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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
Journalistic Ingenuity.

Everybody knows that newspapers
keep biographies of most living celebri-
ties ready in type, SO that when one of
them happens to die his career is in the
hands of the public an hour or SO after
his last gasp. The other day. however,
the sudden death of M. Theirs caught
an italian journal mapping, and this is
how it's editor filled up the void till the
literary notice of the dead man was
written "The sorrow with which we
are SO suddenly overwhelmed entirely
prevents us from saying anything about
this illustrious statesman bnt when
our tears cease to flow tomorrow Re
shall giye an account Of his life"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
Stories of Children.

A pair of twins about month old
were dropped on street corner in Chi
cago one morning recently, and the
mother, being in haste, did not return
for the basket. A policeman took the
little fellows to the Foundlngs' Home,
where they received the names of Lin
scott Rutherford Hayes and Martin
Burchard Hayes.
-Four little boys in Sacramento, Gal. /,
have built little cabin close to the old
chain-gang yard, and there they live by
themselves, scorning the homes which
their fathers offer them. They have no
stove, but do their scanty cooking on a
brick fireplace, while plentiful supply
of blankets keeps them comfortable at
night, They earn few pennies by run
ming on errands and doing odd jobs.
A lad returned from school in War
rensburg, New York, one noon not long
ago, to tell his mother that he was going
to drown himself in Schroon River.
She screamed as he set out as fast as he
could run, but before she could overtake
him he threw himself into the water and
was drowned.
A bright little urchin ran away from
the Soldiers Orphan Home, at Normal
Illinois, the other day, and went to Chi,
cago, as he said, to see some big ships.
He walked the greater part of the way,
occasionally stealing ride on freight
train. When he was rescued by tine
police his face was disfgured by
scratches. which he had received in en-.
counters with farmers boys and, as he
said, with crowd of fellers ON the
river" The young tramp was sent
back to school.
- "A three-year-old in Orange. New Jer-
sey when his grandfather says grace al
table, explains in "a patronizing aside Il
the company. cts grandpa's LITTLE
preYer
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
Homemade Christmas Gifts.
A WALL LETTER HOLDER.

This is something which quite
little boy could make. Cut out three
pieces of thin wood, foot long by six
inches wide smooth and sand-paper
two of them, bore hole in each corner
and in the middle of one side, and
fasten them together with fine wire,
cord, ribbon, or the small brass pins
which are used for holding manuscripts.
The pieces should be held little apart.
Cut one end of the third piece into
some ornamental shape, glue it firmly to
the back of one of the others, and sus-
pend it from the wall by hole bored
in the top. 1t will be found useful
thing to hold letters or pamphlets. A
clever boy could make this much hand
somer by cutting pattern over the
front, or an initial, or a monogram, or
name in the middle. The wood should
be oiled W shellaced.
SHOE CASES.
These cases are meant to take the
place of paper when shoes are to be
wrapped up in trunk. They are made
of brown crash, bound with red worsted
braid. One end is pointed SO as to turn
over and button down, or the top has
strings over the braid to tie the mouth
up. There should be three or four made
at time, as each case holds but one
pair of shoes and you will find that
mamma or your unmarried aunts will
like them very much.
NEW KIND OF CHRIsTMAs,PIE
Nothing can be droller than to hang
up ones stockings, and nothing prettier
or more full of meaning than Christ
mas tree. But for some of you who may
like to make novelty in these time
honored ways, we will just mention that
it is good fun to make Christmas
pie in an enorm GUS tin dish-pan, with
a make believe crust of yellow cartridge
paper, ornamented with twirls and
| f1ourishes of the same, held down with
pins, and have it served on Christmas
Eve, full of pretty things and sugar
plums, jokes and jolly little rhymes
fastened to the parcels. The cutting
should be done beforehand, and hidden
by the twirls of paper; but the carver
can pretend to use his knife and fork,
and spooning out the packages will in
sure merry time for all at the table.
And one more suggestion. Little articles
wrapped in white paper, can be put
inside cakes, baked and iced, and tnuf
furnish another amusing surprise fol
the "pie" or the Christmas tree.-&
Nicholas Magazine.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
That Colorado Stone Man.

