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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

1t may be questioned whether there
is any subject which comes more closely
home to the people of all classes than
the character of the food supplies spec
tally provided for infants and invalids.
The increasing demand for this class
of preparations has led to a great num-
ber and variety of such competitors for
public favor. Put up III ornamental
boxes. they appear on the counters of
every grocer and in the show cases of
every apothecary shop; and not unfre-
quently their acuaI value is in inverse
ratio to the pretenhousness of the pack
age and the price.
As a rule, purchasers are obliged to
take the virtue of such articles upon
trust, few having the means or the know
ledge requisite for an analysis, micro
scopic or chemical, of the preparations
which they are advised to try, perhaps
by the family physician, and yet mis-
take in this connection may be fatal.
For all yonng infants, and for adults
in many cases of sickness, starch food is
injurious; sometimes in being a source
of intestinal irritation, sometimes, as in
the case of very young children, in fur
nishing a semblance of ailment without
the reality, such children being as una
BILE to digest and assimilate starch as
sand. Hence the usual claim with re-
spect to prepared foods of the cereal
class is that they are free from or con-
tain very little starch, while they are
rich in gluten and other food elements
pable of nourlshing the sick and the
young.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
The Middle Pack Basin.

This spot in Colorado has been called
the hunters paradise. from the abund-
ance of It's game, and has been and will
be the resort of sportsmen for years to
come. But the Middle and North Parks
are very fertile districts, and are largely
made up OF separate valleys bordering
the streams, and separated from one
another by long ridges, ranges of hills
or mountains spurs that are covered
with timber. The valleys are open
meadow land, with generally good
soil, which produces all abundant
growth of grass and other vegetation. 1t
has proven an excellent stock growing
region, and is sparsely occupied by
bands of horses, herds of cattle, and
docks of sheep. The hills, ridges, and
abundant timber afford good shelter,
so that animals suffer much less from
oold than in level, open districts, where
the wind has unobstructed sweep.
The altitude of the larger valleys
ranges from 1000 to 5000 feet above
sea leyel. Smaller valleys reach up
l 800 feet higher. Recent experiments
prove that many crops of grain and
vegetables can be successfully grown up
to 5000 feet, at least, above sea level.
While damaging frosts may occur i'm
mediately along the large streams, the
little hooks and valleys among the high
h lis and mountains 1000 feet above
them are entirely exempt. Dairy pro-
ducts are especially excellent. Timothy
aud other cultivated grasses flourish
wonderfully, and the consequence viii
be that it will in few years become a
district of little DAIRY farms, producing
their own hay, potatoes, turnips, &C., /,
and supplying the towns and mines of
the State with the best butter, cheese,
beef, and mutton i'll the world.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
The Tower OF Bologna.

Four suicides during the present GEN.
tury have been committed at Bologna'by
jumping from the top of.the famous
leaning tower, Asiuelli, the climbing of
which involves q toilsome journey up
more than 400 worn and dusty stairs.
The first case occurred in 1888, when a
shoemaker, while sitting astride one of
the battlement, drank flask of wine as
he was sing ng, and then allowed him
self to fall backward into space. The
second was in 1874, young man, aged
23, allowed himself to fall, with hand
kerchief tied round his eyes, leaving his
coat, hat, sleeve cuts, aud two letters
behind him. The third happened two
years later; aR old man went with his
boy nephew, and while the boy was
obeying his directions to write the word
''infamy on the wall, threw himself over
the battlemeut. The fourth suicide has
Just taken place. A young man, who
had failed in certain examination, as
cended the tower with the keeper, light
ed a cigarette, and while the keeper was
showing hin the bell, jumped of. Two
ladies and gentlemen came up just after
he had jumped and found that the keep
er had tainted from fright.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
Iberia.

