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Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-08
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Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-08

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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
An Arctic Summer.

The fourth of June was the most beau
tiful of the days we spent in the Arctic
ocean. The water was smooth, reflect.
ing tranquil, pearl-gray sky with spots
of pure azure near the zenith, and
belt of white around the horizon that
shone with bright, satiny luster, try
ing to the eyes like clear sunshine.
Some seven whale ships were in sight,
becalmed with their sails spread.
Tchuoui hunters in pursuit of seals
were gliding about in light skin-covered
canoes, and gulls, auks, elder ducks,
and other water birds in countless null
titudes SKINNED the CLASSY level, while
in the background of this Arctic picture
the Siberian coast, white as snow could
make it, was seen sweeping back in fine,
fluent, undulating lines to chain of
mountains. the tops of which were yelled
in the shining sky. A few snow crystals
were shaken down from a black cloud
toward midnight, but most of the day
was one of deep peace, in which Gods
love was manifest as in a countenance.
The average temperature for most OF
the month, commencing May 20, has
been but little above the freezing point,
the maximum about forty-f degrees.
To-day the temperature in the shade al
noon is sixty-five degrees, the highest
since leaving San Francisco. The tenn
perature of the water in Behring sea
and strait, and as far as We have gone in
the Arctic, has been about from twenty
nine degrees to thirty-fve degrees
But as soon as We approached within
fifty miles of the mouth of the Yuko1
the temperature changed suddenly tc
forty-two degrees. The mirage effects
we have witnessed on the cruise thu,
far are as striking as any ever saw OF
the hot American desert. Islands ant
headlands seem to float in the air, dis
torted into the most unreal, fantasti,
forms imaginable, while the individua
mountains of chain along the coas
appear to dance at times up and dow
with rhythmic motion in the tremu.
lous refracting atmosphere. On tn,
northeast side of Norton sound L saw
two peaks, each with fiat, black tabl,
on top, looming suddenly up and sink
ing again alternately, like boys playin,
see-saw ON plank.-John Mar,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
TOpnOOdy.

Mr.. Topnoody went to the minstrels
last night, and the funny conundrums
and Jokes he heard set him to thinking.
So at breakfast he began on Mrs. Top
moody. She was warm aud not very
much in the humor for pleasantly, but
Topnoody slashed away.
81 say, Mrs. Topnoody, can you spell
hard water with three letters ?"
"No, 1 can't; might, though, if you
had taken me to the minstrels last
night" This staggered him a little,
but not seriously.
"And you can't spell it? Well, ice,
amt that hard water?"
Mrs. Topnoddy never smiled, and Mr..
L. went on:
"Now spell money with four let
ters."
"I don't know how" she said.
Ha, ha, that's too good. A woman
never can get at this sort of thing in the
same clear-headed way a man can
Well, the way to spell it is, ash, ain'I
that money!"
Again did Mrs. T. fail to smile, and
Topnoody started out with another.
"Hold on a minute" she interrupted
looking ugly; "I've got one; let's Sc,
il you can get it. Spell 'Topnoody
with four letters" Topnoody scratched
his head and gave it up.
"Ha, ha," laughed Mrs t., "that'
too good. A man never can get at thi
sort of thing in the same clesr-heade,
way woman can. Well, the way l.
spell it is, fool, amt that Topnoody?
But Topnoody never smiled. and th
breakfast was finished in silence excep
an occasional chuckle from Mrs. Top
noody's end of the table.-SteubenritI
Herald.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The Greeks called scissors double
razor"
The pea is supposed to be native Of
France.
Candle is from Greek word meaning
to shine.
There is red and green as we'll as
black ebony.
Charcoal deepens the tint of dahlias,
hyacinths and petunias.
The owl, which easily digests meat,
cannot digest bread or grain.
Lime is a preserver of wood. It has
been noticed that vessels carrying it
last longer than any others.
Cocoa beans possess twice as much
nitrogen as grain, and therefore choco-
late furnishes much nutriment.
DIR. Cornelius Herr, in France, trans
mitted audible speech 800 miles with
the aid of his telephone system.
In some water plants the flowers ex-
pand at the surface of the water, and
after fading retreat again to the bot
tom.
A mixture OF one part of alcohol and
nine parts of crystallized carbolic acid
is stated to afford great relief in cases
of bites from insects.
A row of guncotton reaching from
Edinburgh to London, it is said, could
be fired in two minutes, so rapid is the
transmission of detonation from one
part to another.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
The Time Consuming Match.

