The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-10


renee, and to warn persons whose lives
may be imperiled.
The late DR.. Holland, the author,
would seem to have met the usual ex-
perience which authors undergo. His
/" "Titcomb Letters" were refused by
two prominent Boston publishers, and
New York publisher refused even to
look DIT them. He carried them to Mr..
Scribner who asked him to read speci-
mems from them. At the end of the
third he agreed to take them, and they
attained an issue of GO, 600 copies.
To discover spurious greenback or
national bank notes, divide the last two
figures of the number of the bill by four,
and If one remains the letter on the
genuine will be A; if two remains it will
be B, if three, g; and should there be
no remainder, the letter will be D.
For example, note is registered 2461;
divide sixty one by four, aud you will
have one remaining. According to this
rule, the letter on the note will be A.
bill is counterfeit or altered.
The agricultural distress in England
has in curious way led to the discus
sion of the Biblical injunction against
work on the Sabbath day. 1t has so
happened that several Sundays have
come as pleasant days, preceded and
10 1,u Jo &C of in xuoot Il or
The crops were in such state that
every hour counted, but 80 strong was
the Sabbatarian feeling among large
number of the people that tens of
thousands of farmers conscientiously
refrained from work on Sunday,
although by so doing they sacrificed in
the aggregate an immense amount of
money.
1t was only in 1880 that the first
cheese from America crossed the Allan
tic. From September l, 1880, to Sep
tember /, 1881, the quantity of cheese
sent across flom New York has been
1881 boxes but the gradual diminu-
tion of the export for the last four
months has caused great uneasiness
among the hotel keepers and restaura-
teurs of London. OF late years, rows upon
rows Of gigantic American cheeses
might be seen piled up on the shelves
of the dining hall of every great Lon
don dining house. More there than here
clerks and commercial men are cheese
devourers, and the bresd-and cheese
lunch and bread and cheese supper are
the ne plus ultra of epicureanism to
these classes OF consumers.
In one of the surveying parties of the
Macon and Brunswick extension in
Georgia there were nine boys OF these
eight were graduates of some university
with diplomas in their pockets. They
were working for about 81 day, and en-
gagged in the hardest of manual labor
cheerful, ambitious and rather proud of
their hard and rough work than other
wise. "This group of boys" remarks
the Atlanta (Ga Consultation, "is one
of the signs of the times. Such thing
it would have been impossible t. find
in the olden days. The sons Of rich
men-graduates of universities s-were
then seldom found at manual labor. At
last, however, labor is made honorable
in thu South, and no man stands higher
there than the man who lives by the
sweat of his brow"
China seems to retain monopoly in
Chinese tea and canton mating. The
late commissioner of agriculture be.
lieved he could enter the United States
in the race with tho former, but so far
the success is not promising. In re-
gard to canton mating, an enormous
amount is shipped to the United States
every year, with no attempt to make
any of it in the United States. Indeed,
it has been difficult to ascertain pre-.
cisely what plants are used in the
mating manufacture. 1t has at length
been found that it is made of kind of
galingale, or sedge grass, another sedge
being used for finer work. These sedge
grasses are gathered wild from swamps
or damp places, by the poorer classes,
and sold to the factories. The yellow
coloring matter is made from the flowers
of Sophora Japonica, tree now COM
mon in American gardens. The blue is
obtained from sort of wild buckwheat
1t is not yet known what plant they use
for the green dye, though its yernacular
name is liam Yip."
Mr.. Scoville, the brother.in. law and
counsel of Guiteau, the assassin of
President Garfield, wrote to General B.
F. Butler, requesting his assistance in de-
Tending the prisoner at the forthcoming
trial. Owing to previous engagements
General Butler was unable to accede to
the request, but in his letter of declina-
tion speaks as follows: "If the trial
was set for time when 1 could posi-
bly, devote myself to this case, should
very carefully weigh your application
before 1 refused it. 1 hold it to be a
part of the chivalry of my profession
that no lawyer within the circuit where
he practices ought, without good cause,
to refuse TO stand for man whose life
is in danger before court of justice,
whether his personal belief might be
that the accused was innocent or guilty /;
and, of course, the amount of compen-
sation in the case ought not to become
make-weight in the question. The
admirable example set by Otis, one of
the Sons of Liberty, in face of popular
prejudice, defending the kings off
GERS for shooting down the citizens of
Boston in King street (now State
street), has been the rule OF my pro-
fessional life and ought to be the guide
of every lawyer"