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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
A Costly China Service.

An English paper says: A Mr..
Clark died recently in Australia,
leaving to his son fortune of
thirty.fi millions of dollars. The
yonng man must have certain amount
of taste, at least for the fitness of dinner
things, as one of his first expenditures
was the ordering complete service of
china, such as would bring the smile of
commendation from MIR. VIM. @. Prime
and other ceramickers. Young Clark's
design it should be the best ever made
in England. The result is: First,
dinner service, the ground being bleu
de roi of 30 gorgeous tint that, on
contrasting it with Sevres blue, the
difference was imperceL Ltible; the deco
ration of this service is of rich gold,
over old Vienna. Secondly, dessert
service of pale French turquoise, re-
lieved by festoons of gold oak leaves and
acorns; in the center of each plate is
landscape exquisitely painted. while the
pieces intended for fruit, etc., are sup
ported by Cupids, and correspond with
the rest of most delicate service.
Thirdly, breakfast service, also of a
pale turquoise ground, decorated with
silver and gold LEAKAGE and Japanese
birds. Fourthly, a tea and coffee ser-
vice; the cups of the latter resemble
maerveille old Sevres, and the tea service
is so rich, with its deep azure tint and
superb miniatures, that when the entire
set was exhibited to Her Majesty, she
at once commanded duplicate of it.
This remarkable service, the most beau
tiful of modern porcelain, cost Mr..
CLARK thirty five thousand dollars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
Never Saw One of Them.

Two gentlemen from New York, one
of whom had been in California nearly
a year, and the other just arrived, were
accidentally overheard in the following
conversation at the Sutter House, Sac
ramento. The new conner was lament
ing his condition, when he asked the
other if he had family.
"Yes, sir, 1 have wife and six
children in New York, and never saw
one of them."
After this, the couple set few mo-
ments in silence, and then the interro-
gator again commenced
"Were you ever blind sir ?"
"No, sir"
Another lapse of time.
Did understand you to say, sir,
that you had wife and six children
living in New York and had never seen
one of them ?"
"Yes, sir so stated it."
Another and long pause of silence.
Then the interrogation inquired:
"How can it be, sir, that you never
saw one of them ?"
"Wny," was the response, zone Of
them was born after I left"
so, ah |" and general laugh fol-
lowed.
After that the first New Yorker was
especially distinguished as the man who
had six children and never saw one of
them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
What He Knew About Edison.

EDITOR HAwKEYE:-Can you tell me
any thing about the early life of Edison,
the inventor of the phonograph?
ALEXIS.
We rather think we can. From q
huge pile of exchanges we learn that
when quite a boy, he went into the
Western Union telegraph Office at De-
troit, Minneapolis, Dubuque, Cincinnati,
Pittsburg, Louisville, Memphis, Natchez,
Cheyenne, San Francisco, Ogden, Salt
Lake City, Ohihuahua, Fort Madison,
Albany, Be ton, Vicksburg, Keokuk.
Quincy, La Harpe, st. Louis, Kenton,
New n drid, Omaha, Denver, Harker's
Corners. Cleveland and Flatbush as q
messenger aud learned biography there,
but was discharged because he spent SC
much time experimenting on plan by
which ten messages could be sent both
ways on one wire at the same time, in
which he was finally successful His
old employer then took him back and
raised his wages to eleven dollars a week
and find himself. He is now yery
wealthy and owns shot gun and three
dogs. - Burlington HasUkeye.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
Words of Wisdom.

If you act with view to praise only,
you deserve none.
Always be as witty as you can with
your parting bow; your last speech is
the one remembered.
There is an emanation from the heart
in genuine hospitality which cannot be
described, but is Immediately felt, and
puts the stranger at once at his ease.
Be careful in your speech. A word
once spoken, a coach with four horses
cannot overtake it and bring it back. 1t
will do no harm for us all to remember
this.
Be charitable. Never refuse even an
animal q favor. When you see mad
dog coming along, give him his little
bite before turning him away.
If we create imaginary wants, why do
we not create imaginary satisfactlons?
It was the happier frenzy of the two to
be like the mad Athenian, who thought
all the ships that came into the harbor
to be his own, than be still tormenting
ourselves with Unsuitable desires.
Venerate four characters: the san
guine, who has checked volatility and
the rage for pleasure; the choleric, who
has subdued passion and pride; the
phlegmatic, emerged from Incidence;
and the melancholic, who has dismissed
avarice, suspicion, and asperity.
We should always distinguish between
taste and fancy. One is a perception of
some manifestation of principle in ma.
ture, the other a mere prediction fol
works of war. One is founded on the
soul as seen through its outward cover.
ing, the other contemplates only the
exterior dress. True taste is the love
of the sublime, the beautiful and true.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
Starvation In Labrador.

