davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1893-05-24
un9Ioubltde 6eididten aus Sem
Armenbauie gu Ounnin9.
mas 5wei franfe Srauen uno Elm f~erbenoer
ulann er3dhlten.

Sn Bet Srauenz Q(btbeilun9 Ser 6arriionz
ltraBen5B oli3eiitation ~beftnben itb unter
Nlroeren 3tpet ungliidlicbe 6rauen, beren
etn5tges yGerbrecben" tbre Nrmutb 1T, un6
Die bort QufnaDme iubte11, neil ite Die 8ez
banol1ng, pelcbe tbnen in oem Nrlnenbau1e
81 Cunning 81 She'll purbe, tpte tie an
9ebe1, MIGHT ldnger 81 ertragen permo6ten.
Die betcen llnglildltden itnb 9iute Sones
nnb SlOrence 6rnte. 9as, mas lte mtt>
tbetlten, macbte 0urcbaus ben @inbrud Ser
WabrDett unD lGBt bic 8ermaltun9 Ser Qlrz
menanitalt 81 Cunning, iiber tpelcbe icbon
tpteberbolt aQcrIet ~ifan6alOie @ei6icbten
rucbbar getporDen, in iebr un9unittgem
Stcbte erlbet1en.
&tute SoneS sraG6lte, tie babe itcb bor
lteben WtOnaten BEN &nDcbel perrenft, uno
5tpar in elmer ioIcben Metie, baB 1ie ar
~bettsuntGbtg gepor0en fet. 9a tie mittel>
los getpelen, babe iie iicb genOtbt9t 9eieben,
in Der 2lrmenanftalt gu Cunning Inter
tunft 5u iucbelt, uno bort let 1ie bis Dor
etnigen Sa9en geblteben.
9facb tbrer Nufnabme in Sic NnItalt, babe
Or. 9oo9e, Der Sberarst 6a1elbit, cine
Operation IN tbrem &n0dbel porgenommen
uno etnen She'll bes &nobens entfernt. @r
babe ite oann nOb tpieoerbolt beiucbt, Dann
aber feline 8eiucbe gang pl0b[t9 etngefteQt,
10 baB ite itb genOtbi9t 9eieben babe, 10 gu
ia9en, t3re. et9ene Qler3ttn gu letn.
@orgeitern babe Or. 0o69e i6r faaen
laiien, er piini3e ie in ieinem Bureau su
ieben, unb tie babe, obglet6 ite faltm babe
geben %fOnnen, Der 9tufforoerrung Solge gez
%letitet, v9tun, pte itebtS nit Sbnen?"
babe Der Ir5t tie ange6erri6t, morauf ie
tbm geanttportet, ooB tbr 3uitanb no3 iebr
ptel gu witui6en itbrig lalie.
Ser SberarSt babe oatn ge1ogt, Ite mii1e
ii3 entlpcber in benz NGb5immer our Dir
belt melOet, ooer 6te QlnItaLt DerLaiien.
9a ie beretts frliber periucbt babe, ii6 in
benz gtGb5tmmer SIT beicbdfttgen, tpobei
aber IN 6olge 0es StiuiiBens tbr &n0dbel
fi6 bebeuten6 DericbLimmert, babe tie Sic
Qtnitalt Derlaiien un0 licb gu benz County
Ngenten, gtr. 128 Clinton StraBe begeben.
0teier babe tie nnteriucbt unD tbr geratben
na3 Cunning 5~uriid3utebren, ba ibr GU
tbr 0as 9lrbetten nocb nidbt erlaube.
v@e6nllbe Sale pie Set metntge," la9te
Qtute Sones, vfommen in Cunning iebr
bGnftg Dor 6ter lit gum 8et1piel metne
Sreunotn Slorence Sumter, tpelcbe Die leBten
iecbS @o6en in Der @rmenzQInital augez
bracbt bat.
l1nb Slorence Sumter er3Gblte nun ibre
@ei9t9te. 9arnacb nurbe ite BON Or.
Dodge auf9efOrbert, entpe6er 3u arbeiten,
ober Die Qlnitalt gu berlaiien, unb ba tbr
@eiunDbettS5uftanb, mic tie iagte,L tbr oas
Nrbetten ntbt geltattet, 10 i3teo lie aus Der
, 1893-05-24
3wet Gbefhetoun9en gu 1einem
6Iiid notbio.

