The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


the wedding of a young lady of 29 to
her fourth husband. m r.f.. Cd
About 100 passports day are issued
from the State Department for Ameri-
cans going to Europe. goo.
The daily paper printed at Wild Cat,
Arkansas, is very appropriately named
the Eoening CdterUauL
The young lady singer who thought
she could make her voice clearer by
straining it, made great mistake. r..
1t has been ascertsined that out of
fifteen hundred salmon eggs in the ordin-
ary course of nature only one produces q
mature salmon. If all the eggs laid were
to produce salmon, the ocean in half
century would be moving mass of sal
mon.
The fastest trains on american rail-
ways are slow in comparison with those
of England. 4 London paper says that
an express train on the Bristol and
Exeter and Great Western Railway now
runs from Exeter to Paddington, dis
tance of 1914 miles, in four hours and
quarter. including stoppages of fifteen
minutes. On other roads trains run
with almost equal speed. .... .1 ...
1t cost San Francisco five thousand
three hundred dollars to try Mrs. Fair
it cost Mrs. Fair twelve thousand dol
lars, including five thousand dollars to
her senior counsel, to be tried, and 1t
cost one of the papers fourteen hundred
and thirty-fve dollars to photographic
ally report and print the trial. Mrs.
Fair is such an expensive female that
the community can afford to keep but
few of her.
So profuse is the native production of
straw wberries, on what is called the Penn
bina Mountain, in Minnesota-where
the plant takes the upright form in the
very pride of its exuberant fruitfulness,
as if it disdained to creep along the
earth with its scarlet crown of glory
that the cart-wheels crush the berries as
they revolve, and will become red with
this wild vintage of the plains, leaving
long crimson trails behind them.
A disciple of Izaak Walton, who has
been trying the trout brooks in New
Hampshire, found that the extreme
drouth of last summer has almost ex-
terminated these beautiful fish. In
brooks Which formerly gave twenty to
forty as the result of an hours fishing.
half days labor produces but one or
two. He suggests that fishers should
hold back for year or two, and that
associations be formed to restock the
brooks. ,.....~ t.....
A New Orleans letter to the st. Louis
Republican says: "There are more cattle
going North via Missouri from Texas
than at any previous year. learn from
drovers that at least half million head
will come from Missouri, Kansas, and
Nebraska. The grazing stock, many of
them, go to the latter place, where they
will feed until the frosty weather this
fall destroys the grass. There are not
many of all this stock fit at present for
good beef
The use of iron tanks of large dimen-
slons for transporting petroleum from
the oil wells to great distances was justly
looked upon as one of the greatest i'm
provements in the business, on account
OF the saving of expense in the way of
casks, and the avoidance of danger in
consequence of leakage. An ingenious
firm in Cincinnati, Messrs. A. Gunnison
d Co., have introduced this same feature
into the transportation of lard-oil, and
especially of whale-oil and it is more
than probable that in very short time
the cargoes of the whalers in the Pacific
will be SHIPPED at San Francisco in such
tanks, and brought across the country to
the East. ..
Massachusetts has monopoly of the
manufacture of palm-leaf hats in this
country. The raw material is imported
from Cuba in punches of leaves from
four to five feet long. These pass into
the hands of manufacturers at Amherst,
Palmer, Barre, and Fitchburg, by whom
they are bleached and split. The weav-
ing is principally done by women and
children, and in hundreds of country
farm-houses the inmates can be found
busily at work at hat making. The pay
is not large, but the work is simple and
easy. The waste resulting from tho
splitting was until lately regarded as
entirely useless, but is now sold to paper
mills and used in the manufacture of
coarse paper. a .... ...
Those who are compelled to "hurry
up their cakes may find the following
variety, prepared for various callings
convenient to select from: The best
cake for prize-fighters, pound cake; the
most suitable for carpenters, plane cake;
the most relished by loafers, sponge
cake; the most palatable to boatmen,
current cake; the most acceptable to
hangmen, drop cake; the best for farm
ers, seed cake; the kind indulged in by
surgeons, cup cake; the kind most used
by topers, corn cake; the most healthy
for plumbers, plum cake; the debtors
cake, short cake; the gardeners cake,
the hoe cake the one for summer use,
the cake of ice the one for discount,
an oat cake; cake not enjoyed by any
one, stomach-ache.
American merchants have a reputa-
tion for sagacity and acuteness, but
there are few of them that can surpass,
in that respect, the gentleman of whom
a good story is told in the English pa
pers. He is merchant in London, and
lately found that rival establishment
was using his brains for its own benefit.
and at the same time forestalling him in
the market by obtaining copies of his
telegraphic orders from an operator, by
bribery. He at once wrote privately TO
his agents always to act exactly contra
ry to orders, and then went to work ex-
ercising his brains at once for his own
benefit and the injury of the wrong do
er. He not only got the full benefit OF
his own foresight and tact, but was oh
tanning a poetical revenge upon his ri