The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-09

as reader.
NEVER trust q secret with a man
who loves his wife, for he will tell his
wife, she will tell her sister, and her
sister will tell cvcrybGtt. That's
about the way the thing works.
Young gentlemen of tsmiIy and ex-
pectations had better think twice be-
fore they make love to pretty millin-
ers. Mr.. Hibbard, of New York, has
just been compelled tb pay $1,000 to
Miss Croker, all because Mr.. Hibbard,
Jr., would send her thcatcr tickets
and offer to marry her
The New York Gruphic wants to pro-
hibit walking matches on the ground
that they are very detrimental to
health, inviting paralysis and apo
plcXy. The Graphic is somewhat &C.
centric, sometimes ironicas America
can point proudly to the fact that she
has never lost II professional pedcs-
trian.
Seven Chief Justices have occupied
the bench of the United States Su-
premc Court: John Jay, six years;
John Rutlcdge, Il part of a year; Oliver
Ellsworth, five years; John Marshall,
thirty-fivp years; Roger B, fancy,
twcnty-cight years; Salmon p. Chase,
ten years; and Morrison r. Waite, ap-
pointed in 1874.
"For the lest twenty years. says a
Canastota paper, in dishing up for its
readers Il bit of local romance, ''thcre
has lived in this town an eninently
respectable family, the pride of whose
household was Il charming daughter
of seventeen" Isn't that chronology
a little steep, even after allowing the
usual discount?
The CuthOiic Tublet, IN on able arti-
Gle Oh drunkenness in the United
States; alludes to the fact that in ST.
Louis and Chicago IS per cent. of the
s0loons are conducted by Germans, 10
per cent by Roman Catholics of for
eign birth, 10 per cent. by Americans,
3 per cent. by woman, Germans and
Irish, and > per cent. Ivy negroes.
EASTER SUNDAY.-An exchange
says that Easter Sunday will fall this
year on the 10th rather than on the
9th of April, bccause Easter day is
regulated not by solar but by lun-
arcycle-the cycle that regulates the
golden nuuIbcr. Now, by It. solar
calculation day always begins at
midnight; but by lunar calculation it
begins at noon, If, therefore, the
Paschal moon falls on Saturday after
II NJ. it is counted as falling on Sun
day, and then Easter is, under the
rule in the prayer book, the Sunday
following; This is what happens in
the present year. The Paschal full
moon falls on Saturday, April Sth, at
2;43 P: NJ, 1t is therefore counted as
falling on Sunday, April 9th, and
Easter day is the Sunday following
i. c. April 10Th. 1t may be added
that should the full NOON fall on
March y before II NJ, that full moon
| Counted as fallingon March 20) would
not regulate Easter AayI but the one
following. This happened in 1919.
A suggestive account has just been
published by German woman in
this country of the work done by ccr-
tain women in Berlin in reducing
the price of living in that city. Iu
| 1886 Mrs. Lena MCrgenstern, with
two or three other ladies of wealth
and influence, finding that the cost
of provisions was enormous, estab-
lished several Volk's Kuechen, or peo-
| pies kitchens-restauran where
meals could be had at the retail cost
of the materials alone. In 1878 these
woman determined to bring theil
charity into their own homes by form.
[ ing a Housekeepers' Association
whose object should be the reduction
ofthe cost of living, the promotion OF
plain and economical habits, and the
improvement of the condition of ser
wants. In 1874 there were $50 mem
bers. Cooperative laundries, ba'
keries, intelligence offices and stores
for groceries, meats and provisions
were opened, all under the supervis'
ion of women. At the present time
the membership embraces 5000 fam
lilies, and issues weekly paper of 6
high order, containing its price lists,
&c. The central bureau import its
supplies direct from China, France,
Java, the United States, &C., and is
thus enabled to supply the co-opera'
tive~trade throughout Europe. Coal
IS also purchased wholesale by the as
socfation, and is sold in accurately
measured cars. The whole of this
vast business enterprise is managed bN