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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Fashion Fancies.

Colored red-spreads are fashionable.
Polka dots, specks and circles are all
the rage.
Polka dotted neck wear is as fashion
able as ever.
a feature of new walking acketa
are shaped waistcoats.
Back draperies are not so elaborate
in the looping as formerly.
There are beaded laces worked in
dark rich colors on black ground.
Gilded paragon frames are placed
over the Innings OF handsome parasols.
Ohenille-spotted, silvered aud shaded
tulles appear among ball dress fabrics.
Navy blue asserts itself in all the new
goods, silk, woolen, cotton and
linen.
There is revival of the taste for cri
entail colors and designs in all kinds OF
goods.
Open work embroidery of black silk
on net will be used as trimming for
grenadines.
a large pouf bow, with wide ends,
trims the backs of some of the new
mantles.
Maroon or Egyptian red in combina-
ton with porcelain blue is much ad-
mired in lawn tennis goods.
A silver fly with wings Rhine
crystals and ruby eyes, on a golden
leaf, is late design in hairpins.
Among the model bonnets from Paris
are polle-shaped Panamas, lined with
velvet and trimmed with handsome
satin ribbons, trails of tho most ex-
quisite flowers, and aigrettes and
pompons in soft and beautiful tints.
Dresses of fine French lawn will this
summer be made in short princesse
style, the upper part formed of per.
pendicular shirrings and bands of in
sertion, and the lower portion of
founces embroidered twelve inches
deep.
Boots laced up the front are coming
into fashion for the promenade. They
are in hid or morocco, faced aud finished
with patent leather. The Henri Deux
shoe in black satin nearly covers the
instep and is embroidered in fire
close pattern with jet beads.
For spring and summer wear fancy
silks arc in great demand. In tafetas,
Louisine, glace, chene and other light
silks, are found some novel and attrac-
tive patterns and combinations. These
fabrics make inexpensive and dress
costumes which, with care, will last two
seasons, especially if thin lining is
used in making them up.
Bustles are worn quite below the
waist. line in the back, and do not reach
over the hips as in the past, the bout
FAINT effect here being produced entirely
by the pannier-draperies, to which arc
added huge sashes of moire, satin OF
silk, which are draped and tied above
the low-set hustle, the ends falling very
often to the foot of the skirt in the
back,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
FOOD FACTS.

Maize, or Indian corn, is one of the
most nutritious of the grains, and con-
tains more of the fatty clements than
the others.
The substitution of from four to six
drains of glycerine for the amount of
sugar usually added to cream, milk or
water, is recommended in preparing
food for infants.
The better qualities of Aaxseed con-
tain about thirty per cent. of oil, and
if we'll masticated may be eaten freely
by those whose system requires more
fat--such people as are recommended
to use cod-liver oil.
Beans contain all the elements of
true aliment excepting fat. To obtain
this it is not necessary to bake beans
| with pork. A fat piece of corned beef
is an excellent substitute and is ex-
tensively used by those who entertain
prejudice to pork.
During the first two months of an
infants life it should not be fed oftener
than once in two hours. After this the
interval between meals may be length.
ened with advantage, and at the end of
six months farinaceous or starchy food
may be allowed in small quantity.
A writer in the LdwS Of Life, speak
ing of pork parasites, tries to make the
swine-eaters finch by stating that an
ounce of flesh may contain quarter of
million of the infnitesimal larvae Of
the trichine, and that pork eater may
with q few mouthfuls FIJI himself with
80, 1000, 900 vermicularis.
One who has made the calculations
finds that as flesh producing food
eggs are equal to meat; that they sur
pass it in ability as heat and force,
producing agent; and that pound of
corn will be more than twice as valua-
bic if transformed into eggs by means
of the hen, as when put into the form
of meat by feeding to pigs.-Dr. Foote's
Healh Monthly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Death from q Tower,

