The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| IOTe lNSU, JuS luOUueT VI lOuT UOy UdDleS
all hearty and kicking-and every
body doing WELL" 6iag l5d roqr
By the late Texas Election law, any
person in that State making bet or
wager upon the result of an election is
debarred from the privilege of casting
vote. A similar law has long been in
force in other States, but betting ON
elections has not been stopped.
A California paper having accused
the Memphis Appeal of telling false
hood, the Louisville Courier-.JourndJ re-
marks "It is comparatively safe, when
there is half a continent between you
and q Memphis editor, to tell him that
he lies, but it is death under any other
circumstances 51.dI .r9lfs,bfl5
The Nakomis Qll.) Adgertiser tells q
strange story of a horrible adventure of
two young men near Okaw. They we're
watching in thiclet for deer to vista
salt lick, when one of the hunters was
attacked by an immense snake, which
coiled around his arm and bit him in
such manner that he died in a short
time. -..
There is great excitement reported
in Odd Fellows and Masonic circles OF
Indianapolis. 1t seems that an old
door keeper of various lodges was led by
his wife to connive at her secreting her
self in an alcove where she could see and
hear all that was going on, and the re-
suit was that Mrs. Pillbean learned all
the FORMS ceremonies, and sublime mys-
teries of Odd Fellowship, and having
thus started on the upward track, was
initiated by her perfdious old husband
into the three first degrees of Masonry.
| Some men show most wisdom in max
ing blunders. A Western Journalist
seems to have been wiser than he knew,
when, drawing upon his memory for po-
ctical quotations about woman, he de-
livered himself in his newspaper as fol-
lows:
o, woman, in thine hours of ease, .''
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; I..
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
II is doubtful if Scott and Pope, so es-
sentially unlike, could, with the greatest
care, be again so happily combined to
present an old subject in new light.
A young lady writes from Leaven-
worth to the Chief OF Police in Kansas
City as follows: There is a man in
| your pldCe DdSCOuD6y
who is in love with me, and who was
driven away from our house last week
by my old father, who drives away
every one who comes to court me.
Please, for my sake, find out Johnny and
give him my picture, which i enclose to
you, and tell him that will stick to
him. father or no father, and if you ever
come up here will come to see you and
| ,,,1- ,,@ @o1 %lo+
julia sent him the picture and he will
know it ALL" The police official is puz-
zled to know what to do about the mat
ter.
The ex-Emperor of the French seems
to endure his fall aud exile with forti-
tude, if not with complacency. The
English papers chronicle his movements
with almost as much particularly as
!, they do their Queens. Their accounts
show that he spends his time in driving
{ and walking about, seeing sights, and
making and receiving calls. On the
4th of July, he visited, in company with
. the Prince Imperial, the royal arsenal
at Woolwich, where all the latest i'm
provements in ordnance were exhibited
, to him, together with the process of
, manufacturing the new thirty-fve ton
guns. 1t is said that his health is better
, than when he was Emperor, and that
he is gaining flesh. r.- ,.
There are some salt wells near Brand
enburg, Kentucky, which have been a
: source of astonishment as well as revenue
to their fortunate proprietors. The first
, was discovered accidentally of course,
as is usual in such cases; and when it
was found that this yielded brine suM-
cient to manufacture from eighteen to
twenty barrels of salt per day, others
were sunk with equally satisfactory re-
> suits. But the most extraordinary part
, of the business is, that it was soon found
= that all the wells yielded, in addition to
: the brine, enough gas to supply with
; fuel the two furnaces and boilers re-
, quired by each well, together with a
3 surplus which the people of Branden-
burg intend to utilize for lighting their
| town.
The Titusville HerGld tells this story
, OF a shoemaker's luck About twenty
five years ago Mr.. Robinson (the present
owner of the famous Robinson farm,
: near Parker's Landing, which has yielded
, thousands of barrels of oil and dollars to
its owner sold 100 acres of the farm to a
: shoemaker named Grant, residing in the
! vicinity, for $l00, to be paid in boots
/ and shoes for his (Robinson's) family.
Within the last two years this tract has
/, proved the most valuable oil territory
= an6 Grant, as well as Robinson, has not
only been made wealthy from its oil
!, but still receives handsome revenue
: from the same. A few weeks ago Mr.
q Robinson received the last pair of boot
on his contract the 500 worth of leath
er having just been used up. ,,-...
In the English and American armie
n efficiency of sight is one of the manifold
IS qualifications IN the recruit; but pai
h of spectacles in the German ranks cause
Il no greater surprise than pipe does
i But for the specialized rank and file
% where would have been the millions o
1t men whom Moltke undertook to plac
e. within fortnight on the Rhine? Re
It moved from study and indoor duty
+ and quito active outside work, the powe
8 OF vision in a short-sighted person wi
ID improve.
D The Saturday Repieso adds that wit
le the spread of education by books I
n lower and lower strata of tae socit
ID mass practical solution of the probleI
4 how to utilize short sight in war wi
l. have to be faced in real earnest, as th