The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS lTETts

ebrato its centennial this year, having
been founded in Ill.
A North Carolina fishing party had
all hours fight with a large bald eagle
and were nearly whipped.
The total amount of currency lost or
worn out while in circulation will ex-
ceed $6,500,000, or 10 per cent. of the
whole issue.
A physician asking renewal Of
note, gave as reason: "We are in u
horrible crisis; there is not sick man
in the district"
The pigeon-killing industry is SO thriv-
ing in Wisconsin that from 10000 to 3d.
600 birds are daily forwarded on the
midnight trains East.
The palm, palmetto, India rubber,
magnolia, and North Carolina pine, are
among the ornamental and shade trees
of Los Angeles, California.
They have at Wells, Minnesota, a
cheese factory which is claimed to be the
largest in the United States and is OF
course "three thousand cow power"
Those owning trout ponds should keep
ducks away from them. One able bod
led duck will kill and eat ten trout u
day, and an ordinary flock will clean
out a pond i'll year or so.
A Providence merchant YES his UNI
brellas by cutting q small pl ce out of
the handle which he carries III his pock-
etbook, ready to prove property at any
time.
At Victoria West, in Cape Colony, AZ
RIGA, by q rain spout, about one hundred
persons were killed and thirty buildings
were swept away i'll a few hours Febru-
ary II.
An Iowa merchant groundles7ly ac-
cused q respectable lady of stealing II
pair of shoes. Her husband sued him
for SANDER and seized his stock and
store under attachment.
To remove ink spots, put the article
stained over warm fiat-iron, stretch it
well, then squeeze few drops of lemon
juice on it, and the spot will disappear
at once. Wash Immediately in cold wa
ter.
4 couple out in Portland, Oregon,
who found themselves divorced lately
through the Vaccinations Of the wife's
mother, did the best thing possible un-
der the circumstances-promptly got
married again.
4 curious fact, which throws n great
deal of light on the character of Louis
Napoleon, is that he never opened the
highly important reports which his con-
tidential military agent at Berlin, Col.
Stoifel, sent him from 1866 to 1869, and
in which that keen-si2 hted observer pre-
dicted all the calamities which befell the
imperial armies in 1870. These reports
were found in the private cabinet Of the
emperor ut the Tuileries with the seals
unbrol1en.
The Indianapolis Journal asserts that
Indiana has within her limits u field of
coal which for extent and value is un-
eoualled in the world. So extensive is
the coal field of Indiana that thousands
of acres of land, containing the best
the railroad, can be purchased at rates
very little higher than the ordinary pri
ces of agricultural lands in the same vi
cinity.
The Indians of Peru have tradition
of an immense treasure buried in that
country. They say that Atahualpas
great reservoir of gold, temple with
rooms full of the metal, never was seized
| by the Spaniards; that it exists still, and
that the secret of its existence is kept by
a family or tribe of Indians who relig-
iously guard the treasure for the day
when the heir of the Incas shall resume
his ancient throne.
Another instance of the purchase and
sale of wife has been revealed in Eng
land. The woman, who applied to the
stipendiary magistrate for relief, said
that the purchaser, who had recently
deserted her, bought her of her husband
twenty-five years ago, ratifying the
mans shoes for few moments.
Two young men of Ypsilanti, Miohi-
gan, met at the house of a young lady,
10 whom both had been attentive. To
settle the matter she dismissed one suit
or. He, with very unbecoming and
dog-in-the-manger spirit, threw the ia
vored one out of the house and chased
him down the street, shooting at him
with great frequency till he was arrest
ed.
1t is announced on excellent authori-
ty that more than half a million pounds
of willow leaf were made up at Shang-
hal last season, and palmed off as green
tea, The willow leaf as prepared can
not be distinguished from green tea by
the eye; but to cover the difference III
taste, it has to be mixed with tea before
beng sold. 1t can be produced at q cost
of about four cents pound, and can be
used in the proportion of twenty to for
ty per cent. of the whole mixture-so
that it is easily seen what profit the
"little game can be made to represent
to the seller.
A new style of brogan shoes has been
produced, made principally of elm wood,
III Massachusetts. The sole is divided
at the ball of the foot and reunited by
hinge of sole leather OF suitable thick
ness, two inches wide, SO az to give free
play to the toes. A portion of the up
pers is made of leather, but they are
toed and heeled with wood. They are,
however, shaped in the modern style,
and not like the sabot of France, which
is all wood, and turned up at the toe,
"Heathen Chinee style. In the fast
enings copper rivets are made use of,
and all the parts where the wood and
leather unite are packed with india-rub-
Der. These shoes will cost less than a
dollar per pair, and are modification
of the European wooden shoe; but it is
doubtful whether they will be found as
good as the English clog, which is one
Of the most comfortable of foot cover