Mr.. Edward Prince, splint manufac-
turer of Horseshoe Bay, Buckingham
township, is authority for the statement
that there are about twenty-five match
factories in the United States and Can
ada and that the daily production-and
consequent daily consumption-is about
$4,000 gross. 1t may seem queer
statement to make that 100, 900 hours of
each successive day are spent by the
people of the two countries in striking
light, but such is undoubtedly the
case. In each gross of matches manu-
factured there are IA boxes, so that the
$4,000 gross produces 100000 boxes.
Each box-at least those made in the
States where duty cf one cent upon
every box of matches is slevied-contains
100 matches, so that the number of
matches produced and used daily
amounts to 800, 100000. Counting that
it takes second to light each match
and it is questionable whether it can be
done in less time than that, while some
men occupy several minutes sometimes
in trying to strike light, particularly
when boozy-to light the 360,000,00G
would take just that numberof seconds.
This gives 100000 minutes, or 100,-
600 hours. In days of twenty-four
hours each it figures up to A, 166 2-3,
and gives eleven years and five months,
with a couple of days extra, as the time
occnpied during every twenty-four
hours, by the people of North America
not figuring on the Mexicans-in
striking matches. Figuring a little
further it gives 4, 159 years time in each
year. The fact may seem amazing. hut
it is undoubtedly correct. uQaax
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A gold meddle "A burglar in miser's
Golfers. Marathon Independent.
Missouri train robbers are men OF
iron nerve and steal disposition.
ga fellow feeling makes us won
drous kind" unless the fellow is feel
ing in our pocket for our watch
Salem Sunbeam.
There was a large attendance at the
schools to-day. Every boy who hadn't
lost an eye brought two pupils. s.-Phila-
delphia Chronicle.
Brown loudly boasts that his heart is
always in his hand. Fogg says that
Brown is so close-fisted that he is in no
danger of ever losing it.-BoStom Tran
script.
When you are telling friend a joke
poke him in the ribs, He'll be more in
terested in the yarn, and can put
mustard plaster on the sore spot when
he goes home. Gate City.
A housepainter recently wanted to
Join the fire department, but as it took
him over fifteen minutes to climb
ladder, and then he had to go down
again for something he had forgotten,
they didn't employ him.-BoSfom Post.
Jumping over fence in the middle
of the night and meeting bulldog
that is total stranger to you, is one of
those exciting little incidents of life
which go far to break the monotony
and rob existence of a tiresome same
ness.
A man called out to his creditor.
"Get out, you Ornithorhynchus?" The
man departed meekly. "Who's that p
inquired friend of the speaker. "An
Ornithorhynchus." "How's that p
"Well, Webster defines him as a beast
With O bill. .'"-Yale Cordnt.
This is alleged to be the way Vas.
sar girl tells joke: ooh, girls heard
Just the best thing to-day. 1t was toe
funny. I can't remember how it came
about, but one of the girls said to Pro
essor Mitchell-oh, dear, I can't re-
member just what she said; but Profes
sor Mitchells answer was just TOT
funny for anything !"-Swacuse Herald
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
KEEPING COMPANY.

