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j. s. BORD WE'LL, II. d.,

Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, has remov-
ed his office from Centre street, to Mair ST.
Ridyway. Pa, in the second story Of the
ues brick building of John @. Hall, oppo-
site Hyde's store.
Ofieo hours;--l to 2PM to 9PM
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08

POWELL d KIME'S.
SUGARS All POWELL AND
KIME'S are high to be sure; but = i'll
are little cheaper than ut any other
sore in town.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08

A NICE LOTOF NEW PRINTS
at POWELL & KIME'S, only eight
ents per. yard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08
DRIED APPLES AT

POWELL a KtME'e.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08
BJJTTER AND LARD AT

+. q n %
FURS. A SMALL LOT AT
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-08

POWEI.L& KIME}s.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-31
For Sale or Rent.

- A HOUSE AND LOT on RUBY
Es.m Hill il for salo or rent 1t has four
E-A< spacious rooms, and the property is
eligibly located For particulars apply 10
MATT. KYLE, Main street.
Eureka. June q. i~T7. je2Stf
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-31
ANTONIO FERRARIS,
PRACTICAL BOOTMAKER
First Door Above Monaco's Photograph
Gallery.

DOoTs MADE OF THE BEST -
ID French Calfskin and fitted to q -
I. Cork-soled Boots made q specialtv -
for winter.
have a complete assortment of custom
made boots.
LADIES' Shoes made to order in a neat
manner.
Repairing neatly done and on short no
tice.
French dressing for ladies' and cAildren's
shoes.
None but practical warkmen employed
ANTONI0 FERRARIS.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
Trailing Arbutus.


This is one of the most beautiful and
highly fragrant Of the early wild flowers
of our hills. 1t is sought after every
spring, by the young folks of our town,
and, If transplanted to our gardens, would
make one Of the most desirable acouisi-
tions to any collection. Many attempts
have been made to transplant the arbutus,
but we have heard of no one who has
been successful. We therefore clip from
the New York Herald the following d.
rections for transplanting it, and hope
some of our lady friends will preserve the
same until spring, give it fair trial, and
report the result
"A writer whose name was not furnished
says 81 prepared border Of ground on
the north side of my woodhouse, one foot
in depth and composed Of one third leaf
mould from the woods. 1t is so placed as
to receive at the bottom portion of the
drip from the caves of the shed. | then
procured from two of my friends, in diff.
ferent parts of the country, boxes Of plants
taken up with good supply of Garth ad-
herring to the roots and carefully packed
in moss. Along with these packages of
plants | also procured boxes of the earth
in which these plants originally grew,
This soil was spread over the surface Of
the border and the roots of the new plants
were carefully imbeded in it. The border
was well watered, and afterward mulched
with leaves and moss. A few Of these
plants died in the course of summer, but
the most of them lived and fiourished, as
though they had not been transplanted.
The following spring found them in good
condition, and during the first half of
May they furnished fine display Of
blossoms. The arbutus requires partial
shade, degree of moisture at the roots, a
soil free from clay and composed largely
of sand and leaf mould. To make the
matter doubly sure the plants should have
a fair start in the soil to which they are
indigenous. In the winter they should
have light covering of leaves and ever
green bOughs."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

jured Her husband brought his complaint
before the Kadi, and in spite Of his remon-
strances Kasem was obliged to pay a
heavier fne than he had ever yet paid, for
his careless slippers had nearly killed two
human beings.
When the sentence was pronounced
Kasem said with seriousness, that made
tho Kadi himself laugh: "Kadi, | will
grant and suffer all willingly, to which you
have condemned me, only I solicit the
protection of justice from the implacabe
enemies who have been the cause of all
my griefs and nisfortunes to the present
hour. They are these wretched slippers.
They have brought me into poverty and
disgrace; yes, into danger to my life, and
who knows what they may have yet in store
for me Be just, o, noble Kadi, aud give
judgment, that all crimes, which without
doubt these instruments Of evil may per-
petrate, shall be charged to them, not to
me"
The Kadi could not refuse his request.
He kept the unfortunate disturbers of the
public and domestic peace
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
A shrswd Clergyman.

