The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-08-15
VOLUME ElGUT-NUJiBER 20
INTERESTING ITEMS.

E1yCeltic Gauoral Gleason has retir.
cd from Fonianism to farm in Va.
Be5aThe cost Of the standing army in !
the Southern States, as reconstructed by |
the Radicals, was over eighteen millions
of dollars last year. White men, pay
your taxes
nfns While Postmaster Neil Of Van
Vert, Ohio, was STOPPING to dip some
water with pitcher, it was struck by
lightning and broken to atoms Mr.
Neil suffered no forther than a tempo
rary numbness Of the arm.
D1g~The Radicals established "Bu
rcau for the maintenance of lazy, idle me-
groes. Instead of giving any support,,.o
the poor white men of the country, they
load them down with taxes. Voters,
think of this at the polls
aly-Carbolic acid is beginn ing to
play an important part in more ways
than one. a physician Of good repute
and practice asserts that it will cure
consumption, if the patient will habitu-
ally breathe an atmosphere impregna-
ted by it.
HSap Wine is becoming an important
article of manufacture in Kansas, The
newspapers of the city Of Lawrence
state that the makers of domestic wine
in Kansas are busily engaged in gathers
ing the summer grape, which is now
abundant in the valley of the Kaw.
rga-T The apostolic briefs having been
received from Rome, it is understood
that the conservation Of the Bishops
eject of Wilmington, Del, and the Vic
ar Apostolic elect of North Carolina,
will take place in the Cathedral in Bal
timore, on Sunday, the 10th, of August.
rsa. Pennsylvania papers complain
bitterly of the wanton destruction of
trout in this State. The supply is stead
lily declining in the mountain streams
they say, and sportsmen scarcely think
now of entering the Alleghanies for trout
but 90 rather to North ern New York.
4 proper game law is urgently called
for.
BG~An English actor known to thea
ter. .goers as Charles Viucent. but who 81
real name was Ch aries Panrucker Vine
died recently at Victoria, from the re
! suit of nothing more than the dislocatioI
: Of a thumb in fall from a horsc-py
oomia, or blood poisoning, ensuing iro L
the injury.
rcA-A Vermont paper states that Ir
. Wells, of North Thotiord, Vt, who wen
hunting on Aacutney Mountain, Oh
} Tuesday, was discovered on Frida
his arm c0ugt in the cleft Of a tree and th
whole lower part Of his body doyourcd
\ umber Of huge bear tracks about the
, spot explained his horrible fate
e r0-The following is good rule fo
n finding the contrast Of any color " Gu
a out a circular piece of the petal of an
C flower aud put it on white paper, look a
it iixedly for a few seconds with one eye
n then look off the color on to a piece @
;, white paper and you will see brigh
0 ring of another color; that ring or cir
II Gle is the right complementary color q
c contrast to the color in the petal"
h n-9- Father Sccchi of Rome, in
/. communication to the Royal Astronomi
!. cal Society, London, on the grea
G nsbula Of Orion" states that the ncbul
o is seen much better in moonlight tha
Y on dark nights. This surprising etieC
y he accounted for upon the opticia
il principle that the difference Of tv
J. lights is more easily appreciated who
10 they are week than when they al
y strong
y nz2pThe heels of fashionable shcC
le worn by ladies are so small at the DO
's tom as to afford little or no support
N the ankles. This in part accounts iC
&c the peculiar walk of those who we,
ID them, and this is causing many a wee
he and sprained ankle for which there
ct no cure. An ankle once sprained
le ever after liable to be injured by yer
c, slight cause. No lady who values he
Of comfort in life, aud limbs upon whic
$, she depends for locomotion will weG
OF high heels tapered off as is now ii
Is fashion
IN GGg"A writer in the Tndcpedent say
ID " 1t is not long since that we saw II
., trunks al New York women, who
m father was a respectable dry goods jo
~ ~, Der, marked Madame Ia Marqui
ns de- the name being that Of QUO
- the oldest of the French nobility The
are American couutcsses by the scor
and baronesscs by the hundred. On
one American women we believe, h
60 worn the coronct Of q duchess /
there IS one, the daughter Of a n,
YORK Grocer, who IS q princess. aud
10 la.cl by marriage 20 iicy Mys, u~v.-