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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

The matchmaker does his spring
work all the year round.
The sparrows are little thieves, but
they don't do the robin.
If YOU want to compliment tenor
singer, call him high-toned.-CorTy
Press.
rarely quarrel; they pull together
GrisWoM.
Nothing is wholly bad. Even dark
lantern has its bright side.-Sdle1n
Sunbeam.
The rain fall on the just and the un-
Just. But not on the man who has just
stolen an umbrella.-Bosto's Transcript.
There about 1000 applications for ap-
pointment on the Boston police force
now on file at the commissioners office.
"Music by the quire," as the fellow
remarked when he bought twenty-four
sheets ofthe same.-Marathon Indepe,,d-
ent.
It is expected that coal mines worked
by modern machinery will soon be
opened in the province of Nganhiong,
China.
Ono little hornet on the nest
A shining little vilyain-
Josephns gave the nest kick
And then there was million!
The young Emperor of China is al
lowed TO smash $500 mirrors when he
feels funny, instead of being greeted with
sbinglc serenade, well laid on.-Detrc ii
Frte Press.
II those who are the enemies of inno-
cent amusements had the direction of
the world they would take away spring
and youth; the former from the year,
| and the latter from human life.
DIR. Peck, of indianapolis, has ampu-
tated the legs of q young girl on account
OF decay in the bones, produced by ex-
cessive rope jumping. He advises pa
rents and teachers to prohibit this play
under all circumstances.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
A Mothers Love.

just before the circus opened yester-
day afternoon woman, accompanied
by her son, a boy about sixteen years of
age, appeared on the grounds and was
the first at the ticket wagon. When the
window was opened the mother said to
the ticket-seller:
"If you will be so kind as to let n
poor widow woman's Johnny into the
circus he will carry water to the ele-
plant"
STAND back, madam, stand back!"
he cried, as he took the half-dollar over
! her head.
She took her boy by the hand and
marched to the entrance of the big tent
explaining to the man at the door:
My johnny is going to carry hay to
the camels."
"You and your Johnny carry your
selves right out of this!" was the very
emphatic reply.
Couldn't we both go in for ten cents,
if we sat on the groundp"
"No, ma'aml Stand back, now; you
are in the waym
They fell back for consultation. The
boy had tears in his eyes, and the mother
looked determined.
Don't cry, Johnny, dear-your
mother loves you and will get you in, "
she cOnSolingly remarked, as she led
HIM again to the ticket wagon. Crowd
ing and pushing her way in, she called
cut:
"This hoy's father was a preacher,
and you ought to let him in free."
Stand back, madam, stand back"
was the answer she got.
Cant you let US in for ten cents?"
"No, mol"
She drew the boy out of the crowd
and took walk around the tent. There
was spot where the Canvas was raised
a little, and as they halted there she
said:
johnny, a mothers love can sur
moult every obstacle. I'll stand here
and you crawl under the tent"
She spread her skirts as far as posi-
BILE, and the boy made dive and disap-
peared. In about ten seconds he reap
peared in the shape of ball, and lie
didn't stop rolling until he had gone
thirty feet. The mother Strengthened
him out, lifted him up. and inquired
what had happened.
I-I-don't exactly know" said the
boy, as he looked back at the tent, "but
guess l don't care for any more
mothers love. I'll take pink lemonade
in place of it. ."--Detrott Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
A Dcep Well.

