The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-12-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

fishing the grand Jury system.
Bricklayers in Chicago are demand
ing 80 per day, or they quit work.
Some of the most trusted lighthouse
keepers on the Atlantic coast are wo-
men.
Arkansas is to have an Industrial
University at Fsyetteville--$l20.OO0
worth.
Why is baby cutting its first lin
cisors" like a teapotp Because it's a
tea-thing.
A Chicago lady found her diamond
ring in the ruins of her house some days
after the fire.
In Colorado bald person finds him
self alluded to as "a man with his head
above timber-line."
The editor of the Claremont, N. H.,
Eagle has been presented with q parsnip
five feet nine inches long.
Sliding down hill on Goldfish is the
winter amusement of the Nsw Bedford
bellies. The Goldfish enjoy it..
The United States expended four mill
lion dollars last year on three kinds of
dye-madder, indigo and cochineal.
A Methodist congregation Of eleven
Mexicans has been organized near La
Junta, the first of the kind in Mexico.
The late snow slides in the csnons in
Utah were more serious than reported.
Quite number of people are missing.
The workmen of Great Britain have
organized committee for promoting
the separation of Church and State.
The English people desire silver cur
rency which can be reckoned with equal
facility in shillings, dollars and francs.
Cincinnati drinks beer at cost of six
and half million dollars per annum,
and only pays grave-diggers $3.50 per
day.
Large gold daggers, with hilt studded
with diamonds and other precious stones,
have come into fashion again for the
hair.
A bill in the Illinois Legislature pro-
poses that women shall not be debarred
from any occupation except the mill
tary.
Most all of the slloon-keepers in
Chicago are selling horns from the COW
that kicked over the kerosene lamp that
set fire to the city.
II G. says that the ladies now wear
so much false hair he can't tell which is
switch. What does he know about hairp
He hasn't had any in forty years.
A Fifth Avenue young lady who went
to Europe last summer, taking with her
only small carpet.bag, has returned
with sixteen well-filled trunks.
The United States Treasurer has just
received contribution to the conscience
fund.- from the city Of New York, for
customs duty on wearing apparel.
1t is announced from Japan that
about five hunIred of the more advsn-
ced and promising pupils at tee Yeddo
America.
Continental journals state that the be-
trothal of the Grand Duke Alexis, Of
Russia, and the Princess Mary Elizabeth,
of Prussia, is soon to be officially an
nounced. The Grand Dnke is twenty
two; the Princess-eldest daughter OF
Prince Frederick Charles and the Prip-
cess Mary of Ankalt-sixteen.
The bed and mattress on which Presi-
dent Lincoln died was sold at public
auction, i'll Washington, recently, and
brought eighty dollars. A restaurant
keeper was the purchaser, and intends
to keep it as relic of the great tragedy
at Ford's Theatre.
The New York Times states that
solid section cut from one of the original
"big tree" of California is in this city on
its way to European museum. Five
men were employed twenty five days in
telling this huge tree; its height is 302
feet, and its largest diameter 80 feet. The
specimen was cut at distance of 20 feet
from the base. The stump is covered in,
and is now used as ballroom! 1t has
been ascertained from counting the
annular rings that the tree is more than
$500 years old.
This is what they call joke in
New Orleans: A country-looking chap
him and says All five feet nine high,
two feet eleven across the breast, eighteen
inches through" "What do you mean,
sir? Z" eagerly asks the countryman. "1t's
all right" says the other. "You mea-
sure five feet eleven by eighteen. I'll
be ready for you by nine o'clock to-mor-
row morning" and he puts up the tape
line with which he has been making the
measurements. "What are you driving
at, sir I" asks the countrymsn, angrily.
why you see," says the other, the
yellow fever is killing off strangers so
fast that have to take their measure
ment as they come in, or else the dead
bodies accumulate on my hands" A
pallor comes over the countryman's face,
frantic call is made to the baggage
master to recheok his trunk, and he
leaves for home.
A singular incident occurred at Lewis.
, ton, Maine, last week, which may per-
haps afford physicians hint respecting
the treatment of that hitherto unman'
agebls disease, diphtheria. A factory
girl of that city, while suffering from
this complaint, was attacked with 4
: severe coughing, when the nurse, dis
. covering what seemed to be foreign
! substance in the patients throat, seizeC
5 the end of it, and to her surprise anc
: alarm pulled out the false membrane
? This act saved the sufferer. physician
: of that city now has the membrane il
8 his possession. 1t is about three inohe
: in length, completely preserved, of
T white leathery substance, and is so thicl
t that it retains the shape of the air pas
r sage from which it was withdrawn.
!. has before been suggested that diphtheri
s and similar diseases might be treate