galwsstoum JUmocvat PUBLISHED' ever FRIDAY MORNING, No. l.'tS FRANKLIN STREET, JOHNSTOWN, CAMBRIA CO., PA. THUMB—•I.ao par year, payable In advance; uutslde the county, tttteen cents additional for nostne. If not paid within three months W2 will he charged. A ■paper can be discontinued at any time by paying arrearages, and not otherwise. The failure to direct a discontinuance at the expiration of the period subscribed for, will be considered a new engagement. .Veto Subawtp tions must lie accompanied by the CASH. L. D. WOODRUFF, Editor aud Publisher. FRIDAY. AUGUST 571889. FLOODS AND Till END OF THE WORLD Everything even remotely associated with flood calauiiti. possesses more or less interest at this ime, aud will con tinue to do so for in ...Mis to come. But just how the destruction of the world in 1890 by tire should hove any connection with Johnstown's flood is uot verv ap parent—such, however, seems to he the facj in the minds of some people. At Bellcfonte, and surrounding neigh borhood, in Center county, there is an organization or society that see in the Johnstown flood one of the sure signs of the total collapse of these "mundane ahores " in the year of our Lord 1890; and are living and shaping their affairs ac cordingly. The number of this new so ciety is placed at one to two thousand ; most of nil whom belong to some one of the various Christian churches, and all take the Bible an the foundation for " the ■ ' faith that is in them." Their leader, a Mr. C. D. Miller, a wealthy farmer, in an interview one day last week, said : " 1 believe the world will come to an end in l~t)0, and there are hun dreds of others—more than a thou and throughout this country that believe the same thing. * * Our belief has sprung solely from the teachings of the Bible, and every day it is made plainer and more convincing by the events occurring art nnd us. We anticipated all the startling dis asters that iiave lately occurred, though, of course, we did no! know at what time or place they would occur. But all the recent floods, etc., have till been predes tinated, and are sure signs of the ap proaching etui." Well may it he asked, wtiat next? Though not more familiar with the teach ings of the Bible than the law allows, we have always been puzzled to know where (lie numerous belie vets who have from time to time predicted the end of the world have found anything on which to pin their faith. It seems, however, that ages before the Millcrite craze, when large numbers prepared for the end of the world, by putting on white robes on tiie day fixed for the event, multitudes were made to believe in the silly predictions >f Second Adveutists and world-destruction tionists. History slmws that ever si:i- <■ the days of the Apostles numerous tiim s have been fixed for the great catastrophe when the heavens should be rolled to gether as a scroll, mountains rock to and fro, the earth quake from center to cir cumference, and the firmament and earth burned up with tire. But notwithstand ing the several hundreds of miss-hits, the cranks s'ill abound, aud are likely to abound, until the end of time. Just what particular hearing the Johns town flood lias upon the question of the tinnl destruction of the world by lire, it is rather hard to discover. But the lat itudinarian mode of interpreting and up plying Scriptures Is equal to more things and events than are dreamed of in our philosophy. Wc of little faith in such predictions are left, however, with the comfortiiu' thought that, despite the tend ency to wind up sublinary things so soon, the old world still wags along in its cus tomary way, without showing any vis ible signs tf dissolution. I'OOK TANNER. Getting into iiot water is about the size of Pension Tauner's trouble. It was first hot, then hotter and now hottest. The hot was the result of newspaper criti cisms ; the hotter was the attitude of tin; Interior Department toward the Pension Bureau: and the hottest grows out of the formal charges being investigated by a Committee consisting of Dr. George Ew ing and 11. L. Pruce, of Board of Pension Appeals, and Judge Frank L. Campbell, of the Interior Department. This Committee are instructed to thor oughly investigate all reratings made by •the Pension Bureau within the past year, tfr ascertain whether any have been made in violation of the law. Up to Mouday ■tin Committee found a colored gentleman in the wood pile, in the form of the rerat ig process by which a 3lr. Smith, chie of the certificate division, who as a pen sion beneficiary is now drawing §3O in stead of §2O per month ; which discovery leads to the conviction that other officials within the bureau are faring similarly. Here is a veritable marc's nest that may 'hring out the true inwardness of Mr, Tan oer's way of conducting his