Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-10-25
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LOT DOarl Dlu.
The faculty of the University of Penn
sylvania have voted to admit students
without distinction of sex to all the col
lege courses.
The individual who inquired the time
of a clothing house dummy has come to
the conclusion that soda water with a
wink in it is an optical delusion.
We seem to get along as well without
IA Pension Commissioner as with one.
What's the matter with abolishing the
Office and turning the business over to
clerks permanently as now.
An elephant recently died in Ceylon
which had served the public works de-
partment of over sixtY-tive years, aud had
previously worked in various parts of the
island for an unknown period.
The Gar offended his host at the I'M
perial banquet in Berlin by making
speech in French. In this case French
was not the polite tongue. The Autocrat
OF all the Russias was trying to be Car
castle.
Amos ]. Cummings was nominated last
night by the Tammany Democrats of the
Ninth Congressional District, to fill the
vacancy in the next Congress, caused by
the death of S. S. Cox. Cummings ac-
cepted the nomination.
The County Democracy of New York
City met in Cooper Institute on Saturday
and unanimously adopted resolutions
making overlures to Tammany for a
union of the two organizations on several
important points.
A new company in which Thomas A.
Edison j. largely interested has been or
ganized 10 manufacture dolls on a large
scale. It will turn out 100000 the first
year. This infant industry will, of course,
ask for protection.
Destructive forest and prairie fires are
raging in the northwest. Mcnoken,
village fourteen miles south of Bismarck
was swest away by the flames, while the
latter place is cnveloped in smoke, with
the fires so near that great danger is ap-
pretended
On Saturday night Grant Post, 327, G.
A. r., of Brooklyn, presented flags to
the public schools of that place. Major
General o. o. Howard and other dis
tinguished army men were there, and a
splendid program of exercises was ren.
deTed.
King Luis, of Portugal, died at II
o'clock Saturday morning His wife, the
youngest daughter os the late King
Emanuel, of Italy, was present at his
death. He had reigned since 1861, and
will be succeeded by his son, Duke of
Braganza, with the title of Carlos |.
\ clcrl IN nc Of the departments in
WASHINGTON hos diecovnrod thot "ocIlinra
in the late war were klled in tnelr first,
third and fifth battles more than in any
other" After soldier is killed in three
battle he ought to have experience enough
to escape death in all the subsequent en-
gagements.
Henry Watterson, in a tariff reform
speech before the Louisville Board of
Trade the other night, said among other
things "For my part, can live under
any kind of tariff that the lest can, and
care as little expenses, too, for in my
day have paid as high as $500 for pair
of boots and So for glass of ice water
seasoned with nutmeg-in Confederate
money.
An exchange notes the following for the
benefit Of those who do not take their
home county papers; " 1t has been reli-
ably ascertained that out of 1856 cases of
successful swindiing throughout the
State by travelling sharpcrs in various
ways, by which people of the rural dis
trcts were robbed, some to the extent of
thousands of dollars, only ten were sub
scribers or readers of the home county
papers,"
The Robert Hare Powell Furnace at
Stonerstown, Bedford county, which has
been idle since the flood of June 1st, is
about to begin operations again, orders to
that effect having been issued Saturday.
Prepare tions are nov in progress, and in
few days the furnace will be fired up,
and in active operation. This is good
news to the people of Saxton and vicin-
ity, as it means resumption of work in
the ore mines and other industries de-
pendent upol the furnace.
After an unusually long silence the
great and only John L. Sullivan, cham
pion pugilist of the world, has made HIM
self heard after being III obscurity for
weeks and weeks, except as a leading
character in saloon episodes he has reap
peared before the public as the only John
L. He las once more thrown down the
gauntlet to the whole world, and for that
matter anybody else that the "whole
world does not embrace. We may,
therefore, come to the conclusion that
John is himself again. He has issued a
very broad, but to very great extent
meaningless, challenge, and in it particu-
larly invites Jem Smith, Mitchell, or any
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