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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
Titles in Russia.

A New York Sun CORES pondent says
that in Russia all the members of the
families of princes, counts and barons,
both male and female, when blessed,
are always addressed by their titles. The
members of princeiy families are ad-
dressed as Prince, Prince N. N, or
Serenity. S)me princes are called Most
Serene; for instance, the Suvoroffs. A
count may be addressed simply as Count,
or Count n. N, or Illustriousness. The
serene and illustrious persons may be
caught in the act OF picking pockets (as
some have been), yet in court they are
always spoken of and to by their titles ;
and if a judge, for instance, were to ask,
Mr.. Do!gorouky, you are accused OF
having stolen five rubles, what have
you to sayP" Prince Dolgorouky would
keep silence until given his title. A
baron may be addressed as Baron, or
Baron N N, or Excellence. A Il generals
are addressed by persons OF inferior
rank as Excellence, and by those OF
superior rank as General, or General n.
n. The chief generals are addressed a
High Excellence. The colonies and
majors are called Height Nobility, and
the officers simply Nobility. The same
forms are strictly observed in speaking
to civil officers. The bishops are ad
dres. ed as r.minence, the archbishops as
High Eminence, the priors as Reverence
and the priests as Benediction. Every
city mayor, alderman, or village elder
is addressed as Honor. Even plair
clerks pretend on the title of Dignity
The latter title is liked and much useu
among the merchants. Persons of thu
same rank, intimate friends, near &C
auaintances, call each other by the
Christian name and the fathers name
the latter being u lit lie changed. Fol
instance, Petr Ivanovitch, Ivan Petro
witch, Derimedout Feostiriktovitch; ant
among women, Anna Ivanovua, Snan
dulia Petroyna, Filikitata Trankvill
| mOVna.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
Guided.

GU1ue0s
Up the long, slippery slopes we toll and strain,
Amid the ice and snow,
Untrodden heights above us to attain.
Untrodden depths below;
Danger to lett and danger to the right,
All wearily we go.
Cruel and beautiful the blue creyasse
Yawns close beside the way,
The avalanches topple DER the pass,
Their cold, white torrents stay
Only moment ere they roar and plunge
To rend and whelm and slay.
Each following each, we mount, as we are led,
Up the long, steep incline;
Our Guide walks calm and fearless at the head
OF tho long lsltering line,
And shows the narrow path where satetyis
By word and look aud sigu.
Marking His footsteps, treadny where He trod,
Close following on His track,
We cannot faint or fall or miss the road,
Though deep the SHOWS, and black
The precipices yawn, and rough and steep
The forward path and back
Intent on Him, we do not mark or see
These hard things by the way.
II is enough that we ara led, and He
Whose guidance we obey
Has gone before and knows how hard it Isl
What He has done we may.
Above the mists we catch faint, far chime,
And glimpses heavenly fair
climb
How distant bright they are!
Dear Guide lead on! We do not ask Tor rest
Would God that we were there'
Susan COOLIDGE.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

In the October number of the organ
of the German Baptist mission the
statistics of the churches are given, from
which it appears that there are l34
churches in Germany, with 26 656 men,
bers, l, 497 stations, and only ii ol3 Sur
day school scholars, instructed by 0I4
teachers. There are sixteen churches
with more than 400 members each. one
of these reporting LILO members and
another IT'S. Fifty one churches have
membership of less than 100 and a
few of these report very small member
ships-nine in one case, eight in another.
and four In a third.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

Paper, as every one knows, burns well
when scrunched up, but is not by any
means so inhammaole as wood, and in
the form of hooks is somewhat difficult
to burn at all. In the olden time there
was considerable trouble taken in de-
stroying heretical books, which were
placed on large wooden platforms, but
after all the care taken to annihilate them
from the face of the earrh, masses were
found in the embers sufficiently uncon-
sumed to be easily readable, and it was
thought this was brought about by the
wiles of the evil one.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
Rhyming Made Easy.

