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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
The Alphabet Of the Animals,

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes: strung the following
rhymes together to tickle the ears OF my
little boys, four and six years old. They
tease their mamma to read them over
and over again and hen fetch the big
illustrated dictionary to have her point
out the funny animals with such strange
names, and tell what she can about
them. This fancy for rhyme and
rhythm is, l suppose, characteristic of
nearly all children, and perhaps the
publication OF this will amuse a wider
circle than my little household. The
aim has been, after euphony, to have
the mos incongruous animals in juxta-
position:
Alligator, Beetle, Porcupine, Whale,
Bobolink, Panther, Dragon-fy, Snail,
Crocodile, Monkey, Buffalo, Hare,
Dromedary, Leopard, Mud-turtle,
Bear,
Elephant, Badger, Pelican, Ok,
Flying-tish, Reindeer, Anaconda, Fox,
Guinea-pig, Dolphin. Antelope, Goose,
Humming-bird, Weasel, Pickerel,
Moose,
Ibex, RRinoceros, Owl, Kangaroo.
Jackal, Opossum, Toad, Cockatoo,
Kingfsher, Peacock, Auteater, Bat,
Lizard, Ichneumon, Honey bee, Rat,
Mocking- bird, Camel, Grasshopper,
Mouse,
Nightingale, Spider, Cuttlefish, Grouse,
Ocelot, Pheasant, Wolverine, AUX,
Periwinkle, Ermine, Katydid, Hawk,
Quail, Hippopotamus, Armadillo,
Moth,
Rattlesnake, Lion, Woodpecker,
Sloth,
Salamander, Gold6nch, Angle-worm,
Dog,
Tiger, Flamingo, Scorpion, Frog,
Unicorn, Ostrich, Nautilus, Mole,
Viper, Gorilla, Basilisk, Sole.
Whippoorwill, Beaver, Centipede,
Fawn,
Xantho, Canary, Polliwog, Swan,
Yellowhammer, Eagle, Hyena, Lark,
Zebra, Chameleon, Butterfly, Shark.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

DR. G. e. Shoemaker, the well-known aural
surgeon OF Reading, Pa, offers 10 sendby mail,
free of charges valuable little hook on deafness
and diseases of the ear-specially on running
ear and catarrh, and their proper trestment
giving references and testimonials that will
satisfy the most skeptical. Address as above,
Are You Not in GOOD Healthf
II the Liver is the source OF your trouble,
you can find an absolute remedy in DIR. SAN.
FoRD's LIVER ISvIGoRAToR, the only vegeta.
BILE cathartic which acts directly on the Liver
Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address
DK. SANFORD, 1852 Broadway, New York.
The Voitaic Belt Co M.rsnall, Mich,
Will send their o-Voltaic Belts to the
afflicted upon 80 days trial. See their adver-
tisement in this paper head ed, "on 80 Days
Trial"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

The Americ1n Manufacturer says that
John B. Jarvis, who ordered the first
locomotive in America to be made. is
living, aged over eighty. at Rome, N
Y, and Horatio Allen, who saw the
order carried out, and who ran the
pioneer locomotive, is still living at East
Orange, N. j., aged over seventy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

The elephant hunters of Ceylon and
India corroborate Sinbad's story that
elephants, when they feel the approach
of death, retire to solitary and mac
cessible valley, and there die in peace.
MIR. Sanderson, superintendent of ele-
plants to the government of India, ad-
mits that no living man has come across
the corpse of wild elephant that has
died n natural death.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

Block island, in the Atlantic ocean, at
the eastern extremity of Long Island,
is remarkable in many ways. Of its
!, l4I in population, i,oss were born OF: on
fuel, and sea weed nets them over 500
600 year. There never was Jail or n
lawyer among them, and 100 for years on
mails came to the island.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
=, KALAMAZOO, Mich, Feb. %, 1880.

