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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-25

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 19.-Tho Ma
tional Grange convoncd. All tire
States and territories except two wore
represented. Tho report of the Exocur
two Committee was discussed. In
regard to the business of tho differont
agencies, the report says, somc cities
are doing worry largo business and
have in tho aggregate millions, Of doll
lars, while in other respects they arc
| unsatisfactory and fall short of tho
boncfits which ought to he realized.
The commission system of orders fs
said to bo false in theory and unjust
to mombors and therefore, in tho
minds Of tho committee, another me-
thod of selling is doomed necessary
for tho good of tho order. Such q
system the committee bcgs leave to-
submit plans of at q future day and is
satisfied will meet with gonoral apH
proval. In conclusion tho committee
recommends the employment Of loc-
turers to canvass tho country and
mako known the true ann and objects
of the ordor, thereby correcting tho
wrong impressions which now exist
in the minds of many worthy people
concerning tho Patrons of Husbandry.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-25

a fashionable wom0n's clothes
weigh twenty four pounds, exclusive
Of hat, furs and rubbers, while q mana
outfit hardly goes over fifteen pounds,
This is FREQ country, however, and
any woman is at liberty to carry aR
much rs q mule can draw, ifshe wants
IO
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-25

A mammoth steer from Oregon is
already en- route to the Centennial 1t
stands nineteen hands, or six feet
four inches, measures twenty feet
from tip to tip, and weighs 5000
pounds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-11-25

Soft hats have onco moro come into
favor with gcntlomon. They are q
moro sensible head gear than the
hard stove pipes, which, for somo not
discovorablo reason, are generally sup
posed to impart dignity to their woar-
crs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
The Composition of Milk.

The dairyman's raw material is milk,
and milk is a fluid of animal origin,
varying. within certain limits, in the
relative amounts of its component parts.
1t will be sufficiently accurate for our
present purpose to say that one hundred
parts of milk are composed Of eighty
seven and one-half parts of water, three
and one-half parts of butter, three and
one-eighth parts of sugar, and less than
one part of mineral matter. In new
milk the composing parts are in state
of solution, and all except the butter can
be drawn from existing association only
by agencies which change their form or
composition. The butter is only held
mechanically in the milk it exists as an
emulsion of oil and heavier fluid,
which is chiefly water and curd-forming
material. When milk is examined with
microscope the globules of oil are
plainly seen floating in the liquor. 1t is
the art of the buttermaker to collect
these globules into solid mass.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

for the present. .Ex-President Thers made
speech at banquet rendered him, in which
he said the republic must be maintained, and
denied that that form of government would
isolate France from Europe ... The commits
sioner OF revenue has instructed his officers not
to seize cigars packed in paper or tin boxes un-
less certain they have not had duty paid on
them. He will recommend to Congress to
modify the law 80 that such boxes can be used.
..... CLARK Edmondson, negro charged with
outraging white woman, was lynched at
Atlanta, Ga, or Sunday morning. ... Bishop
Bourget has had letter read in all the Cana
dian Catholic churches warning his people not
TO interfere with the burial OF Guibord, and
stating that the ground will be cursed as soon
as the body is deposited there ..... The draft
Of cavalry horses in Cuba for the use OF the
army has been abolished, and tax Of S10 for
every horse that would have been drafted has
been institu ed in its stead.
The board Of charities Of Utica, N. Y, is
attempting the solution Of the tramp question
by requiring all ablo-bodied stragglers apply
ing for relief to break stones upon the public
streets. There is perceptibe diminution of
the number Of applicants already. The
New York Produce Exchange has fixed five
grades for oats, viz: White, high mixed, No.
2, No. 8, no grade. White oats shall be bright,
sound, clean, free from other grain, and shall
weigh not less than thirty-two pounds to the
measured bushel. High mixed oats shall be
two-thirds white, and equal to No. in all
other respects. No. oats shall be sound
reasonably clean, and reasonably free from
other grain. No. 8 oats shall be fit for ware.
housing, otherwise unequal to No. 2. No
grade shall include all oats damp, unsound,
dirty, or from any other cause unfit for No. 8.
.... Ex-senator Chandler, of Michigan, has
taken the oath of Office as secretary of the
interior ... Prof. Watson, of Ann Harbor
Mich, announces the discovery of new
planet in right ascension one hour no minutes
north, declination six degrees fifty-four min
utes. 1t is Of the tenth magnitude. Its daily
motion is south five degrees ...... Charles
Revere, well-known sporting man of New
York, owner Of the trotting horse Butler, COM
mtted suicide by shooting himself through
the head, on account of trouble with woman.
...... 1t is stated in German naval circles that
Prince Frederick {" Fritz y intends to visit
the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia, and
that German squadron will escort him
thither. IA Bavarian decree gives effect to
the imperial laws introducing compulsory civil
marriages. ... Two more steamers have ar
rived at Havana from Spain with re-enforce-
ments for the army 900. Several hundred
students of Yale College amused themselves
| hy and a
sion of Odd Fellows, until the latter turned
and charged the crowd with their swords
Several students were slightly injured.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Remedy Against Cholera.

