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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-29

The longest daily mail and stage line
in the United States, 800 miles from
Fort Worth, in Texas, to Fort Yuma,
on the Colorado river, has been formally
inaugurated with a procession of Con-
cord stages drawn by 200 horses.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-29

Figures founded on the nominations
made indicate that there will be 800
regular candidates in the field for the
293 seats in the Forty.sixth United States
Congress, although in many Southern
districts there is no opposition to the
Democratic candidates.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-29

It is very remarkable circumstance
in the native country of wheat that oats,
barley and rye should be entirely un-
known. This has led to the opinion by
some naturalists that all our cereal plants
are artificial productions, obtained acci-
dentally, but retaining their habits,
which have become fixed in the course
of ages.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
AM indignant Head and Neck.

A most extraordinary sensation has
occurred in the American colony of Lon
don, writes correspondent from the
British metropolis. A young lady from
Philadelphia was walking down Regent
street with the mother and sister OF q
young gentleman of rank, when the at
tention of all three was attracted by
some photographs Of notable people and
others exposed in a window, and they
drew up to look at them. Fancy the
astonishment of the American girl on
seeing her own photograph exposed
there among the others, but in the most
amazing shape it is possible to conceive.
Her head, her face, the arrangement of
her hair, the turn of her neck, it was
impossible to mistake and yet, there
she was, almost as undraped as the
Venus de Medici-in fact, got up in
tights and feshings and labeled Ma
zeppap "What can this mean ?" she
cried to the elderly lady, her lips
blanched with shame and terror.
"I really cannot tell you," replied
Lady Disdain, with steel-hard eyes and
icy voice. "You perhaps can tell us
whether on any occasion in America you
were in the habit of appearing in this
dress ?"
"Oh, what do you mean to insinuate, I"
uttered the poor girl. "Do you think
I ever stood as Mazeppa2 Oh, how
cruel of you to speak 80.
"It is certainly your portrait" added
the other lady.
had drawn up to the window, and notic-
ing the likeness were nudging each
other.
cit is some coincidence-of course; /
cannot be meant for me-"
You had better take cab and go
home and tell your father about it, I"
said the lady, still with her frigid man.
ner. "My daughter and 1 have some
calls to make"
In a half-dazed state of mind the
young Philadelphia drove home and
told her father of what had happened.
To get back to that shep, to have that
photograph out of that window, to de-
mand an explanation of the stationer,
was not the work of many minutes for
the enraged father. But, though it was
easy enough to demand an explanation,
it was not so easy to get one. Suspicion
falls upon the servants in the house, one
of whom might easily have abstracted
a photo out of package of them, which
has been kept hitherto in an unlocked
drawer of the young lady's writing desk.
OF course, it is cooked picture ;
only the head and neck of the American
lady's photograph, the rest that of some
one else, and together the picture rep
resents one of the most beautiful women
it is possible to conceive. The matter
has caused 80 much indignation and SO
much comment that it is not impossible
it may check the mania now so preva-
lent among society beauties for having
themselves photographed for sale at a
shilling carte de Uisite.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Disturbed by an Earthquake.

The newspapers long ago had their
laugh over the deaf old lady who said
"Come in when the third shock of an
earthquake had reused her just enough
to fancy that somebody raped. F"
Speaking of the late earthquake felt in
Westphalia, a correspondent of the
RatholisIe8 Volksblatt writes:
Some OF the effects of the earthquake
were very laughable. A government
official, as he went through his
house on a tour of inspection after
the first shock, found one of
the maid-servants lying on the floor.
She had broomstick in her hand, and
was cropping about with it under the
kitchen cupboard to strike that "horri j.
BILE cat, which, while she was in the
sitting-room, had been rattling among
the dishes. She did not find any cat.
The rattling had been caused by the
earthquake.
An old man stood writing at his desk
in his somewhat rickety house when the
shock began. A cracking sound was
heard through the house, and the walls
appeared to tremble. At the same in
stant he heard loud knocking at the
door. He hastily tore open the window
and saw beggar standing at his door,
"Stop shaking my house Now you'll
get nothing at al /" he exclaimed; and
It was the work of an instant to SLAM
down the window angrily, as rebuke
for such wickedness.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Greeley's Trouble With His Shirts,

