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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
Items of Interest.
"Orthogrammania," is what they arc
calling the rage for spelling matches.

Orthogrammania," is what they arc
calling the rage for spelling matches.
An Oneida man advertises for peddler
who won't swear. Next he will want
boy with feathers on his legs.
A corn whisk will take off anything
on your coat, and corn whisky will take
off the coat Of your stomach.
A Christmas disappointment-"Its
lovely doll, dear grandpa and grandma;
but-but-Pd been hoping it would be
twins"
The infant sovereign of China assembled
the throne under the honorary title OF
Kwang Su, the best translation of which
is " continuation of glory"
The grasshoppers in the Western
States are around the railway stations
these warm spring mornings, to see WHO
comes to purchase seed wheat.
Hartford doesn't care about a spelling
match as long as she can go out and
look at this sign, which is put up near
the stone bridge: "Bolier and Engin
for sale."
1t don't make any difference whether
poems on "spring" are written on one
side of the paper or on two sides. They
stand the same chance of publication
either way.
A little girl at Richmond, Ind, the
other day, swallowed glass earring.
She lay eight days with it in her bron-
chial tubes and then coughed it up so
that surgeon cut it out. Her recovery
is expected.
The most convincing evidence that n
merchant is enterprising and up to the
times is afforded by the iberality with
which he advertises. That's the way it
strikes newspaper readers, and they are
the best customers.
Broom corn was introduced into our
country by DIR. Franklin. While eX-
amining corn whisk (imported) he ac-
cidently found single seed. which he
planted in his garden, and from which
the corn was propngated.
The largest and wealthiest village i'll
the country is Kalamazoo, Michigan,
which has II, $50 inhabitants, five rail
roads, several millions of manufactures,
and half dozen banks and colleges. 1t
has never applied for city charter.
A tramp in q lookup was overheard
describing to a crowd of his brethren the
best places for getting lodgings and food
between New York and Boston, Illus
trating his remarks with rough chart
which he had prepared as the result of
his experiences.
A clergyman in one of our Eastern
cities was met by a seedy-looking man
with n flask of whisky in his pocket,
who inquired: "Sir, is this the nearest
road to the almshouse Ono, sir"
replied the clergyman, pointing to the
bottle; "but that is.
There IS q young Yellow III foftlitllu
whose future depended upon the result
of the Brooklyn trial, because the girl
he loved promised to marry him If Bee
cher was pronounced innocent; other
wise she declared that her confidence IN
man would be destroyed and she would
never we'd
A ship at sea sprung leak. The hole
in it's bottom was just one foot square.
There was but one board on the ship-thlS
was sixteen inches long and nine inches
wide. 1t had precisely the requisite
number of square inches, and the car
penter cut it in two pieces only, and
these two pieces just fitted the hole
How did he do it
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29

beloved Demetri, bathed in the blood
that welled forth from the death wounds
her murderous hand had inflicted. He
it was, then, whose boyish passion had
been reciprocated by her young attend
ant he it was for whom Media had de-
vised the love meeting which had that
morning changed her own jealous fears
into dreadful cert,iinties, He il was, oh
God, upon whom her imaginary wrongs
had just been 50 barbarously avenged
The similarity of names, of dress, had
deceived her. Why had she not thought
of this before2 Why2 Does suspicion
ever pause to reason or reflect Is not
jealousy blind as love (whose dark
shadow it is said to be) All this passed
through her mind with the rapidity of
lightning, rs that one awful glance re-
vealed to her the extent of her crime.
No words escaped her lips, but, as if
struck by thunderbolt, she fell heavily
forward by the side of the beloved son
whose life had fallen sacrifice to the
rash and ungovernable suspicious of the
jealous wife.
The first use that Thyra made of her
returning faculties was to cast herself at
the feet of hel husband, and make full
confession of the feelings which had
driven her to commit so desperate
deed, imploring death at his hand in ex-
piation of her crime. But death, which
would have terminated her earthly tor
ments, was boon which the exasperated
husband was resolved not to grant her.
"Woman," said he, "you shall live to
die thousand deaths every day. You
shall live to curse the day on which you
were born. You shall live to expiate,
in lingering torments of mind, the misery
you have inflicted on me.
And, inhexible in his determination,
he caused his unfortunate wife to be con-
veyed to the Rock of Babake, where, in
a rudely constructed stone chamber, she
was condemned to drag out n miserable
existence, without being suffered to ex-
change a word with any human being, and
with no companionship save her own
wretched thoughts. Her senses failed
under her severe punishment; but mad
ness, instead of bringing oblivion to her
woes, seemed to have impaired new
activity to her faculties of suffering
Every evening as darkness covered the
earth, the poor maniac fancied herself
again an actor in the dreadful scenes
which stained her soul with the foul
guilt of murder; and the frenzied
shrieks she uttered during the night
were heard from afar, waking the echoes
of that dreary solitude until daylight
brought with it temporary cessation of
her agonies in the calm of exhaustion.
One day, at last, when her attendant
who daily brought her supplies of food
entered her prison, she had disappeared.
Every part of the rock was searched, but
no vestige of her was to be found, nor
could any trace of her be discovered to
nccount for her nysterinus eyani shnent
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
All Sinners.