A popular minister had just finished an
exhortation, strongly recommending the
support Of very meritorious institution.
The congregation was numerous and the
chapel was crowded to excess. The dis
course being finished, the plate was about
being handed around to the respective pews,
when the preacher made this short address
to the awaiting congregation: "From
the sympathy | have witnessed in your
countenances, and from the strict attention
you have honored me with, there is one
thing that l am afraid of---that some Of
you may be inclined to give too much.
Now, it is my duty to inform you, that
justice though not so pleasant, should
always be prior virtue to generosity
Therefore, as you will all be immediately
waited upon in your respective pews,
wish to have it thoroughly understood
that no person shah think Of putting any
thing into the plate who cannot pay hi,
debts" We need not add that this pro
duced an Oyeraowing collection.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
Tanning Russia Leather.

How THE SECRET WAS DIscovEREp.
Marshall Jewell is typical Yankee,
smart as chain lightning and cute as
they make EN-, even in Connecticut.
Gov Jewell, according to report came it
over the Russians while Minister to that
country. 1t is said as a matter Of fact
that Gov. Jewell, while Minister in Russia,
found out the secret Of the famous Russia
leather. The secret is the result of the
use Of birch bark tar, with which the skins
are dressed in place Of tallow and grease,
the latter substances being 50 largely used
as food among the lower classes. This
tar, which is carefully saved as it exudes
from the wood when burned, was first used
as substitute for wheel grease in Russia,
as it is to this day, aud then for the filling
and dressing Of skins By a system Of
careful inquiry, and literally following his
nose during his visit to some Of the great
Russian tanneries and curriers' shops,
Mr.. Jewell found this compound in a great
kettle ready for use, aud thus the mystery
was solved. 1t is not expensive, costing
about $40 a barrel, and be immediately
ordered ten barrels aud sent them to yari-
Gus leading leather manufacturers in this
country with instructions; aud the RESULT Is
that genuine Russia leather goods are now
made in America, and doubtless will soon
be sold at nearly fifty per cent. below
former prices.
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Giants.

In memoir read before the Academy
Of Sciences at Rouen, NJ, lie Cat gives the
following accounts of giants that are said
to have existed in different ages
Proiane historians have given seven
feet of height to Hercules, the first hero,
and in our day We have some men eight
feet high. The giant who was shown in
Rouen in 1884 measured eight feet some
inches. The emperor Maximinus was of
that size. Shenens and Platerus, physi-
clans Of the last century, saw several of
that stature, and Horcpius saw girl who
was ten feet high. The body of Orestus,
according to the Greeks, was eleven feet
and half; the giant Galbara, brought from
Arabia to Rome, under Claudius Caesar,
was near ten feet high; and the bones Of
Secondilla and .Pusio, keepers of the gar.
dens of Sallust, were but six inches shor-
ter. Funnam, Scotchman, who lived in
the time of Eugene H., King of Scotland,
measured eleven feet and a half; and Jacob
lie Marie, in his voyage to the Straits Of
Magellan, reports that on the seventeenth
of December, 1915, they found at Port
Desire several graves covered with stones,
and having the curiosity to remove the
stones they discovered human skeletons
ten and eleven feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peake of Toneriffe, says they found in
one of the sepulchral caverns in that noun
tain the head of gaunche which had
eighty teeth, and that the body was not
less than fifteen feet long. The giant
Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of
Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high. Ro-
land, q celebrated anatomist who wrote in
1914, says some years before there was to
be seen in the suburbs of st. German the
tomb of the great giant Isoret, who was
twenty feet high. In Rouen, in 1900, in
digging in the bitches near the Domini-
cans, they found stone tomb containing
u skeleton whose skull held a bushel of
corn, and whose shin bone reached up to
the girdle of the tallest man there, being
about four feet long, and consequently the
body must have been seventeen or eigh.
teen feet high Upon the tomb was plate
Of copper, whereon was engraved, ain this
tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the
Chovaier Rieon de Vallemont and his
bones" " Platerus, famous physician,
declares that he saw at Lucerne the body
of man which must have been at least
nineteen feet high. Valance of Dauphi-
ny boasts of possessing the bones of the
giant Bucart, tyrant of the Niyaries, who
was slain with an arrow by the count of
Cabilou, his vassal. The Dominicans had
part of the shin-bone, with the articulation
of his knee, and his figure painted in fres-
co, with an inscription showing that the
giant was twenty-five and half feet high,
and that his bones were found in 1905,
near the banks of the Morderi, a little
river near the foot of the mountain of
Crusal, upon which (tradition says the
giant dwelt
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10


