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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
The End OF the World.

Camille Flammariun, the French
scientist, thus expresses himself in La
Correspondence Scientifque, regarding the
ultimete fate of our globe: The eaIh
was born; she will die. She will die
either of old age, when her vital ele-
ments shall have been used up, OF
through the extinction of the sun, to
whose rays her life is suspended. She
might also die by accident, through col
lision with some celestial body meet
ing her on her route; but this end of the
world is the most improbable of all.
She may, we repeat, die natural
death through the slow absorption of
her vital elements. In fact, it is prob
nng Tie tho ocean, ike Hfe lie AIT atosphefe
appears to have been formerly much
more considerable than it is in our day.
| The terrestrial crust is penetrated by
waters which combine chemically with
| Il rocks. 1t is almost certain that the
temperature OF the interior of the globe
reaches that of boiling water at depth
of about six miles, and prevents the
water from desct nding anylOwer; but the
absorption will continuewith the cooling
of the globe. The oxygen, nitrogen and
carbonic acid which compose our atmo-
sphere also appear to oundergoabsolption,
but slower. The thinker may foresee
through the mist of ages to come, the
epoch, yet afar off, in which the. eal tn,
dp rived of the atmospheric aqueous
vapor which protects her from the
glacial cold of space by preserving the
s liar rays around her, will become
chilled in the sleep of death. AS Henri
Vivarez says: "From the summit of
the mountain a winding sheet of snow
will descend npon the high plateaus and
the valleys, driving before it life and
civilization, and masking forever the
cities and nations that it meets on its
passage" Life and human activity will
press insensibly toward the intertropi-
cal zone. St. Petersburg, Berlin, Lon
don, Paris, Vienna, Constantinople and
Rome, will fall asleep in succession un'
der their eternal shroud. During very
mnay ages equatorial humanity will
undertake Arctic expeditions to find
again under the ice the place of Paris,
Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseilles. The
sea coasts will have changed and the
geographical map of the earth will have
been transformed. No one will livean
breathe any more except in the equa
. torial zone up to the day when the las
family, nearly dead with cold and hun
l ger, will sit on the shore of the last Sc
g in the rays of the sun which will there
after shine here below on an ambulen
: tomb revolving aimlessly around a use
I less light and arren heat.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
What Bows Do in Japap.

We have just had foreign guest of
our house in.whom we were all much in
terested-a young Japanese, the son of a
gentleman in northern Japan. He has
been in California more than a year,
and came East with the embassy, pass
ing some days with them at Salt Lake
City, of which place and its people he
says many very funny things. But what
we are going to tell you now is how the
boys sometimes amuse themselves in
Japan. He says that on his fathers place
which is on a large plateau surrounded
by high hills-is an artificial fish pond.
In it are great many fish of species he
has not seen here, that are about foot
long, and very beautiful in color and
form. They are as playful and as tame
as the kittens on our hearths. One of
his favorite amusements was going to
this pond and knocking on the edge of
the tank with some hard substance to
make a noise, when every head would be
turned in the direction OF the sound, and
every fin employed in making for him,
the fish expecting some treat from his
hand. IF, to tease them, lie threw MOTH
ing in at first, but put his empty hand
into the water with his fingers 3hdd IL aid
seize his thumb and fingers in their
mouths, till he had rs many fish as he
had thumbs and fingers, playfully snap
ping and biting at them, as we have all
seen puppies do.
But this paradise of the Japanese fish
was often rudely broken in upon. for it
was not kept expressly as a playtling
for boys, but was the source which sup
piled the fish for the table. Whenever
fish is wanted for the dinner, the cook
goes to the tank and knocks, and when
the poor unsuspecting things swim up to
her, she catches such of them as please
her, and before they know where they
are going, she has them in the pot or pan
on the fire.
This young Japanese expressed much
surprise at seeing cranberries eaten at
table, and said that in the mountains of
Japan they grow very large and beauti-
ful, but are never cooked. Some old man
occasionly goes up to the mountain and
picks a large basket of them, which he
brings on his shoulders down TO the
town. Here Une boys SiLller aDOuIiIllIl,
and for small coin purchase the right
to crowd their pockets with them. And
what use do you think they make ci
this otherwise useless fruitP The boys
blow the glowing berries through rattan
tubes, as our boys blow white beans
through Tin ones. That's what cranber.
ries are used for in Japan, where they
crow in great perfection. .. .
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