Africa has as many square miles of
territory as the United States and South
America. Liberia has q sea-ccast of 900
miles, extent 200 miles inland, and had
from Is, 900 to 20, 900 American Liber-
lans. who governed about ], 500 600 ma
tives. Because of the climate Liberia
was no place for a white man, yet Its
mortality had never equaled that of
jamestown or Plymouth, Mr.. Morris
in a recent lecture, exhibited large and
interesting collection of L1berian pro-
ducts, of which, he said, none were
more valuable than coffee. In pecun-
iary sense coffee was Liberals backbone.
Coffee grew all over the coun ry. All the
Liberians had to do was to tickle the soil
with hoe and it fairly laughed with
harvest. The lecturer showed specimens
of Llberian chocolate, cayenne pepper,
spices of all kinds, lima juice, cotton,
&C. Indigo plants, he said, grew as
thick i'll Liberia as the hue kleberry
bushes in New Jersey. AtricA's great
product, however. was palm-oiI. Lii
IBERIA possessed one remarkable thing. a
mountain of natural steel ore, believed
to be the only instance of natural steel
ore IN the world.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
GIyserine IN Beer.
young.

The following method of quantitative.
ly testing for glycerine in beer may be
found useful: The beer is mixed with
powdered slaked lime and an equal bulk
of fine quartz sand, and evaporated to q
paste on the water bath. When cold, the
residue form hard mass, which is pull
verized and extracted with so to 100 C. C.
Of mixture Of equal volumes of absolute
alcohol and ether in small stoppered
flask. On allowing the extract to evap-
crate, the glycerlneis is obtained free from
sugar. If two drops of it are put in a
dry test tube with two drops of phenol
previously hquefed), and the same
quantity OF sulphurio acid, and heated
very cautiously over the flame, butso as
to reach 120 deg. the formation of SOL
id brownish-yellow mass is perceived.
When cold little water is added and a
few drops of ammonia, when the brown
ish- yellow solid dissolves with splend.
id carmine red color.
The detection and estimation of gly-
cerine and the other bye products of
fermentation in beer. etc., would tend
to throw further light on what is at
present very obscure.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
The MaguIrioonce of Nero.

1t was to Nero that Tacitus applied
the expression, tr1credi6iLiasDl cul0itor.
What he not only desired but achieved
in the incredible in Roman history had
he not already shown what revolving
atrocities may be conceived by dis
eaSed imagination and executed by ir-
responsible power. After the burning
of the city he grati6ed his taste, in en-
tire disregard of the proprietors in re.
building it. lie at once appropriated a
number of the sites and a large por-
ton Of the public grounds for his new
palace. The porticoes, with their ranks
and columns, were mile long. The
vestlbule was large enough to contain
that colossal statue of him, in silver and
gold, one hundred and twenty feet high,
from which the Colosseum got its name,
The interior, was gilded throughout, and
adorned with ivory and mother-of-pearl.
The ceilings of the dining-rooms were
formed of movable tablets of ivory, which
shed flowers and perfumes on the COM
pany; the principal saloon had dome
which, moving day and night, initiated
the movements of the celestial bodies
When this palace was finished he ex-
claimed-"At last l am lodged like
man." His dIadem was valued at half
a million. His dresses, which he never
wore twice, were stiff with embroidery
and gold. He fshed with purple lines
and hooks of gold. He never travelled
with less than a thousand carriages.
The mules were shod with silver, the
muleteers clothed with the finest wool,
and the attendants wore bracelets and
necklaces of gold. FiYe hundred she
asses followed his wife Popp@a in her
progress, to supply milk for her bath.
He was fond of figuring in the circus as
a charloteer, and In the theatre as a
singer and actor. He prided himself on
being an artist, and when his possible
deposition was hlnted to him, he said
that artists could never be in want.
There was not vice to which he was
not given. nor a crime which he did not
commit. Yet the world, sxclaims Sue
tonius, endured this monster for four
teen years, and he was popular with the
multitude, who were puzzled by his
magnifcence and mistook his senseless
profusion for liberallty. On the ami
versary of his death, during many years,
they crowded to cover his tomb with
flowers.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
Painted Glass

