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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-19

TRANSFORMATION OF A 'CURKEY.-
Otto Koecht. New Jersey barkeeper,
hung . 27-pound turkey in front of his
place the day before Thanksgiving. In
the evening number Of persors gath.
cred to raffls for the turkey. At II
o'clock Mr. Knecbt went outside 10
set "dot turkey" for the winner, and
was aatonished to find that tho turkey
h.d shrunk into a very small. very old.
and very thin chicken.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-19

The expsnses d the Soath Americas
var ass bessins heavily upos Ne eom.
satsata. The CAilaans meet thsiss b
The 49, Of paper moaey. siailar 70 Oh
gsesabasts. and vhisA. like our ereen.
haces daring he M. = already q 1
hesvy discount. Tue experts Of Peru
aasasted last rear e $4,000, 90,
saAne alone running up 70 Ga. 0oo. COO
OttAis trads tesy are Ibis ysar psia-
eapstly deprived. OF The vessels y
Callse lase pear 22i we're British, 81
AnssiaAa. - Italian. $ German and
- fssasA. Miniss operations are nus.
penasa. sailroedisg Doesn't psy, basi-
- oeaseslly 4 sfaeaant. and N peo
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bashsnps. 1Ais b especially trus q
eess ed hclivia.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-19

~ tie nsstisg q III Rsp1bliean
National Coomittee IN Washisston
City. Lest ThursdAy. Coco 0eeAam rep
resented Cslifossis, q " Scott, Or
eon, and s J Bowen Waahineton Ter
ritory. Don Cameroa was sleeesd
Chsirnsos and Thos. B. Ksogh Secss-
tary.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-12-19

:" It IL tho little bits Of things that
fret aud worry u.s." says Josh Billings;
I'VE kan dodge an elephant. but We
kant dy."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
An Epicure's Fate,

Mr.. Rogerson, the son of gentleman
of large fortune in England, after receiy-
ing an excellent education, was sent
abroad to make the grand tour. In this
journey young Rogerson attended to
nothing but the various modes of cook
cry and the methods of eating and drink
ing luxuriously. Before his return his
father died, when he entered into the pos
session of II very large fortune. He was
now able to look over his notes of epicur-
ism and to discover where the most ex-
quisite dishes and best cooks were to be
procured. lie had no servants but men
cooks. Footman, butler, housekeeper,
coachman and grooms were all cooks.
Among those more professionally 50
were one from Florence. another from
Sienna, and another from Viterbo, who
was employed for the special purpose of
dressing one particular dish only-the
"docce pica1ate" of Florence. He had
also German cook for dressing the liv-
ers of turkeys, and the rest were all
French. Mr.. Rogerson had messenger
constantly travelling between Brittany
and London to bring him the eggs of a
certain sort of plover near st. Malo, and
single dinner, consisting of two dishes
only, sometimes cost him upward of fifty
guineas. He counted the minutes be-
tween his meals, and was wholly ab-
sorbed in devising means to indulge his
appetite. In the course of nine years he
found his table dreadfully abridged by
the ruin of his fortune, and he was verg-
ing fast to poverty. When he had spent
fortune of S750,00O and was totally
ruined, a friend gave him a guinea to
keep him from starving; but a short
time after he was found dressing an
ortolon for himself. A few days later he
died by his own hands.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
Summer Vacations.

Summer vacations have now become
permanent institution; yet they are of
comparatively recent origin. Our an
cestors never thought of travelling be-
yond the limits of their city, village or
native valley, except when driven by
their affairs or their predatory instincts.
What lay beyond the familiar circle of
their daily lives was foreign to them,
and rather to be Stunned than sought.
The traveller by choice was looked upon
as bold and foolhardy. Men and women
lived in narrow groves of their own,
and had no desire to emerge into larger
space. But times are changed. The
modern facilities for intercourse and
communication have greatly enlarged
our world. In one sense enlarged, in
another belittled, for while our expert
ence, through personal travel, books and
the reports of friends, has brought the
distant near and interviewer it with the
associations of daily life, it has drained
away the sources of mystery which fed
the Imagination of our ancestors, and
compensated the littleness of their actual
world with indefinite conceptions of the
vastness and wonderful nature of the
world that encircled it. If the earth, as
they conceived it, was fiat to us, in
another sense, it is still flatter. Still
our new way is an improvement upon
the old, for man needs variety of thought
and action to perfect his intellectual
! nature.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
HnM a Toad IIndrnSSnS.

