The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-04
NO.. 10.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ten-feet rails each, with 1000 trees to
the acre, have been raised from the seed
in seven years in Monroe county, Iowa.
The good-natured San Francisco sher-
iff takes the jury to the theatre at night,
when its members are not permitted to
go home.
A very small island in Ossipee River
constitutes a part of four towns, three
counties, and the two States of Maine
and New Hampshire.
Three years ago twenty-seven women
destroyed saloon in q small town of
Iowa, and the other day sixteen of them
held reunion in commemoration of the
event.
There are no medicines left in Paris.
Drugs of the rarer sort have almost en-
tirely disappeared, and the supply of
even the commoner articles is wholly in
adequate to the demand.
They talk of placing the Queen of
Denmark. the most economical of female
sovereigns, on the throne of fashion, in
place of the Empress Eugene, the most
extravagant one. #r
At an election in Quincy, ILL.,, the
other day, the prisoners in the county
Jail were taken to the polls by the
Sheriff, and-upon his demand-per-
mitted to vote. The affair has created
intense excitement.
A philosopher hath said: He who is
passionate and hasty is generally honest.
1t is your cold, assembling hypocrite of
whom you should beware. There's no
deception in bulldog. 1t is only the
cur that sneaks up and bites you when
your back is turned.
A journalist with statistical turn has
found out that the London newspapers
have contained in the last three years
not less than 17S obituaries of DIR. Liv-
ingston, the African explorer, any of
which, he adds, is good enough for a
man really dead.
In Missouri husband has sued an
other man for $4,000 damages "for
wickedly contriving and wrongfully de-
priving him of the comfort of the society
of his wife, and alternating her affections
for the space of 623 days" This makes
the value of the wife's society little
over s32 per day.
A fine mirage was seen from Rochester
on the 10th of this month. Lake On
tario, and the mountains, hills, valleys,
and rivers of Canada were seen clearly
reflected in the sky. The coast was
seen over length of about fifty miles,
and so clearly that the forests could be
readily distinguished, as could also Rice
Lake and Belvidere.
Wisconsin is looming up now as the
great iron-producing State of the Union.
Four ranges of hills, each twenty miles
long, running parallel to the Menomonee
River have been found to contain i'm
mense quantities of almost solid iron,
and are estimated to contain ten times
more of that metal than all the Lake
Superior ranges combined.
The recent explorations in Jerusalem
have excited great interest among the
fraternity Of Free Masons throughout
the world, on account of the discovery
of what are believed to be Masons'
marks" on considerable number of
the immense foundation stones recently
uncovered under the debris of one of
the ancient temples of that city.
Tippoo Saib, the huge elephant be-
longing to Van Amburg &c Co.'s Me-
nagerie, died OF disease of the heart at
Connersville, Ind, few days ago. He
was about sixty years old, and was i'm
ported to this country from Asia about
thirty years ago. He measured about
ten feet in height, and weighed about
ten thousand pounds. His value was
estimated at $4,000.
Readers, according to Coleridge, are
divided into four classes: those who al
low their reading, like the sand in the
hour-glass, to run in and out without
leaving vestige behind; those who,
like the sponge, imbibe everything, and
return it little dirtier than before
those who, like a jelly-bag, allow all that
is pure to pass away, and retain only the
refuse; and those who, like slaves in the
Golconda diamond mines, cast away all
that is worthless, and preserve only the
pure gem.
One of the latest California crops is
tarantulas They are raised in Gala
veras county, and sold, with their won
derful cells, to Eastern tourists at curl
osities. The cells are from three to
eighteen inches deep, with waterproof
lining, coated over with a substance
looking like chamois skin, but as fine as
velvet, with a door or lid which they
close after them when they go in. When
rearing their young they latch it, bolt
it, and then seal it perfectly water-tight.
They increase about one hundred and
fifty fold annually. . 9al
Quite sensation was created week
or two ago, in the quiet town of Jeffer-
son, Me-, by the arrival of Mr.. David
Lane, formerly of Jefferson, who enlisted
in one of the Maine regiments in 1862.
He served until 1864, and was then re-
ported killed in the battle of Chapin's
Farm, but it appears from his account
that he was taken prisoner, and has
since been living in North Carolina.
Supposing him dead, his wife applied
for a pension, which was granted, and
in the fall of 1870 she was married to
one John Cunningham, with whom she
is now living. .,
Fifteen years ago young lady of
Cincinnati, while visiting friend in
New York, left her finger rings upon
her washstand, and not hearing from
her friend relative thereto, inferred that
the chambermaid had appropriated
them. Last week the Cincinnati lady
received letter from an old bachelor
uncle, enclosing letter fifteen years
old, written by her New York friend,
containing the missing rings. The let
ter had been entrusted to the uncle. and
he had put it in his pocket, and from
that receptacle it passed into q mass OF