The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


A colt in Cambridge, Mass, about
week old, is only twenty-three inches in
height and weighs twenty-seven pounds.
Tobacco juice being good to extirpate
potato bugs, Illinois farmers invite their
neighbors to chewing picnics OH their
fields ~
An Iowa boy has made sewing ma
chine with jack-knife from pine boards
and some wires that make perfect stitch
es. I.s..r. r#t Har.
A young lady is at work in the mills
at Lowell who spends her evenings in
the study of photography, rhetoric, and
French, with the view of becoming re-
porter, and eventually an editor. 4s
The Secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association in st. Paul, Mimi,
in letter to the Boston IFatchm0n,
makes the following statement: Our As
sociation has spent hundreds of dollars
the past year, without counting the days
and nights of watching, in providing
homes, comforts and coffins for Christian
young men who have come here from
Boston in search of health, but in reality
only to find grave in the beautiful lot
of the Young Mems Christian Assooia-
ton in Oakland Cemetery"
1t was found during the trials Of life
preservers (so-called) by the Superin-
tending Inspectors at Washington, that
they would not sustain a man of one
hundred and thirty pounds weight, and
they decided that hereafter all life-pre-
servers should contain at least six pounds
of cork. Thus it appears that for years
past steamboat travellers have been
trusting to what are mere shows in the
way of life-saving apparatus, and that
so far from aiding person in the water
to sustain himself, they would be far
more likely to drag him to the bottom.
The intellectual and genial citizens of
Marshall county, ILL.,, are temporarily
downcast. The other day, in that coun-
ty, Mr.. John Scully had a difficulty
with hired man, who disappeared.
Suspicion of murder was aroused, and q
meeting of over eighty people was held
to determine whether they would hang
Scully, or wait till they knew whether
he deserved hanging. They finally de-
cided on the latter course, and Scully
bestirred himself to find the missing man
to save his own neck. He was success
full, the man being found at work in Bu-
reau county, and produced alive and un-
murdered" e. .t
A fair story is told of recent Iowa
hail storm, which they say was as bad as
shower of pitchforks, some of the
stones being large enough to be called
boulders. The tin roofs, where it oc-
Cured, were punched full of holes; all
the glass which happened to be in its
way, some eight thousand lights, was
broken, and innumerable pigs and chick
ems were killed. AS to the crops, there
was nothing left of them. The standing
corn was chopped up fine enough to be
fed to the stock without the necessity OF
passing it through cutter, and the
ground has been all plowed up for buck
wheat and turnips.
There is boy in Florida, fourteen
years old, named Judson Blount, who
saved many lives the other day. He
discovered place on the railroad where
the rains had undermined the roadbed,
and ran mile and half up the road
to warn passenger train. AS with its
precious freight it came laundering
down the grade the boy waved his hat.
The engineer only looked wonderingly
at him, and he then took off his coat and
waved that. OF course it was all done
in moment; but the engineer realized
that something was wrong, and stopped
his train in season to escape fatal ca
tastrophe. ~
A New Haven paper tells story of d
young woman in Wallingford, in feeble
health, who lately gave mortgage on
death to q young doctor of the Elm city,
her husband endorsing the note-or, in
other words, for certain dollars duly
paid by the physician, she agreed to give
up her body at death to his dissecting
knife. The doctor expected to foreclose
early, but after the transaction the wo-
man began to recover, and the doctor
refused second advance demanded by
the husband of the feeble fair, which, we
are told, "called forth from the heart
broken husband an indignant and awful
protest" The woman is now well, and
the doctor has an idea that he has been
swindled, but hopes to live long enough
to get his money out of her pelt or
bones.
A new disease causing blindness has
appeared among the COWS in certain
part of Missouri, and in Kansas City
duu NlClulUy dlOll6 over Two uuAlilCu
have been afflicted. The eyes begin to
swell little, lasting generally from five
days to two weeks. As soon as the swell
ing commences the eyes also begin to
run clear water, just as though some
hard substance was beneath the lids.
After the running ceases, hard, white
film covers the eye-balls, completely de-
stroying the sight. This disease does
not seem to affect the general health of
the COW. There appears to be no change
in the quantity and quality of the milk,
no pain, no uneasiness of any kind, no
peculiar thirst, indicating fever, and, in
deed, no symptom chat would indicate
disease. The eyes alone suffer and are
destroyed. ot . sffi,s nod
The Milwaukee Neaos tells of woman
in that city whose temper was consider
ably excited the other day. She had
been "jawing" her children, the neigh
bors, hired girl, and everything in
general, when her husband entered and
! interposed mild word. This added fu-
f Ell to her temper, and she opened her
mouth for an angry reply, but spasm
contracted her cheek, her lower jaw fell,
! and she could neither speak nor shut
her mouth, but remained in that condi-
tion, her tongue hung out, and her ewes