The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1868-12-11
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Seward is to reside in New York.
Canadians predict sharp Winter.
The Sultan has only 900 wives now
louisiana is going into riceculture.
Paris has 700,S24 cats by exact count
brigham Young is raising silk worms
California mcditates Worlds Fair in
1870. ~ !"
: The Sncz Canal will be opened next
October.
Mrs. Bloomer is now Blooming in
Omaha.
Gen. Butler is dangerously i'll at
Lowell
-Thackeray's daughter, Mrs. Stevens
is in Boston
DR., Holland will go into Winter guar
ters at Dresden.
Wales passed his twenty seventh birth.
day Nov. 9th. "
Syracuse has made 100000 bushels
OF salt in ten minutes.
Maine has been having to the extent
of million tons this year.
Philadelphia statistics argue a ponula-
ton of 100000.
Antelope meat from the plains is
plenty in the Chicago market
The San says there is not a Jewish
beggar in New York city.
The oldest doctor in the world, Prof
vergugo, has just died at Salamanca.
Spain, aged 10l.
Out of 100000 teachers in this
country. ll2, 500 are females
Lowell wants DR.. Aver to be its Ma,
or, which, being the main pil,er Of the
city, is the doctors right place.
-Four weeks ago Switzerland was CONS
pletely buried in sncw.
. -Beecher urges Bonner to engage the
Pope to write for the Ledger.
"A six,foot thick bed of hematito iron,
ro has been found near Denver.
A New Orleans infant in pantalettes
has written treaties on chronology.
II. W: takes up his pen, and is spelling
for round with ii. G.
"A project that has been run into the
ground-The Hoosac Tunnel.
Tho Chronicle and IatcUiqencer of
Washington are both for sale.
The slaves in Cuba have war cry
6 Aveuza Lincoln avenza |. ."
"A submarine cable from San Francisco
to Hong Kong Is talked Of
Carrier pigeons arc coming into use
again in England and France.
The Missouri was bridgcd with ice
asst week at Omaha and people crossed.
-Colfax was almost two late for his
Wedding by the misconnection of trains.
"A Western paper speaks of two men
who fell out of an " intoxicated buggy"
Gossip hints that Mrs. Gen. Schenck
will appear in Washington this Winter.
OF 1900 convicts in Slug Sing Prison,
'2S were formerly Sunday School scholars.
Out of 1929 Jesuits employed in mis-,
lonary work, 750 are in the United States.
Nap. is in good health, which is more
han can be said of the French body polite
Wisconsin has a larger proportion Of
oreign born citizens than any other State.
-Semmes has been boasting of his pi.
aces In Baltimore, and calling it lecture
The Earl of Dudley works ten square
1iles of iron mines, and is called the
Iron Earl"
Dickens Oldest son has lost heavily in
paper mill enterprise and become bank.
upt.
Hiram Powers, who returns to this
ountry soon, has been absent from it 81
ears.
Mrs. Mehed Ali is creating sensa.
OF at the Westminster Hotel, New York,
y her beauty.
Two deaf mutes were married in
lemphis last week. Theirs will be quiet
mily to live near.
Coffee without milk is used by the
urks as an antidote to the injurious effects
tabacco.
The Detroit AdVertiser prirts the
lme o! the Ohio carpet bag Congressman
ON New York city, IS. Scox"
Miss Frances Power Cobb became a
gistered voter in England by the mis-
elling of ner frs. name. G
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