The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Diabolism of Divorce" rs one
subject of a woman lecturer in lnaian"
Coal mines are now being worked ~
seven counties of Kansas. -s 80.
One-half the slate pencils used in tne
world are made in Vermont. o.i''!
A little Maine girl of fourteen wanos
divorce from her husband of fortyTnVs.
1t is said that Texans are so fond. oi
riding that they will walk three miles 70
catch horse on which to goa mile.
The cultivation of peanuts has, been
tried quite extensively in Minnesota ''ne
present year, and with good success.
San Francisco has Just finished its tirs'
silk factory, and is now talking OF COT
ton manufactory. .pa yJiys!i
Western corn husks have given large
numbers of hogs disease called the
"mad itch" ..r. "e 'eh9G nsf'
A young and beautiful German LADY,
at Blairsville, Ind, recently drank ~
glasses of beer in honor of Napoleons
surrender. Np ad'
1.-THE Fire Place" is the name otua
drinking saloon in Chicago. Any one
can get warm by it for ten cents, or red
hot for quarter
A large needle factory is about to be
established in Newark, which will turn
out 100000 self-threadipg needles per
day. r".. .. .eh,L 9aI ]
New Haven claims the only original
oil portrait of General Lee in existence.
1t was painted by j. NJ. King, of that
city, soon after the close of the war, and
is valued at $3.50. nova. ,.,.a,-
,,a,- ~ 10 NjcciG-
sippi paper that she is of good birth and
education, and wants husband. She
is willing to marry an editor. believing
herself able to support one. 81 .'.. '.'.
Miss Caroline Wood has been engaged
in the wood business in Iowa to some
purpose She has cleared l60 acres OF
land, and planted 1000 fruit and 1000
maple trees, all with her own hands.
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake
Railroad, Maine, is completed, and ready
for transfer to the Maine Central Rail-
road Company. who have agreed to lease
it for fifty years from the first day OF
November. ....IG -H..t..
A Young rural lawyer in Illinois is go
ing to take the stump during the fall
campaign, and proposes to grasp ray
of light from the great orb of day, spin
it into threads of gold, and with them
weave a shroud in which to wrap the
whirlwind which dies upon the bosom of
our Western prairies."
The way q Colorado deacon laid up
treasures above is thus touchingly re-
corded on his tombstone: "When cir
cumstances rendered 1t impossible for
him to attend the stated preaching of the
Gospel, he made it u sacred rule to kill
an Indian every Sabbath" ,.r.r... ..I
Of the twelve surviving widows of
Revolutionary soldiers who are one hun
dred years of age and over, three live in
Maine, their names, residences, and ages
being as follows Anna Plance, of Port
land, 100; Happy Mouse, of Portland,
100, and Hannah Andrew, of Lowell 10l.
Two young clerks in New Haven
blessed unlike most clerks, with but lit
tie to do, got into discussion the other
day as to their relative physical ability
to labor, and ended it by trial at street.
cleaning with hoes. They attracted such
crowd that the police interfered and
ended their harmless sport. l..- -
Mark Twain has this advice for young
/ men with literary aspirations: write
without pay until somebody offers pay.
If nobody offers pay within three years
l the candidate may look upon this cir
cumstance with the most implicit conf
S dence as the sign that saving wood is
what he was intended for" -.....,
: The newly married woman's property
! law in England has gone into effect. A
! woman's earnings are hereafter her own |;
O policy OF insurance is her own: she
may sue and be sued separately; a hus-
band is not liable for his wife's ante
! marriage debts. These obvious deficien-
! cies in English jurisprudence have been
. long met by the laws in New York and
! by the code Napoleon. .' 2H.t i3a'
: The La Crosse Leader tells this: Not
: long since, while one of the river boats
n was taking ON some live, stock, among
: the lot was one large gray mule, that re-
fused to walk the staging. The N ate
sung out to a roustabout to twist his
:, tail, and he'd come" A coroner's Jury
/, have decided that the man came to his
y death "by obeying orders.b-l, -. .lv
9 There are two enthusiastic little girls
+, in Merrimack, n. H., aged ten and twelve
= years, who are doing a thriving business
> in snaring partridges for the Boston
81 market. 1t is said they are wide awake
at an early hour in the morning, and be-
u fore many city people are aware of the
g peep O. day they are visiting snares that
they have set the day before They fire.
. quently travel over an area of three OF
. four miles of territory, and catch from
- - six to eight game birds a day. ~ .alf
le Mr.. Martin, in a paper presented b,
him to the " Societe Therapeutiauei dt
d France" aflirms that the common sun.
ii flower, extensively cultivated, has th,
le effect of neutralizing the unwholesom,
d, vapors which are SO fatal to health anG
life in marshy districts. The Dutch
er who live only by dyking and drainine
their low lands, and are therefore eooc
g authority, pronounce sunhower cuitur,
1t a specific for intermittent fever, tht
d, scourge of Holland. They assert that
'e it has disappeared from every district
where the experiment, has been tried
1t is not yet known whether this is The
: result of its rapid growth, lIiroducins
a. oxygen, OF whether it emits ozone ant
to destroys those germs. animal and vege
a. table, which produce that Nh ri