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4 Strange Story.

Louis Walker died at West Liberty,
Iowa, after expressing the earnest desire
that he should be buried on the farm
where he formerly lived, near Beving-
ton, a station ON the Winterset branch
of the Rock Island railroad, about
eighteen miles from Des Moines. The
stricken wife, filled with love for him,
and with heart broken with sorrow and
grief, sought to fulfill the wishes of her
dead husband. She procured burial
case, and started on her sad erTand. She
arrived at Bevington, a stranger to every
body. Of the station agent she inquired
as to the location of the farm, where her
husband was to be buried. The agent
inquired who it was that was to be buried,
and, on being told, he quickly foresaw
very unpleasant affair. The widow had
come to bury her husband on the
premises of man whose daughter, then
at home, was the wife of the deceased.
The agent, after some consideration,
deemed it best to inform the widow of
the facts. She received the story with
perfect astonishment, and could scarcely
believe her late husband guilty of such
baseness; but, on being assured it was
SO, she became indignant, and left the
body with citizens to be conveyed to
wife No. (whose first knowledge for
years of the whereabouts of her husband
was his arrival in burial casket) to be
disposed of as she saw fit. 1t has just
been discovered that Walker had still
another wife in Missouri.
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Through all the Ages

of study and investigation which have
marked the path of scientific discovery,
one especially alluring object has tempt
ed the inquiries and speculations of
philosophers. 1t is what the wizards
and witches of olden time, the iugglers
of India, soothsayers of Arabia, Magi of
Egypt, necromancers of Turkey and the
Orient, and alchemists of civilized
Europe have sought, but sought in vain
"a vegetable non poisonous elixir,
which, by cleansing the blood, removing
from the system all impurities, strength
ening the nerves, the muscles, and the
brain, and vitalizing every fiber of the
system, should bid defiance to the cor
roding hand of disease. DR.. Walker, of
California, discovered an herb, the prop
critics of which, if they do not entirely
fulfill all the conditions above mentioned,
have at least proved themselves efficaci-
ous in all of them this herb Doctor
Walker has made an ingredient in his
famous Vinegar Bitters, which can be
obtained of any wholesale druggist
throughout the country.
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Tho Canadian CrOps.

The Toronto Globe publishes four col
umns of special kilograms from all parts of
the provinces of Ontario and Quebec as to
the condition of this years crops. The
following is summary of this informa-
ton: Fall wheat appears in many places
to be winter-killed, and the crop will be
considerably below the average. The
failure appears to be worse in the Lake
Erie counties, while the Ontario coun-
ties show favorable results. Spring
wheat promises nearly or quite nm aver
age crop. Oats, barley, and peas will,
if the season continues equally favorable,
probably be q little above the average.
Corn, while giving good promise in
some districts, will hardly come up to
the average yield. Root crops generally
are thriving, and the yield will probably
be more than usually abundant. The
potato crop is assailed by the Colordo
beetle, but growers do not seem to an
ticipate so much mischief from this pest
as in recent years. The hay crop has
been greatly benefited by the recent
rains, but will undoubtedly be short.
The fruit crop is, in many instances, re-
ported to be deficient, and peaches will
be very scarce.
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deposited on the top of the smoking car, partly

