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Daily Republican., 1879-08-19
Person a..

A number Of the friends Of Rev.
George r. Kramer thought that he
would return home to-day, but this
supposition is a mistake, as he will
not arrive in this city before next week.
Mr.. X. is engaged in preaching all the
time during his visit, and the Spring,
field Daily "Union" thus refers to him
"Rsv. George r. Kramer, whose ser.
mons have been among the best listened
to at the Advent camp nesting, preach
ed an interesting discourse at the after
noon meeting Thursday. Taking his
text from Genesis l.: 2 and 3, he pro-
cseded to show the difference between
the Word and the Spirit and to point
out the errors many believers make in
their Interpretation of biblical re-
velation. He exhorted his hearers tc
place abiding faith in the divine revel,
atiens as contained in the Bible, but tt
put aside all dreams and visions, as the
influence thereof was to mislead. AL
though no allusion was made to the
Freeman tragedy at Pocassett, which
was the direct result Of the pernicious
influ uence of unnatural visions, the ser
mon indirectly showed that the Ad-
ven,ists as elisious sect discounte-
nance such faith as unholy and fanati-
CAL" .ra
On Sunday morning Mr.. X. preached
in the Methodist church at Chicope'
Falls, and at the Springfield camp meet
ing in the afternoon. Yesterday h'
started for Worcester, Mass, at which
place he will abide until his return; h
will preach there next Sunday.
Misses Agnes and Julia Og lie, return
ed home last Saturday evening from
weeks trip at Atlantic City. The.
speak in the highest terms of Atlanti
City, having enjoyed thenselves hugely
Morris Pusey, book-keeper for tn
Wilmington Ice Company, left the cit.
yesterday fer Iowa, where he con
templates teaching school.
william X. Crosby, of the firm Q
Crosby & Hill, dry good merchants, ha
gone to Cape May for tn. rest OF the sea
i son.
The proprietor of the European Hotel
Mr.. II. B. M4rrett, returned from Oceal
City on Sunday last, where he has bee
spending week. Mr.. Merrett state
that several Wilmlngtonians are stoI
ping at Ocean City.
william Beadenkopf and family. an
Charles Dubell are at Ocean City.
Rev. DR.. Otis and family are expect
ed to arrive in this city from Alabams
The Doctor will probably take part i
the services at West Church next Sur
day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
A Whale In a SOup.Plate.

The members of the New York Acade-
my of Sciences met recently to hear
Prof. W. p. Trowbridge lecture on
"Animal Mechanics" A reference was
made to microscopic fish which the
lecturer once discovered swimming
about in drop of water. Its method
of propulsion was by the motion of the
tail, in the manner peculiar to the whale,
and, 80 far as the observer could dis.
Germ, the little fish was very like an in,
finitesimal whale. The lecturer had
calculated that at the rate it was swim
ming it could have crossed Long Island
sound in twenty years, and its full-sizei
prototype would have made the same
voyage in an hour. In one hour i
might have reached the further coast O
soup-plate. .i
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
A Big Pig Story.

After the following testimony, suppli-
ed by Western paper, rs to the fasting
capacity of hog, there is no excuse for
that animal ever making hog of itself.
Some forty years ago Henry and Brad.
bury Cilley fed large lot Of hogs at
Colerain, on the Great Miami. About
New Years they removed their hogs
from the field next the river in which
they had been fattened, and drove them
to market. On counting them out one
was missing, which, after diligent but
fruitless search, was given up as lost or
dead. About the middle of April after.
ward they sent hired man to chop o
large sycamore tree, hollow some twenty
feet or more in the butt end, AMI which
had been lying down all winter, to enable
them to get it off the ground pre- paratory
to plowing in the spring. On choppipg
into the tree near the extremity of
the hollow the axe struck what appeared
to be hog hair and heeh. A large chip
was then chopped and split out on each
side and live hog was taken ont, which
proved to be the one missed two and q
half months before. When taken out
the hog was SO emaciated he could not
stand, but after being carefully cared for
few days, was got to the barnyard,
and afterward resuscitated, fattened
again the following winter. and driven
to market and sold. The Messrs. Oilley's
theory Of the case was that during the
sudden change in the weather, few
days before removing their hogs from
the field, several of them had crowded
into the hollow tree for shelter, and the
fret one to enter had been so closely
crowded in that he was unable to gel
back. .....,- .-. ....
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
War Anecdotes.

