The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

V1slteu by his SOn--B STRIPPING OF only
73-whom he had not seen for 90 years.
In Iowa City prospective child was
pledged to creditor to cancel debt,
should the offspring be boy. The
baby proves to be boy, and the credi-
| tor demands him on contract. The
mother refuses, and the creditor pro-
poses to bring suit for the child. ...a
A thermometer which has been kept
for seventy-five years in the vaults of the
Paris observatory, at depth of ninety
one feet below the surface, has not varied
more than half degree during the en-
tire interval. People who wish eli
mate without change will find there
what they want.
William L. Barry, compositor on the
Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald, has Just passed
his 9lst birthday. He is promptly at
his case at o'clock every morning, and
sets six thousand ems day without the
least difficulty. He began to set type
73 years ago, and still follows the busi-
ness out of love for the art, having no
need to work for money. Barry is still
hale and vigorous, and full of animal
spirits. 4....., .5....-. ., 49,.
A Western paper tells a tough story
about party of miners prospecting in
an isolated place where they were with
out fresh meats and vegetable food till
they We're afflicted with scurvy. Six of
the worst cases were planted in the
earth up to their necks and left alone
over night with chew of tobacco
apiece. The result of this attempt at
earth cure might have been happy, but
for the fact that in the night coyotes
came along and ate off all the six heads.
VIM. Hawk, of Sandusky, Ohio, saved
the life of Andrew Phelps by dragging
him out of the Housatonic River, in
Massachusetts,, in 1920, and few days
ago-long after he had forgotten all
about it-he was rewarded for his brave
act by service of silver from the man
he had saved. This is a noticeable cor
roboration of the Scriptural precept
" Cast thy bread upon the waters, for
thou shall find it after many days i'm
this instance as many days as there are
in 81 years. ..trs.s
The second volume of the life of Ma
thaniel Greene, just printed, contains "a
letter from General Greene, stating that
he had dined at table in Philadelphia,
where one hundred and sixty different
dishes were served at the meal. This
was previous to 1850. Greene also says
that Washington was vigorous dancer,
and at one ball danced three hours with
Mrs. Greene without once sitting
down." In another place he declared
t1o gloomy Tfaat period ddnFKe 81 eNVsNailed in New
During the past winter friend of
ours employed hard working woman
to do jobs Of scrubbing, ETC., about the
house. He was accustomed, when he
saw her, to ask kindly questions as to
her family and general welfare. Her
answer invariably comprised complaint
that her husbands business was very
dull. Noticing the fact, our friend
asked her, one of the coolest days in
January, what her husbands business
was "He's strawberry picker" the
woman replied. Our friend had no
difficulty afterward in understanding
why her husbands business was dull.
A young man at Holly Springs. Miss,
recently volunteered to aid in taking up
the collection at one of the churches
there, and succeeded in raising con-
siderable sum. He approached the door,
and was about to go out with his hat full
Of contributions on his head. when the
minister said solemnly, "Young man, if
you leave here with that money, you'll
be damned" The young man, however,
left in a hurry, and, as he shut the door
behind him, worthy old bachelor, with
voice in f sharp, who put dollar in
the hat, piped out to the minister, "Well,
if he amt gone with it, TN be ID"
May Wager says she knows man
who prayed night and morning, preached
on Sundays, and was rich farmer be.
side. His wife milked the cows in all
sorts of weather, cut most of the wood,
built the fires, churned, economical, and
died of consumption. He put weed on
his hat, tried to resign himself to the
dispensation of Providence" when he
ought to have been tried for woman
slaughter in the first degree and SEN
fenced to chop wood and milk cows in
wants the debating clubs to discuss
whether it will go harder with him or
with Jim Bludso, in the day of Judgment.
The Omaha Herald says: "a party
coming Fast have chartered the magniti-
cent drawing-room and sleeping-car
Huron, and contracted that it shall run
for them directly through from San
Francisco to New York. They also stop
and interview Salt Lake on the way.
This is reducing the inconvenience of q
journey to an inconceivable fraction of
what it once was. The only fear is as to
the effect of so much luxury on the race.
Won't we get to be too much like the
Sultan, who, on his approach to London
and when the talent and beauty and
grandeur of the greatest city in the
world were waiting to welcome him,
ordered his train to stop till he could
have a quiet snooze z" 5mrr sdg
Readers generally know the fact that
Benjamin Franklin left by will few
pounds of money for the benefit of the
"young married artifcers," or skilled
mechanics, of Boston. The money has
been carefully invested and reinvested
by the authorities, until now it amounts
to more than $l50,000. The "young
married artifcers," however, have never
realized anything from it; but now it is
proposed, since the fund has become
large enough to be made available in
helping the class Franklin wished tc
benefit, to carry out the purpose an,
nounced in the will as far as practicable
and with this end in view the intention
is to lend money in small sums to per.
sons of moderate means, to enable then
to secure neat and comfortable homes in