Oudinot, the famous French painte
on glass, has been summoned to New
York to mount the seventeen windows
which he designed and painted for Will
liam X. Vanderbilt's house. Sixteen of
the windows are of uniform size but the
seventeenth fills the end of the dining
room and Is twenty one feet high. 1t
represents the meeting of Henry the
Fig and Francis the First in the Field
of the Cloth of God. The magnifc ent
picture is divided bv five horizontal and
four vertical sashes, but itS Rnlty is well
preserved. Henry is represented full
face mounted on great white horse and
Francis is seen in profile. Each king
has a following of knights, squiles, pur-
suivants, lance. spear and battleaxe
men-at arms, falcoLers, boWmen, whip
pers-in, testers and amusing dwarfs.
There are dogs for the field sports of
their maiesties, and splendid creatures
they are. The ladies represented are
Queen Claude and Anne Boleyn and III
all there are one hundred and thirty-thrce
figures on the big window. The other
sixteen windows are decorated with ar
mortal bearings of eight English and
eight French lords who were present
at the meeting of their kings. The sub
ject was chosen for the painter by Mrs.
Vanderbilt.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
A Dead Copper.

'T'm dead copper to country, and no
mistake" said seedy sidewalk lounger
recently. II went to Maine, and the Ice
crop failed; l went to Florida, and the
frosts killed all the gardens and orchards;
| went to Mississippi, and they had food;
| went to Californls, and the people began
to die with smallpox. Since struck this
State the Comstock mines have never paid
dividend, and if go to Oregon am
willing to bet they will have drought. I"
Now, see here" said Comstock vet
eran; ''if thought you were the Jonah OF
this camp I'd take you down and drown
YOU in the Jacket swamp"
Before ne could be captured the ragged
tourist had started-presumably for Ore
gon.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01
Christian Colleges.

There are il the United States accor-
ding to the latest report of the Commis-
sioner of Education, 364 colleges; of
these Al are Baptist, So Methodist, SO
Presbyterian, II Congregational and 10
Episcopalian. The total value of the
property of these institutions is, in round
numbers, $50, 900, 900. The average
value of college peoperty in the principal
evangelical denominations Is as follows:
Methodists, 81. rs member: Baptlsts,
So. 80 a member; Presbyterians, $S. 80 a
member; Congregationalists, $6.93;
EpiscopaIians 1887. The proportion
Of college students to members is thus
stated: Baptists, one to every $50 mem
bers; Methodists, one to every 1000
members; Presbyterians, one to every
600; Congregationalists, one to every
Alb Episcopalians, one to every 900.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

When the Atlantic express train over
the Central road reached Niles the other
day Detroit commercial traveller boar
ded the train to find every seat taken.
In the centre of Que coach one seat was
occupied by two satchels and another
by an overcoat, while the owGer of the
articles was in the smoking car. The
Detroiter gathered up all the baggage
and placed it on tAe wood box and oc-
oupied the seats with his own, and he had
just got comfortably seated when the
late occupant returned from his smoke.
He saw what had transpired, and he was
white with anger, when he began:
"Who m owed my baggage:"
81 did," was the reply.
''SIr. / represent the wholesale crock.
cry house of Blank and Blank, of New
York, and /"
Il knew it-saw J our name on your
baggage" interrupted the other, "Have
you seen the papers to-day?"
mo sir"
81 thought not. Vel, your house has
failed for S2SS, OOO-can't pay 20 ce ITS
on the dollar-bad bust-no time for
you to swell over two seats-crowd in
somewhere or stand by the stove, and
when we get to Detroit I'll help you TO
get q pass home. Sorry for you and
all that, but our house is rated A /, has
. reserve of S75, ,000in mortgages, and
the survival of the fttest is principal
older than the hills. Have clgar?"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

applied to him az soon ss the fNilure had
been made public, he had added that of
suicide.
They were fearful tidings that reach
ed his wife's ear in the midst of the fes-
tivities. and hurried her home and vain
ly might she, in frantic accents cali en-
that lifeless form "only to speak to her
once more" and she would be content to
'1ive on dry crusts in hovel for the
rest of her days"
Then she called herself his muderess," I"
and wringing her hands necessarily,
cried: "Just tso far. too fart
Vain, vain lament
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