Srant SO, Mtonre bon Chicago 2apn
ianbte beute einen 8rtef an BEN Glerf oes
&reiSgertcbts, pel9er vttef bliden" lGBt,
6err MpOre wiu ndmlib %tptiien, Oh ieine
Srau Sannte betreffs ibrer S6eibungsz
tlage ge9en i'm erfoIgreib tpar unb erbtttet
iib 5u8let6 9lustunft bariiber, ob @etta s.
Sane cine S3eibung bon George 90. Sane
%erIangte. ST lit gerne berett fir cine Gopte
Oer betr. ri3terli3en @nti3eiOung gu be-
3ablen.
, 1893-05-24

@bonntrt auf 6aS Nben6blatt Ser Suinots
Staats@ 3eitung. Prets l Gent per Oeummer,
6 Gents per 8o9e.
, 1893-05-24
Die
WeH> A9uafeun1te
CHICAGO

perfprtdt nt6t mr. oas er06te frieoli6e
amerifaniide, fonoern oas ero6te frieo=
ltde Grei9nt6 Ger melt por Sblu6 oieies
Oahrhnnoerts 3u meroen. Das fihner, Dor
Qt9ts 3uriid ibrefenoer unternehmunes=
9eiit, uebune i'm planen uno 2Iusfihren
GROCER Oinee uno 6elo thur fo1nert, nm ole
0Rtca9oer MISUNDERSTANDING 3u Ger oro6=
arti9iten uro eI~6n3enoften pom alien bis
BERGEN DeItaus telluneen gu ma6er1 uno
DEN D0lfern Ger Groe etnen Seorif pom ser
PoRe DER tebniiben &eiitunesf6hiofeit nno
HUNT 5u 9eben, IN pelber Qmerifa oeoiehem
tit, miro 9efbeben. /
fir Ole reee Gbeilnabme, tpeI9e man biers
5ulanoe Der ID DEMONSTRATING entee9enbrinet,
1T ole Sereitnilliofeit, nit melber ole 6eiebs
9ebnf19er fat aller Staaten beoeutenoe Sums
men 3u Dem 9ro6en 5wed bepiaiet haben,
Elm ~hinreidenoer Sepeis. Hit ftetie wa6.
ienoem 5nterefe perfol9t ole ean3e ciptliirte
Welt Ole etn3elnen fortihritte in Ger Grtt.
Dtdelung. ollie nit Ger DEMONSTRATING in
Derbinoune ftebenoen Greigniie wnroen Don
Qnbe9tnn in DER u9atnois Staats5eitune"
nit DER 9ebuhrenoen Sor9falt behanoelt. Die
Do9enaus9abe enth6It fortlaufen0 in iiber<
t4tli4er 6orm cine flare Oarife1une aler
bea9tenswerthen Dore6uee, welbe fi9 bis
gum S9Iu6 Der 2usiteluug mo barber
Rinaus 5u einem eri60pfenoen 6efammtbiIo
e~eitolten weroen. Cine %fnnoiee, fadgemGSe
S6tloerun9 Ger DEMONSTRATING in ibrem
Gntitehen, wie in iPrer Dolenoune miro fir
piele Gouienoe bier uno i'm alien D~aterlanoe
Don hohem mertbe fem. man Fam oesz
holb iider fem, oab man D~erpanoten mo
5reunoen fein erpiinidteres 6elbenf DGbs
reno oteier 6eit ienoen fam, ais, in0em man
elm announcement auf oas Wobenblatt Ger
nJatnois Staots3eitun9" fir ie betelt.
6eraoe otefe 2Ius9abe eienet fi9 wegen
ibrer um~fafenoen Seri9te pornebmli6 sum
Derianot nab Oeuti6lano.
Oas 0aRresabonnement anf Gas Wo6ens
blatt Ger uJainOis Staats5eifun9" beir6et
fir oas
, 1893-05-24
6dtte 16Iimm peroen fonnen.