deposited ON the top Of the smoking car, partly
crushing it in.
Prof. Jenney, the government geologist at
the Black Hills, reiterates his former opinion
that there is not gold enough in the Black
Hills to pay for mining The famous old
running horse, Lexington, is dead .... Five
fishermen were drowned off Nova Scotia by
the upsetting of their boat. Two sailors
on an American brigantine have been arrested
at London for mutiny and wounding the chief
officer The Americans in London held q
banquet in the Crystal Palace on the fourth OF
July. Miss Lizzie Ihng, niece of Prof
John Wise, made a balloon ascension from
Philadelphia, and when about i've hundred
feet up the balloon burst, the gas pouring out in
such quantities as to cause the lady to fall into
the basket in an insensible condition. The
parachute arrangement Of the balloon saved
the wreck from falling with great velo-
city, and Miss Ihling was badly injured by her
fall, when the spectators expected her to be
dashed to pieces Ground was broken at
Atlanta, Ga, in the presence of an immense
throng for the Atlanta cotton factory. ....
Messrs. Moody and Sankey are to undertake re.
vival meetings in Paris The members of the
diplomatic body and Portue ucse dignitaries OF
high rank waited OH Mr.. Moran, tho United
States Minister TO Portugal, and congratulated
him on the anniversary of American indepen-
dence.
o. G. Griswold, Of Port Jcrvis, N. Y was
shot AMI instantly killed by his stepson, Ezra
Huntingdon. They had fight, in which Hun
tingdon, who was intoxicated, was terribly
beaten and elected from the house. few
minutes after he returned and deliberately
shot Griswold and then delivered himself up
to the authorities 49,. A grand jury impaneled
in Chicago consists of eight negroes and elk
teen white men. ... Dispatches from different
parts Of Iowa state that the corn crop will be
poor. The other crops will be up to the aver
age. Nine persons attempted to cross a
swollen river near Greenfield, ILL.,, in wagon,
but were capsized and six of them drowned.
There has been a warm dispute for some time
between the citizens of Wosterville, o., and a
man who opened saloon there recently-it
being the only one in the corporation. Finally
some one discharged load of gunpowder
under the building at midnight, doing much
damage. The next day the saloon keeper got
out warrants for tho arrest OF all the ministers
in the town, as well as other prominent in
dividuas, on the charge of insulting and ell
couraging an assault upon the saloon. Tho
Catholic church ut Binghamton, N. Y, was
broken into and robbed of the poor boxes and
the sacred vessels from the altar. .... During
an affray between crowd OF negroes and
white men, at Vicksburg Miss, two negroes
were killed aud another fatally shot. Lizzie
Schmidt seven years of age, was outraged and
killed near O.Fallon, Ill. Joseph Hogan was
arrested in East ST. Louis on suspicion of COM
mitting the crime.
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Ready-Made Gas Works.

worthy country parson once preach
ed labored sermon on the benehcence of
Providence in causing large rivers to
flow past important towns. Juvenescent
critics professed to see i'll the fact which
the good dominic eudeavored to improve,
only an evidence that it was the shrewd-
ness of man that was exemplitied in Sc
lccting the banks of navigable rivers as
sites for towns. But we can hardly look
upon it either as an iuterposition of
Providence, or as an evidence of the
shrewdness of the Lake Shore railroad
people, that the latter should have Sc
lected rs a site for their railway shops n
locality where, it seems, they are to be
provided with fuel and light from the
spontaneous productions of the EARTH
This can only be ascribed to sheer luck
When the Lake Shore company built
their shops in Glenville, i'll East Cleve-
land, they doubtless supposed that they
had secured good site for their purpose,
but they certainly entertained no hope
of having light and fuel furnished free
But Mr.. Bartlett, who happened to be
digging cellar there, lately noticed an
escape of gas from cracks in tho earth,
and utilized his discovery by connecting
an india rubber tube between the cracks
in the cellar and burner in the house,
when the cellar had been covered by Il
dwelling, and the result was light and
cheerfulness in the house, without ex-
penditure for kerosene or other burning
fluids. This led to other experiments,
and on the farm of Mr.. Parks, not many
rods distant from the round house of the
railroad company, was found spot
about forty feet square composed of
mineral oil, decayed vegetable matter,
and the like, underneath which was a
stratum of blue clay, full of seams and
fissures, which appears to be an mex
haustible reservoir of burning gas. A
temporary receiver was made by placing
an inverted tobacco pail over one of the
cracks. In it three-eighths of an inch
gas pipe was inserted, and upon applying
lighted match to the stream of gas issli-
ing from the pipe, flame eighteen
inches in height appeared, and has con-
tinued to burn both day and night.
Further tests have convinced those in
terested that these natural gas works
will supply fuel and light sufficient for
all the demands of the railroad works
and the dwellings of the village around
them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15
RAILWAYS in the United States.