The Tribune has fitted up a room for
the exclusive use OF its poets, and has
introduced its new system of rnyming
charts, which are designed to aid these
of our songsters who never have any
difficulty in whooping up the sentiment,
bat are occasionally little shy on the
jingle part of their otherwise highly
credltable productions. The charts con-
tain words that rhyme pretty well, and
are adapted to any kind OF poetry, from
the Papa's-stepped-on mothers s-bunion
order to the weird, moving machine
verses of Swinburne. When poet
wants something that goes along smooth
and easy, like Maud S. or the price of
wheat, he has only to glance at the one
syllable chart. which contains words
like:
Lime, Time,
Crime, Dime.
If he Is in search of something with a
little more get-up TO it. he can refer to
the next one, which contains words
like:
Item, BENSON,
Fly-time, Venison,
Redress, Despot,
Maud s., Guess Not.
If the Swinburne metre is what he
wants, Chart No. 3 may be studied to
advantage. 1t reads:
Azure Sky, DatfodiIs Glow,
Refrigerator, Sorrel Horse.
And so forth. All poets are cordially
invited to come in and try the scheme
Take the ELEVATOR. 1t may fall SOM
day.-Chic1go Tribune.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
Butter at Forty Dollars a Pound.

Gilhooly strayed into De Smiths
grocery Yesterday, accompanied by his
dog. Suddenly the grocer cried out, as
if in great pain:
"Your blame dog has eaten up two
pounds of nice fresh country butter. ;"
swell, if it don't hurt the dog It's all
right, but ] want you to understand ne
is valuable dog, and if he dies YOU will
have to pay about S4n a pound for that
oleomargarine ."-G1lue ston NeUs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

A st. Louis boy spent a dollar of the
money that he had collected for his
father, who whipped him for the offense.
The youngster went directly to the river
and drowned himself
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

Ifhens have warm house and enough
to eat, and of the right kind, they wall
lay in winter as well as summer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

Wooden posts have been brought-to
premature decay by painting then':oe'
fore their moisture had evaporated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02

The sea OF Galilee oontainsYtwelve
species OF fish.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
French Non-Catholfc Interments

A letter addressed to the Dix-neu-
vieme Steele, and having every appear
ance of being trustworthy, throws a
strange light on the habits and customs
of the peasantry in some parts of
France. The letter bears the signature
of DIR. Lortet, the doyan of the Lyons
Faculty of Medicine, and narrates the
results of observations made among
the peasants in the Department of the
Gard during q journey there for medical
purposes. l cannot give more clear
impression of the extraordinary state
ments than by quoting the writer's own
words "WhiIe passing through the
neighboring parishes frequently found
on the farms small private cemeteries,
where Protestant farmers bury the
members of their families, the Catholic
parishes refusing to receive the bodies
of the heretics even in the far-off corner
set apart for suicides and felons. When
Protestant family has. no field in
which to bury its dead, it asks Cor a
place in the cemetery Of friendly fam
ily but when this favor is unobtaina-
Lie, as is pretty frequently tie case, the
mortal remains are inferred in the
ground under the cottage itself, usually
before tho fire. The man said to me,
Under that stone are my wife, my
child, and my mother And he said
many tears are shed at the thought of
having one day perhaps to leave these
tombs containing the remains OF beloved
relatives" The writer asks whether it
is creditablc that such state Of things
should be permitted in the France of
1880, and exhorts the public, if in reality
intolerant laws exist to forbid the use OF
the parish cemetery to non-Catholics, to
use every effort to obtain their abroga-
ton, SO that all may enjoy equal peace
IN their last resting place.-Paris letter
to London Telegram.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Sunday in Leadviile