"Ned! Ned !" The call rang ou'
from the house door, floating over the
garden, till it came faint and weary to
the barn door, utterly unable to pene'
trate the barred portal.
"N,d Ned" Nearer and nearer
came the CHEEKY voice, and pair OF
light feet carrie d it down the path, to
ring out again clear and strong, as a
little doubled fist pounded an accom-
paniment on the wooden barrier
A frank face, and head covered with
crisp curls, now decorated by long
straws stuck in with a promiscuous
carelessness suggestive of Lear's crown,
was popped out of the window of the
hay-loft.
"What is it, Katie? I'm giving the
beasts their breakfast"
"Come down! You must come
down I've got the best of news for
you"
"What is it? Wait! I'll be down !
Why, Katie, what are you all dressed
up for?"
"You'll never guess. Susy Willis
has come home. She sent me over
word this morning to be ready for
church early, so we could have long
walk before we went into meeting.
She's coming over for me-"
"Susy home~ That was all Ned
said, but there was no doubling the ac-
cent of content in his voice.
"Her father has written that he is
coming back 10 Allentown next month,
and Susy's mother sent for her to leave
school, and be here to meet him. Oh,
Ned, amt you glad? She's been away
more'n two years."
Glad If there was any faith to be
placed in beaming eyes, smiling lips
and trembling fingers, Ned was, to say
the least, not sorry; but he said moth
ing, only hurried the preparations for
leaving the barn, his face the while
speaking his pleasure, while, Katie, hel
tongue doing the work of two, ran on
with her gleeful chatter.
"I wonder if she's altered, prettiel
or smarter. wonder if she'll let you
beau her now, Ned. Perhaps she'll wan
to keep company with some smarter fel
low, now she's had so much schooling
Hurry, Ned, SO you can go with us 7
And flying up the path again, Katie en-
tered the neat farmhouse, and went t
her room to add some trife to her dress
Looking wistfully up the path for he
expected companion she tried to b.
patient, but the fingers would fidget
the feet beat tatoos, the eyes flash witt
eagerness, while her fathers comments
as he leaned over the gate. smoking hi
Sunday pipe, did not diminish tn
fever.
Gay, Katie, don't drum hole in tn
window Arc you dancing jig, Katie
Come down here and talk to Jack p an
the magpie's hoarse voice, calm
"Katie," echoed the invitation. Sud
denly both comment and restlessnes
ceased, while the two faces. beamin
with loving mischief. watched the patti
Coming from the barn, round to tn
front OF the house, yet in his blouse an
round hat, was Ned, the idol of bot
the warm hearts watching him. HI
pretty bunch of flowers told one caus
OF his delay, and his lingering step we
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
Memory.

POEM WRITTEN by JAMES A. GARFIELD.
TThe little poem given below was written, it
is stated, by James A. Garfield before his first
term in Congress hence some twenty years
ago.l
Tis beauteous night the stars look brightly
down
Upon the earth, decked in her robe of snow.
No light CLEANS at the window, save my own,
Which gives its cheer to midnight and to me-
And now, with noiseless step, sweet memory
comes
AMI leads me gently through her twilight
realms.
What poets tuneful Tyre has ever sung,
Or delicate pen e'er portrayed,
The enchanted, shadowy land where memory
dwells?
1t has its valleys, cheerless, lone and drear,
Dark-shaded by the mournful cypress tree;
And yet its sunlit mountain tops are bathed
In heavens own blue. Upon its craggy cliffs,
Robed in the dreamy light of distant years,
Are clustered joys serene of other days.
Upon its gentle, sloping hillsidcs bend
The weeping willows Ger the sacred dust
OF dear departed ones and yet in that land,
whereer our footsteps fall upon the shore,
They that we're sleeping rise from out the dust
Of deaths long silent years, and round us
stand,
As erst they did before the prison tomb
Received their clay within it's voiceless halls.
The heavens that bend above that land are
With clouds of various hues. Some dark and
chill
surcharged with sorrow, cast with somber
shade
Upon the sunny, joyous land below.
Others arc floating through the dreamy air,
White as the falling snow, their margins
tinged
With gold and crimsoned hues; their shadows
fall
Upon the flowery meads and sunny slopes,
Soft as the shadow of an angels wing.
When the rough battle of the day is done,
And evenings peace falls gently on the heart
bound away, across the noisy years,
Unto the utmost verge of memorys land,
Where earth and sky in dreamy distance meet
And memory dim with dark oblivion joins,
Where woke the first remembered sounds thi
fc'l
Upon the ear in childhood's early morn;
And wandering thence along the rolling year
see the shadow of my former self
Gliding from childhood up to mans estate.
The path of youth winds down through man,
vale,
An | on the brink of many dread abyss,
From out whose darkness comes no ray o
light,
Save that a phantom dances DER the gulf
And beckons towarl the verge Again th'
path
Leads o'cr the summit where the sunbeam
fall
And thus in Ii, ht AMI shade, sunshine anC
gloom,
Sorrow and joy, the life-path lead' along.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
Troubled.

