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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07
The Rail.
BY GEORGE H. CLARK.

I met him in the cars,
Where resignedly he sat;
His hair was full of dust,
And so was his Gravel;
He was furthermore eInbeliished
BY a ticket in his hat.
The conductor touched his arm,
And woke him from a nap;
When he gave the feeding flies
An admonitory slap,
And his ticket to the man
In the yellow-lettered cap.
The heads of many men
Were bobbing as in sleep,
And many babies lifted
Their voices up TO weep;
While the cool dust darkly fell
On bonnets in heap.
When suddenly a jar,
And a thrice-repeated bump
Made the people in alarm,
From their easy cushions jump,
For they deemed the sounds to be
The Inevitable trump.
A Splintering crash below,
And n doom-forb04iiGg twitch,
As the tender gave q Iurpi
Beyond the flying switch,
And mangled mass of men
Lay writhing in the ditch.
With a palpitating heart
My friend essayed TO rise;
There were bruises on his limbs
And stars before his eyes,
And Ii is face was of the hue
Of the dolphin when il dies.
- >
was very well content
In escaping with nay life;
But my mutilated friend
Commenced legal strife,
Being thereuntO melted
By his lawyer and his wife.
And he writes me the result,
In his quiet way as follows:
That his case came up before
A board of legal scholars.
Who awarded him his claim
OF 81 ,5C0.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

NJ. Prudhomme in the decline of life
was talking with his nephew, to whom
he related stories of his youth.
But uncle" suddenly exclaimed the
young man. what struck you most dur
ing your life p
MY dear boy, it was your aunt"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

Methodist Episcopal Church, Portsmouth st.
Rev. ]. z. Sewers, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l0H O'Clock 4. NJ, and "a
PM. Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Sabbath School and Bible Class every Sabbath
at O'Clock, A. NJ.
Presbyterian Church, on Church Street
REV. ]. X. GIBSON, Pastor. Public preaching
every Sabbath at l01z A. NJ. land ~ P. NJ. Sab
bath School and Bible Classat 9 O'Clock A. Nj.
Christian Church, on Broadway Street-Elder
r. J. BACKUS, Pastor. Public preaching the
1st and Sd Sabbaths in each month, at l013 o.
clock, A. NJ, and ~ p. NJ. Sabbath School at
o'clock, A. NJ. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night, and every Sabbath at 1O% o'clk.,
when there is not public preaching.
Methodist Protestant Church, corner Church
and Pearl Sts.-Services at the usual hours
by Mrs. Mary A. Bradford.
Baptist Church, on Broadway Street-Services
at the usual hours, in the Welsh language.
Free Will Baptist Church, Petrea.-REv.
THOMAS E. PEDEN, Pastor. Covenant meet
ing the 4th Saturday and Sabbath of every
month Sabbath School every Sabbath at
O1 O1olOek p NJ
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

The MlNIsTERING ANGEL-At no mo-
ment of difficulty does husband, know
ing his utter helplessness, draw so close
ly to his wire's side for comfort and as
sistance as when he wants his button
sewed on his shirt-oollar, or have grey
hair extracted from his whiskers.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

A servant girl told her master the
other morning that she was about to give
his wife warning and quit the house
Happy girl would that | could give
her warning and quit the house too =
was the brutal response.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

A servant girl told her master the
other morning that she was about to give
his wife waning and quit the house
"Happy girl would that | could give her
warming and quit the house too?' was
the brutal response.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07

Here is q gem alleged to have been
found in the letter of n young lover:
Dearest love, l have swallowed the
postage-stamp which was on your letter,
because l knew that your lips had touch-
ed it.
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A negress speaking of one of her chill
dren who was lighter than the rest, said,
"I nebber could bear dat brat, cause he
show dirt SO easy.
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The Utica milliners advertise ModoC
hats and Boston Charley bonnets.
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WAGON SHOP.

Shop in the brick house formerly occupied by
w. A. Gilliland n gunsmith shop, on Ports
mouth street, near the Gibson House.
He carries on the Wagon and Buggy making
business in all its branches.
REPAIRING done on short notice.
PLOWS ON hand and for sale. (aug %, Toy
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Bertsch, G. c. James,
Brown, Dickason, Il. s. Matthews,
ID. DUNCAN.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Guarana.