From "Poor's Railway Manuel " for
1886 we learn that the totid number
of miles of railroad in operationsnt the
close of 1874 was 1923, against Q.6S3
at the close of 1S73-an increase of 1910
miles. This is the smallest number of
miles of railroad constructed in one year
since 1866. Comparative statements of
roads having total length of SO, 273
miles in 1874, and &C, ,237 in 1873, show
the following: Aggregate cost was ST.
221, 766, 594, against $3,7S4, 543, ,034 in
1873 capital stock-1S74, 81, $50, 997,-
1856 1873, 81, 947, 63S, ,6S4; debt, chiefly
funded 1874, 81, 230, 766, 10S; 1873, ST.
S36, ,904, $50; average cost per mile, 1874
500, 425; 1873, $57, 1874; gross earnings
-1S74, $500, ,466, ,016; 1873, 1926, 49,
623 ; working expenses-1S74, $3.50, $685.
O5S; 1873, $342, 500, 1873 !; net earnings
1874, $1S9, $50, ,95S 1873, $1S3, $40, 1862 !;
amount divided-1S74, $67, ,042, ,942 !;
1873, $67, 12O, ,7O9. average dividend on
stocks-1S74, 3.39 per cent; 1873, 3.45
per cent.
The mileage and average cost and
earnings per mile for the different sec
tions of the country were as follows:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15
Dancing Going Out.

Somehow London seems to have got
tired of dancing, correspondent says.
When the Shah was here, no remark he
made was more relished than his ques-
ton to the Prince of Wales while the
dance was going on: "Why do you not
employ servants to do this for you ~
The perspiring prince could hardly ex-
plain, but society generally seems 4 n
clined to relegate dancing to the Gbrps de,
ballet. This has been especially the
case thisseasen when the new fashionable
skirts have gone to an extreme from the
liberation of the ballet. A lady wassre-
Gently heard to say, with sigh: "What
with being tied around above and tied
around below, 1 haven't had a good
square sit down for three months. "
When large ball is given there is an
apology for dancing, a few mincing
steps are taken, but presently the com
pany falls to admiring each others
dresses, and it all ends in music and
talk. Dancing bids fair to become a
"survival." as the antiquarians say.
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The following is statement of the
average results per mile

The emanuel" makes the following
summing up: The result, on the whole,
cannot be considered an unfavorable
one. The earnings of the roads were
only IS, ,953, ,919, or LII per cent. less
than those for 1873. They were so, 224,-
961, or ten per cent. greater than those
for 1872. They exceeded by SLY, 1885,
sos the earnings of 1871. These facts
show how intimate are the relations
which the railroad system sustains to
the business of the country, how potent
its influence in the development of its
resources and the firm foundation on
which it rests. Previous to 1874 the
annual percentage of increase of earnings
for many years exceeded ten per cent.
those of the one Immediately previous.
A similar rate of increase for the past
year would have given an aggregate of
earnings of about $685., 100000. Such a
result would undoubtedly have been
reached but for the condition of our cur
rency. That it was not reached is one
of the many proofs of the penalty We
pay for delaying the necessary reform.
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A Real Romance.

A few afternoons ago lady called at
a store in Chicago, and carelcssly laid
down her pocketbook while examining
some goods. Meanwhile another lady
picked it up by mistake and did not dis
cover it until she had reached the street.
She then fastened back, and, not know
ing exactly where she had obtained it,
left it in the hands of clerk whom she
knew, intrusting him with the RESPONSE
bility of finding the owner. Shortly
afterward the loss was discovered, and
the lady openly accused the unfortunate
clerk who waited upon her of having
taken it, and when he, in his surprise,
protested his innocence, she appealed
to one of the shop-walkers, aid insisted
that she had seen the young man snatch
it off the counter and slip it into his
pocket In vain he protested. She was
ineXorable, and only left the store upon
the promise that everything possible
should be done to recover hei lost prop
erty. The next morning her husband
came down and tackled the unhappy
measurer of dry goods. Another un
pleasant scene followed, and just as the
wretched youth had begun to make up
his mind that the fates We're determined
to make criminal of him in spite of
himself, lady entered the store with a
note from the holder of the lost treasure,
which explained all. Something adj
preaching scene followed, in which
everybody was as happy if not happier
than one who discovered that propriety
occasionally requires those who recover
lost property to make very unpleasant
apologies.
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Her Pets,

