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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
Enigrant IceIanderS.

Among the passengers landed Mt Cas-
tie Garden, New York, by the ocean
steamer Anchoria. were fourteen fam
lilies of Icelanders, consisting of seventy
six persons. They are the first large
batch of Icelanders that ever arrived at
New York, and it is their intention to
go to Minnesota, where they will found
n colony, which will be further increased
by emigration if the pioneers should find
success in their new homes. They had a
very pleasant voyage, keeping altogether
the only thing that happened to mar
their journey was the death of Kiesteum
Ryensen, an old lady of the party, who
died ut sea lust previous to the ships
arrival.
The Icelanders seemed very much
pleased when they had been landed at
Castle Garden and expressed themselves
50 to the interpreter. They complained,
however, of the warm climate, and,
seemingly, not without just cause, as
they were wrapped in heavy Arctic
clothing. which they seemed very re-
luctant to relinquish. The party con-
sists of about thirty middle-aged cersons
with great many children. They all
spoke in the. Norwegian tongue. The
men were short OF stature "nd seemed
10 De lntclllSellU. llley were uTesSeu
in heavy pea jackets, coarse trousers,
thick flannel shirts and caps with ap-
pendages for the ears. The women
wore woolen dresses and heavy wooden
shawls, and instead of hats they had
sort of head dress consisting of a round
piece of black cloth resting on the top
of the head, from which depended a
long black tassel attached by silver
band, which swayed to and fro in re-
sponse to the movements of the wearer.
The children were also dressed in heavy
clothing and, as well rs the women,
wore moccasins instead of shoes. The
party bring some money with them,
one person having 81, ,755 and the others
sums ranging from 1925 to $3.50. They
seem to be very simple and contiding
people. and were perfectly satisfied with
all that the authorities did for them in
the way of exchanging money and pro-
curing railway passage. The Icelanders
left Castle Garden for Minnesota, by
way of the Pennsylvania railroad.-
NeW York Herald. ''''@
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
Something About Pretzels.

History says that fifty-two years ago
n man named Sherley baked the first
pretzels in Lancaster county, Penn, ever
made in the United States. He rode
through the country on an old horse and
sold the pretzels from bushel bag. 10
to comparatively a few years ago pref
zeis were made only in Pennsylvania
and some portions of New York State
They arc now becoming very popular in
Chicago and other portions of the West,
and also in some of the cities of the
South.
1t takes a very expert hand to mold
ten pretzels in minute, ready for the
oven, while no one cares to make more
than seven pretzels minute, working
all day. A Pennsylvania firm has just
completed an automatic machine that
turns out pretzels at the rate of sixty TO
one hundred per minute ready to be
baked. 1t is nine feet long, two feet
wide and eight feet high, water OF steam
power.
The dough is placed in funnel-shaped
cylinder eight inches in diameter and
sixteen inches long on top of the ma
chine, and it passes half way around a
concave cylinder eight feet in diameter
and fifteen inches wide, having back so
arranged that the dough is rolled be-
tween them and then drops upon an end
less apron having sixteen molds, where
the rolled dough is shaped by curious
device into pretzels, after which they
drop upon movable board, which.
as soon as filled with pretzels, is re-
moved and an empty board substituted.
The machine is very ingenious con-
trivance and includes feeder, cutter,
roller. folder, presser and movable board.
The pretzels are deposited at uniform
distances upon the board.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
As to Hats.

A mans hat, unlike bonnet, is often
indicative of his character, for he is al
lowed to choose from a great variety of
STYLES that which best suits his tempera-
ment or accords with his moral sense.
And yet n " shocking bad hat" does not
always reveal shocking bad character.
Hats. as well as dreams, often 90 to con-
traries. Wendell Phillips gray slouched
hat is no sign of any slouchiness in
Wendell, and the bright beaver of the
burglar is no indication of shining moral
attributes in the wearer. The chief
beauty of the modern hat is that it is
eminently useful. Sociates, whose cri-
terion of beauty was adaptedness to use,
would have been delighted with such
hats as nine-tenths of modern men wear,
though we fear he would ask, Chi bono ?
il presented with beaver.
The ideal hat, perhaps, is yet to be
made, but we have come pretty near to
it. 1t keeps the head warm in winter
and cool in summer, it protects the eyes
and face from the sun, it is impermeable
to the rain and yet not to the air, it is
soft and yielding, it may be sat upon and
| iammed into the pocket without injury
and rolled in the dust or mud and como
out untarnished, and. above all, it will
endure the ravages of time. What nor,
does a man want of hatp Compar e
with the ephemeral bonnet, it is "a thin!
of beauty and JOY forever" an eli
poem, ripnning with the years. The
fore, what man having worn an old a
stfaightway desireth a newp For h
saith the old ID better.-Sprt,llfsld Unh Il
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
Trunk Space and the Sexes.

