The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Sayings OF Celebrities

Dean Stanley says: "Our leisure hours
are among those that have the most
Importance in molding our characters.
Our working hours are very important,
but our leisure hours are those that form
our tastes and our habits"
Lieutenant Colonel Knollys says
"That the ranks of the British army are
now filed with immature boys is fact
| obvious to any one who will use his
eyes. Officers deplore it, the press calls
attention to it and the authorities do not
attempt to deny it."
Sir Henry Thompson, the English
surgeon, says: Persons who drink
water when dining probably enjoy food
more than those who drink wine. They
have generally better appetite and diges.
tion, and they certainly preserve an ap.
preciativ,e palate longer than the wine
drinker."
Mr.. Thomas Hughes says: "The idea
American, as he has been painted for us
of late, is man who has shaken off the
yoke of definite creeds, while retaining
their moral essence, and finds the highest
sanctions needed for the conduct of hu.
man life in experience tempered with
common sense"
The Earl of Dunraven says: "Whethel
in connection with this country (Great
Brittany or as independent, or as Joined
to the United States, or any portion o.
them, that vast region which is now
called British North America will as
suredly some day support the strongest
most powerful and most masterful pop
ulation on the continent of America"
Mr.. W. E. Forster, M. p, says: =" Ir
dealing with the education of girls in
the training colleges it has been fount
that they require little driving to work
compared with boys, and that they arc
more susceptible to influences of ambi
tion and desire to succeed. The danger
in the training colleges for elementary
schools is from overwork. There is NJ
fear that young women will not avai
themselves of the opportunities offered.
Mr.. Card, the English agriculturist
says: 1--WE are threatened with good
things from America in n profusion be.
yond past experience. The cost oi
transport from the rich corn lands ol
the interior has been vastly diminished
and Liverpool is thus being brought Il;
near the center of production as New
York was twenty years ago. l believe
there is q serious competition awaiting
us from this cause, to which it would bl
folly to close our eyes"
III lJs w ltlSllstltSOls ullC llSI
chemist who first made known to the
world certain facts concerning chloral
says that there are now choral drinker:
just as there are drinkers ant
opium-eaters that the disease which ht
calls chloralism has become rather
widespread among merchants, lawyers,
doctors, artists, literary men. clergymen
and that if chloral cannot, be kept fol
use within its legitimate sphere as ;
medicine, it would be better for man
kind not to have it at all.
Professor St. George Mivart says: 81
is now known that a variety of animals
habitually reproduce their kind, al
plants so largely do, by a process of ex
ternal budding. This happens, for ex
ample, with the hydra and animals like
it. Animals may even be propagated b,
cuttings. Thus, if q -iydra or the com
mon sea-anemone (eathea) be bisected
each half soon grows into the perfec
form once more, and many worms (sucl
as scylls or catenuia), and many AMI
malcules, called infusoria, habituall, |,
multiply by self-made sections-that is
by spontaneous division or fission."