The Continental Diamond Boring
company, limited, have lately completed
for the government OF Mecklenburg-
Schwerin- q bore hole of exceptional
depth, and the execution of which is of
particular interest from the rapidity
with which it has been completed. The
boring which was made for salt, is
situated at Probst Jesar. near Lubtheen,
and it was commenced on the sixth OF
July of last wear, with an opening
twelve inches in diameter. The first
part of the bore had to be through
diluvial bed consisting mainly of drift
sand and coarse gravel, and for sinking
through this Kobrich's system was
adopted. the diameter Of the bore being
maintained at twelve inches. The total
depth sunk on this system WIS 32l feet
eight inches, the sinking occupying
thirty -four days of twenty four hours
each, of which thirty-one days were
spent in actual boring, and three days
in surdry works.
Below the diluvium the gypsum and
rock were reached, and through this
the boring was carried on with dia-
monds, the commencement being made
on August 25, 1879, with hole ten and
| half inches in diameter. Until a
depth of 1910 feet had been reached,
however, no Hrnn IOOIlnS COutu De op-
tanned on which to rest the tubing, and
hence great annoyance was experienced
from the falling in of masses of sand,
the infalls being so great that some
times, when the boring rod was with
| drawn, the bore became filled up again
to dept of over 42O feet. The boring,
however, was steadily proceeded with,
and timately the final depth of 1851
feet was attained on the sixth of Feb
ruary last, the diameter Of the bore at
the bottom being three inches. The
time spent in laboring with diamonds
was 1863 days of twenty-four working
hours.
With the exception of bore hole
put down to the depth OF 4, 1873 feet for
the Prussian government, q Jew years
ago, and which took four years to ac-
complish, the bore of which we have
hcen giving particulars is, we believe,
the deepest yet sunk, and the fact that
it was completed in less than six months
speaks we'll for the skill and energy
with which the work was carried out.
Scientific american.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20

Music in the Night.

When stars pursue their solemn fight
Oft in the middle of the night
A strain of music visits me,
flushed in a moment silvery-
Such rich and rapturous strains as make
The very soul OF silence ache
With longing for the melody.
Or lovers in the distant dusk
OF summer gardens, sweet with musk,
Pouring the blissful burden out,
The breaking joy, the dying doubt;
Or revelers--all flown with wine,
And in madness half divine,
Beating the broken tune about.
Or else the rude and rolling notes
That leave some strolling sailors throats,
Hoarse with the salt spray, it may be,
OF many a mile of rushing sea;
Or some high-minded dreamer strays
Late through the sol itary ways,
Nor heeds Q listening night nor me
Or how, how whence those tones he heard,
Hearing, the slumbering soul s stirred,
AS when a swiftly passing light
Startles the shadows into fight
While one remembrance suddenly
Thrills through the melting melody
A strain of music in the night.
Out OF the darkness bursts the song,
Into the darkness moves along;
Only chord OF memory jars,
Only an old wound burns its scars,
As the wild sweetness OF the strain
slnites the heart with passionate pain,
And vanishes among the stars.
-Harrft Prescott Spoford.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
Words of Wisdom.

To live long it is necessary to live
slowly.
Give neither counsel nor salt until you
are asked fOr it.
Advancing or resting we still go on
by-and-bye to go Oft.
We hand folks over to Gods mercy
but show none ourselves.
There are calumnies against which
even innocence Loses courage.
He that can compose himself, is wiser
than lie that composes books.
There is in every human eountenanee
either history or prophecy, when
must sadden, or at least soften, every
rejecting observer.
! Affections are the medicine OF the
mind. Ifthey are not toothsome, let II
suffice that they are wholesome. 1t is
not required in physic that it should
please, but heal.
To fill the sphere which Providence
appoints is true wisdom; TO discharge
! trusts faithfully and live exalted ideas
that 10 the mission Of good men
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
Look Out for the Moon.

The theory was advanced some time
ago by an English astronomer that,
owing to the peculiar solar and lunar
action, the earth and moon must eventu-
ally come into collision. This theory
was opposed by some of the most
learned scientific mon, who argued that,
owing to the position of the tidal wave,
the moon is drawn not exactly in the
direction of the earth's center ofgravity,
but little to the east of that center,
and that in consequence she is made to
recede from the earth, her orbit is en-
larged, and her angular motion dimin-
ished. The partisans of the collision
theory reply that this does not prevent
the consumption of the Wis viva of the
earth's motion around the common
| center of gravity, although to certain
extent, at least, it must prevent thi:
consumption from diminishing thu
moons distance and increasing hel
ngular motion. AS this consumption
of Wis viva will go on through mint,
ages, if the present order of things re.
main unchanged, the earth and tn,
moon must ultimately come together
with results which the imagination cal
only family conceive.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
A FREE PRESS.
Some of Its Advantages Ter.oly Stated.