DR.. Woodworth, the officer appointed
by the United States authorities to
investigate the subject, says So the true
remedy against cholera is preventive
medicine" and he might add, preventive
measures. The latter are of the ordi-
nary hygienic character, which, though
well understood, are too little attended
to by the bulk of the people. 1t was
shown at the time of the Ashantee war
that water may be effectually purified of
organic matter with mixture of clay,
permanganate of lime, aud sulphate of
alumina in due proportions. Expert
ments in Europe in 1872, with number
of ordinary agents, showed conclusively
that while some are comparatively power
less to produce any effect in destroying
the life of the bacteria which exist in
some of the fluids of the system in
cholera, these bodies are effectively de-
stroyed by sulphate of iron, and
especially by sulphuric and nitric acids.
DIR. Woodworth joins with those who
for more than half a century have been
regarding these as the best preventives,
and he says emphatically that we do
"possess in the mineral acids certain
prophylaxis against cholera"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Tie American Crocodile.

William T. Hornday makes repul-
sive subject interesting in treating of
the Florida crocodile. His notes are
the result of personal observation dur
ing q sojourn on the southeast coast of
Florida, where he was collecting zoologi-
cal specimens. He describes the croco-
die as pugnacious, and very tenacious
of life, often living to a green old age,
after passing through all kinds of des-
perate struggles. 1t is not an uncom-
mon thing to find specimen which has
lost part of its tail or one of it's legs :;
and an alligator-a cousin-german to
the crocodile-was killed last winter,
whose upper jaw had been broken off
squarely halfway up to his eyes by
some casualty probably occurring years
ago.
Mr.. Hornday procured a very Gne
male crocodile for his collection by ly-
ing in wait for him with q rifle near q
mudhole in which he was wont to wal
low. The old fellow made sturdy re-
sistance to the advance of the destroyer,
and gave up only after receiving six
bullets in his neck, directed towards the
brain. He measured fourteen feet in
length, and five feet two inches in cir
cumference at point midway between
his fore and hind legs. He had evi-
IDENTIFY braved death before in one shape
or another three of his teeth were found
to be shattered ; the tibia and fibula of
his right hind leg had been broken in
two and joined again, as had also one of
the metatarsal bones of the same limb
about five inches had been bitten OF torn
off foil fhnrn cior &c
old wound in the awkward angle at
which two of the vertebr@ near the mid
die of the tail had grown together.
The next day this crocodile's mate was
shot in the same neighborhood. She
measured ten feet eight inchesin length,
and presented many points in contrast
with the other. Her teeth were regular
and white and sharp. The mottled
black and yellow of her back and sides
was distributed evenly, the yellow rather
predominating than otherwise while in
the case of the male no part was yellow
except the belly-the sides shading off
into the lusterless black which covered
almost all of the back and tail. The
ovary of the female contained four hun
dred and twenty eggs, varying in size
from No. s shot to a hens egg, and all
perfectly spherical. 1t may be added,
in passing, that the female crocodile
lays twenty or thirty eggs at time,
which she puts in layers in hole in the
mud or sand on the shore, covering each
layer with coat of earth and reeds and
grass. She then leaves the process OF
Matching to the fermentation of this
mass, which reaches the right degree in
about months time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Where Do the Clouds Float 2