bureau. But to troubles is likely to take in a much wider scope, as 3lr. Roosevelt, one if the Civil Service Commissioners is very much dissatisfied witli Tanner's policy of admin i Jtering the affairs of his office. We have only to say, that where there s so much smoke, there is certainly some fire. " TEACH the citizen that his home is his castle, and that his sovereignty rests be neath his hat," says Ilenry W. Grady, the silver tounged southern orator. CI. Alt A BARTOW. A Short History of the Noble I>ee the adoption of this international measure, and all civilized nations now recognize h. Miss Barton is a native of Mas-- achuscttes. In early life she was a teacher, and she founded sevi ral free schools in New Jersey. In IS-'i? she became a clerk in the Government's service t Washing ton. Resigning at the mtbrcak of the war, she entered the hospital service, and her tender ministrations are still told of by those who suffered on the field of hat tie and were prisoners at Libby prison, Andersouvillc a I elsewhere. CongrftMiunal Ait! lot*.Johnstown. Pittsburgh lost. While we have utiue hut Ihe best wishes for Johnstown, we fenr its citi zens tire likely to tie the victims of hopes if they expected the general Gov ernment to make appropriations to widen and dredge the streams about their un fortunate town, so as to prevent an an nual overflow, and insure the rebuilding of certain parts ot the town, and adjacent boroughs, not likely otherwise to he re built. We don't think the general Gov ernment has ever undertaken any work of this kind. The first question asked in Congress will be why does not. the great State of Pennsylvania, nut of the immensity of its wealth and resources, at tend to this matter ami give the needed relief. It is solely one of local and State concern. True, there have been abuses in river and iiarbor appropriations, but the principle bus always been kept in view, that the money was for National or inter-State purposes, and to be applied an navigable streams. Harry White raised the laughter of the whole countiy when lie proposed au appropriation to make the Kiskiminetas a navigable water course. If the aid which it is said will be solicited from congress is a necessity, theu it is the duty of the State, in the exercise of its general police powers, which Governor Beaver invokes in clearing away the debris, to provide the needful monev. Everyone wishes well to the people of Johnstown, but it is not wise to raise false expectations and nopes on such an im portant matter. Congress will make no appropriations for the purposos indicated iu the dispatches from that place. The precedent would be one that very few Seneators and Representatives, unmoved by local or Slate interests, would eare to sanction. Patents runted Patents granted to citizens of Pennsyl vania during the past week, and reported for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co., pat ent lawyers, opposite United States Pat ent Office, Washington, D. C,: J. Con trol], Heading, staple former, etc.; J. G. Downie, Beaver Falls, steam engine; William 11. Downing, Goodell, gas gov ernor or regulator ; C. F. Hill, Ilazelton, lightning protector; T. W. Irwin, Alle gheny, shaping sheet metal; J. Jenkins, Harrisburg, ore separator; John 31. Klein, Altoona, lathe carrier; G. F. 31c- Coomb, Allegheny, broom sewing; W. McKlnney, Schuylkill Falls, electric me ter ; A. J. Miller, Sweden, canceling and registering device ; J, W. llamsey, Beaver Falls, hydrant; D. Rawson, Pittsburgh, wire worker; D. Savage, Bloomsburg, washing machine; J. Watts, McKccs Rocks, handling coke j F. Wilson, Easton, water heater. BWJFT ON THE WING. The Fast eat Railroad Train Slow Com* pared With the WI11 Duck. "The gadwalo but there; It isn't likely at all that you know what a gad wale Is," said an observant wild fowl hunter. "The gad wale is a duek. it U a wild duck that doesn't get east ,e: r often, but is a familiar fowl !" v • west. I was just about to remark tr.a the gadwale is a bird that can tin el nearly a 100 miles whilo the fn-test rail road train is going fifty, and yet it is slow on the wing compared with a canvass back duck, the bruudbill, or even the wild goose. "I have held my watcli on about every kind of wild fowl there is, und know to a dot just how much space uny of tnem can get over in an hour. The canvass back can distance the whole wild fowl family, if it lays itself out to do it. If he has business somewhere, and has to get there, he can put two miles behind him every minute, and do it easy. "The mallard duck is lazy. He seldom cares to cover more than a mile a min ute, but ho can if he wants to. His or dinary, every-day style of getting along over the country takes him from place to place at about a 45-mile an hour rate. The black duek