The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-11-04
LEGAL Correspondence.
JOHNsToWN, Nov.

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new hotel shall not lack for sanitary regula-
tions; consequently be has caused large
subterranean drain to he made from the ho~
tel on Clinton street down Levergood street
TO the river, distance of forty rods or more.
| This drain will be a great drain on Mr.. SIS
pocket>book, but will be Of incalcuiable ad
vantage.
PATRONS SHOP.
Workmen are now engaged putting the
Notwithstanding on the large chair shop OF
VIM P Patton. 1t will take over eight
thousand feet of wrought boards to put the
shop through, but the Major IS fourishing
like a green bay tree and does not regard
expense.
D1BERT's NEW BANK.
We have not often seen more cosy bank
ing house than the one that John Dibert q
Co. have moved into, on Main street, No.
24O. 1t is perfectly new, as clean as pin.
heated by heaters, and has very large show
windows and double doors. The doors,
washboards and furniture are beautifully
| grained and all one color. The counter and
desks are handsome articles Of furniture.
! Hydrant water and gas complete the elegant
arraD gements, and we are free to say II Is
! the incest banking house in Western Penna.
W. L. A.
| We feel grateful to w. L. A for his SYM
| pathy and words Of consolation, which were
! given iD kindness, and feel somewhat abashed
at having been overcome, but the calamity
was appalling that we couldn't help It,
| We have heart that can feel; so much SO
! indeed that we have ceased to read the sick
eniDg details Of the late disasters, for they
are too much for flesh to endure. The fruits
of the earth are truly abundant. but to the
poor they are but what the fruits and the
| ,vater yDare ia 1antalus
! WINTER.
| Now that winter is coming on, let every
one prepare his family for the northern gale,
and when he has done so let him not neglect
the poor. "He that giveth TO the poor lend
| eth 10 the Lord" There are POOR in every
community, and we are among those who
believe that man never loses anything by
being kind to the poor. Blessings will fol-
| low We shall never forget the story Of the
poor newsboy, who, when crushed beneath
| the cars early in the morning, said, as he was
dying, ''Mother, | only sold three papers,
You will find the money in my pocket. 1t
will get you one loaf of bread" These sad
words touched the hearts of the by ISLANDERS
so much that they Immediately raised col
lection and made that mother comfortable,
before the eyes of the little newsboy were
closed in death. The contributors never re-
gretted what they had done, and never will.
ELIAS HOWE.
Mr.. A. S. Wagstaff, the agent here for the
celebrated Elias Howe Medallion Sewing
Ms chine, No. 120 Clinton street, took us
iutO his Office on Saturday. and, being me-
chamic himself, he took his machine apart
ard showed Us how one thread crosses the
other in forming the lock stitCh-sOmething
we never understood before. lie then open
Cd up some other machines, and we were
really astonished at the simplicity Of the
Elias Howe machine as compared with the
others. They were exceedingly complicated.
while his is exceedingly simple. and as strong
as it is simple. We took some notes at the
time. but we are not mechanic enough to de-
scribe the machine. The feed, the shuttle,
the press bar, the kuuckIe joint. the treadle,
the hinges to open and close and oil the ma
chine, the tension, and indeed every thing,
is so simplifed, yet so strong, aud SO we'll
protected from dust, that any person who
sees one opened must admire the machine.
| FINE BUILDINGS.
The buildings that have lately been put
| up in Johnstown are of a better class than
| those formerly erected. The ceilings are
much higher, large glass Tanes decorate the
windows. and inside shades are put up in
stead of outside shutters. Even houses that
are built for renting purposes are put up in
/ the most modern Styie. DuG lleu tuc lduu>
| lord tariffs the tenant.
! TEACHERS INsTITUTE.
| We have heard no objection made to hold
| ing this Institute in Ebensburg. 1t is CEN
| trail locality But there are objections urged
| to the time. Some at least want it held be-
| tween the holidays, as they will lose that time
| at any rate. AS we are not going, we have
nothing to say, but we think the will of the
majority, whatever that may be, should de-
eide the matter.
| THAT SPOT.
! The originator of the item published in
! your last about the pear-shaped spot ou the
| sun did not understand whereof he wrote, or
else the figures have since got sadly mixed.
| There may have been a spot on the sun of
the size mentioned when the item was writ
ten. but it is hardly there now. We object
at any rate:
| 1st. To the assertion that &C, 900 miles is
equivalent to three~quarters of minute Of
! arc;
| ID. To the assertion that the subtended
angle is 81 inches one mile from the eye;
Sd. To smoking glass to see it at this
| late date
The first assertion is erroneous. Radius
1 is ninety-five millions miles. Diameter is
one hundred and ninety millions. Clrcum~
ference is six hundred and thirty millions
Hence three-quarters OF minute OF arc Is
not quite % 900 miles. And this is too
much, for the earth is now in Periheiion or
| the sun is Dearest the earth. So much for
| erl or No. 1.
Statement: AS $50 degrees or 21,600
minutes is to one minute, 80 is $50 900, 900
miles to 30 900 miles. If one minute is 29,-
600 miles, three>fourths of minute is 2l,-
| 600 miles.
The second assertion is erroneous. Be-
cause, if the divergence in one mile. or 68,r
$50 inches, is 81 inches. in 5000 900 miles
the divergence would be 95 100000 multi
piled by 81, equal to $50, ,250 900 inches, o:
1922 miles only And as radius vector is
now nearly the shortest, owing to the earth
being in perihelion. the angle would have to
be larger, as the spot is nearer to the eye by
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