The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1868-11-20
NEWS ITEMS.

| -Dayard Taylor is at new novel;
Boston has 34,710 votes.
The mackerel catch Is light this year.
-Prim is one of the richest men in Spain.
Paris is to adopt the electric light.
Isabella cost Spain 81 500 600 n year.
| Tad. Lincoln goes to school in Germany.
A pair Of Maine towns have hoen named
Grant and Colfax.
The Parents of Bayard Taylor celebrated
their golden wedding on the 15'h.
The Massachusetts Homeopathic Society
pronounces against the use of butter.
| -Bclmont gives the best dinners in New
York.
Holland proposes to abolish the death
penalty.
The latest thing in fans. is horseshoe
shaped.
-Canadian weatherists. still unterrifcd,
predict an Indian Summer yet.
Ninety locomotives are now running on
the Uiion Pacific.
--Vallanaigham has Joined the Church.
| John Allen has not.
A Swiss has invented watch which Is
wound by raising the cover.
-Bostons boast the new st. James Hotel
has broken its landlord and is shut.
The design for the ceiling of the new
Park Bank, New York, cost $4,000.
Silver is at u discount of 80 per cent. ot
Toronto.
Robert Lincoln and his bride have re.
turned to Chicago.
The New York kitchen girls are Grccian
bcnding-as is their National right.
"A Maine man'has packed l,GOO. 600 cans
of green corn this year.
Matilda Heron is Playing Camilla again in
New. York.
-General Meaghcr's body has never been
recovered.
Rev. DR.. Breckenridge is shortly to marry
blooming Kentucky marion.
"A change of site for Yale College is talked
of.
The name of Jedlo, Japan, has been
changed to Tookie.
-Kose1crantz. Of Dresden. turned out his
seven thousandth piano short time since.
Jenkins reports that PATHS charms are
waning.
Some hcartless paragrarher announces
that Fanny Kemblc was born in 1911.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel talks of adopting
the European plan.
Barney Williams.
FLORENCE Nightingale has been confined
to her room for eleven years.
st. Paul is shipping potatoes to St. Louis.
--AlcXanlcr II. Stephens is going to give
readings for the benefit Of church.
A new apple has been named "The Fourth
Of july" 1t must be buncomc.
-Four eclipses next year-two lunar and
two solar, one Of the last total.
Mrs. Yelverton ia wearing dress which
was exhibited at the Paris Exposition.
Madame Moore is walking against time at
Syracuse.
Isabella is better supplied with heirs than
hairs.
A n"n-variahle compass has been invented
by the Virginians.
Phillip IIarwood now edits the Saturday
Rcrirw.
In the vicinity of Ottawa. C. W., tax pay
ers revenge themselves by poisoning the horses
II collectors.
English soldiers are still branded for
insubOrdinate language.
Frankfort. on-Ihe- Maine expects to be the
future residence of Mrs. Lincoln.
The British gun boats on the Lekes are
The Superior Road goes norhward mile
\ day.
Thirty two bushels to the acre IS the
English wheat average.
Miss Remond. young colored lady, has
Just graduated NJ. ID. at medical school in
Florence, Italy.
Gen. Lee has starte Bible class. lie
will probably practice his class in taking Bible
paths.
Many farmers In England support them
selves and families on six acres and pay heavy
rents.
Rich Londoners have started a mania for
Did carved chimney pieces with which to deco
rate their new mansions.
A Chicago lawyer who attacked young
e male in plea in Court has been summoned
,y her to mortal combat
ALI Fifth avenooiledom is envious of two
young ladies who are engaged to Counts.
Robert Z. Lee and forty others represent
he unpardoned of Virginia. Wholesale |
General Order No. !. Headquarters of |
fashion. Moustaches aud no side whiskers |
will he the style.
The Queen of Prus iia has recovered from |
eeble health by much eating of grapes.
-Bismarck's daughter has married an impe-
uniOus young Pole in the Russian diplomatic |
ervice.
Cornell Jewett is in Ottawa Canada immi.
lently threatening return to the United
states.
Twenty four bridesmaids and groomsmen
re to help couple Of simpletons in New
Ork join hands.
Great Britain raises 120, 600. 900 bushels |
f wheat this year-is, ,00O,000 more than last
ear.
In New York, last week, Mary Bushel
undertook to get rid of her husband by giving
i'm peck with knife.
The parental ruler of France has forbid
en- Labonlaye to lecture any more on the
american Constitution.
The money Queen Isabella carried off with
er was small change for a crown.
A Boston cook sells seven hundred loaves
brown bread and barrel of baked beans
very Sunday
A wag objects to the Danish Maiden