On Sunday here nearly every store Is
open. 1t is the chief day with the
places of amusement the smoke of the
shelters perfumes the ambient air a
little more vilainously than usual, If
possible, and the streets are crowded.
The church bells gather many Worship
ers, but they are not missed from the
thronged street. The miners come from
all directions. From shafts and tunnels
and prospect holes by thousands they
come, swarming in the streets, crowding
the corners, filling the bars Of the nu-
Eerous saloons with coming tide OF
humanity. Many come to buy their
weekly supplies at the stores, whose
clerks know no holy Sabbath rest !;
others come to talk over tl.eir strikes and
finds, or to bring in their samples for
testing. Crowds throng the more than
hundred gambling dens from
whose wide open doors the sound of
piano, violin and flute mingle with the
shrll voice of the dealer at the faro
table, calling, "Make your bets gentle
men, and the curses and vulgarity Of
the players faint the Sabbath air. The
gambling house knows no Sunday, and
though the law of the State expressly
prohibits the opening of drinking or
gambling houses on the Sabbath day, 1T
is as dead as though it had never cum
bered the leaves of the statute books,
and the police stand idly by watching
its violation. Blear eyed md bloated
debauchees, in whose besotted lives hon.
or, decency and manhood have long
since died, handy ribald tests with the
lost women who carry the liquors to the
tables Thieves and pickpockets, watch
ing with keen eyes for the victim and
the opportunity, mingle with the bust
ling crowds and jostle you as YOU pass.
Chicago Times
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
t.. Marriage in High Life.

A friend handed us copy of the
Cherokee Advocate, published at Tall
lequah, Indian Territory, by the Chero-
kee Nation. 1t contains several col
umns of hieroglyphics supposed to con
vey to the nation matters Of interest
and moment to their tribe, the remain
der being filled with editorials, adver
tisements etc., in English, the whole be-
ing the work Of the Cherokee Indians
We clip the following marriage an
nouncement from it's columns:
CAT Fort Gibson, 1. t., Tuesday even
ing March Odd, large and select gath
ering of friends assembled in the Pres
byterian church to witness the nuptials
of Mr.. M. d. Lafayette Dowell, well
known young man possessing many vir-
tues, late Of Sherman, Texas, to Miss
Cordelia Campbell, handsome and &C
complished young lady of the Cherokee
Nation. The bride wore beautiful
dress of white Swiss, demitrain of Du-
chesa lasale, full sleeve, being most
deliberately and arti6cally trimmed with
lace de Leon, her veil adorned with
orange blossoms. Rev. Young Ewing,
M. E. joined the young couple together
in an impressive code. Mrs. S. A. Stod-
dard has the heartfelt thanks of the
bridal party for excellent music rendered
during the evening. No cards"
Behold, now the march of civilization.
Had the marriage announcement Of the
brides great grandmother been made
in type instead Of being commented
upon in cultural tones by members Of
the tribe as they sat upon braided mats
about the lodge fire, where H,
"In the smoke the scalp locks swung srimly to and
fro"
1t would probably have read some
thing in this wise: B
"Unkse, big brave, who has taken
more scalps in the past year than any
other warrior of the tribe, and whose
latest and most brilliant exploit consist
ed in surprising and burning village
and dispatching its inmates with the
tomahawk and fire brand, entered the
lodge OF Tahlequah this morning, and
taking forclole possession or MS younger
daughter, bore her off to his wigwam
She was not dressed, to speak of, her
chief articles of apparel being a short
buckskin skirt and moccasins. The lat
ter, however, were daintily beaded, and in
the hurry Of the seizure she managed to
grasp piece of blanket in which she
enveloped her head and shoulders. Ar
irving at the lodge Of Unkee, she was
ordered at once to get wood, build a
fire, fetch water and broil some bear
steaks while her lord rested. The bride
made music for the occasion, being in
cited thereto by sundry stripes across
her naked shoulders by the conjugal
whip because of the lateness of the
meal She will probably have breakfast
on time hereafter, and with proper dis
cipline will no doubt make faithful
and obedient wife"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
It is so.