This is the name of a popular beverage
which the natives of Brazil prepare from
the fruit of small climbing shrub that
grows chiefly in the northern part Of that
country, and on the banks Of the Anna
zon. The essential principle of this fruit
is identical with caffeine, and its compost
ton in other respects is strikingly similar
to that of tea and coffee. An analysis by
Trommsdorf shows that it contains caffe-
inc, 4; green oil, 3.5; resinous oleaginous
matter, 2.5; fannie acid and salts, 40, starch
and gum, IL; vegetable fibre, 80. STEM
house. in some cases, found OF per cent.
of caffeine. 1t is thus seen to be very
much richer in this important ingredient
than either coffee or tea, the former rare
ly containing more than one or the lat
ter more than two per cent. of caffeine.
During the months of October and No
vember the fruit is gathered, peeled, dried,
reduced to powder, and made into paste
with water, when it is ready for use. II
not overdried, the color of this prepare
ton is light chocolate, and it also has a
pleasant flavor, which is said to lingeI
| long in the mouth. With cold water and
little sugar it forms an excellent bever-
age, or it may be eaten in the solid state
| like the preparations of chocolate. 1t Is
also employed by the natives in forn,
| known as Suardna Dreau. AS comIlollll
prepared it admits of being transported
without suffering deterioration, resisting
alike the suns heat, intense cold, humid
ity, and putrefaction.
Mantegazza, writing of the effects o.
the beverage, says: Between breakfas
and dinner, in the warm days of Jun'
and July, there is not beverage more
healthful and refreshing than fresh cul
of guarana. After drinking it one feel
reinvigorated, having in measure par
taken at once of food and drink" 1t ha
been used incidentally both as remedy 70
headache and as an astringent, but its ef
fects are only transient. Like other mem
bers of its class, guarana is not withou
its dangers. In large doses it produce
exhiaratiOn, convulsive inquietude. eX
altation of Intelligence, wakefulness, sligh
diminution of pulse, and want of appetite
-GataTy for March.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
A Lively Thresher.
pie Bar.

The Titusville Press gives an account
of a young man from an eastern city who
had been visiting rural friends in that vi
cinity. After seeing farmer thresh out
''fiooring" of oats the other morning,
he asked and received permission to swing
the fail a few minutes, upon assuring the
agriculturist that he was perfectly famil-
lar with the art of threshing. EXpecto-
rating upon his hands, the young man
went at the oaIs, but at the first pass
knocked the horn off from a new milch
cow that was leisurely chewing her cud in
neighboring stall. The second swing
caved in the head of the farmer, who
thought he was safe enough as long as he
roasted on top of the tanning mill in the
other end of the barn; but, without dis,
covering the havoc he was making, the
city artist kept at his labors; the third
blow fell upon the oats, the fourth killed
hen in a manger near by, and the fifth
pass of the deadly weapon was the best O.
all, for it came round behind the young
man, boomerang fashion, and taking hin
under the lower jaw, knocked him down
and thus put stop to the work ofslaugh
ter. The mere fact that the city "thresh
er" returned to consciousness an hour be
fore the farmer did, allowed the former t,
! get several miles out of town before hi
efforts at threshing oats were discovered
by the neighbors,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Wild Plants DOmesticated.

