The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-09
TIMELY TOPICS.


The ladies of the Bible and fruit mis-
sion in New York city have erected and
paid for substantial and attractive
three stroy brick building opposite the
Bellevue hospital, to furnish refresh |
ments for the bare cost of material and |
cooking, to draw away as many as pos
sible from the drinking saloons. The |
first story is n restaurant, the second |
lectpre-rro9oom,, reading;room and par
lor; the third is for lodging-i ooms. |
There is field enough for several estab-
lishments of this kind in New York.
The fire-desolated city of Deadwood, |
in the Black Hills, was situated in gulch
with few houses scattered on the sides
of the hills, and when once on fire n
draft was created which was irresisti-
BILE. 1t was the largest and richest town
in Dakota Territory, and it will be
promptly rebuilt and in a much more
substantial manner than before. 1t was
built so hurriedly and cheaply that the
wonder is that it was not sooner destroy
ed by fire. The character and enterprise
of the sufferers by the Deadwood fire are
illustrated by the fact that for days since
the fire the telegraph wires from there
were so burdened with orders for goods
that it was almost impossible to get any
news through. The telegraph operator
established himself temporarily on
bluff mile and half from the town
with barrel head for desk and had no
reason to complain of dull business.
A photographer at Scarborough, Eng
land, who died lately, was famous in the
business for the shrewd way in which
he induced persons to order portraits in
- h. s,,% -
for card photographs. Selecting the
which had been taken, it was handed
into distant department fitted up for
rapidly producing transparencies. A
transparency obtained, it was placed in
a magic lantern kept ready, and life
sized image was thrown on the screen.
The photographer had, in the meantime,
invited the setter into gallery of life
size portraits well painted in oil and
handsomely framed. These, of course,
elected admiration, and eventually he
| led his visitor into the room where a
fine portrait of himself was presented
| life-size on the screen. The effect, as
all photographers know, is very striking
and fully admits of little eloquent talk
on its fitness for painting.
Since 1874 there has been consider
able development of the paper manufac-
ture by machinery in Japan. The first
paper mill was built in that year at
Mia, Yeddo, by Mr.. Doyle, an Ameri-
can, who carried it on with two Ameri-
Great opposition was thrown in the way
of this undertaking by the governor,
Oyclaku, and the under finance minis
ter, Mutzo, who afterward fell from their
high estate and were stripped of their
dignities. This paper mill is now gov
ernment property. The second is also
at Yeddo and belongs to Assano, Count
of Geischu, and was erected by an Eng
lishman named Dodgers. A third is at
Osaka, and a fourth Kioto, built and
carried on by Germans. The fifth is an
American undertaking at Oil, and the
sixth was established by an English
company in Kobe for the working up of
rags to half-stuff, but it did not succeed
Co. 1t is now carried on as n paper
mill.
Neal Dow examined the English postal
service when recently in England, and
his opinion is that it could not easily be
improved. On the great mail routes the
railroad trains are run very rapidly, and
they take in and throw out the letter
bags without stopping as they fly along
at the rate of fifty miles an hour. They
pause only at the principal towns upon
their way. Anywhere within three
kingdoms letter of one ounce weight
goes for a penny, and the terms are very
cheap for other mailable matter. This
penny rate includes the entire cost of
service in the transportation and deliv-
cry, not only in the large, towns, as in
this country, but also in all the smaller
towns and villages and rural districts.
There is no cottage so remote or retired
that the letter-carrler does not reach it.
The perfection of this system of actual
delivery, if possible, is thus illustrated
by Mr.. Dow: q have received among
the Highlands of Scotland letter adj
dressed to me at Liverpool. 1t was
marked at the office Not here, Try
Manchester There again it was re.
marked TRY Edinburg.' And there il
was marked Try Stirling where il
reached me-"