A curate, preaching to the women of
his parish, in the interior of Colombia,
said: "There is one among my audience
of so scandalous behavior that 1 have
resolved-but no, will give no names,
because that would not be Christian
charity. But will just throw my bon
net at her, that you may know who she
is. )" The good curate then took off his
bonnet and made as if he was about to
throw it, shouting, "That is the vile
woman % All the women present held
down their heads to avoid the bonnet.
Dios inan,eneo :" exclaimed the cure /;
II thought there was only one sinner,
but I see conscience accuses al Of you. /"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
How to Cross the Street.

If ladies who see team approaching
as they are crossing street will glance
to see whether the driver observes them,
and finding that he does, will walk along
as though there was no danger what
ever, they will be much more safe than
they generally are at present under such
circumstances. Many ladies get fright
ened on seeing team near them, go
ahead little, dodge back, glance about
them with look of extreme bewilder-
ment, and then make grand rush, as
likely as not going in the direction they
should not go, the driver of the team
meanwhile refining his horses first to the
right and then to the left, anxious to
avoid inficting injury, but unable to
guess even where the lady will jump to
next.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
The Western Wheat Crop.

The winter wheat in the West has been
smothered. The sudden thaw and rains
in the latter part of February, followed
Immediately by heavy sleet and intense
cold, report from Chicago says, have
been mainly instrumental in killing, or
" smothering" as it is called, the great
quantity of winter wheat planted all
over this Western country. In some
parts of the country the farmers are
blowing up their fields sowed with wheat
last fall. This is in the uplands. In the
lowlands, where there is some moisture
there is hope of partial crop, but not
one-third of crop exists in the entire
Northwest. One broker, who has
travelled extensively through Illinois,
Wisconsin, and Michigan, says he could
eat all the wheat which will be grown in
those States.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
Useful knowledge.

A man walks three miles IN an hour;
horse trots seven; steamboats, run
eighteen; sailing vessels ten; slow rivers
flow four; rapid rivers seven; moderate
wind blows seven; storm moves thirty
six; hurricane, eighty; rifle ball, one
thousand; sound, seven hundred and
forty-three; light, 100000; electricity,
2S0,000. A barrel of flour weighs 1876
pounds; barrel OF pork, two hundred; ;
barrel of rice, six hundred; barrel of
powder, twenty-five; frkin of butter,
tifty-six; tub of butter, eighty-four.
Wheat, beans and clover seed, sixty
pounds to the bushel; corn, rye and fax
seed, fifty-six; buckwheat, fifty-two;
barley, forty-eight; oats, thirty five; /;
bran, twenty; timothy seed, forty-fve;
coarse salt, eighty-tive. Sixty drops
make drachm, eight drachms an
ounce, four ounces a gill, sixteen gills a
pint, sixty drops a teaspoonful, four
teaspoonfuls tablespoonful or half an
ounce, two tablespoonfuls an ounce,
eight tablespoonfuls gill, two gills a
coffee cup OF tumbler, six fluid ounces a
teacupful. -Four thousand eight hundred
and forty square yards, an acre, square
mile, six hundred and forty acres. To
measure an acre: 2O9 feet on each side,
making square acre, within an inch.
There are 2,750 languages. Two per-
sons die every second. A generation is
fifteen years; average Of life, thirty-one
years. The standing army in Prussia,
war times, 1900, 900; France, 1850, 900;
Russia, 100000; Austria, $4,000;
Italy, 100000; Spain, 100, 900; Belgium,
$4,000; England, $4,000; United States,
24,000 Roman Catholics in the United
States, 100000. Mails in New York
city are one hundred tons per day. New
York consumes six hundred beeves
daily, seven hundred calves, 10000
sheep, 10000 swine, in winter.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
ArabeSques.

