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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
LOndOn-Its Greatness.

London is a vast world in itself. You
are impressed, when you find yourself
in it, with its immensity; as one is i'm
pressed by the vast reach of the ocean
when he steams over it day after day
without a glimpse of land or the sight,
perhaps, of single sail. You feel like
mere atom in this vast billowy tide of
human life. Cut up into smaller COM
munities London would make a dozen
Brooklyn, Boston, Philadel phia, Balti-
more, Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, New Orleans and
San Francisco! 1t contains more people
than our six populous New England
States, more than the whole kingdom of
Denmark, more than twice as many as
Norway. nearly as many as all Scot
land. 1t is said to contain more Jews
than Palestine, more Catholics than
Rome, more Irishmen than Dublin,
more Scotchmen than Edinburgh.
There are omnibuses running across the
city, by as straight route as the cow
path streets allow, which start before
five o'clock in the morning and barely
make two round trips before midnight.
And year by year the great city pushes
out its borders, encompassing village
after village of the outlying suburbs in
its spider web of pavements, and water
| mains, and omnibuses, and busy traffic.
The villas around its fringes, as Hare
| says, seem to be constantly making an
effort to get into the country and never
succeeding. Many neighbOrhoods in
the solidly built city still bear the names
| by which they were known when they
were only little hamlets in the fields,
miles from the city gates-such as
| Chelsea, Kensington, Camberwell, Bays
| Inl nl,n'c .a T+ =
partly because of the absorption of 80
many villages in the great metropolis
that it is afflicted with such confusion
in its street nomenclature. If you wish
to visit King street it is possible for you
TO explore ninety-four different streets
of that name before you find the right
one. If it is Queen street, your chance
of hitting the right one the first time is
Just one in ninety-nine. Does your
friend live ON Church street-you are
confronted by one hundred and fifty
streets of that name besides the one you
want! Even of John streets there are
one hundred and nineteen, and of New
streets-new long while ago in most
cases-one hundred and sixty-six! 1t
becomes \ necessity, in such cases, to
give the street surname, so to speak
as men begin to take surnames when
James and John and Mary became fire.
quent in the same circle of acquaint-
ance. Streets are often designated,
therefore, by adding the name of some
well-known thoroughfare into which
they run, or the special neighborhood
to which they belong, as Queen street,
Cheapside; King street. st. James
Square; Church street, footing; High
street, Mary ylebone. etc. And in any
case the initials of the general division
of the city are usually affixed to the ad-
dress-"E. c." for East Center; wv.
Co. West Center; IS. E." Southeast /;
"N.," North, etc.-GoOd Company.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
The Remedy for Overworked Bodies.

What is the remedy for the drawn
face, torpid liver and dead stomach of
the man at the desk, at the counter and
pulpit? A little play would be good for
him perhaps, also little blue pill at
first, but less and less pill and more play
play pure and simple. We want less
of Wall street, more of seaside and
mountain. Let the man Of many cares,
and slave to them, strike for freedom,
shake off his cares and return to nature.
1t is a chance between losing time in the
grave and losing time in play, which is
fifty named recreation. Many a man
thinks he has no love for fishing, but he
has. 1t is latent in all men. The whiz
of a reel and the bend of a pole will
wake it. 1t will wake the dead. What
is the loss of day TO the landing of q
bass, or even pickerels 1.-The thoughts
of youth are long, long tholghts." We
have used them vilely, but they survive
even in the time of gray hair and the
evil days when we say we have no pleas
ure in them. A days play is a day's
Quincy toward youth; it takes the
black out OF the blood, it jogs the liver.
If the man Freeman had gone fishing all
day and had fisherman's luck, he
would not have killed his daughter; he
would have been too sleepy to think OF
it. With boys weariness comes also
the boys sleep. Men need to touch
earth, to breathe air. and air that has
not been breathed. Man is an animal,
whatever else and more he is, and must
observe the conditions of aniEal life.-
Cincinnati Commercial.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Philadelphia is to have an elevated
rail- DAD.
What is homo without walking
matchp A soleless spot.-Ne,o Haven
Register.
shipped from the United Sta tes to the
West Indies.
Lager beer has been exported from
the United States to London, in con-
siderable quantities, Of late.
The barrels in which oil is shipped
from the United States to Europe are
Two men and two dogs killed, by act
ual count, 1000 rats in the space of two
hours at a slaughter house near Vallejo,
Cal.
A child eighteen months old was re-
Gently stung to death by bees at Santa
Ana, Cal. He received seventeen stings
on his forehead.
A man is going to have his name
stamped upon 50,000,000 toothpicks.
That mans name will be in everybody's
mouth.-Mertden Recorder.
When the dentists of this country can
discover a way to pull teeth without
making man wish he had been born
ueIl, lllc Will ia Z JWlCc ttS IuuCl nap
piness.-FTee Press.
A member of g. London ladies' club
was requested to resign " for kissing her
brother in the dining-room. If she
had kissed him in the mouth instead of
the dining-room we presume there
wouldn't have been any fuss about it.
Keokuk Gate City.
A new disease, commencing with ner-
vous twitchings in the legs and feet, and
ending in great emaciation, has been
discovered by Philadelphia physicians,
who ascribe it to the habit of riding in
street cars instead of walking, and the
peculiar jolting motion of the cars.
A new and singular means of incen-
diarism is reported by the GoloS. In
village of Poland cat was saturated
with kerosene by an unknown party,
and set on fire; the unhappy animal
rushed to and fro, spreading fire all
around, till it perished in flames, to-
gether with number of buildings.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06

