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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
FINE DIAMOND CUTTING.
Interesting Process 1t Undergoes Before
the Gem Shines,

the Gem Shines.
The finest diamond cutting in the
whole civilized world is done in Bos-
ton. Amsterdam has been for centuries
the great diamond center, and nearly
all diamonds famous in history have
been cut there, but to-day stones cut in
Amsterdam are sent to Boston to be re-
cut.
Originally diamonds were cut by
hand. The Pitt diamond was cut that
way. 1t took nearly two years, and a
tedious job it must have been. 1t was
Boston man who invented the dia-
mond cutting machine and the gauge to
determine the angles giving the great
est refractive power 1t is the use of
this gauge that brings about the vast
superiority of the American-cut dia-
mond.
You may not think it, but for CEN
turies these Amsterdam Dutchmen have
done all their work entirely by their
eye-dependent entirely upon their
judgment of the size and angle of every
facet. A diamond in the rough looks
like any little pebble, but Il diamond
cut, however poorly, will sparkle OF
course; but to cut diamond so that it
will sparkle for all that it is worth re-
quires not only the finest of mechanical
work, but thorough knowledge of the
laws of light and accurate measure
ments of the facets.
For the sparkle of diamond is moth
ing but the light reflected from the
facets. In a perfectly cut brilliant
there are fifty-eight distinct facets, euch
with different grain, and a facet can
be polished only with the grain. But
the diamond is a useful stone as we'll as
ornamental, and is used in GLACIERS
tools and other such things. Most of
the stones used for these purposes are
of the grade known as bortz.
They are brown, rusty little stones
and are actually harder than the white
diamond. For use in stone-cutters'
saws they are set in the saw-teeth, one
at the point of each tooth, and they will
cut the hardest granite. Rock-drills are
pointed in the same way with three or
four stones.
Some people might think it extrava-
CANT to use diamonds in a granite-saw
or roclt-drill, but they should realize it
is another sort of diamonds from that
which sparkles in beauty's ear. Most
of the diamond-cutters of Boston are
comparatively young men, and the oc-
cupation is fascinating one.
You see the ullpebbly looking stone
gradually become glittering gem, and
feel that over your work time has no
power-that the jewel will be as bril-
liant thousand years hence as when it
first leaves your hands. Times tooth
touches everyone's work but the dia-
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12

CYRUS W. FIELD. the next morning
the family discovered that she had dis
appeared. 1t was five days before she
was found, several hundred miles from
New York. She had taken a train to
Buffalo and from there had gone to
Niagara Falls She had engaged rooms
at one of the hotels near the falls and
was living quietly enough when discov-
cred.
''She told her friends when they came
to see her that she could not sleep un-
less she was within hearing distance of
the roar of the falls" said gentleman
Thursday who is familiar with Alice
Fields case. "She insisted upon re-
maining at Niagara and her wishes
were gratifed. But when she began to
talk about throwing herself over the
falls and about people disappearing
forever in the whirlpool the family
thought it about time to confine her in
an asylum. The legal steps were
taken, and without the knowledge of
the public Alice Field diappeared and is
still an inmate of a madhouse. Her ,ase
is probably a hopeless one.
''The other unfortunate member of
the Field family who also at one time
was declared insane is cousin OF Ed.
ward Field. do not wish to give his
name or his exact family connections,
because he has been pronounced cured
and is not confined in any institution at
the present time
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Needless nianmteS.

1t makes a good deal of difference
from which direction we view any OBJ
ject or subject. Many needless dis
pute arises because the disputants i'm
agine that they see all round their sub
ject, while they are only looking at it
endwise or sidewise. A man who goes
to his home every day, out of town,
thinks of his train by it's starting time;
and the family at home, who look for
his coming, think of the same train by it's
arriving time. Did you come up on the
five-thirty?" says wife to her husban
NO" is the reply; II came up on the
four-forty" After considerable discus
sion, they find that they are talking
about the same train. And that is the
way that good many persons disagree.
They do not realize that their subject
has two ends to it, and that neither
party to the discussion stands at both
ends at once. S. s. Times
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
The Tunnel Caves In.

