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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1874-03-18

INGRAM C CO., DAYTON, O.
PRINTERS & DEALERS in Patent
Novelties. Agents wanted. Send
for Circulars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
Change of Color.

Sudden shocks occurring to human
beings have frequently changed the
color of their hair from black to white
in single night. A physician of Ber
lin, strong, healthy, and less than
middle-aged man, sent his wife and one
daughter to spend last summer at a
watering place. The day that he ex-
pected letter informing him of their
arrival, there came one saying that his
daughter had been taken ill very sud
denly, and was already dead. The
shock was terrible, and instantly his
hair became entirely gray. He had to
visit some patients that same after
noon, and they scarcely recognized him.
The other case was of a man thirty five
years old, living in the Netherlands.
He was one day passing the canal in
Rotterdam, where he saw child strug-
Cling in the water. He plunged in and
brought it to land, but it was already
dead by the time he had rescued the
body. Bending over it to try to restore
life, he discovered that the dead child
was his own son. The blow, so sudden
and unexpected, and coming upon him
when he himself was so much exhaust.
ed, turned his hair entirely gray, and
left him scarcely recognizable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
Do You /!

Encourage your own. If you have
any pride in the prosperity of your own
city or village, patronize its merchants
and mechanics in preference to those of
any other place. You cannot expect
outsiders to be attracted to your stores
and shops, so long as you patronize
the traders and artisans of other places,
to their exclusion. See to it that your
local and county papers are well sup
ported with subscriptions, advertising
and job work. Nowhere does the pub
lie spirit of place tell so conspicuous
ly as here. A well-supported news
paper gives village a good name far
and wide. So long as your own State
supplies frst-class religious, political
or literary papers, it is the duty of pub
lic-spirited men to support them in
preference to periodicals, no better,
published in other States. We are not
speaking for ourselves in this matter,
for we have no cause to complain. New
England people, at home and abroad,
are giving the transcript liberal and
fattering patronage, and our subscrip-
tion list steadily increases. But we no.
tice some of the thriving villages of this
State are not taking the interest they
ought in their local papers, of which
little can be expected SO long as they
are kept half starved. See how little
extra patronage will enliven them
Portland transcript. ... ..-.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
The Old Women of Hanweu.

In the course of description of ball
at the Hanwell Luantic Asylum, q
writer in the London Daily NeWs OBJ
serves:
"There are two bathrooms, but that
on the ground-foor is set apart for the
old women and the less vigorous of the
young, who, though able and undenia-
bly, willing to foot it to the best of their
ability in the waltz and polka, were not
equal to much exertion-not that any
woman of the company would confess
herself to be old. Among the male
lunatics the tendency seems to be to
overstate their age when they are asked
the question "a hale, pippin-faced old
gentleman confidently informed me
that he was born in the year 1855, but
the women err in the opposite direction
with the majority of the sex it seems te
be one of the few compensations OF
madness that they are impregnable to
the assaults of time. On the previous
occasion mentioned, had seen women
old enough to be grandmothers lively
as kittens, and joining with a will at a
round game of 'Puss, puss, give me a
drop of water and other companies of
still more venerable danes going in
heart and soul for kiss-in-the-ring but
they did not kiss each other-they were
not mad enough for that.
"There we're lots of dolls about, and
boy sailor doll was exhibited for this
branch of the service, his place of re-
pose during the time he was off duty
being soft couch of grass in the cen
tire of the ring, and when one old girl
dropped the handkerchief to another
old girl, and the latter had hobbled after
the former and brought her back, both
old girls raised the sailor from the
ground, and, imprinting a smack on his
wooden lips, laid him down again. 1
was delighted to recognize in the ball
room devoted to the aged ladies one or
two patients who were vastly improved
since the time of the summer fete. L
Immediately knew again one whose face
was beaming with delight as she stood
up for quadrills when last beheld
her she was melancholy spectacle, and
behaved in a manner calculated to cast
wet blanket on the whole festivities.
Heaven only knows what it meant, but
she hurried about hither and thither,
holding in her hand, and at arm s
length, bunch of withered grass, all
the while sobbing and crying as though
her heart would break. Another old
woman, who could not be said to be
blithe now, but was at least contented,
I had observed five months since, trav-
ersing the lawns and fower-paths, un-
ceasingly occupied in searching for
something that was never to be found.
L was afterwards informed that, no mat
ter where this old lady was, she so en-
ployed herself, and that years devoted
to the fruitless service had so bowed
be eaasd agattRRa that it WGhb ttHai 9Ahts 9Aht
had evidently taken it into her mad
head that she was on the right track at
last-now with a quick, now with slow
step she proceeded-so bent that from
the rear she looked like some four
footed creature in petticoats, while
every now and again she made an eager
downward dart, only, however, to re-
gard the nothing she had picked up,
shake her gray head despondingly, and
on again,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
The Intelligent StOrks.

