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Evening journal., 1889-01-29
He is Not Here.

A telegram was received in this city
yesterday afternoon addressed TO Senator
M. 5. Quay, care of A. Wellings Leach.
1t is needless to say that Mr.. Quay was
not found, being in Florida.
The telegram was forwarded this morn
inc To Mr. Quay
Evening journal., 1889-01-29

To make silk which las been "tumbledn
and wrinkled appear nearly like new, sponge
il on tho surface with weak solution of gum
arabic on white gloves, and iron it on the
wrong side Strcns black tea, cold, is GOOD
thing 70 clean black Sill.
Evening journal., 1889-01-29

Mrs. Eliza H. Schumacher of Boston,
Mass, will lecture at Friends Meeting
House. Fourth and West streets on
Thursday afternoon beginning at
o'clock on the subject The Vatican and
it's Art Treasures.
Evening journal., 1889-01-29

inches in diameter. The buoy is anchored
in perpendicular position. the iron por-
tion extending above the wat, =. but far
enough below the surface to prevent the
LOG from being cnt by ice
Evening journal., 1889-01-29
THE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION.
not the Executive Committee, But the
Legislative Committee.

Legislative Committee.
The conference which have been held
in the Interest of securing better legisla-
ton for the city, under the auspices of
the Citizens Association, have been held
by the Legislative Committee Of that or
ganization and lot by the Executive
Committee as has been frequently stated
of late in the newspapers. The difference
between the two committees is that the
Executive COMMITTEES was appointed BY
the president William H. Swift. for the
purpose OF seeing TO ID that the laws are
executed. while the Legislative Commit
tee simply advises as TO what legislation
is best for the city
Evening journal., 1889-01-29
Tha Gorernment,s nnnrs

Enoch Moore has made at his shipyard
two buoys of peculiar construction for
the United States Lighthouse Board.
They are of logs about twenty
feet long, into the end OF
which is driven a w-onghf iron
Evening journal., 1889-01-29

Commencing February the B. & o.
railroad will sell excursion tickets to
Philadelphia, Chester and intermediate
stations. good for two days instead of one
as at present The excursion rate 10
Philadelphia is $i0O
Evening journal., 1889-01-29
Wnmlnrton Clsarlng-House.

The exchanges of the Wilmington banks
al tue clearing house to day we're: Oi-ai
Tags. $l26s 24t s5i balances. ftl, 3G99s.
Evening journal., 1889-01-29

pochondria, softening OF brains and bones
ulcers, hcrofula and other constitutional
diseases of malignant type have been success
tuliy treated by US during period of 40 years.
and are still receiving our daily attention. ~
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who seek our advice, whether poor OF rich.
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closed.
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Evening journal., 1889-01-29
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Evening journal., 1889-01-29

lkEoisTRnED PHYsIcIANa.l
Ne. aH n. Second st. PhiiN
continue TO treat and cure ala
lisorders arising from youths
III lmprudence, excesses and
neglect in after life. DebilitR
and diseases Of the nervous
system Of both sexes resulting
IN indigestion, flushing of thA
heart, lassitude, want OF en-
ergy, aversion to society, l0aa
Of memory. fremhlinp hw
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Reed BIRD and nrookinr Bird.

The reed bird of the Delaware and the
rivers and regions south of that stream
is the rollicking bobolink of our New
England fields. Here is his true home,
even if his residence in it is not so long
as it is in the south. Here he is adorned
with gay piebald coat, instead of the
somber suit of black in which he appeals
when in more southern latitudes, and
here he nests and sings and rears his
brood. Here in the sunny green fields of
New England, through all the charming
May and for some way into June, he
pours out the most peculiar, the most
over bubbling, frolicsome, staggering,
rollicking and tipsy of all bird music.
He is not so abundant here as he was in
the days before he was shot by the thou
sand by sportsmen as the reed bird of the
lower Susquehanna and the lower Della
ware, and before set of worthless men
and boys here in southern New England
acquired, through somebody's ingenuity,
trap which catches him.
Connecticut fields are not so filled as
they were fifty years ago with his swag-
gering and most peculiar tinkling song.
1t may be said of him and the moclling
bird that if both or either had been
known to Europe for the last two thou
sand years, and particularly to Italy,
Greece and England, there would have
been a greater fame for either than the
nightingale now has. But the pothunt-
ers for the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
New York markets are destroying the
bobolink as the reed bird, and the negro
with his shotgun blazing away at the
mocking bird (he can't shoot him except
when the bird is at rest) is fast COM
pleting what the nest robbing young ne
groes who supply northern buyers had
long ago begun-the destruction of the
superb mocking bird, the finest songster
as well as the most spirited and intelli-
gent of our American birds.-Hartford
Times.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27

