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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
The SDOnpc Trade.

A correspondent of the Providence
Press, writing from Nassau, Bahamas,
says: A very interesting feature of bust
ness life here is the trade in sponges.
Every day, except Saturday. the dock at
the foot of Parliament street, which is
the recognized mart for this branch of
traffic, is thronged with gentleman buy
ers OF this product of the sea. The
dock, which is some 800 feet long by
thirty wide, is covered with sponges, put
up in strings and arranged in lots, which
are numbered and marked. Mr.. Higgs,
the clerk of the market, having seen
that each lot is duly labeled with its
proper tag, makes out as many sched-
ules of the whole as there are buyers,
and furnishes each with list. Upon
this the gentleman, after a careful ex-
animation of the lots, makes his bids,
and turns in the paper at the close of
the market. The offers are then COM
pared, and the highest bid takes the lot.
The sale is absolute, upon five per cent.
commission, and the amount of business
done in this way is quite large during
the entire season.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
As an illnstrot;on - tbo eno,r,ous IN.

AS an illustration of the enormous in
crease OF the use of opium and morphia
In the United States the following sta.
tlstlcs have a painful interest, aud it
must be remembered that this is no en-
ceptlonal case. In one of our large cit
les, containing twenty-five years ago
population of 81, 900, the sales of opium
and morphia reached $50 pounds and
$40 ounces respectively, or about forty
three grains of opium and three grains Of
morphia yearly for each individual, if the
consumption was averaged. The popu-
lation is now 81, 1000, and $500 pounds
of opium and $500 ounces of morphia
are sold annually. While the popula-
tion has increased ffty-nine per cent.
the sale of opium has increased 800 per
cent, and morphia /, 100, or an average
of 2O6 grains of opium and twenty-four
grains of morphia to every inhab-
liant But there are additional
sales Of from 100000 to 100000
pills of morphia, which would give
us 17O ounces more of the drug. One
fourth of the opium sold is consumed in
its natural state, and three-fourths are
made into opiates, the principal one
being laudanum. The imports of opium
into the United States for the years 1879
and 1880, ehding the thirtieth of June,
were 533, ,451 pounds, valued at 50, 1885,
606
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Household Hints.

Good flour is not tested by its color.
White flour may not be the best. The
test of good flour is the amount of water
it absorbs.
In cooking a fowl, to ascertain
whether it is done, put the skewer into
the breast, and if the breast is tender
the fowl is done.
Outlets and steaks may be fried as
well as broiled, but they must be put in
hot butter or lard. The grease is hot
enough when it throws off blackish
smoke.
To wash red table linen use tepid
water, with little powdered borax
(borax sets the color; wash the linen
separately and quickly, using very little
soap: rinse in tepid water containing a
little boiled starch; hang to dry in the
shade; iron when almost dry.
Single cream is cream that has stood
on the milk for twelve hours. It is
the best for tea and coffee. Double
cream stands on its milk twenty-four
hours, and cream for butter frequently
stands for forty eight hours. Cream
that is to be whipped should not be but
er cream, lest in whipping it change to
butter
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Manuring the Garden.

The cost of manuring a garden plot is
so trifing and the result so satisfactory,
it is matter of wonder that those who
desire fair harvest of fruits or vege-
tables do not treat the soil q little more
literally in this respect. Before get
ting seeds, plants, splittings or cuttings,
get manure. Study the character of the
soil and seek to give it the manure best
calculated to enrich it, and there is
nothing better than well-rotted stable
manure. Let it be we'll worked into
the soil. It is of little use to q gardener
to throw it upon the ground and there
leave it. Let there be as thorough pull
verization as possible and then inter-
mixture of the manure, and the land
will show its gratitude in the results.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

