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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
What they DO with a Horse.

In Paris, when horse has been kill
ed, it is cut up and the choice portions
of the flesh are eaten up by the work
people. The rest of the carcass is sold
for the feeding of dogs, cats, pigs and
poultry, portion being also devoted to
purposes of manure. The flesh thus
disposed of weighs on an average about
$50 pounds, and sells for from $3.50 to
$40. The skin brings from the tanner
about $780, The hoofs are disposed of
to manufacturer of sal ammoniac or
similar preparation, or of Partisan blue,
or to a comb or toy maker. The old
shoes and nails are worth six cents. The
hair of the name and tail sells for three
cents. The tendons are disposed of,
either fresh or dried, to glue makers.
The bones are bought by the turner's,
cutters, fan makers, and the makers of
ivory black and sal ammoniac. OF bones
the average weight is ninety pounds and
the amount realized about sixty cents.
The intestines are worth five cents. The
blood is most serviceable. The chief
purchasers are the sugar refners, who
use it in manufacturing sugar. The
blood is also bought up by the fatteners
of poultry, pigeons and turkeys then
again it is sold for manure. When re-
quired for manure it is dried, twenty
pounds Of dried blood, which is the
average, being worth forty-fve cents.
The fat is in demand for making soap,
and, when very fine, for "bear's grease;'
also for the grease applied to harness
and to shoe leather. This fat, when
consumed in lamps, gives out more heat
than oil, and is therefore preferred by
the makers of glass toys, and by enam-
elers and polishers. One horse has been
known to yield sixty pounds of fat, but
this was an extreme case. The fat of q
horse in fair condition is twelve pounds
but so many lean and sorry iades are
taken in that eight pounds may be taker
as the average, and at value of ter
cents per pound. Nor does the list end
here. Sometimes there is considerable
putrid flesh about a dead animal, ant
how to utilize this matter bothered the
French scientists for some time. Finally
the problem was solved, and now th,
putrid flesh is made to TEEN with life
and to produce food for other living
creatures. A pile of pieces of flesh, sew
eral inches in height, layer upon layer, il
arranged, after which it is covered owe
lightly with hay or straw. In fey
hours thousands of flies deposit thei
eggs in this attractive matter, and thu
maggots are bred. These are fed t.
pheasants, and in smaller degreeto do
mestic fowls. They are also used t.
fatten sardines. These maggots give
or are supposed to give. game flavor t.
poultry, and a very high flavor t.
pheasants. The maggots thus pre-
duced, so 1 was further informed, ar
worth thirty-six cents. "What is til
average amount realized on dea
horse 7" was my next question. Error
sixty to eighty francs, was his immed
ate answer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
The American PlimsOll.

In years gone by American vessel
owners sunk their ships for the sake of
the insurance, and sent their crews to
Davy Jones' locker for the sake of their
own pockets with the same hateful cal
lousness of conscience that England's
ship owners show now. And the press
ing need of the time brought forth in
America, as it has in England, Plim-
soil. He carried through his reform, as
the Englishman has carried his.
Our Plimsoll was named Sidney s.
Burton. He lived in Cleveland, o. Like
all intelligent persons he read the daily
papers. He noticed striking similarity
in the details of steamboat accidents on
the Mississippi and Ohio. One boat
might be burned and another snagged
and another exploded, but the disaster
always happened in some lonely spot,
the shattered hull always sunk in deep
water-and the missing boat was always
heavily Insured. Burton read this and
pondered upon it. He decided that
here was an abuse to right, but he did
not see his way clear to the righting of
it. He was only private citizen, with
out any influence beyond that possessed
by every honest man. While he was
hesitating the famous boat Martha Wash
ington burned. The spark that fred
her kindled Burton's wrath to a white
heat. Thenceforth he was man of one
idea, and so man of tremendous power.
The Martha Washington went down at
midnight, carrying with her some shriv-
eled corpses and a vast lot of costly mer-
Notwithstanding to the bills of lad
ing, not according to the truth. And the
truth prevailed. For Burton hurried
down to Cincinnati, whispered his sus-
picions to the insurance agents, and then,
having started them on a mission of dis
covery, shouted his beliefs to the public.
There was intense excitement, tempered
only by the possibility that investigation
might reveal nothing. Meanwhile Bur
ton was threatened, rs Plimsoll has been,
with libel suits, arrest, and murder. But
the insurance men went to the scene of
the wreck. Their graphing irons soon
located the site of the half-burned hull.
Down went the divers and up came the
boxes of silks and laces and wines and
other costly things which had been in
sured at Cincinnati.
When they were opened the silks were
sawdust, the old laces were old leather,
ftIlti lllC NluC DOptlCo WSiC lllltt WILL WI
ter The load of the Martha Washing
ton really consisted Of the street-sweep-
ings of city it had been insured as
a collection of the costliest goods. When
this tell-tale story reached Cincinnati,
the murderous merchants implicated
gladly gave themselves into the hands of
the police in order to escape those of the
mob. A long trial followed. The man
supposed to be the chief culprit escaped
punishment, but he skunk into shameful
obscurity. The trial stopped the system
of murder, and Burton having done his
work, stepped quietly back into oblivion.
His name fingers only in the memories of
few, while Plimsoll's has been Oh every
tongue but the task undertaken by
the American was as difficult, as danger
ors, and as. worthily done as that by
which the Englishman now gains the
admiration of world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
MeerSchaum Pipes.