up" his now foaming horses. But fnri-
Gus with rage and rum, in reply he
lashed the horses again and again and
dashed ahead. Indignation had now
taken the place of fear. with the young
lady. and she exclaimed: I'll stop the
rascal if ] have to mount the box my
selfn But it was then too late to avoid
the collision. 1t came with crash.
But, strange to say. the carriage stood
the blow and was only partially broken.
Not so the milk-wagon; the force Of
the carriage tossed it up on two wheels
and threw it entirely off the avenue,
spilling the driver and the milk-cans
around promiscuously. The shock
brought the horses to a standstill. The
plucky little Avondale girl at once
box. With eyes flashing and with
clenched fist shaking in his face, she ex-
claimed to the driver: "You brute, get
down from this box"
The driver, who a moment before had
been so defiant. appeared dumbfounded
at this display of indignation and cour-
age on the part of the fair girl, and
meekly climbed, OF rather fell, off the
box, over the wheel to the ground.
Now" she exclaimed, in a voice of
stern command, and one that meant busi-
ness, "take off that hat"
The astonished jehu pulled off his hat.
Then again the beautiful girl ex-
claimed:
"Take off that coat, sir!'
And the coat come off, brass buttons
and all.
Now, sir, put them in this car
riage"
And he put them in the carriage.
Then the fair damsel, turning to her
escort, who was standing up in the car
riage witnessing the scene with wonder
and amazement, and filled with intense
admiration for the girls pluck, said, with
smile, and in the sweetest tone of
voice:
"Won't you please get up on the box
beside me and take these linesp"
He, of course, quickly mounted the
box, took the lines, and they drove
rapidly away, leaving the drunken man
standing in the middle OF the road, hat
less and coatless, and looking like the
fool he was.
Arriving in the city the gentleman
drove directly to the theater, alighted
with his lady friend, and, sending the
| horses and carriage to a stable, they
entered the theater. And not one lady
in the audience would ever have sus-
pected by her manners or appearance
that this young girl had passed through
| the exciting scenes described.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06