IIOP DTTTERS MFG. CO.:
know Hop Buffers will bear recon-
mendation honestly. All who use them
comiums, and give them credit for m ak
ing cures-ali the proprietors claim for
them. l have kept them since they
were fest offered to the public. They
took high rank from the first, and MAIN
tanned it, and are more called for than
all others combined. So long as they
keep up their high reputation for purity
and usefulness l shall continue to re-
commend hem-something 1 have
never before done with any other
patent medicine. J.J. BABCOCK,
Physician and Druggist.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
tMPORTANr AND INTERESTING
STATEMENTS,
Read, Mark and Inyard1y Disest--
Something for Everybody.

Read, Mark and 1nward1y Digest--
Something for Everybody.
AsHBURNHAM, Mass, Jan. IA, 1880.
Ihave been very sick over two wears.
They all gave me up as past cure. 1
tried the most skillful physicians, but
they did not reach the worst part. The
lungs and heart would fill up every
night and distreas me, and my throat
was very bad. / told my children 1
never should die in peace until had
tried Hop Bitters 1 have taken two
bottles. They have helped me very
by that time shall be well. There
was lot of sick folks here who have
seen how they helped me, and they
used them and are cured, and feel as
thankful as do that there is 80 yalu-
able a medicine made. Yours,
Mrs. JULIA G. CUSHING.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

Teresa Tua, of Turin, young girl of
thirteen, bore off the first prize rs vic =
linst at the Paris conservatory last year.
She has been offered $4,000 for fiv 9
years tour through the United States.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
KAUOKA. Mo Feb O I99O

= NAIIOINAJ N1O., TeU. D, 1cOU.
purchased five bottles of your Hop
Bitters of Bishop & Co. last fall, for my
daughter, and am we'll pleased with the
Bit They did her more good than
al the medicine she had taken for six
years. VIM. Il. MCCLURE.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

Ttealre-goers, club-visitors, late supper
takers and patrons OF the horse railroad ow.-
trains, should all certainly have bottle OF
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup convenient. Gentle
men you will need it,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
NEW BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan. 2, 1880.

NEW BLOOMFIELD, Miss, Jan. 2, 1880.
HOP BITTERs Co.:
L wish 10 say TO you that I have been
suffering for the last five years with a
severe itching all over. have heard
of Hop Bitters and have tried it. I
have used up four bottles, and it has
done me more good than all the doc
tors and medicines that they could use
on or with me. am old and poor but
feel to bless you for such a relief from
your medicine and torment of the doc
tors. L have had fifteen doctors at me.
One gave me seven ounces of solution of
arsenic; another took four quarts of
blood from me. All they could tell
was that it was skin sickness. Now,
after these four bottles of your medi-
cine, my skin is well, clean and smooth
as ever. HENRY KNoCHE,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

DR. MARCHISrS UTEklNE X CATH0LIC0N will posf
lively cure Female Weakness such - Falling o. ~
womb, Whites, Chronh. Inflammation liberation al
the Womb, Incidental heinorThage Flooding. Painful
Suppressed and Irregular Aenshuation ke An old and
reliable remedy Send postal card for pamphlet wisk
Essss,snt cures and certificates from physicians sal
tQla BY 81 DruEsi islb- tl.ss p~< sot.a
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

A correspondent of the London
BaiIder estimates that the number OF
bricks annually used for building pur-
poses in that part OF London comprised
within radius of four or five miles from
London bridge is go, 100000.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 81, 1880.
l have used seven bottles of Hop Bit
ters, which have cured me of a severe
chronic difficulty of the kidneys and
have had a pleasant effect on my sys.
tenn. RODNEY PEARSON.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
MILTON. Del. Feb. 10. 1890.

MILTON, Del, Feb. 10, 1880.
Being induced by neighbor to try
Hop Bitters, EN- well pleased with it
as tonic medicine, it having so much
improved my feelings, and benefited
my system, which was very much out
OF tone, causing great feebleness.
Mrs. JAMES BELTS,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

VEGETiEE.-Th great success of the VEGE-
TINE as a cleanser aud purifier OF the blood in
shown beyond doubt by the great numbers
who have taken it, and received immediate
relief, with such remarkable cures,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

The musical season promises to be n
brilliant one. A case of accordeons
was smuggled into this city this week.
-Belioa Journal
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
WALHEND. Kansas. Dec. a 1870

WALHEND, Kansas, Dec. 3. 1873.
write to inform you what great re-
lief got from taking your Hop Bitters.
was suffering from neuralgia and dys.
pepsia, and few bottles have entirely
cured me, and | am truly thankful for
30 good a medicine.
MRS. MATTE COOPER.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
Daughters, wives and s1oth.rs.

