The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


for saying "by telegraph"
Base ball has killed twenty-five per-
sons during the past season.
The Steamship China, just arrived at
San Francisco, brought over l2,OOo PACK
ages Of tea.
Miss Winnie Ream's statue of Lincoln
is finished, and will be sent to Washing
ton this winter.
There are on file on the docket OF the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts nearly
10000 bills for divorce.
The " one flesh" that an Indiana couple
were recently made, weighed one thou
sand pounds avoirdupois.
A lady reporter goes to church and
writes up "Style in the Sanctuary" for
one of the Chicago papers.
Mr.. Perry of Michigan, quotes wives
at So plus an old shot gun. He sold one
of his recently at that figure.
Sets of mathematical stIuments and
a library, are to be given to Gen. Grant,
Gen. Sherman, and Gen. Mcclellan.
Mark Twain has issued a new work,
entitled "Innocents at Home" Or IN
other words his wife has got baby.
The Kansas Tribune states that legion
OF pretty girls are worrying the members
of the new Legislature out of their seven
senses, by applications for assistance in
obtaining clerkships and other official
positions.
The Toledo, Wabash and Western Rail-
road is sued for SAC, 900 damages because
its trains do not stop at Jacksonville,
Ind, =" twenty minutes for T. refreshments,"
as was the understanding when the depot
and hotel were built.
In Indianapolis, a charming young
lady physician was called to administer
to gentleman down with fever. You
need good nursing" said the lady.
Nurse me for life" replied the patient.
"I will" was the soft answer.
Miss Kitty Underwood has been de-
cided by a vote of the citizens of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, to be the handsomest girl
in the city. She is about eighteen years
of age, school teacher and dependent
on her own resources for a livelihood.
A letter from Paris says: cit is
strange and painful to see groups of we'll
dressed women looking in the windows
of pork butchers and tripe shops with
the .me eager curiosity with which they
used to gaze at ribbons and bonnets"
Steel earrings are now the fashion.
They are fastened to the ear by spring,
and have the appearance OF a small gold
dot inserted INTO the flesh. They are
popular among young ladies, inasmuch
as it is not necessary to pierce the ears.
Five ladies, not long since left North
ampton, Mass, for California, going by
| tho Danifio RotlrCol Thaxy
tended, and all but one, whose husband
is resident of California, are out on
pleasure trip. They will remain in CAL
ifornia until spring.
The Spanish Minister has paid over to
the government nineteen thousand seven
hundred dollars in gold, which was
awarded in a recent arbitration for dam
ages in the s-izure of the Lloyd Aspin-
wall. This subject, it will be remembered,
was alluded to in the Presidents Mes
sage. Its settlement is cause for con-
graduation, as it threatened at one time
to affe ct the relations between SPAN and
the United States.
A committee of the Maryland Acal-
emy of Science, having spent several
weeks prospecting in the coal and iron
regions of West Virginia, have reported
their observations to the Institute at
Baltimore. The committee reports that
the amount of the minerals there exceeds
all anticipations. There is a large amount
of splint of coal great value for manu-
featuring purposes The committee ex-
presses the opinion that the best quality
of iron can be manufacture there cheap
er by several dollars ton than in Penn
sylvania.
A dealer in agricultural tools out in
Iowa, and German by birth, went to
Fdtherland, last spring, taking along a
reaper and mower of the most approved
pattern, and put it to practical use at
once. The old and the young gathered
by hundreds to see it work, for they have
only the old-fashioned clumsy scythe,
and the old wood mold-board plow. But
when they saw twenty acres of grass cut
in seventeen hours, they were completely
astonished, and confessed such machine
run with little oil was completely ahead
of their tools backed by unlimited sup
plies of lager.
The report of the United States De-
partment OF Agriculture comes to the
startling conclusion that such is the
wholesale destruction of American for
ests, there will be an actual famine for
wood in the country within thirty wears,
unless immediate measures are taken to
supply their places by new plantations.
1t Is estimated that from 1850 to 1860.
2OOOOOOO acres of timber land were
brought under cultivation, and that in
the present decade no less than hundred
millions will be 50 reclaimed. We see
but one remedy for this: Let the Gov
ernment offer large premiums for the
cultivation Of forests.
The thieves who travel on the rail for
a living at the expense of honest people,
have invented new device for the pur-
pose of facilitating their plundering op-
erations. The device consists of a
drugged cigar, the smoking of which
produces gradual but almost deadly eff
feet upon the victim. The game consists
OF the operator making himself respecta-
bly, present in the smoking car of train.
and at the right time engaging in con.
yersation with a stranger, and then in
due time offering him a cigar, which he
takes from his pocket with h andfnl ot
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