Four suicides during the present cen
tury have been committed at Bologna
Italy, by jumping from the top of the
famous leaning tower, AsineIli, the
climbing of which involves a toilsome
journey up more than 400 worn and
dusty stairs. The first case occurred in
1888, when shoemaker, while sitting
astride one of the battlements, drank a
flask of wine as he was singing, and
then allowed himself to fall backward
into space. The second was in 1874, o
young man, aged twenty three, allowed
himself to fall, with handkerchief
tied round his eyes, leaving his coat,
hat, sleeve cuffs, and two letters be-
hind him. The third happened two
years later; an old man went up with
his boy nephew, and while the boy was
obeying his directions to write the
word infamy" on the wall, threw
himself over the battlement. The
fourth suicide has just taken place. A
young man who had failed in certain
examination, assembled the tower with
the keeper, lighted o cigarette, and
while the keeper was showing him the
bell, jumped off. Two ladies and gen
tlemen came up just after he had
jumped, and found that the keeper had
faiLted from fright.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Arabella-No; powder will not make
your hair bang.
Circus Jokes are generally served up
like boiled mutton-with caper sauce.
Moonbeams are the strongest tim
bers used in building castles in the air.
-Picayatne.
The contribution plate passed about
in fashionable church is apt to come
back nickel plated.-Picayune.
Fashionable ladies with short sleeves
wear their bracelets above the elbow.
Policemen continue to put theirs on the
wrists.
He who courts and goes away
May live to court another day;
But he who weds and courts girls still,
May get in court against his will.
Salem Sunbeam.
An italian glass manufacturer i3 MAX
ing great success with ladies' glass
bonnets snd hats. Thank heavenl We
will now have something transparent -
Rome Sentinel.
Or Continent says that marriage is
on the decline. That may be, but the
ladies who are over fifteen and under
sixty years of age are not much on the
Decline e1aS SDtingS.
A little boy who wouldn't run to the
store for his mother until he had a
drink of water, pleaded in extenua-
tion of his disobedience that even
river couldn't run when it was dry"
A man does his counting in private
and seclusion. John Henry, as O boy,
L 81, ,Ol -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Perils of Drcssm n king.

The occupation of dressmaking is by
no means 50 sac as is generally sup
posed. A dressmaker admitted into
the Leeds dispensary, in England,
was found to have distinct blue line
on her gums, with simultaneous symp-
toms, such as furred tongue, inhamma-
tion of the lips, and general debility
all signs pointing to the probability of
poisoning by lead, The doctor in at
tendance on her for some time failed to
discover the source, and was beginning
to think the blue line had been caused
in some other way, when he accidentally
learned from merchant that silken
thread being sold by weight and not by
length, is sometimes adulterated with
sugar of lead. He then questioned the
patient, and she informed him that it
had been common practice with her
at work to hold silk, rs all other kinds
Of thread, in her mouth, and, that she
had done this the more readily with
silk, inasmuch as it had a sweet taste.
This characteristic is sure indication
of the presence OF lead, and all thread
possessing it should either be rejected or
used with caution. Tt will he found
that the silk thread of the best makers
is tasteless, whereas some inferior
threads are sweet
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Our Agricultural ARMY.

Just now the farmers all over the land
are astir. Think of it during the cur
rent year in the United States as MANY
as l2O, 900, 600 acres will be under grain |
So many acres to be plowed, to be har.
rowed, to be sowed and planted. and
cultivated and reaped. How vast the
army of our American farmers; and no
standing army either. Does the heart
almost grow sick at the thought of such
an amount of plodding, plodding, plod.
ding toll, toll, toll, involved in all this ?
But think, too, how all this measure
less labor is by no means a prosaic af
fair; 1t is capable of being cheered by
all the hope that comes of natures an
nual prophecy, and all the subtle glad
ness that springs from the felt poetry
OF earth and sky and the advancing
ever changeful sons.-E@charage. o
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Punctuation.

Punctuation is an art, and one that
has been learned in comparatively
modern times. The Greeks did not
know the meaning of it, and left no
space between their words. The Ro-
mans put up kind of division without
any apparent method. Up to the end
OF the fifteenth century only the colon
and the comma were introduced, and
the latter at that time only as perpen-
dicular figure. We are indebted to
Aidus Manutius, an eminent printer,
for the comma as we have it now, and
in 1880 he introduced the semi-coIon
into printing, and published a set of
rules for the guidance of writer's.
1t is not known by whom notes
OF interrogation or exclamation
were first used, but inverted commas
("l were brought into common use bv
French printer to supersede the use
OF italics, but the English adoptad
them to specify quotation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
The Use of Bank Checks,

