The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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In some portions of the South attempts
are being made to revive knee breeches
and shoe buckles.
At late baby show in Liverpool,
Eng, the little ones were all so hand
some that no prize was awarded.
The Paris Cab Compauy's horses are
dying of q new epidemic. The company
has lost 200 out of 800 horses purchased
from the Prussians.
The stone used in building many of
the great bridges in the country, even as
far west as Omaha, is brought from
Mosquito Mountain, Maine.
Major Powell, after doing 800 miles of
Colorado canyons, has returned to Salt
Lake to rejoin his family, having met
thus far with not single mishsp.
1t cost the Prussian government 2,000-
600 francs to get up their military map
of France, which surpassed even that in
the possession of the general staff of the
French army.
The editor Of an Indiana paper recent
ly enjoyed the luxury of bath, and
leading article in the last issue of his
paper describes wildly his strange SEN
sations while the operation was in pro-
gress.
An express train between Plymouth
and London makes the distance, 1874
miles, in four and quarter hours, in
Guiding fifteen minutes stoppage. This
is probably the fastest travelling in the
| world.
The State debt of Vermont is now
$412,000. In six years from the rebel
lion it has been reduced to less than half
| million, and there is now hundred
thousand dollars in the treasury for cur
| rent expenses.
Prairie Chicken, an athletic and accom-
plished daughter of his Excellency Navy
| Plug, the big chief of the South Sioux
| nation, can walk off under a bigger back
| load of buffalo beef than any other squaw
in the Buckskin Basin.
The Lowell Courier says the most
humiliating domestic use full grown
man can be put to is to be sent to the
| bakers for scents worth of yeast"
| Evidently the Courier man knows how
it is himself"
A charcoal man and his wife, who be-
longed to the Commune, escaped the
vigilance of the police by the happy de-
vice of thorough washing. The dis
guise was too perfect unluckily, for they
have been looking for each other ever
since.
At ball at the White Sulphur Springs
a Kentucky belle represented "Arctic
Moonlight" in dress of full illusion
skirts, dotted with swansdown and oxi-
died glass, and luminous with silver
bands and crescents, pine cones, pearls,
sc.
A Western editor has announced the
death of his uncle in Australia, leaving
him gold mine and 100000. His vii
lage contemporary processes to regard
the matter as plan cunningly devised
to obtain credit for box of paper collars
and straw hat.
A Maryland paper improves upon the
usual style Of death notices by recording
that an infant was "born into the order
OF fallen nature, Dec. 30, 1869 into the
supernatural sphere of redeeming grace,
April 27, 1870; and into the kingdom of
the everlasting, July 3, 1871"
An enterprising chap up in Van Buren,
county, Iowa, has discovered something
for young people to do while courting be-
| oluCo Olt duOUutI lduuS. buE-
ing his little term of courtship he helped
the young lady to sew together enough
rags to make sixty yards of rag carpet.
Rocky Mountain Jim, noted charac-
ter in the far West, who has had all
sorts of adventures and fights with In
dians, was attacked, few days since,
near Hot Springs, Middle Park, by q
fierce cinnamon bear. Jim had nothing
but navy revolver, and with this he
fought the savage beast for half an hour,
but was so terribly mangled that it is
doubtful if he survives. He has been
Rocky Mountain ranger for over thirty
years.
Curtis tells story of waiter at a
village tavern, who announced, as he
laid the milk-pitcher on the tea-table,
"Succus at Dove, tonight" allow do
J you know?" "Milk's sour" "How
does that prove it T" "Cows can't stand
the noise. When the succus goes by,
and the animals snarl, it curdles the
milk in the bag. Least, s'pose so. Can't
count for it in no other way" This
would seem to be proper subject for
our agricultural societies to investigate.
Aphysician of Lyons has been making
some experiments with different liquors
upon chickens, with the following re-
suits The chickens who imbibed red
wine continued in perfect health those
who took white wine were rather low in
their minds, and showed symptoms of
liver complaint; the alcohol drinkers
sank rapidly, and all died and the ones
that had absinthe given them perished
on the spot. Thus 1t seems prudent for
the chicken population to limit itself to
! q diet of claret and water.
4 One may readily believe that to tele.
a graph in Chinese is no very easy matter
D seeing that that language has no alpha.
7 bet, and is made up of about fifty thou
l sand different characters, and yet tn,
4 managers of the Chinese Submarin,
Q Telegraph Company have at last sur.
t mounted the difficulty. Several thou
j sand of the characters most in use are
4 cut on wooden blocks, resembling types
at the reverse end of which numbers are
!, engraved. The Chinese at Hong Kong
b who wishes to send message to hi
o friend at Shanghai, hands the messag,
a written in Chinese to native clerk, ,wht
n selects the corresponding blocks, anG
d prints the numbers which are ON thei
b reverse end. The slip is then given t,
II an English clerk, who telegraphs it I,
r, its destination, where the process is re
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