The stream Is cAlmest when Is nears the tide,
And the flowers are sweetest At the eVsntids,
And birds most musical At the close OF day,
And saints diVineSt whom they pASS away.
MerRing is holy, but holier charm
Lies folded close in Evenings robe Of balm,
And weary man must ever love her best,
For morning calls to toll, but night TO rest.
She.comeS from Heaven, and on her wings dotf
bear
4 holy fragrance, like the breath OF prayer,
Footsteps Of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eyes OF day in peace.
All things are hushed before her as she tnrows
o'er earth and sky her mantle of repose;
There is a calmer beauty and power
That Morning knows not, IN the Evening hour.
Cntll the evening we must weep and toll
Plow llfe's stern iurrow, dig the Weedy soil,
Tread with soft feet our rough and thorny way,
And bear the heat and burden Of the day.
Oh when our sun Is setting may We glide
Like summer Evening aswn the golden tide,
And cave behind us, as we pass away,
Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

To acquire few tongues Is the task
of a few ears; but to be eloquent in
one Is the labor of life time.
The proper way to check sIander is to
despise it; attempt to overtake and re-
iute it, and it will outrun you,
1t is wond rful to note the number OF
men who see the value OF thing after
it is beyond their reach.
Brains cannot be measured by the
size of the head, nor sloquerce by the
extent of the mouth.
Each man has an aptitude born with
him to do easily some feat impossibleto to
any other.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-06-01

Good taste rejects excessive nicety;
1t treats little things as little things and
is not hurt by them.
The hardest rock is made of the soft
est mud. Don't allow the sentiment of
habit to harden into vice.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-11-25

~ REAT ADDITIONS to our former
VI stock, OK Sucz, Kalakaua, and City
of Sydney, of
Ship Chandlery & Ship Stores:
Cordagc-hemp Manila, cotton duck,
Flax canvas, flax sail twinc, beeswaX,
Blocks, oars to "a # shackles,
Bales of oakum, hooks and thimbles,
Club blocks, snatch blocks, row-locks,
Iron strap blocks, mast beads, shelves,
Metalinc and patent bushings,
Stockholm tar, pitch, coal tar, tar oil,
Bright and black varnishes, wire rigging
Marlinc, selling houseine, ratlin,
Spunyarn, caulking irons, copper tacks,
Iron tacks, connecting links,
Marlin spikes, caulking mallets,
Mast hoops, hand spikes, pitch mops,
Tar brushes, &c.
Paints and Paint Oil, full assortment
of all kinds and colors;
Pacific Rubber Paint, new lot, includ.
all the various colors;
Brushes-Paint, varnish, pencil, white.
wash, paste, artist, shoe, scrub, and
sash-a good assortment of each;
Axes and hatchcts, wood and shingling;
Ship lanterns and side-lights-the Rcgu.
lation article.
Groceries anil Professions.
A full assortment of fine groceries, in.
Guiding some choice varieties of
canned goods:
Table pie fruits, jams and jclles, a new
article, put up by new firm, and
we can highly recommend them as
being something really nice;
A now Inf Of Tons includinr Comm emma.
rior Japan varieties;
Sugar-Rcfincd and raw;
Hams, bacon, lard, smoked beef, in tins,
new article;
Curried fowl, Currlcd oysters, t
Plum pudding, kits salmon bellies,
Kits mackercl, kits tongues and sounds,
Goldfish, cheese, Oxford sausage, in tins:
Raisins, in q, 4 and 4 boxes;
Raisins, in tins; currants in A & lib tins
Pickles, in gal, q gal, qts, & 3 gal kgs
Corn starch, tapioca, vcrmicelli,
Macaroni, dried apples pruncs, plums,
peaches and pears.
FLoURAND BREAD.
Golden Gate extra family, Eldorado,
Golden City, Graham, Oat and corn meal
Medium bread, assorted crackers,
Ginger snaps, tatfy, saloon pilot bread,
Soda biscuits, rice and coffee,
Whale and sperm oil,
Sperm candles, As and Gs.
AU Of tile d0oce aoiU be sold at tile
Best Market Rates,
Buyers are most respectfully invited to
call and examine our stock.
1875 BOLLES & co.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-11-25
MUSIC! MUSIC!

