The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-08
NO.. Is.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Wh0y.
Twenty-six thousand children are now
learning music in the Boston public
schools Fifteen thousand of them are
so far advanced as to be competent to
take part in musical festival.
"What is your consolation in life and
death 2" asked Sabbath school super
intendent of young lady in the Bible
class, who blushed and said, "Td rather
be excused from speaking his name"
OF the editors of the Cornell Era, just
elected by their fellow students, one is
waiter at Cascadilla place, and one, for
merly member of the Maine Legisla-
ture, is now working his way through
college.
A fond mother in Kingston, N. Y,
keeps an old-fashioned rocking-chair
sitting in corner as an ornament, be-
cause in it she has rocked ten babies, all
of whom grew up to be men, and are
now living and married.
The present partners of the Roths-
childs number some 20 in all, and are
the fourth remove from Mayor Anselm
Rothschild, the founder of the great
family of Hebrew bankers.
In the Friendly Islands, where fifty
| years ago IueTe WIS uOI On6 udtlNo
Christian, but gross and unbroken dark
ness, the regular attendance on public
worship now exceed 10000, and contri-
buttons to religious objects are over
$4,000 a year.
The Emperor of Germany is reported
to be practical printer. All the MEM
bers of the royal family of Prussia are
required to learn some trade, and Will
liam chose typography as the most desi-
rable craft, and spent three years at the
case.
An estate in Germany, valued at ST.
100000, is said to be seeking, as one of
the heirs, Frederick William Keyser,
who served as Union soldier during
our war, and who, when last heard from,
was paroled prisoner, lying seriously
i'll at Wilmington, N. G.
The fortune of Miss Burdett Coutts,
recently raised to the peerage by Queen
Victoria, is estimated at e10, 100000. She
has given to charitable purposes not
less than e5,000000, and will leave large
bequests to benevolent institutions after
her death.
A Chicago German made quite an ad-
vance toward blotting out his name and
memory, the other day, by burning
down his house, corn crib, and stables,
including 1900 bushels of corn and
three horses, and then cutting his own
throat.
A clergyman who was lately depict
ing the alarming increase of intemper-
ance astonished his hearers by exclaim-
ing: "a young man in my neighbor-
| hood died very suddenly last Sunday
| 10 I oh hn in,
beastly state of intoxication."
The Empress Augusta has been in
state OF profound mental distress, for
year past, at the disappearance, period
,, ically, of her most valuable articles of
jewelry. None of the police could dis
cover the thief; but, few weeks since,
one of the Empress's little grandchildren
was found to be the culprit. The child
had taken the jewels for the benefit OF
her large family of dolls. .r-
3 From Watertown, Wis, correspond
: ent writes to the Cincinnati Volkyreund
D that with the exception of place here
9 and there, the whole of Southeastern
| Wisconsin is now almost entirely Ger
r man, and that in the other portions of
e the State the native American element
+ is regularly and rapidly retreating. He
r says that the especially German dis
: tricts are already too much overpeopled
i for agricultural operations in the Amer
: lean method, and strong tide of emf
O grafton has already set in for Minneso-
It ia, Nebraska and Iowa. The younger
: sons of farmers are furnished by their
@ parents with money to found homes in
@ those States, and the small farms are
e bought up by the extensive landholders
g Meanwhile immigration from Germany
3, continues and contributes to keep up the
d price of land.
~ A New Orleans paper relates deplor-
:. able circumstance connected with the
u u recent hanging of two Spaniards in that
. city. The merchant from whom was
:. purchased the rope wherewith the dread
II sentence of the law was executed, was
L induced to witness the scene, which
. made a deep impression on his mind
An hour or so after he returned to his
house the evening papers appeared, and
his wife read to him detailed account
: of the execution. Suddenly he inter
/ rupted her by exclaiming in frightened
o tone, 90, see them see themp and
u scarcely had those words escaped when
% he dropped dead. 1t is stated that the
e. deceased gentleman had for some time
T. been afflicted with heart disease, and the
/ impression which the scene at the scaffolc
ie made upon him had evidently hastenet
10 his death.
r Mrs. Jane Swishelm is in favor of mel
j. as cooks, and by way of illustration, re
,e lates the following: al never knew tn
N significance of the impulse which lead
1T all boys to want to bake griddlecakes
lg until / saw French half-breed iron
N Selkirk, beside his ironless cart, ON tn,
j. open prairie, preparing his evening
a meal. He had large fish broiling ol
ct the Goals without any Intervention of
m gridiron. His batter and his hapjacks
e. were in bucket. He heated and grease,
Id long-handled sheet-iron frying-pan
ID poured in enough batter to cover tn
m bottom, set it over the bottom, kept oi
i'd serenely attending to other matters, a
of though no 'tispjacks were in danger O
n. being burned, as it would have been
any woman had set it to bake; but jus
at the right moment he came up, locke
n into the pan, took hold of the handl,
it shook it gently, then with sudden ier
he sent the cake spinning into the All
he caught it as it came down square in tb
h. centre, with the other side up. Th
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