so that only approximate figures can be
given. In general way it may be said
that asparagus will from one ounce of
seed produce 1000 plants and requires
a bed twelve feet square. One quart OF
large pole beans will plant 100 hills,
while the same amount of small ones
give 300 hills. One ounce of beet seed
plants $50 feet of row. One ounce of
cabbage seed produces $500 plants
One ounce of carrot plants $50 feet of
row. One ounce of cucumber is required
for $50 hills. One ounce of lettuce seed
produces about 1000 plants. One
ounce of onion seed is enough for 200
feet of row. One quart of peas will
plant 100 feet of row. One ounce of
radish seed is sufficient for 100 feet of
row. For seventy-fve hills of squash
one ounce of seed is required. One
ounce of tomato seed produces $500
plants and one ounce of watermelon
seed is required for fifty hills.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


In o recent address on the subject of
corn Professor Beal remarked that the
topmost ear was the best for seed. OF
two fields, one planted with seed taken
at random and the other selected in the
field, the latter yielded as much again as
the former. Manure and cultivation
may be thrown away on poor seed. The
best time to cultivate corn is before
planting. A shallow cultivation was
recommended Twenty-three ears of
corn can be produced from one kernel
by proper cultivation and the use of the
best seed as high as twenty-five ears.
Smut is a great damage to corn, and
smutty corn, and smutty corn is very in
furious to cattle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Jackson Daily Patriot.)
HapnY Friends,

Rev. T. NJ. Winburne, Pastor NJ. f.
Church, Mexia, Texas, writes as follows
Several months since I received c
supply of st. Jacobs Oil. Retaining two
bottles, distributed the rest among
friends. 1t is most excellent remedy
for pains and aches of various kinds
especially neuralgia and rheumatic
affections.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

James Butler, Esq, Clerk Of thu
RoxbuIy Carpet Co., Boston, Mass,
employing eight hundred hands, in I!
communication concerning the admir-
able working Of an article introduced
into the factory, says: The famous Ola
German Remedy, st. Jacobs Oil, has
effected several cures among our men
who have been badly hurt in WORKING
in the factory, and they pronounce it {
success every time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
The Wciplit of SOils.

It is impossible to determine the exact
weight of any soil, as it varies according
to its porosity, amount of water con
tanned, the per cent. of sand, gravel,
clay, etc, present. No one handful or
bushel of soil from field is identical
with any or every other like quantity
The following figures are from John
sons " How Crops Feed"
Pounds per cubic feet
Dry sand weighs about ................ 10
Heavy clay weighs about ............. IS
Half sand and clay weighs about. :. .. SO
Rich garden mold weighs about."...... 20
Feat weighs about. ........5o 10 oO
A sandy soil which is spoken of as
"light" is so because worked with
greater ease than the "heavy" clay that
weighs some thirty-fve pounds less per
cubic foot. :" The resistance offered by
soils in tillage is more the result of al
hesiveness than of gravity" The specific
gravity of soil is its weight compared
with the weight of an equal bulk of
water The water is taken as the stand
ard of comparison, and its specific
gravity Tsp. gr.) is called one (1). A
cubic foot of water weighs go 1-2 pounds.
By comparing the weight of various soils
with this their specific gravities are OBJ
tanned. The specific gravity of good
agricultural soils is not far from 2.6S;
that is, such soils are two and sixty
eight hundredths times heavier than
water. A cubic foot of it would weigh
about 167 IL pounds.--American Agyi-
cuhw'ist
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prostration
and all forms Of general debility relieved by
taking NENsMAN's pEPToNIzED BEEF ToNIC the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-maling,
forces generating and life-sustaining properties
is invaluable in all cnleebed conditions, whether
the result Of exhaustion nervous prostration.
ovcrwork or acute disease, particularly ii
resulting from pulmonary complaints Caswell,
Hazard & Co., proprietors, New Work.
Thore is but one way to cure badness, and
that Is by using CAEBoLISE, Il dooiJrilcl extract
OF petroleum, the natural hair grower. As re-
Gently improved, it is The Only dressing for the
hair that cultnrol peoRle will use.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The British consul at Philadelphia
having informed his government that
100000 hogs had died of trichin@, in
one year, and many persons killed by
the same disease, and it appearing that
only 100000 died last year of all dis
eases and only thirteen persons in fifteen
years of trichine, the British minister
at Washington admits that the state
ments of the British consul were eek
aggerated," but not entirely without
foundation. The same, facetiously re-
marks the Detroit Free Press, might be
said of "Esops Fables or the " Arabian
Nights"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Rents in Chicago have advanced fifty
per cent, while in New York the ad-
vance is still greater. Street rents have
quadrupled in many instances, until, as
the Springfield Republican puts it, the
room in which man makes his money
costs more than the house in which he
spends it. Small houses on dirty back
streets cost 81 200 year in New York,
and rooms up four or five flights of
stairs rent for $50 and $40 month.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
The Greatest Discovery of the Age.