In the reign of William old men were
still living who could remember the
days when there vas not single bank
ing house in the city of London. So
late as the time Of the Restoration every
trader had his own strong box in his
own house, and when an acceptance was
presented to him told down the crowns
and caroluses on his own counter.
But the increase of wealth had pro-
duced its natural effect, tho subdivision
of labor. Before the end Of the reign
of Charles the Second new mode of
paying and receiving money had come
into fashion among the merchants of
the capital. A class of agents arose
whose Office was to keep the cash of the
commercial houses.
This new branch of business naturally
fell into the hands of the go'dsmitbs,
who wero accustomed to traffic largely
III precious metals, and who had vaults
in which great masses of bullion could
lie secure from fire and from robbers.
1t was at the shops of the goldsmiths
of Lombard street that all the payments
in coin were made. Other traders gave
and received nothing but paper.
The great change did not take place
without much opposition and clamor.
Old-fashioned merchants complained
bitterly that q class of men who, thirty
years before. had confined themselves
to the proper functions and had made
fair profit by embossing silver bowls
and chargers, by setting jewels for fine
ladies', and by selling pistols and dol
lars to gentlemen setting out for the
Continent, had become the treasurers,
and were fast becoming the masters OF
the whole city. These usurers, it was
said, played at hazard with what had
been earned by the industry and
boarded by the thrift of other men. If
the dice turned up we'll the knave who
kept the cash became an alderman If
they turned up i'll the dupe who fur
nished the cash became bankrupt.
On the other side the eonvenienc
of the modern practice were set forth
in animated language. The new sys
tenn, it was said, saved both labor and
money. Two CLERKS seated in one
counting house, did what, under the old
system, must have been done by twenty
clerks in twenty different establish
ments. A goldsmith's note might be
transferred ten times in a morning, and
thus hundred guineas, locked in his
safe close to the exchange, did what
would formerly have required thou
sand guineas, dispersed through many
tills, some on Ludgate hill, some in
Austin Friars and some in Tower
street. Currency Controller RnGr,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Wit of the Little Ones,

'What is that man yelling at ?" in
quired Tommy of his younger brother.
''At the top of his voice." replied the
little one.
A little girl read a composition before
the minister. The subject was Sc cow"
She woye in this complimentary sen.
tence: "a COW is the most useful ami
NAL in the world except religion"
"Ma, am 1 all made now ?" said a lit
tie miss of three and one-half years AT
the breakfast table yesterday morning.
"Why, dear?" said the fond mother.
because I have had my ears pierced
and was vaccinated yesterday" said
little Tot.
Nellie has four -year-old sister Mary,
who complains to mamma that her
"button shoes" we're "hurting." "Why,
Matte, you've put them on the wrong
feet" Puzzled and ready to cry, she
made answer: "Whatll do, mamma
They's all the feet I've got."
A lady was singing at charity con-
cert in England and the audience in
sisted upon hearing her song a second
time. Her daughter, little child, was
present, and on being asked afterward
how her mamma had sung, replied
every badly, for they made her do it
all over again"
A young lady having " set her cap
for rather large specimen of the op.
posite sex, and having failed to win
him, was telling her sorrows to cou-
pie of her confdants, when one OF
them confronted her with these words
4" Never mind, Mollie, there as good
fish in the sea as ever was caught.
Mollie knows that" replied her little
brother, but she wants a whale"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
Popular Resorts in a Spanish Town,

The people .(of Toledo generally
were very simple and good natured,
and in particular q young commercial
traveller from Barcelona whom we met
ezerted himself to entertain US. The
chief street was lined with awnings
reaching to the curbstone in front of
tho shops, and every public doorway
was screened by q striped curtain.
Pushing aside one OF these, our new
acquaintance introduced us to what
seemed q dingy bar, bat by a series of
turIings opened out into q spacious
concealed cafe-that of the Two Broth.
ers-where we frequently repaired with
him, to sip chiccory and cognac or Play
dominoes. On these occasions ne kept
the tally in pencil on the marble table,
marking the side of himself a0d n
friend with their initials, and heading
ours "The Strangers" All travellers in
Spain are described by natives as
strangers" or "French," and the rep
utation for pure Partisan accent which
We acquired under these circumstances,
though brief, was glorious. To the Two
Brothers resorted many soldiers, shop.
keepers and housewives during fixed
hours OF the afternoon and evening,
but at other times it was as forsaken as
Don Roderick's palace. Another place
of amusement was the Grand Summer
theater, lodged within the ragged walls
of large building which had been half
torn down. Here We sat under the stairs,
luxurlatlng IN the most expensive seats
(at eight cents per head), surrounded
by full audience Of exceedingly good
aspect, including some Toledan
ladies of great beauty, and lis.
tened to a zarzuela, or popular comic
opera, in which the prompter took an
almost too energetic part. The ticket
collector came in among the chairs to
take up everybody's coupons, with very
much the air of being one of the fam
ily; for while performing his stern duty
he smoked a short brier pipe, giving to
the act an indescribsble dignity, which
threw the whole business of the
tickets into proper subordination.
In returning to our inn about
midnight, We were attracted by the free
cool sound of guitar duette issuing
from a dark street that rambled of
somewhere like a worm.t track in old
wood, and, pursuing the sound, We
discovered, by the aid of a match
lighted for cigarette, two men stand
ing in the obscure alley, and serenadine
couple of ladies in a balcony, who
positively laughed with pride at th,
attention. The men, it proved, hat
been hired by some admirer, and SO ou
friend engaged them to perform for u
at the hotel the following night
George p. Lathrop, in Harper.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
FOR THE LADIES,
Language of n Fan.