rived. Frank is fond of a joke, so when
the time came for sending the first dis
patch he loudly sounded on the machine,
How are you, Spicerp" The profess
sional ear of Spicer instantly caught
the words, and, wondering who it was,
Strengthened up and stared at the stage
as if he. would give two dollars and a
half to know something more.
"Spicer, how's your mammaP" quickly
followed from the instrument, and the
mystified Spicer confidingly turned to
his fair partner to express his astonish-
ment at the most singular circumstance.
AS luck had it the auditorium held quite
a delegation of operators, who knowing
Spicer and his great characteristic of
bashfulness, with one accord began to
look around the theater for him.
Spicer had hardly began telling the
young lady about it when there came
another message:
aha! old Spicer! Don't fool that
confiding creature with any of your nom
sense"
This aroused the telegraphers to n
pitch of curiosity, and many of them
stood gazing about them as If their only
object in life was to discover Spicer.
And he felt that they saw him, and the
confusion which had been gradually
covering his features grew into mortiti-
cation when he saw so many eyes leveled
at him, and at last eliminated in his
hasty withdrawal from the theater.
But Frank sent parting shot, for as
he faded from view he heard
Goodbye, Spicer; but don't forget
her tendency for ice cream"
When it is considered that this scene
forms the climax of an exceedingly
thrilling point of the play, and Mr..
Byron is dramatically explaining with
wild gesticulations to the audience what
the instrument is supposed to be saying,
the modest Spicer's embarrassment can
be understood.
Hastily as we have glanced at the
brighter and cheerful side, there is now
room for the dark one. But messages
Of sorrow and death burden the long
slender wires and trip through the click-
ing instruments. Living dramas are
constantly wrought through their mute
agency, and of this perhaps they are
speaking when at the quiet of midnight
we hear from them that strange Eolian
music like voices from spirit land, that
deep within us finds responsive chord
thrilling and saddening Cincinnati
| E,,01irer
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
Down q Chute.

A chute is laid from the rivers brink
up the steep mountain to the railroad,
and while we are telling it the monster
logs are rushing, laundering. flying.
leaping down the declivity. They come
with the speed of thunderbolt, and
somewhat of it's roar. A track of fire
and smoke follows them-tire struck by
their friction with the chute logs. They
descend the LOO feet of the chute in
fourteen seconds. In doing so they drop
700 feet perpendicular. They strike the
deep water of the pond with a report
that can be heard mile distant.
Logs fired from a cannon could scarcely
have greater velocity than they have at
the foot of the chute. The average
velocity is over 100 feet in a second
throughout the entire distance, and at
the instant they leap from the mouth
their speed must be fully 200 per second.
A sugar-pine log sometimes weighs ten
tons. What missile! How the water
is dashed into the air! Like grand
feathery spray is hurled into the air to
grandest fountains ever beheld. How
the waters Of the pond foam and seethe
and lash against the shore.
One log, having spent its force by its
mad plunge into the deep waters, has
fioated SO. ..as to be ut right angles with
the path of the descending monster.
The mouth of the chute is perhaps fif-
teen feet above the surface of the water.
A huge log hurled from the chute cleaves
the air and alights on the floating log.
You know how n bullet glances, but can
you imagine a saw log glance? The
end sh likes with heavy shock, but
glides quickly past for a short distance,
then a crash like a reverberation Of
artillery, the falling log springs $50 feet
vertically into the air, and with curve
like rocket falls into the pond seventy
yards from the log it struck.-ITuckee
Ner \ ReraLhlicnt1
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06
Lyra Incantata.
Within a castle haunted,

Lyra lncNntata.
Within castle haunted,
As castles were OF old,
There hung harp enchanted,
And on its rim OF gold
This legend was enscrollea:
"Whatever bard would win me
To strike and wake within me,
BY one supreme endeavor,
A chord that sounds forever"
Three bards of Tyre and viol,
By mandate OF the king,
Were bidden to trial
To find the magic string
(If there were such a thing),
Then, after much essaying
Oh tuning, came the playing;
And lords and ladies splendid
Watched as those bards contended.
The first-a minstrel hoary,
Who many rhyme had spun
Sang loud of war and glory
OF battles fought and won;
But when his song was done,
Although the bard was lauded,
And clapping hands applauded,
Yet, spite Of the laudation,
The harp ceased its vibration.
The second changed the measure
And turned from fire and sword
10 sing song OF pleasure
The wine-cup and the board
Till, at the wit, all roared.
And the high hall resounded
With merriment unbounded
The harp-loud as the laughter
Grew bu she'd at that, soon after.
The third, in lovers fashion,
end with his soul on fire.
Then sang Of loves pure passion
The heart and its desire
And, as he smote the wire,
The listeners, gathering round him,
Caught up wreath and crowned hin
The crown-hath faded never
The harp-resounds forever! !
Theodore Tilton.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06