A Labrador correspondent of the
Journal de Quebec gives a heartrend-
ing account of the condition Of the people
along the Labrador. coast. The fisher
les failed them last fall and the
traders who give them provisions in
barter for their fish and oil abandoned
the territory, not caring to let the
wretched people have goods on credit.
Thus before winter set in the whole
population was left to starve or subsist
until summer on fish offal, for crops
are impossible on that sterile shore
Whole families have lived through the
winter on rotten, half-frozen carcasses
of seals driven ashore by the ice-fees.
Others have kept body and soul to.
gether by devouring the nauseous flesh
Of the black IoAp marin, O species of
seal which in prosperous times would
be Stunned even by the dogs. Many
deaths have occurred from sheer star
walton. OF five families containing
forty souls, in one settlement, only five
survive. Scurvy is epidemic. The
women haunt the shore like spectres
picking up the dead seal, while the men
and boys gather sea moss or shell fish.
The correspondent says "I know
several families who have eaten not
only the salted seal flesh put away for
the winter provender of their dogs, but
even the dogs themselves. Those who
happened to have stock of provisions
have been compelled to go on short
rations and share with their gaunt
neighbors. The people have been cut
off from the outside world since Sep
tember. When they found death staring
them in the face it was too late to make
their wants known, for navigation had
closed and they were 200 leagues dis
tant from Quebec without any means of
overland communication in winter. "
The acknowledgement of Quebec, in
answer to this appeal, has ordered a
quantity of provisions to be sent to the
coast, and clothing, medicine, etc., will
follow Immediately.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
The Warrior Wash.

It is curious that in the Isle of France
the common bee is not to be found as q
native of the woods, while, in the Isle OF
Brougham, it is common, and furnishes
an abundance Of wax and honey This
is explained by supposing that the war
riors about whom we are about to speak
destroy the bees, and have thus pre-
vented their multiplying in the island
in question. Truly, like the banditti of
whom we read in books, these wasps are
splendidly attired, sltho ,gh not on the
spoils of those whom they have robbed.
Their head, chest and body is Of re-
splendant luster; now green, or, seen in
another position, blue, and glistening
with all the lusSer of an exquisite var
nish. Their autenn@ are black, their
eyes of brownish yellow, and their
legs partly bronze colored and partly OF
o beautiful violet. They are strong and
swift of wing, and are possessed of a
terrible lance, the thrusts of which even
men cannot endure without far more
pain and Inflammation than attends an
ordinary sting. The foe with whom
these magnifcently-dr dressed warriors
have to contend is kind of insect allied
to the cockroach, which in our kitchens
has acquired the incorrect title of "black
beetle" This insect is detested by the
inhabitants of the island, for its ravages
upon almost everything of value or deli
cacy, and is not less hated by TIE sailors
for its destructiveness on shipboard. 1t
is called Kakerlac, and is much larger
than cockroaches, which are the plague
and terror OF our cooks. Imagine that
one of these great, old, odious insects is
creeping along the highway. The war
rior wasp has also been making his ex-
peditions for prey abroad, when sudden
ly his eager eye catches sight of the
kakerlac fastening to some new scene OF
depreciation. The warrior instantly
alights, and the kakerlac stops, think
ing, perhaps, to intimidats its adversary
by its size and iei Jcious aspect.
Both insects glance at each other.
The wasp is the first to attack, and
darts upon he other, seizing it by
the muzzle with its strong jaws, then
bending its body SO as to bring its tail
under the abdomen of the kakerlac. The
lance, with its charge of poison, is deep.
plunged into the body of the unhappy
foe, imbuing deadly venom into its
system. Having made his thrust, the
warrior loosens the foe and scars in tri.
umph little way into the air, satisfied
of successful issue. The kakerlac,
after few brief commissions, lies paral-
lied on the ground, unable to stir q
step from the spot where it encountered
its adversary. Fully aware of this, the
vicious wasp, after taking few turns,
as if to proclaim the downfall of the
piopt lo or1oo to tho or, ,rro,,p IL, ~ >, n; ,l
borhood, returns to the scene where the
conflict was fought. The kakerlac,
unable to resist the victor, and being
naturally, though great devourer, a
very faint-hearted creature, lies immov-
able, while the wasp seizes the PROSTATE
foe by the head, and, in sort of tri.
umphal march, drags it along the road
to its nest.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
He Sat with Sal.

