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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
Fighting-Birds.

Young "birds in their little nests agree"
but old ones have lively time Of it out
side. The Squire, an English paper, says:
''The majority of singing-birds have the
tempers of wasps, and are apparently never
so happy as when they are quarrelling. A
fourth Of their lives is, We are told, passed
in scolding and fighting. In their singing
season, which is also their time for mating
and contention, severe pitched battles,
fought between candidates for matrimonial
life, are of continual occurrence, males and
females engaging in the fight on the slight
est provocation. Those of the stronger
sex are, of course, the more pugnacious,
and often fight till they are killed. The
females also fight furiously for the males;
aud we are sorry to hear that, when the
contest is over, the cOnquerors march of
with the objects of their choice, "unless
they should be met on the road by other
viragoes, and compelled to give up their
husbands by force" 1t is sad to known
that the latter are so ungallant as to seem
Indifferent as to which shall win them, and
remain idle spectators of the struggle. A
male bird will allow two hens to fight for
him until one Of them is killed, and then
with due humility accompany the victor.
At this period of the year, especially, the
woods and the fields are described as the
scenes of desperate battles, Shrieks of
triumph and shrieks of defeat mingle with
the loye-notes of the newly-mated. Strife
is visible everywhere throughout the feath
cred creation.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

the fraud is much more base. The Amer
lean wedding ring, which already has
dropped from the English twenty-five carat
ring to eighteen carats, is often but she'll
of gold filed with brass. The great ad-
vance made in eoloring gold has aided
these practices. Formerly, only eighteen
cayat gold would take a Roman finish but
now even brass masquerades as Roman
gold. The passion for ornament which
must be grati6ed at any cost, does not
leave a sufficient margin for caution, and
there are not a few people who are delight
ed at buying eighteen carat gold for eight
carat prices.
These same facts hold good in silver,
and will account in many instances for the
marvellous premiums set forth with cir
cumstanee by precarious wecklies, accom-
panied by ornate cuts. A little silver has
the advantage of spreading itself over q
large surface, and handsome set Of spoons
in a case such as one often sees offered,
can be bought for eighty cents dozen in
the case of the manufacturer For ell this
there should be a remedy. Ifgoods stamp
ed eighteen carats fall short of their value
the dealer deserves to be prosecuted for
forgery; but to this end law requiring
this stamp to be affixed Is needed. OF all
the plans which have been considered by
the men who have found their business cut
from beneath their feet by these dishonest
practices the most effective, in their ludg
ment. is a government recognition # n
standard for wrought gold, with penalties
for the debasinc Of the standard such as
hold 10 debased coin Some Of them think
that Congress has power to pass such 4
law. but in reaching this conclusion due
account probably has no; been taken Of the
constitutional limitations Of the power Of
Congress. Thus, for example, Congress
has just refused to regulate the use Of trade
marks 10 domestic trade Relief IS more
likely to be obtained from the State than
from the Federal government In other
countries the people are protected 10 this
way. The humbles, seller Of the most
trifiug piece Of gold jewelry in Italy for
instance, can be required by law to give a
written guaranty that it is what it Purports
to be and is liable TO arrss; If j, Is not
Some eaelent meaa. certainly should be
provided compelling dealers to stamp their
articles so that purchasers may be ASSUMED
that in buyiag eighteen carat gold they are
receiving eighteen carat gold and ao' four
teen carats lif not eight.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
Can You?