Some days ago q lady of Freehold, N,
j., on going out to feed her chickens,
was surprised to find that an old hen,
which had for two weeks been persistent
ly setting on nothing, had appropriated
to herself four kittens, whose mother
she kept away with fierce thrusts of her
beak, and over which she was brooding
with all the tenderness of q mother. The
cat to whom they belonged could not get
near them, and they have been fed ever
since by the hen.
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A Good Puzzle.

Those who are curious as to magic
squares will find something to interest
them in Parton's "Life of benjamin
Franklin" This great philosopher was
very fond of inventions of this sort
Here is the correct answer to the puzzle:
"In what manner may the odd numbers,
from to 40 inclusive, be arranged so
sum of each row of five figures
shall bn 10h %
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15

Eminent men of science have dis
covered that electricity and magnetism are
developed in the system from the iron in the
blood. This accounts for the debility, low
spirits and lack Of energy person feels when
this vital element becomes reduced The
Peruvian Syrup, II protoxide Of iron, supplies
the blood with its iron element, and is the only
form in which it can enter the circulation
Com.
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next morning they were frisking about
as happy as before the ewes were sheared.

next morning they were frisking about
as happy as before the ewes were sheared.
A Cure for sooty ChImneys.
F. Q. r. says About fifteen years
ago, a dwelling was raised one story
higher, and a chimney had also to be
raised some feet higher; and as the
chimney was built up, it was plastered
on the inside with salt mortar, to pre-
vent the adhesion of the SCOT. The re-
suit is that the part plastered with salt
mortar is white and clean to this day,
while the other part gets filed with SCOT
up to the very line where the salted part
begins, and has to be cleaned each year,
the chimney being in almost constant
use. The proportions used were one
peck of salt, added while tempering. to
three pecks of mortar.
Match Mats.
These can be made of ordinary sand
paper cut in circular and octagonal
shapes, fastened upon pasteboard and
bound with bright colored braids, o
ring attached to each and the whole
hung near the match-safe for use when
ever a match is lighted. The unsightly
marks that disfigure many walls, may by
this inexpensive and simple arrangement
be entirely prevented. There should be
one in every room in the house.
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We copy the following from an ex-
change, which is important IL true Chronic
diarrh@a Of long standing, also dysentery and
all similar complaints common at this season OF
the year, can be cured by the use Qnternally)
OF Johnson'S Anodyne Liniment. We know
whereof we affirm.-Com.
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When an editor retires from the
London Times he is made baronet.
When an American editor retires he is
made-but who ever heard of one retir-
ing 2 He goes down with the ship.
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The American Grocer declares that
there is scarcely Il single class of goods
put up and sold in this country which is
not short of the weight or measure
claimed for it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15

The purest article is the cheapest in the
end. Dobbins' Electric Soap (madc by
Cragin & Co., Phil is perfectly pure,
snow-white, and preserves clothes wash
ed with it. Be sure and try it.
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In a recent investigation of the num-
ber of missionaries and converts in Japan
the following was the result Greek
church, missionary, 5000 converts;
Roman Catholic, forty missionaries,
10000 converts Protestant, seventy
missionaries, 200, 900 eenverts.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15

The cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations of this State are now compounded
and sold under the name of Parsons P,uga-
iUe PtUS,-COm.
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Two REASONS" Here's boy down
here who wants to lick me - exclaimed
a bootblack as he approached police
man ON Griswold street.
she does, eh2 What forG"
Essays 1 called him names, but 1
didn't"
"Are you afraid of him2"
"No, not exactly, but don't want to
fight. One reason is promised my dy-
ing mother ! wouldn't, and the other
reason is cause he's bigger'n am I"
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A MAN OF A THOUSAND.