ENGLISH, Ind, Dec. 7.-The Patton
tunnel caved in as result of the fire.
The workmen were driven from the
tunnel Thursday night by the accum-
ulation of gas and smoke, seven Of
them having been overcome. There
were more than 400 cords of TIM ber in
the walls of the tunnel During tho
fire trains were run reclklessly through,
at the risk of human life. Two hours
before the cave-in two passenger trains
and heavily-laden freight train passed
through. Direct connection is neces-
Sarily broken indefinitely, but the Same
will be made by transfer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
THE AVERAGE TYPEWRITER
Not Up to the Requirements for Literary
Work.

Work.
One of the brightest literary women
in Chicago, and a writer of wide repu-
tation, said the other day: There is
an impression that the field of type
writers, particularly women, is over
run. ! admit that this is true, but when
you come to qualify typewriters it is
different, have great deal of dicta-
ting to do, and as my work is for the
press and magazines | am very careful.
/ have found as Il rule that it takes
nearly as much time for me to correct
the typescript as it would take to write
the article at the start. For ordinary
commercial work the average type
writer is good enough, but ninety per
cent of them become hopelessly in
volved when they come in contact with
literary work. The trouble with them
is that they work mechanically, or they
are not educated so as to be of any
service for the work done by literary
people. There is field for educated
typewriters. Inasmuch as u great deal
of this work is done from dictation, it
has become almost essential for COM
petent typewriter to be stenographer.
Now and then you will find type
writer who can print from dictation,
but they are few. My best work
prefer to have taken in shorthand and
then printed from the notes. There is
something about the operation of a
type-machine which confuses me, and
have heard the same complaint made
by others who are in the same line as
that in which am engaged"
''Do you operate the machine?"
''Yes; but the work which do iu that
way is never so satisfactory as that
which dictate to my stenographer. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
ISnl1lness,

1t has been frequently asserted that
n prolific cause of badness among men
is their habit of wearing hats in their
offices and other places of business.
Lately some one has added to this in
dictment their other habit of constant
and close cutting of the hair. 1t is with
the first of these charged evils that wo-
men have to do Hairdressers are be-
ginning to attribute the thinness and
falling out of women's hair, which is,
according to them (the hairdressers), on
the increase, to the fashion of continu-
GUS hat wearing Many women, club
women, fashionable women, charitable
women, wear their bonnets hours at a
time, and for days together, Shopping
women are bonneted often from to s;
indeed, in these days of ineNorable dis
tances there is hardly any class of the
sisterhood which does not pass much
time with co cred heads. n. Y, Times
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12

The first telephone was for short dis
tances After Reise, who is really the
father of the telephone, and Bell dem
strated the possibility of the electrical
transmission 'of speech, long distance
telephoning became the dream of sci
entsts and inventors. When the tele-
phone left the hands of Bell it's voice
was weak. The microphone transmit
ter had to be invented and the induc-
tion coil and other important accessory
devices had to be brought into requisi-
ton. 1t was only after the telephone
had attained it's natural growth by as
similating these necessary elements
that the higher development began
Earliest in the field of long distance
telephoning was Mr., Gillett, of Michi-
gan. Then followed Hunning, of En-
gland, and after him, Adar, of France.
Gillett produced the only practical long
distance transmitter, Hunnings requir-
ing shaking down" at short intervals
and Adars being very lond but indis-
tinct Chicago Graphic
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12

Hostetter McGinnis was engaged to
be married to an Austin belle, Miss
Esmeralda Longcot1in, and for while
they used to be very affectionate. OF
late he has neglected her. His father
asked him why he had given her the
cold shake.
because l found out she has only
half as much property as thought she
had" was the reply.
We'll, Hostetter," said the old man,
"she is entitled to fifty per cent of
your devotion, anyhow. You should re-
member that when you go courting
some other girl. Texas Siftings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Scientific Fallaolea.