NV mind was ruffled with small cares to-day,
And I said pettisl lords, and did not keep
Long suffering patien'e well; and now nv
deep
NV trouble for this sin In vain L weep
For foolish words never can unsay.
Yet not in vair, Oh, surely not in vain
This sorrow must compel me to take heel;
And surely shall learn how much need
Thy constant strength my own to supersede,
And all my thoughts to patience to constrain'
Yes, I shall learn at last, though I neglect
Day after day, to seek my help from thee;
Oh, aid me, that always recollect
This gentle heartedness; and Oh correct
Whatever else of sin thou seest in me
Henry Su ton.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
A simple Remedy for Insects.

A simple remedy for all insects that
annoy farmers is given by Wenona,
ILL.,, agriculturist. He says: "Gather
all the old straw and hay into long
rows around orchards, potato and cab
bage patches, and set fire to one end to
burn against the wind all night, and
they will burn up millions and millions
every night of the male insects that fly,
and bugs of all kinds and descriptions,
such as destroy the trees and potatoes
and all the cabbage, and the canker
worms on the apple trees. They will
fly right into the blaze and burn their
wings off and drop into the fire. I told
man to do that who said the ground
in his potato patch was crawling alive
with potato bugs. He plowed ditch
around and filled it with straw, and
burned them all up in one night, and
he raised big crop of potatoes. The
prairie fires in former years used to burn
them all up. Do this and you will soor
be rid of the whole miller tribe of in
sects."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
How To Glenn the Poultry House.

A poultry-house may be very quickly
and effectively cleaned out by first
using an old broom and removing cob
webs, dust, etc., and cleaning the floor
with shovel. Then take half bushel
of lime and slake it in a barrel. If one
of the syringe or fountain pumps used
for washing windows can be procured
the lime wash may be syringed all over
the inside, forcing the lime into every
crevice and Granny, and thoroughly
cleansing them. The lime that falls on
the floor will sweeten that. When the
work is done turn out the refuse lime
for the fowls to pick at.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06

drying some the shocks were double,
and remained in shock until hauled to
shelter--15th or 10th of October. The
shocks need sometimes to have the in
side bundles put on the outside, but no
extra care beyond what common sense
and circumstances suggest. I prefer
drilling to sowing, because the crop is
larger on account of the working, and
the stalks greener and less "burt" then
sown.-iSouthern Planter.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Fnr Cnhhnae XYnrms.

A farmer writes: 1 would like to
say from experience that salt will
not iniure cabbage nor the worms
either. But ten cents worth of ground
black pepper will keep one hundred
heads free from the cabbage worm.
Take common pepper box and dust
the worms every morning before seven
o'clock, and it will kill every one il
touches, large or small.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06
Farm Notes.

Watch your colts he offs, and see they
are pared as often as necessary. The
hoof is not only thus benefited, but the
action of the animal frequently i'm
proved.
Pennsylvania yields one-ffth of the
rye produced in the country. The an
nual produce in that State ranges be-
tween 5000, 900 and 10000 bushels.
Bone dust is good dressing for
lawns. Put on plenty of it. Stable
manure is often an eye-sore unless very
fine.
Green corn, as soon as the grain be-
gins to harden, is the very best fattening
food available to the general farmer for
feeding swine. The pigs eat it with a
peculiar relish, and will grow and fatten
upon it with surprising rapidity. No
food is equal to this for putting pigs in
good "show condition" for the Fairs.
To give hogs plenty of muscle, let
them have all the exercise they will
take in ten-acre lot. Fat, which does
not go far as food, comes from abun-
dant food and little or no exercise.
Lardy hogs are not generally as popular
as they once were. An abundance OF
corn is not desirable TO make lean and
well-grown hogs for food.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-06

never let any other boy court me-tell
him 1 never can forget him, though 1
must try tell him I did love him with
all my heart and don't let him quite
forget me, even if he msrries some
other girl. Don't write to me-mother
says not but think Of me sometimes,
and give my love to Ned and your
father. SUsY."
That was all; but Ned felt when Katie
told him he might keep the letter, that
mines of wealth could not purchase it
from him.