Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-03-21
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charitable enterprise. lie sent his declina-
tion upon postal card. At the festival
the postal card was put up at auction sale
and brought the goodly sum of GIG, about
$50
Show me professional athlete forty
years DID," says an eminent physician in
the Detroit Free Press, "and | will show
you man old beyond his time, with
bones out of shape, muscles injured and
joints stIffcned, and no one would promise
him five years more of life"
Catherine Elizabeth Hurst, wife of
Bishop John f. Hurst, of Washington, d.
c., died suddenly on Friday of apoplexy.
She was the daughter of the late Hon.
William Laumonte, of New York State,
and was distinguished for her skill in
landscape painting and languages. She
was also the authoress of a series of bio
graphical works.
What are we coming to? The Pitts
burgh Sabbath Association has decided
against brass bands at Sunday funerals.
The wise words of goo and great old
Martin Luther should be remembered
he could not see why the devil should
| have the best times, and so the great re-
former played his flute right merrly on
Sunday.
When college students begin to kidnap
their professors and hold them in bonds,
| the time has come to devise means other
than moral suasion. Some people believe
that the time has come to abolish the rod
in the public schools and perhaps it has,
bus judging from recent actions of college
students, there is reason for a demand to
introduce the club in such Institutions, to
discipline their students.
B.. x. Jamison, Esq, the popular
| banker and Democrat, OF Philadelphia, is
mentioned among our exchanges as II
likely candidate for Governor who has
elements of strength within and without
the organization and who can not only
harmonic his own political party but
draw support from the scattering forces
in Pennsylvania politics Mr.. Jamison's
career, from The struggles of friendless
boyhood to his present prominent and
influential position in business circles, is
one that comprises bright page IN the
annals of the commonwealth
Governor Mckinney, of Virginia, has
approved bill passed at the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature prohibiting the
| sale of tobacco, cigars or cigarettes to
| 4 Il; nf
will be apt to be case where prphibiuon
will fail to prohibit, at least in the to-
bacco producing sections of the State.
In those sections the small boy may be
deprived of the cigarette, but by hook
or crook he will secure his accustomed
'chuw" from the tobacco barn, the
warehouse and the factory, though it
may net be quite rs tempting in the raw
state as it is after the sweetening plocess
it unGcrgoes in is manufacture. When
a boy wants tobacco he wants it very
badly, and he is apt to get it if it is with
in reach license or no license.
Attention is called by an exchange to
the fact that forty years ago ter thousand
dollars was considered an eXtravagant
sum for II horse, and very few animals
were SOLD at that price, however famous.
To-day that figure is considered mere
ua1rIe!m. Twenty, thirty, forty and
ur,r Iluusands of dollars are now paid
G,r fuc animals. There are some ami
M Is lu the country which are not for
~rl, AT any price. \ sale of fine stock
.aS add in New York one day last week.
The leading animal was knocked down
a T2J 500. while II two year old colt
brought S24l0O. Forty-three animals
were Sc I'd, many of them colts, and the
aggregate sum realized for them was
$4,000, or So 262 on an average for every
apimal. These things seem almost in
credible and show what IA hold the love
of line horse flesh has taken on our
people.
England has just imported from Egypt
a cargo of dead cats FOR use as fertilizers.
They are the first consignment of large
lot recently discovered in Egypt by an eX-
plorer. They have been preserved by
the mummifyIng process, and there was
an immense deposit of them in feline cat
acombs. 1t is estimated that they had
al departed this life at least 1000 years
ago. They were the pets of the ladies of
the 400" of the days of the Ptoomies,
and they meowed and arched their backs
on the back fences of now forgotten
cities, long before Moses was found in the
bulrushes and before Joseph got up his
big grain corner and squeezed his breth-
ren who were caught short when the rise
came. It is indicative of the commercial
and mon y-making spirit of the age that
these ancient and perhaps sacred cats,
dug up on the banks of the Nile, are now
to be used to force the growth of vegeta-
bles for British tables and to mingle their
clay, that once purred on the laps of Ori-
entail princesses, with the early peas and
asparagus that garnish the Englishman's
roast beef and mutton.