Get Lyons Patent Heel Stneners applied
to those new boots before you run them over.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
CEDAR BAYOU, Texas, Oct. 20, 1879.

HOP BITTERs Co:
have heretofore been bitterly op-
posed to any medicine not prescribed by
physician of my choice. My wife,
fifty-six years old, had come by de.
grees to o slow sundown. Doctors
failed to benefit her. l got q bottle of
Hop Bitters for her, which soon re-
heved her in many ways. My kidneys
were badly affected, and took twenty
or thereabouts doses, and found much
relief. l sent to Galveston for more. and
word came back none in the market. go
great is the demand; but l got some
elsewhere. 1t has restored both of us
to good health, and we are duly CRATE
ful. Yours. J. p. MAGET.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23

Loudly in it's Praise.
TORONTO, Om., March 8, $780,
Dear S.r-Consideriug the short time that VEGE.
TINE has been before the public hero, It sells well
as blood purifier, and for troubles arising from
sluggish or torpid Aver it is rs-class medicine.
Our customers speak loudly in its praise.
J. WRIGHT Il CO.,
Cor. Queen and Elizabeth Streets.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
Vegetine.
More to Me than Cold.

wALponE, Mass, March 7, 1880.
Mn. II. r. STEVENS: ....,. has dous
wish TO inform you what vEeETNs s,ocls. mas oy.s
for me I have been troubled with Erysipeiss,
Hnmor for more than thirty years, IN my limbs anu
other parts of my body, and have been gres. su,
ferer commenced taking VEaET1NE one year ~ ~
last August and can truly say il has done more III
me than any other medcinr. seem to be perieeoS.- =
" free from this humor and eau recommena !. ~
every one Would not be without TINS mvuloi m,v,,a /.
tits more TO me than gold aud feel IL VIII Pro''
blessing to others as il has to me.
Yours most respectfully,
Mas. DAVID CLARK.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
For Catarrh,

Hay Fever, Cold in the
Head, etc, insert with
little finger a particle OF
the Balm into the nos
tri,s; draw stron9
brcaths through the
nose. II will he absorb
ed, cleansing and heal
ing the diseased mem
brane.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
j. BENTLEY, M. D., says:

1t has done more good than a"
Medical Treatment.
NEWMARKET, Ont, Feb. 0, 1SSO.
Mr.. ii. II. STEVENS, Boston, Mass:
Sir-l have sold dui ing the pi at year consider
sole quantity of your VEGETINE, aud believe IN
all cases it has given satisfaction. In one case,
dellcate young lady of about seventeen years was
much benefited by it's use. Her par nis informed
me that 1t had done her more good than all the
medical treatment to which she had previously
been SUI jected
Yours respectfully,
]. BENTLEY, NJ. d.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
Grand Medal III HNHU tHt "a Silver Medal
Philadelphia N GnAEIElB WIN at Paris
Exposition AsHsAA&AvA Exposition.

This wonderful substance 10 acknowledged by physi-
clans throughout the world to be the best remedy dis
covered for the cure OF Wounds Burns, Rheumatism.
that every one may try it. it put up in Ic and .5 cent
bottles for household Obtain II from your druggist
ussd-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
Republican Manual !
ON 80 DAYS TRIAL.

We will send ElectrO-Votaie Belts and oths,
Electric Appliances upon trial for 80 days to those aictol
with Nervous Debility aud diseases a persosn Aats
Also OF the Liver kidneys, Rheumatsnl Paralysis ks
a guaranteed or no pug.
Address SoItatc Belt lO,, Marshall, Mich,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-23
For Deafness,
There is a Balm in Gilead,

4 Occasionally apply q
! particle into and back
II the car, rubbing in
4 IL
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30
Everyday HerOism.