9ur3 8erieben zines Gelegrap6enbeame
ten pdre berte Worgen @paniton bctnabe
BON etnem oerOerbli9en 6euer beimgeIltbt
iporDet. lln8efGbr Inn 6 lt6r tuuroe in
Dem Observation-Disclosures bon Morle &
Wtorle i'm &eofteI6>8lod an Der @panIton
unO Sherman Qtpenue 6euer entbedt. Die
Selerltatton nurbe per Selepbon benQchz
rtcb1igt unO DaS 0epartement macbte 1th
I'M @alopp IN Der fali6en &i6tung ouf Ben
SSs8. Nls Die SprtBen enblib unoerricbz
dcter Sacbe 51rltdfebrten, fam abermals Elm
Nlarn1, Der tpteoer falib oeritanben &purbe.
90 ner9ln9 cine polle babe Stunoe, ebe bos
9epartcment Dor Dem brennenoen 6auIe
a%nlan9te. 9ter itano berettS bas 0anae
Eager IN 6lammen un6 ebe es gelang, ben
graro au loi6en, mar Elm Scbaoen BON
nber $1,000 angericbtet porben.
, 1893-05-24
Stdott1bes.
2ln unfere Sefer

@Ge 6ieientsen 9tbonnenten, peI6e
ni6t r~e9eImGBt9 nit benz 9t6enbbLatt
Der Suinpis Staats5ettun9 beOieut perz
BEN, irnO bOfli3it erlu9t, uns nobmaLs
ibre genaue Qlbreiie per BOitfarte mit3u7
tbetlcn, ebenio bteienigen 8erionen, tpcl3e
auf bic 3ettung gu abonntren b~eabftdtigen.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
Origin of "Getting the Mitten."

"An old-time New England express
sion, getting the mitten,' meaning
getting your offer of marriage rejected
by your best GIRL has an origin in the
customs of the earlier days. One hum
dred years ago gloves were unknown
in the country towns. Mittens were
knitted and worn in all families. If a
young man, going home from singing
school with the girl of his choice, was
holding her mittened hand to keep it
from getting cold, and took that op-
portunity to urge his suit, if the offer
proved acceptable the hand would re-
main If taken by surprise, an effort
to withdraw the hand would leave
the mitten. So the suitor would get
the mitten' but would not get the
hand"
The use of the word "muff," mean
ing foolish, blundering person, also
has an easy explanation; a stupid youth
was said to be "muff" because, like
the article of feminine wear called by
that name, he held woman's hand
without squeezing it! The sedate old
times were not without their gallan-
tries.-BoSto7a Transcript
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
A New Pastime for Ladies.

"You don't mean to say" exclaimed
a Young lady the other day, @that the
pretty hanging lamps in flower pots
that | bought in Venice last fall, and
which I wrapped up in blankets and
packed with such care to bring home,
can be made in this countryP"
Indeed yes! And you can make
them yourself A package of pliable
iron strip, few tools and little in
genuity are all that is required. The
iron ribbons" are bent or twisted ac-
cording to some design, and the result
is an article of decoration, at once
graceful and of antique appearance.
Lanterns, grills, lamp shades, five
o'clock tea stands, flower bowls, sus-
pended from brackets or mounted on
frames, are a, few of the numerous
things that can be made.
There is growing taste for wrought
iron work in this country, and "bent
iron," which is the outgrowth oi
wrought iron, is within the reach OF
amateurs. We want to give word
of warning to the uninitiated-ther
is fascination about the work. when
the rudiments are once learned, that
does not allow the worker to be happy
away from the work table.-M 7
Herald.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
No Water in Daniel Webster's.

DR.. Ellis, when young man, was
commissioned to escort Mr.. Webster
to Charlestown, where the orator was
to deliver his famous address on the
dedication of the Bunker Hill monu-
ment. On the way over Mr.. Webster
inquired, as they neared the end of
the bridge, whether it was possible to
secure little brandy that the senator
might have before making his great
effort. The young clergyman to whom
this inquiry was addressed in conf
Dental tone piloted Mr.. Webster to
the house of Boston merchant who
lived in Charlestown. This merchant
was so embarrassed by the honor of
the great statesman's presence that he
brought out not one but several de-
canters of the best liquor he had in the
house. Mr.. Webster carefully searched
out the vessel containing the brandy,
and poured from it drink that today
would be generally termed "a bath, !"
and drank the liquor in few compla-
cent gulps. The anxiously obliging
merchant inquired of Mr.. Webster
whether he would not like a glass Of
water. The senator looked up calmly,
and in his most magnificent tones re-
piled, urbanely: Il thank you, sir,
but am not thirsty i"-Bosto1s Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
"A work Of supererogation.