Can you tell why men who cannot pay
small bills can always End money to buy
liquor and treat when among friends?
Can any one tell how young men who
are always behind with their landlords
can play billiards, night aud day, and al
ways be ready for game of cards when
money is at stake?
Can any one tell how men live and sup
port their families who have no income
and no work, when others who are indus
trious are half starved?
Can any one tell why four-ffths Of the
young ladies prefer brainles foP, under
a plug hat, to a man with brains?
Can any one tell why it is that some
mothers are always ready to sew for the
distant heather when their own children
are ragged and dirty?
Can any one tell why man who is al
ways complaining that he cannot afford to
subscribe for the local newspaper, and
every week borrows it from his neighbor
can afford to attend every travelling show
that comes into town?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
To Prevent Poisoning.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger writes A very simple preventive
against the effects of exposure to the poi
son ivy or sumae, described by Professor
Rothrock in last Saturdays supplement,
will be found in the use of weak solu-
tion of ammonia Spirits of hartshorn) and
water. About teaspoonful of strong am
monia should be added to basin of water,
and the hands and face washed in this
without rubbing and without the use of a
towel, letting it dry on the face and to be
effeetual, it should be applied Immediately
after a person has been exposed to poison.
Another remedy may be added to the ex-
cellent ones given by Professor r., which
will be appreciated by those of your read
ers in the country, some distance away
from a drug store. Take a quantity of
peach leaves and macerate in a mortar or
other iron vessel, aud apply the juicy mass
so formed as you would a poultice. This
cool aromatic poultlce will be found very
grateful to the burning cheeks and hands,
as well as effective in reducing the swell
ing,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
A Mexican Hotel.

The Mexican hotel furnishes you lodg-
ing, that is all You engage your
room By the day or month, and you get
your bed and toilet. OF course We ring
for the ice water, more Americana, aud
the waiter brings Us water without ice;
We ask if We cant get ice aud are told that
we can If we send cut aud buy it. Before
going to bed my ehum bethinks me of his
physic and asks for warmwater; the waiter
cant get US any warm water because the
only place to get it is at the bathing estab-
lishment, and that is closed at go We
need a spoon and send the boy for one; he
returns and reports that the restaurant is
closed, and the cafe won't trust him with
spoon. / 90 down to theeaie, when the pro-
proprietor, very polite Frenchman, says.
II am very sorry to give you the trouble to
come down stairs; | am very glad to lend
youanythingin my establishment, but have
lived too long in this country to take the
word Of one Of these fellows for spoon.
The force of the hotel consists Of sad
looking clerk, who writes the names Of the
guests in chalk on blackboard, melan-
choly custodian of the keys, two barefoot
cd Commanehe boys for general utility, and
two walters on each floor 1t is owned by
the Iturbes, who are the richest family in
Mexico. They paid $4,000 for the
property and make $4,000 or $4,000
year from it. They own the whole block,
the Hotel Bazar, the Hotel San Carlos,
and whole blocks of the best property 10
the city. There are two of them and
their fortunes are estimated at $50, ,000,-
600 apiece.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
Change in the Frog.

Nowhere in the animal kingdom is there
so favorable an opportunity for peeping
into Natures workshop as in the metamor-
phoses of the frog. This animal is worm
when it comes from the egg, and remains
such the first four days of its life, having
neither eyes, ears, nostrils, nor respiratory
organs 1t crawls; it breathes through its
skin; after awhile neck is grOoved into
the flesh; its soft lips are hardened into a
horny beak; the different organs, one after
another, bud cut then pair of branching
gills, and last long and timber tall The
worm has become a fish /! Three or four
days more elapse, and the gills sink back
into the body, while in their place others
come, much more complex, arranged in
vascular tufts, one hundred and twelve in
each. But they, too, have their day, and
are absorbed-together with their frame
work of bone and cartilage, to be succeed
ed by an entirely different breathing appa-
ratus, the initial of second correlated
group of radical change. Lungs are de-
velOped, the mouth is widened, the horny
beak is converted into rows of teeth, the
stomach, the abdomen, aud the intestines
are prepared for the reception of animal
food in place of vegetable; four limbs, fully
equipped with hip and shoulder bones,
nerves and blood-vessels, push out through
the skin, while the tail, being now sup
planted by them as a means of locomotion,
is carried away piece meal by the absor-
bents, and the animal passes the balance
of its days as an air-breathing and flesh
ieeding batrachian
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

