The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-02-14
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.

sons relatlnS TO each other the maLV
wonderful objo cts they hau seen in the
course of their travels, one of them as
serted that he had seen, in Africa, some
grass growing that was as high as u
house, and appealed to his companion
for the truth of the story this his com.
panion made no hesitation in confrminf
and declared that in the very same
field where this grass grew, after having
wnlkd some time, he sat down to rest
himself, and in the course OF a few min
utes found himself raised thirty icar
from the ground, in consequence of
having sat upon mushroom that was
growing :.
An atroclous outrage was rctpetratcd
on Tuesday morning, in BROOKLYN, by Il
gang Of rulians, who entered a house
occupied by number of sewing girls.
and having robbed the inmates, seizsd
the terrified women and subjected them
to the most revolving indignites. All
the females were outraged in a horrible
manner. Had this occurred in the South,
it would have been declared a remnant
of the barbarity of slavery, and be cited
as another evidence why the South
should be politically prosecuted.
ON a rainy wintery evening, a gentle.
man travling in cab found, on nearing
his destination, that he had no money
with him, SO thinking he would try the
honesty of the cabman, he cal ed out as
he ran up the steps, "Wait a minute;T
have dropped a sovereign in the cab, and
will get a lightaud search Tor it." The
words were bare y spoken, when the cab.
man, gave the horse furious lash, and
drove off at a violent rate. The gentle
man, heartily amused at the result called
after him repeatedly, but never saw cab
or driver again.
Last week, near Winchester Franklin
county, negro entered the house of
John Cook, who was absent and after
being furnished a drink of water, seized
his wife, threw her on the bed, and while
attempting to accomplish his purposes,
was interrupted by neighbor boy. The
negro fed, an although pursued by men
on horseback and on foot, with guns and
similar outrage by negro. within four
miles Of Columbus. had occurred short
time before. The culprit iu that case
is in Jail.
Charles Patterson, belonging to tho
navy, shot his sister, 10 Philadelphia, on
the 9th, badly wouniing her in the
head and breast with duck shot. She
refused to leave a house Of illfame to
which the had resorted to escape the
cruel treatment of her step mother, and
he shot her, as he said, because he pre-,
ferred seeing her dead than leading such
life.
/ "Conductor," said an over,dressed
dandy the other day, III an omnibust
"do not procrastinato, but urge your
equine motive power 70 the greatest We.
locity, for have an engagement in the
city at stated hour, which | must ful-
fl or expire" "Jem.' shouted the con.
ductor to the driver, "push along. Hera,s
lunitic inside swearing away like
mad"
They have new institution in Lon.
don, called Female Garroters," that
use a rope, and seize their victims in the
streets. We always knew that femles
were garroters, but the only weapons
they evel used was paIr of loving
arms.
"NO CARDS.--Snooks says the words
"No Cards" are affixed to wedding no.
tees because the parties played all their
cards before marriage. This is new
theory and will be generally accepted.
A paper asks very innocently, if it Is
any harm to sit in the lapse of ages. 1t
depends on the kind of ages selected.
Those from seventeen to twenty five are
extra hazardous.
The Imperial Court of Room, France,
has inst decided that the epithet
"female" applied to a woman const,-
tuted an insult.
4 returned Californian named Whit
ing. who has been absent for three years
found his wife living with another man
in PHILADELPHIA, and the mother of
child. lie threw the child out of the
window, stabbed the woman and fled,
a cotemporary suggests that a lady,
on putting on her corsets, is like a man
who drinks to drown his griet, because
in so lacing herself she is getting tight.
A little girl in school being aScl what
a cataract or waterfall was, she replied
that it was hair flowing over something,
she didn't know what.
II want to buy a sewing machine"
said lady entering a shop. "Do you
want a machine with feller2" "Sakes
no, don't want any Of your fcIlcrs about
me-"