For over tllittr- four years
DIR. TOBTASS VENETIAN LININTENT
has been warranted to cure Group. Collie, Spasms,
Diarrhca and Dsentery, taken internally, and Sore
Throat Pains in the Limbs, Chronic rheumatism,
Old Sores, Pimples BlntchCs and Swcllings. extcr.
nalv. and not bottle has been returned many fam.
HES stating they would not he without il even II il
WIS $40 bottlc; Sold By druggists at 95 and so
cents. DcUnt. - MURRAY Street. New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Gnnd fnr Hnhfas

We are pleased to say that our baby was per-
manently cured of a serious protracted irregti-
larity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters
by i.s mother, which at the same time restored
her to perfect health and strength. THE
Parents, University avenue, Rochester N. Y.
See another column.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
A T.a1p1E "isI,

"Oh, how l do wish my skin was as cleal
and soft as yours" said lady to her friend.
friend. Glow - inquired the first lady. "Bv
using Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood
and blooming health. It did il for me, as you
observe"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

Six members of the new United States
Senate are not natives of the United
States-Farley, of California, Fair, ol
Nevada, Jones, of Florida, and Sewell, +,
of New Jersey, were born in Ireland
Jones, OF Nevada, in England, and
Beck, of Kentucky, in Scotland.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The Chinese are said to believe that
the reason why those who read the Bible
become Christians is due to the stupefy-
ing power of the ink, which takes away
his reason and leaves him ready to be-
lieve false doctrines. Warnings against
the purchase of foreign books are fire.
quent in consequence of this superst-
mon.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Here ia the Tcst.

Dizziness, nausea, despondency, iaundice,
loss of appetite, inlamnations, gravel, female
diseases and all trouble3 Of the urinary organs
and bladder are quickly and surely removed by
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The first locomotive entirely con-
structed west of the Mississippi was re-
Gently turned out by the car works at
Topeka, Kansas.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Philosophers say that affairs should always
be conducted with view to the greatest good
of the greatest number. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup has DEMONSTRATED itself 10 beofthe great
est good 10 the greatest number Of sufferers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Bright and positive eolors will not be
in fashion except in small bits to give
dash of brightness to costume.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Every mans work pursued steadily
tends to become an end in itself; and
so bridge over the loveless chasm Of his
life.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The new prohibitory law of Kansas
denies the use of wine at the sacrament,
and renders preachers liable for its use.
1t compels every physician to take an
oath not to prescribe any article into
which alcohol enters unless it is neces-
sary for the health of the patient, and
every druggist to take similar oath not
to put up or sell any such article except
by prescriptions, duly signed, by n
practicing physician. Under this law
no one can buy spirits of camphor,
cologne OF favoring extracts except
upon physicians prescription.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Kind words are bald-headed. They
can never dive.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Peace is far from the minds of the
European powers, if we may judge by
the condition Of things in the immense
Krupp gun works in Germany. These
factories are in a state of feverish
activity. The numerous buildings have
received more additions, the army of
employees has been increased and work
is carried on day and night. The next
country to have an order filled is
Roumania, for which 100 field guns,
with complete accouterments, have been
in process of manufacture. Greece will
come next with 700 field pieces, COM
pletely equipped. Next in order is
Sweden, with fifty field guns, Holland
with 120, and Italy with 400 siege
guns.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

