The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The first invoice of diamonds
Cape of Good Hope has arrived IN

The colored women of Indiana hal
secret order called the "Doves OF
fection."
| Mrs. Van Cott, the Methodist rev.
list, during her two weeks work in M
dan, Conn.,, added sixty converts to
church.
A Memphian, who has Just recei
thirteen cents damages for the tract
of his leg in sewer, thinks he
move to some locality where limbs
more highly appreciated.
Mrs. Ingham, of Iowa, will live
history as the woman who deliveree
Thanksgiving sermon while her
band proudly sat back of the pu
holding the baby.
The gam mbler-shooting season in Q
fornia promises an unusually large yid
The exhi'irating strains of the revoi
are heard every pleasant afternoon
the frequented streets of Frisco
other lively towns.
A colored mail carrier in Virginia
recently well shaken by man for XII
ing his dog. "Look here, masse
said he, you'd better be keerful b
you shakes dis chile, cos when you sha
me you shakes de whole of de Uni
States; carries de mails"
Bloomington, Indiana, has sixty-sey
young women wanting to be marri
and only three marriageable you
men. The name of the place arises tr
the fact that every man has VIII
ton of blooming girls to himself, cald
lating the average weight of the girls
low as ninetynine pounds apiece. L
is out Of all proportion. 20
The appointment of Mrs. Annie
Camfeld to be Deputy Collector OF !
ternal Revenue in an Ohio district is
first time woman has ever been forr
ally appointed to any Office in the int
nal revenue service, but the bureau
Washington has ample evidence til
women really do the work, and do
well, in several cases, where their hu
bands are the nominal assessors or CO
lectors.
When a man comes home and tries |
bolt the door with sweet potato, poky
the fire with the spout of coffee-pd
attempts to wind up the clock with h|
boot jack, tries TO cut kindling for h|
morning fire with paper-knife, takes
cold potato in his hand to light him
bed, and prefers sleeping in his hat an
boots, you may reasonably infer that b
has been making the acquaintance {
some very friendly people.
San Francisco is attempting, and it
believed successfully, to cultivate oyster
in her harbor. None but small and in
ferior bivalves are indigenous near th
city. A little less than year ago som
and planted in San Francisco Ba,
Here, inspired by the Western ambitio
which runs toward bigness. they OF
tanned an obesity perfectly wonderful
and are to-day larger than those at th
East, which are older by two or thre
years.
The last number of the America
Journal Of Science records the discover
of large part of the skeleton of ma.
todon near Illipolis, Illinois. One of tn
tusks proved to be nearly ten feet il
length, and twenty-nine inches in cir
conference three feet from the lowe
end. All the bones were in a fair stat
OF preservation, and of dark, spongy
and porous appearance. 1t is probabl
that the specimens will be added to tn
collections of fossils now being gathers
together by Professor Worthen for III
State cabinet. -.L
Four Cinnamon, All Cha, Lee Juns
Wang Kung, and All Toke, have bee
sentenced at San Bernardino, Cal, t
two years confinement in the Stat
Prison and to pay fines of $500 each, fo
whipping and burning a woman of thei
own nationality. They tied the poo
creature to tree, stripped, and whippe
her, then let her go, and repeated tn
process, adding to it the torture of fir
by kin6ling brush about her, Laughing
and joking all the time. They mus
have lenient judges at San Bernardino
two years OF imprisonment for sue
wretches hardly satisfy the demands c
justice. syB
The Chinese in San Francisco al
making preparations for the celebratio
OF the most important festival that hs
occurred in their calendar for ten Ger
turies. Next February will be, accord
ing to Chinese testimony, the com
mencement of another thousand year
and the rejoicings will surpass anythin
OF the kind ever witnessed in the celes
tial line in this country. The festivitit
will continue for two weeks. durin
which time not a solitary Chinamal
however poor or dependent, will lift b
hands to work. In order to keep up th
old rites at home, 54S of the wealth.,
Chinese sailed recently for the "Flower
Kingdom" and several hundred MOI
will leave on the 18th of January.
In the last number of the Iechaolo
glSt is an interesting article on COR
densed living, one of series in whic
it is stated that milk is subject to n
constitutional alteration in the process {
condensing, with the exception tha
when permitted to stand some days. tb
condensed article deposits small CRYSTAL
OF sugar of milk upon the bottom of tn
can, which, however, is an importap
test of quality, proving that the mil
has suffered no decomposition. s
with the nutritive Constituent of beef
while on the other hand, experiment,
with mutton have not been attende
with favorable results, Investigation hay
ing demonstrated that the latter. laek
the essential qualities required to Orc
duce good extract-at least, SO attes
Professors Depaire and Jouvet, of Brus
sells, both OF whom have made the maj
Ter the subject of special and exhaustiy