A gentleman sends to an agricultural
paper an amusing description OF How a
Toad takes off his Coat and Pants" He
says he has seen one do it, and a friend has
seen another do the same thing in the sam
way:
about the middle OF July | found a
toad on a hill of melons, and not wanting
him to leave, / hoed around him. he ap-
peared sluggish and not inclined to move,
Presently | observed him pressing his ell
bows against his sides, and rubbing down
ward. He appeared SO singular that |
watched to see what he was up to. After a
few smart rubs his skin began to burst open
straight along his back. Now, said /,
old fellow, you have done it; but he ap-
peared to be unconcerned, and kept on rub
bine until he had worked all his skin into
folds on his sides and hips; then grasping
one hind leg with both his hands, he hauled
off enc leg OF his pants the same as anybody
would, then stripped the other hind leg in
the same way. He then took this cast
off cuticle forward between his fore legs into
his mouth and swallowed it; then, by rails
ing and lowering his head, swallowing as
his head came down, he stripped off the skin
underneath until it came to his fore legs,
and then grasping one OF these with the OPP
po.ite hand, by consdera bic pulling stripped
off the skin changing hands, he stripped
the other, and by Il slight motion of the
head, and all the while swallowing, he drew
it from the neck and swallowed the whole
The operation seemed an agreeable one and
occupied but a short time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A cawtious bird-The crow.
A calico hop-A farmers wife getting
dinner for harvest hands.
1t underwent II change. The cargo
that was thrown overheard.
1t is always well to be eprepared for fires
whether we have them OF not
If you have fine toned piano keep it
free from dust to preserve its quality.
The base ball season is fairly opened.
Flies are already seen around our office.
Scientists believe that the lightning
rod principle was understood and applied
500 years B. &.
Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes
Booth, is represented to be extremely
poor and out of employment.
So late as the reign of Henry VIII,
not Il cabbage, carrot, turnip or other
edible root was grown in England.
According to the most recent calcula-
tions-those of Peterman-the population
of the whole world is now ,424 600, 600.
A Grand International Exposition is
to be held at Moscow next year. One at
the city of Mexico, and one in Australia.
There are said to be 1000, 600 or 3,OOO,-
600 people in France who eat no bread,
| .
Coffee and tea do not have the same
effect on every one. Some they render
wakeful, and to some they prove Il gentle
anodyne.
An ingenious instrument has been in
vented by the use of which the action of
the pulse is actually measured and pho
| tographed.
Picdyunc: Life is but span. Mar
| in InII1p NnI1th rtrn1 DI n
old age is tandem. A cross old bachelor
is single and sulky.
There are $500 species of grasses, only
about Il dozen or fifteen of which are
ranked among the cultivated or more
highly nutritious kinds.
Saying that he "took it for n lark ="
was not held by the justice to be a suf-
iicient plea in bar of Judgment, in the
case of Il boy whole stole pigeon.
The French peasantry are not yet tired
OF shutlling about in wooden shoes, and
France produces about four million pair
yearly. They are very economical and
keep the feet dry. The best are made
of maple, and in provincial towns, ladies
often wear them.
The men engaged in cleaning Monu
mental park. Cleveland, of the debris
and rubbish while taking down the spar
rows nests in the trees came across one
in which they found a IS bill neatly
woven. The money was crumpled, bu
good, and the half-dozen men quietl,
"divided" and went into the task witt
renewed zeal, expecting to find few
more bills hidden away somewhere il
the nests. Strange to say, they found &
lady's fine gold chain in another, and ;
! number of other curiosities of less value
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
The Health of Printers.

