The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

DruueCIeS are coming iuuO 1abulOu
again. .a.....-l
Indian tradesmen at Niagara complain
mournfully of the season. .'.
Miss Ada Shriver, of Dayton, Ohio,
has been appointed Professor of Paint
ing, in Michigan University.
Awatering-place correspondent writes
that where he Is they distinguish be-
tween tenor and bass mosquitoes.
The Postofice Department has figures
to show that 100000 people have settled
in Texas during the past year. -.
A man in Barnet, VT, boasts of hav-
ing read the New Testament through
sixty-five times within ten years.
A Massachusetts, boy cut off his young
sisters golden curls while she slept, to
get money with which to go to the
races.
Some of the farmers of Tennessee are
successful in their attempts to raise
opium from the poppy. The yield is
from fifty to seventy-fve pounds to the
acre. ..'
The Carolina Broom Company" is
company of colored mon engaged in
bia, S. G. .'~'' '' y. T. s'
The Japanese government are to have
q new gold and silver coinage, to cores
pond with the American, of which the
yeu, or dollar, will be the unit. h'9 y l'
The citizens of New Zealand have de-
termined to form joint stock whaling
company, to compete with American
Whalers in those waters H..
DR.. Duvall, who is serving out life
sentence in the Waupun (Wisconsin)
prison, for numbering his wife, supports
his daughter by writing religious music.
L. N. Casanava, Cuban gentleman
residing in Virginia, proposes to estab-
lish Cuban colony in Fauquier county,
Virginia, made up from the best social
class in the island. aune 11I..
Dame Fashions latest edict, to the ef-
feet that quiet house weddings will be
strictly en- regIe next winter, appears
generally to have been favorably receiv .
ed by her devotees. --. Co.
The Empress Eugenie is about to make
visit to Spain to see her mother. Ma
poleon is purchasing property near Ge-
neva, in Switzerland, with view of re-
siding there. e.-r.5 s....i sr.....
John King, Quaker, was tho first
teetotaler in Great Britain. He is now
seventy-five years old, and is living with
his fourth wife. All the teetotalers of
the United Kingdom are goingto to give q
penny each for his benefit. '7 'sl s'i
1t is said that q reckless potato bug,
having gone through the State of Rhode
Island, was last seen mounted ON wind
mill by tbs seaside, wiping his eyes on
the sails, and weeping because there
We're no fresh worlds to conquer. ,sr.isr
A Lowell paper relates that man
in that town kept the dead body of q
child for three weeks in alcohol, in tin
boiler, that he might bury it with his
wife, whose death he was expecting, and
who died few days ago -. .
The Boston Transcript ventures the
opinion that this is the carnival sum-
mer for vermin. Mosquitoes sing like
locomotives, and sting like the piercing
of porcupine quilts, while bugs swarm
like the locusts of old.
Now is the time, when cholera Is
threatening, to use disinfectants, and to
keep everything pure and clean about
the house. Remember cleanliness il
next to godliness-especially when an
epidemic is approaching. 'D.-.
A general drouth prevails throughout
the northern tier of counties in Texas.
All kinds of vegetables and farm pro-
ducts, except cotton, are so nearly to-
tai failure that stampede of settlers is
expected as soon as cold weather sets in
A California genius has invented what
he calls the Eureka boot-puller, which
consists OF leather belt having two
hooks attached to it. He places the belt
over his right shoulder, adjusts the hooks
in his boot-straps, and then leans back
ward and the tightest boot is conquered
A rural gent of eighteen summers in
vested in banana on the cars on Mon
day. He carefully removed the peel
and put it on the seat by his side then
he broke the fruit up in small pieces
cycling it anxiously as he did so. When
this was done he picked up the peel
shook it in his lap, and finally threw the
pieces out of the window, remarkine a.
he did SO, "That's the fust of them prize
packages ever bought, an it's the last
you bet"