The Cabbage is first cousin to cauli-
flower, broccoli, ETC., and they all come
from the wild cabbage of the sea-coast.
1t Is marine plant, and loves salt and
salt water. The wild cabbage is tall,
wavy, coarse plant, but the pods are now
gathered and eaten in the spring months
in some parts of England. There is no
plant which has produced by cultivation
a greater number of varieties than the
cabbage. We can extend the varieties
much further, but it Is sufficient for us to
consider the wide range between the little
red cabbage for pickling, and the "mam-
moth," with head so large that it can
only be boiled in large caldron. In the
cauliflower we eat the fleshy flower stalks
and undeveloped buds, which are crowded
together into compact mass. 1t was a
favorite saying of the great photographer,
DIR. johnson, "Of all the flowers of the
garden like the caulifower the BEST" a
sentiment worthy of this learned epicure.
The numerous varieties Of the cabbage
illustrate in the most striking manner the
changes which are produced in species by
cultivation, and the permanence of some
varieties of races. They also give us in
structive lessons in the economy of vege-
table life.
The Turnip comes from wild plant
lOunu NY IIlc SlueS VI TlfcTs, ullClleSs dli,i
marshes. Like the cabbage, it has pro-
duced several varieties, the result of long
cultivation. From the wild plant we have
the little fiat turnip ana the huge r1da
baga, with all the varieties between. This
root is now most widely cultivated as food
for stock, and it has added much to the
wealth of England.
The Parsnip is also reclaimed wild
plant, and it is difficult to say whether we
are indebted to cultivation or importation
for it; most probably the latter, as it is a
native of Britain. If the wild plant is cul-
tivated two or three years in rich garden
soil, it acquires all the desirable charac.
teristics Of the best kinds; and if left tc
itself in poor soil, it speedily goes back
into its wild, degenerate condition. Pars'
nips appear to nave been very early re-
claimed from wild state, for Pliny tells
us that parsnips were cultivated, on the
banks of the Rhine, and were brought
from thence to supply the tables of the
Roman emperors.-Journal Of Chemistry
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
The Earliest Newspaper.

AUTHORITIES have differed widely as to
the nation and city entitled to the honor
of having started the first printed news
paper. For many years it was supposed
that the credit belonged to England. 1t
was claimed that the British Museum had
a copy of the earliest paper in its collec-
ton. 1t was called the English MercWrie,
and printed July %, 1888; but it has been
shown that this copy, like specimens of
rare old coins, was spurious, and gotten
up for sale. Watts, tile photographer OF
the Museum, who saw, on examination,
that the type and paper were of modern
origin. and did notbelong to the sixteenth
century, exposed the forgery. 1t was an
ingenious fabrication, pretending to give
the news of the Spanish Armada, which
was destroyed in the English Channel by
Drake and Howard day or two previous
to the date of the sheet. There were seven
numbers of this spurious Mercurie pro-
duced-four in manuscript, and three in
print.
Venice has also claimed the honor OF
leading the way in giving newspapers to
the world. The Gdzetta, thus named be-
cause it sold for a small piece of money
called gazzetta, it is asserted, was printed
there in 1870, and it is pretended that
copies of this paper of that date are in one
discoveries have apparently established
the claim of the old German city of Nu-
remberg to this high honor. A paper
called the Gazette, according to trust
worthy authorities, was printed in that
city as early as 1457, five years after Peter
Schoffer cast the first metal type in mat
rices. Nuremberg, with the first paper il
the fifteenth century, also claims th,
honor of the first paper in the sixteenth
century. There is an anciently printed
sheet in the Libri collection which ante
dates all others except the sheet of l45l
an the Chronicle of Cologne. 1t is calleC
the Neue Zeituag aus Hispa,ien ind HaLien
and bears the date of February, 1884. Th'
British Museum, it is said, has dupli
cate of this sheet.
Thus to Germany belongs the homo
not only of the first printers and the firs
printing, but also of the first printe'
newspaper. 1t has also another claim t.
distinction. In 1915 Egenolf Eurme
started Die Frankfirter Oberpostamts Zei
! t,tag, the first daily paper in the world
f This journal is still published; and tn
city of Frankfort is to erect monumen
in honor of its founder and editor as tn
i father of newspapers. From "New'
4 papers and Editors" by S. S. CoNANT, /
!, Harper'S Magazine for March.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
How Government Debtors Make it
"SQuare" In Japan.

A native japanese merchant named
Yamashinya, resident in Y okohama,
but with business houses in Jeddo,
Ozaka and Nagasaki, committed suicide
short time since. He was indebted to the
government for sum of $500, 900 by nom
payment of duties and other financial de-
faults. Officers were sent to arrest him,
but, knowing his fate as dishonest trad
er, he anticipated the action of the law by
making out statement of his liabilities
and future intentions, which he personal
ly left at the War Office, and then return
ed to his house and dsemboweled him
SELF Hardly was he dead when the Off
GERS, sent in haste by the department, ar
rived to seize him, but, baked IN theiI
object, took his keys and books, and
placed guards in the possession OF ms
property. The japanese Gazette, whicf
records the case adds, very naiyely: "W'
hear other instances of self-destructiol
rupored." This is really terrible tai
of the result of twinges of conscience. l
is to be hoped that neither the falling no
hts remedy viii extend in or to our Chris
tian land. What would the Coroners d
in the matter of fragmentary evidence
Shocking, even to think of tn !
Herald,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
German Emigration.

