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Daily Republican., 1881-12-05
Ann merous Progeny.

VIM. II. Pierce, who died near Rock
Springs, Cecil county, Md, on the ~
ultimo, was in his 10th year, and was
the progenitof of family of eleven
children, eighty-two grandchildren and
fourteen great.grand children-in all
one hundred and ssven persons.
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05
The ptcturo Of Healrh.

That poor, bedridden, invalid wife,
sister, mother or daughter can be made
the picture of b ath by a few bottles
of Hop Bitters. Will you let them
suffer? when so easily cured.
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05
Oystsrs.

Ifyou want to gst the best and fresh :
est oysters in tho market g to Ain
scow's, I'll Shipley street. 20, IS, 80
and 40cts. per quart; and alss Wholesale
and retail.
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05

DR.. Horrick's Iron Compound Gal
banum Plaster, together with all other
kinds of plastsrs, for sale by Beaton
Smith, cor. Seventh and Pine streets.
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05
REDUCTION OF PRICES.
lam selling VIM. Lea d Sons

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routa1at .......'.............,... essS
hl thWOou 49,. ..........ssr.s... SIG
Minnesota Patent .,,ntt,.,,t.,.. 60 to Sia
make a cpec.alty Of selling the bt ,. aeuY
in the market.
Fresh Buckwhaat meal in any quantity
from oue pound to a ton.
VIM. d. PlCKEI.s, 4o7 King street.
oct28-tf
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05
TEErH FOE ALL THE PEOPLk

Beautiful teeth At q, q, 20 and S1oH
Per set. Toeth extracted witAout011i40
pain BY the uSe Of gas. Over thirty Year, q.
pSrispcS, DR. 4ALLA0HIR,
Ne. e9& MAIkDt o4o&k
Daily Republican., 1881-12-05

Wells' Health Renewer, greatest
remedy On earth for impotence, leannsss,
sexual debility, &c. 81 at druggists
Depot, N. B. Danforth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
THE DAIRY.

DURING the season just closed in WIS
consin, at some of the factories, nine
and three-quarter pounds of milk we're
required to make a pound OF cheese
Mr.. GEORGE E. WAXING, Jr., says IL
has come to be an acknowledged fact
that the best results in butter dairylng
cannot be achieved without at least a
very strong admixture of good Jersey
butter; and that the more completely
the Jerseys occupy the farm, the better
will be the result and the greater the
profit.
The foaming of cream in the churn
and the refusal of the butter to come are
due to too low temperature OF the
cream or to too long keeping of it. AT
this season it is most likely to be from
the low temperature, and it can be rem
died by pouring into the churn sufficient
warm water to raise the cream to sixty
five degrees.
In Central New York hay is selling
at eighteen to twenty dollars per ton,
and dairymen are selling off large num-
bers of their cows. The Utica Herald
advises them not to sell too close, as
COWS will be worth a great deal more
in the spring than they are now and
predicts that the make of dairy products
next season will be considerably re-
duced
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
A Street.Car Scene,

AN amusing incident occurred on
ss.sIeet-car the other day. A woman of
my made up to look about twenty-five
years old, got aboard at crossing to
ma every seat occupied She stood for
q moment and then selecting a poorly
dressed man about forty-fve years of
age, she observed:
Are there no gentlemen on this carp"
Indeed, l Dunno he replied as he
looked up and down. "If there amt,
ana your going clear through, IN hunt
up one for you at the other end of the
1here was an embarrassing silence
for moment and then a light broke in
on MN all of a sudden and he arose and
said:
You can have this seat, madam.
am ailus perfectly willing to stand up
ana give my seat to anybody older than
That decided her. She gave him a
look which he will not forget to his
dying day, and, grabbing the strap, she
refused to sit down, even when five
seats had become vacant.-M Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
Public Water Supply and Sewer
System.