Mr.. Bowerman and wife left for the
country yesterday. One could tell that
their trunks were not over half full, as
they were pitched into the baggage car
with crash. They began packing a week
ago. When the subject was broached
he said he preferred to pack his own
trunks, and he didn't propose to take a
whole month to do it, either. All he in
tended to take along was an extra suit,
and he could throw that in most anyway.
Night before last he began work. 1t
struck him that he'd better put in an
extra pair of boots as a foundation and
he flung 'em in the corners with his
clean shirts. The shirts didn't seem to
ride very well, and he braced them with
two pairs of trousers. Then he stuffed
his Sunday coat pockets with collars and
cuffs and found a place for it, used his
white vests for "chinking," and the bal
ance of his clothing just fitted in nicely.
The man who takes over ten minutes
to pack trunk is dolt!" said Mr..
Bowerman, as he slammed down the lid
and turned the key.
Mrs. Bowerman has been at it lust
seven days and seven nights, and when
the husband went up stairs at ten o'clock
she sat down before the open trunk with
tears in her eyes.
You see how it is" she explained, as
he looked down upon her in awful con-
tempt. 1--WE got only one part of my
dresses in here. saying nothing of
thousand other things, and even now the
lid won't shut down. I've got such q
headache I must lop down for few
minutes"
She went away to lop, and Mr.. Bower
man sat down and mused:
''Space is space. The use of space is
in knowing how to utilize it."
Removing everything, he began re-
packing. He found that silk dress
could be rolled to the size of quart Jug.
A freshly starched lawn was made to
take the place of pair of slippers. Her
brown bunting fitted into the niche she
had reserved for three handkerchiefs
and her best bonnet was turned bottom
up in its box and packed full of UNDER
clothing. He sat there viewing suffi-
cient empty space to pack in a whole bed
when she returned and said he was the
only real good husband in this world,
and she kissed him on the nose as he
turned the key.
Its simply the difference between
the sexes" was his patronizing reply as
he went down stairs to turn on the bur-
glar alarm.
When that wife opened that trunk last
night -! But screams and shrieks
would avail ilnothing.-Detroit Free Press
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
Wheat.

So many shades of tender green
Are ripping, shimmering, pulsing with de-
light, ....
Soft, cool and billowy, like the glimmering
OF some grand river in the morning light,
Thrilling with hope, its life is fair,
Its joy is full, all through the lovely May
1t simply grows and waves nor tries to bear
The coming burden OF the harvest day,
JUNE.
STEPPED in hot sunshine, lightly swing
The long bright stalks, whose bearded heads
hang down
Beneath their fruitful burden, which the
spring,
Departing, laid upon them as a crown.
Sweeter and graver life has grown,
The green just touched TO gold by deep'ning
June,
Warm, bright with glowing, with It's mellow
ing tone
Flecked with the shadows of the afternoon.
In serried ranks the golden sheaves
CLEAN family in the sunsets fading red
While some reluctant blackbird slowly leaves
The fruitful gleanings for his quiet bed;
And thus, with full iruition blest,
The wheat stands reaped 1t hath no more
to yield,
And thankfully, before he seeks his rest
The weary reaper gazes DER his field.
-Corneiia Seabring.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
What the Eyes See i'm Reading.