Some of Its Advantages Tersely stated.
The beautiful ;dea of getting some
thing for nothing is nowhere more
readily traceable than in q newspaper
Office.
So much has been spoken, written
and sung about " free press, that peo.
pie have come to accept the term in q
sense altogether too literal.
If man has scheme of any kind
terminating he just steps into the edi-
torial room and details it with the re-
mark: I'm not quite ready to advertise
yet, but few words will help me along"
He gets the few words and never gets
ready to advertise.
Two tickets admitting lady and gent
to the &C. r. X. M. T.'s grand ball"
are expected TO produce six-line To-
cal and quarter of column descrip-
ton of the ladies' toilets after the ball
is over.
Church fairs and the like are worse
than balls. They never leave tickets,
but demand more space, because "it's
a matter of news and help to the
cause"
Should a boy saw off his finger, CDR.
G. D. Plaster dressed the wound with
great skill" would be graceful way of
stating it, and besides it is 'unprofes-
sional" to advertise.
The patent rat-trap man brings in one
of his combinations of wire and moldy
cheese bait, sticks it under the editors
nose, and explains how they catch 'em
every time the spring works. Its
something of interest to the community,
and if you put in piece save me dozen
papers," which he quietly walks off
with as though he had bestowed favor
in allowing editorial eyes to gaze on
such marvel of intricacy.
An invitation "to come down and
write up our establishment is great
deal more common than a two-square
"ad from the same firm. Newspapers
must be filled up with something or
other, you know.
The lawyer, with strong preiudices
against advertising, is fond of seeing
his cases reported in full in the news
papers, with an occasional reference to
his exceedingly able manner of con-
ducting the same. 1t is cheaper than
advertising.
In fact everybody, from a to lizard
who has an axe to grind, asks the news
papers to turn the crank, and forgets to
even say thank you, but will kindly
take free copy OF the paper as part pay
for furnishing news.
The press being free" all hands seem
bound to get aboard and ride it to death
That is why newspapers are so rich thai
they can afford to pay double price fol
white paper, and never ask Congress tc
aid them by removing the duty on wood
pulp.-NetD HdUen Register.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
NO. 13.
Coming Home from Church.

Coming home from church together,
In the lovely spring-time weather,
Pretty Jenny, dashing Willie
She as fair as fny lily.
Slowly vending, meath the shadows,
Past the brook and by the meadows,
Arm in arm so fondly twining,
While the silver stars are shining.
Summer days are longer growing,
Summer nights their Joys bestowing;
At the porch, in silence meeting,
Eyes alone extend greeting.
Ah, the rogue! her mother taught her
That the other way was shorter!
Longest road and brightest weather,
Coming home from church together.
Autumn days were sweet and mellow,
Autumn grain was ripe and yellow;
Oh, the moonlit hours for rowing!
Oh, the little Yes" so loving!
Bllshing Jenny, handsome Willie
She as fair rs any lily
Welded in the golden weather,
Coming home from church together!
George Cooper, in Baidwin's Monthly
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20

Joshua Halbert, of Crawford county,
Mo-, although running close into cen
tury of life, has been confined to his bed
through chronic rheumatism for more
than twenty years. but in all that period
has retained his cheerfulness and socia-
bility in a remarkable degree. When
he was young he was very strong and a
great hunter. He killed eleven bears in
the winter of 1916.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20

The total cost of the Gothard tunnel,
the most gigantic work of the kind in
the world, Will not exceed $40, 900, 600.
1t has bet very costly of human life as
we'll as money, no less than $50 work
men having been killed and 400 disabled
during its construction.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20

Jim Ingraham, of Wynn's Mill,
Henry county, Ga is said to be CEN
tury and quarter old. He is very in
firm, and totally blind, but can still
make as good bark collar as a mule
ever looked through, and really Seems
to enjoy the occupation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20

A year and half passed away, dur
ing which, owing to his frequent alb
sences and Miss Lorinda's watchful
care, Dolly and her lover had met but
three or four times. ITS hard, ;" said
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25
A Finger for a Nose.