The use Of the snow writes Souther-
laud) when persons are thirsty does not by
any means allay the Unsuitable desire for
water on the contrary, it appears to be
increased in proportion to the quantity
used; and the frequency with which it is
put into the mouth For example, per-
son walking along feels intensely thirsty,
and he looks to his feet with coveting eyes;
but his good sense and firm resolutions are
not to be overcome so easily, and he with
draws the open hand that was to grasp the
delicious morsel and convey it into his
parching mouth; he has seven miles of a
journey to accomplish, and his thirst is every
moment increasing; he is perspiring pro-
fusely, and feels quite hot aud oppressed;
at length his good resolutions stagger, and
he partakes of the smallest particle, which
produces a most exhilaating effect. In
less than ten minutes he tastes, again and
again, always increasing the quantity, and
in half an hour he has a gumstick of con-
densed snow, which he masticates with
avidity, and replaces with assiduity the
moment it has melted away, but his thirst
is not allayed in the slightest degree; he is
as hot as ever, and still perspires his mouth
is in flames, and he is driven to the me-
cessity of quenching them with snow,
which adds fuel to the fire, The melting
snow ceases to please the palate, and it
feels like red-hot Goals, which, like a fire.
eater, he shifts about with his tongue, and
swallows without the addition of saliva;
he is in despair, but habit has taken the
place of his reasoning facilities, and he
moves on with languid steps, lamenting
the severe fate which forces him to persist
in practice which in an unguarded mo
ment he allowed to begin. | believe the
true cause Of such intense thirst is the
extreme dryness of the air when the tenn
perature is low. In this state il abstracts
a large amount Of moisture from the hui
man body. The soft and extensive surface
which the lungs expose twenty-five times
or ofteaer every minute to nearly two
hundred cubic inches Of dry air, must yield
quantity of vapor which one can hardly
spare with impunity. The human skin
throughout its whole extent, even where
it is brought to the hardness of horn, as
well as the softest aud most delicate parts,
is continually exhaling vapor, and this ex-
halation creates in due proportion de-
mand for water. Let person but exam
ine the inside of his boots after walk in
the open air at low temperature, aud
the accumulation Of condensed vapor
which he finds there viii convince him of
the active state of the skin. often found
my stockings adhering to the soles Of my
Kilbys boots after walk Of few hours.
The hOar frost and snow which they con-
tanned could not have been there by any
other means except exhalation from the
skin
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

