The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-23
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

hilarating effect, the sensation being the
same as if jewsharp in full tune was
attached to every nerve.
About two-thirds of the metal of the
Chicago Court House bell has been cut
off with cold chisels and converted into
relics by the venerating inhabitants of
that city.
The ex-Emperor Napoleons income
is stated by German paper to be $685.
600 per year, which will be increased to
$4,000 by the proceeds of the property
recently sold in Spain by the Empress.
People in Troy, N. Y, who don't
want to pay their bills, ask the collector
to congratulate them on being so nearly
recovered from the smallpox. A con-
tinuation of credit is the invariable re-
suit.
The Racine Journal says thief was
caught with ten express horses few
miles back of Kenosha last week that
the horses were brought back, and that
the attendance at the funeral was very
light.
The ladies of town enjoying the
classical name of Arcadia, in Wisconsin,
went around in 1869 and demolished
several drinking saloons. The liquor
dealers have prosecuted this feminine
syndicate. and the latter have to pay
forty eight dollars for their fun.
A table just printed of the daily wages
paid in this country for mechanical Ia
Dor shows that for nearly all kinds of
handicraft work the average rate of
wages is higher in the New England
States than IN the Middle, the Western
or the Southern States
A Grand Jury at Washington have
found seventeen indictments against
counterfeiter. The punishment for each
offence is fifteen years in the State Pris-
on, making the aggregate imprisonment
225 years. Serious effort will be made
to have it commuted to imprisonment
for life.
The Milan (Texas) Telegram says
"We have been asked why we stopped
publishing the list of marriage licenses
issued by the clerk. Because q great
big stand-up-in-the-mud, out there III
the sand-hills, said we published his
daughter as married when she wern't,
and that he would hit us on the head
hard enough to knock our ankles out
of joint for it. Is the explanation salts
factory?"
1t is not perhaps generally known
that what is now favorite summer re-
sort for citizens of New York was once
sold for barrel of cider. Yet it is a
fact that in 1910 the tract of country
including what now are Long Branch,
Shrewsbury and Eatontown, was In the
possession of the Indians, but was pur-
chased of them by one Lewis Morris for
that consideration. Millions could not
purchase the land now.
To the long list of fires, tempests,
earthquakes, tornadoes and volcanic
eruptions for which the year 1871 is al
ready distinguished, is now to be added
the fall OF thunderbolt, which occurred
near Ihangara in India. We are told by
the India Times that "the ground was
literally cut up in consequence, and all
the huts standing there, as we'll as their
inmates, were swallowed up in the
chasm." 1t is the first time such thing
has occurred in the land.
A novel scheme is proposed by the
Milwaukee Volksfreund. This is an or
ganization of single men for the purpose
of establishing a joint-stock hotel for
their accommodation. The management
of the institution is to be in the hands
of board of trustees, and the great OBJ
| ject of the association is to furnish an
economical home for unmarried mel,
securing for them also an asylum in case
of sickness. The movement is good
one and, if successful, worthy of imita-
ton.
Do not be above your business, no
matter what that calling may be, but
strive to be the best in that line. He
who turns up his nose at his work quar-
rels with his bread and butter. He is a
poor smith who quarrels with his own
sparks; there is no shame about any
honest calling; don't be afraid of soil
ing your hands; there is plenty of soap
to be had. All trades are good to ira
ders. Above all things avoid laziness.
There is plenty to do in this world for
every pair of hands placed upon it, and
we must go to work that the world will
be richer because of our having lived in
it.
A Kentucky journal tells of an extra
ordinary mother-in-law, dwelling in the
neighborhood of Louisville, who must
be peculiar member of that much ma
ligned class. Her diminutive sen in-law
desired to witness the parade of Ger
man battalion, but she forbade his leav-
ing his business. However, he eluded
the old lady's vigilance for a moment,
and stood g zing at the warriors, when
he was suddenly seized by the left ear
and made the recipient of fearful chas-
tisement, ending in his being laid at full
length upon the street, while the virago
took a seat upon his PROSTATE form, and
edited the amused crowd by tanning
herself with her sun. bonnet.
Mr.. Spillman had just married Sc
cond wife. On the day after the we'd
ding Mr.. Spillman remarked: al in
tend, Mrs. Spillman, to enlarge my
dairy" "You mean our dairy, my
dear" replied Mrs. Spillman. "No,"
quoth Mr.. Spillman, ~ intend to en-
large my dairy" "Say our dairy, Mr..
Spillman." "No, my dairy" '"Say
our dairy, say our" screamed she. "My
dairy my dairy~ yelled the husband.
sour dairy Our dairy p' screeched the
wife, emphazing each word by blow on
the back. of her cringing spouse. Mr..
Spillman retreated under the bed. In
passing under the bedclothes his hat was
brushed off. He remained under cover
for several minutes, waiting for lull in
the storm, At last his wife saw him
| thrust his head ont at the foot Of tba