When all the psnes are hun with frost,
Wild wizard-work of silver lace,
wheel my sofa on tho rug
Before the ancient chimney place;
And, basking in the fre-lights glow,
1 hear the hemlock chirp and sing,
As If Within it's ruddy core
1t held the happy heart of spring.
Terdousi never sang like that,
Nor he of Shiraz, I'll be sworn.
lounge, and blow white rings of smoke,
Ald wacch them, lightly upward borne.
The curling wreaths like turbans seem
OF silent slaves that come and CO.
Or viziers, packed with craft and crime,
Whom behead from time to time,
With pipe-stem, at single blow.
And now and then fragrant cloud
Takes gracious shape, at my desire,
And at my side my lady stands,
Unwinds her veil with snowy hands
A shadowy shape, breath of FIRE
o love if You were only here
Beside me in this mellow light,
Though all the bitter winds should blow,
And all the ways be choked with snow,
Twou2 be true Arabian night
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
He Won.

A Paris paper contributes story of an
Englishman, now residing in Paris, in
the enjoyment of large fortune, for
which he was indebted to his prowess
as member of the Oxford crew some
years since. During the race his boat
was apparently losing, when his uncle,
shouting from the bank, promised him
the hand of his daughter should Oxford
win. Stimulated by the promise, Mr..
Oxon induced his comrades to further
and successful efforts, and he was re-
warded not only by the hand of his
cousin, but also by the inheritance of
his uncle's fortune, which had been
largely increased by the bets upon the
race.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
What Compound Interest Does.

"Save the pennies and the dollars
will take care of themselves" used to be
the advice the wise old gentlemen gave
to the boys. AS our excellent savings
banks are ready to help those who are
so wise as to lay up their savings, the
young people especially can find food for
profitable reflection in the following
table, showing the product OF weekly
savings at compound interest at six per
cent, and deposits commence interest
the first day of each month:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
Life and Death.

The Carlisle table of mortality comes
as near the truth of the grave fatality of
a community, perhaps, as at present
possible. This table is the result of
observations, continued for many years,
as to the population of Carlisle, city in
England, and is used as on authority in
life insurance calculations in America
and Europe. According to this table, Of
10000 children born:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29

The Parisians devour 100,000,000 of
apples ever winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of
dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris
is owing to the increased consumption of
this fruit, which, he maintains, is an
admirable prophylactic and tonic, as
well as very nourishing and easily
digested article Of food,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
WILLING BoY-A Detroit Free Press

WILLING BoY.-A Detroit Free Press
newsboy about ten years old ran after a
pedestrian and urged him vehemently to
purchase a paper. The man made no
answer until the boy had followed him a
whole block, and then he haltedand said
"Boy, if you don't stop annoying me I'll
call n policeman. Don't go to any
trouble" replied the lad. "Buy pa
per OF me and I'll call policeman Ies
you,"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29

Leaving one of the 10000 persons
living at the expiration of 104 years.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
Blood Letting-The Lancet.