One winter Mrs. Greeley went to the
West Indies for her health, and the fol-
lowing spring she sent for her husband
to come after her and bring her home to
New York. Now, if there was one thing
the old man hated, it was the sea. The
very smell of salt water made him sick.
But nevertheless he obeyed his wife's
call, as he was accustomed to obey her
every whim. In due time they got back
to Gotham, and that morning Mr.. Sim
clair received word that Greeley was not
feeling we'll, owing to his voyage, and
had decided to stay at home for the day.
In the evening Sinclair was going to
Washington on business, and SO. valise
in hand, he called at Greeley's house an
hour or two before the train was to start.
He found the old man in bed, and actu-
ally very i'll, having suffered terribly
from sea-sickness all the way ont and all
hs way back. He was alone, the other
members of the family being i'll or away
to pass the night with him, giving up
for that time his trip to the capital.
"Sinclair," said he in that querulous
whine of his, "I'm as naked as the day
7 was born. My trunks haven't arrived
yet, and ] haven't got night-gown."
"But why not wear this ?" pointing to
the garment he had taken off before get
ting into bed.
"Oh, I expect to be out tomorrow,
and I want that to wear then. How
would it look after I'd slept in it ?"
Well, in due time his luggage arrived,
and Sinclair made q bolt for the article
he wanted. After some rummaging he
found it, and helped the old man to put
it on. 1t was speedily fastened at the
neck, and the nurse took up one of the
wrists and tried to button it. There,
however, he stuck fast. The ends
wouldn't meet by fully two incnes. He
tugged and twisted to his utmost, but it
was no go. Still, as the patient said
nothing, he supposed it ought to be
fastened, and redoubled his efforts for
that purpose. For about twenty minutes
he Iabored without success. Then he
said
6" This is failure. 1t won't fasten.
"No," replied Greeley, with exasper-
ating calmness, 81 knew it wouldn't.
The fact is, 1 never could button the
thing myself. But you seemed to enjoy
it, so I didn't disturb you."
He lay back on the pillows for few
moments, as if thinking deeply, and
then, sitting bolt upright, he brought
his fist down upon the quilt and ex-
claimed:
eff ever Mormonism works as far
east as this, I'll be blamed if 1 don't
have one wife to take care of my shirts p
Chicago Tribune.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
New. and Note. for wom.n,

One lady still remains at Judge Hill
toms hotel in New York for the original
price of 81 week.
Miss Grace G. Bibb has been appoint.
ed member OF the faculty of the State
university, at Columbus, Mo-, at salary
of $4,000.
Miss Sarah II. Leggett, of Brooklyn,
N. T., has opened home for young
women, where, for four dollars week,
they enjoy the social life of family.
The crown princess of Prussia is a
sensible woman. When she visits an
exhibition she goes in simple black
silk gown, with straw hat with black
band and vail.
A writer of fashions observes that The
head dresses of ladies among the Greeks
didn't destroy the contour OF their
heads. The dressings of the hair of
some OF the modern girls have decided
tendency that way. Fists and other
designs applied to the heads produce
awkward bumps.
Miss Maxwell Graham, an ancient
and somewhat eccentric maiden of Eng
land, has left one hundred thousand dol
lars to four charitable societies, where
with to relieve poor Protestants who are
named Hutchinson or Maxwell, and to
educate their children.
The French government, during the
summer, sent the school teachers, COM
posed largely of ladies, to visit the
Paris exposition, and paid their expenses
for them. They went in patches of one
thousand at time, holding conferences
in the morning and then dividing into
parties to visit different points and study
Systematically.
Misses Roxanna and Elizabeth Lowd,
sisters, and Miss Elizabeth Whitcomb,
are farmers in Warner, N. a., who own
and work profitably farm of one hun
dred and sixty acres. They superin-
tend personally the farm work, do not
hesitate even to take hold of scythe,
hoe and plow, and are seen almost every
day in the field hard at work.
Miss Louise Mclaughlin, whom the
Cincinnati Commercial describes as
young Cincinnati lady, slender, with
large eyes and delicate, bright face
a peculiarly American face, full of in
tellect and refnement-has discovered
the famous process of underglaze paint
ing pottery, which, if not the identical
Haviland process, is one 80 similar that
it appears to produce the same effect.
The Commercial wonders, in view of
that city's having almost everything else,
why it should not have famous art pot
terry.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