M. Javel has lately published observa-
tions on the mode in which the eye
"takes in" the successive letters
on printed page. We are not to sup
pose, he says, that in reading u line one
passes successively from the lower part
of a letter to the upper part, then down
the next letter, up the next, and so on,
the vision describing wavy line. The
fiXation takes place with extreme pre-
cision along straight line, traversing
the junction of the upper third of the
letter with the lower two-thirds. Why
is this line not in the middlep Because
characteristic parts of the letters are
more frequently above than below, in
| the proportion of about seventy-five per
cent. That this is so, we can see by ap-
plying on line of topographic charac-
| ters a sheet of paper covering the line in
its lower two-thirds. and leaving the
upper third exposed. We can then read
the letters almost as well as if they had
not been concealed in greater part. But
the case is very different if we cover the
upper two-thirds of the line; the lowest
third alone does not furnish sufficient for
recognition. The characteristic part of
the letters, then, is chiefly in their up
per portion. NJ. Javel next compares
the ancient topographic characters with
those of modern books, and maintains
that the latter have too much uniform
ity, so that, taken in their upper parts
alone, many of them may be confounded
in reading. The old letters. on the
other hand, had each particular sign
by which they could be easily dis,
tinguished. In the books printed by the
celebrated old publishing house of the
Elzevirs the a, for example, had 10 re
semblance to o. the could not lie con
{ founded with the n, as now, nor the ol
, ewith the o. the b with h, etc. This too
great uniformity in the upper part o
I topographic characters should be cor
G rected, since 1t is to that part we chief.
!. look In reading.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
A PigmY Painter.

In recent exhibition of old and Gu
rious paintings in Holland was "a por-
trait of Oliver Cromwell. II was by no
means a masterpiece of art, being
somewhat feeble imitation in style of
Sir Peter Lely. the court painter of
Charles l. of England. But it was real
curiosity in its way.
It's painter was Richard Gibson, other
wise known as the dwarf artist"
Gibson was three feet two inches high.
He was born in 1915. While serving as
a page for lady at Mortlake, she no.
ticed his talent Tor drawing, and caused
him to be instructed by De Keeyn, the
superintendent of the famous Mortlake
tapestry works. The little artist became
very skillful as COPPER of Sir Peter
Lely's pictures, and attracted the atteL-
ton of Queen Henrietta Maria. She
made him her husbands page, and mar
ried him to dwarf young lady of eX-
actly his own height, who waited on
her. The wedding of the dainty little
pair was honored by the presence of the
king and queen, and Edmund Waller,
the poet, eommemorated it by poem.
When Charles lost his scepter and his
English lines, his little protege lived and
throve. He had painted the kings por-
trait, and now was called upon TO linn
that of the protector. Cromwell re.
garded him with particular and kindly
favor. On the restoration he again
changed coats, and entered the service o.
Charles III. He was drawing master t6
the Princesses Mary and Anne. But tn,
wild court of the son of his old master
did not suit the tastes of the pigmy
painter, now grown old. He retired Il
private life, and died in 1890. His wife
after giving birth to nine children, all o
whom attained ordinary size, died il
lI09, at the age ofninety.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

The Science of Health says: "lffarm-
crs would avoid suddenly cooling the
body after great exertions, if they would
be careful not to &C. with wet clothing
and wet feet, and ii they would not over
eat when in that exhausted condition,
and bathe daily, using much friction,
they would have little or no rheuma-
tism."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
NO. "a.
FuIhIlment.

Sometimes l think the things we see
Are shadows OF the things to he;
That what we plan we build;
That every hope that hath been crossed,
And every dream we thought was lost,
In heaven shall be fulhlled.
That even the children of the brain
Have not been born and died in vain,
Though here unclothed and dumb;
But on some brighter, better shore,
They live embodied evermore,
And wait for us to come.
-Ph9be Carr
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

A Zululand letter says that the Prince
Imperial died fighting, and must have
sold his life dearly. In the right hand
of the corpse was found tuft of hair, of
native fiber, while the path marked by
the Zulus in quitting the fatal spot was
stained for hundred yards with gouts
of blood, supposed to have dropped from
wounded men being borne away by their
comrades.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

Little George Dobbie playfully set
fire to heap of brushwood close to a
powder magazine at Marquette, Mich.
and the explosion killed him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