Meerscbaum, says Appletons' "Ameri
can Cyclopedia," revised edition, is a
hydrous silcate of magnesia, mineral
of soft earthly texture, somewhat resem-
bling chalk. 1t is found in Spain and
in several countries at the head of the
Mediterranean. The town of Konieh,
in Asia Minor, furnishes the principal
supplies for the manufacture of pipes
and cigar tubes. 1t is roughly shaped
into blocks for expectation, and freed as
far as practicable from the associated
minerals which impair it's quality by in
terfering with the carving of its surface.
1t is made into pipes in various cities
of Europe, Pesth and Vienna being es-
pecially noted for the manufacture. To
produce the yellow and brown colors,
which are brought out only after long
smoking, the blocks are kept for some
time in a mixture of wax and fatty mat
ters. A portion of these is absorbed,
and, being subsequently acted ON by the
heat and the tobacco fumes, assumes
various shades of color. Artificial meer-
schaums, called massa-bowls, are made
from the parings of the genuine material,
which, being reduced to fine powder,
are boiled in water and nodded into
blocks, sometimes with the addition OF
clay. They cannot easily be distin-
guished from the real, but they are gen.
orally heavier and freer from blemishes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
The Story of q Diamond.

A Salt Lake correspondent says there
is on exhibition in that city diamond
with romantic history. This stone is
1872 of q carat lighter than the cele
brated Tweed diamond, but its cutting is
much better, and it is considered by ex
perts to be more valuable. 1t weighs
eight and half carats and is exactly
half an inch in diameter. It was for
many years in the family of an East India
prince. This potentate presented it to
the ex-Queen Christina, of Spain, who
presented it to her daughter, ex-Queen
Isabella, on the occasion of her marriage.
The latter was forced to sell it, with
many other diamonds, and Henle Broth
ers, of New York, bought it at an auction
of her diamonds, which was made in
London. From this firm it was pur-
chased by st. Louis gentleman with
about 100000 worth of other diamonds.
He was soon after offered S15, 900 in gold
for it by the American Club, of New
York, but he refused to sell it. Subse-
ouently it was stolen from him while
at Saratoga Springs by thieves, who en-
ployed what is known as the umbrella
game. While alighting from the cars a
man spread an umbrella in his face, and
as he started back the pin was torn from
his shirt bosom. The trick was so dex-
terously turned that the victim did not
discover his loss for several honrs.
When, however, he found himself minus
the wonderful brilliant, he promptly
telegraphed to the daily papers Of New
York city, Offering So, 900 reward and no
questions asked. lu twenty-four hours
his pin was restored and the thieves were
richer the amount of the reward.
After this the same gentleman came to
Salt Lake City and traded his diamond
for mining property valued at 500, 900.
This mine-the Eureka Zintic-devel-
oped well, and the lucky speculator
realized over 100000 from his invest
ment.
The miner who received the valuable
stone got on q spree in Chicago, and
there he played draw poker with some
gamblers, who, after they had won all
his money, induced him to bet his pin
against $4,000. OF course he lost. A
New York diamond sharp, looking out
for bargains, made them au offer for the
stone, but it was refused. Later, how
ever, they telegraplred to New York their
accepuiuce OI Ills prOpOSltuoH. lHat
telegram found the man of diamonds ut
Salt Lake City, who then called on JOS
lin & Park, of that city, and offered the
diamond as collateral for a large sum of
money, which was advanced, and the
brilliant was forwarded by express from
Chicago. A few weeks after the gentle
man who had obtained money as q loan
on the diamond appeared, and was about
to redeem the stone and take it, when
Joslin & Park offered him 81 900 for his
bargain, which was accepted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
A Scientific Problem,