A CONSUMPTIVE CURED. - When death was
hourly expected from Consumption, all remedies
having failed, accident led to discovery whereby Dr.
II. JAMES cured his only child with preparation Of
Cdnndts THdcu He now gives recpe free on receipt of
two stamps to pay expenses. There is not n single
symptom of Consumption that It does not d ssipnte-
Night Sweats Irritation of the Nerves Difficult Expec
toration, sharp Pains In the Lungs Nausea at the
Stomach 1naction of the Bowels, and Wasting of the
Muscles. Address CRADDOCK 4 CO., 1882 Race
Street, Philadelphia, Pa, giving of this paper.
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In the busy walks of life you will find and women
who suffering from dyspepsia liver complaint head
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ton, acidity, dependency, and many other mnladies
caused from impure state of the blood. This state
things need not exist. DIR. LANCIEY'S ROOT
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Dipping the Lambs.

We have Just been dipping the lambs,
says Walks and Talks on the Farm. "
We finished shearing last week, and as
usual the ticks from the sheared ewes
soon got on to the lambs. L only dipped
my ewes once last summer. They ap-
parently were so free from ticks that we
did not dip them last fall. 1 suppose
this is the reason why we had so many
ticks on the young lambs this spring. 1
took two gallons of soft soap, about six
pounds of grease, half pound of white
hellebOre, and one quart of crude car
bolic acid, and boiled the whole together
for half an hour in eight pailfuls (say
eighteen gallons) of water, until the
grease was all dissolved and thoroughly
mixed with the water. To this'we added
six pailfuls of cold water, or sufficient to
reduce the temperature of the dip to
about blood-heat. / have a twoinch
plank watering trough, ten feet long,
two feet wide, and sixteen inches deep,
with partition in the center.
We put the fourteen pailfuls of liquid
into the trough, and raised one end of
the trough until the liquid was within a
few inches of the top at the other end,
and put blocks under to hold it in this
position. 1 have used this trough for
dipping lambs and sheep for some years,
but have always used more liquid, and
never before thought of the plan of lift
ing up one end of the trough. 1t worked
admirably. We had sixty lambs to dip,
many of them nearly as large as common
Merino sheep. We dipped the largest
first. When we got through there was
only about five pailfuls of the liquid left,
but as the lambs were smaller, there was
nearly enough to cover them, and by
turning them over in the liquid, every
part of the body, except the head, was
immersed.
One man caught the lambs, and two
dipped them, and L stood by and held
the lamb by the nose, so as to be sure
that none of the liquid got into his
mouth or nostrils. 1t took little over
one hour to dip the sixty lambs. Every
tick seemed to be az post instantly killed.
An hour afterward N examined several
of the lambs. We fd&nd hundreds of
dead ticks, but not a sim de live one. 1
never had dip 80 entirely satisfactory
and etfectual. None of the lambs show
ed any symptoms of sickness, and the
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-04-22

THE WEATHER WE MAY EXPECT NEXT SUM-
MER.-Professor Tice, the meteorological, to whose
remarkable predictions, and their no less remark
able fulfllment, concerning the physical pertur-
nations which accompanied the late equinox of
Venus, we referred to few days ago, states that
the period from the 18th of June next through
the first halt of July will he a season of high
electric tension in the atmosphere, many thun-
der storms, possibly many rain falls and cyclones
such water-spouts and tOrnadoes. The cycle
occurs again abOut the middle of October. The
phenomena twenty days before and after should,
he says, be particularly noted. He claims that
there are meteorological cycles which are influ-
enced by the equinox of Venus, and the record of
the phenomena he adduces not only proves the
occurrence of perturbations at these equinoNes,
but that they begin to manifest themselves as
early as twenty and sometimes as early as TWEEN
ty-fve days anterior to the occurrence of the
equinox, and may continue many days sub
soquent to it. The exact day of bad weather can
not be foretold, can immediate locality of the
paroxysm; bnt by means of the system he claims
to be able TO tell where the disturbance will be
felt least and where it is liable to be the great
est.-PittsbHrg Commercial.