The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

One of the papers contains an adver-
tisement: Lost, large black silk UNI
brella, belong to a gentleman with
curiously carved head"
"Have you ever broken horse 2" in
quired horse jockey. "No, not ex-
actly," replied Simons, "but I have
broken three or four wagons"
A New York wife writes to a New
York paper that the men of New York
make poor husbands.
There is hotel at Espyville Station,
on the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad,
called the "Sx9" House.
A Boston woman declares herself
happy and contented, because she has
thirteen CATS and loves them all.
A Quaker Indian agent has made the
discovery that female Indians can be
elevated and got into hoop-skirts.
The cost of leeches sold in Europe ex-
ceeds $4,000 per annum. The finest
are said to come from the Murray River,
Australia.
Mr.. Thillman has brought suit for
$4,000 against the Woman's Medical
College, of Cleveland. for dissecting the
body of his wife.
| The London Times for Dec. l, 1870,
had for its leader an article ten columns
in length, containing $4,000 words.
An anti-kissing society has been
formed by the Galena, ILL.,, girls. "No
kissing before marriage" is their motto.
A young Boston woman, wife of an
army officer, became romantically in
terested in noble red man on the from
tier. He stole her jewelry and pawned
it for fre-water, thus driving the ro-
nance out of her soul.
The court house and Jail, at Sepere,
Wis, were burned on the 18th instant,
and two young men, named Howard
and Buckly, who had been locked up
the night before for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, perished in the
flames. 1t is supposed the Jail was set
on fire by Buckly, one of the prisoners.
The chaplain, on opening session of
the New York Legislature, at Albany,
recently, very appropriately prayed that
"the men who are in the habit of loiter-
ing about the halls of the Legislature
with bribery in their hands might be in
duced to see the error of their ways, and
that their wicked designs, if they had
any, might be thwarted."
At recent meeting at Danbury, CT,
where contribution was taken up,
wealthy member of the congregation
dropped twenty-five cents in the con-
tribution box. The amount realized be-
ing little more than that required, the
wealthy member quietly suggested to
the deacon who passed the box, that
| h,c l,{%1a ,,,fxht ho rat,,rna1
And it was.
This remarkable advertisement lately
appeared in the New Bedford Mercury ::
Instruction in Cooking. Ruth Russell
is ready to receive scholars for. instruc-
tion in cooking. Special attention to be
given to bread-making and pure, good
yeast. N. B.-Persons at service can re-
ceive instructions in one or all the vari-
Gus branches OF cooking on favorable
terms"
} Rochester is distracted, through the
columns of its papers, over arithemeti-
, cal problems. Here is the one pro-
J pounded by the latest idiot: If one
/ hundred yards of cord be wound in a
single coil upon an upright post an inch
: in diameter, what time will it take q
, man to unwind it, he holding one end
+ in his hand and travelling in a circle
whose radius is the unwound cord, sup
posing he walks four miles an hour; and
what is the length of ground walked
, over?
? A Miami county Ohio settler objects
!, to proposed railroad in that region il
3 these words: "The people is gone wild
= on this ere railroad queschine. Hoses
4 that is now wuth $40 wont be wuth S.
y he'd. Waggin makers will starve te
deth Oats wont be wuth nuthin, anC
y, we'll have to quit raisin on 'em. CooI
. skins won't be wuth cent, and the bel
lerin steam Wagons will skeer al
game out of the country. I'll sell m,
g forty and git for Arkansaw if you don
stop this ere railroad"
. In a recent lecture upon "The Right
. and Wrongs of Children" Mrs. Georg
= Vandenhoff claims the right of a chilt
, to good physical training, a good happ.
a home, and kind, courteous, truthful
v treatment in that home. While she di'
not believe children could always b
governed without punishment, she de
nounced whipping, and looked for tn
g time when some of the Sa0dns en-
RdS0u NEW VI Iu6 DCIlp
}, lures would find out that Solomon, s
n often quoted in favor of the "rod,
y would prove to have meant "Spare tn
3 rod, and save the child"
: Among the dreaded results of the lat
y European war, one of the most terribl
. has already appeared. The poison take
. up by the atmosphere from the multi
~ tudes of the battle-felds where tn
u thousands of dead, either unburied G
. very insuficiently so, has commenced t
= reach the air of the cities and villages c
> the blood-stained country. Recent telt
~ grams announce that in many parts {
France and Prussia typhoid fever, an
IS, even more fearful types of disease, hay
10 appeared in very aggravated forms; an
&c * there is much cause for the apprehensio
% that, unless most vigorous measures al
20 employed, the blast of pestilence wi
- sweep the face of the continent
a. Mrs. Van Cott lectured in Chicago
ye arevivalist. Pausing in the middle
to her discourse she turned abruptly to Il
lie reporters table, and said she hoped the
h. gentlemen would desist from takiI
or notes. 1t always made her feel nervor
ad She knew her speeches would look funI
To if printed. She did not wish to s,
,s. anything, however, against the repo
ters, God bless them $50 go alol
gentlemen, with your notes. j doI