The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-23

An exchange complains that the asso-
ciated press telegraphs slang when it
says certain thief skipped out. :"
There is no slang about that, Take your
Bible and turn 10 Eeciesiastics, thirty
ninth chapter and twentg-sixth verse.
It reads: h" who will trust q thief, well
appointed, that skippeth from city to
cityp"
There is one kind of matchmakers no
body can reasonably find fault with.
The kind that illuminates Christendom
with matches not made in heaven the
kind that paws the government $3,56l-
300 a wear taxes, al a cent box. This
would indicate that the average of use
is about seven boxes annually for every
one of the $4,000, 600 of people in the
republic.
DR.. Gutter states that the increase of
nervous diseases, decaying teeth, prema-
ture badness, and general lack of mus
cular and bone strength, are greatly due
to the impoverished quality of flour
now in use, the gluten being thrown
away in order to make the flour white.
He urges the juse OF unbolted flour, and
of eggs, milk and butter. He denies
that fish is brain food, or that Agassiz
ever said that it was, aud claims that
butter, being nearly all fat, is a better
kind oil brain food than any other.
The passion play ut Oberammergau
this year was not great success pecuni-
arily. The receipts amounted to S60,-
900, half of which was profit to be divi.
ded among AL the performers. Mayer,
who played the part of Jesus, received
the largest dividend, but it amounted
to only $3.50. while the lowest classes of
the performers received only Sic for
thirty-nine performances. They are
greatly dissatisfied with their gains and
complain that the innkeepers and ped
dlers received the largest shat of the
pecuniary income of the festival. The
hotel men and the vendors of trinkets
and photographs are much more i'm
pressed with the sacred influence of the
play and are more anxious for its repeti'
tion than are the performers. Mean
while the attempt to introduce the play
in this country has proved a failure, the
pulpit and the press being almost solidy y
opposed to its representation.
Although the vexed question about
the site of the worlds fair OF 1888 is set
tied and the committee are therefore
"out of the woods" they are really in
the woods. for "Inwood is the site
selected. Inwood is level spot of $50
acres in extent, on the extreme north of
Manhattan island, with the Harlem
river on ore side and the Hudson not far
from the other. The plot is historical
ground, too. and has the Black Horse
tavern, of Revolutionary fame, on it,
which will be more oil an object of in
terest than the New England h mestead
was at the Centennial. The tavern was
one OF Washipgton's headquarters, Of
course. Inwood. as even miles from
the city hall, ana is re;sohcd by numer-
Gus buses and steam 1rs. two elevated
railroads and the Hudson River railway.
The suggestions advanced by Mr.
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, in regard
to the establishment of an international
cotton exposition at some prominent
city in the South, has met with warm
approval throughout the eutire cotton
belt, particularly at Atlanta, Ga. III
that city 81 permanent organization has
been effected and $4,000 was at once
subscribed toward the general fund
'Fhe association was formed under the
title of the International Cotton Exposi-
ton Company, amt the capital stock was
limited to 100000. United States Sen
ator Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, was
chosen president. The other eff GERS are
Samuel M Inman, of Atlanta, treas
ufer, and j w. Ryckman, of Philadel-
phia, secretary. The board of directors
includes many of the most prominent
cotton manufacturers of Am RIGA. II is
designed to give the exposition at At
lanta during the months of Septe.L Der,
October and November next, when ali
the improved appliances used in tue
culture. preparation and manufacture OF
cotton in all parts of the world will be
brought together Tor the purpose OF
testing their merits. Efforts will b.
made to procure charter from Congress
before the holiday adjournment, and
plans for the necessary buildings are
already under consideration The site
selected is the City Hall square which
will afford about three acres OF f1oorihg
for exhibition purposes. All kinds Oi
cotton machinery will be constantly in
operation during the days of the exposi-
tion, including the gin, compress card,
ring spinning and looms, of both
American and foreign make, The raw
fiber will be taken from the bale and
carried through the various processes
| necessary in the manufacture OF the
finest cloth. AS this will take place
under the eyes of experienced judge its
is expected that the long disputed
point as to the superiority Of American
or English methods will be definitely
settled.