[Dr. Foote'S Health Monthly for February.l
We have read in fairy tales of trans
formations Of 4en to animals and, vice
versa, Of arms to wings, legs to tails, etc.;
but such tales are caildren's stories, and
all who believe in miracles say that now
the age OF miracles is past. Not quite,
If seeing if believing; for at Bellevue
Hospital, New York city, can be seen
man whose finger is beng changed in
to nose, not by fa1rys wand nor in
the twinkle of an eye, but by the skillful
art of plastic surgery and the slow pro-
cesses Of nature. The patient is a Young
man who by series Of misfortunes lost
his nose, and had a depression in the
place of the becoming preboscis. The
surgeons are trying to construct a new
nose for him, by placing the middle finger
of the left hand, after removing the nail.
in the place where the nose ought to
grow, and creating adhesion between the
finger and the face. Thus far the adhe-
slons have progressed we'll, and all that
remains to be done is to cut off the hand
from the last two joints of the middle
finger, leaving them to form the new nose.
1t will not be safe to do this until blood
circulation has been established between
the tissues of the face and the finger Join
ed to them. In the meantime the patient
IS bearing his trials bravely, and with
good prospect OF having nose that will
bear more blowing, both from within
and without, than wax one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25
Dakota Wheat Fields.

OF the tour hundred million bushels Of
wheat produced in the United States, by
far the largest portion is sown in the fall.
and is called winter grain. The varieties
are conditioned by soil and climate. the
latitude of Milwaukee marking in gener-
al the northern boundary of winter wheat
The area suited for the production az
wheat sown in the spring hitherto has
been of limited extent, hut there is an
undeveloped section of the country SO
wide and far-reaching that 1t may be re-
garded as the great summer wheat field
of the future. Its capabilities are so vast,
and insurance of production 80 certain,
that the millions of the Old World NAV
ever think of it as land that will sup
ply them with bread.
A traveller making the tour of the st.
Lawrence and its connecting chain of
Lakes. landing at Duluth, and Journey
ing west over the Nothern Pacific Rail
road two hundred miles, beyond the for
est region of the Upper Mississippi, will
find himself on the eastern edge of this
bread land of the future-the valley of
the Red River. stream flowing north
ward to Lake Winnipeg, and thence to
Hudson Bay.
In August, 1859, the writer of this ar
ticle rode over this former hunting
ground of the Sioux, where through by
gone ages they chased the buffalo and
fought the Chippewas. The valley of
the Red river was not a vast expanse. It
was reach of prairie unbroken by the
pillow. Our own voices or the song of the
meadow lark, plover and curlew, and
other fowl, alone broke the solemn and
oppressive stiffness of the solitude. At
Georgetown the Hudson Bay Company
had reared a house, and two or three set
tiers had set up their cabins upon the
banks of the river. We encountered a
man whose birth place was in Virginia,
who had been frontiersman in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, vidette
of civilation ~. > ...
"Have you any neighbors2" we asked.
ooh yes; three families have just set
tied about twelve miles from here They
are getting pretty thick, and I shall have
to move on, I reckon"
The! have been getting thicker since,
the locomotive is speeding its way across
the valley, on the Missouri, and beyond
to the Yellowstone; 1t is flying down the
valley to Winnipeg, and soon it will
thunder along the Saskatchewan, fac
away in the distant Northland. Farm
houses dot the landscape; towns have
sprung up; the traveller beholds piles of
lumber, long lines of farm wagons,
ploughs, seeders, har1ows, reapers, thresh-
ers, and farm engines at every railroad
station. Marvellous the change: in 1869
a furrowless plain; 1879, harvest Of
eight million bushels of grain-ere long
to be eighty million!-C. @. Coffin n
Harper's Margarine.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25
FascinatlOns of Life in Rome.

