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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

1.-THE wisdom of Donnelly and one or two
OF her shelved patriots can clrcumduct people
into the absurd notion of subverting the true
principles of our financial system we have in
deed reached point in our history when he
tDonncily) should be made supreme dictator
as his elastic mind seems capable OF xpanding
to degree not heretofore reached by human
imagination, and III which the Rothschilds,
Bismarck Chase and Sherman are thrown
entirely in the shade. If, in his method of
circumcision, he can distance the financial
sages above named, then it will be well to
have more Donnellvs in the field. We there
fore move to have two or three hundred
made to order. w abasha County Sentinel.
1t is pleasant to find that the editor
of the Sentinel is gradually realizing
the great want of the age. The people
of his county anticipated him long
ago. They would gladly swap several
thousand Browns for one Donnelly.
but the good Lord knows too much to
make any such trade.
We like that suggestion about max.
ing us supreme dictator. We should
hang the editor of the Sentinel before
dinner. and restore prosperity to the
country in twenty-foui. hours.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

We are very grayely told that all that ails
the country and keeps times SO hard is the
abundance of money and if some means
could be devised by which the circulation OF
the United States could be reduced one half
all would be we'll. Business would be rean
mated
How is that for q policy?
Make money dear, and then people will
borrow it They will want it then to open
new mines build new railways! operate
factories cultivate farms etc Most likely =
Litchiield Independent.
Why of course. Don't you observe
how business prosperity insreases as
the currency diminishes. Look at
st. Louis. It's banks are exploding
like pack OF fire-crackers.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

While some parties were engaged, a few
DAYS since. sinking we'll on the premises OF
Mr.. Pennington, on the Oronoco road, they
found at the distance OF % feet from the sur
face, portion Of the remains of a human
being Coming TO a deposit OF black loan IN
the clear gravel resembling in shape and size
the grave OF tuli-grown man. they found
in the loam portion OF the bone Ola man S
thigh, in state of complete petritaction. -
Winona Republican.
The evidences multiply that this
region was inhabitated bv semi-clvli.
lied men thousands upon thousands OF
wears ago. The New World is really
ayery old world.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

Bismarck has published card to the kis-
sengen paper requesting people not to watch
him while on his way to the bath. tie was
afraid they would tie knots III his SHIRT.
-nanhury News
Irving Todd did not have to issue
any such order when he used to battle
in the Mississippi at st. Paul. After
his clothes were found on the bank
the police had to hunt for Irving with
IL microscope. and it was only by
getting him at u certain angle with
the sun. like grasshopper that they
could arrest him.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Gen. George B. Mcclellan has been in
vited to act as grand marshal at the COM
ING celebration of the Battle Of Oriskany
Mr.. Horatio Seymour's son is not in
New Orleans On returning board business,
for the excellent reason that he has no
son.
The Georgia convention is composed Of
lawyers 81, farmers A, doctors 10, mer
chants l3, manufacturers 5, railroad man
ayers 4, teachers 2, editors 2, preachers 5,
professional officeholders 4.
A referee has been appointed to hear
testimony as to the sOlvency or insolvency
of the Universal Life Insurance Company
The question hinges on the value OF lis
real estate, which ought to be easy to de-
eide.
The Softas are again clamoring Cor the
unfolding of the Sacred Rag and the proc
lamation of Holy War The Sultan hes
itates, and is reported as turning hi
thoughts rather to treaty of peace.
Republicans who are opposed to the ad
ministration can point to the democratic
victory in one of Newark's wards as ;
crushing rebuke Of the Southern policy O.
President Hayes.
The Presidents coachman is pointed
out as one of the sights of Washington
He is as black as the ace Of spades, but in
variably carries a large raised umbrell
when out driving whether to avoid spoil
ing his complexion or to guard agalns
sunstrokc it is OF known.
Milwaukee has 22O miles of street an
avenues, 81 miles of sewerage, II miles
water-pipes, $50 hydrants, and so hydrauli
elevators.
There is boy named Work near Ra
cine, who is ten years old, and weighs Is
pounds. A sixteen year old girl in tn
same locality, weighs PIG pounds.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

Five wears ago beggar was rarity Ten
years ago prophet OF such food OF paupeer-
ism as now submerges taxes and scli-sustaln-
ing industry, would have been treated as
,,ayagely as the prophets OF old. Evening
News OF Indianapolis.
The Nems is one OF the republican
papers thai stoned the prophets who
foretold the very condition OF things
which it now realizes. The hind-sight
of the average republican editor IS
rreatlY Superior to his foresight.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02
ST pArJ .Iuly & 1877