Butterflies are covered with feathers !;
hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of
our bodies is covered with scales like
those of a fish. A single grain OF sand
would cover hundred of these scales,
vet a scale covers hundreds OF pores.
Through these narrow openings perspir-
alton forces itself out, like water through
a sieve.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06

The Western Union telegraph COM
pany sent 25, ,000, 600 messages in the year
ending June 80, 1879. In the year be-
fore it sent 1i.600,000.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-06

Advice To travellers. Buy bottle oil DR.. Bulls
Cough syrup--the only thing to stop hack.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17
The Mexican CONGRESS.

CRY OF Mexico, April Con
gress opened on the 1st inst, when
President Diaz delivered an important
message. He informs Congress of the
conclusion OF contract by the Scores
tary of Public Works for laying sub
marine and line OF telegraph from the
Gulf ports of bhe United States along
the Mexican coast, Touching at various
Mexican ports, and passing by way Of
the lsthmus of Tehuantepec to the
Pacific coast, where it is to terminate.
Referring to the United States, Presi-
dent Diaz complains that the order of
Gen. Ord for the pursuit of raiders
across the border is still in force, and
the treaty of 1913 is thereby violated.
President Diaz hopesthe United States,
obeying the dictates ofJustioe and con-
sultihg the interest of commerce SAd
sndustry, will revoke that order, as it
l. r0Dtrary To international law.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

A shell buried in the road exploded
near Prince Milan while he was walk
ing at Nisch, Tuesday. His aid-de-
camp was wounded.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17
An impromptu mock Auction sale of

An impromptu mock auction sale Of
women was amusing and profitable, at
first, in a Racine wis church fair.
The young men bid literally for the
attractive girls, and ii was all very
funny indeed until an ugly but inAu-
entail sister was put up. The auc-
tioneer was compelled to knock her
down at % cents, and she was so an
CRY that she PUT on her things and
went home.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

A gentleman travelling with Gener-
al Grant. writes home that the gener-
al says that he will not be candidate
for President under any circumstances
lie is aware that his name is freely
used in the American papers in that
connection, but not in a way that he
thinks at present justifes him in
making public declaration of his in
tentions. When the time comes, as
this gentleman believes, he will decline
in such way that there may be no
installing his meaning.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

The big political Republican move
Of negroes to Kansas continues. Some
body will get sick of it yet before they
are through with it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

Ex-Governor Porter, Comptroller
Gaines, Judge James Whitworth, G.
a. Washington, K. Il. Butler and
Demsey Weaver, appointed commit,
tee by the recent State credit meeting
to go to New York and urge upon
the bondholders to accept the propo-
sition to settled the State debt at fifty
cents and four per cent, left Nashville
for New York Tuesday night.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

preparatory department.
TlrE desire 10 call the attention Of the pub
w lie to the complete arrangements which
have been made ut this Colleg r the next SEES
sion The very best teachers have been secured
and the additional services OF competent teach
ers W II he procur. as needed. The govern
mcut will be exercised with firmucss dnd strict
disci! line will he enforced.
The full Academic course will be taught. in
Guiding tSoroUEh course Of Ah6Iert ana Nod
crn Languages. and Mixed ana Pure Nj the-
mates.
The facilities offered al this college to obtain
a first class cducat en- are unsurpassed by any
institute in the country.
The session opens Monday. Sept ., prox. We
desire that our pupils shall be present al tie
opening Of school Let eace one y 10 intends
t. enter school make an effort TO be present a I
that lime.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17
Only $500 per qt. Bottle. or six s5.Oc.
JAMES MEDICAL INSTITUTE,

20 Washington ST., CHICAGO, ILL,
Ladies afflicted with painful menstruaton or
Irregularities. it acts like charm.
rtr If not .cr sale by your Druggist, will
send ii BY express, prepaid. On receipt OF price.
DIR. JAMES will give his opinion in all ci-
teal cases free of charge. CSii at office, o.
write A BOOK for the million, on Lost Man
hood. Who should Marry. Why not; only 10
cts. to pay postage. from 9 a. m, TO p. m.
Sundays, 10 10 L. a.r3-ly
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