Don't ask me, papa; there's nobody,
now" she said, hiding her face on his
shoulder.
Was it some one who went away2n
Yes" family
| thought so, dear It's like you wo-
men to love the man they have wronged
the most"
The two hid away in the remotest cor
ner of the house while the auction was
going on next day, and Roxie exerted her
self incredibly to sustain her fathers heavy
heart. He grew old fast in those few
hours. This losing his home seemed to
hurt him cruelty ..
The sale was over, and they still sat
there alone, waiting, perhaps, to sec if some
friend would not speak word of counsel
or comfort in this trying hour.
There was hesitating knock at the
door presently, and gentleman came in
Mr. Lyle, seeing that it was stranger,
said; "You are, perhaps, the new pro-
prietor 2"
The stranger bowed, aud said,-"I
bought everything for friend of Mr..
Lyle's who requested me to say to him that
this house was as much his now as it
ever was"
"Mr.-Lyle lifted his head and looked
at the man, and from him to Roxic, in
sort of bewilderment.
What does this mean, Roxie ?"
Roxie had como forward, breathlessly,
her face red and white in swift changes.
"Papa," she cried, running to him and
sobbing upon his neck dts Frank
Thorley."
"No, no, Roxie," the merchant said,
incredulously
I" 1t is Frank Thorley, sir," Frank said, /,
now coming nearer "and he wishes fer.
vently that he had come sooner. am a
rich man, Mr.. Lyle, thanks to you for Civ.
ing me another chance in life, and | have
come ready to discharge my obligation to
you with my all. | have nothing sir that
is not yours also"
Don't, Frank l was only just, scarce
ly that; it seems good to see you, though,
like the face of an old friend We haven't
many friends now, you know"
Roxie had not spoken 1t seemed she
could not lift her face from her fathers
arm. But when Frank asked gently -
"Have you no welcome for me, Roxie ?"
" Have you forgiven me yet?' she
asked, looking up suddenly.
:" l have never married, he said, in a
low voice; "and you"
Nor |" flushing and trembling.
"Roxie" with sudden heat and ga
gerness,-"I have loved you all these
years"
And you"
The new firm is Lyle 4 Thorley. Frank
would have it so.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE MIssIs-
sIPPI.-Edward II. Bebee, of Geneva, ILL.,
inois, publishes in the Scientific Ameri-
can an interesting paper on the early nav.
igation Of the Mississippi river by steam.
The Orleans, of 200 tons, appears to have
been one of the first boats in 1911. She,
with the Comet, and the Vesuvius, were
all of Pittsburg. From 1913 to 1917, a
number of other boats were built at Pitts
burg, Brownsville and Wheeling. In 1917
the steamer Washington made the run
from New Orleans to Louisville in twenty
five days. At public dinner given to
Captain Shreeve, on the completion of
this trip to Louisville, he predicted that
the time would come when the trip from
New Orleans to Louisville would be made
in ten days. This statement was regard
ed in the same light that Stephenson's S
was when he predicted that locomotives
would be run at the rate Of twenty miles
an hour Both predictions were long
way within the facts. The trip froufNew
Orleans to Louisville, that required twen-
ty-fve days to perform in 1917, was made
by the A. l.. Shotwell, in 1853, in four
days and ten hours.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
New Discovery in Tanning.

According to the recent process of
Klemm of Stuttgard, the time required
for tanning calfskin has been reduced to
16 hours, and that for an oxhide to %
days; but more recent method, patented
by Montoison of Manchester, promises to
accomplish the same in from few hours
to one day. At trial made of it before
experts, sheep was slaughtered and
skinned and the wool was removed from
the hide in half an hour, by spreading it
with chemical agent, without the aid
of scraper; and the hide, after having
been placed in lime water to neutralize the
chemical agent, was passed through several
chemically prepared baths, which required
but a few minutes, and was then washe d
and dressed in the usual way, and con-
verted into marketable leather, only four
hours having been consumed in all, while
the old process would have required two
to three weeks, and that of Klemm 1G
hours. Economy of time is not, however,
its only recommendation. The wool is
said to retain its softness and luster, so
that it is not inferior to sheared wool.
The leather is said to be in no respect in
ferior to ordinary leather
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
The Discovery of Gas.

Great was the amazement of England,
when, at the close of the last century,
William Murdoch discovered the use Of
cOmbustible air or gas. So little was the
invention understood and believed in BY
those who had not seen it in use, that even
great aud wise men laughed at the idea
''How could there be light without wick?"
said member Of Parliament, when the
subject was brought up before the House.
Even Sir Humphry Davy ridiculed the
idea of lighting towns by gas, and asked
one Of the proprietors if they meant to
take the dome of St. Pauls for gas
metre. Sir Walter Scott, too, made him
self merry over the idea of Illuminating
London by smoke, though he was glad
enough, not so long after, to make his own
house at Abbotsford light and CHEEKY on
wintry nights by the use of that very
smoke. When the House of Commons
was lighted by gas, the architect imagin-
ed that the gas ran on fire through
the pipes, and he therefore insisted on
there being placed several inches from
the wall, for fear of the building taking
fire; and members might have been seen
touching the pipes with their gloved hands,
and wondering they did not feel warm.
The first shop lighted in London by the
new method was Mr.. Ackermann's, in the
Strand, in 1910; and one lady of rank
was so delighted with the brilliancy of
the gas-lamp on the counter that she asked
to be allowed to take it home in her car
riage. Mr.. Murdoch was, however, too
busy with other pursuits to continue to
study the use Of gas, and, though he was
undoubtedly the first to apply it to public
purposes, many others laid claim to the
honor, and other people quickly reaped
the benefit of his cleverness and ingenuity.
In this he shared the general fate Of
inventors.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10
Effects of Heat on Carriage Woodwork at
the Centennial.