To the Editor Of the Pioneer Press:
The quotations AT Philadelphia June 80, for
aiinnesota flour per barrel were:
Minnesota extra family, good and choice,
$3.50: fancy, sS.15 high grade, 5000: very
fancy, 1925
AS we are charged $la per 1876 pounds in
bags here for what il may be supposed is no
better than the every fancy" is there not an
opportunity for an importation from eastern
cifios with a margin of about 81 per barrel
freight beth WAYS included Yours,
H. PURIFIER.
We want to see our miller friends
successful. but aren't they cutting
just 4 leetle too fast!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

porrsyl1LE, PA, July 20.-Owing to the
repeated recent losses and general depression
Of business. the First National Bank OF Ash
tand has gone into liquidation. The deposl
tors will be paid immediately; the stockhold-
crs Us soon az possible.
That's the way ii goes. ''The en-.
pjneer is hoist with his own petard.
The banks brought this thing on the
country and they are going down IN
the General ruin
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

An independent GreenbacS State Conven-
ton is called TO meet at Charleston, West
Virginia, on the 18th OF August. The call
lesion few DAYS since, the proceedings of
which meeting arrived too late fer publication
in this number Of the Sun.
And yet somebody said the "Rag-
Babv'' was dead
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

The greeahaek convention at Shownegan,
last week. was q surprise Nearly 500 per-
sons were in attendance from different parts
OF the state, and many OF them are prominent
raen. Some OF the contractioGist papers which
predicted that nobody hut the principal
mover would be present, and that he would
elect himself chairman and secretary and also
committee on resolutions, and end the farce
by nominating himself governor, seem to have
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

The New York Tribune makes the ad1nis-
sion that Mr. Hayes was elected because he
promised to be faithful to the bond holders
Wisconsin, drecnback.
And Mr.. Hayes is keeping his
PROMISES. but at what cost !. A cry
in one voice goes up from millions for
breed. and 7gork. The American Shy
lock-,Jay Goultl-has said the repub,
Iic is gone, but eciN hare '"y 6o"@.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02
The Lar 0ui Porte Press, speaking

The Lar q,i Parie Press, speaking
of lie Due appointment, says:
With a Minnesotan to handle the seeds
and Congressman Strait to forward the
supplies, " we may expect a full share, If net
more.
The Red Wing Repabiican says that
Ramsey shanGles the seeds, (the Old
ones.) and that Major Strait has very
little to do in the matter.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

hit wide of the mark The attendance showed
that there is good deal of latent interest
among the people of the state upon the cur
rency question; and the interest will develop
more ard more as other questions hich have
been lifted into higher Importance shall be-
come settled. Belfast Me- Age.
It is cheering to see that the popu-
ular revolution which began i'll the
west is steadily spreading and has
reached even sober old Maine.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

The First National bank Of St. Peter has de-
clared a semi-annual dividend ofsiX per cent.
Wonder how many other pursuits
in st. Peter have yielded six per cent.
net profit in the last SIX months
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

The state greenback committees OF New
York meet August 18th, to consider the call
ing of state convention.
50 it goes. State after state 1eels
the general impulse.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02

Bloomington, H., has church bel now
that measures forty inches across the bottom
--Exchange.
StebDins beats that.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-02
DONNELLY. Editor.

THURSDAY AUGUST 2. 1877.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
The Digestion of an Ostrich.

All our fond old beliefs are disappear
ing one after the other. Nero was, it
now appears, rather estimable monarch
than otherwise; Richard the Third had
a great number of good points in his
character, and now we are informed that
the digestion of the ostrich is by no
means what people imagined. The bird
is generally considered capable of enjoy
ing life heartily on diet of tenpenny
nails and copper bolts. In fact he is
supposed to possess the happy faculty of
assimilating any substance, whether hard
or soft, without the trouble of mastica-
ton. Whether this theory holds true
or not in regard to metals and stones, it
now appears to be complete delusion
in respect to the bird S digestion of fimsy
trifes. His interior economy may be
capable, perhaps, of converting door
knockers into food, but it is altogether
non-effective with lace and fine linen.
This novel fact i'll natural history is es-
tablished by correspondent of Land
and Water, who, about eight months
ago, brought home an ostrich from
Buenos Ayres. The interesting pet was
duly established in garden, where he
had the run of everything, including the
green crops and wall nails. Perhaps
these supplies fell short for time, on
the bird may have wished to vary his
diet. At all events, he began to commit
depredations on whatever garments were
placed out to dry on washing days in the
garden. The cooks Sunday cap was the
first article missing; afterward other al
ticles vanished, the final theft being that
of three lace collars. Soon after partak-
ing of this light meal that feathered
gourmet began to show signs of indispo-
sition, and, in spite of the best medical
advice, he gradually wasted away, until
death relieved from further suffering.
On post mOrtem being held, it was
discovered that the lace collars, coupled
with two baked potatoes, had proved toe
much for the birds digestive power.
His death was thus due-like many hu.
man misfortunes-to the love of dainty
dress. In primitive state of society,
such as ostriches are accustomed to,
strings of beads generally fulfill the
purposes of lace collars, and beads are
digestible enough-by ostriches. How
then, was the poor bird to have known
that the means which serve civilized
bellies for the enslavement of men are
not equally innocuous ? For the future
when it is said of any man that "he ha.
the digestion of an ostrich" it will bt
necessary to understand that the similt
only holds good in regard to substantial
articles of dietary. ..- -i.---
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
Girl Graduates FrOcks.