A few volunteer officers, g )nfederate
and Federal, now retired to private life,
were lately giving personal recollections
of the war. 1t is pity, by the way,
that so few of these details are preserved
for our children. They would give
flesh and blood to the bare skeleton of
history. ...t.. ... .4u.i ,
"The terrible struggle had its hu-
morous side," said Captain A..
"There were the mistakes of the
newly. fedged officers, the majors, cap
tains and lieutenants, who but few
weeks before were grocers or lawyers.
The story of the brigadier- general who,
when appealed to for orders in the
the thickest OF the battle of Bull Run,
pulled out his little book with, Lets
see what Hardee says about it, may
not have been true, but know colo
mel who, when called upon to drill his
regiment, wrote the words OF command
on his shirt-cuff."
"The men themselves made jokes in
battle or in prison, said an ex Confed-
crate. "The American love of fun is
indomitable. I remember Kentuckian,
Hume, who was prisoner with me in
81, whose pranks kept the whole of us
from despair. -- 4. ..f...
v"We were in q village in Ohio wait
ing transportation to Fort Delaware.
They put us in the pens of the county
Playground, and company from Mich
igan, principally made up of farm boys,
guarded us. Some of them used to
stare in at the Rebs, evidently uncer-
tain whether we were quite human.
One day our Kentuckian beckoned to
the most anxious of his guards, green
country lad. ...... ......
"Couldn't you get me nice fat
baby 2 he whispered, conidentially. i
haven't had broil since left home.
"Io eat? A babyr
"Come, don't stare 30; be neighbor'
ly. Get me good fat one. IT. .
" Are you-are the Rebs cannibals :?
"Oh, perhaps the majority of the
men prefer baby, bat 1 shouldn't objec1
to plump young man myself, with g
ferocious stare at him. ,...... ..
"The lad looked at him with staring
eyes, and soon after left guard. The
next day Hume, who had forgotten hi
stupid Joke, called TO little girl of fiv'
going by, and was talking to hel
through the bars, when bullet whizzet
past his head. -r
"Down with the man-eaters / shout
ed the Michigander, who had fred the
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Snails as Food.

We take the following from curious
paper entitled "In Snailery," con-
tributed to Scribner by Ernest Inger-
soil
Snails, being great eaters, meet their
Just reward in being eaten. The palu-
dine forms are sought after by all sorts
of water birds, particularly ducks and
rails; while the thrushes and other birds
crush the shells of the land snails and
extract their Juicy bodies. The wood
land birds, however. will not eat the
naked bodied slugs f; the slime sticks to
their beaks and soils their feathers but
the ducks seem to have no such dainty
prejudices. Some mammals, like the
raccoons and wood.rats, also eat them |;
insects suck their juices, and the car
niyorous slugs prey upon one another.
Lastly, man, the greatest enemy of the
brute creation, employs several species
of enails for culinary purposes. BY the
Romans they were esteemed great
delicacy, and portions of plantations
were set apart for the cultivation Of the
large, edible Helir a1on.atia, where they
were fattened by the thousand upon
bran sodden in wine. From Italy this
taste spread throughout the Old World,
and colonies are yet found in Great
Britain where the Roman encampments
were. They are still regarded as deli
cacy in Italy and France, the favorite
method of preparation being to boil in
milk, with plenteous seasoning. Frank
auckland says that several Of the larger
English baspecies are excellent food for
hungry people, and recommends them
either boiled in milk, or, in winter, raw,
after soaking for an hour in salt and
water. Some OF the French restaurants
in. London have them placed regularly
upon their bills of fare. Thousands are
collected annually and sent to London
asl food for cage-birds. DR.. Edward
Gray stated, few years ago, that i'm.
mense quantities were shipped alive tc
the United States "as delicacies !" but
am inclined to think this an exaggera'
ton. The same author records that the
elassmen at Newcastle once year have
a snail feast, collecting the animals il
the fields aud hedges on the Sunday be
fore the feast.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Genuine Hospitality.