The Carriage Monthly, a most excellent
publication, calls attention to the failure
of many of the foreign carriages exhibited
at the Centennial to withstand the exces-
siye heat of last summer. Our contempt.
rary states that, after careful examination,
it found large number of carriages in
which not only the grain showed, but in
which the work generally exhibited signs
of shrinkage and coming to pieces. Pan
els were checked aud shrunk, joints open
ed, parts had warped out of square, spokes
were loose, and in fact the vehicles seemed
to need prompt rolegatiOn to the shop and
thorough overhauling.
On the other hand it is gratifying to
learn that these deficiencies were confined
to foreign carriages, and that the wagons
of American make withstood the trial per-
fectly, One coupe was exhibited destitute
Of paint or priming, and yet, after the six
months subsection to heat and damp, every
joint was solid and firm. The journal we
quote from, which, it should be remem-
bcred is published in the interest of our
carriage manufacturers, and therefore its
statements may be taken with grain of
allowance, adds; "The Americans have
gained woll-earned victory over European
makers, both in quality of stock aud in
workmanship, and we shall not be sur.
prised to see orders in large numbers re-
ceived for American carriages to be shipped
to all parts of the world, also an increased
demand for American woods, which enter
into the construction of bodies, wheels and
gears. The American poplar and bass.
wood are superior to the mahogany and
cedar used by the French and English for
panels, while our wheel stock is acknowl-
edged by all to be the only timber suitable
for wear and lasting qualities"
Now if our house carpenters would only
bring their art up to the perfection at
tanned by our carriage manufacturers, and
make their doors and windows so that
they would not shrink, it would be a good
thing. But scarcely house is built that
the windows do not rattle, after a brief
time; and both doors and windows are so
open, that, in cold weather the cold air
rushes in at such rate that the inmates,
with all the fire they can have, can scarce
ly keep themselves warm. And not one
roof in hundred but will leak in a storm.
There is great room for improvement in
housebuilding in this country.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

THE JEWISH REsToRAT1oN.-A curl
Gus rumor is aAoat, for which we do not
vouch, that the Porte, in its eagerness for
money, has offered to sell the hereditary
pashalic of the Holy Land to any candi-
date accepted by the Jews in return for
loan, The transaction would be one of
the most singular in history, but it is not
beyond the range of possibility. Palestine
needs nothing but irrigation aud trees,
and though the jews dislike agriculture,
fellahecn sufficiently might be attracted
from Egypt. The restoration of the Jews,
with Lord Baconsaeld for first king, would
be an incident romantic enough to satisfy
even the Imagination Of the author of
"Alroy. london Spectator.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

Since the opening of the Suez Canal,
the little town Of Ismailia has prospered
amazingly. As an instance Of the increas-
ed value of real estate, little tongue of
land near the mouth Of the canal, that was
declined by Lord Palmerston when offered
him for $4,000, has been purchased by an
association of English capitalists at the
price of S130, 600. Ai' ss'l 4 2at
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

Mansfield Island, in Lake Hfie, has
been bought by man who intends to stock
It with black cats and kill their progeny
for their fur. He will feed them at first
on fish caught of the shore by men who
will live on the island, but after the en-.
terprise is well started he will utilize the
meat Of the slaughtered cats as food for
the living ones. as < 'i.'
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

LIdHTNINa STRoKEs.-An old physi-
clan says If a man is stricken by lightning,
lay him fat on his back, open his clothing
at the pit of his stomach, and dash on it a
pail of the coldest water you can get. In
nine cases out OF ten ii will restore con-
sciousness, aud save life if done within
fifteen or twenty minutes after the stroke.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-02-10

A few years ago Australia imported a
cargo Of rabbits for the purpose Of freeing
the pastures from noxious weeds aud fright.
ening mischievous animals from the grain
fields. II Is now importing weasels for
the destruction Of the rabbits.