The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-09-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Miss Spaulding, M. D., of Sandusky,
amputated mans leg few days ago.
The Empress Eugene, it is report
ed, is in treaty for the sale OF her dia-
monds, valued at 81 100000. s
Women are rapidly working their way
into the printing business There is
hardly large printing concern in the
country where they may not be found.
A high caste Hindoo lady of NJ sdras
has delivered lecture in Telugu on
Human Being" her object in coming
forward being the advancement of the
education of women. ... ..-
There is one county in Iowa that for
two years has had a woman to superin-
tend their schools. Now two other
counties have followed this example,and
nominated women for this Office.
A far Western lady, who was not post
ed in history, and who had forgotten her
geography, asked friend who was 60
ing to Utah to bring her couple of
Mormons for her aquarium.
In addition to the report that the
Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise are to visit Canada next fall, it
is now stated that they will make their
way to Washington. ......
A correspondent of the Hartford
Courant who has been sailing along the
Massachusetts, coast, wonders why Glou-
cester is spelled the way it is, and if that
is right, why shouldn't lobster be spelled
"lobcester
Mr.. VIM. N. Manning. jeweller, of
Gloucester, Mass, cut his name upon an
old-fashioned copper cent twenty-one
years ago, and it returned back to him
a few days since. What's pity he couldn't
collect the interest on it.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is the
modern Utopia. They have no luna
tics, blind, deaf, or dumb, and no pau
pers or poor law. There is no taxation,
and the currency consists of rich feath-
ers.
A letter from fashionable summer
resort says young man is scarcely con-
sidered eligible unless he has lost his
hair-this being received as almost in
disputable evidence that he always
moved in the best society.
DIR. Hunter, of Cleveland, has deter
mined to secure the 100000 offered to
the inventor of a canal boat which shall
do away with the necessity of using
horses on canals. He has made a boat
which is propelled by plate of vulcan
lied rubber, which works on the princi-
pie of fsh's tail 1t has been tested
successfully at Buffalo, and will soon
start with q cargo of coal for Rochester.
The Jail at Amboy, ILL.,, recently took
fire, and farmer named Shannon was
burned to death in his cell. He had
been committed for contempt of court.
AS the fire approached him his cries
were heard by bystanders, who insisted
that the jailer should release him, but
that functionary utterly refused to do
so, and after the poor man had died
mounted his horse and rode away, nor
has he yet been heard from.
The champion bigamist outside of the
precincts OF Mormondom seems to be
one Leare Harvey, who has been arrested
at Weyanwega, Wis. Leare, though
only twenty years of age, has already
achieved the distinction of marrying
four wives, all living. The last one, it
is said, still clings to him, and is work.
ing hard to obtain his release, so that, at
all events, he cannot be called Leare the
forsaken.
The Davenport Qa.) printers seized u
circus and menagerie the other day, for
not paying its bills, and now each edi-
tor is the happy owner of a swineopha-
lus, or giasticutus, or hippopotaiemise,
or an Alaskan sea lion. When subscri-
bers rage, and a man comes in and wants
to know "who wrote that article" the
editor unchains his menagerie, and the
insulted fellow has sudden call to "see
!, a man elsewhere.
The Post Office Department has just
made decision in reference to the titles
that may be placed on the new stamped
: envelopes, which are furnished with
printed addresses. 1t is held that hon
orary pretixes, such as Judge, Colonel,
Professor, Reverend, Doctor, &C., by
which an individual is generally known
and styled in his community, may be
printed on the envelopes, but that no
suffixes, such as A. B., A. M, NJ. D., &C.,
: can be allowed
A writer in the Boston transcript tells
how one morning she demonstrated with
her colored servant for abusing his wife,
upbraiding him after this manner
: "Jack, what pretty, little smart wife
you have. If were you, would try to
make myself more agreeable to her. ]
would fill the coal scuttle, feed the pig,
gather the vegetables for her, and-and
: i wouldn't strike her." The only ans
: wer from Jack was "Why Use done
married Lou; isn't courting herl"
3 The Albany Times has found an Alba
, nian of enlarged and liberal views who,
, it says, has informed the post-office
. officials that at his own private expense
: he will hereafter put the required stamp
r on all letters which shall be dropped at
i the Office without stamps or without
s sufficient stamps to defray their postage.
s This is curious way in which to spend
9 fortune, as the gentleman of enlarged
4 views will have to spend one if his mode
a of active benevolence becomes widely
known among the thrifty inhabitants o.
g the capital.
An Eastern man, who has been travel
q ling in Oregon, complains that he found
: the people prospering. in certain way
l. but careless, and living in thriftless
r easy-going, slipshod style, much as il
s the days when everybody had gold dus
IS and cattle upon q thousand hills. AM
IS he illustrates their thriftlessness by ,
y little story, saying that at one time
= thinking he should relish some milk n