The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The old house of Daniel Webster Is tor
sale. ..... -..o..
Vermont has man with beard seven
feet long.
Miss Sarah Russell has become the city
editor of the New Haven Palladium. ..-
The Rocky Mountain Herald predicts
that the buffalo will be extinct in TWEEN
years. 'a
Jenny Lind has been singing in Lon
don for the benefit of the German wound
ed.
AWestern druggist advertises: "Phy-
sicians' prescriptions carefully confound-
ed"
The revenue collections for the last
fiscal year amounted to $16S, ,107, an
increase of over twenty-five millions over
the previous year. ...
Queen Victoria is President of a Ger
man Aid Society in England which has
donated over ole million dollars to the
German wounded.
Mr.. Columbus Walker, of Bellevillt,
Ind, was married lately to the celebrated
bearded lady. The beard on Mrs. Walk
ers face is quite silky and luxuriant,
and about two and a half inches long. o.
A Terre Haute bridegroom refused to
wed after he looked in the family Bib BILE
and found that his lady-love was nine
years older than her mother had repre-
sented.
Horace Binney, Of Philadelphia, and
Samuel Dunn Parker, of Boston, are the
oldest living graduates of Harvard Col
| lege. Mr.. Binney was member of the
class of 1897, and Mr.. Parker of that OF
1899. .rat-
Among the features of the recent fair
in Georgia. was cooking match, III
which young women were the competl-
tors. Miss Black, a girl aged only 10
years, took the premium for the best
coaked dinner of twelve dishes.
Fifty Cinnamon are soon to be settled
in Shelby county, Iowa, for the purpose
of improving and opening up farms.
| This is simply an experiment, but IT 1t
proves successful a large number are to
be brought in.
A youthful Michigander tried to learn
to smoke the other day, in the secluded
recesses of the parental barn. AS soon
as the foundation stones get cooled OF
enough his father will begin building.
another barn.
English papers complain that the half
penny postal cards, which have recently
been introduced are developing q good
deal of latent blaeheua. dom, tho oPpe.--
tunity of sending open messages OF an
insulting character through the Post
Office being apparently irresistible.
Kansas City possesses a curiosity in
the shape of a white man who was alb
| To- ,,rbo,, i-,fo
and brought up with them, He is
genuine savage, and speaks scarcely any
English, but has become acquainted with
his history, and announces his deter
mination to visit Pennsylvania, where he
was born.
General Hasbrouck Davis, of Chicago,
who was lost in the Cambria, was son
of Governor and Senator " Honest" John
Davis. He was born at Worcester, Mass,
in 1927, graduated at Williams College
in 1916, was Unitarian clergyman for
several years, and in 1854 went to Chica-
go and practised law. He was q prom
inent and brave cavalry officer in the
late war; was an editor after the war.
and also city attorney of Chicago. He
was q man of high scholarship and fine
character.
A New Jersey paper with charming
candor tells how champagne Is made
from cider. A barrel of cider, costing
say So, will yield 100 bottles of cham
pagne, which, at say So per bottle, will
sell for $500 by the addition of little
Rhine wine, alcohol, sugar, and carbonic
acid gas. And now, it says, cider has its
imitators in turn. The bogus cider
makers buy dried apples and soak them.
The water is mixed with alcohol, simple
syrup, and carbonic acid, bottled and
sold for cider.
Great expectations of the development
of India are aroused by the completion
of the great railway connection, l,400
miles in length, between Bombay and
Calcutta, the capital. Crowds of people
are going to the interior from Bombay,
which, it is expected, will soon become
the great cotton port for the large Eu-
ropean trade. The railroad charges
from Bombay to Calcutta are $75. The
through trip is made in sixty-two hours,
and the journey is solaccd by the pres
ence of American palace cars. D..
Captain John Gohring, a citizen Of
Reading, Pa, having visited Germany
for the purpose of seeing the friends of
his youth, was impressed by the Prussian
government into its service, where, ac-
cording to their military laws, he has
three months yet to serve. Captain Gehr-
ing is German by birth, but has been
in this country many years. He had
served about three years in the army be-
: fore he left his country, and now they
are compelling him to serve the residue
of his term. He is q naturalized citizen
of this country, and served during the
whole of our war with the character
: of an excellent soldier.
A railroad is projected in Brazil, which
is likely to be of considerable benefit to
the commerce of the United States. II
is to be called the Madeira and Mamore
: Railway, and will extend from San An.
. !. tonic to Guajara-Merim, distance oi
about ITO miles. Its object is to fur.
, nish transportation of goods going Il
and from Bolivia, around the falls o.
the Madeira river, which are an insupe
rable obstacle to navigation, and now
compel traffic to take an unnatural anC
r expensive route over the Andes to Peru
' 1t costs 5000 in gold to carry ton o
4 freight by this route from Europe to Bo
livia. whereas when the nroiacted ra;l