For too long o time the scientific
world has believed in the idea of De
Saussure-that the water particles, of
which clouds and fogs consist, are vesi-
cles, analogous to soap bubbles, consist
ing of watery envelope, with vacuum
inside, so as to. be specifically lighter
than the air. It is strange, says the
Manufacturer and Builder, that the
fact is continually being overlooked that
If particles are only small enough they
withstanding the material of which they
are parts is considerably heavier than
the medium in which they float. Pow
dews of heavy material may be kept up
in water for days and weeks, as those
who prepare polishing powders know.
The finest emery is only obtained from
water from which the coarse particles
have been deposited in different periods
of time, according to their fneness,
when at last, after collecting the de-
posits of many hours, and even days,
the very finest parts do not settle until
after many weeks rest.
II is the same in the air if we collect
the dust deposited i'll room which has
been closed for some weeks, and examine
it, we will find it all to consist of parti-
cles of very heavy materials, and if ma
chine shops are in the neighborbood,
even metallic dust will be recognized.
Now when heavy metallic dust can be
carried in the air, why not water dust,
which is much lighters In viewing the
grand falls of Niagara, we have noticed
that, when the atmosphere was not too
dry, so as to cause the spray to disap-
pear, while the sky was covered with
loose floating clouds, the spray in as
cending formed cloud identical to the
others, with which it foated away.
The height at which the clouds will
float depends chiefly on the size of the
watery particles-the larger they are the
lower the clouds will float. This was re-
Gently verified by Mr.. Angus Smith in
Iceland, where he observed cloud or
fog rolling down the streets like dust
1t came from the sea- and the particles
were larger than any he had ever seen
before, being about one four hundredth
of an inch in diameter. He did not find
the particles hollow, but concrete
throughout, and in his account refers
also to the absurdity of the theory that
the cloud particles should consist Of hoi-
low spheres or vesicles.
The power which holds small and
heavy particles up in liquid or gas is
simply the adhesion, which increases
with the surface. The finer the dust is
the larger is the surface as compared
with the volume, and when the adhesive
action of the liquid OF gas on this large
surface is great enough it may overcome
gravitation and the particles cannot fall,
but will be kept floating.
That there is strong adhesion be-
tween air and water is proved by the
effect of wind on the surface of water,
especially when compared with the effect
of the wind on a watery surface lubri-
Gated with film of oil then the air
glides over it without causing even rip
pie On this depends the quieting effect
of oil when poured on turbulent waves
when they are caused by wind. Oil
poured on the waves of the rapids of
the st. Lawrence river would by no
means have that same quieting effect.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Cabinet or ParlOr Organs.