can fly nuek-and-neek with the mallard, and neithor one can give the other odds. If tho pin-tail wid geon and wood duck should start in to race either a mallard or a black duck it would be safo to bet on eitlior one. But !f a redhead duck should enter tho race you cau give big odds on him, for ho can spin off his ninoty miles an hour as easy as you can wnlk around tho block, and can do it all day. He would bo left far behind, though, by the bltto-winged or the green-winged teal. Those two fowl can fly side by side for 100 miles and close the raco in a dead heat in an hour, and appear to make uo hard task of it. The broadbfll duck is tho only fowl that llies that can push the canvassback on the wing. Let a hroadbiil and a canvassback each do bis best for an hour, and the broadbill will only come out about ten miles behind. One hundred and ton miles an hour cau be done by tho broadbill, and ho conse quently makes a mark for a shotgun tluit a pretty good gunner wouldn't be apt to hit once in a lifetime. "The wild goose is an astonisher on the ily. It has a big heavy body to carry, anil to see it waddling on the ground you wouldn't suppose it could get away from you very fast on the win But it manages to glide from one feed ing place to another with a suddenuo;,- tha>. is aggravating to tho best of wins shots. To see a flock of 'honkers' mov ing along, so high up that they seem to be sweeping the cobwebs off of the sky. you probably wouldn't dare to bet that they were traveling at the rate of ninety miles an hour, but that is just what I hey are doing, uny hour in the day. The wild goose never fools any time away. His gait is alwuys a business one."—N. Y Sun. Noted Suicided in History, The following aro some ot the more noted suicides of which mention is made in history. These do not savor much oi insanity, but rather of stoic philosophy. Cato stabbed himself rather than live under the despotic reign of Ciesar. I'hemistocles poisoned himself ratliei than lead the Persians against his coun trymen; Zeno, when 1)8, hanged him.-el! because he had put his linger out of joint, and Haunibul' and llithridutes poisoned themselvos to escape being uiken prisoners. When we search Scrip ture wo find that Saul, rather than fail Into the hands of the Philistines, com manded his an..or bearer to hold his sword that he might plunge upon it: Samson, for tho sake of being r ngod upon his enemies, pulled do .vn the house in which they were revelling and -d with them," and Judas Iscariot., afti selling the Saviour for thirty pieces < Atlantic oeoai; near New York Hogan was re cued by tho crew gan and the pub lic do not seem tc share this belief and the belief it general that this daring man has mad( ids last ascension. A Clever Chine e Trick. Sergeant Whitman arrested a high binder (he other night, and while search ing him found a clever device which ex plains the phenomenal luck that wih Mongolian lias been enjoying at poke; of late. The arrangement consists of t. sleel clip, which is fastened inside of out sleeve. Two cords reach up tho sleeve, across the breast and down the otliei sleevo to the hand, where one is fastened to tho thumb and the other to ono of the lingers. By a pull of one cord the clip reaches out and takes in a card, which Is at one* drawn up tho sleeve. Pulling tho othei cord causes tho card to be shot out int( the hand of the player with lighting rapidity, and without any part of tin mechanism being exposed. Tho fellow who hud the machine fought strenuousl, against giving it up. ban Francisc'c Chronicle. 'The Snake Gate Him a Chance. While Mike James, a boy 14 years ol age, was going through tho woods neai cTarksvllle, Ga., with iiis father, out day, Ho snld : "Father, if a snake was tc bite me, you just ought to ;soe how quickly I would bandage my leg with tint rubber strap." The boy spoke positivelj and no sooner wore the words out of his mouth than Ho exclaimed : "I am snuk< bitten." His father, turning round, saw his sor drawing the bandage tightly around his leg just above the bite. .Tho old mnr killed tho suuko and found it to bo ur adder of the most deadly kind. Tho ad ministration of internal romedies at on<-i commenced. First, one plug, then ar old-timo twist of home made, went dowi like food; then ono pint of corn whiskev. All this made him very sick, and he vomited freely. He is rapidly recover ing.—Atlanta Constitution. A Sparrow Routs an Alligator. An alligator and an English sparrow were seen to engage in a battle neai Darien, Ga., the other day. The 'gatoi provoked the tight by snapping at the bird, which in turn flew furiously at its ugly antagonist, aiming with precision at the saurian's eyes. The gator finally gave up the contest and sought safety from the sparrow's attacks by hiding it sell under water.