The late Homeopathic State Conyen.
ton in New Jersey contained members
who boldly announced that they would
and had IN certain cases used the lancet
-apostatizing as it were from the Hahn.
emannic theory. One of the number.
Prof. Lillie9thal announced to the coun-
Gil that having been called to a man an
parently dying, she suddenly made up
his mind 10 bleed him. and did bleed him
until he breathed easier. 1t might not
have been homeopathic, but il was the
thing for the case. And others said
that if they found plasters and blisters
useful they would use them.
About the same time that the Homeo-
pathists were thus bloody minded the
Allopathists-who largely discarded the
iancet-were in session Mt Louisville.
and the American Medical Society was
listening TO paper from DIR. Samuel d.
Gross ofPhiladelphia on the Importance
OF the operation as therapeutic agent,
in which that old-school gentleman spoke
feelingly of the lancet as IAN obsolete
instrument & ofvenesection as lost art.
The doctor avowed himself an advocate
OF blood letting, and believed that its
value would ere long be again generally
recognized. There was something
wrong" he said, Gin the discontinuance
of the practice" especially in diseases
OF an iniiammatory character.
So that blood must flow, be the prac-
tice allopothic or homepathic.-Fr ede
rfckS5urg Herald.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
How Quarrels Begin.

81 wish that pony was NINE" said q
little boy who stood at window look.
ing down the road.
What would you do with him?" ask.
ed his brother.
Ride him; that's what I'd do
"All day long?"
"Yes, from morning till night"
You'd have to let me ride him some.
times" said the brother.
why would I? You'd have no right
on him if he was mine"
Father would make you let me have
him part Of the time
NO, he wouldn'tp'
MY children" said their mother, who
had been listening, and now saw that
they were beginning to get angry with
each other, 'let me tell you of quarrel
that happened between two boys no big.
ger or older than you are, that / read a.
bout the other day. They were going
along the road talking together in plea
SAINT way, when one of them said:
81 wish | had all the pasture land in
the world"
The other said, "And / wish had all
the cattle in the world"
"what would you do them" asked
his friend
why, I would turn them into your
pasture land"
No, you wouldn't was the reply.
Yes, 1 would"
but l wouldn't let you"
IL wouldn't ask you"
You shouldn't do it,
IL should"
you shan't."
q will and with that they seized
and struck each other like two silly.
wicked boys as they were
The children laughed, but their moth
er said.
"You see in what triHcs quarrels often
begin. Were you any wiser than these
boys in your half-angry talk about an
imaginary pony? If l had not been
here, who knows but you might have
been as foolish and wicked as they were. -
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
Large Woods Fire.
Wia Scene at "a Church Detection Woods Take
Fire and Horses aad Carriages Earned

During the dedication of the new st.
Michaefs church. in grove IN Upper
Bern townsphip, Berks county. on Sun
day last, the woods were accidentally set
on fire. The fire broke out i'm the woods
where the horses stood tied. The flames
spread rapidly. and the excitement was
intense. Hundreds of horses were i'm
the woods. The men were bold and cut
the horses loose rs fast as they could.
The horses ran away in all directions,
wrecking the bugsies. Other horses
were burned and ran away while the bug
gies were in Hames Others were run.
ming while the collars were on fire.
Three horses were Burned so badly that
they had to be killed at once, and a good
many more have probably been killed
since. About twenty horses were burn
ed They suffered seriously some lad
their hoofs burned Off, while others had
the hair all burned off. Others were
roasted alive. Twenty horses were
burned and nineteen buggies were de-
stroyed, and many more damaged. The
sight was terrible. Great excitement
prevailed during the connagration. 1t
is thought that if half dozen good fire.
men had been on the ground the horses
could have been saved; but each enc
tried to save his horse first and some
were so much scared that they didn't
dare risk their lives. Some men have
received severe injuries. The damage
is estimated at over $4,000. 1t is re.
ported that the fire originated acciden-
tally by young man lighting cigar.
lie tried all in his power to extinguish
the flames, but without success. He
gave the alarm for assistance. and COM
menced to cut the horses loose as fast
aspossible. Accidentally his knife Slip
ped, and he gave himself a severe cut in
his check, SO that the blood flowed free
~. The young man is in great trouble
but he could not help it he had done
all that was i'll his power. At one time
fears were entertained that the church
would be swept away in the fiery ele-
ment, but the work OF brave and deter
mined men spared that community from
any further calamity. Many of the hor-
ses that were cut loose and that ran a.
way, have not as yet been captured.-
Pittsburgh Gazette, Mdy 81.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28

