AAA tn THE GREAT PACIFIC. Phe Adeantage sl Clrele Safling onan Ares - of Water So Vast. - The Pacific is the great ocean of our . In comparison with it the - morth Atlantic is a mere strait and the Indian ocean nothing more than the sub- merged bench of a congeries of drowned fslands. Along the line of 70 degrees south latitude the width of the Pacific is 135 degrees of longitude, over one-third of the circamference of the globe. Be. tween it and the south polar contiment nothing intervenes. Its northern ex- tremity was probably at one time romnd- ed off by the conintry which is now di- vided Vetween Alaska and Siberia When rlacial masses moved to the pole, the poiar current clove its way through Behring straits and interposed Behring sea between the Pacific and the polar ocean. “It presents every form of ocean geoz- raphy. At the two extremities it is shal- low. There is a bench running along the Aleutian. islands into the gulf of Aldska which comes within 100 fathoms of the snrface, with occasional holes so decp that no apparatus can find the bot- tom and be recovered withont breaking the wire, and there is a corresponding bench in the southwest portion of the sea west of the meridian of 180 degrees where 100 fathoms is also the average Between this last bench and the latitode of 8% degrees north there is a range of submarine rocky moantaivs with steep cliffs and sharp descents. Three or four distinct mountain ridges with from wo "to three miles of water beiween them have ben counted hetween the Ha- waiian Isiands and Anstralia. : On the Pacific can be found every va- riety of temperature and meteorology Out of Bebring sea pours the iey © ar- rent which cools our shore in summer, from the equator flow summer carrents warmer than the Atlaptic Iulf stream, while the current which sweeps around the sonth cape of Tasmania bears on its bosom the Jongest jceberys ever seen, As its name indica®s, it is a pacific ocean, swept gentle trade winds, but the most terribife typhoons described in meteorological records have varied the chromicles of its placid sorface, On a sea of snch extent circle sailing ‘snnst become a matter of moment. The Canadian steamers, sailing from Yoko- hama in 275 degrees to Victoria in 49 de- grees, cross the meridian of 160 degrees in 52 degrees, having covered 4,200 miles on the voyage, while the Pacific Mail steauners, sailing by what appears on the mp to be the straight line, have to cover 4, 790 miles between San Fran- cisco and Yokohama. Assuming the vessels to be equal in speed and to steam at the nsunl rate of seagoing steamers on the Pacific, the Canadian line enjoys an aavantage of about 86 hours over the American lines. This is reduced al- most to nothing when oar ships puruse the northern course and take the advan- tage of circle sailing. —San Franciseo Call. The “Dene of Famons Authors. A French chronicler has collected some very curious statistics on a sobject that has interest even outside Paris. He was anxious to know how several select- ed great men furnished what we should call their dens, what he calls their ~ workrooms. To gain access to all the rooms was not easy, but fostunaly many of them were photographed, and ao tho evidence waa complete. The chronicler’s leaning was evidently to- ward men of letters, and his results are. on the whole, sarprising. Daudet’s study was severe in its gimplicity, the furniture the scantiest and the plainest. That of Dumas had a few pictures on the wall, small panel pictures, and on his table a sphinx in bronze. Cop- pee, the poet, has his books in ex- t ‘aordinary disorder, and his appliances for tobacco abundant and well filled. Pierre Loti has his workshop fitted up like an eastern. bazaar; De Goncourt's is 1ich in carious books and bindings; S#rdou’s is absolutely plain and very untidy; Zola's crammed with bric-a- ‘brac; Massenet's wusters and empty a notebook, a thermometer and a water bottle; Meilhac's crowded with books, reviews