There are 10000 opium eaters in ST..
Louis and $4,000 in Chicago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The advocates of cremation, as an
economical and sanitary mode of dis
posing of the dead, appear to be in
creasing in number aud confidence. 1t
is now proposed to establish crema-
tory in Brooklyn, gentleman having
rendered a plat of land there for that
purpose. Steps have been taken to or
ganize a society for the construction and
operation of the crematory, with an as
sociated society for collecting, collating
and publishing information in relation
to cremation and its advantages. 1t is
expected that the expense OF cremation
may ultimately be reduced as low as five
dollars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Al Alb As TINE !.
RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA,

No other preparation has cured so many cases o.
these distressing complaints rs Ponds Extract,
Ponds Extract Plaster Us centsl is invaluable IL
these diseases, Lumbaco Pains in Back or Side etc
Ponds Extract Ointment $50 centsl for use when
removal OF clothing is inconyenient is great helr
in relieving inf&mmatory cases. Sold by all drug.
gists.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The american Register, Of Paris,
boasts, and not without reason, adds
the English journal, Land and Water,
of the slow but sure manner in which
American goods are forcing their way
into and successfully competing in all
foreign markets with European manu-
factures. "Olr cotton goods, both
heavy and fine, are rapidly taking the
place of English. Our printing and
wrapping paper is finding ready sale
in the East and West Indies, while
even bank note and bond paper is in de-
mand in Italy, Austria and Spain.
American cutlery is sold in Birmingham,
our locks are supplanting those of Eng
lish manufacture in English houses
American jewery is sold in Paris, and
if We are not sending Goals to Newcastle,
London is talking of supplying her
CRATES and furnaces with anthracite from
Pennsylvania" English manufacturers
must stir up and put their shoulders to
the wheel, or IN = will be nowhere in
the race for wealth.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

"The people ask for a sign, and no
sign shall be given unto them," cannot
be said of the Chicago people. A firm
there has just put up a sign costing
50, 500, and the conceited Chicago folks
claim that it is the most expensive sign
ever put up in this country. 1t is 130
feet long and five and half feet wide.
1t took 1000 feet of lumber and $40
days work to complete it. Four hun
dred dollars worth of gold and $3.50 of
metal ornaments We're used in its con-
struction. Chicago is mistaken about
its being the most expensive sign. A
New York man had sign that fell one
windy day and nearly killed man. The
owner of the sign had to pay $4,000
and costs, which makes that sign the
most expensive as far as heard from:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

Fermentation is a process Of nature
going on all the time and producing a
greater or less degree of alcohol. The
amount of alcohol produced by fer
mentation in bread is scientifically
demonstrable, though practically inap-
preciable; in the light wines it varies
from five to ten per cent. In many of
the wines it is quite sufficient to produce
certain degree of intoxication, the
effect of the wine on the human body
depending altogether upon the char
acter and temperament of the person. A
single glass will produce more effect on
some persons than a whole bottle on
others. Distillation is a modern pro-
cess, by which the alcohol is extracted
from the grape juice or other substance
possessing it. The distilled liquors
rum, gin, brandy, whisky and the like
possess, therefore, a large amount of
alcohol, reaching in brandy, for ex-
ample, fifty per cent, and sometimes
more.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07
Is AN EXPECTcRkNT IT HAS no EQUAL!
IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM M ANY F0RM !
For Catarrh,
For Deafness,
q Cure at Last.