While it is well known that the most
abstruse problems have been worked out
in sleep, and the most astounding plots
found in dreamland, still the majority of
dreams yield nothing that can be con-
verted into every day power a fool is
not turned into wise man when he
goes to sleep, though the opposite OF this
does sometimes seem to be true.
Said a distinguished woman; 81 made
up the most exquisite bit of poetry in
my dreams. 1t comforted me unspeak-
ably, and as awoke I repeated the
words mechanically over and over again:
The COW was struck with an inverted
toadstool, and there's the end of it.
That was the poem!
An artist of repute heard terrible
groans, followed by piercing yells from
the next room, where friend was sleep
ing. Thinking burglar was numbering
the man, he jumped to the rescue. He
found his friend sitting up in bed, asleep,
but sobbing and crying like baby. AZ
ter few vigorous shakes, and stern APP
peals to his manhood, he managed to
bring forth the following appeal
Don't you come! 1t will get you, too!
Get out of the way! It's dreadfulm
''What is the natter" demanded the
artist.
"Boo-hoo!'' walled the dazed dreamer.
"I have been in such awful danger!
Boo-hoo!"
''It's all right, old fellow! Tell me
what it is.
The crying man sat up in bed. He
wiped his eyes with the sheet, gulped
down a sob, and feebly said:
''Oh, I've had such an awful time.
I've been chased all around by piece of
brown paper!"-Youth's Companion
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Personal journalism.

Apart from the value of personal
journalism as historical material, l hold
that the desire for personal details with
regard to public men is healthy, rational
and should be yielded to. Statesmen
are not ciphers, without form of blood
or passion. Their utterances and acts
are not pure intellectual secretions. If
you want to know how such and such
an act of weakness or folly is Ineligible
at some crisis in the history of a politi-
clan, you must have learned something
more of the politician than you can get
from the verbatim report of his speeches
or the colorlcss and dry language of his
public documents. Behind every speech
and every act there is the mana weak
man or strong man, high or low, gen
erous in purpose or base in intrigue.
You cannot get rid of this background,
if you want to describe the event accu-
rately. You cannot do so when you are
listening to the man, though you should
never have to describe hint. p.
O'Connor in New Review.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
scR1RNEK,s MAGAZINE.

Scribner's Magazine for January begins
the fourth year and seventh volume with
the promise that during the current year
it will follow its well-approved course of
printing articles of interest in themselves,
by writer's who really have something 10
say and of aiming that great variety
shall be secured rather than that any
single undertakings shall monopoize its
space.
In the interest of ofdimeliness and variety
department has been added where, un-
der the title " The Point of View" an
opportunity is given TO the best writers
for brief and familiar discussion of
subjects of both passing and permanent
interest literary, artistic, and generol.
These are, of stcourse, as, indeed,
the title of the department conveys, to be
expressions of individual opinion.
In the present issue the subjects discussed
in bright, informal way, are "The
Barye Exhibition" Thackeray's Life"
" Social Life 10 Print" and {" The French
as Artists" A few pages are to be added
to each number to give space for this new
feature Water-storage in the West" by
Walter Gillette Bates, is lucid and COM
prehensive statement of great material
problem which is now engaging the earn
est attention of a Congressional COM
mission, Government photographic
surveying party, and many State Legisla-
lures. The promblem is, to rec aim and
make fertile vast tracts of land in what is
called the 'arid region" an area of L.
200, 900 square miles, or more than two
fifths of the United States. Artesian wells
and canals have been employed in many
places effectively, but their application
is narrow and limited compared with the
new method of water-storage by means of
artificial lakes. "Sellect the proper valleys
for water-basins, +" says the author, " close
their outlets with dams, store great lakes
of water when the mountain-snows melt,
and then let it out slowly and at will
through fumes and bitches to the lands
below-this is the essence OF the new
idea" He illustrates what private enter
prise has already accomplished by brief
descriptions of four great dams-the
MERGED, California, the Walnut Grove
Arizona, the Sweetwater, California, and
the Bear Valley, California; The peculiar
and picturesque conditions accompanying
the construction of these great works are
described most entertaingly. The illus
trations, which are of unusual richness,
are from photographs of the work in all
its stages.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
A Useful Temporary Bridge.