Beaconsfeld writes: A Spanish lady
with her fan might shame the tactics Of
q troop of horses. Now she unfurls it
with the slow pomp and conscious ele-
gance of the bird of Juno; now she
futters it with the languor of a listless
beauty, now with all the liveliness of q
vivacious one. Then, in the midst of q
very tornado, she closes it with whirr,
which makes you start. Magical weapon!
1t speaks aparticular language and gal
lantry requires no other mode to inter-
pret Spanish woman's most subtle con-
ceits or her most unreasonable de-
mands.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

The little snowfakes come
When the singing birds are dumb,
And fill the empty nest;
And the frost upon the pane
Mimics ferns and bearded grain.
And the blossoms we love best
The pretty wind-fowers rise
With an air of sweet surprise
When the laughing spring
Calls the crocus from its sleep,
Bids the grass begin to creep,
And the sparrow sing.
The daisies lint-white flocks
Push and jostle: and the locks
or the barberry shine,
When the mosses' fringes spread,
And the dsdder's jewe'ed thread
Make the meadows fine.
When the autumn walks abroad,
Torches of the eolden-rod
Burn the livelong day;
And the BIRDS are flying far
When witch-hazel's yellow star
Lends its little ray.
Mary A. Prescott
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27
NO.1O.
Hands.

A little hand, fair, soft hand,
Dimpled and sweet to kiss;
No.sculptor ever carved from stone
A lovelier hand than this.
A hand as idle and white
As lilies on their stems;
Dazzling with rosy finger-tips,
Dazzling with crusted gems.
Another hand-a tired old hand,
Written with many lines;
A faithful, weary hand, whereon
The pearl of great price shines.
For folded as the winged fly
Sleeps in the chrysalis,
Within this little palm I see
That lovelier hand than this.
-Hdrriet Prescott Spoford.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

Amsterdam, the chief commercial city
of the Netherlands, is to have an inter.
national exhibition from May to October,
1883.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

AS no roads are so rough as those
that have just been mended, SO no sin
ners are so intolerant as those who have
Just turned saint.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-27

hand corner, number eight is wrapped
In paper, number twelve is in rag.
Things will be mixed in the family
circle. Now have my corner, Tower
has his and Nepenthe hers. Did l tell
you about Nepenthe? Well, she's re-
markable cat of three colors, is double
paved and has great yellow, moon
like eyes. But it is no reason because
there are four corners in the room that
| want Dolly Vance set up in the
fourth. l don't want her, but I sup
pose she will have to come. It's my
misfortune to have relations.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-25
LIST Of REGISTERED VOTERS.
Diamond Springs Precinct NO. ~
For the Year 1881

Allen Albert Highly L l.
Gov VIM Johnson Al
Cos,ich Frank Montgo merry Andrew
Crofut ] Mostnln = "
Eddy A Tart ueofe0 Alan,
The Registry Agent will receive Oo;. nsrson
to the right to vote on the part oil Any yyonrth
regi tered until 8 O'Clock P. M; on 'ne
day previous to the day of election. ,sously
Ali persons whose names may Dc elt,sd 10 sp.
entered i'm the above list are requested S
pesr at the Registry Agents office and nav
said error corrected. -, october
pst q az my om'e GEO. VI. TAFT
Registry Agent for Diamond s IPsv.Ss.
trict, Eureka County, stste Oh -
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-25
LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS
COrtez Precinct No. IO-ro.
Year 1852.

oor'ez Precinct No. lO-For III.
Year 1852.
Acos'a Henley Frank
Do l . oonn kunzman Frank
cassidy A Ian
Dnoent Martin David
Duooniihun Moses Ohio
Duff Robert Martini
Dowdiug G Marcia
Earies VIM MacLeod D
Eckher WIZ c Moves 7,
ESTRADA Osborn Il
Gilham + h Rolls John W
Grlswoid Sf Roblnett E
Goodman P Smith II T.
Hogan Michael padding
Hensley JohnJ Walsh
The Registry Agent will receive ob,so.,...
to the right to vote on the part If anv nsrsns
registered until 6 O'Clock P NJ. on tba fenson
day previous to the day of election. -'ur'n
All persons whose lanes NAV be erronoor,,-
entered In the above list are requested .nsLly
pear at the Registry Agents office and SsEp. ,
said error corrected. ua'e
Dated at my Office this 2Oth day of oc,oh.,
A. D. 1882. JANIS ". SuITIT0
Registry Agent for Cortez Precinct ,n,.,.
County, State of Nevada.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-25