A Nevada paper says A green-look-
ing couple, evidently newly married,
called at photograph gallery in Vir-
ginia City and wanted their pictures
taken. Just as the artist got his plate
ready the man called him aside and said
he wanted to ask favor. "I was told
in Carson you took the best pictures in
the State. Now, you see Sal and I got
hitched down there last Monday now,
her folks go a good deal on style, and
they live in the States. They never
saw me, and if I send my mug back
East they'll be dead agin me sure. I'm
a blamed sight better than I look, and
when people come to know me they
vote me brick. Now what I want is to
get some good-lookin' man to sit with
Sal for picture. Will you stand in
She's willin'. Them big whiskers OF
yoursIl catch 'em sure and create har-
mony. You look like solid capitalist,
and they take me for a petty larceny
thief" Mr.. Beals enjoyed the idea I'M
mensely, and sat with "Sal" for the.
picture, which will doubtless carry joy
into the household of the Eastern rela-
tives,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

The Greatest Discovery OF tho Ago is DR.
Tobias celebrated Venetian Liniment 20 years before
the public and warranted to Darrhsa, Dyssntsry
Coo and spasms taken internally; and Group Chronic
Rheumatism, Sore Throats, Outs Bruises. Old sores.
and Pains in the Limbs, Back and Ohsst, externally
1t has never failed. No family will be without II
after once giving II fair trial Price 40 cents. DR..
TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE LINIMRNT, in Pint
Bottles at One Dollar is warranted superior to any
other or NO PAY. for the Of Ooc, Outs, Bruises
Old Sores, eto. Sold by all Druggists Dspot-IO Park
Place, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
CHEW
The Celebrated
"MAToHLEss
Wood Tag Plug
TOBACCO.
THE PIONEER TOBACCO COMPANY,
New York. Boston. and Chicago


Common Sense.
Many imagine all advertised medicines to be
worthless nostrums, and Unfortunately cou-
denim them; but is it not an injustice to the
thousands of respectable citizens who give vol
untary evidence of benefits received, to thus
question and doubt their veracity and integrity?
Fairbanks standard scales are extensively ad
vertlsed. Does it necessarily follow that they
are inferior in make, and less accurate than
others? Have they not been demonstrated to
be among the best ? Again, is it common
sense to suppose that physician with capital
could be induced to hazard it and hard
earned reputation upon worthless article !?
R. " Pierce, M. D., Of the Worlds Dispensary
prietor Of the most popular family medicines
in the market. His reputation as a skillfu!
surgeon and physician has been fully estab-
lished for many years. Would physicians and
clergy, after having tested his medicines thor
oughly, unite in commencing them to the af.
flicted, if they possessed no merit The under
signed take pleasure in recommending DIR.
Pierce and his Family Medicines to all who
may need them :
@. R. Fairchild. M. D., Seneca, n. Y; W.
Clellan, M. D.. Garrattsville, N. Y; W. F.
Hazleton, NJ. D.. Silver Lake, Kan; F. 8.
Miner, M. D., Veazie, New; Geo. Dieterich, NJ.
D., 105 Vine Street. Baltimore, Nd; ]. H.
Sherrod, M. D.. Paoli, Ind. Geo. B. Chapman,
M. D., Portsmouth, Neb.; T. ]. Casper, M. D.,
Gorham, N. H.: D. E. Wells, NJ. D., Bristol
N. H.; ]. A. Miller. NJ. D., San Leandes, Cal.
J. N. Camp, NJ. D., Baladan. NO.; Jos. s. Burr
M. D., w. Lafayette, Ohio; Rev. E. N. Harmon
Elsah. Ill Rev. Isaac N Augustine, Shipman
H.; Rev. Thomas OReilly, Newman, Kan
Dawson, Homer. ILL.,; Rev. W. s. Long
Graham, N. c.; Rev. Andrew Adams, Calhoun
Ga; Rev. A. P. Moore, 712 Washington Street
Boston, Mass; Rev. l. A. Thayer, NJ. D., Ba
consburg, Ohio; Rev. 1. P. Profit, PALMYRA
III Mira. Elizabeth A. B I'd, Falls City. Pa:
Renova Pa. Mrs. NJ. Kerns, Palmyra, Mo.
Mrs. e. R. Daley, Metropolis, ILL.,; Samuel Far
mer, Java. Ohio; Sisters of Charity, st. Vim
cents Asylum, Troy, N. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