bridge thrown over hollow. 1hey were
telling each other their first impressions.
$50 you thought my cousin looked as
if she was born in the purple. And pray
what did you think of me?
you'll be angry
"Oh no, won't"
.sWell, then, l said to myself, "What a
dear little gypsy"
OF course Miss Amberley was not an
gry. She had said she would not be, but
she struck her hand lard against the
rough woodwork.
"Take care, you will hurt yourself.
And now may 1 ask your first opinion of
me.
II thought-that is, l said to myself
There is man l shall just enjoy making
fool of, she answered spitefully. "Ohr
She had run great splinter into her
hand. It was very painful. Harry worked
forgivingly to get it out, Just as he had
succeeded Miss Amberly turned alarm
iugly white and murmured
'.Don't be frightened-how foolish |
AMI feel like" And but Cor his arm
she would have fallen.
/ Kingston was too much bewildered to
/ do anything but hold her tight and cover
Il the wounded hand with kisses.
/ Strange to say this peculiar method of
reviying a young lady succeeded. She
opened her eyes and the color returned to
her face.
"Mr. Kingston r pulling her hand away.
"Oh, if you wanted to make fool of
me, he said gloonily, you have entirely
succeeded. love you r
He expected her to draw herself eoldly
from his hold, but she did not. She
seemed quite eontented where she was,
only rosy glow overspread her face, and
she whispered;
care you sure-yery sure
q wish 1 was as sure Of my eternal
salvation.
"Oh, Harry No, you must not do
that Do you love me enough not to
care whether am rich or poor p
nTen thousand times YES r.
'And-and you want ne for you WIFE
anyhow ?"
"Of course | do.
"Then take me You may kiss me
now, Harry.
And he did
/ "Of course it makes no difference to
you, said the young lady, presently; "but
YOU have offered yourself to the rich Miss
Amberley. You needn't start so. You
can't throw me over now, sir "
For moment that was just what Harry
thought Of doing but the quick tears in
his companion s'eyes brought him to his
senses
Voices below. Mr. Preston passed
I through the ravine 10 company with the
other Miss Amberley. He was holding
her hand, aud her stately composure
seemed for once somewhat ruiHed
I NO more Of this, Mr. Preston. she
exclaimed, in an agi,ated voice. "a Is
but right l should tell you it was my eou-
sins whim to confuse our identity. You
doubtless think you are addressing Miss
Amberley, the heiFess-
4 "Not at an, interrupted Preston. Il
have known the truth all along; it is ouly
Kingston who is deceived, and if that Is
all the defense you can make"
The pair passed cut Of sight.
4 "It's too funny declared Agatha,
leaning on her lovers shoulder TO laugh,
THAT viii be . match, too.
And it was. And the following winter
the two Miss Amberleys passed out Of ex-
istenee, but Mrs Harry Kingston and Mrs.
James Preston became the bellies Of the
I seagou
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

The Webb House, in which Washington
held his celebrated conference with Count
Rochambeau and the other French repre-
sentatiyes, in May, 1871, is still standing,
in good condition, in Wethersfeld, Conn.
1t is a large two and a-half story gambrel
roof, with an L, and recent photograph
of it shows that the lines of roof and walls
are still stiff and straight. This venerable
structure had been built more than thirty
years VIXEN General Samuel Blatchford
Webb, the father of General James Wat
son Webb, of Philadelphia, arranged the
conference which indirectly resulted in the
surrender Of CORVALLIS and the success of
the Revolution.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

For palpitatiOn of the heart, eat lightly
of light food, avoid excitement, and take
gentle open-air exercise daily. Also use
the following medicine; salvolatile, chloric
ether, and tincture of gentian, of each two
drachms; water, four ounces; mix, and
take tablespoonful forenoon and after
noon.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
Select pottrg.
DER Doc AND DER LOBsTER.

hR DUG AMI Ubh 1ODp4 M
Dot dog he vas onquisitive
Vereffer he vas so,
IND, like dot woman, all der time
someding he wants to know.
Vone day, all by dot market-stand
Ware fish and CLAIMS dey sell,
Dot dog vos poke his nose aboud
Und find out vat he shmell.
Dot lobster he vas took dot snooze
Nit Won eye open vide,
Und ven dot dog vos come along
Dot lobster he vas spied.
Dot dog he shmell him nit his nose.
IND scratch him nit his paws.
IND push dot lobster all aboud,
Und wonder vat he vas.
Und den dot lobster he woke up,
Und crawl yoost like dot snail,
IND make vide open Of his claws
IND grab dot doggie's tail.
Und den so quick as never vas
Dot cry went to der sky,
IND, like dem swallows yot dey sing,
Dot dog does homeward fly.
make dot run und call dot dog.
Ind vistle awful kind;
Dot makes no difference vot say,
Dot dog don't look pehind.
Dot moral vas, l tole you boud,
Pefore vas neffer known
Don't want to find too much dings
Dot wasn't 0v your own.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

