The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ceased She is but nineteen years of age,
handsome, daring, and capital balloon
ist.
Miss Lucy Ames, of Washington Ter
ritory, has arrived in San Francisco.
She is a fragile creature, only seventeen
years old. Her height is four feet three
inches, and she weighs but All pounds.
The distance around her shoulders is
sixty-four inches.
A Vermont girl Of seventeen, trans
planted to Iowa, plays the cabinet Or
gan and sings in church, drives two and
sometimes four horses on the reaper du-
ring the week, and recently carried off
the first prize for equestrianism at the
La Crosse County Fair.
"You never saw such happy lot of
people as we had yesterday" said land
lady in Indiana to a newly arrived guest;
"there were thirteen couples of them"
"What, thirteen couples just married Z"
"Oh no, no, sir; thirteen couples just
divorced" .......... 2 - 30.
The natural desire of one feminine to
take down another is thus illustrated in
the New Bedford Mercury: "a young
woman, gaily dressed in handsome
skirt and bright-colored shawl, was COM
ing out of Liberty Hall lately, when a
malignant female raised the sha wi show
ing the crowd that the upper portion of
the skirt was composed OF as may colors
as an old-fashioned bed quilt.
Frequent instances of the cure of can
GERS by means of tea made from the
common red clover have been published
of late; and as the remedy is certainly
u harmless and inexpensive one, the
qualities claimed for it should be gener-
ally known. The Boston Herald says
that well-known sea captain of New
buryport feels certain that he has been
cured of cancer on his nose by drink
ing tea made from red clover tops, and
using the same preparation as an exter-
nal application. What was considered
a fully developed cancer two years and
a half ago, has now almost disappeared
under this treatment. -.
Various paragraphs relating to longe-
witty are just now journeying through
the newspapers. Notably, we have the
Rev. George Cotton of Yarmouth, Me-,
who, being three score and ten, had Just
led to the altar hymeneal a virgin aged
10. What was curious was that the said
altar was set up in an orchard, but the
ceremony had one advantage over the
open-air nuptials of Adam and Eve, for
500 friends assisted at it. Secondly, we
are told that Mrs. Jere Beede of Water
ford, Conn, age 80, having been con-
sidered dead for week, has 80 come to
life that she has eaten hearty dinner
of cabbage and pork! Then Mrs. Han
nah Andrews OF Lowell, Me-, age 102
years, is really dead and mourned by five
generations of descendants-200 of them
in all She had pension from the
Government, and deserved it.
It is announced that Montreal and
Newfoundland Sealing Company" has
been formed in Montreal. Sir Hugh
Allan, of Ravenscrag, the head of the
great shipping firm OF Allan s. Co., is
director, and several of the wealthiest
capitalists of Montreal have taken shares
in the new company. They have al
ready ordered two large and powerful
steamers to be built at the Clyde, and to
be ready for next springs seal fishery.
A Montreal steamship company has
commenced running a steamer monthly
to st. John. She is named the Alham-
bra and has made two trips and OBJ
tanned full cargoes. A good many Ca
madam manufactures are finding their
way into the st. John market, such as
boots and shoes, tweeds, blsnketings,
etc.. j.; and large quantity of -four, pork,
butter, meal, etc., is received there from
Canada. ........ ..
The London Neos says: 1t appears
from returns just issued that smuggling
has largely decreased throughout the
country. There was during last year
scarcely enough tobacco taken to fill
the great bowl of Quen Victoria's pipe.
The list of seizures proves that defraud-
ing the revenue, as a branch of distinct
business, has been fairly given up. Out
of the one hundred and ninety-eight
cases of capture reported, there were
twenty-eight only in which the quanti-
ty of tobacco and cigars exceeded ten
| pounds. In few instances the efforts
to escape were picturesque, but not un-
| familiar. Two ladies travelling from
Ostend to London were discovered
wearing tobacco and cigars as articles
of dress; and the steward of the ship
Libra, from Hamburg, was found to
have ingeniously lined his pantry with
| contraband goods. The only placs
| where the old fashion of smuggling
seems to have been kept up WIN any
degree OF energy is in the Isle of Wight,
| a spot famous for deeds of daring of this
kind.
Paul B. Du Chaillu writes home from
Trondhjem, under date of September IS.
| Of his late travels he says: II have
twice crossed Norway and Sweden, once
| within the Arctic circle, and through
one of the most desolate and grandest
countries of the world. have Just
come from Sweden. While in the noun
famous country of the far north came
near starving. Crossing from Norway
and Sweden has been the hardest trav-
| elling on foot have ever known. The
sides of the mountains were covered
with bowlders; no shelter at night; no
people, and the mountains covered with
snow. One glacier contained thirty
square miles of ice. / made observations
on the temperature of this glacier and of
the atmosphere. I have been among
the Laps, the Finns the Gvains, and the
poorest people of the land. I have been
received kindly everywhere. In each
province of Sweden the governors gave
me dinner and reception. TheSwedes
and Norwegians are a good and honest
people. 1 leave tomorrow for the in
terror of Norway, but will be back in
America to attend my lecture engage
ments in November. ! am in splendid
health, though for weeks have lived