and journals, and by the hearth rug two armchairs, oue for the master _ of the house, the other for hia friend and collaborator, Halevy, both of a size and impartially comfortable. — West. minster Gazette, Berlin Public Kitchens. A public kitchen for the working classes was inaugurated in 1¥66 by a German woman, Han Morgenstein, She bas established many of these kitchens, each ¢ne having a public dining room, comfortably warmed and furnished and supplied with the daily papers. Each kitchen, supplying perhaps from 300 to 400 people with daily meals, is managed . by a local committee, the whole scheme being under the control of a central counc il. All the paid cooks are on the premises by 6 in the morning, and the vegetables and meat have been bro aght in before them. Waste of any kind is tric tly forbid- den, A subscription of §3.250 was suffi- cient to start this scheme; the reserve fund set aside for providing new kitch- ens increases each year, while the council pays fair wages and is able to pension off its old servants. For a sum varying from 3 to 6 cents the Berlin workman can obtain a satisfactory meal at any of theso restaurants. A dinner for 4 conta alow: & basin of thick, sal gtantial German soup, a plate of vege tables and a padding, and a roll of bread in addition a little over oné-fourth of a cent. — Nineteenth Century. : : plate ui costs Valuable Love Letters. An urgent Kentucky svitor, finding his addresses rejected, de manded the ‘geturn of his letters. His peremptory command not being at once complied with, hesent d second and a third. The young woman in the case took her own time and revenge. She expressed the miasives and put a valuation of $300 on them. The excited and discomfited swain had to pay $5.80 express charges. —Lonisville Courier-Journal. ‘mixed op and the hotter yon you were looking for. from a free gry were first usidd an thi me Ae pi = SIOGE OF SIGHS AT VEMEL Fhe Famous Archway Arsund Which Re In the heart of Venice, between the . magnificent palace of the doges and. the | grim walls of the oid prison, flow the dark waters of the Rio del Palazso and across the canui vivetches the Bridge of Sighs—conpecting link between the splendors of a palace and the terPers of thy dungeon, the tortnre chamber and "the beading block. One of the most no- ticeable points about this bridge is the fact that it is closed in, thus proving all stories of suicides committed from it to be fabulous. : This fact robs the Bridge of Sighs of ane of its most romantic associations — ois pretty legends of grief laden mor- Is/ heaving their last sigh wpom its post Bo and ending their sorrowing lives in the black waters beneath ft. From without the bridge, with its arch- like form, its ornamentai stonework, its grotesquely carved beads and its small “square windows filled in with irom trac- ery, presents a rather fine appearance, bat the interior is strictly devoid of or- parent and has not the slightest pre- tensions to beauty. During our visit to Venice of course we incloded the doges' palace and the dungeons in onr progremme. After wandering for some time through the ast halls and beautifal saloons of the id Venetian palace ws passed over the Bridges of Sighs on our way to the gloomy cells. The bridge seemed to be tittle more than a narrow passage bLe- . veen two thick walls of stone, and an less you stepped up anto the slightly raised stonework whick runs aling be- neath the tiny windows on either side and caught a glimpse of the canal with- ont yon might eisily take it for an ordi- nary passage within the palace. At the far end of the bridge cur progress was barred by a grim locking caken door — nail stadded. age blackened and of im- mense thickness guarding the entrance to the dungeons. Our guides came oa bait. There was s jingling of keys, a lighting of torches; then the great door swung slowly back, and we passed into the darkness beyond. When next we passed the ancient door and crossed the