A great fire once broke out in little
German town near where stood tower
about eighty feet high, which formed
part of the fortification on the town
wall. On the summit a stork's ne st
had been built for so many years that
the building had received the name of
"Stork's Tower" At the time of the
fire there were three unf1edged birds
in the nest, and the poor little brides
were in great danger.
But the old storks soon showed their
good sense and their love for their
young, for by turns they each flew of
to some fish ponds just outside the
walls here they took good dip in the
water, and filled their beaks with as
much as they could carry away then,
notwithstanding the smoke and flames,
they flew back to their little ones,
poured the water from their beaks over
them and the nest, and at the same
time shaking it from their feathers.
Thus during the whole day did these
faithful birds act as winged fire bri-
gade till toward evening, when all dan
ger for their young and their nest was
over,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
A Touching Tribute.

Chang and Eng are, or is, dead.
They, or he, were, or was, associated
together most Intimately in the mani
fold walks of life since 1911, or there
about. In their death they were not
divided. Indeed, they were never di-
vided at all. Chang and Eng was a
very harmonious baby, boy and man.
They deeply sympathized with each
other in every vicissitude through
which he WAS called to pass. The most
intimate, even the most umbilical, re]a-
tions existed between Chang and Eng.
He lived together and he died almost
simultaneously. No two brothers were
ever so intimate with each other as was
Chang and Eng. For more than sixty
years they were so closely associated
and so entirely sympathetic that the
touch which awakened sleeping Chang
also aroused Eng. The caresses, it is
said, that Chang bestowed upon Mrs.
Chang were equally enjoyed by Eng,
though Mrs. Eng was not on such
terms of equality. When Eng got into
equally kindled. When Chang mourned,
Eng lamented. When Eng rejoiced,
Chang was happy.
| SuduS anu IJuS WAS u iuIuCl, oust hO
died at their home, in Mount Airy,
Surry county, North Carolina. The
Chang part lost his hold upon time on
Friday night last, and on Saturday the
Eng part of him breathed his last.
Chang had been unwell since last fall,
and sought consolation in the flowing
bowl. 1t is said that one cup of kind,
ness answered for both Chang and Eng
which fact made bibulousness economi
cal for the brothers, though it appears
that Chang chose in most cases to be
the medium between the liquor and the
brethren. But, after all, in summing
up between the two brothers, now thai
they are no more, we deem it proper tt
say that in the little differences tha
may have arisen between Chang ant
Eng our sympathies were always will
Chang. Chang ever appeared to us to
have more energy than Eng. Chang
we believe, has long been accustomed
to do the work of the concern, and Ems
to have taken half of the reward
Chang, in proof of this assertion, die
the dying of the firm. We are not sur
that Eng would have ever died of him
self. There isn't the slightest reasol
to believe that he would have. i
point of fact, Eng never had any hol'
on our affections. Eng may have bee
interesting from scientific point O
view, but there was always, to ou
thinking, something lacking in hi
character.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
About Whales and Cables:

The recent brake in the submarine
India cable between Kurrachee and
Gwadur was caused by a whale. On
winding in the cable unusual resistance
was experienced. After persevering the
body OF an immense whale, entangled
in the cable, was brought to the surface,
found to be firmly secured by 24 turns
of the cable Immediately above the
tail. Sharks and other fish had partially
eaten the body, which was rapidly de-
composing, the jaws falling away on
reaching the surface. The tail measured
IL feet across, was perfect, and covered
with baInacles at the extremities. APP
parently the whale was, at the time of
ENHANCEMENT, using the cable to free
itself from parasites, such as barnacles,
which annoy them very much, and the
cable hanging in a loop over a sub
marine precipice, he probably with a
FLIP of his tail twisted it around him,
and thus came to an untimely end.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
Cupid's Pupils.