Margaret e. Sangslee, in the Christian
Intelligence, tells the school girls what
they should wear, as follows:
Now, we are not in sympathy with
that rigid economy which would impose
on girls the wearing of calico ON COM
mencement day. Calico is too plebeian
to suit our ideas of the fitness of things,
in that relation. 1t is suitable for the
laundry, the kitchen, and the every day
business of the household. She who
sweeps, she who bakes, she who goes to
a picnic, she who sits on the veranda
with her mending of a summer morning,
is neatly and appropriately dressed in a
calico gown. Elaine, in her faded silk,
was not so pretty OF SO picturesque as
some lily maids we know when they
came down to breakfast on a blithe June
day, arrayed in graceful prints, with
bows of ribbon at their neck and spot
less apron tied around the waist. But
the prints and the apron would not
please us if worn to church or to an
evening company, or on the crowning
day of young girls hopes, at the recep-
ton of her diploma. Something more
is needed, then, to meet the require
ments of fastidious fancy. That some
thing is not far to seek. A white dress
of plain muslin, simply trimmed, is
within the reach of every school girl,
and rich in her youth and beauty she
needs nothing more elaborate. The stu
dents of the most conspicuous and infiu-
ential seminaries should set the fashion
in this particular.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
The Flag.

On the occasion of the celebration of
the " Centennial of the Flag" by the New
York Historical Society, an interesting
paper concerning the origin of the flag
was read by General Hamilton Schuyler.
toned that the stars and stripes, as a
flag, was first displayed i'll battle by Col.
Peter Gansevoort at Fort Stanwich, since
Fort Schuyler, near the city of Rome,
in New York, when besieged by st.
Leger and attacked on the ninth of Au-
gust 1777. The blue of the union of the
flag was made out of Captain Swartwout's s
cloak, and the white stars and stripes
out of pieces of his shirt sewed together,
and the red stripes were furnished by
the scarlet cloak of one of the women OF
the beleaguered garrison, such cloaks
being much worn at that time in this
country. Paul Jones, in command of
the Ranger, demanded and received
from the French admiral i'll Quiberon
bay, coast of Brittany, the first salute to
the stars and stripes as adopted 100 years
ago, gun for gun, it having been before
that event the usage of Europe to salute
the flag of a republic with four guns
less than were fired to salute the flag of a
crowned potentate.' When the flag was
first adopted by Congress in 1777, it was
the design to add new star and stripe
whenever new State was admitted tc
the Union. But in 1918 Congress de
cided that only star be added. There
are now thirty-eight, including one 70,
Coloradorecently admitted to the Union
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
The Mosques of Constantinople.

There are mosques in Stamboul that
rival st. Sophia in magnitude and splen-
dor. The Mosque of Suleiman is con-
sidered one of the most glorious monu-
1nents Of Osmanli architecture. The
court facing the entrance is surmounted
on three sides with colonnades, which
are covered with twenty-three domes.
A fountain with a cupola stands in the
center of the court; the minarets spring
from the four corners of an outer court.
The effect is very striking and elegant.
Attached to this mosque are numerous
endowments-t three schools, four acade-
mics for the four sects of the faithful,
and another for the reading of the Koran,
school of medicine, a hospital, a kitchen
for the poor, resting place for travel
ers, library, fountain, house of
refuge for strangers and mausoleum.
Several of the imperial mosques are as
richly endowed. Mohammedan charity
begins at mosque, and all good Mussul-
mans are very much at home in their
houses of prayer. The fourteen great
mosques arc built upon the self same
plan. The mosques measure 225x205
feet, and are inclosed ON the entrance
side by forecourt, and in the rear by
garden OF cemetery. Besides these
imperial mosques there are about 220
others, built by individuals of inferior
which are chiefly frequented by women.
The Doves Mosque, or the Mosque of
Baiazet H., in Stamboul, has a special
charm. The building was completed in
1906. The court is exceedingly beauti-
full. You enter by gates elaborately
decorated in arabesque; the cloister
that surrounds the court is inclosed by
range of columns of porphyry and
verde antique, with capitals of white
marble ornamented in arabesque. In
the center of the court is marble
fountain under canopy, and sheltered
by cluster of fine trees. AS you enter
the court, you hear the roar of wings,
and for moment the air is darkened
with the sudden flight of myriads of
doves. These birds-the offspring of q
pair purchased from poor woman by
Sultan Bajazet, and presented to the
mosQue-are as sacred as was the ibis of
old. A grave and reverend fellow, with
a huge turban, sits under the cloister
and sells grain to the faithful and the
tickle. The former feed the doves for
charity; the latter for fun. While the
fountain is knee-deep with swarming
birds and the trees clogged with them, and
all the caves of the cloister lined, and even
the high galleries of the slender minarets
not unvisted by these feathered der.
wishes, you throw handful of wheat
into the court, and, like thundercloud,
the whole tribe swoops upon you will
the rush and the roar of a storm,
They crowd one another, and heap them
selves together and stand ON their heads
in their eagerness' to get morsel Of
grain. In moment some one enters the
court. and the birds take flight, stirring
the wind in the cloister and filling the
air with soft, floating down.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
Musings bY the Blue Danube.