These have become the most popular
of large musical instruments. There
are now about two hundred and fifty
makers of them in the United States,
who produce more than forty thousand
organs per annum. Most of these are
very poor Instruments. This is naturally
so, because there are few articles in the
manufacture of which so much saving
can be made by the use of inferior, i'm
properly prepared material, and inferior
workmanship, and yet which, when fin
ished, show SO little difference to the
average purchaser. The important parts
of an organ, made as well as they can
be, cost two OF three times as much as
if made as low as possible. Yet, when
the organ is done, it is not easy from
casual hearings to tell the difference be-
tween the best and very poor one. Es-
pecially when shown by one who knows
how to cover up defects, to one who has
not special skill in such matters, it is not
difficult to make poor organ appear
q good one.
The temptation to makers, then, to
produce, at fraction of the cost, an Or
gan which will sell almost as well as a
good one is almost irresistible. Hence
the fact that so few good organs are made
and so many poor ones, and that the
country is flooded with peddlers and
dealers selling these poor organs, which
pay such large profits. The buyer of the
poor organ does not fail to find out his
mistake after q while. The thin reedy
tone of his cheap organ soon becomes
offensive, it works noisily and roughly,
| Ic,n &c lou, 4
useless by the time a really good in
strument would have been getting into
its prime. A good organ ought to last q
generation, at least; poor one may
last five years, with considerable tinker,
ing, or may break down much sooner.
There is one safe way. Get genuine
production of one of the very best makers
and you cannot go astray. Among these
undoubtedly stands pre-eminent the
Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., whose
organs are SO well known that Other
makers are generally content to claim
that they can make as good an organ as
the Mason & Hamlin. They invented
and introduced the Cabinet or Parlol
Organ in its improved form, started will
and have always closely adhered to the
policy of making only the best work,
have shown such skill as has given theil
organs the highest reputation, not only
in this country but also in Europe. Al
the Great Exposition at Vienna, in com
petition with eighty of the best makers
in the world, they obtained the highest
medals. To enumerate the competitions
at which they have received similar
honors would be to give list of the
fairs at which they have exhibited and
to mention the prominent musicians who
recommend their organs as unequaled
would really be to give very good list
of the most illustrious musical names in
the country, with good representation
in Europe.
One who obtains a Mason & Hamlir
Cabinet Organ need have no doubt that
he has the best instrument of its class
which can be made.-Ne,O York hde
pendent. a.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Long ClOaks.

OF all garments that have grown
longer, says fashion journal, cloaks
show the most decided increase in
length. The long pelissesand basquines,
nearly fitted to the figure, are revived for
cloth cloaks, while long French sacks with
loose backs are used for those of silk
that are lined with fur. Dolmans are
also longer, and have ample sleeves from
the elbow to the wrist. There are other
new wraps that resemble the double
capes of two years ago, but which have
the fronts turned up to form sleeves.
New jackets of figured camel's-hair have
closed sleeves hanging long and square,
and showing a lining of velvet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.


SCHENCKs SEA WEED Tonic,
ScHENcK's MANDRAKE PILLS,
Are the only medicines that will Pulmonary Com
sumption
Frequently medicines that will stop cough will occa-
sion the death of the patient they lock the liver
stop the circua ion of the blood hemorrhaRe follows
and in fact they clog the action of the that
caused the cough
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia the causes of two
thirds of the of Consumption. Many com
plain of dull pain in the side constipation, coated
tongue pain In the shoulder blade feelings of drows
restlessness, the food lying heavily the
stomach accompanied with acdity and belohing up
wind.
These symptoms usually originate from a dlsordered
condition of the stomach torpid liver.
Persons SO affected, II they take two heavy
colds, and II the cough in these be suddenly
checked, will find the stomach ana liver clogged,
manning torpid and inactive and almost before they
aware the lungs are mass of and liberated, the
result of which is death.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup Is expectorant which
does not ain opium anything calculated to check
q cough suddenly.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic dssolves the food, mil es
with the gastric juices of the stomach digestion
and creates ravenous appetite.
When the bowels costive skin sallow, or the
Mandrake Pills required.
These medicines are prepared only by
j. III. SCHENCK q Son,
N f. corner Sixth and Arch Streets, Phila.
And are for sale by all druggists and dealers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
Important to Travellers.