France has penny saving banks tor
schoolboys. b. ..s.. ..f rct
Spain can't pay the interest on the
SO, 500, ,O0O, 900 which she owes. .f.-t
One million railway men in England
are obliged to work on Sunday.
"None but the brave deserve the
hair" is the way the Indians put it.
Even criminals like paragraphs. that
is to say, they prefer short sentence.
The home stretch is taken in the even
ing on the Sofa Cincinnati Commercial.
ETwenty-six French mayors have been
dismissed by the government for taking
part in factious demonstrations.
The hired girl who was called up Mt
four o'clock in the morning thinks
arose two hours later would sound quite
as sweet.
Ex-Empress Carlotta is in excellent
health and talks nationally on many
topics, but she is as insane as ever as to
her own sad history. .. ...
The man with new tight shoes and an
ingrowing nail seems to be the one who
is always selected by fate to be compelled
to run for train.-NeW York Star.
The Ute Indians are mean, treacher-
GUS lot; but none of them wear their
watch chains dangling from the top out
side pocket of their coat Wheeling
Leader. 100
Tell us not in MORN full numbers.
Life is but ttiul dream, .t.. ..
Quit your cups and then your slumbers
So much quieter will seem. -.-
.. ...s Saturday Night.
Adam Hammond complains that the
edclothes in the Scottsburg Ull.) peni-
ftorx ,.<Ntt tnv, III f<r oI,nn% sv,f<,
strips and hanged himself; but the cloth
broke and let him down. Then he tried
a quilt with no better success, and was
badly bruised by the fall. .1
Robert Goodpaster, of Owingsville,
KY, was sensitive bankrupt. Being
accused of trickery, he said that he
would live just long enough to clear
himself of suspicion and then kill him
self. A trial at law vindicated him,
and Immediately after the virdect he
swallowed a fatal dose of poison.
The next artist that seeks subject
for Misery" should watch the man at
the opera who is sitting behind two
women with head d-coverings of great ele-
walton, and an inconquerable desire to
bring their heads together Mt frequent
intervals for the purpose OF exchanging
remarks. Courier.
A young man named Bailey, living six
miles south of Fairfield, Clay county,
Neb, was accidentally poisoned by his
mother. The young man had been sick
for some time, and his mother admins
tered dose of epson salts, as she sup
posed. but wiich proved to be oxalic
acid. H, lived just twenty minutes
after sv,tllowing the fatal dose.
"hello, Bill, when did you change
/, our boarding ,houseF,' said Charles Cal
lender to William Creamer, at New
Vienna. Ohio, as they met in the street
Lreamer had just been releascu rom
prison, and Regarding the question as
insulting, Le drew a big knife and stab
bed the offender; but Calender was
qulck enough with revolver to save
his own life aud kill Creamer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
How the Captains Patent Worked

Having piped all hands to splice the
main-brace, the cap'n had the first mate
of the farm tow out the horse and
wagon, and, ascending the quarterback
of the craft, he took possession of the
tiller-ropes Gas he styled the reins), and
said: @ .-
"Now, boys, my invention is very
simple-I might make million dollars
out of it mcbbe, but | amt going to
patent it; you can all use it if you want
to. I've simply fastened twenty
fathom line onto the mizzen axle OF the
craft, and put on a stout grapnel. |
shall bring this here hoss along the read
under doublc-reefed topsails, and then
one of you cusses scare him-open an
umbrella at him, or something; then,
when he goes tearing along about
twenty-five knots an hour and won't
answer to his helm, I'll just drop the
anchor and ride on the gale. Git -upm
The horse came jogging gently down
the road, when, according to the pro-
gramme, the first mate pushed out and
| hit him a belt over the nose with a
blanket. The terrified animal stood on
| his hind legs for a moment and then
struck a course northwest by north with
great celerity. The interested specta-
tors beheld the fearless cap'n sitting un-
moved, though the buggy, bent and
careened before the breeze; then, with a
triumphant smile, they saw him ht ave
out the anchor with merry "Yo,
heave, hor The grapnel dragged for a
few moments in the treacherous sands OF
the road, then caught in a rock. Cap'n
Cornwell rose rto the air like a bird on
the wing and sailed majestically for
ward, alighting on his ear; the horse
stood on his head for a second, and then
resumed his onward course at the rate
of at least seventy miles an hour. and
! amid frightful crashing, ripping, tear
ing and smashing, all the wagon van
ished into thin air except a piece of th'
mizzen axle, to which the anchor hat
been fastened. ,--...-.-....-s
Cap'n Cornwell can't precisely under
. stand why, when the tackle held, h
/ wasn't able to ride out the gale, but i
. not discouraged, and will repeat the ex
pertinent as soon as he has had a ne,
r buggy built upon lines of his own dt
0 signing. Life insurance cauvassers al
). bearing down upon him from all qua
a Ter S, and the liveliest interest is mai
S tested in the neighborhood. We wis
the gallant captain all success.-Cticd
Tribune.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
Smallest Tea.Set in the World.