—Savannah News. ANTARCTIC KNOWLEDGE* VARIOUS EXPEDITIONS IN TUB SOUTH POLES* DISCRETION. What Balleny and Olnvllle Haw on (tielr Trip*, and what Wilkaa Thought He Saw—Sir Jaiuri Ron' Great Achievements and Discoveries Which are Unsurpassed. The golden age of Antarctic discovery arrived when Captain, afterwards Sir James, Boss was dispatched from Eng land in 1840 to fix tho position of tho south magnetic polo, and any other posi tion he could discover on the way there. Before Boss could reach the scone of his labors, other explorers, English, French and American, were busy forestalling him. Of these the ilrst was tho English man, Bulleny, who, sailing in Enderby's ship tho Eliza Scott, discovered in 183! i the islands which bear his name, and which lie almost under tho Antarctic circle, and almost duo south from Now Zealand. Balleny could not land on tho islands, but lie made sure of their exist ence, and afterward, sailing far to the westward, he saw many more signs of land, and suspected the existence of much which ho could not certainly vouch for. What Balleny thought ho saw was probably much what the French expedi tion under Dumont d'Urvillo actuully did see in the following year, several long linos of boats, which might bo joined to one another, und might even run on to join Enderby land in tho west, and if so might certainly bo purts of the Antarctic continent that d'Urvillo was anxious to And. Not less anxious was Wilkes, the leader of tho United States exploring ex pedition, who, only a month after the Frenchman, arrived within a degree or two of the Antartic circle, to the south of Now Zealand, and after seeing laud where Bulleny hud certainly seen it before, and, unfortunately where no one lias soon it since. For some days, in deed, Wilkes doubted whether what he beheld wore mountains or clouds, objects which his crew watched eagerly, to sec if with the setting of the sun they would change their color. But after running westward along the edge of tho park for a few days,' lie made sure that he now saw land, and somewhat Inconsequeutly assumed it for certain that what ho had seen before was land also. Tho discovery of an Antartic conti nent was announced as a certainty; u very large land, with n barrier before it, and a range of mountains upon it, was laid down on the map; and a copy of the map was handed by the rash but gener ous explorer to Boss, who left Tasmania in the autumn of the same year to look for the magnetic pole, with the two ships Erebus and Terror, which afterward bore Sir John Franklin to his fate at the Other end of the world. Boss had so little doubt that tho Antartic continent was discovered already, that lie seems to have been almost disappointed when ids way to the magnetic polo was burred by an unknown land. Yet this laud, whicu lay south of the seventieth parallel, and eastward of Ballony's islands, was tho mpst southerly hitherto seen in the world, and on it rose mountains thou sands of feet high, plain and mountain alike robed in stainless snow, exceptou the cliffs by the shore, where the black rock came out. Englcs Have u Royal iiatllo. Alexander Shaw, farmer. Old town, Strather'ck, was going Ills usual rounds to look after ills sheep. While going past a small cluuip of birch wood among very long heather, he fancied lie heard a a peculiar flutter among tho bushes, says tho "Bod and Gun." lie took little notice, but tho noise being repeated, he went to see what, was udo. He found two golden eagles lighting, firmly tlxed in each other with beak and talons. On his approaching one of the birds noticed the intrusion and let go his hold. The other held his opponont fast in his talons. Mr. Shau then got up quite clow and got hold of one of them. He put his foot on the other one's neck. Ho searched his pockets and found a little bit ot string, just enough to tie one of the eagles. While lie was tying the one lie kept he let-the other one off. The bird was not able to take iliglit for consider able time after being set at liberty, being much dono out with the fight-. The oilier one, which Mr. Shaw took homo, doc.