That was an pit retort given the
other day by the pretty cashier in q
downtown restaurant. A certain man
about town often breakfasted there
and as often chatted with and quizzed
the young lady, sometimes to tire
some extent. Indeed, she mentally
compared him to Tennyson's brook, for
men might come and men might go,
but he went on forever. One morning
he watched waiter mopping before
the door.
"Why do you make such mussp" he
asked.
She explained that it was necessary
to clean often before the door because
of the dust from the street.
"Why don't you put a Windmill be-
fore the door to blow the dust away?"
was his next question.
With demure glance at him from
her innocent blue eyes she replied:
There's one there now WGverEg
MnO0ziue
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
Justice Lamar's Hair.

The late Justice Lamar did not often
boast of his prowess. There is, how
ever, a young lady now prominent in
Washington society to whom as lit
tie girl he revealed one bloodcurdling
"reminiscences. He was accustomed to
visit her fathers house and had often
noticed her gazing curiously at his
hair, which he wore very long and
fiat to the sides of his head. One day
he said to her:
"My dear, you look as if you wanted
to ask me something. What is itP"
"If you please, Mr.. Lamar" she an
swered, "why do you wear your hair
that way at the sides?"
Lamar drew on his most serious ex-
preston, and, in a low, hoarse whis-
per, between his lifted palms, he re-
piled:
Because, my dear, I-once-had
-Gght-with-a- a-man-and-h -he--cut
-off-my-earsi"
For long time afterwards the little
girl was struck with chill of horror
every time she looked at him, until
one day, in the midst of gesture, he
swung his hair back far enough to as
sure her that his head was supplied
with its normal complement of mem
bers. But she never, to the day of his
death, entirely got over the effect
made upon her by the pretended dread
secret.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
Them Flowers.

Take a feller ats sick and laid up on the
shelf,
All shaky, and ga'nted, and pore
Jes all so knocked out he can't handle his
self
With stiff upper lip any more;
Shet him up all alone in the gloom of a room
As dark as the tomb, and as grim,
And then take and send him some roses in
bloom,
And you can have fun out o. himi
You've ketched him fore now-when his liver
was sound
And his appetite notched like saw
A-mockin' you maybe, fer romancin round
With big posy-bunch in yer paw;
But you ketch him say, when his health is
away,
And then you can trot out your little bokay
And not be insulted, guessl
You see, it's like this, what his weakness is
Them flowers make him think of the days
OF his innocent youth, and that mother o. his,
And the roses that she ust to raise;
So here, all alone with the roses you send
Bein' sick and all trimbly and faint
My eyes is y my eyes is-my eyes 1s-old
Is a-leakin'-I'm blamed eff they ain'tI
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
REINDEER IN Alaska.
Attempt to Supply Better Food for the
Natives of That Territory.

The landing from the United States
revenue cutter Bear at Port Clarence,
Alaska, of a herd of 1870 domesticated
reindeer purchased in Siberia, together
with four native Siberian herders,
marks the establishment of the first
herd of the kind on the western con-
tlnent.
This is an event of more than or
binary Importance, says the CGLiTor-
1aiGa. If it is successful it will create
throughout northern and central
Alaska new food supply in place of
the walrus, whale, fish, and furbear-
ing land animals, that are yearly be-
coming scarcer and more difficult to
obtain.
Furnished better and surer food
supply the native Eskimo population.
now decreasing in numbers, may
reasonably be expected to increase,
to herdsmen may be the first upward
step toward their civilization.
With the increase and civilization of
the natives and the general introduc-
ton of the domesticated reindeer herds
throughout Alaska the vast unknown
interior of our northern province can
communication between distant settle
ments can be kept open during the
long winter months, and the frigid,
bleak, and now comparatively useless
plains of that little-known region viii
become source of wealth and pros
perity to the land.
In the arctic and subarctic regions
of Lapland and Siberia the domesticat-
ed reindeer is food, clothing, house
furniture, and transportation to the
people.
It's milk and flesh furnish food, its
., marrow and tongue are considered
choice delicacies, and its blood mixed
with the contents of the stomach is
made into a favorite dish called in
Siberia manyalla-
Its intestines are cleaned, filed with
tallow, and eaten as sausage. Its
skin is made into clothes. bedding. tent
covers, harness, ropes, cords, and fish
lines, and the hard skin of the fore
legs makes an excellent covering for
| snowshoes.
Its sinews are dried and pounded in
to strong and lasting thread. Its bones
are soaked in seal oil and used as fuel
and its horns are made into various
kinds of household implements and
weapons and used in the manufacture
| of sleds.
In central and northern Alaska are
vast rolling plains of moss and grass
covered land that are especially adapt
ed by nature for the grazing of rein
deer, and are practically useless for
any other purpose.
In the corresponding regions of lap
land, Arctic Norway, Sweden, and
Russia are $4,000 people (about the
| same in number as the Alaskan
Eskimo), supporting themselves and
procuring their food and clothing
largely from their 400,O homestead
ed reindeer, besides paying to their re-
spective governments the annual sum
Of $400, 900, or 81 per head, as tax on
| their herds.
Also in the corresponding region of
| Siberia, with similar climate and soil,
and only forty miles distant at the
straits, there are thousands of
Tchukches, Koraks, and other tribes of
deermen fed, and clothed, and housed
by their herds of tens of thousands of
domestieated reindeer.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
An Easy-going Postmaster.