A Denver assayer gives this account
of the origin of the Colorado stone man
with tail: In August, 1875, five of us
were prospecting in the vicinity of
Pueblo. In coming upon sandstone
quarry, one of the party observed sort
Of likeness of q man drawn upon the
rock. The incident occasioned deal of
talk about ancient creations, and the
idea of getting up second Cardiff
giant was then favorably discussed.
The party agreed to undertake the task,
and a stonecutter named Saunders, who
had been working in the vicinity and
known to be a clever hand at modelling,
was at once sought out and an agree
ment made for the figure. While the
plan was in progress one of the party,
in joking way, said the thing ought to
have a tail, as in ancient times men had
tails six OF seven inches long. 1t was
decided amongst the party that the figure
should be known as petrified Aztec
Indian, and they would resurrect him
after six months and impose him on the
public as such. The stonecutter, not
seeing the joke, set to work and made
the figure, with tail appended. The
price paid the artisan was $135, and after
he had completed the figure itwas buried.
The "Muldoon was made out of sand
stone and dried by the cabin fire, which
partly accounts for the little moles on
the surface. After the burial-two feet
from the surface of the ground-the
party went on their way to await the
resurrection. A few of the prospectors
had got wind of the proceedings and
were keeping an eye on the party, and
SO they dispersed in different directions.
Finally they became scattered, some in
New York end the remainder in different
portions of the country. had for
gotten nearly about the matter when
the discovery was chronicled in the
papers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
Items of Interest.

The population of Richmond, Va,
has doubled since the war.
Nevada enjoys the luxury of publicly
thrashing its convicted wife-beaters.
Mrs. Lou. j. Jennings has presented
her husband with seven daughters in
eight years.
They are called " Indian supply con-
tracts )" because the supplies always con-
tract before they reach the Indians.
A paper says of very prominent
militia general that his sword was
never drawn but once, and then in
rattle" .,
Three drunken young men, with pistols
in their hands, recently dispersed the
congregation from church in Pulaski
county, KY.
The man who owns 500, 900 COW can
drink milk costing him eighty-four cents
a quart. That's all the advantage he has
over the rest of us.
One dollar put at compound-interestt
upon the day Columbus discovered
America would amount, in 1879, to the
paltry sum of So, ,240, 900, 900.
A man in Newburyport, Mass, is
fattening for his table five hundred
frogs. He keeps them in a barrel and
feeds them upon Indian meal.
Mr.. Coolbaugh, the wealthy Chicago
banker who recently committed suicide,
is said, blythe Aduance, to have been led
to the deed by intemperance.
The st. Louis Journal Of Agriculture
says: "Farms can be bought in any
county of the United States to-day, for
less than the improvements cost.
A French gentleman has left $780, 600
as prize to be awarded to any person
discovering either q cure for Asiatic
cholera or the cause of the disease.
There is a female blacksmith in the
suburbs of Pittsburg, Pa. She is about
forty, German by birth, and for nine
years past has worked at the trade as
! helper to her husband.
A Shaker community at Pleasant Hill,
Ky., have had series OF matrimonial
misfortunes' recently which threatened
to destroy the society. First, young
man and young woman eloped, then
an old man and old woman travelled the
same road; and within month nine
more marriages have taken place.
LIFE.
A baby OH her mothers knee.
child ut play;
A man with pulses bounding free,
A voiceless clay
And life has passed beyond the West
| The weary tread
Goes out to boundless fields of rest
O blessed dead
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13
The Reason Why.

You wonder at the change, you say,
And can't you guess the reason why
What brings the brightness of the day
What gives the color to the sky?
Just light and sunshine. Even so.
The brooding shadows of the night,
With all the clouds that come and go,
Are lost forever in the light.
What then2 The old, old smile
The sun is shining in my sky;
And if you see change in me,
Oh, love, you know the reason why.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13

A young man, who is paying his 'ad-
dresses to lady-love, stayed so. late a
few evenings since, that the family were
compelled to whitewash the wall next
morning, TO obliterate his shadow.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13

When a man is "rooted to the spot !.
by fear, does he branch ont before he
leaves?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-13

A baby OH her mothers knee.
A child at play;
A man with pulses bounding free,
A voiceless clay
And life has passed beyond the West T!
The weary tread
Goes out to boundless fields of rest
q blessed dead
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
Pear Culture.

