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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
AhnnI the Hair

The cause of gray hair is the destruc
I on of the top Of the papill@. or life and
col ,r-eiving bulbs at the root of the
hair. Not only old age, but nervous de-
biiity or exhaustion arising from over
work or dissipation, will cause the
color of the hair to cease, and there are
many instances on record Of the hair
being turned suddenly white by a
1reat shock to the nervous system,
among the best known being that of the
unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette.
Tt has also been stated that hair will
sometimes resume its original color
again, as in the famous case of Naga-
relia. Nazarelia. a man los years old,
was, in l774, at Vienna, presented by
nature with q new set of teeth and a
est ,ratiou of the black hair of his
youth; also Sir John Sinclair, Scotch
man. dying at ITO, rejoiced in youth
full headvf hair during the latter years
of his life. Variegated hair which
is alternately banded black and white, is
noted among the hirsute curiosities of
nature, and green and blue hair have
been described by some authorities; but
these colors owe their production to the
influence of surroundings in which their
subjects live, the green hair belonging
to those who work in copper mines, and
blue to those whose occupation Is cobalt
mining. Workers in indigo also have
blue hair. In Tlipoli and Turkey the
ladies paint the hair of their children a
vermilion color.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
Words OF Wisdom,

Reason and virtue alone can bestow
liberty.
The last man to correct q mistake is
the man who commits it.
True merit, like river, the deeper il
is the less noise it makes.
He who stops to pick flaw in others
knitting work drops many stitches in
his own.
Let him who regrets the loss of tim
make proper use of that which is to
come in the future.
Rich attire is the vest of pride. The
worst apparel is natures garment; the
best but folly's garnish.
A generous man will place the benefits
he confers beneath his feet; those he re-
ceives, nearest his heart.
We may do a very good action and
not be good man. but we cannot do a
very i'll one and not be an ill man.
II you wish to appear agreeable in
society, YOU must consent to be taught
many things which you know already.
He who truly wishes the happiness
of any one, cannot be long without dis
covering some mode of contributing to
it.
1t is better to wear out than to rust
out. We must not only strike the iron
while it is hot, but strike till it is made
hot.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
How the Iadies F;sb

lpere are generally about six of them
ma punch, with light dresses on, and
Ihey nave three poles with as many
hooss and lines AMONG them. As soon
as t1ey get 10 the river, they look Tor a
gnou place to get down on the bank, and
tne most venturesome one sticks her
boot heels in the bank and makes two
careiuI steps down-then suddenly finds
herset at the bottom, with both hands
IN me water. and feeling that everybody
IN TINS wide world is looking at her, and
she never tells anybody how she got
there. Ihe other girls, profiting by her
eSample, turn around and go down the
hahk on their hands and toes, back.
ward. Then they scamper over the riffs
unli they find 9 shallow place where
they can see the fish, and shout:
"Oh! see one !"
"Where p;'
"There !"
"Oh, my so he is"
"L-Cs catch him.,
Who's rot the bait P"
pole - " ''s VII ''S
All these exclamations are gotten off
in tone that awakens every echo
within mile around, and sends every
hsh that hears it into galloping hys.
terics: Then the girls by superhuman
exertions manage to get worm on the
nook and throw 1t in with a splash like
the launching OF washtub, and await
tile result. After while p feeble.
minded sunfish contrives to get fastened
on me hook OF a feeble woman, and she
gives vent to her tongue.
on, something has got my hookm
full up, you little idiot!" shouts
live excited voices. and poles and hooks
are dropped and they run to the rescu :.
The girl with the bait gives spasmodic
jerk, which sends the unfortunate
sunny" into the air the full length of
the line, and comes down on the nearest
curly head with n damp fiop that sets
ner 70 clawing rs though there were
Dumble-bees in her hair.
Oh, murder, take it away! Ugh,
take 1t away, the nasty thing!'
linen they hold up their skirts and
gather round the fish as it skips over
the logs, one all the time holding the
llne IN both hands with her foot on the
pole,, as though she had an evil dis
il over.
How will it get OFF,"
Amt it pretty?"
Wonder if it amt drypn
Poor little thing; let's put it back. {"
:. -, How will we get the hook from
"Pick it up" says girl, who backs
rapidly out of the circle.
Good gracious, I'm afraid of it.
There! it's opening its mouth at me-"
Just then the "sunny" wriggles off
the hook and disappears between two
logs into the water, and the girls try for
another bite. But the sun comes dowr
and fries the ba, k OF their necks, and
they get three headaches in the party.
ind all get cross and scold at the fish
like. so many magpies. If any unwary
club dares to show himself in the water
they poke at him with poles, much to
his disgust. Finally they get mad oil
over and throw the poles away, hunt
up the lunch basket, climb up into the
woods, where they sit on the grass and
eat enough dried beef, and rusk, and
hard-boiled eggs to give q horse the
nightmare, after which they compare
notes about their beaux until sundown,
when they go home and plant envy in
the hearts Of their dear friends by telling
them what Just splendid time they
hadI"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
His Last Dollar.