According to DR.. y. B. Foote's Health
Monthly, zone of the great causes Of
ill-health among women and one of the
great hindrances to their full recovery
when sick is the wearing of garments,
and particularly of underearments,
which are prejudicial to health"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

A man saw ghost while walking
along lonely highway at midnight.
The ghost stood exactly in the middle
of the road, and the wayfarer, deciding
to investigate, poked at it with his um.
brella. The next instant he was
knocked twenty-feet into mud-hole.
Morall-never poke an umbrella at
large white mule when its back is
turned.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
Golden Rules for the Boys and Girls.

The person who first sent these rules
to be printed says truly if any boy or
girl thinks " it would be hard work to
keep so many of them in mind all the
time, just think also what q happy
place it would make of home if you only
could"
Shut every door after you and
without slamming it,
2.-Never shout, jump or run in the
house.
3.-Never call to persons up stairs or
in the next room; if you wish to speak
to them, go quietly where they are.
Always speak kindly and politely
to servants, if you would have them do
the same to you.
5.-When told to do, or not to do, a
thing. by either parent, never ask why
you should or should not do it.
6.-Tel of your own faults and mis-
doings, not of those of your brothers
and sisters.
7.-Carefully clean the mud or snow
off your boots before entering the house.
8.-Be prompt at every meal hour.
9.-Never sit down at the tab le, or in
the parlor, with dirty hands or tumbled
hair.
10.-Never interrupt any converse
tion, but wait patiently your turn to
speak.
11.-Never reserve your good manners
for company, but be equally polite at
home and abroad.
12.-Let your first, last and best
friend be your mother.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.

What the sparrow sans.
Chirrup up, chirrup up, chirrup up,
What beautiful day to be sure
Just the weather to fly;
Little msteling, good bye,
I'm off for bright early tour.
How the warm summer sun softly shines,
And how thankful and happy am
That no barred cage of gold
My unfettered wings hold;
I'm sparrow, bird of the sky.
Mr.. Bulfnch at his morning meal,
In his gayly decked palace sec;
Oh, no, thank you, my dear,
I'm in very great fear
Prison food with my health won't agree
Sir Canary, you trill it quite noat,
In your pretty pagoda of red;
But I'd much rather be
Up on high tree, quite free,
And chirruping over your head
What? you pity me out in the wind
At the mercy of storm and Of rain,
And you boast of your life
without care, without strife,
And mistress to ease all your pain
All, you know only half of life's joys,
assure you, you poor little things;
In your grandeur and pride
You sit lonely; beside
Ne a sparrow mate sings
We've wooded and spacious estate,
Where we live without locks, bars, or laws,
And our tiny brown nest
Is a haven of rest,
Where we care not for worldly applause.
We twitter and chatter all day,
And we're happier far so, it's true;
What are riches and rank
Without love? but blank
All, It's who can now pity you.
= Don1oresy
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

Gen. Grant MT the Paris Expedition.
A cable dispatch to New York Herald May
11th says that Gen. Grant was placed upon a
square, American platform--that of the Howe
Scale. The general in fact was weighed and for
the first time in his life "found wanting" hav-
ing lost seventeen pounds by his Egyptian trip.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

There is nothing so dear as cheap medicine;
it is dear at any price. This is true of the
large packs Of condition powders now sold.
Buy Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders and
you can't make mistake. The large packs
are utterly worthless
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

Mothers! Mothers!! Hlothers!! Dom,
fail to procure Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrul
for all diseases incident to the period Of teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from pain,
cures wind cello, regulates the bowels, and, by
giving relief and health to the child gives rest to
tho mother. 1t is an old and well-tried remedy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

Humanity is the peculiar character
istic OF great minds; little, vicious minds
abound with anger and revenge, and are
incapable of feeling the exact pleasure
of forgiving their enemies.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

