The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
NO. 81.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
An old lady in Wisconsin has missed

why uoeS ID preceue " III tne dlpua~
bet? Because you must be before you
can see. Do you observer
A music dealer in Western town an
nounces in his window sentimental
song, Tnou Hast Loved Me and Left
Me for Twenty. five Cents"
CAseyville, near Salt Lake, contains
seventy-three husbands, who have, in
the aggregate 347 wives and 522 chill
dren.
1t has been estimated by Senator Car
penter, of Wisconsin, that the number of
lives lost in his State during the late
conhagration was from twelve to eighteen
hundred.
The Treasury Department has reoeiv-
ed deposit of $67S6 on account of the
post office at Sltka, Alaska, being the
first deposit on the postal account re-
oeived from that station.
Cotton prizes to the amount of 81, 900,
open to the world-$5O0 to the first,
$500 to the second, and 5000 to the
third best bale-are offered by the Ala
bama State Fair Association. This is
liberal, and should attract competition
from ali over the cotton States.
The latest thing in funerals is related
of Birmingham, Va, where gentleman
who was being carried to the cemetery
by his relatives, kicked at his coffin-lid
and demanded to be let ont. If this
thing should become epidemic, it will
be very awkward.
Prominent English capitalists are
about to attempt the development Of the
Canadian oil-felds, and will tabe steps
to introduce the products of their enter
prise into European markets. That
there sre large quantities of petroleum
in that section, there is no doubt.
Lille Peckham, the young advocats
of woman suffrage out West, recently
died in Milwaukee from the effects of
Russian bath. She wss formerly con-
nected editorially witA the Toledo (Ohio)
Inder, and had lately beeh called to the
pastorate of Unitarian church in
Iowa.
Remember that now is the time to set
out hyacinth bulbs if you desire spring
| flowers. And remember also that the
time has passed for setting out on stoops.
Don't do it, or you'll raise shakes. Boys
may be reminded that it is not season.
able for setting out elsewhere at schoo!
time; by doing this they will raise
cane.
A deformed chicken of common breed,
the deformity resulting from broken
back, was entered at the Muskingum
County (Ohio) Fair as Hungarian cock
of the "Sclavi Magyar breed" just i'm
ported, and the sapient judges, after
gravely inspecting it, awarded it the first
premium over one of the fnest poultry
shows ever seen in the county.
Apropos of the great fires raging in
the Northwest the Chicago Post appeals
to the people or the government to take
some action toward preventing the reck-
less and improvident waste of our great
national timber resources. In less than
half century, it says, if we continue in
our present course, wood for fuel or for
building purposes will be scarcer here
than it is in England. What is needed
is law prohibiting the cutting of trees
of less than "a certain girth, providing
severe penalties for careless or wanton
bush-frng, and compelling the annual
planting of trees in the country, even as
the statutes provide for the maintenance
of roads and construction of bridges.
The Kennebec Journal contains the
following incident: An old farmer in
the vicinity of Augusta, about twenty
years ago, after concluding "a trade
for large bale of goods with an
Augusta dealer in furniture, as he was
about to drive off, hailed the furniture
dealer with, "If you will throw in a
looking-glass, 1 will bring yer down a
barrel of nice apples" The mirror was
"thrown in" and this was the last seen
of the farmer until few days since, when
an aged farmer backed his "spple cart
up to the sidewalk opposite the furni-
ture store, now occupied by sons of the
former owner, opened the door, and
shouted, "Here's yer apples" The sur
prise of the sons was great; but the
father, who was present, remembered
the circumstances of the trade. and
heartily greeted his old acquaintance.
who, after lapse of twenty years, had
not forgotten his promise.
The romance of Enoch Arden finds an
unromantic illustration in Virginia
One John Wiley, a private in Virgins
regiment, was wounded during the early
part of the war, was for long time con-
lined in the hospital, and then took the
oath of allegiance and went west. Mrs
Wiley mourned him as dead for four
years and then became Mrs. William
Smith. A few days ago, as she sat on
the porch of her home, bronzed travel,
ler approached and embraced her most
enthusiastically. Smith first knocked
the man down and then asked him wht
} he wasl 1t was John Wiley, husband
No. /, his feelings greatly wounded u
his reception. Explanations and apollo
. gies followed. A compromise was eff
! tected, and for 5000 Mr.. Wiley agreed
to start at once for Colorado, to returi
. no more.
In collecting clothing for the Chicsg
sufferers in Pawtucket, few days since
the children in one of the infant school
; were given recess to 60 home an
bring whatever wearing apparel the
had TO spare. One of the little girl
went home for her share, and as he
mother had stepped ont, concluded t
help herself, and accordingly packed n
, all the dresses, etc., of which she wa
possessed, save what she had on, an
with all the gravity possible presents
them to the committee, who, OF course
| packed them with the rest and sent theI
away. When the little girls mothe
3 came to look for change OF clothes to
I the child after school, the discovery {
, what had been done took place, and tn
: CONSERVATION in that family can be bel
. ter imagined than described. The littl
miss said she had been sent home to u
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