The other morning. says the Cars" n
(Nev.) AppeoL, stranger might have
been noticed standing in the rear of the
mint watching an old woman pick up
sticks. She must have been about
eighty years OF age. Her cid calico dress
was full of holes, her face was as wrink-
led as tripe and as brown as leather.
Every time she stopped TO pick up a
stick she was obliged TO do so with a
painful effort. She raked over the dry
leaves with palsied hands and all tue
worthless little pieces went into her
basket. A heap of garbage and ashes
occupied her attention tor some ten
minutes. The man who was watching
her finally walked up behind her and
dropped a dollar into her basket and
then stole away unnoticed. An attache
of the mint, who was near. hailed him
as he passed: - say, did YOU give a
dollar to the old ladyP" "Yes, l did,
although it was about the last had. l
can't bear to see poverty and old age
com bined. had mother once almost
as old as she, and as weak and palsied.
feel for an old woman like that, and
she can have dollar from me, if it's the
last I've got" DO you see that lot
on itP" "Yes." "The houses and lot
belong to her." An expletive was all
the stranger had to offer as he turned
away and walked rapidly up Carson
street. 1t was his last dollar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
Suicides.

The frequency of suicide recalls an
incident connected with the first
Napoleon. On one occasion a soldier oi
the consular guard committed snicide
from a disappointment in love, when
Napoleon issued the following order of
the day: "The Grenadier Gobain has
committed suicide from love. He was
ir other respects an excellent soldier.
This is the second incident of the kind
within a month. The first consul
directs to be inserted in the order book
of the guard that a soldier ought to
know how to vanquish the pangs and
melancholy of the passions; that there
is as much true courage in bearing up
against mental sufferings with con-
stancy as in remaining firm on the walls
of battery. To yield ourselves to
grief without resistance, or to kill our
Sc yes to escape affi ction, is TO abandon
the field of battle before the victory is
gained" The exposure of the bodies of
suicides to public gaze in France, il is
said, had powerful effect in diminish.
ing the number of cases.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
A Wonderful Decade.

