Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-11
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Sunday Schools have opened a club house
for their mutual entertainment All the
Chinese newspapers will be found there
and the services of lawyer have beenre-
tanned to give free legal advice to the
members. Chess, checkers and back
CANNON will be admitted in the club,
but the insidious Fan-Tan VIII be strictly
taboocd. 1t is club for good" China
men only.
Carnegie, Phipps 81 Company Of Pitts.
burgh, have begun the manufacture OF
steel railroad ties, and an immense
hydraulic press turns steel plates into ties
at the rate of one a minute It is believed
that the question of q perfect track,
capable of the highest speed, with abso-
lute safety, has been solved by this
invention. Steel ties have been used in
Europe and India for some years, but the
designs in use there, besides being more
costly, are also unsuitable for American
roads, owing to the insuillciency Of their
fastenings.
A gentleman living in Richmond, Va,
owns violin which is associated with
the early history of Virginia. II is one Of
four violins connected with the carly his
tory of this section Of the country. lis
marked, "Nicolaus Amatifecit, Cremona,
1851" This violin was brought to this
country by Robert Bollinz, the husband
of Jane Rolfe, the granddaughter o
Pocahontas, who was the daughter of thu,
mighty Indian King Powhatan, Of Vir>
ginia. The violinis of superior tone, vol
ume and finish, and has been used by
many prominent performers during the
past century.
The death, as announced in yesterdays
papapers, of The O'Donohue removes out
of the most picturesque figures in Ir.s,
politics. Daniel ODonohue of the Glens.
or The O'Conohue, as he was bette
known, inherited large amount OF
money from his father and at the age O.
twenty one became one of the most noted
figures in Partisan life under the Third
Empire, vieing with Napoleon himself in
his extrsvagances. He soon spent his
fortune and returned to Ireland, where he
represented Tipperary and Tralee in the
British Par..a.neut He was the head OF
the clan bearing his name and leaves one
son. who inherits his estates, which are
worth about $4,000 II year.
The Carson. Nevada, Appeal says Of
the butterfly storm Thursday some-
thing over million butterflies invadse
Carson and filled the town. About 40
o'clock they were so plenty in places that
they frightened horses in the streets.
They only collected ia the streets wa,.r
had been We; down by the wateril . cart
md avoided the dry spots. Tt. o. L
many to believe that they came in I, II
the country to get water. They w,.e
rather small and had almost black II
trimmed with gold. They seemed i
The same variety. People in j.
iote,l the same curious visitors. q
seemed everywhere, and rs tho'
we're Oh lhe srouud waving thei -,
and yellow wiags they looked Gu.
L.rcsque. o,!Ge tank thcy me It's p,
r",ners .: 20 .aggc invasion ii worn..l ..h
s"nsOn.
Some months ago an adveriisemca. p
peared in the Indianapolis newspapers
saying that Iuc James Morgan would pay
$4,000 for wife, Z MS address
Martinsville, Iud Hundreds of letters
have arrived at the Post Office for him
from every part of the country since that
time. Many of them were scented and
decorated in way that would do credit
to Cherokee brave. A few weeks ago
reporter learned that the man who
yeurncd for bride was sailing under q
false name that his true name was
Morgan Johnson, and that he resided at
Lake Valley, Indiana. He finally
captured bride. Yesterday, while the
Circuit Court was in session, Judge
Grubbs was called upon to go to the
Clerks office and marry the happy couple,
The bride, Miss Hettie S. Wilson, is aged
forty-seven, while Johnson's age is eightys
two.
Isaac Watt was hard-headed English
poet and preacher, who died century
and half ago. Hehad sharp eyes while
in this wicked world and has left behind
him great truths as the result of this keep
vision. One of these. is: "Satan fip6
some mischief still for idle hands to do,,
Now, boys, this line you have frequently
read, but we will wager a big apple thee
you have not realized how big with truth
it is. Do you know that statistics show
that four-titths ot all the criminals in tho
world had no settled employment before
becoming criminals? Just think of it.
Four out of every five convicts had no reEs
ular occupation,no trade, no business that
they called their own, or in which they
were expert. That is why they look up
to the sky through prison bars. What il
the lesson? Get a trade, got an occups-
tion, learn TO be busy; hate idleness as
you hate meanness, and dread 1t as YOU