Some years ago the post office at
Gallup, N. M, paid the incumbent
1000 year, "stealings out" The
citizens were chiefly miners and gam
blers. Capt. Swan was a pioneer in
the Territory. He knew every body,
and was recommended by the Cover
nor of the Territory, all of the ex-Gov-
ernors, the railway officials and other
influential men. He had letters from
the martyred President Lincoln, testi-
flying to the writer's friendship and
admiration for Swan. Naturally Swan
was appointed Postmaster. He did
excellently as far as taking in cash for
stamps and money orders went; but
he failed to make reports of the
fiscal operations of his Office. In due
time an inspector was sent to visit
him.
The inspector reached Gallup about
a. m. one raw and rainy morning.
The only visible light came from a
small frame building near the depot,
to which he hastened to get warm. 1t
was the village bar-room. Three men
were snoring on the bar, and there
were several other very groggy Gus
toners playing faro. The most dis
eputable-looking was an old man with
a greasy slouch hat, a blue flannel
shirt, big pistol in his belt, and very
"bad" look. He was gambling stupid
ly and losing fast. This was Capt.
Swan, the Postmaster.
A few hours later the inspector
called at the post Office, which occu-
pied the poorest frame building in
the town. Capt. Swan sat on pack
ing box near the front door looking
out at the beauties of nature, while
clerk was tying up the letters for him.
On hearing his visitors errand the
Postmaster said:
$50 you are post Office inspector.
Well, you'll find there amt nothin'
wrong with this office-not since had
it. Can't say much for it before that"
The inspector limited that his ac-
counts were little overdue, and Swan
replied:
"Yes. that's right. Say, Jimmy,
how about them money order billsP
Been paid YETI"
"Oh, no, captain. said the clerk.
"You remember I've been. trying a
long time to have you fix them up"
"Yes, that's SO, Jimmy" Then turn
ing to the inspector. "You see, Eve
been so busy"
The Postmaster assented to the in
spector's proposition to look over the
books. They amounted to nothing
more than small pass-book, which
contained a few entries of stamps,
whisky accounts, paid and unpaid,
money paid on house that Swan was
building, and various other private
memorandum. It took week to ap-
proximate affairs and to find out that
he owed the Government over $4,000.
A gambler who was on his bond paid
over the full amount on demand, and
the captain got brief term in laii.-
Boston Transcript.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
He Hit q Shell.