Persons visiting New York or leaving by the
cars from Grand Central Depot, will save an
noyance and expense of carriage hire and bag
gage e1pressage by stopping at Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot. Over
$50 elegantly furnished rooms and fitted up at
cost Of $9O0,U00 European plan. Guests
can live more luxuriously for less money at the
Grand Union that at any other irst-class house
in New York. Stages and street cars pass the
doors for all parts of the city. See that the
hotel you enter is the Grand Union Hotel
Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

To cure cough, to relieve all irrita-
tions Of the throat, to prevent hoarseness, to
restore perfect soundness and health to the
most delicate organization Of the human frame,
the lungs, use Wistdr's Bdlsdm of Wild
Cherry. Fifty cents and one dollar a bottle,
large bottles much the cheaper.-Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

A missionary, just returned, says he
regards Johnson's Anodyne Liniment as be-
yond all price and efficacious beyond any
other medicine. It is adapted to great variety
of special cases, and is the best pain curer in
the world.-C Com
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

Fevers seldom make an attack without
warning, and may often be thrown off by soak
ing the feet in warm water, wrapping up warm
in bed, and taking two or three Of Parsons
Purgdtiue Pius.-Oom.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

A lady said to us the other day: "DoE-
bins Electric Soap (made by Cragin &
Co., Phila., Pa.) has saved my life. 1t
has SO lessened my labors when 1 have
been worn out" Try it at once.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

1t has been determined to discover
Columbus and bury him in Italy. His
remains are outside of the national fold,
and Santa Croce mourns for him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

All the nice young women are getting
a stock of colored yarn to make worsted
dogs during the long evenings.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28
N.Y.N. .U.-No. 43.

B4txlkY ed IL TRANSPARENT NIsITINa
H3 CARDS, for 25 Cents. Each card contains
9 which is not visible until held toward, the light
Nothing like before offered in America Bgnduce-
nsnts 70 Agents. NOVELTY PRINTING Co.. Ashland Mass.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

Farmers, give your sons an interest in
your business, or remunerate them in
some fair way for their work. Educate
them yourself in farm matters and teach
them to use their own Judgment in buy
ing and selling farm produce. Don't
tyrannize over them, but rather treat
them as companions and encourage them
to have confidence in you. Make home
pleasant to them by means of books and
music and rational recreation. By doing
all this you will render farm life pleas
ant and attractive for them, and do much
to stop the longing for city life which is
now so commonly found among farmers
sons.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-28

slIlchtu Will dpOplcAy hnue pfedcIllS W HIS
congregation ...... At the regatta of the Yale
College navy, held near New Haven, the law
school crew won three-mile shell race with q
crew of class II, in nineteen minutes and
twenty-seven seconds. A barge race of two
miles between the freshmen crews of the
academic and scientific departments, was won
by the academies in thirteen minutes and
thirty-three and one quarter seconds. A two
mile race between crews of the law department
and the clals of II and rs, resulted in vic
tory for " in thirteen minutes and eighteen
and three-quarter seconds. The revenue au.
thorities Of st. Louis have instituted suits
against five parties for nearly one million dol
lars, on account of their removing spirits on
which the tax had not been paid. .... Don
Carlos has dismissed from his service Gems.
Gorregaray, Mendici, Velasco and Mogrovejo.
......A fve-mile single-scull race for 81, ,O0O
and the championship of America, between
Evan Morris and Henry Coulter, was rowed
over the Hutton course, Pittsburgh, Pa The
race was won by Morris by one length, in
thirty-five minutes and twenty seconds, which
is claimed to be the best time on record
At the sale of short horns at Vinewood, KY,
forty-four native COWS and heifers brought
$5S2l0, and twenty imported ones $51,225,
a total, for COWS Of $109, 425. Four native
bulls sold for 81 Ills, and five imported ones
for sl2, 800, total for bulls of S10O15. The
total for seyenty-three animals was 1923, 45O.
The Emperor William, accompanied by Won
Moltke and Won Bulow, reached Milan, and
was received by Victor Emmanuel. There was
great enthusiasm among the people. ..... The
Peking (China) Gazette has published an edict
in regard to the death Of NJ. Margary which is
considered satisfactory, and apprehensions Of
war between England ami China are dissipatei