According to Wikipedia, the Remington model 8 used a fixed box magazine, not a "spiral" or tubular magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_8
The "spiral" rotary magazine was an innovation in the Evans repeating rifles of the early 1870s, made in Mechanic Falls, Maine. Those lever actions held 34 rounds. http://www.leverguns.com/articles/blancard/evans.htm
FWIW, one had to work the lever 34 times to get the first round all the way to the chamber.

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