An interesting geological theory has
lately been the subject of discussion in
the foreign journals. An eminent
scientist, it seems, has made the curious
calculation that every year ninety-two
horse power of work. heat meaning
works. got rid of from every 247 acres
of the surface of the globe; and that the
dissipation of energy and the contrac-
ton of rocks not being uniform, the
effect of these disturbing causes is to
produce horizontal thrusts, which form
mountain ranges by crumpling up the
earth, mountains being formed by this
crump action rather than by direct vol
canic or other upheaval. This theory
also assumes that the changes produced
by such contraction are slow, and that
there is every reason for believing that
the sea floors and continents now exist
ing are extremely old, geographically
speaking, so far as their present forms OF
confguration are concerned. An illus
tration of this is cited in the case OF
Snowdon, the loftiest mountain in Wales
and South Britain. The upper part con,
sists of sea sand, fossil sea fishes, and
volcanic ashes, all mixed together, and,
in fact, appears to have been at one time
in the same condition that the bay Of
Biscay is in at present-tnat is, volcanic
ashes fell into it and sometimes buried
fish. The lower part consists of vast
streams of old lava-showing that, al
some geological period, the crumpline
action took place below the bay O
Snowdon; consequently the bottom O.
the bay was elevated, and became the
very top of the highest mountain il
| Wales.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Idleness In California.

Idle habits are almost inevitable in
farming life in California. During a
large part Of the year there is nothing to
do. "In one way oranother, Indian corn
gives the Eastern farmer employment all
the year, but the wheat ranchman does
no work of any consequence save twice
year, in harvest and seedtime."
The boys grow up with little to do
no corn to plow and hoe and cut and
husk and crib and shell; no garden to
hoe, no steers to break, no COW to milk,
no chickens to feed, no briers and bushes
to NOV, and little frewood to cut. 1t is
hard, therefore, to keep them out of bad
habits. "They gravitate to mischief
and a shotgun, as the sparks fly up
ward" 1t would be great blessing to
them if there were daily chores to do.
The same is trre, the writer thinks, in
cattle and sheep raising.
Little time in the day is devoted to
the herds and fiocks, and those occupied
in caring for them fall naturally into
habits of loafng and gambling. 1t is q
misfortune in any country to have no
steady employment for the people.
Human nature requires industry to bring
out its best qualities.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