Bridge of Sighs, it was with the memory of those terrible cells, those fearful dan: 1s. Pr MCKENRIOK,— Attirney and Counselor at Law, Eaesssune, Pa. sient 10 i lan § all buisiness with promptness Office By the Mountain House. WH DAVIS, —- Attorney and Counselor at Law, EBEXsRI RG, PA. 41] legen! business promptly attendid 10 {fire on Centre Street M. M CRAIN, PLASTERER and CONTRACTOR, Patton, Wainnt Ron, Smmngicr, and Hastings : ADAMANT. plastering a specialty. Fastir TAL kinds of work ; M give 1 dn Al M. Curis. Patton, Pa. LL." Mc NEEL, BARBER AND Ham DRESSER, In the room formerly secapiad hy (mts Opera House hlook. work towed, flaws Pirsteolass ZOarEn- Hair "mt BD oonts, Shave. 10 esis FP and Sa Fram J. { 1ffew 0 eens HARRY MAORMICK, M fv PHYSICIAN O80 SU SaEOX : PATTON n Jones’ Building oh Magee Avenue A Fifth fist r Arvin west 1 Crew ral THE jo Premiers from 299 nx er FIFTH AVENUE RESTAURANT. 1. R Sx rR. Prop'r, Jif Remy raed 3 - Fon 3 server 8 avery OYSTERS IN THE H IAL F SHELL. a a is M AHAFFEY HOUSE Mahaffey, Clearfield Co. Pa Aen inewiat Best oof Licgiwe and? Wipes a1! 5 ie - Ty -%y 4 Tog dud Fa trend wie Brat clases Crore FERGIRON, nf: Prop'r geons where the hapless prisoners em- dured the most horrible tortures that tyraony could devise or brutality in- flict. I remember strolling. on the last . evening of our boliday in Venice, along the Piazza San Marco and making my way to the Ponte della Paglia to take a farewell Jook at the Bridge of Sighs. It was a summer evening, hot and snitry, while the fast gathering clonds, dense and inky, betokened an approaching storm. I had just reached the Ponte della Paglia and was gazing at the Bridge of Sighs when a trememdoos peal of thunder rent the heavens, somm- ing to shake the city to its very foundas- tions with its violence. Saddenly a blinding fash of lightning lit up the palace, bridge and dungeons with {ts lurid flare. For an instant the bridge stood out with dazzling distinot- ness, while the lightning played on its traceried windows; then all seemed dark. And this was the last I saw of the Bridge of Sighs. — Newcastle Chron. icle. A Postman’s First Astempt. A route. is given to you, and just abont this time it begins to dawn upon you that perha s yon conld not cover the route in half the time the regular man did, and before yon got half a bleck away you got mixed np because you couldn't work your papers in with your letters, to say nothing of several small packages in your bag. You found your- self chasing up and down the street, and in order to make up the thaeyou were losing you began to plunge, and the more you plunged the mare yon got got, and once, when vou stood still looking for a number, a little boy asked yon whom Dreadful, wasnt it? And when you go behind the regular were sure it wes the heaviest roate in the office, and you felt like fainting when vou were told that it was the easiest And owing to your inability to make time von bad 6 double np with your partner, so that you worked all day long, from before sunrise nntil long after sunset. few moutbfuls yon lunch yoa got hame you were so and so disgusted with y« t back man's tuns yoo counter, and when tired, so hun- ar first un boar or 85 You got no Ilonch excepta- grabbed in passing» If vou are fond of plaving BILLIARDS OR POOL. Go to the ROOM opposite the Hotel es Beck. Good Tables and Balls I have on hand at all times soft drinks. and the best Ci- gars to be had in town. GEORGE GR EEN: Proprietor. Adamant Plaster Gives a first-class wall a moderate ex. pense. Ia the beat fire-resiating plaster. Always ready for nse in any sesson. Does not hold gases or disease germs. I= the par excellence for patching. (an be papered as soon as dry Is recommended by ail the leading "Architects who have used it in this country and England i: sald wall not crack, Will give you a Of itself will shrink. : Will not cleave off when used as di- rected, even in case of leakage. Will give you a warm house, swell