Old Lady-These ere scientific notes
in tn papers nowadays just make me
tired Never heard such nonsense in
my born days,
Nephew-What have you struck now,
aunty?
Old Lady-This paper says Jupiter Is
in opposition to the sun. The ideal
Ole Jupiter can't hold candle TO him
IN. Y. Weekly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
TREATIES SIGNED.
America VIII, 1t Is Said, Derive the Great
est Advantage From Them.

America VIII, lt lis said, Derive the Great
est Advantage From Them.
BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE German Aus
trian commercial treaty has been sign
ed in Vienna. The remaining treaties
will be signed during the coming week.
They were discussed by the bundesrath,
Minister Won Boetticher presiding.
There is no doubt that the reichstag
will ratify the treaties. America will
derive the greatest advantage from
them. The Boersen Courier says
that the duties on corn will be re-
duced from fifty to thirty-f five shillings
per ton. Americas favored-nation posi-.
tion depends upon theClay treaty of 1929.
Russia, excluded by the favored-nation
clause, will be adversely affected by
the new treaties, and will be virtually
compelled to make overtures to Ger.
many to prevent the total exclusion of
Russian grain from the German market.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Relter Die Yonnr.

A swindling firm once advertised that
1t would send, for the small sum of
three dollars recipe, which, if fol-
lowed to the letter. would keep folks
from growing old. Some credulous per-
sons answered the advertisement, re-
mitting the required fee, and received
the following reply.
"We would advise all such fools as
you to commit suicide at about the age
Of twowtY- five. Pharmaceutical Era
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Judge Langston's slayer Acquitted.

MT. STERLING, KY, Dec 5.-Sam
Everett, who killed Judge Langston in
this city November 49, 1880, was aequit-
ted of the charge Friday afternoon, and
walked forth free man. He was ably
represented by prominent attorneys,
and the verdict excited no surprise
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Early Morning murder.

LocKLocK, o., Dec. 7.-Early Satur.
day morning Jim Armstrong, colored,
shot Gus Gray, well-known colored
tough of this place 1t is claimed that
Gray made dive at Armstrong with a
huge knife wounding him slightly A
woman is at the bottom of the tragedy.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Italy.a Reply to Francs.

PARIS, Dec 5.-The Italian govern
ment in reply to Frances note propos-
ing combined action on the part of the
European powers against China, says
that she is not directly interested in the
matter, and will wait until the other
powers decide upon the course they
will pursue before she decides
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Charged with patriotda.

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec 7.-The sheriff
OF Barren county, Wis, arrived here
Sunday night with Gustave Erickson,
whom he arrested at Sidney, this state,
on warrant charging him with mur-
dering his father, at Chelsea, Wis, a
year ago
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
WIN TAFT for a Iudraahin.

WASHINGTON, Dec, president Har-
rison has decided to appoint viii X.
Taft, of Cincinnati, to one of the judge
ships authorized under an act of the
last congress. 1t had been his intention
all along to give one of the places to
Ohio
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12

declared in s a n e.
Four years ago Ed
ward Fields sister,
Alice, a C t G d so
strangely that an
experienced attend
ant was engaged to
see that she did not
harm herself. She
succeeded, however,
in getting away
from the attendant
late one night and
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
INSANITY IN THE FAMILY.

Three of the Field Kin Have Lost Their
Minds.
New YORK, Dec 5.-Cyrus w. Field
AS slowly recovering, and if no relapse
occurs will soon be able to be around
again.
The confinement of his son, Edward
M. Field, in an asylum, makes three
anemb mbers of the family who have heen
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
Miaa pandlaton rnarriad

WASHINGTON, Dec 5,-The marriage
of Miss Jane Frances Pendleton, daugh-
ter of the late Geo. II. Pendleton, to
VIM Arthur Brice, a banker of this
city, was celebrated in St Johns
Church
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
ThIrty-one Killed

ST.. PETERSBURG, Dec. 5.-rhe num-
Der of persons killed in the accident
which occurred November 23 on the Kos
loft Rostoff orel and Griasi railway is
now known to be thirty-one.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
The parnelIs Sail

New YORK, Dec. Z-Mrs, Della
Stewart Parnell, mother of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell, sailed for
England Saturday on the Cunard
steamer Aurania, She is accompanied
by her son, John Parnell.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-12
The Odd Fashioned Kind.