1t is not too much to say that no great
invention which had rot its beginning
in the decade of i6i0-1S50 has appeared
in the past thirty years. In that period
occurred the most signal development
ofthe applications of chemistry to manu-.
features and agriculture; an enormou
expansion of commerce by means Of
railroads and ocean steamships; the
discovery Of ether; and the pei fiction
and diffusion of some of the most pre-
cious contributions ever made to the
welfare OF mankind.
In 1885 only 964 miles of railroad had
heen completed IN the United States; in
1910 they had been nearly trebled. 2 sls ;
in lS45 they had been nearly quadruple" ,
3,76S. In lS45 Bosten was connect ed
with, Worcester, and Baltimore with
Washington; from Philadelphia the
traveller could go no farther West bv
rail than the Suscpehanna at Columbia.
In 1889 Ericsson brought over the pr e.
heller to these hospitable shores. Ia
1910 the Cunard line of ocean steamers
was es'ab ished. but for time only
"side wheeers " were tolerated. The
first regular ship, the Britannia, reached
Boston after trip of fourteen days and
eight hours.
Morse's telegraph, after vain offers on
both sides of the Atlantic, was at last
subsidized by our own government, and
in 1914 communication was opened be-
tween Baltimore and Washington.
"What hath God wrought" signaied
Morse at the capital to Alfred Vail at
Baltimore. The news dispatches to the
press by cicero telegraph" or by
magnetic telegraph" were meager,
while public patronage was so timid
that the wits of rhe day made fun of a
delighted father in Baltimore who
wired" the news of the birth of a
grandson TO postoffice official at the
capital" as ii the mail were too slow :"
at twenty miles an hour.
In April, 1910, Goodyear was in the
debtors prison Ga lodging almost as
familiar to him as his own home) in
Boston. He had the year before found
the clew to the vulcanizing of rubber,
out the process was not reduced to a
certaintv till 1874 At about The same
time (l9i5-47) the Mccormick reaper
was confirming the independence of the
new world of the old as q granary. As
late as 1885, 3S wheat had been imported
into the United States from Portugal
and the Baltic.
The sewing machine devised by Elias
Howe in lS43 was patented in ls46, but
the importance of this invention was
not fully realized for more than dozen
years afterward,
The daugerreotype dates from 1899,
and in 1910 the enterprising Mr. Plumb
began taking likenesses in Boston-with
small success for some months. Five
years later his "galleries" were to be
found not only in that city, but in New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ingt1n. and even Dubuque, Iowa.
s!nad Enay y Jqly Ty "a S the pa.ent WAS was
its impression cylinder" the type re-
volvipg on a circular bed, and print
ing capacity of ten to twenty thousand
impression an hour.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
The Salnmander.

One of TIE most curious animals is
the juacholote, or, as it would. pei haps,
be called by biologists, the saiamandr
The animal abuunds in New Mexico, is
amphibious. ana is generally found in
wet Places, the beds Of creeks, or other
such retreats. The creature resembles
lizard strongly, but with the legs am
tail OF that animal has hsh's body and
head, with tongue which popular
superstition supposes to be capable OF
Transform, alton at the will of its owner
into a boring instrument more pene-
trating than steel gimlet, and which
is used 10 the great suffering of all wood
near ITS habitation. Two long ear-like
appendages are attached to the scaly
head, the whole animal presenting as
repulsiVe an appearance as can well be
imagined. The juacholote is about a
foot in length, but tough stories are
told Especially 10 tendefeet) of the
juacholotes down the Rio Grande,
which grow to the size OF an alligator,
which undermine the foundations of
house s with the aforesaid gimlet tongue,
and have been known to catacOmb
mines in one night, during the absence
oi the workmen, as if diamond drill
hld been at work there. One of the
mcst valuable ore-bodies was uncov-
cred in Grant county mine recently by
the boring OF a juacholote that has ever
been exposed in New Mexico. Mr.. John
Murphy, OF Santa Fe, some time
ago had d pet juacholote which he
trained 10 high point of intelligence,
the animal following him about like
dog, and making his meals entirely from
iquorice root and the bark of cinnamon.
On This diet he Iiuai for nvor a uaor
but finally died from the effects of curl
osity. and perhaps more directly, indi-
Resiion. Seeing bottle OF arsenic on
the shelf, the napless pet, while its
master was behiLd the prescription
counter, bored with It's tongue hole in
the bottle and swallowed the contents
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
News aud Notes for Women.