-, not seem to be any the worse. What seems most strange is 1 hat the eagles are seldom or never seen s > low down the country. The belief is that they must have been lighting for a long time In the skies, the one having been pursuing the other until they fixed in each other and dropped. Complimenting a Royal Author. A Jioslqii ituly, knowing that the trans lation of Dante had just then appeared, and having heard that the aged monarch (the King ol Saxony) was proud of- his lib rary ability, had a good opportunity of alluding to His chief d'oouvro, which she immediately seized, says the Boston "1'oBt." The king addressed her in turn, saying, "You aro from America, I be lieve. I think I have seen you in tho Grosso Garten. Why have you not boen presented before?" "I am from America, sire," she replied, "whero we have no kings. I havo waited for the proper time to be introduced to your majesty, and now may I bo per mitted, as an American, to say that I feel it less an honor to bo presented to the King of Saxony than to 'Philistrutes,' the translator of Dante, whom I trust I may bo allowed to congratulate on the suc cessful achievement of tho work." Tho king had published the translation under the HIKWO sobriquet. Ho was much pleased with the compliment thus bestowed, laughed with delight and said the lady hud boen prompt in examining the new publication. Hallway* in lnlia. From the railway data for the decade 1878-88 the fact is deduciblo that for the last ten years each fresh year has seen in India the opening of an additional 1,000 milos of line. In the last year of the period tho number of milos open was 11,377, and of miles under construc tion, a.47(1; so that before the presout year is out the total mileage open for iruflic in India ought to reach nearly 17,000 miles. Forty years ago India could not boast of one. Tho total cost of tho English ludiun system up to 1888 came to nearly 50 per cent of tho receipts and the receipts aggregated in ton years nearly ono thousand millions of rupees. —London Enquirer. C*ret all kinds, with which they make their purchases as frequently as with money. They at'ow'. all the fairs and merrymak ings within their circuit, and the singu larity and novelty of their operations aro apt to strike travelers more than anything else which rnoets their notice "'While in Europe recently, I attended ono of these fairs simply for the novelt of the thing. I was indeed struck b\ what I saw. There were four purchas ers of the commodity present and the girls actually brought the article tq this impromptu market as they, would pea - or cabbages. They have particularly line liair and frequently in great abundance I should have thought at the time that female vanity would have effectually prevented such a traffic among them be ing carriod on to any great extent. But tiiore seemed no difficulty iu lluding pos sessors of beautiful heads of hair per f-'ctly willing to sell, 1 saw several git , beared, ouq after anchor, likj §lte°i*" and many- more standing readj- for with their 'caps' iu ttefr hand.-, ■nid their long hull- combed out and banging down to their waists. Some o! the operators were men, some wornon. By the side of the dealers were placed n long basket into which every successive crop of hair, tied up into a wisp by Itself, was thrown. As far as porsonal beaut is coucorned the girls do not lose mm in their hair, for it has boen a custom in Brittany for years to wear a close ca, which entirely prevents any part of the ohevelnre from being seon, and of course us totally conceals tho want of it. '■Dark brown hair was tho fashion once. It is all imported here froi.: France. It is tho opinion of those who have the best right to offer one on such a subject that the color of the hair of the Euglish people has deeponed in tint within the last half century, and thai this chango is owing to the more fre quent intermarriages since the Nap., iconic wars with nations nearer to the sunny south. Whether dark or light however, tho hair purchased by tin dealer is so closely scrutinized that 1 can discriminate between the German ami tho French article by the smell alone. He even claims the power of distinguish ing accurately between the English, tin- Welsh, the Irish and the American com modities. "The French deulors are said to be able to detect the difference between the hair 'raised' in two districts in Central France, not many miles apart, by token so slight as to bailie the most learned of our naturalists and physiologists. I simply cito theso little incidonts so you can see for yourself what the hair busi ness has got to be. The hair obtain <•: by tho different agents is transmitted to tho wholesale houses. Hero it is run through various processes, dressed end sorted, when it is shipped to this city. Paper Pencil*. One of the difficulties which have stood in the way of the substitution of paper pulp for wood in tho manufacture of pen - oils has been the toughness of the paper covering, and its consequent resistance to the action of a knife. By a new pro cess the molecular cohesion of tho paper, it is claimed, Is modified in such a man ner that it can bo cut as readily as cedar wood. After tho completion of the pro cess the pencils are gradually dried at Increasing temperatures during a period of six days, and they are then plunged Into a vessel of molten parafflno wax, which has tho effect of modifying tho texture of tho paper pulp in the manner deecribed.—Exchange.