The true hospitality of the home il
never loudly demonstrative. 1t never
overwhelms you with its greeting,
though you have not doubt of its sin.
cerity. You are not disturbed by the
creaking of the domestic machinery,
suddenly impelled at unwonted speed
for your accommodation. Quietly il
does its work, that it may put you in
peaceable possession Of its results. He
is not the true host, she is not the best
hostess, who is ever going to and fro
with hurried action and furried man
ner and unnatural zeal, which implies
forced effort to affect hospitable ap
pearance, but rather the one who takel
your coming with quiet dignity ant
noiseless painstaking; who never OBJ
trudes attention, yet is very attentive
all the while; who makes you, in {
word, "at home" ...
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Wanted Collateral.

The stampede to Leadville, Col., in
and about which many valuable mines
have been discovered recently, is almost
as great as was the exodus to the Black
Hills a few years ago. This anecdote,
from the Leadville Chronicle, is signifi-
cant of the state of affairs there:
The first part Of the present week hay
became very scarce in this market, and
consequently went up, up, up, until it
sold as high as fifteen cents pound.
The night after the raise man drove
up to one of our corrals with q span OF
rather lean horses which he had Just
driven over the range. He called out
to the corral kesper:
"Say, captain, I'd like to leave my
outfit here"
Cali right, sii; drive in Step into
the Office and leave your name and
where you can be found"
The stranger did as requested, and
while the corral man was putting up the
team he passed out OF the Office and up
the street.
The clerk called to the boss as soon
as the owner OF the team had cleared
the stable:
essay. that man is going to Ten Mile
in the morning, to be gone week."
"The deuce Call him back"
The clerk hallooed him back, when
the corral man said.
"Going to leave this team here 6
week"
"Yes, sir; about week, I reckon"
"Well, my friend, you will have te
leave me some security for the care and
feed of this team"
Heavens, man." replied the strang
er, saint the team security enough T.
Ono, sir; hay is worth $3.50 ton
and if you should leave that team in my
care for week, and anything should
happen to prevent your coming back fol
it, the horses and wagon wouldn'
bring enough to cover the livery bill
ia rather you'd take 'em somewhere
else,"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Fish rs Brain Food.

Since during the acts of sensation and
intellection phosphorus is consumed in
the brain and nervous system, there
arises necessity to restore the portions
80 consumed, or as the popular express
sion is, to use brain food. Now, as
every one knows, it is the property of
phosphorus to shine in the dark and as
fish in certain stage of putrefactive
decay often emit light, or become phos.
phorescent, it has been thought that
this is due to the abundance of phospho.
rus their flesh contains, and hence they
are eminently suitable for the nourish-
ment of the nervous system, and are an
Invaluable brain food. Under that idea
many persons resort to diet of fish,
and persuade themselves that they de-
rive advantage from it in an increased
vividness. of thought, signal improve
ment in the reasoning powers. But the
flesh of fish contains no excess of phos-
phorus, nor does its shining depend on
that element. Decaying willow wood
shines even more brilliantly than decay
ing fish it may sometimes be discerned
afar off at night. That shining in the two
cases is due 10 the same cause.-The OK
idation of carbon, not of phosphorus, in
organic substances containing, perhaps,
not perceptible trace of the latter ele-
ment. Yet surely no one found himself
rising to poetical fervor by tasting de-
caying willow wood, though it ought,
on these principles, to be better brain
food than much larger quantity OF
fsh.-DrsJ W. Draper, in Harper's
Magazine
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
How Russia Treats Strikers.

A Paris correspondent OF the New
York Star says As the Russian
journals are forbidden to publish intelli-
gence Of the cruel repression of a recent
strike in st. Petersburg, the news has
been communicated to us by travellers
who have just arrived from the Russian
capital, and who speak of what had oc-
cured under their own observation. A
strike took place at the new Russian cot.
ton mill, in the principal manufacturing
district of the capital. A large number
OF strikes have occurred there OF late
years, and the police have sometimes
sided with the weavers. On this occa-
sion the work-people struck for shorter
hours OF labor, thirteen and half hours
a day being not tnnaturally regarded as
excessive. In the morning the weavers
and spinners assembled in q crowd out
side the mill, and the district police
master hearing OF the disturbance, sent
some mounted police to reason with
them. The gendarmes, however, pro-
duced no effect, and the strikers set off
in a body from the new canal to lay their
case before the czarowitch. Intelligence
of this was at, once sent to the nearest
barracks, and as the crowd passed the
place they were surrounded by a number
OF Cossacks, who drove them into q
square in front OF the barracks, using
their sabers and whips freely among
them. Many of the strikers were cut
about dreadfully. After the crowd was
locked up in the barracks police COM
mission was instituted to try them, the
verdict being as follows: All the men
above the age of nineteen (seventy in
number) are to be exiled to the PROVING 9
of Archangel, after receiving sixty lashes
apiece all under that age are to be sent
back to the village whence they came,
and are to be kept there the remainder
of their lives. All the women employed
in the mill, and men who did not active
ly join in the demonstration are to be
discharged and fined three roubles a
head all round. In word, the entire
working staff OF the new cotton mill,
about eight hundred hands, is cleared
away at the stroke of pen and fresh
set of people, to work from five in the
morning till eight at night, is to be en-
oaped to take their pIacas
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Sneciflc Against HydrOph nbia.