NJ. Eiffel, the builder of the great tower
in Paris, has recently invented bridge
which promises to 'fill long felt want"
of the railroad companies 1t is to be
used temporarily in the place of the or.
dinary bridges when they have been
damaged. 1t is made of steel, carries a
track, and weighs, with length of $50
feet, about eighty-six tons. 1t can be
put in position from either end without
the aid of machinery or any preparation,
simply by human hands. At recent
trial in Paris NJ. de Freycinet and many
officers of high rank and officials of the
railways from several countries expressed
their hearty admiration of it.-New York
Talar~ram
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
FRIDAY DECEMBER 81, 1889.
CHRISTMAS.

A happy Christmas to you all, says
Santa Claus IN that matchless production
which opens with, 1t was the night G.
fore Christmas when all through the
house, not a creature was stirring, not
even mouse And we have it in our
heart to say to ALTO friend and to foe,
to acquaintance and to stranger, and to
the patrons of the DEMOCRAT especially,
May yours be happy Christmas.
Just when the custom of recognizing
one day in the year as the anniversary of
the birth of Him, whom the angels an
nounced with the cheering words, "Peace
on earth; good will to men," we don't
know, nor does it matter. Nor are we
particularly interested IN knowing wheth.
er Mary's child was born in June, as
some claim, or in September as others
contend, or on 25th December, 1t is
enough for us to know that He was born,
and came into the world on mission of
love, and that in view of His nature and
the work He performedEand is still accom-
plishing by making desert places to bios
som as the rose, day has been agreed
upon as the anniversary of his advent.
Without reference to the religious as
pect of the day, and with no purpose or
inclination to utter word against those
who conscientiously observe 1t as a day
for relsgious services, we are glad that
there is Il Christmas when everybody tries
to be happy, and does what he or she can
to make everybody else happy. 1t is the
day of all the days of the year to manifest
feelings of "good will" to all men,
Hence, it is the custom all over the civil.
lied world to give tokens of friendship
things more useful than the old oblations
OF - frankiDcense and myrrh."
In view Of the memories of early child
hood, if for no other reason, we would
deprecate any innovation that would rel
egate it to "a place among the things that
have outliyed their usefulness. What
would winter be without Christmas A
Christmas devoted to kind greetings, So
cial interviews, hospitable entertainments,
and the bestowing of Christmas gifts {?
Good and savory as a nice, big fat turkey
is on any day, it never seems to fit it so
nicely as it does on Christmas day.
But much as the adult world would
miss by having no Christmas, what would
the rising generation Go without it? Blot
it out, and You would blot out h of the
little boys and girls happiness. With no
Christmas to talk about, and to look far
sward to for months prior to its coming,
and to enjoy when it does come, great
part of their pleasure would be destroyed.
To the little ones it is preeminently the
toy day of the year. And without the
Christmas trees, and Christmas presents,
much of the interest in Sunday Schools
would go glimmering.
Long live Christmas Long may it be
observed, and blessings fall upon him
who invented it! Again, do we say, A
happy Christmas to all.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Photoramic Lantern.