DIR. r. v, Pierce, Of Buffalo, N. Y, the pro-
prietor Of DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines, and
also Of the Invalids' and Tourists Hotel of
that city, has recently been elected to Congress
by the very fattering majority Of nearly 5000.
He hasalready served his constituency as State
Senator, and this renewed Endorsement signi-
fies that his services have been highly satisfac-
tory. His extensive practice in the treatment
Of Chronic Diseases will not, we are informed,
be neglected or suffer in the least when the
time arrives for him to take his seat in Con-
gress, it being intrusted to his brother and
other experienced medical gentlemen who have
long been associated with the Doctor in the
Medical Department Of his celebrated Worlds
Dispenaary and Invalids' Hotel. Besides, as the
Forty-sixth Congress does not convene until
December, 1879, DR.. Pierce's patients will not
lose his personal attention for some months yet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
prob,em LONE since so,vsa,

How to remedy those prolific causes Of dis
ease, an impoverished circulation and an i'm
paired digestion, was problem the solution
Of which had often baff1ed medical skill, but
which was solved over quarter Of century
ago by the introduction OF Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters 10 public and professional notice.
Since that time, which may well be said to
have initiated new epoch in the history of
medicine, the remedy and preventive referred
to has obtained foothold in the confidence
Of the American people that each succeeding
year has only served to strengthen. 1t is re-
cognized throughout the Union as a tonic of
the first order, remedy for and sure means
Of preventing fever and ague, and disorders of
the stomach and bowels as a reliable means
of reforming disordered state Of the liver
and Of counteracting a tendency to rheuma-
tism, gout, urinary and uterine disorders.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Bismarck as An Eater and Drinker

DhohaiCh as All LdttT anu DTluheTs
The London Times, in giving extracts
from DIR. Busch's book on Bismarck,
furnishes the following summary of the
accounts of some of his personal adven-
lures:
"The personal incidents recorded in
the book are numberless. From his
student days he has had no end of duels.
He has beaten topers in beer-houses
with such glorious sense of manly Ella
tion that he takes two pages to recount
his victory twenty-five years afterward.
He has been over and over again in
peril Of his life, from the old Russian
days when sentinel offered to shoot
him, to the entry into Paris, where
a tierce-looking individual was disarmed
by the prince coolly asking him for 6
light. He has jumped over abysses in
the Alps, with fair burden in his arms
he walks about alone at night in Yer
sailles, revolver in pocket, ready to kill
and die; and, to excel his neighbors in
everything, does not scruple to tell us
that he is the most accomplished diplo-
matist of his age, so he can also chal.
lenge assembled humanity to outdo him
in point of drink. So terrific are his
achievements in the potatory line that
one dreadful day King William w.,
happening to witness his ibations, had
recourse to his sovereign word of com.
mand to forbid further display. Then,
as regards eating, who can compare with
the chancellor in point of discernment
and receptiveness When the crown
prince dimes with the broad -shouldered
chief of the foreign Office in the camp
before Paris, his imperial highness is
astonished at the dainties served up and
the rotundity of all his officials present.
This, explains the complacent Bis.
marck, is due to donations we get from
fatherland. The German nation is de-
termined to have a corpulent chancellor.
To which the crown prince replies:
Butcher is the only lean specimen here;
| dare say he has not been with you
long,
Columns might be filled with the
culinary knowledge displayed in the
memorable work before us. The in
telligent prince dilates upon every i'm
aginable variety of fish contained in
ocean or river. He lays down the law
upon crabs and Holsters, discourses
freely upon eggs, and claims the honor
of being heaven-sent benefactor to AK
la Chapelle, having taught the benight.
ed citizens how to fry oysters. His dis.
elimination in cheese is perfectly won
derful. He can hold forth by the hour
upon wine, and on dire occasion, spirits
becoming scarce in the tents, causes a
desperate appeal to be telegraphed
home as to the strong need of supply
of gin incontinently. Always good
natured after dinner, he threatens cor
poral punishment to the steward of
Baron Rothschild for refusing to bring
forth wine for the king when every bot.
tie is paid for. Nay, albeit loyal SUBJ
ject, he allows the rumor to circulate un-
contradicted that he has killed brace
of pheasants in M. Rothschild's park,
contrary to the express prohibition OF
his sovereign. His excuse, it appears,
is the paramount duty of self-preserva.
ton, the winged victims having been
the first to begin the affray."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