While rambling over the battlefield
of Charlottesville fell in with one
armed negro man who was picking up
bullets on field lately narrowed.
After some general conversation
queried:
II suppose you colored people picked
up great deal of stuff here soon after
the battle?"
Heaps an heaps, sab"
"Did you gather up any shellse"
"Did you notice de perspicuous abb
sence of my left arm, sahp"
"Yes, noticed that you had lost it.
How did it happenP"
"By one of dem shells, sab. It was
what dey call discushun she'll"
"You mean percussion"
Reckon dat's it. 1t was shell
frowed by Mars Hooker at Mars Stun
wall Jackson, but it didn't dun bust
when it fell. One day my boy Reuben
he dun found it an brought it up to
nv cabin ober .dar. Says I:
".Boy, what yo' dun got dare
nebber did see no cannon ball like dat
befo'. Wonder what dem Yankees
dun been gittin' up dis timep'
"sFadder,' says Reuben, i reckon
dis yere am just chuck full OBJ powder
fur dat ole gun OBJ yo'rs. Git de ak
an smash him on de pint. Mebbe we
gwine to find some greenbacks inside,
too
@Waal sab, jest walked all around
dat shell an looked at him from ebery
side. Oar wasn't any sign on him OBJ
Look Out Fur de Locomotiver but /
sorter reckoned dar was wickedness
hid away dar somewhar. De ole wo-
man cum out an looked at it, an bime-
by she dun believed wild Reuben dat
dar was Yankee greenbacks bottled up
inside. Seems like looked at dat ole
shell two hours befo' dun tole Reuben
to git de ak. Bout dat time long
cum nigger named Carter, an he
said it was canteen stead OBJ shell,
an dat we'd bust it open to find whis-
ky
aBut didn't you know a canteen from
shellP"
aNo, sab. Niggers didn't dun know
muffin dem days. De ole woman an
Reuben an Carter got clus up an hit
dat discushun eand wild de ak.
"And what happened?"
@She 'sploded. Nobody nebber did
| find single piece OBJ Reuben, an what
Qey lOunQ % CdrGe1 an ue olS woman
wouldn't hev filed dis ole hat. l was
dun blowed mile high, had dat arm
blowed off, an it was moas' var be-
fo' l could walk around a'gin. / han't
as good a man as / was befo' l dun
hauled off an hit dat shell, but Tze
got jest fo'ty times as much sense in
my head Mebbe it was all fur de best.
If things hadn't disrupted as dey did
1 should have probably continered to
be jest common nigger, wild no mo-
perOolashun bout me dan stinguished
mewl. IN Quad.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
She Knew Her Business.

The woman with the solid, master
full tread stepped up to the counter of
the West Fifth street family grocery
and said calmly: Il bought ten pounds
of toilet soap here six months ago."
Eyes, ma'am," said the clerk, rubbing
his hands in imaginary lather; "we
keep the very best" "But this soap
was full of grit" "You must be
mistaken, ma'am-" young man,
/ guess know sand when see it with
my own eyes, and" 81 mean you
must have got the soap at some other
place, ma'am, for we never have kept
any such" young man, l guess
know where buy my own soap, and
=" at is impossible, ma'am. that
you got it here, for" young
man, bought ten pounds of soap here
six months ago; and that soap was so
full of sand and grit that the boarders
didn't use it up till this morning, and
-" very sorry, ma'am, but we
have never" "And I wanted to
get twenty pounds more of the same
Identical kind, to last 'em through the
summer; but, of course, if you han't
got it. I'll have to go some place else
to" But the clerk was around the
counter, had her basket in one hand
and an apologetic wave in the other:
BEG pardon, ma'am = how many
pounds did you say you wanted"-
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
New Method of Manufacture.

The manufacture of gossamer cloth
ing, and also of rubber goods in gem
eral, is, it appears. to be carried on
by means of a new and improved pro-
cess. The method proposed is for the
compounding of rubber and the repro
duction of the colors in figures, checks,
and plaids, by printing these on rub
ber surface on gossamer garments,
giving to the latter the appearance of
the most popular patterns of "mackin-
toshes," and at very reasonable cost.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
Divorces in Scotland.

There has been large increase in
the number of divorces granted in
Scotland in late years. Between 1864
and 1874 the average number was
thirty-ive a year, which increased to
fifty-nine between 1874 and 1880. Last
year 127 divorce DEGREES were granted
there, as against 109 in 1891, and
eighty-nine in 1890. Of last years
DEGREES sixty EIGHT were obtained by
husbands and fifty-nine by wives. In
fidelity was the ground for consider
ably more than half.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-17
Secretary Mobiles Farewell story.


Sec'y Noble has resumed the prac-
tice of law at ST. Louis. The Sec'y
said that in many respects his official
life in Washington had been extremely
pleasant. 1t had involved a vast
amount of hard work, but on the
whole it had been work that was
agreeable to him. Nevertheless he
felt very much like the runaway darky
before the war. He was on his way to
Canada and was met by countryman,
who questioned him as to the treat
ment he had received at the hands OF
his master. Didn't you have enough
to eat?" the countryman asked. "Yes. ="
And enough to wear?" 81 did. ;"
"Then what did you run away forP"
"Say, boss" the darky replied. "if you
think you'd like the place, it's open to
ye."- WaShi7s0toa Post.