The photoramic lantern is the name of
a new device by which a Photographic
artist claims to be able to project upon
a screen or wall, not mere fixed objects,
but scenes of life and movement, such as
are observed on the white table in the
camera obscura. The invention includes
a peculiar sort of photographers camera
of about foot square. The instrument
is pointed at particular moving object,
and by turning the handle number of
photographs are taken every second.
These successive phases of a scene in
movement are then converted into trans
parencies and placed in succession upon
long strip, which is wound on rollers
and passed through the Photographic
lantern, with results which appear to be
similar to the well known philosophical
toy, the "zoetrope. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Flrnres ON Watch DiaIs.

American Notes and Queries being
asked by correspondent why the fig
ure is marked I'LL and not " on
the dials of watches, answers: The story
runs that the first clock resembling
our own was made in 1870 for the con-
ceited Charles V, king of France. When
Henry Vick brought it to him he said
that to mark 4 o'clock by " was mis-
take. On being told by the maker that
he was wrong, he thundered out; II am
never wrong Take it away and correct
the mistake" From that time to this,
as a tradition, clock and watch makers
have invariably used I'LL instead Of w
on the dial. philadelphia Ledger.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
A Few DIen Fun the House.

Thus it appeared that of the $50 mem
bers of the house not more than couple
of dozen, or at the outside two score
have anything more than a local or state
reputation. As Il matter of fact, the
business Of the house is in the hands of
half dozen men, and when my friend
asked me to point out to him the men
who during the next two years will con-
troll, or largely control, the lawmaking
of that body, 1 showed him Reed in the
chair, alert and self complacent McKin-
ley on the floor, pale and reserved; Bayne,
of Pittsburg, bearded and strong willed;
Cannon, of Illinois, studiously reading
the revised statutes and chewing the end
of a Wisconsin cigar; Cabot Lodge,
young, strong, clean limbed, athletic
literary, pacing to and fro in the rear OF
the seats like a lion in cage, eager to
be off to the jungle; Burrows, smiling
and alfable, and with his shoes-the
shoes which it is matter of principle
with him never to blacken-stuck in his
favorite attitude upon the top of his
desk, and one-legged Henderson, of
Iowa, hard at work, as usual, with pen
in hand and a formidable array of law
books beside him. Washington Letter.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
a sALLADg OF YOUTH.

Adown the road the red rose bushes
Are budding and blooming here and there;
And the clean, cool wind, it laughs, and pushe
Over my forehead and through my hair
Life is a lightsome weight to bear;
Youth is not such a weary load;
Woudst thou deprive me of my share,
Death that art lurking down the road?
My steed Is fresh; the ways are pleasant,
lam not old nor weary yet.
The past was good, as good the present.
Nor is there much need regret.
Wilt thou not slumber, and forget
To harvest grain so newly sowed,
lean, aud longing, and sharp set
Death, that art lurking down the road?
Nayl shall pray thee not, lamenting
The end of me, and the end of all.
Thou hast no soul for tears, repenting
Thy sweeping blade when mortals fall
At some lanes turn I'll hear the call,
"Standl' and as grass shall be moved,
Strike then; thou shalt not me appall,
Death that art lurking down the road!
Only-strilie sure, if strike it must be,
What time forget thy dues are owed,
Seize them suddenly, thine so justly,
Death, that art lurking down the road
p. Y. Black in Overland
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
Order of the Garter.

"Honi soft qui NAL y pense," said the
gallant English monarch Edward III, as
he picked up a silken band of blue,
clasped with silver, which the beautiful
Countess of Salisbury lost as she stepped
a stately measure with his majesty at
the great court ball more than 500 years
ogo. "Honi soft qui NAL Y pense," and
he clasped the ribbon about his left leg
just below the knee, thus creating him
self the first knight of the Order of the
Garter, whose emblem, dark blue,
gold bordered band with buckle and
pendant of silver, bearing the old motto,
has been and is still worn by all the
great knights and famous men in Eng
land.-New York Sun.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
PHRASES AND woRDsIN forrLAH Ust