All things being equal, uh"re is no
good reason why women should not en-
Joy as good health as men. Yet it is an
admitted fact that there is more sick
ness comparatively among the female
and juvenile classes of society than
among the adult males. We have re-
peatedly sought to impress upon the at
tention of our readers the reasons why
this should be so, and we again repeat
the statement that in thousands Of
houses in this city the plumbing and
sewer-works are SO imperfectly executed
that the sewer gases are admitted into
the occupied portions Of the building;
that sewer gas is exceedingly dangerous
to health, and one of the battle-axes of
death to Destroy human life; that moth
ers and children, being more at home
than the adult males, are far
more exposed to its evil effects conse-
quently in houses where the defects
mentioned exist-and there are large
number of them--the female portion Of
the household must be the more liable
to sickness The following extract from
an East IN exchange is to the point :
DIR. John II. Grisccm, one of the first
writers on sanitary science i'll this coun-
try, remarked that more women received
dispensary relief than men, the proper
ton being twelve to ten, and sometimes
as great as nineteen to eleven. This
contrast is more striking in view Of the
greater amount of intemperance among
the males, it is probably due to the fact
that women, both night and day, inhale
the polluted atmosphere of tenement
houses, while their husbands and chill
dren pass a considerable portion of the
day out of doors under more healthful
influences"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
A Narrow Escape.

Among the excited crowd that visited
the office of the Helena Mont indie
pendent for news concerning the Ute
outbreak, there stood a tall, handsome
youth of twenty-three years, the strange
Wilderness of whose hair became at once
matter of comment This young man
was John Laefarr, who had not long
ago hired himself as ranchman with
Charles ID. Hart, three miles out of
Helena. Laefarr was importuned by
an Independent reporter to tell "the
story of his white top-knot." He, at
the age of nineteen years, was one of
the seven packers who left Fort Lin
coin in 1875 to ride with Gen. Custer
along the Little Big Horn. When the
fight of that bright but disastrous Sum-
mer morning opened, Laefarr, with his
companions, happened to be three miles
away from the command. In few
moments after the sounds of the com
bat reached them, band of Sioux
sprang from the grass within a few feet
of them. Laefarr noosed rope, placed
it in the mouth of the nearest horse,
and, leaping upon the animals back,
plunged his spurs into the flank. AS
he Rugged his horse he saw his six
companions go down, one after the other.
One bullet out of the hundred that fol-
lowed him tore through his neck, an
other cut deep furrow across his cheek,
q third imbedded itself in his thigh and
a fourth killed his horse. The desperate
boy shot an approaching Indian and ran
for a belt of timber half mile distant.
Barefooted, weak and faint from loss of
blood, he outran his pursuers and reached
the woods, where he hid for three days.
He was at last picked up by three
friendly Crow Indians and taken TO
Fort Lincoln, where he told of the mas
sacre. 1t was not until he reached the
fort that he knew of the change in his
hair, which, before his terrible suffering,
had been as black as a ravens wing.
I.aeearr has since been living at various
points on the plains. He does not like
to go over the story of his wonderful ad
venture.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Railroad Matters.

Sixty thousand locomotives in the
United States.
There are an unusually large number
of emigrants coming West over the Cen
trail this Spring.
A new railroad will be built between
Portage and Baraboo, Wis The com
pany has already been formed.
The St. Paul and Sioux City railroad
has given mortgage on $50 miles of its
branch roads to the Central Trust Co.
of New York, at the rate of $4,000
per mile.
Experience demonstrates that to
enable railroads to be operated at a
profit, population of at least $50 to q
mile of railroad is necessary in this
country.
The official figures show that since
the lst of last September 2,97l miles of
railroad have been built within the
United States, and plans have been set
on foot for the construction of 1854
miles more.
The earnings of the Canada Southern
Railroad show an increase of STA, 900
for the month of January, $1l7,00 for
the month of February, $50, 400 for the
first week in March, and $1,000 for the
second.
The Wabash Railway Company, hav-
ing secured controlling interest in the
Champaign, Havana Il Western Rail
road, have called meeting Of the bond
holders for the purpose of determining
the matter of consolidating it with their
lines, 80 as to make through route to
Chicago and st. Louis.
Detroit Free Press: 1t would seem
as if the business was being slightly
overdone when three railroads are pro-
iected on the west side of the Hudson,
to connect Albany with New York.
The map and profile of the third rout",
continuation of the Willikill Valley
Railroad, has been filed at Albany.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
A Gypsy Queen.