CURE FOR CHICKEN CnoLERA.--A
Henry A. Palmer. near Spring Hill, in
this county. furnishes us with the follow
ing remedy for chicken cholera -.
lake l quart of sweet milk, one spoon
iul oil soda, and mix in dough made OF
half corn meal and half -four. and feed
the afflicted fowls. In addition 10 the
above keep -four Cruel, or paste. i'm
troughs where they can feed upon it.
The above prescription is said to be
an inialiible cure for this very destruc-
tive disease among fowls. Poultry
raisers should try it.-Siatnaton Snec.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28


EATING WHEN SlCK.-It is a custom
among certain class Of people, when
member of the family is sick, TO begin ut
once to ask, now what can You eat2"
Every one has heard the story of the
man who ate eighteen dumplings when
he was sick. On one occasion, when en-
gagged on the eighteenth. his son said.
Pa give me piece?" mo, no, my son."
replied the father. "Go way. pas sick :"
When young man has been surfeited.
in season and out of season, until ex-
hausted nature gives away, and fever
is coming on, the good mother is in
trouble. She anxiously inquiries, now
John, what can you eat? You must eat
something. People can't live without
food" Then comes toast and tea. etc.
The stomach is exhausted and no moro
needs stimulating, or food, than the lad.
ed horse needs the whip. What is need.
ed is rest, complete rest. Nine-tenths OF
the acute diseases might be prevented
by few days starvation, when the first
indications appear. / don't mean COM
pletc abstinence in every case, but per
haps piece Of cold bread with cold wa
ter for drink. If such policy were gene
rally adopted what ruin would overtake
the medical professionally Lelcis.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
A New Cause of Triohinmin Pork.

Some new cases Of deaths, due 70 the
eating Of pork infested with trichino.
which are being quoted in Western Jour.
nails, should be the means Of directing
public attention anew TO the horrible
disease OF swine, called trichinosis. and
20 the fact that, when once the parasite
attacks n human being. the result is pro-
longed suffering and, in a multiplicity
Of instances, death. The worm existing
in the pork litcrally boros its way out OF
the stomach and into the muscles.
IL has lately been found that swine
may become infested with trichins,
through eating carrion, or even decayed
vegetable substances. This is n point
worth consideration by farmers who in.
cline TO the belief that dead chickens
putrid swill. or any other filth about the
place is legitimate food for the pig. The
animal is not dainty In his tastes. and
will lunch or his dead relatives with in.
finite gusto but il is the poorest econ.
omy 90 permit him 90 assume the role OF
scavenger. No milk dealer will allow
his cows TO eat garlic If he can help Il.
though the brutes are crafty fond Of the
oioriferOus weed and there IL certain
" more reason for the farmer TO sec
that bis porkers have no access 70 I'M
clean food. In the one case. n precau-
ton be neglected. the taste Of the milk
Is affected IN the otherthe entire feshis
rendered poisonous and dangerous food.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28

How TO IMPROVE CoRN.-A cores.
pendent with regard to the Improvement
Of the corn. says: "Plant early ON the
ground you have. Plant but two ker-
nels to the hill, or at least let only that
number OF stalks mature. Manure libe-
rally, cultivate thoroughly. This treat
ment will give n tendency to produce
two or more ears 20 the stalk. Again,
plant all such double cars. Continue
this for number Of years. and the re.
suit will be new variety Of corn, and
very prolific"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28

A NEW INDICATION or DEArH-Is
the patient really dead or not? is nj
times a very anxious question A med.
ical practitioner Of Cremona proposes a
simple method by which the question
may be answered with certainty. II il
to inject drop Of ammonia beneath the
skin when, If death be present. no effect.
or next to none. is produced but IL
there be life, then red spot appears
at the place Of the injection. A test so
easily applied as this should remove all
apprehension Of being buried alive
Scicafifc Aneric0n.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28

t=V The Colorado Potato Bug has
made its appearance in the potato patch.
es ABOUT town. We are told that the
leaves OF the elder strewn about tho
vines will drive this pest away 1t is
worth trying.
We have also heard of remedy for
the ravages of the cabbage worm. A
small quantity of salt sprinkled on the
cabbage, it is said. will destroy all worms.
Cheap, If it is effectual.--W Winch. Ne,rs