Turn up the big toe as hard as you can
for cramp in the leg, and rub the skin
where the cramp is briskly. This toe
remedy is the best possible for a cramp,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

How the clergy of the English Church
are paid is seen by the following state
mcnt According to paper lately read
before the English Parliament, there were
in 1879 in thirty dioceses ll,lS6 incum-
bents resident, 1909 nonresident, 387
curates and 4 ,888 assistants. The highest
salary paid to curates in sole charge is
$500 Isl 800, and the lowest f20 (Sl0O)
OF the assistants there is one, A. H. Stan
ton, of St. Adams, Holborn, who receives
FIVE shillings per annum, or about one dol
lar and half as the lowest salary, and
two who receive e3OO Isl ,500,) as the
highest. The greatest number of curate,
(78) receive e1OO (s5OO) year, and the
greatest number q ,OO0) of assistant Gu
rates who get salaries are those who receive
El5O $780,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

Remember the poor, and, ifpossible, do
something to make them remember you.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

RAISING CAMELs IN NEvADA.-The
Virginia City Enterprise says 1--WE are
informed that the Frenehman who owns
the herd of eamels ranging to the eastward
in the valleys bordering the Carson River
viii utilize his "ships of the desert next
summer in carrying goods from the termi-
nus of the Carson aud Colorado Railroad
into camps far out in the wilderness The
camels now number about forty, all but
two or three of which are natives of Ne
vada. In our deserts these animals fud
grasses and bitter and prickly shrubs and
plants suited to their taste, and probably
the same or varieties of the same plants that
grow in other desert regions of the earth.
1t is less trouble, and costs much less to
grow camels in Nevada than to rear cattle
in the Atlantic States"
A mint for coming silver was establish
II
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04
How Globes are Made,

Il is fact Dot known, perhaps, by
many, says The Troy Times, that Troy, \.
T., Is one Of the largest and best Produe-
cTs Of school and library globes 10 the
country. The manufacture was begun in
ls52. \, frst only ball Eve inches in
diameter vas made, but a ten inch terres-
trial globe was soon added The list Of
sizes was rapidly increased The balls
are made il Boston, but the appendages
are supplied aad the globes mounted aud
shipped in this city, where are owned the
plates from which the maps are printed.
Globe making is a skilful and delicate pro
cess. The maps are printed in small sec
Yions On English drawing paper, and these
segmeuts must be 50 nicely put upon the
hollow ball Of papier maehe that there
shall not be the slightest break in the
alignment Of letters or the continuity
Of lines when the smooth aud painted
surface is complete. Three months are
required to construct QUO Of these worlds
in miniature from the time the ball is be-
gun until it rests in its frame or sits alofl
upon brass, bronze or nickel standard.
And it must be so trimmed and mounted
;hat it viii have no disinelination to
change its inclination in the frame, and
viii hang so truly in space that it will halt
10 its revolution at any time when so
commanded and remain motionless, as if
its centre Of gravity were in truth equally
distant frcm all points upon the cireum-
ference, If the globe refuses to rest with
any country than America on top, the
maker will be deemed more patriotic than
skilful. The sizes manufactured for gen
eral use range from three to thirty inches
in diameter, aud from s. to 1925 in price,
and are mounted in thirty different styles.
The increasing demand for the portable
orbcs is shown by the fact that the ship
ments from this city last year were fifty
per centum larger than during the pre-
cedina year
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-06-04

A mint for coming silver was establish
ed in Boston in 1852.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-08
Women rs Telegraph Operators.

