agents anywhere in the United States
or Canada. II. C. BARLOW,
Genl Traffic Mgr.
\. X. AlNSLIE. Gen1. Mgr.
Louis ECKSTEIN.
Asst Genl Pass'r and Tkt Agt., Milwau-
kee. Wis.