In the course of a lecture on the Effects
of Occupations upon Health" recently de-
liyered at Leipsic by DR.. Heubner, he drew
attention to the frequency of lead poisoning
among typefounders, compositors and press,
men. In Leipsic itself, the great metropolis
of the German book trade, seventy seven
per cent. of all who are thus affected belong
to the trades enumerated. Typefounders
are poisoned by inhaling the fumes of the
metal, while compositors and pressmen in.
hale minute particles of the same material
Fraught with still greater danger is, how,
ever, the frequent practice of compositors oI
br nging their type-stained hands in contact
with their lips or keeping eatables in com
posing-rooms, etc. The great preventive
against all such chronic poisoning are clean.
liness both of person and in the woIk-roon
and ample ventilation by the frequent open,
ing OF windows, etc. AS regards lung
diseases, too, printers compare tavorably
with most other trades, the proportion o
deaths from this cause being exceptionally
large. The one safeguard against this
danger also is ventilation, which, as we al
know, is sadly neglected in printing Offices
generally by reason of the almost universe
dread of draughts.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
Words of Wisdom.

'Cheeriuness is the daughter OF employ
ment.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly
leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Harmony and good will toward men
must be the basis of every political estab-
lishment.
In order to dispose our hearts in devo-
ton, the active life is to be preferred to the
contemplative.
The happiness of the tender heart is in
creased by what it can take away from the
wretchedness oil Others.
Great vices are the proper objects of on
detestation---smaller faults of our pity; but
affection appears to be the only true source
OF the ridiculous.
No man has come to true greatness who
has not felt in some degree that his life be
longs to his race, and that what God gives
him He gives him for mankind.
The very heart and root of sin is an in
dependent and selfish spirit We erect tn
idol self, and not only wish Others to wor
ship it, but we worship it ourselves.
Universal love is a glove without finger
which fits all hands alike, and none closely
but true affection is like glove with fin
gers. which fits one hand only, and fits clos
to that one.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24

were bravely grunting defiance. The
wolf was running around them, swapping
his jaws and doing all in his power to
frighten faint-hearted pig out of the cir
Gle. The compact ring of sturdy little
black porkers slowly moved down the
road never faltering, but constantly
keeping up their war grunt. AS they
passed me at about twenty five yards, l
rebuked the coyote with an ounce of No.
10 bird shot. He suddenly lost interest
in pork, and retired to the hills to hunt
jack rabbits. / never had any anxiety
about my pigs after that.
Once 1 built pen for 100 stock hogs
by a deep pond of water. l ran the
fence out into the pond to where the
water was five feet deep; then l took
logs and, claiming them together,
stretched them between the ends of the
fence. This made pen with big pond
in it, and the pigs could not get out un-
less they dived under the logs. i was
raised in the belief that a pig could not
swim. The hogs were driven to the
pen, put in, and, as I had self-feeding
corn-bins that were full, I flattered my
self that / was rid of the personal care of
those hogs until butchering time. The
result was that they became such expert
divers that they were never in the pen.
| lney would SWIM OUT 10 ulle Toys anu
dive under. If l went to the pen on
horseback, accompanied by my dog, I
would gather them up by setting the
dog on them, make them all jump into
the pond, swim to the log, plunge under
it and swim ashore into their pen. There
the dog dared not follow.
The courage of SOW with young in
her nest is something wonderful. No
wild animal that walks on Kansas soil
can drive her from them. She will die
in defense of her pigs, and the wolf
doesn't live that can get the better of a
razor-back sow. She will always eat
young pigs, provided they are not her
own. Her own she never eats. The
pigs of any other sow she considers le-
gitimate food, and she will eat them up
to the time that they are three weeks
old; and any other sow in turn will eat
her pigs. The sows regard each other
with an evil eye. Distrust, doubt, un-
certainty reign everywhere until the
pigs are quick and active. Then the
friendly family relations are resumed.
1t is strange, but l have never seen a
boar eat young pigs, and l have had all
kinds-fom the blooded wind-split-
tiers" to the pure Berkshires-and never
had pig eaten by one of them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
An Extraordinary Scene,