The question of the great increase of
emigration from Germany, which it was
thought some time ago the Government
would take some active means of check
ing, has been brought up in the German
Parliament, and with very satisfactory re-
suits. Count Gutenberg, the Minister OF
the Interior, acknowledged the fact, and
deplored it, but declared there was no
help for it, and attributed it freely to the
war, in spite of all that the war has done
for the glorification of Fatherland. In the
first place, the enormous rise of prices has,
as is usual, not been followed by CORES
ponding increase of wages, and the labor
| ing classes are suffering severely, although
the Treasury is bursting with gold. In
the next place, the small capitalists, who,
! it appears, are the class which is contribu-
ting most largely to the tide of emigra-
tio1. have been seriously alarmed by the
loss of lite in the French war, and by the
great uncertainty about the political fu-
ture created by the new role which Ger
many has undertaken on the Continent,
and which makes another tremendous
conflict one of the everyday contingencies
They are, therefore, afraid to embark ol
/. continue in business, and are hurrying of
with their little all to the only country il
which the field of enterprise is not troubled
! by wars or rumors of wars, and Wher'
3 the worst enemies the industrious mai
4 has to fear are the sworkers" and "oper
e ators." AS a remedy for the growin
t scarcity of agricultural labor, the Minis
r ter recommends the increased use of ms
J. chinery.-N. Y. Nation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
The AirIess Moon.

AMONG the illusions swept away by
modern science was the pleasant 1ancy
that the moon was habitable globe, Ike
the earth, its surface diversified with seas,
lakes, continents and islands, and varied
forms of vegetation. Theologians and
sarants gravely discussed the probabilities
of its being inhabited by a race OF sentient
beings, with forms and faculties like our
own, and even propounded schemes lor
opening communication with them, in
case they existed. One of these was to
construct on the broad highlands OF ASA
a series of geometrical figures on scale
so gigantic as to be visible from our plan
etary neighbor, on the supposition that
the moon people would recognize the OBJ
iect. and Immediately construct similar
figures in reply EXtravagant and alb
surd as it may appear in the light of mod
ern knowledge, the establishment of TINS
Terrestrial and Lunar Signal Service Btl-
reau was treated as feasible scheme, al
though practical difficulties which so
often keep men from making fools of
themselves stood in the way of actual eX-
pertinent; but the discussion was kept
tlp at intervals, until it was discovered
that if there were people in the moon
they must be able to live without breath
ing, or eating, or drinking. Then 1t
ceased.
There can be no life WltnOuC af. bCau-
tiful to the eye of the distant observer,
the moon is a sepulchral orb-a world OF
death and silence. No vegetation clothes
its vast plains of stony desolatlon, trav
ersed by monstrous crevasses, broken by
enormous peaks that rise like gigantic
tombstones into space; no lovely forms
of cloud float in the blackneSs of its sky.
There daytime is only night lighted by a
rayless sun. There is no rosy dawn III
the morning, no twilight in the evening
The nights are pitch-dark. In daytime
the solar beams are lost against the jagged
ridges, the sharp points of the rocks, or
the steep sides of the profound abysses;
and the eye sees only grotesque shapes
relieved against fantastic shadows black
as ink, with none of that pleasant grada-
ton and diffusion of light, none of the
subtitle blending of light and shadow,
which make the charm of terrestrial
| landscape. A faint conception of the
| horrors of lunar day may be formed
! from an illustration representing land
scape taken in the moon i'll the center Oh
the mountainous region of Aristarchus.
There is no color, nothing but dead white
and black. The rocks reflect passively
the light of the sun; the craters and
abysses remain wrapped i'll shade; fan
tastic peaks rise like phantoms in their
glacial cemetry; the stars appear like
spots in the blackness of space. The
moon is a dead world; she has no at
mosphere.-Harper' Magazine for March,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Dresden Porcelain.