New York mother has TWENTY-FIVE
children, all girls.
In Cincinnati there are 432 dress
makers, and the young men of the city
are afraid to marry.
A preacher at Chicago advocates the
introduction of lady ushers in church to
make the young men attend.
According to the London Truth the
fashionabl lie age just now is from twenty
Tour 10 thirty. Sweet seventeen is out
OF the running.
An English writer says that the cos.
tune of an English lady in ballroom
at the present day il far more indelicate
than that ofan Indian squaw.
The youngest official in the postoffice
department is the postmistress of Ska
Alaska. She is the fourteen-year-old
daughter of territorial officer located
at the capital OF" our Arctic dom ain. ;
The ladies' brass band, of Albany
Oregon, is composed OF thirteen mem
bers, the foremost young ladies in the
city in social standing and intelliyence.
The instruments used by this band cost
$3.50.
Mrs. Katherine Kahloy, a bride OF
seventee ,enied hei honeymoon Journey
very sorrowtully at Cincinnati, where
her husband stole her fortune of 80 500.
for which he had married her in Ger
many, and ahsconded. He even took
away most OF her trousseau.
One of the chief attractions at a re
cent charity fair in London was the re-
freshment and tobacco bar, where h
beautiful American, Mrs. Chopper.
drew around her large crowds, who
struggled with one another in their
anxiety to be among her first custom
ers.
1t is the ancient custom ofthe Russian
royal family to lay out the bodies of its
members in public state for 2 day OF
two as one of the ceremonies Of roya
funeral, but at the request of the EN-
press who had a horror OF the practice,
this was omitted in her case.
What has become of all the young
women who used to polish boots on the
boulevards of Paris? asks a paper OF
that city. There was a time, and only
six years ago, too, when more female
frotteusos" were to be seen in the
streets of the city than ".frotteurs."
John Degner was shiltless San Fran.
cisco shoemaker. The family larder be.
can entirely empty, and his wife said :
believe you could get work if you
wanted to, and if you don't do it will
commit suicide. Go out. and if YOU
don't come back by six o'clock to tel
me you've got a lob, you'll find me dead
when you do come" He returned a,
seven, and she was dead.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Albert G. Mann, OF Cottage Home, ILL.,, says
&C have been prostra,ed for three or more
years with Kidney Disease, at times was not
able to put on my boots, my wife has often
pulled them on for me. l was not so bad as
that all the time, but l never knew what it
was to be without pain in my back until |
commenced using Hunts Remedy. Since I
commenced to take Hunts Remedy have
been free from all pain, and take pleasure in
Saying that it is tie best medicine that ever
knew for Kidney ind Liver Diseases" Trial
size, IS cents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
Vegetine
Puriiies the Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the Whole System.
IT'S MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alternative, Tonic, Solvent
and Diuretic.

vreEriNr made exclusively from the juices Of care
fully selected bsks roots aud herbs and strongly
centrated that II will cfectnay eradicate from the system
every taint OF Scrofuia, Scrofulous Humor.
Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous HuntUr, ISry-
,ipoins, Salt Ieheun,, syphilitic Diseases,
Cnnker, Fsintness at the stomach. and all
diseases that arise from impure blood. sctstica, i,
IHnsmmatory and Chronic Rheumntism.
Neuralgia, Gout and Spinal omplaints, csn
only be cffectually cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptivc Diseases Of The
Skin, Pustules, Pimplos, BIotches, Bniis
letter, Scaldhead and HiDgworm, vteKrIs,
has never failed 10 effect permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back. Kidney Com.
plants, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Len
corrhoca, arising from internal liberation, AM
uterine diseases and General Debility, vrorrrs,
acts directly upon the Of these complaints In
vsoates and strengthens the whole sen acts upon hC
secreve organs aays Inflammation cures liberation AMI
regulates the bowela
For Cntarrh. Dyspepsia, IIabitueh Cos
Gveness, Palpitn,ion of the Heart, Head
ache, Piles, Nervousness and General
Prostra;ion OF the Nervous System, nc
medicine has ever given such perfect satisfaction the
VEeErSs. II puraes the blood, cleanses all of the
organs and possesses controlling power The
system.
Induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we
know TO prescribe and use It In their own families
In fact VEerTIrE the best remedy yet discovered for
the above diseaseA and Is the only reliable BLoOn
PURIFIER yet placed before the public
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
FOR TIE FAIR SEX.