or Does not ruin woodwork: by it with moisture. Admits of carpenters following plas- | terers in a few days. is capable of every variety: of finish B+" Used on the Palmer House, Good 3uilding, Hotel Beck, Hote! Patton, LO 1a & LL Co. office. . Patton Opera, house. M. E. church, and on more than one-half of the plastered houses and store rooms of Patton. Also the (Catholic Church St ine August ADAMANT PLASTER CO, Patton Pa | Lock Box 385 day at the business that yon would have avi! there was resigned forthwith, buat, the rab. —Postal Record. Chinese Visiting Cards 1,000 Years Age. The Chinese, who seem to have known most. of our new ideas, cards 1,000 years ago. tut ir cards were very large, and not really the pro totypes of our visiting cards, as they were on soft paper and tied’ with nib bon. Venice seemns to have the first city in Enrope Yo nse cards dating from the latter part of the six. teenth century are preserved in a mu- seum there. The German cities fol lowed the Venetian custom in 100 years or so, then London followed sait-— uw tually followed suit, for the first visit- in Great Britain were play 4 1 h cards, bear- the n we of the bestower on the They were first used in England abont 15640 Fu wn t know when they suntry, probably introduction Louis Globe. the heen I ards, or parts 18 € not long ter On ir first into British FoCisty, — Nt, Democrat. Infiniteatmal Webs. tie land of Montezuma, sand. volcanoes, ete. has many subtropical wonders, both in vegetable and animal life. Among these latter is a species of spider so minute Mexico, prickiy pears, that 1ts legs cannot be seen without a This little arane 1da weaves a ierfully minate that it takes glass. web go won 400 of them wo “gual a commen hair in magnitude — St. Lomis Repulbic, used visiting Sone The Home tnstrated Magazine Circnlation of any arid : Ladies Journal with Li Periodical An il i. Argest 1 the W 2 PUBLISHE ne Curtis _ x Falitasel d EDWARD W\. 5 2 Mrs. Lyman Abbots Miss Ruth Ashmor " Margaret Botton Robert J Burdett Emma Havwood Emma M. Hooper Frances E is al nig Isal wl A Mas 3 Miri i : ten Ee Rexford Flisabeth Robins Margaret Sims Rev. T. De Witt Talmag Adersory and Contrib si ovil hb mg Editors BRANCE OFFICES New York: Madison Ave and 23rd St Chicago M8 Home Insurance Building Sun Francisco: Chronicle Building Engl 8 Denese; post:fres lish Subscripts r Price. Per INSTI, Shs ry pwwy - Be logna, loading : (ONTRAGTDR per vear, 8 shillings, THE PATTON LADNDRY NEAR THE PATTON MOTEL. All Kinds of laandry work Aone on hori | thee and good work guamnteed. Prices reason able. Work called for and deliverad withont extrn ehfirge, Orders Nt atl Scheid's shop, opposite the Beck Hotel, will prompt attention i AUGUST K. HUBER, STONE MASON, Mellon Avenue, PATTON. PA fam prep to do all kinds of work in mv line at reasonable prices. Contracts agen and sxtimates furnished when desired Satisfaction i guamntesd. Give me a call F. W. BITTNER. TRACTOR AND Bur on 8¢ Fxtimates submitted on «hort atilioe ATTON. PENNA P. S.. WEsTBROOK, Manufacturer and Shipper of lce Cream, Avenne ALTOONA, PERN. 1601 IHL FRESH M EAT OF ALL KIN Lard. DS FIFTH AVENUE. Patton. HARNESS af 'E. J. SEVERIN, Prop'r., rer of Pa. fwnler in and Manuf tn H. ness. Bridles, Saddles, Col- lars. Nets; Whips, Blankets Hi: rmess Onl. Etc. "REPAIR WORK A Specialty -Railroad Street and Magee Avenue. FirstNation'l| Bank OF PATTON. Patton, Cambria Co, Pa. CAPITAL PAID UP, 0,000.00 its if orpesrat a ! 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Thomas. on or about h Ist, rdware lass ha team A ary $y 4 y ~~: a iil CRIN ys tthe room 00 : Themson A PAINTING CO. EXACT SHAPE EQUAL TO ANY FOR SALE BY ALL G. Hodes pb, fabove Cigar x 8 rome THE BEST Sc. CIGAR. CHARLES McMULLEN. J. M.-ROBINSON'S HOTEL, 4. F 10 CENT ClQAR. REALIASLE OEALERS. Johnstown, Pa in Patton by THE PATTON XEWS DEPOT. E. A. MELLON, P.M HEXRY E. KELLER. HULL » >
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