Wonder if refined ladies who use the
expression of putting your foot in it,"
know what it means, 1t comts from the
French, aud for the benefit of young
ladies vino are ambitiously trying to learn
some of the French phrases, we print it.
1t reads, D0uS d0oz mis- Ie pied ded0aS );
which translated, as delicately as possible,
means that something nasty has been
stepped into.
Why do some literary people persist in
making the G. in the word Gerrymander
take the sound of j? Not long since we
heard dignitary, say that the Democrats
in Ohio would Jerrymander the Congress
sonal districts IN adopting new appor-
tionment bill so as to give them the ma
jority. The word is derived from Gov
ernor Elbridge Gerry who, while Gov
ernor of Massachusetts adopted a scheme
of giving his party political advantage
over all others.
Not many moons ago we heard young
lawyer, who is ambitious to stand rectuS
in cUria, use word which means pre-
cisely the opposite of what he thought
and wished to express. Speaking of a
man who had cowardly submitted to an
insult, he said lie had shown truculent
spirit, thinking that the word comes from
truckle. Tie word truculent means
fierce, ferocious, savage.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
The Human Ear.

Few people realize what wonderful
ly delicate structure the human ear real
ly is. That which we ordinarily desig-
nate so is, after all, only the mere outer
porch of series of winding passages,
which, like the lobbies of great build
ing, lead from the world without to the
world within. Certain of these passages
are full of liquid, and their membranes
are stretched like parchment curtains
across the corridor ut different places,
and can be made to tremble like the
head of a drum or the surface of tam
BOURNE does when struck with a stick
or with the fingers. Between two of
these parchment like curtains a chain of
very small bones extends, which serves
to tighten or relax these membranes,
and to communicate vibrations to them
In the innermost place of all row of
white threads called nerves stretch like
the strings of piano from the last point
to which the tremblings or thrillings
reach and pass inward to the BRAIN
a wonderful piece of mechanism. in
deed!-St. Louis Republic.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
JOHNsTOWN'S LEANING BUILDING

II can be Strengthened Again, Say the
Architects-TO be Examined by tx
perts. ...
The architects of the Dibert building
were Messrs. Broderick e Gray, Pitts
buugh. Mr., Broderick came here Mon
day in response to a summons by tele-
graph. The building will not, in his
opinion, like Pisa's leaning tower, have
to be left the way it is and braced, nor
will it have to be torn down. 1t will be
examined by experts from Pittsburgh,
who with the architect will determine
what is best to be done. The architect
thinks that the building can be brought
back into the proper position, as the walls
have not set" yet.
Mr. Scott Dibert, one of the owners, is
determined that the building shall be made
perfectly secure, and will not take the
extra expense, necessary to make it so.
into consideration.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
A poot,s PrinceIv Revenne.

The late Martin f. Tupper was ridi-
culed good deal during his lifetime,
but his poetry was pure and his life was
cleanly, and now that he is dead even
his critics have some kindly words for
him and his work. 1t is understood that
Tupper never received but $400 from
America, but it is estimated that if he
had had copyright he would have got
fully half million. For many years he
enjoyed a princely revenue from his
English publ shers, considerably in ex-
cess of the profits accruing to Tennyson,
the Brownings and Longfellow all put
together. Leslie's Newspaper.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
The Possibilities of Life.

We are put here to secrete something
everlasting out of nature. The oppor.
tnnities are rich, but it is the capacity,
the fiber, that determines whether we
shall do it, for nature contributes to our
life, not primarily according to its
bounty, but according to the filaments
in US that will solicit and incorporate its
bounty. One man absorbs mathematical
truth out of the heavens, while side by
side with him a mortal exists that organ
ICES nothing grand or stately into his
constitution-just as the mushroom can
do no more than hoist its plated parasol
out of the same ground, and in the same
sunlight, from which the oak seed i'm
bibed slowly its tremendous strength.
Another man draws to himself the wis
dom printed in the granite leaves be-
meath us, which earthquakes have turn
ed for our benefit, and shows that he has
ennobled his life by it. A third wins a
divine thought, limited in the old bones
which the globe entombs; while fourth
fastens on history, and compels the laws
of it to filter through facts into his
reason. Starr King.