Mr.. W. II. Riland, who now keeps a
store in the city of Reading, Pa, was
wounded in one of the battles of the last
war. 1t took him long while to get
well from his wound, and he passed the
tedious hours sitting up in bed and
whiting on peach kernels with small
nenknife' He concluded one day to
make a tea-set out of the kernels. He
Whitfield out one of the tiniest, cutest
set of dishes in the world-a teapot,
cups. saucers, sugar-bowl, and every
thing. even to knives and forks. He
has the set still, and though he has been
offered as high as $50 for it, says that he
will never sell it for any price.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
Sea. Water Gargle in Chronic Catarrh.

Professor Mosier, of Greifswald, says,
in the Berlin Klinische Wockenschrif,
that he has for some years most success
fully treated patients with chronic
catarrh of the throat by gargling with
sea-water. Special rooms for gargling
have been erected on the seashore in
some of the watering-plaees, according
to his directions. II is, however, es-
Special Special dire directions how to gargle. As
the affection is generally located in the
nasopharyngeal space, it is necessary
that the part Of the water should come
in contact with the nasal cavity. In
order to attain this. the gargling move
ment must be. combined with move
ments Of dcglutition. A marked i'm
provement in the state of the patient
follows as soon as the latter has acquired
this particular art of gargling.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
The Dignity of Labor.

Those who toll to earn their bread
Need not blush to own their lot;
They in noble footsteps tread,
And claim to live have got.
Toll is not the wage OF sin,
For in Eden work was given,
Man was made to work and win
Spoil of earth and bliss of heaven.
He who Mt the anvil stands,
Striking while the iron glows,
Though he works with horny hands,
Nobly strikes the ringing blows.
At the loom, and in the field,
In the shop, and on the soil,
Where men wisely power WELD,
There is dignity in toll.
He who works with throbbins brain
Thinks TO teach men how to live,
Writes, that others good may gain,
Speaks, to truth fresh zest to give.
He can claim the manly right
With the sons OF toll to stand,
He asserts his mental might,
Helps to bless his native land.
He who lives life of ease,
Idly wasting all his days
Aiming only self to please,
Filled with pride and courting praise,
Call him not noble man,
Such existence is shame;
And when ends life's blank span,
Soon will die his empty name.
Labor brings reward and rest,
Educates the latent powers;
And he serves his age the best
Who employs his golden hours;
Working not beyond his might,
Toiling not against his will,
And beneath his masters sight
Glad his mission to fulfil.
AL things labor tor our good.
He who made us never sleeps;
He who tills the ground for food,
For his pains harvest reaps.
None who work need teel ashamed,
Az they do what good they can;
lis an honor to be Named
AS we toll, " A workingman."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13

A "stringy," rattling voice and constant
disposition to expectorate indicates incipient
throat trouble OF dangerous tendency. Use
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in good time and be
saved much trouble and annoyance. For saio
by all druggists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13

Chinese maxim: Man cannot become
perfect in a hundred years he can De-
Come corrupt in less than day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

regard to its postal business. Until
lately the mails were not sent to any of
the cities or villages. but every citizen
had to 90 for his letters to the capitol,
Cettinje. There has now been estab-
lished a postal department, and the mail
is sent from Cettinje to four other cities.
The mail carriers travel to these four
cities on foot three times weekly.
Piece by piece have the relic hunters
carried away the marble slab that once
was placed over the tomb of Gen. Dan
Morgan in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, in
Winchester. Va, until now nothing re-
mains to mark the place of burial. But
the hero of the Revolutionary battle of
the Cowpens is not forgotten. 1t is pro-
be a fitting memorial of the worthy old
wagner.
OF the European nations Germany
stands first as to fighting trim. She can
put in the field at twenty-four hours
notice 200, 900 men of the line, the re-
serve and the Landwehr. The grand
total of the German army is 1900, 600
men, exclusive of 200, 900 not reckoned
on the field strength, but deducted as
garrisons. The strength of the second
Landwehr and Landsturm is generally
exaggerated; but they are thoroughly
efficient soldiers, the best in the army.
France has nominal strength of 3, ,5O0,-
600 m zen, but practically it must be re-
duced to 100000, and even of this total
a very large proportion is still in pro-
gress of organization. 1t is not be-
lieved that France could place in the
first line more than 800, 900 men.
Italian newspapers contain reports of
audacious outrages by bandits on the
highways and railroads of that rictur-
esque country. In one case dozen
fellows brought train to stop by
hoisting danger signal. They intended
to rob the passengers, but large force
of soldiers happened to be on the train,
and when the bandits saw them they
started for cover. The military sent q
volley after them, and some started in
pursuit, but it was already growing
dark, and no captures were effected.
On the road from Senafro to Isernia
twenty-seven unarmed travellers were
robbed by thirteen brigands, and law
yer who proved troublesome was badly
wounded. Attempts were made to
throw trains off the track, successful
robberies are frequent, and the police
are utterly inefficient and untrust-
worthy.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Post, writing of the varied climate and
temperatures of California, says that in
the interior valleys he has found the
thermometer as high rs ia degrees in
the shade, and at least I25 deg grees in the
sun, yet the air was so pure and dry
that he did not find it enervating nor
even very inconvenient, as a lower tenn
perature east of the Rocky mountains
certainly would have been. He rode
sun OF fg5 oGsi '9eo, ,on boraehasckk in that
ing. and making notes for his news
paper, and felt perfeetlyswell through it
all. A constant gentle breeze that is
never wanting in summer kept him
comparatively comfortable. The nights
were cool and pleasant, rs they always
are in the hot interior valleys of Cali
fornin. The peculiar quality of Cali
fornia heat is illustrated by the fact that,
however high the thermometer rises,
sunstrokes are unknown.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14
NEW work. DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY SHEET