A VERY good point is made by the
Sanitary Engineer in its last issue re-
garding the dangerous condition in
which those towns are placed which
have public water supply, but no sewers.
Bad as is the state of thickly settled
district in which the ground is honey
combed with vaults and cespools, the
earth pollution is comparatively circum-
scribed and trif1ing until the vast in
crease of liquid waste occasioned by the
general use of aqueduct water comes to
dilute the foul household matters, and
give them power to penetrate far into
the earth. No principle of sanitary
engineering is better established than
the rule that unless a sewer system soon
follows the introduction of water service
in a town, marked deterioration in the
healthfulness of that town is sure to re-
suit, manifested not alone by the in
crease of the strictly zymotic diseases,
but also in malarial affections, which
depend perhaps as much upon the
dampness, caused by the saturation of
the soil, as on the character of the satu-
rating liquid. In several of the more
intelligent communities this subject is
now exciting much attention, but the
cost of sewer system, added to the
"water debt" with which the towns are
already saddled, is SO great as to deter
all but the most energetic of the citizens.
This cost might, however, it seem to us,
be brought within comparatively mod
crate limits by the adoption of the sys-
tenn carried out with such signal econo-
my and success in Memphis by Colonel
Waring. of collecting house-wastes only
in network of small pipes, leaving
surface waters, which form the great
bulk of the contents of ordinary sewers,
to be disposed of in open cutters or
otherwise, as circumstances might indi-
cate. The collection and disposal Of
house-drainage only would be a simple
problem, easily and cheaply solved in a
way which could secure community at
once from filth or malaria poison, If it
were not attempted to carry off the rain
fall also in the same conduits.-ADaert-
can Architect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
[Chicago Jollrnal.l

a CHtcitHO bFOker7s Happy InVestment.
Lewis IL. OConor, Esq, whose Office is
located at SO Washington street, this city,
lately related the following in the hearing of
one of our reporters as an evidence of special
good fortune. have been suffering, said Mr..
O'Conor, for number of weeks with a very
severe pain in my back, believed to be from
the effects of a cold contracted while on the
lakes. had been prescribed for by several
O. our physicians and used various remedies.
Three days ago | abandoned them all, and
bought bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, applied it
at night before retiring and to-day feel like
a new man. l experienced almost instant
relief and now feel no pain whatever
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

He stood, bronzed and battered form.
Within an old embrasure warm,
And leaned upon cannon old,
Half sunken in the fragrant mold;
Then, turning from the rusty gun,
With help of crutch he tottered on.
A sweet girl-face looked up at him,
And sweet eyes scanned his aspect grim,
And sweet voice said, in quaver low,
20, gallant warrior, do not go,
But tell me-tell me where you fought
And where these fearful wounds were wrought
Vert smitten in the furious tide
That drenched in blood the bastion's side?
Or fought upon the slippery deck
And sang defiance from the wreck?
Or waved the starry banner high,
Bravely resolved to do or die?"
:" Hold on, young gal!'' the veteran said;
!" am whitewasher by trade;
never fit; this trouble is
Iniammatory rheumatizl'
-AndretD'S Queen
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

A BRIDE Of few weeks duration went to
market the other day and, seeing some large
was struck with the idea of having them for
dinner. "Id like these fishes if you haven't
any smelts," she said mildly to the man; and
when told they were not to eat, but for pets,
she declared it was a shame for they would
have looked so nice on her Nankin blue
china.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

ITO sum it up, six long years of bed-rid-
den sickness, costing 500 per year; total,
$l,2o0-al of this expense was stopped by
three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my
wife. She has done her own housework for
year since, without the loss of a day, and
l want everybody to knowit for their benefit Z"
~ r. Farmer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

The little Prince of Cumberland,
Princess Thyra's son and Alexandra
nephew, has just been baptized, receiv-
ing ten Christian names-George Will
lam Christian Albert Edward Alexander
Frederick Waldemar Ernest Adolf.
Among his sponsors were the Prince OF
VIshass the Duke of Cambridge, the
Kings of Denmark and Greece, the
Duke of Brunswick and the Czarowitch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

CHARLES w. ROWLAND, of Alexandria,
Va, has a small gold watch, about as large
around as silver quarter, OF an antique pat
tern, which it is said undoubtedly belonged
either to General Washington or his wife.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

Nor to be outdone by Vesuvius and Mauna
Loa, Mount Baker, in Washington Territory,
has gone into the volcanic business. Several
eruptions have occurred lately, accompanied
by shocks of earthquake.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
cleveland Penny Press.l


Among the most wonderful articles of the
period is st. Jacobs Oil. The Hon. Leonard
SWEET, of Chicago, pronounces it the most
thorough conqueror of pain that he has ever
known.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

The Rochester Express man has been ex-
perimenting, and gives notice that "cider has
now attained that stage of fermenta ton when
it can no longer be looked upon with safety
as vermifuge by total abstainers."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

MISS ADDIE SMITHURsT, a young lady in
modest circumstances, residing in Raleigh,
N. G., is reported to have a legacy of $780,
900 from an aunt in Europe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

THE regular Frazer Axle Grease saves mon
ey for the consumer. The ligh; colored or
yellow loosens the spokes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

=" My sermon shall stand on desc
three pints," said a colored preacher
not many Sundays ago: Z" 1, the ex-
poundin'; 2, the enlargin'; and 3, the
arOusin'.' y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

A TELEPHONE company has been in
corporated in New York to establish
communication between the different
cities of that State.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

THE late astronomer, Prof. Watson, had a
remarkable memory. When an undergradu-
ate he used to memorize long passages of the
Greek and Latin authors, which he some
times in after years repeated to his friends
with complete accuracy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
stood, a bronzed and battered form.