Maronite in Turkey killed Musselman in
a ot-headed quarrel. After lying ever
since in prison the mother of the victim
came forward last February and insisted on
his being sentenced to death. What fol
lowed the Constantinople correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press thus describes: GAS
the crime was proven according to the local
judicial forms, she obtained from Midhat
Pasha, the governor of Syria, firman for
the execution, and day was fixed for the
hanging, In vain the notables of all creeds
and races, Musselmans and Christians, ap-
pealed TO the old woman to be merciful for
upon her word depended the life of the
Msronite. They represented to her that if
he did DO the deed il might have been in
sell defence; that at any rate his guilt was
not perfectly clear; that he had already
grievously suffered in body and mind by
his imprisonment, and that the people of
Beyrout did not want capital execution
in their midst. Neither the Turkish ulemas,
the Greek and Armenian bishops, or the
Turkish officials could soften the obdurate
heart OF this cruel woman. Il have the
tirman for his execution, she said, and his
fate is in my hands. | will not spare him.
In the night of February 5th three hour.
after midnight, he was taken from his cell
and led to the place of execution. An i'm
mense crowd of people gathered around the
scsfold. There took place a scene of the
most extraordinary kind. The woman was
told by the executioner that the mans rela-
tiyes were ready TO pay her any sum in their
power if she would, as custom authorized.
allow him to go free on the payment Of
blood money. She shrieked and 'foamed for
vengeance: For an hour and more she re-
fused TO be merciful, notwithstanding the
entu aties of the mass of men, women and
children. In the meanwhile the young
man stood on the gallows with the halter
about his neck, tr, milling for his life
Finally, worn out by The prayers of the peo
pie, and tempted by tie high figure to which
the relatives of the Maronite had run
the bid for lis life; she consented to accep
5000 as blood money. The hangman let .,
his hod of his expected victim, and hande,
him ever to his relatives, who carried hin
off amid the acclamations of the specta or,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
Mothers Work.

Dear patient woman DER your children bending
To leave goodnight kiss on rosy lips,
Or list the simple prayers to God ascending
Ere slumbcr veil them in its soft eclipse,
wonder, do you dream that seraphs love you,
And sometimes smooth the pathway for your
feet;
That oft their silvery pinion float above you,
- When life is tangled and its roads meet3
So wan and tired, the whole long day so busy,
To laugh or weep, at times you hardly know,
So many trifies make the poor brain dizzy,
So many errands call you to and fro.
Small garments stitching, weaving fairy stories,
And binding wounds, and bearing little cares,
Your hours pass, unheeded all the glories
Of that great world beyond the nursery
stairs
beauty,
Her poems sing themselves into the heart;
Anothers brush has magic; you have duty;
No time to spare for poetry or art.
But only time for training little fingers,
And teaching youthful spirits to be true;
You know not with what famine woman
fingers,
With art alone to fill her, watching you.
And yet, think you'd rather keep the babies,
Albeit their heads grow heavy on yous arm.
Than have the poets fair, enchanted may-bes.
The artists visions, rich with dazzling charm
Sweet are the troubles of the happy hours,
For even in wearincss your soul is blest,
And rich contentment all your being dowers
That yours is not hushed and empty nest.
-.Hdrgdrd e. Sangster.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
The Andre Monument. .

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has purchased the
land at Tappan, n. Y, where Major John
Andre was executed October 2, 1850, and is
having prepared to be placed on the same a
stone, on the front of which will be in
scribed:
Here died, October q 1870,
Major JOHN ANDRE, of the British Army,
who, entering the American lines
secret mission to Benedict Arnold,
for the surrender of West Point,
was taken prisoner, tried and condemned as a spy.
His death,
though according to the stern code Of war,
moved even his enemies to pity,
and both armies moHrned the fate
of one so young and so brave.
In 1921 his remains were removed to Westminster
Abbey.
hundred years after his execution
citizen OF the states against which he fought
paced this stone above the spot where he lay (;
Not TO parpetuato the record OF strife,
But in token of those hetter sentiments
Which have since united two nations,
One in race, in language. and in religion:
With the earnest hope that this friendly union
Will never be broken.
Arthur Penrhgn Stanley, Dean Of Westminster
On the back
Stunt lacryme rerun ct mentem lnortnlin tangunt.
Virgil, GHeid I, 462
On the left side.
Tue spy OF the neutral ground,
Who died as he had lived,
Devoted 10 the service of his country"
-Etnimore Cooper,
On the right side
" He was more unfortunate than criminal;
An accompl shed mRn and gallant offcer.h
George Washington.
g lie died universally esteemed and universally
regretted"
Alexander Hamilton.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
Tho Morning Comes Before the Sun.