The celebrated porcelain of SaXony
bears the name of, though it is not made
in Dresden, but at the town of Meissen on
the Elbe, fifteen miles below the capital,
Not to go there is a palpable neglect OF
the tourists obligation. The porcelain
manufactory is in the old Castle, once the
residence of the Saxon princes. 1t Is AN
imposing editice, and, from its local po'
sition on the banks of the river, looks re-
markably picturesque at a distance, and
not much less so on close inspection. Its
appearance is assisted by the Cathedral
hard by, handsome Gothic structure
with a graceful open-work spire.
The earth from which the porcelain is
made is obtained from Aue, an insignifi-
can't village twelve miles from Zwickau.
The process of preparing and baking the
clay is slow, difficult, and complicated.
The mixture, or biscuit, is composed prin-
cipally of kaolin and ground feldspar.
The materials are reduced to very fine
powder, AMI stirred together with water
| in cisterns, the surplus water being
pressed out through linen bags, separated
! by filtration or other methods. When
| the biscuit is of the consistency of dough,
! it is thoroughly worked over by beating,
| kneading. aud treading, and is then put
| away moist for year or more to undergo
the molding process, which increases its
Elasticity. The better kinds of porcelain
are formed in molds Of gypsum, and the
incest skill and care are needed to fashion
the vessels, as well as in the glazing and
baking. A good deal of the ware is una
vodably spoiled, such precise handling
does it require; but the artisans employed
in this manufacture have had years of
experience, and have inherited their trade,
as is the case with the Brussels lace max
ers and Amsterdam diamond-cutters. 1t
is said that the excellence of porcelain de-
pends on locality and atmosphere; that
numerous efforts to manufacture the
Dresden china elsewhere, with exactly
the same material and the same work
mcn, have failed again and again. There
was always something lacking-some'
thing almost indefinable, but still some,
thing. Whether it is that the artisans are
accustomed to certain routine anC
subject to subtle influences of sur
, rounding, which they cannot change
= without detriment to the product of theii
|, hands, is an open question; but tina
! skilled labor not infrequently follows thu
same mysterious law governing the re
, moval of plants has been shown by re
! peated experiments. The manufacture o
= porcelain has been for generations tn
|, most profitable industry of the neighbor
hood of Dresden, and is likely to continu
so for generations to come.-From "Alon
;. the Elbe," by JUNIUs HENRI BROWNE, Il
= Ho7per'S Magazine for March.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Mexico and Its New President.

We took President Lerdo of Mexico to
be man of work. In referring recently
to Homans' Cyclopedia of Commerce, we
found that all the information there compil-
ed on Mexico was derived from the works
ofthis same Lerdo de Tejada. But a let
ter to the Tribune complains that his ad-
ministration is not a working administra-
ton, but spendsits time in attending ban
quets and receptions, to the neglect of the
state business. So notorious has this be-
come that Lerdo appears in caricature as
the festive president. These ftasts of the
Mexican nobility are beyond description,
and throw quite into the shade any of our
eXtravagances in that line. The richest
man in Mexico, Senior EscandOn, recently
entertained 900 guests, setting table OF
400 covers, etc. Meanwhile the elements
of social discomfort are perilously plenty.
| Think OF this fact, that the whole landed
property is held by $50, 900 families, out of a
population of nine or ten millions, the
majority of whom are little better treated
than slaves! This vast substratum of un'
derlings, with passions all molten with
ages of oppression, is what keeps the vol
that is ready to flock to the standard o
any who will confiscate the property o
the hated Spanish landlords and whicl
maintains in the heart of the country stub
born little Indian communities that sue
cessfully defy the control of the govern
ment. One of these communities, moi
content with defensive operations, is nov
in the field with ZOO men, 20 pieces Q
artillery, and the rebel Lozada at their heao
To deal with these causes of social disturb
ance and with the disturbances themselves
Lerdo seems not sufficiently active. ST.
perior to Juarez in learning and more am
able than he in disposition, he seems il
frrior to him in administrative quality
He was evidently in the right place as chi
! Justice of the supreme court. 1t is We
however, too soon tojudge positively ofh
, administration.-Erch