rested. "A waterspout swept away part Of
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the next day an
other waterspout washed off all the remaining
houses . BY the swsmping of batteau in
Lake st. Peter Canada, Capt. ITamel, the
owner, his wife and three children were
droYned.
The Swedish steamer l.. J. Bager, running
between Lubbock and Copenhagen has been
burned in the Baltic. Twenty -four of the pas
sengers and eleven of the crew perished.
George Miller and William Smith, convicted
of murder OH board the schooner Jeffer-
son Borden, we're sentenced TO be hanged JAN
IA ...... A fire broke out at Aurora, N. Y, Of
supposed incendiary origin, destroying the
tavern and store of II. r. Miller, and three
large barns belonging to @. ]. Hamlin, OF
Buffalo, The loss is estimated at $40, 800 in
sured for GIG, $40. .... Craft, the pedestrian,
walked eight hundred miles in fourteen days
at Schenectady, N. Y, finishing in good con-
dition two and half hours ahead Of time. ..
The Montpelier Female Humane Association
Lottery, Of Alexandria, Va, has been declared
fraud by committee appointed to examine
the affairs after the drawing. Over $500, 900
had been received for tickets Martha
Hutchinson, OF Boston, was injured at the
time of the great fire by the blowing up Of
building With gas. She accordingly sued the
Boston Gaslight Company for damages, and a
jury has just awarded her S12, 800. q. Dis
patches from China indicate that tho existing
complications have been temporarily adjusted
by Mr.. Wade, at Pekin. 80. E. The Vanderbilt
University, at Nashville, Tenn, was formally
opened by Bishops Daggett and Wightman.
Civil suits for 81, 800, 900, double the value
Of alleged smuggled silks, have been brought
against II. B. Clafin & Co., the well-known
dry goods dealers of New York city, by the
government. 80. A decree has b9en published
in the Gazette at peking, China, conceding
hereafter intercourse between tho chiefs OF
the government departments and tho foreign
ministers. The United States circuit court
at Philadelphia has decided that the govern
ment takes precedence over other creditors
against the assets of the late firm of Jay Cooke &
Co. The government had 5000, 900 with the
London house ..... Charles Brink, OF Carlin-
vile, Ill, in fit of anger, shot Mrs. Deborah
Hall, his mother-in-law, and Ellen Brink, his
wife, killing them instantly, and then, placing
tho pistol to his temple, fired, killing himself
also. No cause can be assigned for the terri
bic deed ...... The English hop crop will not
supply the home trade, and prices have ac-
cordingly advanced two shillings per hundred
weight. The experiment Of sending peaches
per steamer from New York to London, in
box on deck, arranged on the Allegretti re-
frigerating plan was success, the fruit being
delivered In good condition and eagerly pur-
| chased
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Learning in Prison.

Keepers of State prisons aver that not
only are thieves educated by expert
enced convicts within the walls, but that
the association of kindred criminality in
such establishments enables the concoct-
ing of many crimes for perpetration by
fellow felons outside. Mr.. Henry Shell
ley, one of the most experienced and in
telligent keepers at Clinton prison,
said: " Rarely does convict leave
hele at the expiration of his term of con-
tinement without carrying out with him
instructions, information, ard plans for
the perpetration of new crimes, Matched
by convicts whom he leaves behind, but
who hope to share eventually in the
profits of the felonies they plot for
others to execute"
But the process of criminal education
goes still further. The convict dis
charged upon the expiration of his term
is very apt to associate himself with, and
to use as his tools, those whose necessi-
ties will bend them to his wishes, and
who possess one advantage which he
does not, that of being unknown to the
police. If necessity requires it, he will
"give away" these associates in order
to save himself, without the slightest
hesitation or compunction of conscience.
Honor among thieves" if it exists at
all, is not held by them to require any
personal sacrifice for the benefit of
"greeneys," who, they philosophically
argue, will be all the better for a term
need it, in fact, to make men of them. u
SO, either way, whether the crime of
the ex-convict and his amateurs or pu-
pills succeeds, or whether it fails, so.
ciety is the loser. In one case it suffers
from the robbery in the other, from
taxation for the arrest, prosecution, and
detention of the criminals; the most
guilty, all the while, being the ones
most likely to escape.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Among the MOrmOnS.

The people of Utah-the Mormons-
a correspondent says, as whole are very
poor in all that constitutes material
wealth. Their condition in this respect
is half pastoral and half agricultural.
The wealth resulting from pastoral life
is necessarily small for want of market.
The herds which swarm through the
country cannot certainly find consumers
in the Territory, and know to my cha
grin how difficult it is to buy piece of
fresh beef in places where the cattle are
the most abundant. The agricultural
product is obtained with great labor, for
irrigation is a laborious process. Of Il
forms of wealth the scarcest is ready
money. Trade consists mainly in bar
ter, the currency being grain, cattle and
horses. In most of the villages n $50
bank note, and even a $40 note, is not
negotiable when a small debt is contract
ed. To make change for it would ex-
haust the bankable resources of the
community. But though the people are
very poor, their requirements are small,
and there is no poverty or suffering ;
while respectable poverty" the most
terrible of all, is unheard of and would
be incomprehensible to them. Fashion
and appearances do not trouble this
primitive people, and there is as yet no
social distinction between rich and poor.
The teamster or herder has too much of
the wild independence of the frontiers
men to feel abashed in the presence of
anybody, and makes himself at home
wherever he may be. The morals of the
the people, with the exception of polyg-
amy, are much better than those OF
neighboring territories. Industry is the
best safeguard against stealing, drunk
enness and gambling, and as the whole
population has some occupation, these
vices have but little foothold among
| Them
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Buying a Harness.