Occasionally apply a
particle into and back
of the ear, rubbing il
thOro11Gb1y-
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-07

The foresters' department in the Brit
ish East Indies is said to be the largest
and best managed of any in the world.
1t is now proposed to bring one of the
foresters from that country to superin-
tend the forests of Great Britain, and
have arboziculture taught students there,
as has long been done in France, Ger
many and Switzerland. We wish, says
the Raral Ne,c Yorker, such school
could be established by the United
States government. A lamentable de-
struction has long been going on in our
forests ever since the settlement of the
country. If they were annually thinned
out as needed, in judicious way, in
stead of being mercilessly slashed down
by the wholesale; they would furnish ell
the wood and timber we want, and still
keep up the necessary growth from the
younger trees for futule requirements.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-29
PENCILETTES.

Robinson'. circus is in West Tennessee. =
f7he.n JOB PRINTING at Ramage's.
The Maryyille train was held back till
o'clock Yesterday evening, and had sooo
crowd returning from the fair.
western boy is making SIS week sell
inc walnut kernels, receiving cents per
ner hound for them. They are used IN the
manufacture of candy.
Capt. W. L. Barton, popular young
conductor on the E. L. Y. and u haliroao'
was married few days since to Miss ahce
Lvle, daughter of John Lyle, at johnson
city.
Deputy collector Stephen Pyott and
DEPUTY Marshal L. L. Walker, went from
Chattanooga few days since, destroyed a
distiIlerv about 20 miles from Spring City,
and also another in Bledsoe County.
An old topper" in a neighboring town,
saw advertised "a sure cure drunken
ness He forwarded the necessary dollar
and received by return mail, written on
postal card, the words. Don't drink
The passenger train bound East yesterday
evening was loaded down with parties re-
turning home from the fair and show.
Upper East Tennessee always sends sooo
crowd to Knoxville.
Benson Skin Cure Bensons Pills for Neu
ralgia, Colgate's Vaseline Pomade, hoc'
Cure. Hop Bitters, Cascara Cordial Gan eie
CANT laxative) Combs, Brushes, Soaps ant
Toilet articles at J. W. Slocums', Druggist
east side Gay street, sign, 'gold mortar
oct 23tf
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-29

To Co untry Merchants and visitors in the
City:
Nathan Stern has for the past two weeks,
received large and well selected stock of
Mems Youths, Boys and Children's Cloth
ing, Overcoats and Gents Furnishing
Goods. Every department. is well filed
with goods, wholesale as well as retail
to suit and fit the smallest boy to the largest
man.
In Prices and Goods this house can't be
beat.
Nathan Stern has been shipping and re-
ceiving goods tho whole season. He has
been visiting tho Eastern markets three
times this fall-in July, August and Sep
TENDER and this shows that he must sell
goods at lower prices than any other House
in the city.
Everybody is invited to call and look .,
his stock and prices, as it ID no trouble to
show goods.
/ will sell to merchants, who are in tn,
city for the purpose to buy, Clothing q
Eastern Prices.
Special prices given to ministers.
Store on Gay street, marble front, oppo
site Sanford, Chamberlain l. Albers.
NATHAN STERN, Proprietor.
David Haas, R. j. Jarnagin, Siegmund
Porges, Charles A. Jenkins, salssmsn
oct26dtf
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-29
That Alley,

Perhaps there are not over three streets in
Knoxville used more than the alley running
between Gay street and Market Square, and
we venture to say there is not single street
or alley in the entire city in worse condi-
ton. The huge cobblestones ought to be
replaced by mecademizing rock and the
alley graded, so it will be thoroughly
drained from one end to the other. A stop
should be put to throwing Stops and filth
into the alley, and the numerous pipes from
sinks emptying into it torn down.
It is impossible to tell all that can be
found in this sweet scented spot, but people
who sigh for rugged scenery need not fool
their time and money away on the upper
fumed Rockies or the far-of Alps, but
patronize home institutions by coming to
this alley of picturesque ravines and gigan-
tic boulders perfumed with odors, that
would cause the great American polecat &c
drop bis tail and sneak away in disgust.
PRoGRsss