The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEnIS.

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Kansas for horse stealing.
In Lawrence, Kansas, buffalo meat is
as plenty and cheap as beef
The German army is oficered almost
exclusively by the aristocracy.
Connecticut papers say that in some
parts of the State cider is more plentiful
than W ater.
A couple of farmers in Hardin county,
Iowa, went to law FIVE years ago over
S25. The suit has Just ended, and both
farmers had to sell their farms to pay
the costs.
The American Tract Society has issued
442,000,000 tracts in 14l languages and
dialects during the last forty-five years.
The latest thing in funeral professions
in the West is wagon to precede the
hearse, bearing a bell, which is tolled
en- route to the grave.
Gloves are now made in England with
a pocket on the inside of the palm, to
suit the habit indulgod in by the fair
sex Of carrying money in that position.
The latest thing out is the proposal
to celebrate L" leather weddings" To the
tin and wooden weddings it is proposed
to add the leather-wedding celebration,
fifteen years after marriage, every pre-
sent to have leather in its composition.
On consideration, it will be perceived
that the range of choice will be quite
large, though at first it may seen other
wise. Books, of ali kinds, in leather
bindings, would come within the class
Of goods we presume.
Just as traveller was writing his
name on the register of Leavenworth
hotel bed-bug appeared and took its
way across the page. The man paused,
and remarked "lve been bled by st.
Joe Heas, bitten by Kansas City spiders,
and interviewed by Fort Scott gray
backs but I'll be shot if L was ever in
a place before where the bed bugs looked
over the hotel register to find out where
your room was"
The State House at Lincoln, the capi-
tai of Nebraska, is built of magnesia
limestone and will cost when completed,
100000, The main building is now
completed, and occupied by all the State
officers. The Insane Asylum is just COM
pleted, and will cost the State Sl50,0O0.
The Penitentiary is now building, and
will cost $200.000. 1t is located three
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versity will be ready for occupancy In q
few weeks. 1t is modern building, is
very handsome, and will cost $l50,000.
A correspondent of the Neac Merican,
of Santa Fe, New Mexico, writing from
Chihuahua, Mexico, says the people of
that State are excited over a new dis
covery of placer gold about seventy
five miles from the city of chihuahua.
Don Pedro Gonzales, the discoverer, with
three other men, washed out twenty
three ounces Of gold in nine hours. The
particles found are round and plump,
from the size of a grain Of wheat to that
of hazlenut. One nugget weighed an
ounce. The place is situated in deep
arroyo two thousand or three thousand
yards long, and is supplied with water
from springs in all parts of the arroya.
The dirt yields from 81 to So to the
pan.
We learn from the Washington Re
puJlican that the meteorological record
collected by the War Department in
order to learn the course and move
ments of storms, Is likely to come to an
early end. The appropriation for tele-
graphing was only $4,000, and the col
Letting and distributing of several hun
dred messages daily has already con-
sumed the amount The Western Union
Telegraph Company will continue to do
the work, however, until Congress gets
time to act in the premises. Asthe mes
sages must be given precedence of all
other business at certain hours, the COM
pany will probably require several hum
dred thousand dollars per annum to give
the proper amount of telegraphic fdcili-
ties to maintain the record and make it
a success. 1t is believed that Congress
will decline to make an appropriation
adequate to the maintenance of the en-
terprise.
The New Yorl, Bulyetin says: "The
business of knitting by machinery is
now being prosecuted on very large
scale by one or two houses in this city
The factories are located on the line of
the New Haven Railroad, and are very
large one in particular employing 400
men, women and children, and repre-
senting united capital of about $780,
900. This new branch of the manu-
featuring business will be of very great
benefit in reducing the cost of first-class
, underclothing, as this one concern can
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1000 hand knitters. All kinds of useful
and ornamental work can be done by
the improved machinery, which cannot
be distinguished from the finest kind of
hand work. This is new enterprise,
and one which must eventually pay very
, handsomely on the money invested, be-
sides opening new branch of industry
i and trade.
Away up in Maine, where it was to
, be supposed the follies and crimes OF
} fashion had not yet been introduced, il
is charged that women even in the small
est towns and villages have adopted the
: practice of arsenic eating. This is 8
l European custom which has obtained a
r pretty strong hold in some of our large
cities, but which we had presumed was
l interdicted in the rural districts where
t the cosmetics of nature, fresh air and
l exercise, abound on, every hand. 1t:
+ object, as most of our readers must
: know, is to give whiteness and clearnest
S to the complexion, and for imparting, il
the language of the advertiser, ga beauti
ful and everlasting rose tint to theeheek
D of the fair" The only arguments agains
! its general use are, that in short tim