We will enable
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

Ar the Paris postoflice thieves stole 1856 let
ters, almost all addressed TO bankers and mer-
chants, and estimated to contain 5000, 900.
DIRECTOR of tho Bank of Sicily has been
abducted by brigands, who demand $4,000
for his release.
MR. EGAN, treasurer of the Irish land
league says that the leagues entire outlay
has been Gt26,OOO, and that it has on hand
f5o00O.
TnIKTY-F1vE persons were reported killed by
an explosion in q colliery near Sunderland
England.
A BAILIFT was shot dead near Limerick, Ire
land, and q rent agent was shot in the legs by
disguised men at Castle Island.
JEWS are focking to Odessa, Russia, from
Balta and the vicinity of that town. All their
houses are said to have been wrecked and
their property destroyed The number Of fam
lilies that have been ruined is very large.
The inhabitants on the coast of Labrador are
without food and some of them, including two
men and several children, havo died of starva-
ton.
FIFTEEN persons were killed by colliery ex-
plosion in West Stanley, England.
AN Irish bailiff in the employ of Lori Le-
confeld has been found dead with his head
fractured.
The grand jury at Reading, England, indict-
ed Roderick Maclcan for the attempted assas-
sination Of Queen Victoria on March 2, and the
prisoners trial at once began. He pleaded not
guilty, and his counsel made insanity the
ground for defense. The superintendents of
two insane asylums testified that Maclean was
insane. The jury found he prisoner not guilty
on the ground of insanity.
MAcLEAN who shot at Queen Victoria, is to
be kept in custody during the queens pleasure.
FORTY persons were injured, some with fatal
results, and fully thousand houses destroyed
during the progress of anti-Jewish riots al
Balta, Russia.
POLITICAL massacres have recommended in
Mandalay, Burmah. King The AZ has put to
death an inferior wife, two half sisters, the
chancellor of the exchequer and fifty Of their
relatives.
CHARLES R. DARWIN, the eminent philoso.
pher and naturalist, author Of "The Origin OF
Species" and other well-known works on the
descent of man, died a few days ago at his
I6slutuC6 uSdi OIPluStOiJ A1u6LaA-J a6Su
seventy-three years.
FROM Odessa, Russia, intelligence is re-
ceived of horrible outrages against the Jews in
the neighboring Russian towns. Whole streets
were sacked and the rioting assumed the char
acter OF a struggle for the annihi lation of the
Jews. At Balta whole streets of houses were
wrecked and 1000 Jewish families were ruined
Il n 1zr-
SIXTY Irish families have just been evicted
by the Marquis of Sligo.
IN the first three months this year 8, 1892 per-
sons were evicted in Ireland The total mum.
Der Of arrests thus far amounts to over 900.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Spontaneous Combustion.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
believes that the burning of Walker
hall at Amherst college was caused by
spontaneous combustion, the floors
having been oiled on the Gay before.
It also says that come years ago Con,
tractor Johnson, who built the North
ampton First church and many other
similar edifces in the Connecticut
valley, chad en- impression" one
evening that something was not right
about a church he was finishing, the
pews of which the workmen had been
oiling that day; SO he went to the
building and unlocked it to find that
flames were just breaking out near the
entrance of the audience'room. When
one of the men left work at 6 o'clock he
laid the piece of cotton waste which he
had been using on the rail of the last
pew, and the result was spontaneous
combustion in three or four hours.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

When the nerves are unstrung, the head aches,
turbed. and general depreciation of vital
power is experienced. Such state of things
cannot long exist without the development of
serious disease. The most active and genial
invig orant known is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. The absolute purity Of its spirituous
basis and botanic ingret tents gives y a per-
manent claim to public confidence, and Its sur
passing medicinal value is admitted BY medical
men Of distinction, by whom it is widely used
in private practice. For fever and ague--both
as a preventive and remedy-dyspepsia, liver
complaint, bilious remittent fever, constipation,
choleraic complaints, fatulence, and all in
testnal disorders, 1t is thoroughly reliable
remedy. II il the anti-febrile specific par ex-
cellence of tho malarial districts of this and
other countries, where diseases born of miasms
prevail, and as general household remedy it
IL also universally esteemed.