The Scientific american says that the
narrowest gauge and the cheapest rail
way as yet brought out is that of d. B.
James, Visalia, Cal. Two stout bars of
wood, so laid as to leave a groove be-
tween them, form the track. On this
track wheel with bulge in the mid
die of its periphery that fits the groove
is used, the wheel having broad flange
at each side of the bulge. One of these
wheels placed at each end of a plank
forms the car. 1t is alleged that twelve
miles an hour can begot out ola wooden
railway of this construction; and that
its carrying capacity is very great. The
cost is estimated at one thousand
dollars mile.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

For year or two past the newspapers
have been printing long lists of the great
and universal evils predicted by astrolo-
gers and astronomers to follow a GER
tain extraordinary conjunction of four
planets in 1881. But now comes the
Washington critic with the assertion
that it has interviewed Professor Simon
Newcomb on the subject, and he says
that there will be no such conjunction
that instead of macshaling themselves
in an order unprecedented since the date
assigned to the creation of the world in
the Mosaic chronology, the planets dur
ing the year 1881 viii continue the even
tenor of their way. and present no phe-
nomenon that can be considered at all
remarkable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

The Mai Nichi Shinbatn, a Japanese
newspaper, tells story which ought to
be interesting to ethnolOgists, who claim
that some of the American Indian tribes
are descended from persons who were
carried to this continent against their
will by the storms of the ocean. About
forty years ago Yamamoto Otokichi, a
native of Onohara-mura, Chitagori, in
the province of Dwarf, Japan, who fol-
lowed the sea, was, while sailing with
two companions between Toxic and Ma
goya, carried by Il atyphoon to the Ameri-
can coast. They landed on the shores of
the Pacific. and were Hospitality received
by the Indians. An English ship subse-
quently took Otokichi back to Japan.
but the japanese laws at that time for
bade any Japanese who had departed
from his country to return to it under
penalty of death. The English vessel,
therefore, took their passenger to Shang-
hal. There Otokichi married. He sub
sequently went to Singapore, where he
resided until his death. He had one
son, who assumed the English name of
John w. Hudson, but it was the fathers
earnest wish that he should go back to
Japan, and become Japanese subject.
Mr.. Hudson accordingly made an appli-
cation to the authorities in Japan for
leave To he naturaliZed. The petition
was granted, and Mr.. Hudson has since
been appointed to a government Office.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07

People who do not read the shipping
lists or have occasion to cruise about the
harbor, says New York paper, may be
surprised to learn that of foreign vessels
arriving Mt the port of New York, Nor
way has more than any country save
Great Britain, and Italy follows closely
after Norway. Seamanship is not mat
ter of climate in Europe. The Genoese,
the Neapoltan and the Sicihan take to
the salt water as readily as the dwellers
by the Norway fiords. The favorte
Italian build for vessels is the stubby
brig, but the Norwegians prefer the
bark, and usually model more graceful
hull. Both nations are sharp competi-
tors for the jobbing trade of navigation.
Their vessels are small and are COM
manded by shrewd, thifty captains who
are quick to pick up cargo for any quar-
ter of the world if tritiing profit can
be earned. The cheap construction of
these crafts and the low wages of the
seamen enable them to earn money for
their owners at rates of freightage that
would be Improbable for our well-built
and well-manned American ships.
Many of them founder at sea every year,
owing to their flimsy build, but there
are plenty of new ones to take their
places.
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1879-12-21