An official of the Western Union
Company, speaking of men as tele-
graphers. said to the reporter: 1.-THE
general public has very insufficient
idea OF what il owes to female opera
tors. Little more than five years ago
we were the slaves of our men. They
formed a high-priced. a thoroughly in
dependent body. They made money
and spent it Telegraph operators are
as bohemian in their instincts as actors
and newspaper men. They never
work while they have cash or credit to
play on. Their pay-davs fall bi-month-
ly. and every PAYDAY left us crippled
for operators till the roystering alb
sentees had run their money through,
If we ventured to expostulate. they
would refuse to work at all. If we ex-
pressed disapprobation at any thing
they did they would let messages ac-
cumulate till there would be half a
days, and even longer, delay in the
most important business. There was no
actual trades, union among them, but
they stuck together and had things
pretty much their own way.
Then the, suggestion was. made
that We should employ women as ope-
rators. The late President Orton Vas
the originator Of this idea. His friends
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-08
The st. Gothard Tunnel.

CIV l<,,,.e - .l.n l,.,,.o,. - A.. -....Al
.,,opdaJ .;,h o. go. ,In. ny 90 80 w.
tom ss 7 sraru,..n, ,h.nn p" y, ,L" 49, oas',
sna... ~ ,;ra . ha :" .ns SAM
nhars .sn;,iiy .,,araa.;ns, h., an ". ~
heat Of az ny.n ~ ~ ,,.a, ".n I'M tHH
Of We, morn;nr ia,a mn,nhs- c, mn
side heinr ,h;nL,, . oo, ~,
the small of a.ninj,, - 80, Nun ~.
yreasv s;cten;n@ snones a trnr' ;r ..u wy
able al, lamns 81 .ha -, .v," ,ne
cons,rnc,;on. ;r adS;,;,,, ua,sl p,.,s,se
cen,are ~ d,naar tram ta;r III,
nv nass;,.c .r.;ns !, s;nni. T oiu sae,
with hp;l5ina n,.,ar;a, - n. ausu
nd in the hesa n, ',hs ,';.s ~ s,' nno.n
orous worlman nnssep' ~. an, "a s .,a.., VS.
in the @loom r.tr.;rnd iu hr unso I'M
from ,he arch.5 r,nt Ioos a s.one
explosion ~ Jynom;,. IN IN 50 ah
low-sucb are tbe necessarv 49, oona -
ences 10 he gs,,e tl,ro;,gb nv any lnd;
yiduai des,ro,,s Of oht,ir;rg, thoranSh
kuowiedge al the orese,,t cond,,;e,. 20
this most gigantic enlernr;ss "
On arriving in the AInine VILLAGE ~
Goschenen the traveller who has visited
the Western frontier districts OF A mer;c,
will be struck with the resen,1.nc c. a
this place TO the settlements in me
Western w;IdS u.h;,b a., -, L..-:...:.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-08
FokESHAD0WINGS.

when morning from her rosy palaces
Pushes the quie: land.
When noon spreads through the spaces Of the
Her sunshine still and bland:
whca crimson sunsets make the sky-heights
pfabu. ..aaIa +-
When twilight tashers IN The lonely east
And shade ne world cnshrouds,
And oyer dusky roofs and darkeuing fields
The swallows ny la crowds.
Aud evening hoats afar upon the yellow
clouds; --7'----
Whom through the hush OF purple summer
nights
The charmed moonlight shines.
~And desy roses load the silent air
With ndors rich as Wines
When breezes sing OF ocean in the pines;
When white birds sweep along stormy sky;
When TAR bea.-s;h the eyes
A wide brown wilderness of lcailess woods
StroiShes To su!lrn skies;
b. When over barren seas the western glory
dies.
When winter lives IN radiant purity,
And all the winds breathe .on.; fif
And The remote hue sky spreads far and nea.
Over wnifn wastes OF snow.
Where evsryreens keep faith with springs
Whenever beauty draws the wondering eye
And nils The wondering mind:
Wheueyet beauty Is tscH tales away 1riii
And leaves no trace behind
sass tina. coarse natter by Itself rehned:-
Then what strange longing. what far-of re-
Presclrncc or memory,
Hannte the daii sense with hints of things un-
With the vague mystery
OF something that has been, or that is yet
i,f.y5 TO bel ,srra.r rs<
is u some dim remembrance family stirred,
OF unrecoricd time,
VI Hfe that was mnyhap. hut only is iu