The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

which they call the Bismarck.
Chicago has had swine exposition.
The papers there cali 1t a "four-legged
hog show" to prevent mistakes.
A rolling-pin, with which a loving
times, came in as evidence In an Indiana
trial.
A heroic father in Montreal chose fine
and imprisonment rather than tell the
census man how old his unmarried
daughters were.
An independent Missouri girl set out
to earn her own living as a telegraph
operator, and in two years accumulated
100000. 1t was left her. by rich
uncle.
On the first of November next, the in
terest on the five-twenty loans, series of
1862, March and June 1854 and 1865,
falls due, the payment of which will
take over $21 100000 in gold. .....-
An Indiana paper notices the death
of an old subscriber, and touchingly
adds: We are sorry to hear of the death
of any of our subscribers who are
prompt about paying us. ~ % 3A r-4s
The Mormons deny that Brigham
Young has sought to evsde the process
of the Court and Grand Jury, and they
say he will obey a summons as witness
or submit even to warrant of arrest,
but will not yield to imprisonment.
A Milwaukee boy of five is an invet-
crate smoker, and has been for three
years and nine months. At the age of
thirteen months he cried for his fathers
pipe and got it, and, though made des-
perately i'll, persevered, and had the
habit before he could walk or talk.
Two countrymen gaping around
Saratoga hotel the other day, were ap-
preached by lady wearing fashion,
able trail. One of the party lodged it,
but the other walked straight across it,
and on finding out his error apologized
with, 81 beg your pardon, madam; /
thought you had passed some time ago"
1t is related of member of the Bos-
ton bar that once meeting in the dog
days the estimable son of a father of
rather equivocal reputation, in an alb
sent minded moment he amazed him by
inquiring how the old gentleman stood
the heat. The old gentleman had been
dead two months. '-'t7-' '
At the examination Of parochial
school, reverend gentleman was ask
ing q class the meaning of words. They
answered very we'll till he gave "back-
biter.", This semed puzzle. 1t went
down the class till it came to simple
urchin, who looken sheepishly knowing,
and said. "It may be a hea." .rH 3-
One of the silly distractions of the
health" journals, which greatly dam
ages their usefulness, is that which de-
clares that it is unhealthy for two peo-
pie to sleep together. A man of ninety
nine died the other day from the effects
of sleeping with his wife nearly eighty
years-or from some other cause.
"Abuse not him in word" said Don
Quixote to Sancho, "whom you are re-
solved to chastise in deed" This aph-
orism is clearly stolen by the Don from
the antediluvian story of the negro
sailor who, being strapped up for the
lash, cut short a predatory homily of the
captain by saying, elf you preach,
preachee; or if you fog, foggee; but
don't both preachee and Aoggee too"
Tie. will of the late Aristarchus Cham
pion, of Rochester, whose wealth is sup
|
been filed with the Surrogate. He be-
queaths one half of all his real and per-
! sonal property to the American Bible
Society, and the remainder of his prop
erty, with the exception of 81 900, to the
Presbyterian Society for Foreign Mis-
sions. The testament will be contested.
The patriotic Philadelphians have
lately been mortified by the discovery
that picture in revered Independence
Hall, in that city, which has for many
years been looked on as an excellent
likeness of Gen. Charles Lee, of Revolu-
tionary memory, turns out to be por-
trait of Gen. Arthur O'Connor, an Irish
man, who had nothing whatever to do
with our Revolution, although he was a
very brave man in his own country.
An Irishman named William, and one
Samuel, a Jew, were partners in the
ownership and management of a large
and valuable rancho, not many miles
from Virginia City. Samuel was up
braiding his Irish partner for his queer
management of some particular bus
iness. William could endure it no longer,
and retorted: "Now, Sam, you had
better dry up about my Irish blunders,
for you Jews have nothing to brag of /;
there you were for forty years bringing
your folks through the wilderness, when
any good smart Yankee would have
done it in four days" Sam subsidized,
and peace was restored.
At the Chicago stock-yards the Gus
tomary practice of handling disabled
hogs is to jerk them up to the shambles.
by placing an iron hook through their
jaws. and thus hauling them up an in
clined plane by steam power. Two or
three butchers, who were sworn, de-
scribed. with the utmost, sdng-fr0id, the
process, telling how it was often five
minutes, and sometimes much more
after the animals. are thus lacersted
before the knife puts an end to Their
misery. 1t is suggested that this is q
good field for the Humane Society to
jpperate in. msb .yag,o) a Al
| Honey-bees were imported to the
| Pacific coast several years later than the
i discovery of gold in California, and il
was questioned wether they would
thrive in that region, because they, are
not indigenous there; but they have
multiplied wonderfully, and Aswdld
honey" that is, the product of yagrant
swayms which have left the parent hive
! of tfnedoiAesticated insects, is found il
? large quantities throughout the State,
though the bee-hunters are frequently