When he had got hold OF money. he would go to
Denver. spending largo sums in the widest dissl-
patton, and making himself n terror TO eyerybody'
After the money was all he would 90 back to ms
mountain den full OF hatred and sef-scorn wi the
next time On one occasion he said to the writer
lyon see a man who has made a devil OF himself
Lest h! Lost LOST believe in God and have
given Him no choice but to put me with the deViI
and his angels. Pm afraid to die. You've stirred
the better nature in me too late. j can't change
The impression he made upon the writer was that
of man OF great ability, real genin4, and with GER
tain remains of gontlemanly instincts. " Mountain
JIM was finally shot n few months after within
a milo or two of his cabin. and it was not until
after his death that his worst qualities became
known to the writer.
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-07-10
Lyon County Itsms.
The following items ere clipped from

The following items are clipped from
the Lyon County Times Of yesterday;
The Board Of County Commissioners
are advertising for proposals for making
o road which viii cut Of the steep bill
near the Rocky Point mill. Two cul.
verts will be required. the one 60 and
the other "a feet In length.
At o meeting Of the Board OF School
Trustees for this district, held In this
city last Monday evening. Mr.. Baker.
Mrs. Hornick and Miss Plummsr were
reelected teachers Of the public school
for the ensuing term.
District Attorney Powell fell down the
csllar.way In front Of Sims store In
Dayton, last Saturday evening. broke
one Of bis ribs, and sustained other In.
juries. Although able TO crawl about
on Monday, hs was still very weak and
could hardly speak.
At q meeting Of the School Trustees
OF the Dayton district, held last Thurs.
day evening. J. E. Bray Was unani.
mously 70. slsctsd Principal and Miss
Minnie Leslis, Assistant, for the On.
suing year. The schools will reopen the
frat Monday In September.
A party Of prospsotors who have been
at work during the past two weeks. 10
the abandoned mines Of Como District,
report that they have found . ledge OF
free milling ore which will pay to work.
A sample lot OF about 20 tons Of this ore
has been brought In to Dayton, 10 be
worked by the Lyon Mill 4 Mining 90.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-07-10
C~hssnpioa Medal.

After Tom Diamond brought the
championship medal Of the Virginia
Shooting Club to Gold Hill, the Club
found it necessary to provide themselves
with O new medal. This they did sew.
eral months ago. although none Of our
local sporting reporters have made note
Of the fact. This medal was put up for
the frat time at the beginning OF the
present year, and has been shot for twice
since that time. j. H. McCaulley Of
Gold Hill winning IL both times. As
under the rules the nan who wins 1t
three times 10 entitled to the trophy,
Gold Hill has . good chance Of record
ing another victory. A brief description
OF this elegant medal will not DO out OF
place. It 10 Of massive gold. shield.
shaped. the upper corners surmounted
by beautiful. natural.looking pigeons In
miniature. In black enamel are the
words champion Medal" under
crossed shotguns. The edges bear, In
enamel. tho name Of the "virginia
Shooting Club" the whole being pend.
ant from q pin with the simple word
Nevada" The reverse In a~ppropri-
ately engraved. with . space left for in.
ssrting the name OF the winner.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-07-10
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
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Mining stocks In New York.

New Yonx. July 10. - The Times
says: The indications are too many and
too plain to be mistaken that a fever OF
speculation is beginning in gold and
silver mining stocks. The price OF seats
in the Mining Stock Board here has
risen from $75 to some hundreds.
Brokers who never touched this class OF
paper are now operating extensively In
Il. New mining companies are coming
out with displayed advertisements in the
papers. The names OF men well known
In politics are parsdsd at the head OF the
company prospectuses. Every little ex.
change shop down town has It's freshly.
written placard announcing that all
kinds Of stocks are bought and sold
there. At present the symptoms Of dis.
turbance are confined almost exclusively
to the speoulsting classes. bat IL the
feeling grows to O mania, as shrewd oh.
servers anticipate, It will surely influence
for good or evil. principally the latter.
hundreds and perhaps thousands OF
innocent people who have small aocu.
mutations which they desire TO place ont
to advantage.