ONE of the Life-Saving Stations on
the California coast has been officially
named the "Maggy Geddes." A little
girl of that name in San Antonio, aged
nine years, seeing a playmate fall into
a mill-race, leaped in, and, with great
skill and GOODNESS and after desperate
struggle, succeeded in swimming with
her ashore.
Another little girl, a year younger,
in one of our New England towns,
sprang into the river a few days ago
and rescued her baby brother from
drowning, carrying him in her arms
through the swift current, which
reached her chin.
Now it was graceful act of recogni-
tiOn to real herOism for the Govern
ment to give the name of little Maggy
Geddes to a life-saving station, and it
is right that these little heroines should
be held up as examples of unselfish de-
vOtiOn to other girls and boys; always
provided that the right lesson is drawn
from their story.
Not many men, and very few chill
dren, ever have the chance to save an
other life at the risk of their own.
Such supreme opportunities come but
seldom. But every child should re-
member that just as much unselfsh-
ness, devotion and cool presence of
mind can be shown in the little inces-
SAINT matters Of every day as 60 to make
up some one great heroic deed.
In Gods eye, it is not the size nor
the dramatic effect of the action which
counts, but its motive.
Many young girl patiently bearing
for years the cares Of a disorganized
household, or the peevishness OF an in
valid parent, or brother or sister; many
boy; bringing indomitable cheerful
ness and love to the help Of his tired
mOther-is entitled to more admiration
and respect, and is just as heroic, as if
in a spasmodic passion of courage they
had mOmentarily faced death for those
they loved.-Y YoutFS Companion.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30
Our Young Folks.
JAMLE. ~ qENTLEMAM


THnnr'ga denr little tcn-yoar-old down tho
street,
With eyes 40 merry and smile 10 sweet
j love 70 stay him whenever we meet:
And ! call him Jamie, the gentleman.
His home "a Of poverty. gloomy and bare,
His mother is old with want and onre-
There's little 20 eat and little 20 wear
in the home Of jamie, the gentlemen.
old,
No dismal winnings at hunger or cold;
For q cheerful heart that "a better than R0ld
Has brave little jamie, the gentiemah.
His standing at school "a always ten
y FOR dilgcnt boys make wise, great men.
Ana I'm bound 70 BE- famous some day, and
Proudly says Jamie, the gentleman,
- Ny mother shall rest her on cushions Of
down,
The finest lady IN All the town,
And wear n velvet aud satin GOWN
Thus dreams jamie, tho gentleman.
" Trust eyer in God,' and Be brave and
true
Jamie has chosen these pfecepts two:
Glorious notices for me and for you;
May God bless jamie. the Rentlemani
-lhobci 9, DOtcd, fn FiiC AtCdilc.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30
What Saved Him.

DURING the " hard winter {" of 1877,
when $4,000 unemployed wOrkmen
haunted the streets of New York, driven
TO beggary, or too often theft, man
rang at the door-bell of a house in one
of our large cities, and asked for some
thing to eat. He told a glib story of
his discharge from wooden mill. and
said he had q wife starving not far
away.
The mistress of the house made it a
rule not to give aims that winter, ex-
cept after personal examination of the
case of each applicant.
She went to the kitchen and ordered
substantial meal set before the man,
who ate ravenously. He was a young,
honest-looking fellow, but there were
heavy marks of dissipation on his face.
Suddenly he dropped his knife and fork
and sat staring at the door.
"Who's thatP" he cried. "Johnny,
Johnnyl"
The lady's little child, girl of three,
had followed her from the nursery, and
stood in her white gown in the doorway,
her fair curls tumbling over her face.
The tramp recovered himself with a
coarse laugh.
al beg your pardon" he said. 3" It's
your child, of course. II haven't seen
a child for a long time"
But his food seemed to choke him. In
a few moments he started up again in
agitation and said:
'' Madam, l am not a workman. 1
am Jim Floyd, and 1 was discharged
yesterday from Moyamensing Prison
where had served out a sentence for
burglary. was once decent man. 1
left my wife and my old mother up in
Pottsville, and my baby"
While he spoke his eyes were fixed
on the child with terrible hunger in
them.
"Little one," he said, holding out his
hands with a pitiful entreaty, shake
hands with me, won't youP I wouldn't
hurt hair of your head,r
The mothers heart gave a throb. The
man was foully dirty, just out of prison,
full perhaps of disease.
But the baby (surely God sent it) ran
forward smiling With both hands out,
Jim kneeled down beside it, the tears
rolling down his cheeks. 90 II is so like
Johnnyl" he muttered. Z" 1t is so like
Johnnyi"
4" You'll go back to Johnny and your
wife and your old motherPn said the
lady.
He would make no nopromise. "It's too
late to make a decent man of me-" he
said, and presently putting on his old
cap, he went out.
Six months later the lady received an
ill-spelled letter from PottsYille. al am
at work here,' it said. "That night
had planned to join the boys, but your
little girl saved me. 1 came home in
stead. 1t wasn't too late. MeadUille
(Pa.) Reporter.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30
Beavers COasting.