When you think of buying harness,
examine the leather of the hame strap,
and the near tuck of the throat latch,
and likewise of the crupper. If these
tnds are of slazy stuff, calculated to
squash and plague you while trying to
make them enter their loops, don't buy.
The man who cut the harness did not
have the interest of the purchaser in his
mind. at three separate and distinct
scowls for each buckling the harness
would be dear as a gift. And, most like
ly, faults and oversights run through the
entire rig.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Wonderful Paint,

All about painting should do as we have-in-
close stamp, and have sent free the book
Chow Every Man can Paint and select colors,
with specimens Of thirty brilliant colors, and
full account of preparation Of old English
lead and French zinc, ready mixed, in all
colors that will endure much longer and less
in price than any other paint of the present
day. Every one who has painting to do will
save money in reading the book, whether
they buy the paint or not. Address NIGER
SOIL PAINT Works, No. 261 Front street,
New York. Mr.. Ingersoll makes large reduc-
tions to churches requiring paint. Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.
SCHENcK's SEA WEED Tonic,


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 circulation of the blood, hemorhage follows
and in fact they clog the action of the organs that
caused the cough.
LIVER Complaint and Dyspepsia the causes Of two
thirds of the of Consumption Many persons COM
plain of dull pain in the side constipation, coated
tongue pain In the shoulderblade feelings of drows
ana restlessness, the food living heavily the
stomach accompanied with acdity and belchng up of
wind.
These symptoms usually originate from dsordered
condition of the stomach or a torpid liver.
Persons SO affected, II they take OF two he,vy
colds, and II the cough In these be suddenly
checked will find the stomach and liver cogged, re-
naming torpid and inactive and almost before they
the lungs Of and liberated the
result of which 10 death.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is eypectorant which
does not ain opium anything calculated to check
q cough suddenlY.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic dissolves the food, mixes
with the gastric juices of the stomach aids digestion
and creates a ravenOus appetite.
When the bowels are costve. skin sallow, or the
symptoms otherwise of bAious tendency Schenck's
Mandrake Pills required.
These medicines are prepared only by
j. III. SCHESCK Son,
N Il. corner Sixth and Arch Streets, Phila.
And are for sale by all druggists and dealers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14
Important to Travellers.

Persons visiting New York or leaving by the
cars from Grand Central Depot, will save an
noysnce and expense Of carriage hire and bag
gage expressage by stopping at Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot. Over
$50 elegantly furnished rooms and fitted up at
q cost Of 100000. European plan. Guests
can live more luxuriously for less money at the
Grand Union that at any other first-cass house
in New York. Stages and street cars pass the
doors for all parts of the city. Sec that the
hotel you enter is the Grand Union Hotel
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

BE WISE To-DAY.-'Tis madness to
neglect cough, however slight, Consump-
tion may follow, and though DR.. Wistdrs Bal
sam of Wild Cherry has frequently cured this
much dreaded disease, it almost invariably
cures the primary diseases of the throat,
lungs and chest. Fifty cents and one dollar a
bottle, large bottles much the cheaper. Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

CREAM SPONGE CAKE.-Beat two eggs
in cup; then fill the cup with thick
sweet cream; add one cup of white
sugar, one cup of -four, half teaspoonful
soda, and one teaspoonful cream tartar
sifted with the flour; flavor to taste.
This cake will not hurt invalidF.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

Many valuable horses die from the
effects of collie. The best thing to do in a
case OF this kind is to pour bottle Of John
sons Anodyne Linimem into long-necked
junk bottle, add half pint Of molasses and
water, then pour the whole down the horses
throat. In ten minutes the horse will be gin
to eat-COn,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-14

The Marshall Messenger regretfully
remarks: some by one the old pioneers
of our county pass away" But the Nor.
ristown Herald thinks this is not 90 sad
as if they were to pass away two by two
or three by three,