The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-12-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The Burinan Ambassador will have
pleasant reception at Buckingham Pal
ace. He is the bearer of gold necklace
weighing ten pounds, as o present for
Queen Victoria.
The tedious routine of fir :ation, intro
duction: courtship, engagement and mar
riage was successfully gone through
with by an Arkansas couple in thirty
six minutes.
"Indian joe" Piute medicine man,
well known among the whites, was
stoned to death by his tribe, having
failed to restore to health two sick In
dians. The practice of medicine among
Indians evidently has its unpleasant
features.
During a fire at Portsmouth, recently,
a person whose residence was burned
was awakened by parrot calling the
servants name and screaming "fiEe."
They barely had time to save their
clothes and a portion of their furniture,
and but for Polly might have been burn
ed to death.
It was 80 cold in Chicago last week
that the papers state everything froze up
except the coal-bin. The editor of the
Post says, Our stove froze up so that we
had to soak its feet in hot water this
morning before we could get it to draw"
A Yankee would ask where the hot water
.me from?
The Helena Daily MontanA Herald, in
view OF the approaching leap year, pub
fishes a list of eligible old bachelors in
Helena, and follows with thirty or forty
genuine names of citizens who are in the
main, it says, Sin a good state of pre-
servation." The daring editor proposes
to supplement the list with another of
"all the old maids and marriageble
young ladies in Helena"
Here is q mother-in-law of at least
two-husband power: A man whose
home is in Wisconsin has been working
at Negaunee, Mich, for some months.
A week or SO since he was taken danger
ously sick. He sent for his wife to come
and care for him. Now, the wifs's moth
er is sick, too, and she sent this despatch
to her languishing husband: "Dear
Tim, mother is sick; l can't leave her.
Do the best you can. If you die, send
your body home."
Doctor OLeary says that a girl
| Gull ulo Va wv lONt uS we'll dS ITOul
too little. eff you ever see one of those
turtle-dove pairs who are always my
loving my dearing,' my ducking, each
other" says the doctor, you may set it
down that one or the other will die of
heart disease or consumption within
three months, and it is almost invariably
the woman who dies. Those women"
he adds, "who always scold and speak
Grossly to their better halves-they never
have the consumption or die of heart
disease"
This is the Official report of Califor-
MIA vigilance committee: "We, the five
hundred emigrants, quietly mar ohed to
the Justices Court and demanded the
prisoner. They refused to give him up.
We, the five hundred emigrants, took
| him, tried him, condemned him, and
hung him on the same tree he had mur-
dered his victim under. Farewell,
vain world were his last words, as the
mule walked away and left him there.
We, the five hundred emigrants, follow
ed the mule" .
This is the way Western editor well
comes newborn contemporary: "We
are sorry to receive No. of the Conan
che County World. The World is badly
printed, and has sickly, poverty -strick-
n appearance. Mr.. John Smith, its
publisher, is an idiot. If the leading
men of Comanche County are respons-
BILE for the foundation of this paper, they
ought to be sent to the Penitentiary. We
trust that Mr.. Smith will stop the pub
lication OF this paper and save his
money!
There are large numbers Of very cid
and poor persons along the coast in the
New England States. Many of the
men followed the sea in their early man
hood, and large number of the women
are widows of sailors and fishermen
who barely got living in their b2st
days. Nantucket furnishes noteworthy
example of these classes. In the poor
house OF that town there are fourteen
persons ranging from seventy-one to
eighty-nine years old, whose aggregate
ages amount to 1,l30 years.
A lady in town not thousand
miles away was considerably annoyed
by hens who pecked the loose plastering
from the wall. So one morning, while
washing dishes, she thought she heard
her fowls pecking as usual, and, dish
cloth in hand, she hastened to open the
door, and, giving her rag warlike
flourish, she uttered tremendous "shoo-
o-ol" Imagine her dismay at behold
ing, not the hens but stranger, who,
after wiping from hlc face the drops OF
dishwater with which he had been
sprinkled, said in a perfectly calm voice
"Well, mum, if you've got any more
spare rags, should like to sell you
some tinware for EN-"
A correspondent who has seen Mis-:
Nilsson in New York, speaks of the
gaunt, straight figure the strong, pale
face, with the hollow cheeks and the
beautiful smile blooming on her llips
the kindly gray eyes; the majestic toss
of the head, and the gait as firm and
bold as a mans; but says that person,
ally she is very charming woman
Her manners are decidedly French she
is Thoroughbred Partisan. She is per,
feetly easy, natural, and very graceful
When gentleman is presented to her
she don't nod her head, as an American
lady would, but gives her hand with {
frank, pleasant smile,as if she had known
him ever, ever so long. You are imme
diately at your ease. You will b,
prompted to say whatever comes upper
most in your mind, and she will look a
you astonished with her fine, grey eyes
as if to say: You dazzle me with you
brilliant intellect" She is full of thes
articles, which makes you think heI