WILLIAM WINTER writes very beautiful
spring poetry.-N. o. Picayune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

PARSONS INDELIBLE INK is the best for
marking linen. Sample will be sent post paid
for Soc. BY F. II. Stoddard, Northampton, Mass.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

SOME women are like shotguns. They would
attract no attention if it were not for their
hapuc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

arrested citizen, could only plead to the
Court in Justification that he had made faces
al
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

REDDING's RUSSIA SALvE meets with won-
derful success in all cases of skin diseases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

KID gloves are now worn to come up
and completely cover the elbow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

Skates are going up-while the
skater comes down.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
COurtship at n Long Range.

A comical matter has been made pub
lie in Montreal by some legal proceed
ings. A retired major of the British
army had four daughters who moved in
good society in that city. They all en-
tered into correspondence with re-
tired clergyman of London, whose mind
was somewhat enfeebled, but who en-
ioyed an income of S15, 1000. The let
ters became sentimental all round, and
at length the man proposed marriage.
But which of the four should he take
He had never seen any of them, and it
was arranged that each of them should
send a photograph to guide him in his
choice. Now, the Oldest was widow
of forty-five, and therefore the younger
and prettier ones were astounded when
the decision was promptly announced
that their sister was to be the bride.
The truth was that she had employed
an artist to remove the hard lines and
otherwise beautify the picture. But
this trick did not help her. When she
went to London and presented herself
to the clergyman he could see no like.
ness between her and the fraudulent
portrait, and refused to marry her. He
gave her 81, 600, howavar. ond she wont
home. But she does not consider that
sum a sufficient compensation, and has
sued for damages.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
HEALTH HINTS.

Try popcorn for nausea.
/, Try cranberries for malaria.
Try q sunbath for rheumatism.
Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
Try clam broth for weak stomach.
Try cranberry poultice for erysipe las
Try eating fresh radishes and yellow
turnips for gravel. .....
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sour stomach.
Try a wet towel to the back of the
ueck when sleepless. E.
Try buttermilk for removal of freck es,
tan and butternut stains.
Fry eating onions and horseradish to
relieve dropsical swellings.
Try to cultivate an equable temper
aud don't borrow trouble ahead.
Try hot dry flannel over the seat of
neuralgia pain and renew frequently.
Try taking your codliver oil in tomato
catsup, if You want to make it palat-
able.
Try breathing the fumes OF turpentine
or carbolic acid to relieve whooping
cough.
Try taking nap in the afternoon il
you are going to be out late in the
evening.
Try cloth wrung out from cold
water put about the neck at night fol
sore throat. Foote's Hedkh Monthly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
Threatened Famine in Asia Minor.

Asia Minor is threatened with a repe-
tition of the terrible famine of 1874.
Locusts, drought, depopulation, mis-
government, have wrought their effects.
This years crops have almost universally
failed. The district of Angora again ap.
pears to have suffered the most severely,
and the unfortunate inhabitants are al
ready beginning to emigrate en- masse
in search of food, lest winter SHOWS and
swollen streams should cut off their,
communication with the outer world,
and they should again find themselves
pent up in their mountain homes, with.
out chance CT escape, and reduced to
the same fearful flight which seven
years ago caused fathers and mothers to
sell their children for handful of corn.
The government is, of course, too much
engrossed with Egyptian intrigues to
take any useful measures against the
impending calamity. All that has been
done hitherto is to suspend the export
of grain from the famine districts. AS
the population is too poor to buy, the
merchants are Obliged to sell at mock
prices to the authorities, who lock up
the grain in the government storehouses
until they find some opportunity Of
driving good bargain. 1t is an i'll
wind which blows nobody luck, and a
famine is not without its redeeming
points in the eyes of Turkish function
aries.-PGH Mall Gasete.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
THANKSGIVING Day.