ONE of my friends in Iowa sends
word that when her brother-now a
General in the United States Army
was a boy, he was very fond of hunt
ing, and great favorit with the grown
up hunters. One of these took him on
a bright moonlight night in winter to
see a strange sight.
The pair crept through the cold,
clear air to the home of some beavers.
At the dam which the beavers had
built, the moon was reflected from the
ice with great glare, and, in this
light, the lookers-on saw the. beavers
have a splendid game of coasting down
"a long slide, from the top of the dam
to the ice-cOvered stream below. The
old beavers gave the young ones rides
on their broad, flat tails; all slid down
rs gravely as judges, and then climbeduP
to have another. They kept it up until
one of the watchers sneezed. At this,
the beaver sentinels sounded the alarm,
and then all was still--eXcepting that
the lOokers-on went away laughing
heartily at what they had seen.-St.
Nicholas.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30
THE TURN OF AN ACCIDENT.

IT was six O'Clock Of a crisp October
morning, and John Boyd, farmer, rous-
ing from his sound nights sleep, sprang
out of bed with the alert readiness of a
man who knows the value of the first
hours of the day. 1t was q tavern bed
from which he jumped; home and its
cares were many miles away; but a
long ride lay before him, and he washed
and dressed briskly, as one in haste,
humming a cheerful air meanwhile, as
became a man who felt himself in good
spirits, and had ample reason for being
so. For, be it known, this year had
proved the best for farmers since John
had been his own master. Harvests
had been large, prices high, and John,
on his way back from the annual mar
ket, carried a sense of freedom and lib
Grafton at his heart from the final ex-
tinguishment of a mortgage on his farm
"a mortgage which had pressed as
heavily on his conscience as did the
burden of Christian on his shoulders.
The burden was lifted now; and, fur
ther than that, John carried in his fat
red wallet two hundred dollars, over
and above, toward the expenses of the
next year. He had never been so fore
handed" before, and the sensation was
a joyful one. "My neck is out of the
collar pow,n he muttered TO himself as
he brushed his thick brown hair. 81
should be a fool indeed If 1 put it in
again. No more mortgages for mel"
Then, his toilette completed, he ran
down stairs, two steps at a time.
Farmer-like, his first visit was to his
horses. They were munching their corn
satisfactorily; and after a look or two,
and pat, John returned to the inn,
where jangling bell announced break
fast. 1t was smoking on the table-a
substantial meal of the kind universal
in taverps thirty years ago; and John
Boyd, Sc appetite was Of the kind
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30

FATHER MCNAMARA, who is en-
deavoring to establish an Independent
Catholic Church in Brooklyn, has pc
cuiar ideas regarding fit religious
tunes. He has hymns sung to the
4" Wearing of the Green and 1.-THE
Exile of Erin" One of the Psalms Of
David is set to Yankee Doodle" and
another (the Twenty-sixth Psalm) is
sung to the tune of Paddles Foreyer,n
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-30

Long, long ere russet nature weaves
Her meshes green of vernm leaves
In orchards bare ] sing again
MY eve song sweet, my old refrain,
Which used in forest days 70 bless
At sunsets hour the wilderness,
While frogs are piping I'm the marsh
Their qneruluus spring-notes harsh.