DR.. Grzyvala, of Krivoe Ozeroe, Po-
dolia, Russia, for whose trustworthiness
Prof. Gubler, OF Paris, vouches, de-
clares that, after series of crucial
trials, which he describes at length, he
has found that, after having had oppor
tunities of treating at least 100 cases of
men bitten by rabid dogs, with the
Aanthiuna SpinoSvn,, he has never,
i'll any one of these cases, failed TO ward
off hydrophobia. He gives some start
ling examples. Daring the Crimean
war, a family of twelve persons had
been bitten by hydrophobic wolf. Six
OF them entered his wards in the hospi-
tai at Olschanka, government OF Podo-
liza, district of Balta. They were
treated with infusion Of the leaves OF
exthanthium, and all recovered. The
six others, who were treated by the
actual cautery and the daily use of gen.
esta tinctoria and other drugs, died
with hydrophobia in the course of
twelve to sixty days. He recounts many
other facts not less striking. For an
adult, the dose is sixty centigrammes of
the dry powder, repeated three times a
day. Children under twelve take half
that quantity. The dose for animals is
much larger. A herd of thirty oxen
had been bitten by mad wolf, eight
had succumbed with symptoms of hy-
drophobia. The commissary OF police
came to DIR. Grzyvala for his "antira.
bic POWDER" He gave three ounces OF
the powder, with bran, daily to each OF
the remaining animals; none OF them
suffered from the disease. These are
examples of which DIR. Grzyvala says
he has hundred others. british.
american Journal. --
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
A New Order,

The other day, after a strapping
young man had sold load OF corn and
potatoes on the market, and had taken
his team to hotel barn to "feed," it
became known to the men around the
barn that he was very desirous OF join
ing some secret society in town. When
questioned he admitted that such was
the case, and the boys at once offered to
initiate him into new order, called
''The Cavaliers OF Coveo." He was told
that it was twice as secret as Free Mason
ry, much nicer than Odd Fellowship,
and the cost was only two dollars. In
case he had the toothache he could draw
Ave dollars per week from the relic
fund, and he was entitled to receive ten
dollars for every headache, and twenty
five dollars for sore throat.
The young man thought he had struck
big thing, and: after eating hearty
dinner, he was taken into a storeroom
above the barn to be initiated. The boys
pured cold water down his back, put
-four on his hair, swore him to kill his
mother, il commanded, and rushed him
around for an hour without a single
complaint from his lips. When they
had finished he inquired
"Now I'm one OF the Cavaliers Of
Coveo, am I2'
"You are, they answered.
Nothing more to learn, is there p
Nothing"
"Well, then, I'm going to lick the
whole crowd l' continued the candidate,
and he went at it, and before he got
through he had his two dollars initiation
fee back, and three more to boot, and
had knocked everybody down two or
three times apiece. He didn't seem
greatly disturbed in mind as he drove
out Of the barn. On the contrary, his
hat was slanted over, he had fresh Eve
cent cigar in his teeth, and he mildly
said to one of the barn boys
"Say, boy, if you hear of any Cavaliers
asking for Coveo about my size, tell
em I'll be in on the full of the moon to
take the royal skyfugle degrees. DE
troit Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
News nnd Notes for Women,

A New Albany (Ind. woman has been
fined $5 for eavesdropping.
A New Orleans woman, whose hus-
band was killed by pet bear, has sued
its owner for $55, COO damages. ,
1t is said that the wife of President
Grevy, of the French republic, can ride
steeplechase, paint landscape, com
pose poem and play the piano like an
angel.
Glasses are about to be formed in st.
Petersburg for the instruction of women
IN medicine and when their studies
are completed, they will be attached to
the medical staff of the Russian army.
The late Mrs. Clarissa G. Cook, of
Davenport, Ia, has left nearly 500, .
600 to home for the friendless in that
city, and $50. 900 to fund for the sup
port of the poor clergy and the widows
of clereymen. .. .s.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Thing. Every woman Want. to Knou.