The peanut crop of Tennessee, the
New York Sun estimates, will reach
four hundred thousand bushels, and is
exceeded only by that of Virginia,
where the greatest increase from year
to wear is noted.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

John Brown, Jr., of Put In Bay,
Ohio, son Of nssawattomie, is out III a
letter prociaiming his intention of de-
voting the remainder of his days TO
the colored race. He has a plan on
hand to aid the Western emigration
mnNnmnnf
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

The Avalanche has information
, which it deems wholly reliable, that,
despite the efforts being made, the
New York bondholders will not ac-
-cept the fifty cents compromise.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

Specials from north Texas report
heavy hail>storm, doing much damage
to the crops. At Lisbon, near Dallas,
several houses were shattered, live
stock killed, and & number Of perscns
severely injured.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

A correspondent of the Knoxville
Chronicle, writing from Columbia,
thinks that, with Grant and Key, Ten
nessee can be carried Republican in the
next Presidential election.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

While the Gar of Russia was taking
n walk last Monday morning a would
be assassin fired four shots at him with
a revolver, missing every pop. He
was arrested.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

- emphis Ledger: Flax bagging
improperly cured continues to worry
those who deal in cotton. 1t is strange
that planters will persist in using a
4, species Of understandable stuff that
. "
impairs the value Of their leading pro
duct when good bagging is just as
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17
'1HEEXCHANGE
THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1879.

The Supreme Court convened at
Jackson on Monday Of last week.
The Arbitration Court will hold its
session in May.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

Nj. John r. Green has bought the
interest of the late Colonel Ivie West
brook in the Brownsville Bee, and be-
come sole proprietor as well as editor
of the paper.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23

A bill was introduced in the Illinois
senate, Tuesday, making the receipt of
deposits by an insolvent bank an EN- bezzle-
ment, prinaa tdcie evidence being the sus-
pension of bank within thirty days after
receiving any sum of money from depos-
itor. The bill is too narrow in its scope.
1t only touches one angle of manysided
crime. A bank may be actually insovent
SIX months or year, as easily as month,
before its bankruptcy is made known to
the public, and there is just as good reason
tor the p1'anaG fdcie rule in either of these
terms as in the other. Whenever a bank
fails to produce the amount it owes deposi-
tors, there is prima fdcie procf of mbezzle-
ment or fraud, No discharge 10 bankrupt
cy or other proceeding ofany natures hould
be allowed to wipe out the creditors claim
for the full amout Of his money against the
assets of the bank, or these failing, against
the property of the directors and man
ayers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-23
How Watches are Made.

1t will be apparent to any one, who
will examine SOLID GOLD WATCH that
aside from the necessary thickness for
engraving and polishing, the large proper
ton of thesprecieus metal used is needed
only to stiffen aud hold the engraved
portions in place, aud supply the necessary
solidity and strength. The surplus gold is
actually needless, SO far as UTILITY and
beauty are concerned. La JAMES BOSS
PATENT STIFFENED GOLD WATCH
CASES. this WASTE of precious metal is
overcome, and the SAME soLIDITY AND
STRENGTH produced at from one-third to
oue-haIf of the usual cost OF solid cases.
This process is of the most simple nature,
as follows:-A plate of position metal.
specially adapted to the purpose. has two
plates of SOLID GOLD soldered one on each
side. The three are then passed between
polished steel rollers, and the result is a
strip OF heavily plated composition, from
which the cases, backs. centres, bezels.
&C., are cut and shaped by suitable dies
and formers. The gold in these cases is
sufficiently thick to admit OF all kinds OF
chasing. engraving and enamelilng; and
engraved cases have been carried until
worn perfectly smooth by time and use
without removing the gold. These cases
are for sale by all jewelers., and are guar
anteed bv SPECIAL CERTIFICATE to
WEAR FOR 90 YEARS. Ii your jew
eler does not keep them, send to HAGsToZ
& THORPE, Ledger BUILDING Fhl'aaei-
phia, for illustrated catalogue.