HoRNERsvILLA Mo, Dec. 5,-By q
boiler explosion at Pope & Pulley's
mili, near this place, three men were
Instantly killed and the building demol
dshed. Cause not known.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-04-29
A Queer Paris "CeIebrity."

Some strange Industries flourish in Euro
pean countries--that Is, they seem strange
viewed from an American standpoint. One
of these is the profession of funeral
mute" which thrives at Paris. Age has
lust removed from the scene of his lugu-
brious labors the venerable Louis Dubuis-
son, the senior member of the mournfuE
corporation He was 81 years old, and had
been married so often that he did not know
the exact number of his progeny. His
eldest son, who is also in the employ of the
Pompes Funebres, is robust man of 6l
Of late years Dubuisson has received, as
the reward of his long services to the
Funeral company, the post of caretaker OF
the general depot of collins. 1t Is related
that he frequently slept in one of the dis
NAL articles intrusted to his charge, in
order to save himself the trouble of climb
ing up to his room. Dubuisson's lengev-
ity and his length of service in an employ
ment which was both unhealthy and de-
pressing cause him to take rank among
the human curiosities of Paris,
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The Lad the Nickle and the Slot.

The nickle with string to it is not a
swindlng device, at least according to the
opinion of an Iowa judge, who had before
him recently an ingenious youth charged
with feloniously working machine
which dispensed cigar each time five
cent piece was dropped in the slot The
lad had thread tied to his nickle, and
kept dropping it in and pulling it out till
he got all the cigars. The judge held that
the accused had committed neither burg
larry, larceny, nor robbery, nor even OBJ
tanned property under false pretenses. He
had merely done what the inscription on
the machine told him to do-dropped q
nickle in the slot-and had kept on doing
it. Nothing was said about leaving the
coin where it was dropped.
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THE AsroR HOUSE SUICIDE.


At dusk the girl notified the office, and a
man was sent to force an entrance. The
stalwart patron of the night before lay on
the carpet in pool of blood, CHASTITY, cold
and dead. He had cut his throat with Il
razor, presumably just after securing pos
session of the apartment. But before tax
ing his life he had destroyed every means
of establishing his identity Even the
makers names had been cut from the hat,
suit and underclothes. The body was sent
to an undertaker's, and thereafter the mys'
terry deepencd.
A Mr. Powell, of Brooklyn, said the
suicide was a much wanted party named
George II. Edgar, and arranged to pay for
decent funeral. Next, two persons visit
ed the Astor House, and on comparing the
autograph written in the register with
some letters declared that Evans was
Evans and that he lived In San Francisco.
This seemed to settle it until telegram
came saying that the California Evans
was at home.
Under close scrutiny the Edgar identlilca
ton failed, but it brought trouble for Mr.
Powell and his friend Mr.. Sumner The lat
ter has of late made public series OF re
markable statements about his connection
with an English family of Edgars, one Of
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copyright by American

rected of late toward tragedy which oc-
Cured in the Aston House, in New YORK
city.
The other night well attired young
man walked to the desk of the hotel and
registered as "Fr d Evans, England " lie
rendered 81 bill for his lodging and re-
ceived fifty cents in change. The bell boy
who showed him to a room fingered about
for some moments arranging the furniture
of the apnrtn Mt and doing various little
things, in return for which he hoped to get
that piece of silver Although Evans was
bent on a desperate deed and had no fur
Their use for the coin he sent the attendant
away without tip. Next day the cham
bermaid on the fourth floor knocked many
times at the door of No. 357, but got no re-
Spouse. Evidently the stranger from Lon
don was a heavy sleeper.
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A VEIL On BLOOD.
Behind the Screen of Red Lurk
Many Mysteries.
SUICIDE AT THE AsTOR HOUSE.
A Body Twice Identified, but Both Times
wrongly--The Tragedy of Alcatraz-An
InvaIid's Desperate Attempt-The De-
spair of a Convicted Murderer.

