The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Malaga grapes are cheaper and better
this season than they have been Tor
many years.
The Vermont Legislature is model
body. 1t sits only two or three weeks
every two years.
An Owen county Kentuckian has won
admiration by marrying his girl when
she was down with the measles.
A charming girl in Covington, Ohio,
last week giggled to the extent of dis
locating her lower jaw.
Diamonds in the London market have
fallen in value thirty per cent, owing
to the great quantity offered by refugees
from France.
A Western gentleman is under medl-
cal treatment for the lead collie, induced
by kissing young lady of improved
complexion.
When the Marquis of Lorne becomes
Victoria's son-in-law, there is said to be
a prospect of his teing made Governor
General of Canada.
Secretary Creswell will recommend
the adoption in this country of the
penny postal card, which is now extern
sively used in England.
A contemporary proposes the establish
ment of "training colleges" wherein
young women may be taught how to rear
infants according to the latest lights Of
medical and social science.
For over thirty years an old gentleman
at st. Adams, VT, has made practice of
getting out of bed every night at IL, IL,
2, and o'clock, to enjoy comfortable
smoke"
In Boston poor man who. less than
one year ago, had only one suit of clothes,
went into the newspaper business, and
now has eight suits. Seven Of them are
for libel.
In Chicago the inexorable DEGREES of
fashion make it imperative on dogs Of
good family to wear black and red prom
enade blankets, and to have the leading
strings attached to the left side of the
collar.
A conductor on the Toledo, Wabash
and Western Railway, while the train
was running at its full speed, shot and
killed quail on the wing, at a distance
of about fifty feet, with small Derrin-
ger pistol.
A New Hampshire magistrate is under
indictment for having married a matron
of 40 to a youth of l5, whom she had cap
tured, and who states that he was afraid
to say "no" when asked the momentous
question.
Arailway station agent in New Hamp-
shire, having been reprjmanded for al
lowing a car to be 50 heavily loaded that
it broke down, replied, "Mr. g., what do
you expect man to know for twenty
dollars month";"
Mr.. Maillefert has contracted to re-
move the distractions from the James
river below Richmond. The Dutch Gap
Canal will be cleared out and opened SO
as to transfer the channel of the James
river to that famous excavation.
Callfornians, owing to the alkaline
taste of most of the water in the State,
are the greatest coffee drinkers in the
country, the average yearly consump-
ton being l6 80 pounds, while in the
Union at large the average is only seven
pounds.
A Kansas paper describing o wedding
trousseau, says THE BRIDE is to have
trailing nightgowns oh, such beauties,
with ever such long trails-five feet, at
least. One chemiSette that our gossiping
friend showed US had over $50 worth of
oi ~ "it tLit io oHiy oie Ol
half dozen"
One of the most accommodating of men
lives in Elk township, Noble county,
Ohio. The other day he walked over
thirty-two miles, through the rain, for
the sole purpose OF paying a neighbor's
tax. The tax was eighteen cents, and
with the delinquency amounted to forty
four cents.
1t is customary in Massachusetts to
open the sessions of the Supreme Court
with prayer. At the recent term in Fitch
burg the clergyman in attendance, after
asking Divine favor and guidance for the
presiding Judge, proceeded to earnestly
implore the Lord for similar blessings
upon the Judges wife and children, that
they might be spared in life and in health
during his absence, and that, at the close
of the term, he might be once more re-
stored to the bosom of his family. As
, the presiding Judge was never married,
his feelings during the service may be
imagined.
Asomnambulist in New Haven jumped
down the other night 16 feet upon tin
roof, and, still asleep, deliberately walked
off on to another roof six feet lower; then
walked through a skylight and lodged
on a table ton feet below, and then in
some way crawled back through the dis
mantled skylight, cutting his feet badly
in his struggles. The noise awakened a
man in the house, who found the SOM
nambulist standing upon the tin root,
with nothing on but his shirt and en-
tirely unconscious as to how he came
there. He was wounded and nearly
frozen, and was taken back into the house
and properly cared for.
A New York correspondent writes
that lady there recently granted a
} days holiday to her nursery maid, and
was afterward so strongly importuned
by her children to take them to certain
place of amusement that she complied
with their request. Sitting in front of
her was female, elegantly attired in a
} rich striped silk, and exactly like the
J one the lady had received from her
: modiste and had not worn. Her atten-
} ton was further attracted by familiar
, looking black lace shawl, fastened at the
shoulders by diamond clasps strangely
J resembling her own. Her interest in
: the toilette was bv no means d;o;n;sLo5