Throughout most of the western coun-
try pear growing for a profit is failure.
Thete are however, a few favored local
tiles where pears grow and bear well,
and are of course profitable, but the in
evitable blight is great drawback to
successful pear culture, but that should
not prevent every farmer from planting
pears enough for the family use. The
pear Is one OF our choicest fruits, most
delicious aud palatable, and if we can
net raise them profitabiy for market, let
us not give them up, but keep planting,
and with little care always grow enough
for home use. Plant the trees in poor
soil to keep the strong growth in check,
do not cultivate, but SOW to grass and
get heavy sod around the trees. Judi
cious pruning is beneficial to fruiting.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
DANGEBOUs INsrKUlrENr.

Perkins, San Francisco broker,
bought two Of Professor Bells telephones,
and made connection between his office
and the parlor. He thought it would be
a pleasant thiW to converse with his
wife when business was slack, to inform
her when he would 90 TO dinner, and to
learn how oftenbis youngest son fell down
the cellar stain during the day. One
day he was conyersing to his wife about
a new bonnet, when a broker came in to
ask about some stock. He telephoned' y
to his wife that he was busy, and
without severing connection with the in
strument turned to the broker and
opened negotiations for the purchase oi
/ Julia, Lady Byron and other stocks
Mrs Perkins, at the other end Of the
/ line, listened intently, and finally caught
/ her husbands words: "I'Il take Julia
at six-thirty.' Her suspicious were
aroused; there was a woman in the case
/ she burst into an animated soliloquy
which the faithful telephone carried tC
/ the ears of her husband and his custom
er. "IIl Julia bim-wretch-vil villain
married fifteen years-where's my rub
bers?-just wait till get hold OF him.
/ These words, together with miscellaneous
tokens of confusion and racket, denoted
active preparations for sortie upon hi
office. Perkins broke off his stock nego
tiatiOns and went home to appease hi
wife. The instruments were subse
/ anently removed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
Grazing Grnne ZINES

Now is the time to graft grape vines,
just when the leaves are beginning to
start on the vines to be grated. Cut
your gratis into lengths OF from two to
four buds each. Dig the earth away
from the roots of the vine to be grated
eight or ten inches deep saw off the tap
or main root ofthe'vine FIVE or six inches
below the surface of the ground split
the end of the roots left in the ground !;
whittle the butt end of your graft to the
form OF wedge and insert it in the cleft
or split in the root in such a manner
that the interstice between the bark and
wood shall join evenly together on the
side OF the graft and the root. Fill up
the hole, pack the fine, soft earth with
your hands carefully around the grated
place, and leaving a single bud of the
graft just above the surface of the
ground
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
Keeping Farm accounts.

The real practical value there is in
keeping accounts with the farm consists
in this: When farmer keeps such an
account in his operations he is able by
annually casting up his balances to see
Just what crop ard what line of his farm
operations have paid him best. If any
line of cropping in a series of years Is
thus shown not TO be so profitable as
some other crop, these definite data
enable him to correct his mistakes and
determine on some new line of proce-
dure. The most of the business men who
fail find on a revision of their transac-
lions, too losely kept, that in reality
they had failed months, and sometimes
years before the fact was revealed to
them. IF they had kept correct accounts
and frequently reviewed the situation of
heir business, they would have dis
covered their sinking fortunes, and per
haps been able to recover from the
causes,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
A RCSST4N CROHD.

Every crowd has a physiognomy and n
character of itsown, and after experience
of an English or irish crowd, one is
rather pleased with Russian one. Not
that it Is particularly clean or savory,
but it is 50 extremely good natured and
we'll -behayed. There is very little push
ing or elbowing. Every one is courteous
to his neighbors, and you are sure not to
see any acts Of brutality or to incur any
danger in mixing in it. Smiling, good
natured faces sre everywhere, no matter
what the rank or position, for goos hu-
NOR is indeed the chief Russian virtue.
And then such 9 curious mixture of
people in such a crowd merchants
with long dark blue caftans, reaching to
their heels, and their cravats tied tight
around their threats, not showing a shirt
collar if theymdeed have one stout old
women with silk 'kerchiefs wound about
their heads 50 rs to conceal their hair
shoemakers boys and apprentices in what
seems a dirty muslin dressing-gown
artisans in their blue working blouses
the ordinary town 'peaeant in his red
shirt and high boots, and the muzhik
fresh from the country with coat of un-
dyed homespun, cloths wound round his
legs in lieu ofstockings, and sandals made
OF plaitted linden bark; here and there &
student with dirty shirt and long hair
and most foul snger nails, evidently o
the idea that matness is incompatible
with learning; there will probably be a
priest or two, and a few soldiers
>,.,.3J nor
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
DOMESTIC RBCIPEs.