The Princess Koket, with 20 gypsy
followers, passed through Memphis re-
Gently, going to the usual Spring convo-
cation near Dayton, O., where in May a
large number of these peculiar people
hold festival The party over which
the Princess koket holds absolute sway
have been Wintering IN Southwestern
Texas and Alabama, bat for several
weeks past have been on the road to
Memphis. They were well dressed,
some in rather CAV colors, the Princess
especially 50, and their outfit, consisting
of six wagons, eleven horses and a round
lot of camp equipments, were all ia. cap
ital order, while the peoplr hooked
sleek. fat and happy The Princess
Koket was Interviewed by number Of
people during their stay here She
proved to be quite intelligent and I'M
derstooi the way Of the world and man
kind generally; could tell fortune in
entertaining style, on short order, and
for a single trade dollar, and she SAID
she always managed to captiyats the
men. The party took passage on the
Virgil Lee, for the Ohio river.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
An Elephants Weight.

An Indian writer relates an interest
ing anecdote concerning Shajee, the
father of the frs. ruling prince of the
Mahrattas of Hindostan, who lived
about the beginning of the seventeenth
century. On one occasion a certain
high official made vow that he would
distribute to the poor the weight of his
own elephant in silver money; but the
great difficulty that at first presented it
self was the mode of ascertaining what
this weight really was and all the
learned and clever men of the court
seem to have endeavored in vain to con
struct machine of sufficient power to
weigh the elephant. At length it is
said that Shajee came forward and sug-
gested plan, which was simple and vet
ingenious in the extreme. lie caused
the unwieldy animal TO be conducted
along stage, especially made for the
purpose by the water side, into a flat
bottomed boat; and then. having marked
upon the boat the height to which the
water reached after The elephant had
. Weighed it down, the latter was taken
out and stones substituted in sufficient
quantiLs TO mold tie boat 60 the same
line. Tie stones were then taken to
the scales, and thus, to the amazement
of the court, was ascertaiued TIE true
weight of the eggplant.
Z. : Il
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13
Rest for Headaches.

DIR. Day says in late lecture: "What-
ever be the plan Of treatment decided
upon, res. is the first principle to incul-
cate in very severe headache. Rest,
which the busy man and anxious mother
cannot obtain so long as they can man
age to keep about, is one of the first
remedies for every headache, and we
should never cease to enforce it. The
brain, when excited, as much needs quiet
and repose as D fractured limb or an in
famed eve; it is obvious that the chances
of shortening the seizure and arresting
the pain will depend on our power to
have this carried out actually. 1t is q
practical lesson to keep steadily inview, in
thatthsre ma y Turk behind u simple head
ache some lesion Of unknown magnitude,
which may remain stationary III quie-
tude can be maintained. There is IA
point worth attending to in the treat
ment Of all headaches Sec that IT, head
is elevated at night, and theV pillow
hard, FIR, if it be soft, the bead sinks
into ID and becomes hot which : With
some rteplc Is enough I'd provoke an At
tack in the smorning Of sleep has been
long anil heavy ssf 10
Two pounds two ounces was the
weight II perfectly formed child born
in Auhfrn Me a few DAVIS 400
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

1t is getting easier and easier to get
up a row in church. Samuel j. Horton,
steward, las suei Rev. William "
Mcguire, pastor of the Methodist Church
of Lawrence, l.. l., for 1000 damages
for SANDER, the minister having asserted
there was deficiency of 81 in Ho,ton' s
accounts. The woman in this case has
not presented'herself yet
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

The men engaged in grain elevators
are found to succumb very quickly 70
pulmonary diseases. The life OF a 5000
Ter is various)y estimated at an average
Of three to five years. A movement Is
now on foot to amend the conditions
under which the work is carried on.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

Palestine IS going to have railroad
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-13

Two pounds two ounces was the
weight II a pesfectly-formed child born
in Aub%n, Me-, few days ago.