A war correspondent writes: Notwith-
standing the fatigue of the day, have
sat quite late in my solitary room writ
ing this letter. There is no postal SER
vice between here and Constantinople.
All letters are sent privately to the Brit
ish consul at Varna, who forwards them
to the English postmaster at Pera. 1t
is beautiful moonlight night, and there
is hush everywhere like that which
precedes the storm. From my window
1 can hear the low, sullen swash of the
swollen Danube, and can see the dull
outlines of the Turkish gun-boat lying
above the town. Anon it will move
down to where its mate is patrolling for
Russian pontooniers, and will steam
back before daybreak. 1 am told that
the Turks have thirty thousand troops
here, armed mostly with Henry Martini
rifles. They all appear to be good sol
evening that have seen in Turkey. 1t
was composed of stalwartfellows with their
headsshaved in the Mussulman style, with
the tuft Of hair on the apex for the an
gels to seize them by and lift them from
the battlefield to Paradise. There is a
strangeness in my situation, which can
not help feallzlng. LII is indeed odd,
that I have Travelled seven thousand
miles, to sleep here tonight in this his
toric spot-the advance position and CEN
tral point of the great war, and under
the very nose of Russian battery. L
am the only bona .fde American news
paper correspondent lying on this edge
of the Danube tonight, and that is
something. l shall sleep some, know,
for I am tired and well nigh worn out
with sightseeing and excitement. But
it will not be the sleep of one who gath
ers the drapery of his couch about him,
and lies down to pleasant dreams, for /
can't dismiss the unpleasant reflection,
that at least two of those somber guns
in that Russian battery over the river
are pointing toward the second story of
| the Hotel Islah-hane.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
On the RamDage.

There was n great big woman who
came into business Office in Baltimore
recently and asked for gentleman whom
she presumed held out there. He was
in, and after a few words had passed be-
tween the pair she thought she would
whip him anyway, and forthwith she be-
gan to carry out her avowed intention.
Off came her bracelets, then her earrings
and breastpin, and she pronounced herself
ready, like Pelham, for " either issue. 1"
Then she pranced around lively. Over
went the table, and a chair was thrown
against the washstand with damaging
effect, by which time the object of her
wrath had made his escape, and she pro-
ceeded forthwith to demolish another
occupant of the Office, but he, with Fal-
staff, agreed with himself that the better
part OF valor is discretion, and fled
Then the woman got mad. Furniture,
bopks and ink stands and such trifes, in
one confused mass did not appease her
wrath, and she sailed in to take the win
dow glass out of the sash, which she did
with fine dramatic effect, produced and
aided by oaths quite loud aud shrill,
which woke the neighborhood to wild
excitement and brought the police to the
rescue. A hack was called, and the irate
female having been bestowed within,
started homeward with the avowed inten-
ton of knocking seven kinds of grace
"out'n" her husband, and the end is
not yet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
Words of Wisdom,

He who talks only of himself is soon
left without an audience.
Resist it as firmly, despise it as proudly
as we may, all studied unkindness, no
matter how contemplate it may be, has
stinging power in it which reaches to
the quick.
The silence of person who loves to
praise is censure sufficiently severe.
Adapt your food to your constitution
and employment.
passionate temper renders man unfit
for advice, deprives him of his reason,
robs him of all that is great and noble in
his nature, makes him unfit for con-
versation, destroys friendship, changes
justice into cruelty, and turns all order
into confusion.
The man who is true to himself will be
true to the rest of mankind.
The man who is taught III the school
of experience will never forget the les
sons learned there.
Whenever the wandering demon of
drunkenness finds ship adrift he steps
on board, takes the helm and steers
straight for the maelstrom.