Slow buds the pink dawn like rose
From out nights gay and cloudy sheath,
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf,
Each sleep-lmprisoned creature breaks
Its dreamy fetter. one by one,
And love awaSes, and labor wakes
The morning comes before the sun
What is this message from the light
So fairer far than light can be?
Youth stands tiptoe, eager, bright,
In haste the risen sun to see;
All! check thy longing, restless heart,
Count the charmed moments as they run,
1t is lfe's best and fairest part,
This morning hour before the sun.
When once thy day shall burst TO flower,
When once the sun shall climb the sky,
And busy hour by busy hour
The urgent noontide draws anigh,
When the long shadows creep abreast
To dim the happy task half tone,
Thou wilt recall this pause of rest,
This morning hush before the sun.
To each one dawning and one dew
One fresh young hour is given by fate,
One rose flush on the early blue
Be not impatient then, but wait!
Clasp the sweet peace on earth and sky
By midnight angels woven and spun,
Better than day its prophecy
The morning comes before the SUM-
Susan Cooiid0c
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
" Editorial Ediflers.''
A lawyer keeps his own counsel.

A lawyer keeps his own counsel.
Not hard to take-Garden sauce.
A pretty cornseat-A number one
slipper.
Whoop skirts are much worn on the
frontier.
Fair one, if you don't want some fel-
low to steal your heart, you must steel
it yourself.
A perpetual-motion watching machine
"A mother with several marriageable
daughters.
1t is really amusing to examine the
maps of the different railway lines, and
find on each one their own road conven-
iently represented as direct "as the
bird flies" and all competing lines
crooked as a rams horn or the streets of
Boston.
The editor who wrote what he in
tended to be complimentary paragraph
concerning battle-scarred soldier, who
had honored his sanctum with call
was exasperated beyond measure or
taking up his paper the following morn.
ing, and seeing his fine effort utterly
ruined by the intelligent compositol
making it read, battle-scared sol
dier. ."-Chicago Commercial Advertiser.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24

Eighteen hundred girls under twenty
wears of age were married in New York
city last year.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24
TIMELY TOPICS.

The so-called "Horse Communities " Of
Russia flourish in all cities where there are
universities Most of the poorer students,
who are free from prejudices, live upon
horse-Aesh, which can be procured at one
fifth the price of beef. 1t is the custom Of
such students to board in parties of from
five to twenty, and hence the name OF
"Horse Communities" So many Nihilists
have been found in these communities that
the horse-meat eaters are liable to prosecu-
tion by the government.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24

A case in which romantic girl played
an important part is narrated in the Mis-
souri, papers. She, with other ladies, were
visiting the penitentiary at Jefferson City,
when she was struck with the appearance OF
youthful convict, and his story was told
by the warden, When a boy just out OF
college he had become implicated in the
embezzlement of trust funds, for which his
family disowned him. Believing him in
nocent, the story kindled her enthusiasm,
and an introduction was followed by
promises to correspond. This she did in
spite OF the remonstrances of her family and
friends, and before his term OF imprison-
ment expired she had engaged to marry the
convict. The day he was to be liberated
she appeared in u carriage at the entrance
and both parties were ready for an entranc-
ing contamination OF their fondest hopes
when horrid old unromantc officer ar
rested the embezzlcr on another indictment.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-24

1t has hitherto been the custom of geo.
graphers to give the palm to Borneo as the
largest island in the world, but, according to
the Popular Science Monthly, this is decidedly
an error. \ careful estimate, founded on
the most recent maps, shows that New
Guinea is considerably the larger, and must
for the future be accorded the first place
In shape this island differs greatly from
Borneo being irregular and much extended
in north-northwest and south-southeast
direction, so that its greatest length is little
short of 800 miles, distance as great as
the whole width OF Australia from AIDE.
laide to Port Darwin, or OF Europe from
London to Constantinople. Its greatest
width is 4l0 miles; and, emitting the grea
peninsulas which form its two extremeiies
the central mass is about 700 miles long
with an average width of 320 miles,
country about the size OF the Austrian EN-
pire, and, with the exception of the cours
of one long river, an absolute blank upol
our maps"