The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A new daily journal at Fort Dodge is
called The Cardiff Giant.
A New Orleans fortune-teller netted
$1,000 in twenty days.
A Chicago saloon bears the modest
name of " Lambs Rest"
California promises twenty million
bushels of wheat next year.
Teas and furs are coming eastward
across the continent in large quantities.
A nugget of gold weighing sSS ounces
has been found in Berlin, South Aus
tralia.
A big squash raised in Vermont has
been sold for the big price of twenty-five
dollars.
Hector and Plato are among the floor
managers of negro ball to be given in
Hartford.
Linen can be glazed by putting tea
spoonful of salt and one of finely-scraped
white soap into pint of starch.
Female pickpockets wear the conven-
lent Arab shawls. They fold their shawls
like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
A thirty-two months girl thus accost-
ed her father day or two ago: Papa,
Will YOU Duy luz cOIlc nOlSs W pun Al hi1
ears so can have some earrings"
A physician said Of quack that "he
was such an ignoramus that, if he could
take a lantern and go down inside his pa
tient, he couldn't find out what the matter
was"
The report is current in the clubs Of
London that John Bright is to be sent to
Washington as a special envoy to negoti-
ate settlement of the Alabama and
fishery questions. ..H.......
Several of the California Judges have
decided that murder is q bailable offence,
and have acted in accordance with that
decision. The press has taken the sub
ject in hand and is making an excite
ment over it.
| The Shah of Persia, who is performing
pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Ker-
bella, lately passed through Bagdad, ac
companied by suit of 10000 persons.
The horses and other beasts of burden
composing this caravan number upward
of $4,000.
The big grapevine at Santa Barbara,
CAL, is five feet two inches in circumfer-
ence where the main trunk branches, and
the arbor which it covers is SO feet by 63.
AT these limits, the branches are three
inches in diameter, and are kept trimmed
to prevent its spreading over more
| ground
Into the city o. n e% York there flow
five great streams of milk each day. One
over the Harlem road, another over the
Erie, another over the New Haven,
another by the Hudson, and yet another
by the Long Island, amounting to $780,
900 worth daily, besides that which
comes in by numerous small rivulets.
Last year of income tax Mr.. A. 4.
Stewart paid more than either of twenty
seven States, including territories, more
than Arizona, Colorado, Dakota, Florida,
Washington, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho,
and Montana combined, more than
either of the districts of Massachusetts,,
and $4,000 more than the Ninth and
Tenth Districts paid. Mr.. W. B. Astor
paid more than the whole State of YER
mont.
Here is the sons story in Wisconsin
divorce case Am thirteen years old:
remember talk about pencil one morn
ing; mother was behind the stove max
/ ing pancakes; father took her by the
back of the neck and put her head over
the wood box she took stick of wood
from the box and struck at him over her
shoulder I; then father put her head un-
der the pump and pumped water on her
face.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by Mr.. Hill, of New Jersey,
which provides that the Postmaster
General ''be and is hereby directed to
furnish and issue to the public, with
postage stamps impressed upon them,
correspondence or post cards, manu-
factured of good stiff paper, of such
form and size as he shall deem best
adapted for general use, which cards
shall be used under regulations to be
prescribed by the Postmaster General.
and shall be transmitted through the
mails at postage charge of one cent,
including the cost of their manufacture,
to be issued Immediately after the pas
sage of this act"
At the leveling of an ancient Indian
mound near st. Louis, Mo-, a few days
ago, a very interesting spectacle was
presented. Among those who witnessed
1T were Professor Marsh, of Yale Col
lege, DR.. Briggs, of st. Louis, and Gen.
A. j. Smith. The mound was originally
forty feet in height, oval in shape, and
about 800 feet in length. About twenty
years ago there was house on top of
it, and graveyard on the side. During
the progress of the work the laborers
have dug up the bones of three races,
first those of the whites, second of the
Indians, and last of the ancient mound
builders. Professor Marsh secured
thirty skulls of the mound builders, one
alone being perfect These were found
in two vaults, one a square structure,
the other of crescent form, and both
about fifty feet across.
The N. Y. State Fish Commissioners
announce that they are prepared to fur
nish spawn and small fish to any per-
sons residing near any of the lakes in
the State who may desire to engage in
plsciculture. 1t is stated that the State
Matching house at Caledonia is filed
with white fish and Salmon trout, nearly
or quite ready to be deposited in any
waters. There are also thousands Of
more common, perhaps, but not less
valuable fish, of larger sizes, ready for
distribution-such as black bass, white
bass, and bull-heads. The latter, fish
once despised, has now become so scarce
that it can only be obtained occasionally
in the markets. They will multiply
rapidly in any water ii protected from