uenn mir Mbertbs suiammenioBen. nur tues
Mig ipran. CT erfiillte eeeen lie 5luar ole
Y1ihten eines gapaliers, nber es berridte
Smii6en 8eioen eine gegenieitige qlbnel-
9une, tpslhe fie li6 gar niht sn perbsrsen
bemiibten.
Weeine sSrau Defenders beflaate ii9 8esen
mid, bob id} lie 10 oft nit Dem unausltea.
lidhen Wetter allein lieBe; aber ih fonnte
nidt anbers, idb muBte auf's S5elo binaus,
penn meine WirtbIfaft nidt leioen Iolte.
Zines cages mar if friib fortgeritten
uno bate Gina ausoriidlidl aeiagt, th
niiroe pd6renb oes sansen 0ormtttags auf
einem entfernten 6eloitiid beihdftist iein (;
Der 3ufall moate es ieoo9, bas ih ih0n
na9 faum 3spei Stunoen, gegen neun uhr
Suriidfebren fonnte. SD hatte mein Yfero
einem &neht iiberaeben uno fam pom 8ar-
ten, itatt pie getuObnlih bonn Sofe aus, in
oas Saus.
@s mar ni6t Ibfi6t BON mir, i'd bahte
|niht oaran, unbemertt in oas Saus treten
su polen; nur Der 3ufaa fii9te es 10; er
fiiprte mid nod Dem 3immer meiner 6rau.
pel6e um oieie 3eit 9elp6hnli6 nit lbrer
Soilette bei4ditiet mar; idb NOR seiniB, tie
3u oieIer 3eit alein su treffen. I'm 10
mebr ober mar ih eritaunt, als id, ehe id
nod bic Shiir hires 3inlmers se0ffnet
bate innen cine leiie Wdnneritimme h0rte.
S4nea rib id Die S6iir auf uno = - =
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1879-12-21
Daa Gdalid)e Dolksblatt

fpftet per pOa obne Sonntussblatt) ss2O per Sa5r,
sieo Sas babe Sabr unb $3.50 has Uiersitabr. nit
Sonntassbatt 100 per Sabr, $3.50 sas baIbe Sabr
unb 2.60 bas gierteIiabr.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-03-21

E
BONANZA Cry, Lemii county, Feb 20, 10. /
En- World. There was quite an
excitement created in this community
to day, by the receipt of news early
this morning of the capture of Loon
Creek by Indians. Six Cinnamon
came dragging themselves into this
peaceful little camp through the snow.
They were eight days In making the
"trip from Loon Creek, and were FROST
bitten and nearly starved The facts
are, as near as we knew, ~ fiillews:
/ On the 12sh inst, while ss,use II t!.eI
Celestials were in their cabins anus
ing themselves at gambling aud other
ways. they were suddenly surrounded
by large number Of Indians How
ards pets-who Immediately CONF
menced an indiscrirninate slaughter Of
the Cinnamon Of about eighteen or
twenty only six escaped. The remain
der are supposed to ae nnassacred, and
the place destroyed by fire, as the es-
capped Celesiials saw smoke after leay-
ing At the time of the occurrence
there were about three feet of snow at
that place. 1t is supposed the Indi-
ans came up from the mouth Of Loon
creek, from the Salmon, where there
lis large hostile camp-at least it is
SO rumored
Tomorrow some half dozen men
will start from this plaae % Loon
Creek They will go well armed aad
for the purpose Of obtainins as cor
rect knowledge as possible of the sit
uation, and with view Of rendering
assistance to thase thar may lte Ev
ing and wounded. 1t is thought here
that we shall have "a lively time If i
as soon as 5he snow will permit til,
} Indians to range Among the scattere,
mining cainps q. ". CHASE.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-03-21
Further Particulars.

February 26, 1870
The party that left here, SIX in mum
ber, arrived at tue sceue of the massa-
ere on the second day after ieav-'
ing. Seven miles this side Of that
place they met FOUR Chinansan Two
were badly wounded. They had been
three days getting 50 far oa their way
to THIS place Tic party continued on
and reached Icon creek ou the same
day; found tie place completely de
stroyed. Tie indians had set fire to
and burned up everything IN the shape
| of buildings. In the ruins were five
dead Chinaman, some Of them partly
consumed by the burning of the build
ings. The dead were buried and tie
party returned without seeing indi
ans. 1t appears that two Of the Chi
Inamen remained hid in the brush fol
/ two days, duling which time the Indi
ans We're busy carrying oil the plum
; der, after which they set ERE to tht
place. From the Chinamen's account
it is supposed there were ten or fifteel
: Indians. They carried oil all the mon
: ey aud provisions that could be found
One Chinaman is still missing.
I appears that after the attack wa
I I made the Chinataen stampcded, anc
!; it beine about 8 O'Clock in the ever
J, ing and very dark, the Indians coul
I not follow II is thought the mis-
!. ing man TOOK up the trSil to ldah
!, City. as he started in that direction
e The number of Chinasacn at Loo
d creek at the time of the attack wa
sixteen Ten of them arc here I'll
Cinnamon were unarmed. G. w. G.