The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-04
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

Under the title of Associated Agri-
culturists of Great Britain" company
with capital of a million, in sha1es of
S25, has been formed for joint stock
farming in Great Britain. Each estate
will be under q manager OF local ex-
perience, and the prospectus points to
the fact that the shareholders of farm
in Holland of 1000 acres have for ten
years divided annually ten per cent. The
Duke of Buckingham, an excellent man
of business, and Lords Londonderry
Gary sfort and Heries, are on the council
Curious how people utter confused
ideas when they are in search of par
allels to the attempt ON the Presidents
life. They invariably select kings as
illustrations, as though the President
was king. The nearest parallel cited
is found in English history. John Bell
ingham, tradesman, lost his fortune,
and his mind became disordered. One
of his delusions was that the action of
the government caused his commercial
reverses, and he repeatedly applied to
Mr.. Spencer Peceval, then prime minis
ter, demanding compensation, either in
the form of money or official position.
No notice was taken of his demands,
and one day as Mr.. Perceval passed
through the lobby of the house of COM
mons, Bellingham stepped from behind
a pillar and shot him. He fell dead,
and the assassin quietly gave himself
up to the officers, and in a few days was
tried, found guilty and hanged.
A German physician, DR.. Treichler,
in paper read before the Association
of National Historians and Physicians at
Baden-B Baden, asserts that the present
method OF school instruction is cause
of disease, and is useless, producing
mental confusion. The great objects of
school education are intellectual disci-
pline and the awakening of a desire to
continue the cultivation of; the mind,
and these, he says, are almost entirely
frustrated. Habitual headache has in
creased among both boys and girls, and
this headache not only destroys much
of the happiness and cheerfulness of
life, but produces impoverishment of
the blood and loss of intellectual tone,
and reduces many highly gifted child
to the level of discontented drudge.
Undoubtedly, he continues, the prin-
cipal cause of the headache is intel
lectual over-exertion, entailing work at
night, and the insisting by parents on
the too early taking up of a variety of
subjects, music among the rest.
1t is reported that one of the dia
mond mines which were included unde
the celebrated name of Golconda is in
condition to be worked again with
profit, and that the industry which once
made Central India famous is about to
be revived. Near the modern town of
Hyderabad are the ruins of the hill-fort
and city of Golconda where lived three
centuries ago an Independent prince
who ruled vast territory. The dia-
monds were not found in the immediate
neighborhood of his capital, but We're
carried thither from villages in the
Kistna valley to be cut and polished in
its workshops. 1t is not known Just
when this famous industry began to de-
cline, nor why the diamond mines were
finally abandoned. If they had been
exhausted modern enterprise will not be
of much avail, but if, as is possible,
hostile invasions put stop to the work
ing of them, the neighborhood of Col
conda may become a second time fa-
nous.
A correspondent of the Raleigh (N
o. NeaDS and Courier gives a clever
description of the people who live
along the Hatteras banks. He is sure
that most of them must be web-footed,
for water rather than air is the element
in which they live. When they want
the doctor they hang out a red flag as q
sign of distress. If he doesn't come,
because "the wind amt fair, or for any
other reason, they take dram of
whisky and copperas, soak their feet in
sea. water, "turn in and trust to luck.
If they die their bodies are buried on
the top of sand ridge, and when the
visitor sees several sailboats on the
water in procession with flags at half
mast he is looking at a funeral, al
though he may not be aware of it. They
ornament their houses with whales
ribs and jaws, sharks teeth, South
American iariats, war clubs from the
Mozambique islands, Madagascar idols
anu u nululuuue Oh OuQer strange QecOra-
tions. Their hogs are raised on clans,
mussels, offal of fish and garbage, and
their cattle wade out on the shoals for
miles, where the water covers their
backs, to feed on sea grass, and if they
are carried up country and fed on corn
and fodder they will not live. Every
man is captain of some kind of boat,
and "she" is always better than any
other boat in some way. "She is hard
to beat in gale of wind" or "before
the wind" OF Cheating to the windward,"
or with the wind on the BEAM" or " she
can sail closer to the wind" or twill
carry sail longest" or "hard to beat in
a light wind" or "totes more stock" or
is " stronger" OR "dryer," or "she is
big little boat" or draws the least
water" or "needs less ballast, or " "she
is the newest" or "has the best tim
bers," or "steers the best" or "she is
lucky boat" or stands up BETTER" or
"needs less sail than any other boat"
or "she is best for fishing" etc. Per-
haps "she comes about better than any
other boat" She is bound to have some
thing about her better than anybody
else's boat.