Small need have you nymphs to be trying
Diana the huntress's whim,
To send feathered arrows fast flying,
Tricked out in toxophilite trim
Small need for your aim to be steady.
The string of your bows to be tough:
For mans subjugation already
You've weapons enough.
For down in each delicate dimple
A world of sweet waywardness les,
And searchers, the sage and the simple.
May read what is writ in your eyes.
With red lips that rival the roses,
smile by which gods had been charmed,
Neat ankle-of course, one supposes J.
You're thoroughly armed
Leave bows to the lover Of Psyche;
His arrows are terribly true,
And fatal to hearts that they strike he
Will surely do battle for you
His ally is each May-lily maiden,
Yours the conquest would certainly be
We're the arch CLEAN of glances love-laden
Your sole archery.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
Man 100000 Years Old.

The New York Nation condenses from
an English scientific periodical some
interesting speculations of DIR. Alfred
Russell Wallace on the probable an
tiquity of the human species. They
may we'll startle, it says, even those
who have long since come to the con-
clusion that 5000 years carry us but
small way back to the original homo.
In fact, in Mr.. Wallaces reckoning,
5000 years are but as a day. He re-
views the various attempts to determine
the antiqnity of human remains
or works of art, and finds the
bronze age in Europe to have been
pretty accurately fixed at 5000 or 1000
years ago, the stone age of the Swiss
lake dwellings, at 5000 to 1000 years,
"and an indefinite anterior period"
The burnt brick found sixty feet deep
in the File alluvium, indicates an an
tiquity of 10000 years another frag-
ment at seventy two feet gives 10000
years. ga human skeleton found at
depth of sixteen feet below four hun
dred buried forests superposed upon
each other, has been calculated by DIR.
| Dowler to have an antiquity of $4,000
years." But all these estimates pale
| before those which Kent's cavern at
Torquay legitimates. Here the drip of
the stalagmite is the chief factor of
our computations, giving us an upper
floor which divides the relics of the
last two or three thousand years from
deposit full of the bones of extinct
mammalia, many of which, like the
reindeer, mammoth and glutton, indi-
cate an arctic climate.
Names cut in the stalagmite more
than 200 years ago are still legible /; in
other words, where the stalgamite is
twelve feet thick and the drip still
very copious, not more than hun
dredth of foot has been deposited in
two centuries-a rate of five feet in
100000 years. Below this, however,
we have thick, much older, and more
crystalline Ii. e., more slowly formed)
stalagmite, beneath which again, in a
solid bleccia, very different from the
cave.earth, undoubted works of art
have been found" Mr.. Wallace as
sumes only 100, 900 years for the upper
floor and about $50, 900 for the lower,
and adds 10000 for the immediate
cave-earth, by which he arrives at the
"sum of half million years that have
probably elapsed since human work.
manships were buried in the lowest
depths of Kent's cavern.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
The Gentleman in Black.

