The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The recent census returns for Ireland,
contr asted with those of the past thirty
years. show steady decrease in the pop
ulation. In 1S41, the population was
S,196,597. In 1851 it was c, 6,574,27S, while
this year it is but 5,4O2, 1858, nearly 4OO,-
600 less than ten years ago.
Farmers in Wisconsin have engaged,
to very considerable extent in tobacco
raising, the fields ranging in extent from
the garden-patch to forty acres, with
the majority from five to ten acres. So
many children have been placed at work
in the fields as to seriously affect the
schools.
A merry, light-hearted damsel rushed
into citizens arms at Savannah, ex-
claiming, "Oh, you are my long-lost
brotherw She soon discovered her mis-
take, and rushed off in confused man
ner, accompanied by her long-lost broth
er's pocket-book.
Quilp and his wife had a bit of con-
tention, the other day. al own you
have more brillisncy than l." said the
woman, "but have the better judg-
ment." eyes" said Quilp, "your choice
in marriage shows thatl' Quilp was
| justly informed that he was q self-con-
ceited brute.
A clergyman was lately depicting be-
fore deeply interested audience the
alarming increase of intemperance,w when
he astonished his hearers by exclaiming
GA young man in my neighborhood died
very suddenly last Sunday, while was
preaching the Gospel in a beastly state
of intoxication."
A dreadful catastrophe is reported
| from the State of Zacatecas, Mexico.
In the Quebradilla Silver Mine, on one
OF the three great veins in that famous
region, a fire has occurred by which over
| one hundred miners were suffocated.
The machinery and equipment of the
Mexican mines are quite primitive; but
fatal accidents from fires are not common
there, nevertheless.
A Cincinnati newspaper man, finding
himself in the neighborhood of one of
Brigham Young's wife, and having heard
of the terrible life the fragm ents of that
compound entity lead, burned with an
ambition to reveal her woes to the world.
He called to interview her, therefore, and
she went for him in words to the follow
ing effect II will have nothing to do
with you. am perfectly contented. 1
get everything need, and have an easy
pleasant life. Clear out!"
Connecticut has a superior class of
dogs, if we may judge from canine
specimen owned by j. s. Trowbridge, of
Canaan. Trowbridge made journey
on horseback one day, and missed his
dog. The next day he missed his wal
let, containing $3.50, and on the second
day the faithful beast was found in the
road watching the money, which was
entirely safe. Such dog would not
live long here unless bullet and poison
proof.
The lion and the lamb have no excuse
for not lying down together any more.
At Woonsocket, the other morning, a
cat, domiciled in store, was found care
fully nursing three kittens and young
rat. The kittens through the day were
removed, but the cat continued her
motherly offices to the rat, and when the
founding was able to walk led it out
with her own progeny, showing no par
tlallty' as becomes proper parent.
There is sharp rivalry just now in
Alabama among different guano dealers.
One of them, by way of showing the su-
periority of his guano over any other,
says that farmer recently put sample
OF it into his pocket, in which there hap
pened to be carpet tack, and started
home on horseback. Before reaching
his house his steed broke down, and the
farmer was at a loss to discover the
cause until he found that the carpet
tack had grown to be long bar of rail-
way iron.
At the recent reunion of the class of
1868, at Vassar College, the following
statistics were presented: Of the 25
members of that class, is dead, 4 are
married, is studying law, have en-
tered upon an advanced course of astro-
nomical studies in Cambridge, 5 are pur-
suing an extended course in the Ian
guages, and ID are teachers. To the
young mothers of the class, four daugh-
ters have been born, the senior of whom
was adopted by the class, and received
as present massive silver cup.
Mr.. Barnum is most respectfully in
formed that the minutest manikin of q
baby has been born in Manchester, Vt.
1t weighed, upon entering this great
world, only "a ounces its face may be
covered by an old-fashioned cent, and a
lady's tinger-ring can be slipped on its
arm. 1t is little baby and no mistake,
and what contrast it would make to
even the smallest giant in Mr.. Barnum's
menagerie Yet all things go by COM
parison, for the Vermont midget would
have been monster in Liliput.
They have horse flies in Arkansas.
These arrangements are not, as the name
might seem to imply, ranked among the
sports of the turf, but are winged mon
sters, size smaller than prairie chick
ems, with ozzles like well-augers, capa-
BILE OF boring clean through an average
equine and clinching on 'tother side.
As far as heard from, the horses do not
seem to like them, but fly as soon as the
tormentor appears. This accounts for
the name, also for the fact that the far
mers are obliged to do their ploughing
by moonlight, when the insinuating
bores are at rest.
The Hartford Times tells of Boston
man lately in that city, who ate raw
oysters off the shell till the waiter nearly
dropped from exhaustion then looked
at his watch and exclaimed, "By Jovel
I've only got ten minutes to get to the
cars in, and must break off right in the
middle of lunch. It's too bad-too
bad. just my luck. Can't never get
enough to eat outside of Boston," He
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