1t is something if you must be SO pro-
sale as to enter old Rome by railway,
to find that the depot is put down Oh tho
map as part of the old baths Of Diocle-
tlan; and house hunting, with hurried
glimpses as one goes from street to street,
of Trojan's forum, and the fountain of
Trevi, and the Tlber, Is calculated to stif
strangely ones fancy. And the pie
turesqueIess of the streets strikes one at
once. What with priests and soldiers,
and the passion of the women for bright
ness, they arc all life and color. Priests
IN brown, priests in white, priests in scat-
let; soldiers with an opulent variety of
uniform, and plumes and tassels and sill
yer braid enough to ruin modest gov
eminent. Is it because war is IN itself
SO little alluring that the soldiers are al
ways SO gay9 Or is it the last remnant Of
the time when men rivalled woman In
the splendor of their dressg
We are getting, Of late years, to mo-
notonous uniform of dark colors. We
shrink even from too gay flower or rib
bon to brighten our sombre robes. But
Roman women have no such scrupIes,
and the rainbow scarfs, the bright plumes
and ornaments they wear, are pretty to
see, ana seemed suited to this sunny air.
And the life and variety Of the street is
their charm to Northern mind. Even
while write, Hand sounds in the dis
lance, and see down the long street
troop of gay soldiers. A half hour ago,
a vague sonorous chanting rose, to our
windows, and below was the long line Of
priests bearing the dead to his home. All
in brown robes, barefoot, and bearing
long wax tapers, their chant, their dark
procession, had in 1t something weird
and impressive.
But the charm of the dead CITY one
feels most, perhaps, from the public
pleasure grounds on the Pincian Hill.
The vision Of all these domes and spires
rising at ones feet, the picturesque con
fusion of majestic ruin and modern shah
biness, and beyond all, back even of the
great dome Of St. Peter which crowns
the distance, the Alban hills stand out
against the blue--all this is calculated to
touch the most prosaic; and the proper
historic emotions for which so often one
pines in vain come of themselves
Good Company. .4
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25
Statistics Of the Presidency.

The following is an analysis of the oc-
cupancy of the Presidential Office from
the organization of the Government un-
der the Federal constitution to the end
OF Mr.. Hayes term, showing the length
OF service OF the incumbents and the
States of which they were residents:
1t will be seen that the Eastern States
elected three of their citizens to that
high position, serving one term each.
The Middle States elected two and
inherited fraction of term by the
demise of Southern President. T he
Western States elected four, who, if
death Lad not interposed, would have
held the Office twenty-four years, but
by the decease of two early in the
terms for which they were chosen q
Virginian and Tennesseean reduced
the period nearly eight years. The
Southwestern States elected three,
whose service, with nearly full term
by another inheritor, made over seven
teen years.
The scepter departed from the
Southern States proper when Jackson.
who was more of a Western than a
Southern man, was elected, but it had
its rule in the chief magistracy for
more than thirty-six years-every in
cumbent being Virginian!
Assuming that the Eastern and Mid
die States bear a similar relation to
each other, politically, as that of the
Western and Southwestern, the latter
have been the most favored and have
had the President for more than thirty.
three years, while the former aggregate
not quite twenty-three. So, too, the
Western States exceed the Eastern
sixteen to twelve. Strangely enough,
the two largest States of both the
other localities are the only ones favored
New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25
THE IRON PEN.

MADE from fetter of Downward, the Pris
oner of Chillon; the Handle of Wood from tn
Frigate "Constitution," and bound with CIR
clet of Gold, inset with three precious stone
from Siberia, Ceylon and Maine.
I thought this pen would arise
From the casket where it lies
OF itself would arise, and write
My thanks and my surprise.
When you gave it me under the pines,
/ dreamed these gems from the mines
Or Siberia, Ceylon, and Maine
Would glimmer as thoughts in the lines;
That this iron link from the chain
OF Downward might retain
Some verse of Poet who sang
OF the prisoner and his pen;
That this wood from the frigate's mast
Might write me rhyme at last,
As it used to write on the sky
The song of the sea and blast.
But motionless as wait,
Like Bishop lying in state
Lies the Pen, with it's inter of Gold,
And its jewels inviolate.
Then must speak, and say
That the light of that summer day
In the garden under the pines
Shall not fade anc pass away.
shall see you standing there,
Caressed by the fragrant air,
With the shadow on your face,
And the sunshine on your hair.
shall hear the sweet low tone
OF a voice before unknown,
Saying, "This is from me to you
From me, and to you alone"
And in words not idle and vain
I shall answer, and thank you again
For the gift, and the grace of the gift,
o beautiful Helen of Maine
And forever this gift will be
AS blessing from you to me,
AS drop of the dew of your youth
On the leaves of an aged tree.
II. W. Longfellow in Hurper's for December.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25

It may have been two years or little
less, after CORVALLIS surrender at York
town, that two strangers passed down the
main street at Stratford at leisurely
canter.
They pulled their horses down to a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-02-25

In Burke's Peerage is the following
mem orandum:
Sir John Stirling married to Miss Fol
som of Stratford in North America, by
whom he had numerous family.
The title is Derne to-day by the grand
nephew of Sir John Stirling.