The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-04-20
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

st Louis is proud because she has a
capital of 100000 invested in the la
ger beer manufacture. The annual pro-
duct is S4,000,O00.
The great railway contractor of Eng
land, Brassey, left fortune of over $780,
100000, the whole result of his own in
dustry and enterprise.
Kansas City reports lady as passing
along the main street of that town com
posedly putting cigar, while her hus-
band, meek looking parsonage, walked
behind, carrying the baby.
The Irish emigration to America, for
merly SO extensive, is reported to be now
rapidly on the decrease. English and
French emigration is increasing, while
that from Germany is the largest.
ga Young Shakeress says, in a note,
that the assertion often made that the
Shaker males hate the females, and rice
gerSa, is not true, " for we love each 9TH
er better than we can express"
Lille Smith, the little Sunday school
scholar who gained reputation from
having committed to memory three hun
dred and sixty-nine verses of Scripture
in one quarter, is just recovering from
brain-fever.
Mary had little lamb, With hair as
fine as silk; The longer Mary lived, the
all the hair was only fax On that deceit
full brute; But Mary hadn't much to say,
for hers was only jute.
Thieving has been reduced to sci
ence. In Boston, the other day, two
men stole an entire team, with its con-
tents, consisting of $4,000 worth of
choice goods, which were on their way
to packet pier. This is almost equal
to the sharp practice of the man who
stole saw-mill and the water power.
A child, while walking through an
art gallery with her mother, was at
tracted by statue of Minerva. "Who is
Minerva the Goddess of Wisdom" "Why
didn't they make her husband, too ?"
"Because she had none, my child"
"That was because she was wise, wasn't
it, mamma ?" was the artless reply.
At the Central Telegraph Office, Lon
don, no less than 4S5 young women are
employed as clerks, and only $50 males.
None but male clerks are placed on
night duty. The general post-oftice in
the same city employs about 5000 tele-
graph clerks, and over 5000 messengers
The "female clerks there total up to
nearly Il Thousand.
A curious and imposing ceremony took
place in Lexington, KY, a few days since.
During the funeral services of lady in
that city, her infant, only a few weeks
al b 4hn oh Is h.
church, and there, in the presence of its
dead mother, was solemnly dedicated in
baptism to the God whom she had served.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
gives the following splendid type of inno-
cence: "One of my friends had q little
marble statuette of Cupid in the parlor
of his country-house-bow, arrow, wings,
and all complete. A visitor indigenous
to the region, looking pensively at the
figure, asked the lady of the house, " If
that was statoo of her deceased infant" "
The recent explorations in Jerusalem
have excited great interest among the
fraternity of Freemasons throughout the
world, on account of the discovery of
what are believed to be" Masons' marks"
on considerable number of the immense
foundation stones recently uncovered
under the debris of one of the ancient
temples of that city.
If cleanliness is, as some folk say, one
of the arts, all that helps should be made
known. Doors, walls, or anything, that
is painted, may be cleaned with a piece
of soft flannel, dipped in warm water,
then wrung, and sprinkled with finely
powdered French chalk. The paint OH
being rubbed with this will become quite
clean, and will be saved from the de-
structive action of soap.
A young lady, who started to deliver
her first public lecture in Iowa the other
day, remarked, at the opening, that
women were responsible for certain SO
oial vices, because if there were no wo.
men those vices couldn't exist. The dis
course proceeded no further in conse-
4uence of the prompt action of the
astonished father of the damsel, who
rushed upon the platform and drove her
home.
The Rev. Messrs. Mcdonald of Bos.
ton, Boole of New York, and Inskip Of
Baltimore, start next month for q mis-
sionary tour across the plains, taking
with them big tent capable of holding
four thousand persons. After attending
to the regeneration of California, the
reverend gentlemen will move home.
ward via Salt Lake, where they will
hold an old-fashioned eamp-meeting fol
the edifcation of the Latter Day Saints
During the siege of Paris many work
men were forced to part with the only
means they had for obtaining the neces
saries of life. Late in February ther,
were in pawn at the Mont de Piete ZOO
glovemakers' scissors, 400 sewing ma
chimes, quantities of carpenters AM
smiths tools, large number of mat
tresses, and musical instruments belong
ing to the people who formed the or
chestra at small theatres, and who wer
without employment for six months
The total number of articles in paw
was 100000. .......- ..t.-, .-....
An Iowa editor has got himself int
! difficulty by neglecting the Scriptur
injunction, beware of dogs" Som
time since he advertised that he woul
take "a good dog in payment for
years subscription" The next da
, twenty-three dogs were taken to his OF
fee, and two days afterward q score 0
[ more of farmers, living at distances fror
J eight to twenty miles, appeared to sub
scribe for the paper, rendering dogs i
, payment. And to cap the climax, tn
, | Mayor of that CITY has notified him tina