.JouxNY CAKE Three cups sour
milk, three cups Indian meal, three
tablespoonfuls molasses, one egg, with a
little flour, salt and salaratus.
To CLEAN SILvER.-Whiting applied
with soft flannel and polished off with a
chamois skin, IS the simplest and best
possible manner for keeping silver bright
and clean.
SOFT GINGEBBREAD.-One pint mo.
lasses, one cup OF butter, halt cup Of
milk, two eggs, enc teaspoonful cream
tartar, two teaspoonfuls soda, one table
spoonful ginger, four cups$our.
USEFUL LINIMENT.-Oneo of the best
liniments for lameness, rheumatism,
sprains, etc, is made of three ounces of
sulphuric ether, one ounce alcoholic, half
ounce oil lavender, two drachms lsud-
anum.
REGULARITY.--Itis not only necessary
that our diet should be wholesome, bat
also that it should be taken at regular
periods. Some persons imagine that
long fasting will atone for excess, but it
is not so; it generally makes matters
worse.
PAINT For durable and cheap paint
for house floors, dissolve one ounce OF
glue in a quart of warm water, thicken
it with paint. After being put on, 20
over with coat of boileA linseed oil.
1t will dry in ready for use in two hours.
A NUTRITIOUS Commemorative
equal quantities of sage and cocoa, mix
them, put tablespoonful in a pint Of
milk. add half pint of boiling water,
and boil the whole together for few
minutes, with constant stirring. Add
sugar according to taste.
There can be no doubt
but that the free use of salaratus, 50
much consumed in bread, is excessively
injurious to the human system. 1t Is
particularly liable to induce muscular
prostration or paralysis, and is sure to
injure the digestive organs. OF course
it is most fatal to children, whose deli
cate organization Is more sensitive than
that of grown persons.
ToMAKE EXCELLENT MINCE Mat
Take pound of lean beef and boil it one
hour, then chop it as fine as possible
suet, raisins, currants and apples, one
pound each two ounces of candied lem
on, two ounces of candied citron, a quar-
ter OF pound of almonds. Chop each
separately until you can not distinguish
what they are; then mix the whole well
and add ore pound of sugar and gill Of
! brandy
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
Cattle Food.

Experience teaches us that cattle
thrive best on a mixed diet +; all hay or
all grain will produce less beef than hav
and grain. The animal structure of the
OK also demands bulk in food as well as
richness; the feeding of concentrated
food being only profitable so far as the
animal assimilates it, beyond that simply
increasing the manure heap at a cost far
beyond its value. The OK has approxi-
mately eleven and one-half pounds of
stom ich with only two and one-half
pounds of intestines to each one hundred
pounds of live weight; the sheep has less
stomach and more intestines, giving a
smaller percentage of digestive appara-
tus; while the pig for every one hun
dred pounds of his live weight has only
one and one-third pounds of stomach to
six pounds of intestines. A steer would
thrive on bulk of straw with little oil
meal, that would shrink a sheep and
starve pig. Pork can be produced
from clean corn meal, while mutton re-
quires greater variety of food, and beef
cattle would become cloyed and diseased
with its exclusive use.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
4 REmARKAB1E INVENTION.