About two years ago Missouri rive,
steamboat left Fort Benton with a party
of tough and well-to-do miners on
board. There were also among the
passengers three or four bracemen,
and before arriving at Sioux City they
had generally cleaned out the pockets
of the miners. The boat stopped al
Sioux City to "wood up" and found
among others waiting to get on board, Q
ministerial parsonage, with the longest
and most solemn countenance on him
you can well imagine. He was dressed
in suit of black, wore white stove.
pipe hat and "choker" collar, orna
mented with a black neck -handker
chief. ....
Well, he got on board, and the boaI
started down the stream. For two days
he was unnoticed by the other passen.
gers, but one of the sports at last
thing out of the sad and melancholy in.
twice day step up to the bar and with
a voice that was as mild and gentle as
maiden's, ask for &c A glass of soda, il
you please" and then he would pull q
roll of bills from his pocket and take O
quarter from their interior layers. Then
he would say to the bar-keeper, as il
under thousand obligations, "Thank
you, slr," and walk aft again as if about
to commit suicide.
This thing had gone far enough, and
the gambler have spoken of at last ap-
preached him.
"Would you like game of seven.up,
sir ?"
"Seven-up? What is seven-up ?
Please tell me-"
"Why, game of cards, you know,
just to pass away the time; let us play a
game.
MY good friend, do not know any
thing concerning cards; I can not play
them"
"Well, come along; we'll show you
how to do it. And the mild gentleman
after some further protests at last con-
sented.
They showed him how twas done,
and they played several games. The
gentleman in black was delighted.
Gamblers want to know if he will play
poker, five cent ante, just for. the fun
of the thing. Gentleman in black says
he can't play the game, but they explain
again, and the poker commences. The
gentleman in black loses every time.
There are six men in the game; each
one deals beforethe gentleman in black,
and ante has been raised to dollar.
Gent in black deals awkwardly, and
looks at his hand. .-
Next man to dealer bets five-goes
around, and bets are raised to one hun
dred dollars. Gent in black sees it,
and makes it hundred better. Gam
blers look surprised, but will not be
dred dollars-.a thousainsdf.e ea Ar fiYo draw dfH'1
out except a Pixies Peak miner, who
sees and calls him: "What have you p
Waal," answers the gent in black, "I
have-let me see-waal, I have four
ones"
The gamblers, who had suspicioned
something before, now look wild, and
the light begins to dawn in the miners s
mind. He leaned across the table and
said, in the most sarcastic tones he
could command:
"Oh, you heave, heave yer? You
gol-durned sanctimonious son of a
gun p
The gent got up from the table and
handed one of the gamblers his card.
It read, Bill Walker, New Orleans
one of the most successful sharpers in
the country.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
Singular Custom.

There has been some excitement OF
late about the case of a shepherd in
Somersetshire, England, who was SEN
fenced in the summer to six months
hard labor for stealing his masters
lambs. His defense was that the lambs
were surplus +" lambs-the results,
that is to say, of some exceptional fe-
and that they We're a customary shep-
herds perquisite. The evidence be-
fore the magistrates went against the
existence of the custom, and the shep-
herd .wasi convicted accordingly. His
return to liberty was made the occasion
of demonstration, and the man was
presented with purse of money, tc
which, it is said, Mr.. Morley, M. p,
contributed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
BADLY FRozEN.-Three convicts who

BADLY FRozEN.-Three convicts who
escaped from the Waupun, Wisconsin,
penitentiary, tell story of fearful suf-
fering. They were employed in the
paint shop at Waupun, and made key
and saw out of case-knives. Having
sawed and unlocked themselves, they
scared the guard by pointing broken
key at him, which he mistook for a
pocket pistol. In crossing the river
they broke through the ice and all three
got wet. But they managed to get to
the shore on floating cakes of ice. They
had nothing but prison coats on, and
the thermometer was IL or Is degrees
below zero. They reached Oshkosh
after four days hiding and four nights
travel, SO badly frozen that one or two
of them will lose their feet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19

A Salem, Mass, newspaper recalls
the fact that the Siamese Twins were
arrested at Lynnfeld, Mass, in Au-
gust, 1881, for breach of the peace.
While staying for few days at the
hotel, enjoying themselves fishing on
the pond and shooting in the woods,
with young Englishman as an attend
ant, they were much annoyed by the
eager curiosity of visitors, who dis
tnrbed their intended seclusion. Col.
Elbridge Gerry, and Mr.. Prescutt, OF
Stoneham, went toward them in a field,
but were warned to keep away. Irrita.
ting words followed, and the twins,
after firing a blank cartridge, struck
the Colonel with the butt of gun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19
The First Patent.

Samuel Hopkins was the first person
who ever received a patent from the
United States government 1t was
granted July 80, 1870, and was for the
manufacture of pot and pearl ashes.
The third was to Oliver Evans, of Phil
adelphia, SO famous for his inventions
in high-pressure engines, of whose in
vention President Jefferson remarked
that it was too valuable to be covered
by patent, and there should be no pa
tent for thing no one could afford to
do without after it was known" This
was said in December of that year. For
many years afterward the Patent-office
was but a clerkship in the State De-
partment. ------
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19

London has 1T square miles, 500, 600
houses and $3.50, 900 inhabitants.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19

A well-organized gang of train rob-
bers has been discovered in the West.