White is more popular than ever ftr
little folk.
Bue-black cloth is the favorite color
Aor English riding habits.
Dark blue flannel remains the popular
material for seaside suits.
God filigree is the proper iewelrv n
wear with grenadine dresses.
Grass hats with trimming of worsted
embroidery are worn in the country.
Bedticking, plain and unmistakable.
suits. ns
Fichus, which are not so clin cino 90
sscarfs, are much worn at the present
time pN''n'
Mechlin and Breton laces have now
an important part in millinery trim.
ming.
Archery and angling are the popular
outdoor amusements for ladies this
summer.
Double rows of pearls constitute the
iashionable necklace for very young
ladies.
Yellow kid travelling boots and gar
ters to match the dress are among the
late FIR, nch fancies.
Soft sash belts with tasseled ends, and
carelessly tied either in 'front.' at the side
or in the back, are worn.
The shade of hair which Sarah Bern
hardt Is endeavoiing to make fashion
able is a trihe re lder than auburn.
There exists at present an extraordi-
nary demand for bonnets and hats of
rough-and-ready straw braid.
White kid gloves with white lace in
sertlon IN the wrists and stitched with
black are offered for carriage wear.
Dainty garden hats are of shirred
null, the shirring radiating from the
center OF the crown and from the inner
edge of the brim.
A new way of finishing the back of a
basque, is to slash it five or six times.
gather the ends into points and add a
tassal or ball JET.
Sloping shoulders are not in favor in
London just now; the dressmakers Law
padding along the shoulder scam to give
the top square appearance.
Italian straws, in the Tuscan and
Florence braids, are much worn and the
l,eghorn braids are in more conspicuous
notice than they have been before for
years.
Worth has made up several silk hand
kerchief dresses somewhat after the
fashion of Madras ginghams, hence
handkerchief dresses have received
fresh impetus.
; Novelties pertaining to headdress are
bonnets composed entirely or in part of |
narrow straw fringe. Thev have lighl |
and airy effect and are CORRESPONDENCE |
trimmed either with light feathers or |
delicate blossoms. |
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

The American board of commission
ers tor foreign missions maintains. in
various parts of the world, 500 missions
and stations, 1874 American missionaries
and LILO native helpers. They have
IA 675 communican in their churches,
725 students in their theological and
training schools. and a4,0i2 in common
schools.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Music They had been TO the opera and
heard the finest music by the leading talent
They went home to hear the Baby's wild
solo until it was queted with dose Of Dr.
Bulls Baby Syrup, which at once removed
the fiatulence.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Il the Liver IS the gource OF your trouble,
on can find an absCyu,e remedy in DIR. SAM
FoRD's LIVER lNvIenRAToR, the only vegeta.
'lc cathGrtic which ents directly 90 the Liver.
Gur4- all Bilious diseases. For Book address
DA SLNFORp. l62 nrOa,lwav. New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

You can got an elegant lithographic map in
six cools, descriptive OF the great trip across
the American Continent, free, by sending your
address TO j. X, Wood, General Passenger
Agent c., b. & Q. II. II Chicago, III.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Has any paragrapher ever remarked
that Eve was only side issue in the
great human racer Boston Journal of
Commerce.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

The Lord Chancellor of Eng and has
been Sunday school teacher for forty
years, and is not ashamed of his occupa-
tion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

VEGETINE is not stimulating bitters which
creates fictitious appetite, but a gentle tonic
which assists nature to restore the stomach
20 q healthy action.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

There are 2,Ols Conversational al
churches in England. ll9 branch
churches, 1,004 preaching stations and
seventy eight evangelists' stations. In
Wales there are 6l4 Welsh. chur ches,
with thirty-six branches, and seven teen
preaching stations. Scotland has lO6
churches, Ireland thirty, and the isla nds
of the British seas seventeen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

the voltatc Belt Co.. Mursna,i, HIich..
Will send tneir Elec roy Voltaic B,lls 10 the
,fflic ed upon 81 Ia, g trial. See thei, niver-
isement in this paper headed, "On so Days
r,ial ~
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

A tramp in Nevada who consented to
dig few post hollis for dinner, found
1910 worth OF gold bars, which some
gold miner had buried.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

For bites and stings. apply consta ntly
with a soft rag, most freely, spirits o.
hartshorn.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Equally adapted to the feeble or robuet,
male or female, are Malt Blters.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

Rich in muscle-producing material beyond
all other foods and medicines are Malt Bitters.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22

25c. buys n pair oil Lyons Heel Stifrener.
and make buUl ur shoe lust twice rs long.