fTpSS hbSOClttlOu'l
M Y S 7 + r Y al
ways possesses fas-
cination for the
human mind, even
if shrouded in a
cloak of gloom at
once grotesquely
terrible and hide
ously shocking. 1t
is for this reason
that a large share
4 of public atten-
y A., hoe baap Ii-
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"Facial perception" is the name given to
the uncassified sense of the blind man,
who by some singular instinct can tell
when he is opposite an object, and whether
it is tall or short, slender or bulky. re
cent writer on the subject makes the start
ling declaration that the sightless man can
also determine whether the object is soil
tary or continuous, whether, for example
it is close fence or an open one, and some
times whether a wooden fence, stone wall
or hedge. None of the five senses has
anything to do with this perceptiye power,
but the impressions are made on the skin
of the face, and by it transmitted to the
brain. The presence of fog interferes with
facial perception and makes the impress
sions faint and untrustworthy, but dark
ness is no impeachment. A noise which de-
tracts the attention interferes with the
impressions. In passing along the street
he can distinguish shops from private
houses, doors from windows, and whether
the windows consist of a number of panes
or a single sheet of glass.
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kind to Wallace Due me pay from gov
eminent from Jan. l to date" A formal
verdict of murder and suicide was all that
the coroner's jury could return, They as
certaincd no cause for the awful deed, and
probably solution of the mystery will
never be obtained
Rendered desperate by incurable disease,
George Harris, of Newbern, Ills, went
down into the valley, faced death, and then
concluded to4ive. An hereditary ailment
reuders useless his lower limbs. For forty
wears he has been hopeless invalid, and
although tenderly cared for by sister he
finally wearied of life. So he opened a
vein in his left arm and watched the
blood flow until he swooned from exhaus-
ton For a fortnight he lay apparently
diving. Then he revived sufficiently to in
form his relatives that he was bent on end
ing an unhappy existence, and that he
would eat no more food.
"Poison," he said, II will take at any
time, but not one morsel of nourishment. !"
During the next thirty days nothing but an
occasional sip of water passed the mans lips
On the thrty-first he demanded hearty
meal Evidently he had wearied of star
vation's slow course, and desired to end his
lingering agony ny oNefedtiiS' his oiooo'
gave him a little milk, and after some per-
suasion induced him to abandon his grim
resolve. Harris portrait, printed here
with, shows him as he looked when 30
years of age.
David p. Davis is another man who de-
sires TO die. He is in prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan, and has been convicted on
circumstantial evidence of killing his
wife, who was found smothered to death in
bed Mrs. Heath was an elderly widow
of means when she took Davis for hus-
band. The latter wished to control her
property. A quarrel ensued. The murder
followed, then the arrest, trial and verdict
of guilty. Only constant vigilance on the
part of the prison officials keeps the con
demned man, who constantly asserts his
innocence, from committing suicide.
1t is hardly probable that the veil OF
mystery will ever be raised from any of the
tragedies here set down. The identity OF
the Aston House guest, the reason for the
Dietz horror, the cause of Harris strange
illness, the responsibility for Mrs. Davis
assassination--all these are strange ques
tions involving life and death. but tt
which there are no answers.
GEORGE BAvARD
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lH Orders promptly attended to and
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Wallace Diets, peacefully slumbering IN
his cot.
Some incohcrent memoranda left by the
dead man seemed to show that he was in
sane during his last hours. The only in
tellgibe sentences he had jotted down
were these: ELLA is one of the best little
women God ever permitted to live. Be