Zottman Henry
The Registry Agent will receive objections
to the right to vote on the part of any person
registered until Q O'Clock p. n. on the fourth
day previous to the day of electiou.
All persons whose names may be erroneously
entered in the above list are requested to az.
pear at the Registry Agents office and have
said errer corrected.
Dated at my Office this goth day of October,
A. d. 1882. T. H. HARMON,
Justice of the Peace and ex oficio Registry
Agent in and for Eureka Township, Pre-.
cincts Nos. l and 2, In Eureka County.
State of Nevada,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-25
LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS.

htOI VI n6ut'
Eureka Precin
Yea
Allen Henry
Adams VIM
Anderson VIM A
Anderson Gus
Brandt L
Burns George ]
Beck Philip
Bigil Pedro
B ,yle Charles
Bassettl James
Bur ess G 4
Bass Albert
Barbieri Charles
Bolton John II
Brown J W
BonettI Peter
Bressman A J
Baroni Apdrs
Blanchard W II
Belli Angelo
Boysen @
Bennetts John V
BOtt,ni Gerolome
Bird Louis
Bannon Hugh
Bertrand E
Bon etti b
| Camper R
Ccnnor P E
Clark A G
Cardiff Denis
~Cavanaugh NJ
Clark George
Conforth 4 n
Campbell Neil
Crawford J NJ
Conway John
Cohen Micha
Clark G III
CulluIn b +
Copp U ]
Cooney Dennis
Cont Gabriel
Carter J NJ
Carroll Frank
Coughiin John
Dean @ F
Dyer " 5
Davis John
Dumas A
Dunkel .
Durkan John q
D~ahlgreen L
Deter Thomas
Durley VIM A
Davidson J
Deps Ii Domenico
Dickes z G
Delaney Maurice
~Dougherty VIM
Egleston George A
Eaton Henry b
Emmons Ira
Evans D NJ
Edwards Frank
Farlipger NJ
F chs Conrad
Filipp:ni Angelo
Fatt John
Farovini Eugenio
| Grimm Charles
| Gilnour Thomas
| ~Gregovich N L
Gessie W r
Godfrey John
Gordillo NJ j
Guldi Giovanni
Gregovlch G
| Griffith J L
| Giudici Joseph
| Giuni Dominica
| Giuachino Orsoni
Hyer Charles
Il ldebrandt o
Hubbard CO
u.ndr,rEs n A
| uIm.sI'
| Hills George W
| Hoegh Jacob Fl
| HanscUm Charles S
| Hickey James E
Hickey James
Hsskins Wilson
Hill ]
Hansen P
Hall John J
Houghey Pat
Michael
1-,r.
Iones .Josanb W
~ ~
J0senb simon
Jsrvis
Io,aeD D
ming onsries
hnlght Hank
ming John
hlVettAA
heene
hyle Joseph
Kinder ] l.
Kraus
Lachman VIM
Leonard IhOMas
Levy Michael
Lesser
Lanestr' n
Lsmotte
LAM Joseph
Ley george
Lar Iner WIZ
Lay lie "
Levy Marion
Leyshon WI
No-oont;n. G.hrial
No. 10
Martin
Match
| Mason James F
Mathews W H
Maillot V 4
MinoIa Giacoma
Molinelli Lambert
Mari John W
Montgomery W A
Murphy Pa |
snr,arJ n
Nsraaroli Giacoma
NJ F-rdtnand
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-25
LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS
Pinto District No. S-FOr the Yesr
1852.

1889.
Fish Henry Moore Robert
Fish Cyrus NJ ,rston L I
FensteImaker Henry G North NJ
FITZPATRICK Thomss Potter John
Lock Eugene Smith n
The Registry Agent will receive obiee,io,s
to the right to vote on the part of any persm
registered until 6 O'Clock P. M, on the fou,th
day previous to the day OF election.
All persons whose names may be erroneously
entered IN the above list are requested TO an.
pear at the Registry Agents off e and bsys
said error corrected.
Dated at my office this Goth day of October.
A. D. 1872. henry FISH
Registry Agent at Pinto district, Eures,
County, State of Nevada.