Two gentlemen who were passing a
housein Worcester, Mass, recently, were
attracted by large Newfoundland dog
which kept running toward them, and
then returning in the direction of pond
in the grove, where something was evil
IDENTIFY wrong. They followed the dog
to the pond, where they found another
dog in the water and unable to get out.
His front paws were on the curbstone,
but he could not get sufficient hold to
draw himself up. He was nearly ex-
hausted, and would probably have been
drowned had not the gentlemen assisted
him. The dogs showed their gratitude
in unmistakable signs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Near New Madrid. on the Missiaaipni

Near New Madrid, on the Mississippi
river, is O region known as the "Sunk-
en- Country" In 1911 there was ter
rible earthquake, which had its head
quarters at New Madrid, 1t shook the
ground for weeks for three hundred
miles, from the mouth Of the Ohio to
the river st. Francis. Humboldt and
Lyell both describe the event, and state
that the "Sunken Country" is about
eighty miles by thirty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Sion Drinking yinernr.

70 "eSo beye ruined
their health by drinking vinegar to reduce their
forms to graceful proportions. Allan's Anti
Fat is absolutely harmless. 1t promotes diges-
ton, and accomplishes its work simply by pre-
venting au undue assimilation of the fatty
ingredients of the food. Excessive fatness is
vexstious burden, and there is no longer any
excuse for enduring it, since Allan's Anti-Fat
is an effectual remedy for this abnormal con-
dition.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COL, July 18th, 1878.
BoTASIc MEDICINE Co., Buffalo, N. Y:
Gentlemen-I lost three pounds while taking
one bottle of Allan's Anti-Fat.
Yours truly, Mrs. NJ B. MYERS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

We always take pleasure In recommending
q really good article. such is vsndervoort's
everywhere. You osn render anything perfectly
water-tight with 50c or TOO. can Of It. Sold
by hardware and paint supply stores. Send
stamp to vsndervoort, 116th st., New York,
for circular Agents wanted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

To partially atone for our many sins during
the year now closing we wish to expose fraud.
We refer to the large packs Of horse and cattle
powders now sold. Sheridan's are absolutely
pure and immensely valuable. This statement
ia true
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

In peace there's nothing SO becomes q
man as modest stiffness and humility,
unless he is engaged in the life insurance
or some analogous business.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

Hon. O. R. Parsons, mayor Of Rochester, was
radically cured of Bright's Disease by Craig's
Kidney Cure Depot AZ University Pl., N.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

The Utica Observer truthfully re-
marks, when printer sets on poem il
is bound to be printed, but when an
editor sets on poem it will never be
rinted.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

Ingratitude is almost criminal, and
yet there is everything to admire in
gratitude.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

For upwards Of thrty years Mrs. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children
with never-failing success. 1t correots scdity
Of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulate
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhos,
whether arising from teething or other causeF.
An old and well-tried remedy. 25 cts. bottle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

For throat diseases and affections Of the
chest, browns Bronchial Troches are OF
value. For coughs, irritation of the throat
caused by cold, or unusual exertion of the
vocal organs, in speaking in public, or singing,
they produce beneficial results.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

IMPGGTANT NOTICE.-Farrers, Fami-
lies and Others purchase no Remedy equal to DR.
TOBIAS VENETIAN LINIMENT for the cure OF
Cholera, Dierrhoea, Dysentery Group, Ooo and Sea-
sickness, taken ntsrnally-Qt is perfectly harmless
Chronic Rbeuinatism, Headache, Toothache, Sore
Bites old Sores, Pains in Limbs Back and CHEST The
VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in ls47, and
who has used II but continues to do SO, many
stating, II II was Ten Dollars Bottle they would not
be without It, Thousands of Certificates be At
Sold by the Druggists at 40 cts Depot AZ Murray .st
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

Dealers will, of course, often recommend an
organ as best because they have it to sell, or
can make more on it. But it has been demon
strated at all worlds expostions for twelve
years that those made by the Mason & Hamlin
Organ Co excel all others,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweeten
the breath, use Browns Camphorated Sapona-
ceous Dentifrice. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
NIL
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12

A speedy quietus is given to hacking cough
by that inestimable specific for pulmonary,
throat and bronchial complaints, Halls Balsam
for the Lungs, which cures consumption,
bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, labored
breathing and other disorders of the respiratory
organs. When a cough manifests itself, the
early use of this benefcent medicine is earnestly
recommended, as the difficulty is more easily
overcome in its incipient stage than later on.
Sold by all druggists.
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that most to be dreaded Of all dreadful dis
eases. Don't delay moment prevention is
better than cure No family should be with
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