The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-08
STATE NEWS.

1,634,200 feet.
Philadelphia is talking about incroas
ing its police force to 1900. 1t now
numbers about five hundred.
During April $4,000 sheep, 1000
cattle and $4,000 hogs we've received in
Philadelphia.
The Tdiouie Driving Park is COM
pletcd, and is pronounced one OF the
finest in Western Pennsylvania.
The salaries of the Supreme Court
Judges in our State are increased ST.
600 per annum.
1t is estimated that there are 900 or
1000 RATS on the Susquehanna between
Columbia and Wi,liansport, all OF which
are prevented from going down by the
| shallowness of the river.
The Mercer county medical society
has resolved to catalogue all persons in
the county who receive medical attend
arce and are able to pay for the same
but will not.
Pttston, June 2.-The to.a, sub
scripticns to the fund for the relief of
the widows and orphans of the recent
disaster at West Pittston is officially re-
ported by the committee to be Sl,9I5
TO date.
In Blair county there is spring
which, at its source, pours out a volume
Of water sufficiently large to turn a mill
and which, after running on the surface
of the ground for 200 or 800 yards,
disappears.
Some years ago n man named Bar
uacle left Clarion county without pay
ing his subscription to the Democrat.
The next thing the editor heard from
Barnacle he was sent to the Peniten-
tiary for murder. Let delinquents take
warning.
Democrats and Republicans are be-
ing swindled in Westmoreland county
by impostors travelling and collecting
money in the name OF both parties,
which is never used for political pur-
poses. Both parties must have plenty
Of money in Westmoreland.
Dir. Pancoast, of Philadelphia, re-
Gently performed painful operation on
little girl whose feet had been de-
formed by wearing high-healed boots,
and expressed his opinion that it was
only the beginning Of large harvest OF
such cases.
\ school boy at Strattonsville,
Clarion county, named Jones, while he
and another lad were playing with
pistol or Wednesday of last week, the
weapon was accidentally discharged,
sending the bail through young Jones
head, killing him instantly.
About two years ago John Schnure.
of this place, says the Sclinsgrove
Times lost a pocket-book containing
about SO in money, and notes amount
ing to about 500. He heard nothing
of the missing property, and never ex-
pccted to, but much to his surprise,
few days ago he received an express
package from Miliersburg, which when
opened, contained the amount of money
aud the missing notes. The transaction
is strange one, and has caused many
surmises as to why .he money was re.
turned at this late day.
FEMALE DELICACY--Above all
other features which adorn the female
character, delicacy stands foremost
within the province of good taste. Not
that delicacy which is perpetuaIly in
quest of something to be ashamed of;
which makes merit blush, and simpers
at the false construction which her own
ingenuity had put upon an innocent re-
mark-this spurious kind of delicacy is
removed from good sense-5ut the high
minded delicacy, which maintains its
pure, undertaking way, just alike among
women and the society Of men; which
shiinks from no necessary duty, and
can speak when required, with scri-
BUSINESS, of things of which it would be |
ashamed to smile or blush; that delicacy
which knows how to confer a benefit |
without wounding the feelings OF an.
other, which can give aims without as
sumption, aud pains no. the most sus-
ceptible in creation.
THE railroad of the future is the mar
row gauge. 1t attracts much a.tention |
among railway men, aud steadily meets |
with more favor the oitener it is discuss
ed. The Iron Age says that conf
parison OF all the essential elements in
the cost Of construction and operation
of railroads will show that the cost per
mile o. the narrow gauge, from three
feet to two feet, is from one-half to one
third that Of the standard guage of four
feet eight and a half inches.
The following is an enigma, said to
have been written by Mr. Canning
which for time bafled all England to
solve:
There is word of plural number,
A foe TO peace and human slumber;
Now any word you chance to take,
By adding IS ycu plural make;
But if you add an IS to this,
How strange the metamorphis is;
Plural is plural then no more,
And sweet what bitter was before"
The word is "cares," to which. by
adding an IS" you have "caress."
In dressing for photographs, dark
brown, dark green, maroon, and plain