The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A learned writer asserts that, after oil,
energy quite as often drives off disease
as it brings it on. ........
In libel suit against u newspaper at
Little Rock, Ark, for 0,000, the plain
tiff obtained 81 in damages.
Negotiations are pending between
Germany and the United States for the
mutual recognition of trade marks.
A Tennessee girl, in order to make a
sure thing of it, allowed two young men
to take out a license to marry her. She
probably kept her matrimonial books on
the double-entry system.
1t is said that a number of Californ-
ians, men of means and position, as well I.
as many men of other States, will petit
ton Congress at its next session to place
heavy restrictions on emigration, so as
to stop the great influx of Chinese, il
not to repeal our treaty with that coun-
try altogether.
A snake, said to have been at least
five feet long, and as thick as mans
wrist, was killed in the ladies' car of the
train going from Nashville to Chatta-
nooga, near that place last week. The
reptile was discovered crawling along
the oisle, and created a terrible sensa-
ton before he was despatched.
Some twenty months since gentle
man in Lawrence, Kansas, put up a
| corn-crib on the corner of Rhode Island
and Hancock streets, and filled it with
six thousand bushels of corn at an aver
age price of fifty-one cents per bushel.
A Lawrence firm have recently bought
the entire lot at thirty cents per bushel.
A machine has been invented by
crippled boy, which is described as
follows in the Scientific american "This
invention relates to machine that,
when drawn through field of standing
corn, gathers the ears, drops them into
an elevator, cuts off the knobs, slits the
shucks while on the ears into traverse
ribbons, doing such cutting at the same
time the ears are being elevated, drops
the ears from the elevator into the
shucker, strips off the husks, throwing
them out of the machine, and finally
conveys the ears off to one side of the
apparatus, where it lets them fall into
any receptacle that may be provided"
Hydrate of chloral seems to develop
fresh virtues every day. A case of rat
tlesnake poison has lately been cured by
it, at Point Pleasant, N. j. A young
man bitten by the rattlesnake, and ex-
hibiting the usual violent and alarming
symptoms, was treated with the hy-
drate. five doses of twenty grains each
being administered, when sleep follow
ed, and the patient awoke after several
! hours with every symptom of the poi
soning gone. At the same time we
would warn non-profossional persons
: against tampering with this powerful
: agent, the officinal strength of which
does not seem to have been agreed upon
by the pharmaceutists.
: Nevada is capable of supplying the
: world with salt. 1t abounds in salt
J. springs, salt marshes, salt mountains
!. and great plains where the evaporation
4 of ages has left deposits of salt almos
q illimitable in extent. For mining pur
], poses the salt of these deposits require
! only to be shovelled into sacks anC
) transported to the place of use. Fo
: table and dairy purposes it is not quit
a equal to Eastern salt. 1t contains
" slight per cent. OF impurity, whicl
would have to be removed by re-evap
oration or some refining process to rem
v der it marketable for domestic use, Thi
i may not be the case with all the depos
', its of this character within the State
j, but applies to such of them as have beel
', worked. Within fifty miles of Reno
le and not more than one mile from th
n railroad, are some of the finest sal
q springs in the world. One gallon {
is water will evaporate three pounds {
the best quality Of salt