Thanksgiving day was instituted by
the Pilgrim Fathers" at Plymouth, as
day for. devout public services of
prayer and thanksgiving for the bounti-
ful crops gathered at their first harvest
in 1871. They had landed on the bleak
shores OF Plymouth bay in the Decem-
Der previous, and had passed o winter
OF extraordinary suffering. In poverty,
In a strange land, homeless, friendless,
except that One cared for them, they
struggled manfully through that first
terrible winter, and when spring smiled
upon them, trusting in God, they put
their first seed into the ground.
Most of this seed was Indian corn,
which they discovered buried in the
sand-enough to plant twenty acres;
found that God had abundantly re-
warded the first labor of their hands.
After they had finished the work of the
harvest, and the hunters had secured q
large supply of wild fowl and deer fer
the feast, these sober, God. fearing men,
with their wives and little ones, gath
cred to give thanks for and rejoice in
the fruit of their labors. Thus, in the
expression Of gratitude to God, and in
the exercise of kindness and hospitality,
was passed the first Thanksgiving day
the harvest-festival of New England,
Occasional days of thanksgiving were
held from then until 1850, when it was
made the annual custom in Massachu-
setts, and early became the most prom
inent holiday in New England, 1t was
occasionally observed in the other colo.
MES, at different seasons, and for various
reasons, as for the safe arrival of ships
after dangerous voyage, or for victory
over the Indians. Thanksgiving day
was national inst;t--t;o-, tl,-a- Oh e-'t
the Revolutionary war; but there was
no national appointment after the gen.
eral thanksgiving for peace in 1854,
until President Washington recon-
mended one in 1889, for the adoption
of the constitution. There was also an
official appointment for national thanks
giving in 1895 for the suppression OF
an insurrection, and in 1915 for the
successful termination of the war with
Great Britain.
But the day did not become one Of
annual national observance until neal
the close of the war, when President
Lincoln issued proclamations for days
of special thanksgiving for victories,
and recommended the annual observ.
ance of the dav.-Erchdnge.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Phosphorus was accidentally discov-
cred in 1863, by Brant, while engaged
in the process of transmutation. On
account of its scarcity it was first sold
for its weight in gold.
Some fine carvings in ivory discovered
atNinevah, and showing signs Of crumb-
ling on arriving in England Professor
Owen concluded the decay to be caused
by loss of albumen in the ivory and
therefore boiled the articles in solu.
ton of albumen. The experiment was
success and the ivory became as firm
and solid as when first entombed.
1t is found that 2,0S2 cubic feet of
fresh air per head must be supplied
every hour, so to dilute the products of
respiration from the healthy human
body as to keep the air always pure
and fresh to a degree of wholesome
ness. In mines, to keep up the physi-
cal health of the laborers, it has been
determined that 6,000 feet are requisite
per hour.
The earliest attempt to obtain light
by incandescence in vacuum was made
by King, in 1S43, who applied con-
tinuous metallic and carbon conductors,
and heated them by the electric current
in Torricellian vacuum. He was fol-
lowed in 1S4S by Static, who used an
iridium, or an iridium and platinum
wire, and enve!oped the holder in glass
or some other non-conductor. In 1872
Konn employed graphite and rendered
it incandescent in an atmosphere OF
nitrogen, in which there was no wasting
away of the carbon. The same prin.
ciples have been followed, but with
greater promise of success, in the more
recent attempts of Edison, Maxim and
Swan at producing illumination by
means of incandescence.
Some recent experiments by Herr
Stebler show that the views held by
some botanists that light has no direct
effect on termination must be modi.
fed. He finds that the germina.
tion of certain agricultural grasses,
such as meadow grass, is much more
favored by light than by heat
An experiment made with two
groups, of 400 seeds each, showed that
there terminated sixty-two per cent. in
light and three per cent. in darkness
Similar results were made with some
other grass, showing tifty-nine per cent
terminating in light and seven per cent
in darkness. Sunlight being very
variable force, experiments were further
made with gaslight, aud with the same
result, viz, that light favors the germi-
nation of certain seeds, especially grass,
and that these germinate either not al
all, or very scantily, in darkness. The
fact was verified by Herr Stebler in
whole series of seeds. In the case Of
seeds that germinate quickly and early,
such as clover, beans or peas, Herr
Stebler thinks that light is probably
not advantageous.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

The following description of the fairy
vessel represented on this page is from the
Cincinnati Commercial: The.hull is of the
finest selected white oak, braccd, bolted
and riveted i'll the most sllillful and work.
manlike manner, and is GA feet in length,
IA feet breadth of beam, 2l feet depth OF
hold, and draws twenty inches Of water,
She carries atubular boil er, and two beauti-
full little engines, made expressly for her,
by the Ohio Machine Co., Middleport, o.
The dining-room is situated between the
boiler and engine rooms, and is artistically
grained, with frescocd ceiling. 1t is fur
nished in the Queen Anne style, and the
silver, china and table linen are of the finest
character. The pilot-house, cabin, main
salon and Captains Office are on the saloon
deck and are luxurious in their furnishing