Things Every womnn Wants TO Know.
Spring fabrics show n decided ten
dency not only toward increasing bright
ness in color, but q mixture of shades as
in the peacock colors. Blue is largely
brought forward, and appears in diff
ferent shades under the names OF sap
phire, a blue overcast with greenish
tint gendarme, o dark shade OF mill
tary blue, and other blues of milder
type called blue de Sevres and Baltic
blue. Yellow is represented in old
gold, gilt, almond and ecru, and garnet,
wine and dark plum are still employed.
All white goods show creamy tinges,
and grays run from dark to light-a pale
gray called "dust Of shade" being quite
new.
Prints, jaconets and other cotton
goods, notably the new monte cloth, are
out in pretty floral designs which repro.
duce styles in pattern and coloring prev
alent many years ago. Sprigs of flowers
on delicate colored backgrounds and
little dots disposed OF in clusters at in
tervals, are among leading styles, as are
foulard designs. Ginghams of fine quail
ity show large plaids of quiet tone, and
handsome Persian borders appear on
solid prints. Stripes pervade all classes
OF new materials, sometimes alone and
again in combination with flowers. New
summer silks come in stripes also in
small broken plaids.
Finely-beaded passementeries as we'll
as fine cord passementeries, both for
bands and for trimming in pieces, are
introduced among spring trimmings.
Silk fringes have by no means lost their
prestige, though woolen fringes are
oasse; hens and rows of machine.
stitching taking their place in all.wool
costumes. Striped or other figured
goods of satin and silk or velvet and silk
are employed as garniture for skirt,
collar, revers, cuffs. vest, etc. The
variety OF buttons is undiminished, and
they come in round, fiat or medium
shapes.
Street costumes, as we'll as dresses
having trains, are moderately boufant
in effect, and are made with a trimmed
or princess skirt, i. e., one on which
the drapery is fastened. Basques and
jackets, with and without waistcoats,
form the popular bodies. For outside
wraps the walking jacket and sacque
assumes various shapes. When made
to complete costume it is trimmed to
match; otherwise it may be trimmed in
tailor style or with galloon. Modifi-
cations of the dolnan, visites, scarfe
and fchus will all be much worn. vi.
sters remain popular for travelling pur.
poses.
Bonnets, generally speaking, are
larger in size some are variations oi
the cottage shape; others have flowing
brims rising over the forehead, with
sides pressed flat to the head. Rough.
and ready straws, braided straws and
chips in black and mode colors are
among the materials. In round hats
come the English walking hat and tur
bans, with variety of broad. .hrimmed
shade hats for country wear. Two
faced ribbons, striped ribbons, Breton
lace and flowers in profusion constitut,
leading trimmings in millinery, as dc
striped and checkered silks.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27
Curious Russian Customs.

1t is curious thing that among the
Russians the father and mother of an
infant not only cannot stand as sponsors
to it, but they are not allowed to be
present at its baptism. The godfather
and godmother. by answering for the
child become related to it and to each
other, and lady and gentleman who
have stood as sponsors to the same child
are not allowed to marry each other.
In christening, the priest takes the
child, which is quite naked, and hold
it by the head, SO that his thumb and
finger stop the orifces Of the ears, he
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-27

Every function is deranged, every nerve un-
strung, every muscle and fiber weakened by
yever and ague. 1t is, in fact, disease which,
II unchecked, eventually wrecks the system.
In all its types, in every phase it is dangerous,
destructive Stupor, delirium, commissions,
often attend it, and cause swift dissolution.
But when combatted with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters its foothold in the system is dislodged,
and every vestige Of il eradicated. That be-
nign anti.febrile specific and preventive Of the
dreaded scourge is recognized not only within
our own boundaries, but in tropic lands far
beyond them, where intermittents and remit
tents are fearfully prevalent, to be a sure
antidote TO the mslarial poison and reliable
means OF overcoming disorders Of the stomach
liver and bowels, OF which vitisted, torrid
atmosphere and brackish miasma-tainted water
travellers should be supplied with il.