The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-20

1t is estimated that the evangelical
work of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation, in the United States, reaches
800, 900 railroad men, 10000 college
students and loo, 900 commercial travel
ers.. It is also officially stated that work
is being done for the benefit of 500, 900
who speak the German language alone,
and of 500, 600 young, colored men.
The councils for the settlement of
trade disputes in France in their last
year considered 35.046 cases. Of this
number 25,S34 were heard in private,
and reconciliation was effected in 49,
4l5 (seventy-one per cent?; 1855 could
not be reconciled, and were remitted
for hearing to the general council. and
9,076 differences were settled upon
advice of the councils. AS to the causes
of dispute, 81 1858 cases were relative
to wages; 4,733 to dismissal, and 1875
to matters affecting apprentices.
An old Bible is now in bookstore in
Albany that was picked up by a Union
on December ID, 1862. The soldier gave
it to his chaplain, who forwarded it to
Albany, and there it has been ever since.
1t is Latin Bible that was printed in
the year 1900. The first person of the
Godhead is represented in it in the SEM
blance of an old man with the Papal
crown on his head. The flood is pic
tured-Noah and his wife with their
heads out of the window looking at the
fight of four birds. Mamma is repre-
sented about the size of bread cracker,
Moses is invariably pictured rs having
horns.
The Western Michigan Methodist
Conference at its recent meeting gave un-
mistakable expression to its sentiments
on the use of tobacco by the unanimous
adoption of the following resolutions {:
First-That hereafter no young man
using tobacco in any form coming us a
| candidate for the ministry, shall be re-
| ceived into this conference. Second
That those members OF this conference
already addicted to the use of tobacco
| are exhorted to desist from it in public
and when in company of persons who do
not use it. Third-That all circuits and
missions are advised not to send dele
gates to this conference hereafter who
are users of tobacco. Fourth--That no
who uses tobacco.
Emigration to the United States will
reach for the current year about 100, 900.
In nine months the number of emigrants
from France has amounted to less than
LOO, and will not much exceed 1900
for the whole year. This is inierential
proof that the French are too well off at
| home to make emigration desirable, n
fact which is direct result of the fru-
gality ndSndustry of the people and of
| the enormous benefits of a subdivision of
| landed properly among millions OF small
proprietors who till their own grounds,
| live in their own houses, raise their own
| food, pay no rents, support no nOn-pro-
| ducing landlords, contribute literally
| to the support of a wife government and
repose in contented industry litera 'ly
under their own vines and fig trees,
with none to make them afraid of want
and none to monopoiize the results of
their thrift and toll.
| Scientists are just learning that man
hears rs much through his mouth
as through his ears. The roof of per-
sons mouth, and the skull entire are mi
crophones, or sounding diaphragms, of
excellent properties, and serve as valua
BILE assistants to the tympanum. Hence
it is that deaf persons are now being ma
terially aided in hearing. by discarding
the ear-trumpet so long used and adopt
ing better apparatus-the audiphone
"a new-invepted, fan-shaped instru-
ment held between the teeth. The re-
suits are marvellous. With it all per
sons possessing the auditory nerve may
hear, sough the ears may not be of any
service Many who have passed as deal
i LON ri I1It1 Nnr, Nt,a. -
theInew instrument. The deaf hear, the
dumb speak-let this be called the age
| of miraculous inventions.
Crime is rampant and misery unpre-
cedented in Paris at present. '.The
series of Crimes" says the P1riSittn,
during the last eighteen months, in con-
stant succession, has hitherto failed to
attract attention to the misery of this
great city. Foreigners who come here
and walk about the boulevards and
parks, and visit the sights, only see the
bright side of Paris. They do not visit
La Villette, Montmarte, Saint Ouen,
the rtier-Mouffetard, and the banks
of the Blevre. They do not see the chill
dren in rags, huddled up in damp holes
that are warmed only by the heat of the
fermentation OF rottng ordure. The
Parisians themselves see this misery,
and if you speak to them about it they
reply with an incredulous is it posi-.
bleP Yes, and from these dens come
the criminals-the Troppmans, the
Prevosts, the Abadies and GILES. In nc
city in Europe is social reform more
needed than it is in Paris. The Mont.
deplete, the hospitals, the relieving off.
ces, the administrative and judicial sys
TENS aresuch as were created by fallen
dynasties. To say that they are defec-
tive is to say very little"
Kangaroo Tongues.