1t is a pleasant thing to see roses and
lilies glowing upon young lady's
cheek, but a bad sign to see mans
face break out in blossoms.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30

There is no remedy in the world so valuable
to use in the case of sudden accident or illness
as Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. 1t can be
used internally and externally, and its power
is truly marvellous
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
n.tictou. Caoirerx

UoIICIOus COOK6fy.
Light, white, wholesome biscuits, rolls,
bread, and elegant cake crullers, waffles,
doughnuts, mullins, and griddle cakes Of every
kind, are always possible to every table by
using Dooley's Yeast Powder.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
OUR CUSTOMERS ENTITLED TO oUB
SERVICES.

Whenever we are doing the advertising for
any individual or firm, we consider them en-.
a paper which We know to be not the best for
the purpose, we say so and give the reasons.
We often expend good deal Of time for very
small advertisers, much more than the profits
on their patronage would warrant but as they
entrust to us what they have to disburse. and
influence in our direction the patronage OF
tent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
The Story of Mushka. s.tI,. Mou.e.v

Some Hindoo merchants were chat
ting about trade and its chances, when
one remarked that there was nothing
remarkable in amassing wealth when one
started with sufficient capital, and then
went on to say that he had done pretty
we'll. although he had set out with yery
little.
"My father" said he, "died before
my birth, and ere long designing rela-
tives had despoiled my mother of all she
possessed. She sought shelter with a
female friend nearly as poor as herself.
In was il her house that 1 was born.
We lived for long time on the charity
Of others; but when began to grow up
my mother, notwithstanding her poverty.
managed to procure me little tuition.
When l could read. write and cipher.
she said to me:
"You are the son Of merchant, You
must, therefore, begin 30 sed Some
knowledge Of trade. Go ana see the
money-changer, Vusl&aLa; be IS the rich.
est business man IN towu. SID know
that he likes TO advance funds 10 poor
young men who are the sons Of mer-
chants and of pure race. Ask him to
give you loan."
went to the money-changer, but it
was only to hear him reply with disdain
to me, the son of a merchant:
"You see that dead mouse lying there
on the ground? Well, sharp fellow
might make fortune with no other start
than that. Now, if were to lend you
round sum fear that should have to
wait long time for the interest. Per-
haps you could not even calculate it."
raised my eyes proudly to the face of
the money. changer III take the
mouse" said I; sit is capital that you
lend me-" And, after having signed a
receipt, went my way with the mouse,
while the old usurer laughed heartily at
the sorry figure cut. Well, exchang-
ed the mouse for two handfuls of peas,
which the storekeeper gave me, as he
wanted it for his cat. peeled the peas
nicely, and taking a jug of water went
outside OF the city and sat down in the
shade on the roadside. Some woodcut-
ters came along, very thirsty and tired,
and L politely offered them the fresh
water and peas Each of them in return
give me few little fagots of wood,
which L took on my back and went and
sold in the market-place. With the
money ] got for them I bought more
peas, and the next day did over again
what L had done that day. Thus
perservered for long time, until had
got together little capital. Then
bought for three days in succession all
the wood that the men brought in.
Suddenly there came on heavy rain
season that no one had expected, and
the conveyance of wood became impossi-
BILE. Then L sold the stock had at an
advance and kept few cords for myself.
With the proceeds L started small
shop, managed my affairs discreetly, and
grew rich. Then 1 had a mouse of gold
manufactured, and sent to the money,
changer, Visikala, as reimbursement of
his loan. He in return gave me his
daughter in marriage, and now am
known by the name of Mushka, or the
Mouse So you see I made fortune
out of little. F."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
THE CONFIDENCE OF OUR PATRONS A
PRIME IMPORTANCE.

1t is matter of prime Importance to us, for
the purpose Of maintaining our influence with
publishers, that it shall come to be understood
among them that our statements about the
advertising to be done, or not to be done, are
to be relied upon and to this end our dealing
with our advertising patrons must be upon
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
LIGHTNING RODS FREE

Are not so cheap Five-Ton Wagon Scale at $50.
All iron and STEEL with brass BEAM Delivered freight
paid. No money asked for till tesed. Send for free
Price List Of all size Scales.
JONES OF BrNGHAMTON, Biuehamton, N. Y.