A remarkable clock, or time globe, has
been invented, which, according to the
description given in the Jeweler, exhibits
the time, longitude, and latitude of any
place in the world, as well as the differ
ence ef the same between two or more
places The device consists of a globe
on which is complete map of the world.
A large dial encircles tIie globe at its
equator, at which the time of the yari-
Gus meridians is indicated. At the
north pole is a smaller dial which shows
the mean time at the place where the
globe is located. The remarkable feature
of this device, however, is the fact that.
by the mechanism inside of it. this min
iature globe actually revolves. as does
the earth, once in every twentv-four
hours. The actual time at any part of
the world can be easily and quickly as
certaincd by reference to the large dial
encircling the globe at the equator. 1t
has sliding vernier, divided into three
hundred and sixty degrees, by means of
which the latitude of localities can be as
certained, or the proper degrees of incli-
nation of our own or any other heavenly
body illustrated. BY setting the globes
at the proper angle of inclination, giving
the poles the proper direction north and
south, and letting light, properly APP
piled, fall upon it, it will give not only
the amount of light and darkness such
country has, but the very time at
which it has it. The time, longitude
and latitude of any place in the world.
as also the difference of the same be-
tween two or more places, are thus
given.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
The National Life Insurance co"PaH'o

In marked contrast with the un pleasant deTebp-
ments that have appeared recently, concerning GER
tain pe mes glad note the results q an
official eNumu stiod Of this Ompauy. Althuush nav
ing chatter direct fr, Ia tOngre-- u does hot 1T
tempt 70 dl-avUN lt- possibility 10 states IN
surauCe laws.
By mutusl agreement. on hohafof the state derari
meutsu New NoTk NHsst chus It's, Peun-vlN ahd
Michigan, To" Hon samuel II Rowe Of the later
state commenced uu January 9Th rigid eNaHBa-
ti0n Of the book, aEs . and liabilities Of ths teiu
pany Commi-siO1 er Rowe was assisted 10 Prof Vat
son, the we'll known actumry, snd v II. Lett p g
THE detrfied exaurfnstoa cooNtfaT-d without iu
are highly grntifl Ing the filends of the COMPANY
and the ru ulc generally ON the "a the 10mpa re-
ceiyrd from Commissioner Rowe neWai Of It's an
thoritv 10 DO business in Michigan. together with
his written assurance that he found the mpan}
able to comply fully with the stringent laws 81 hi-
state The entire invested in nted States
bsud-aud fir. [ mortgage. ON the 3lst O necoml
l.76 il had a grand rurplus above all hahilitits oil
ais $500 It, receipts ia l~76 exceeded it, Dis
hursemeuta by over S11 Uod although 10 Paidin death
Chains nearly quarter Of million dollars. Nor
perfect security could not De offered 90 insurer
Is % lm0st unnecessary to ray that this Company ha'
nothing 10 do with the National Cr pita Life iusur
Huce Com PAM OF the District Of Columbia. mike
the latter concern the National Life insurance Com
pauY Of the uitrd States uf AmeriC not reiusur
ing other companies, AMI II not res @nrlhie 10 ans
way for the liabilities or policies Of the Republican
Life Insurance Company or any other corporation
Address j. NJ. BUTLER. Sec'y.
Branch Ofice-Chicago, I'll.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13

In poultry keeping, as in the rearing
of any kind of live or pet stock, what
ever you undertake to DO should be per-
formed thoroughly. 1t is not worth
ones while to attempt to raise good fowls
unless one attends to the business well
and has love of the vocation.
Men possessing this determination and
this sentiment always breed fowls more
or less to pEoft, whether they devote
themselves to the fancy" or simply to
raising stock fer eggs and marketing.
five essay to raise sheep, cattle, horses,
hogs, swine, pigeons, rabbits or what not,
we want to turn out the best of their
kind; and with poultry we can only ac-
compljsh this laudable aim, agR have
good ones, through proper care, attention
and labor prOportiOnate to the valuab e
interests involved.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
,rnnnnLin Ac,,,ninata.

In reply to several inquiries about
this beautiful shade and ornamental
tree, we would say that we have found
it hardy in this latitude. With Judi
cious care in transplanting, when once
established, it is one of the most desirable
trees for the lawn. It's superior state
lines of form, the size and richness OF its
foliage, and lavish yield of fragrant flow
ers, entitle it to place in every lawn
and 10 large farm yards; planted il
groups, they are grand, and their effect
in early spring is charming beyond de
scriptiOn, illuminating the whole land
scape snd loading the atmosphere with
their rich perfume. They succeed best
in warm, rich, dry soil.