The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

cultivated whiskers four inches long by
taking great care of them.
Peanut oil, used in the South during
the war as substitute for butter, is
again coming into use in view OF the
high price of the latter.
In an obituary notice of an elderly cit
izen of village in Maine, 1T Is stated
that he had killed forty-seven bears
within the limits of the town.
The Presbyterian Banner advocates the
addition of sacred music to the studies
to be taught in the theological semina-
ries, and says every minister should know
how to sing, and to sing well.
In Canada the mink fur season is said
to be very productive. In some sections
of the Dominion minks are so plentiful
that they approach the farm houses IN
large numbers without fear.
A couple out West have been divorced
on account of difference of opinion on
the subject of baptism-one maintaining
the necessity of immersion to salvation,
the other, the suffiency of sprinkling.
Large numbers of the officers of the
French armies in the field are said to be
votaries of absinthe-a species OF decoc-
ton which takes the mental and bodily
pith out of a man faster, probably, than
any other known deteriorative save OPT
um.
Mark Twain, in a letter to q friend,
speaks of his baby in this wise: He,
fancying that people down here dress
as they do up there, has come without
his bandbox and L wish you would
buy him cloak and cap, and order the
groceryman that you buy them of to
send them express to me-"
An Atlantic paper of last week says: A
lady in this city tied her hubby's hands
and feet, the other day, just for fun, and
then went through his pockets for a
certain billet-doux, and found it. His
physician tells him that his face won't
be badly SCARED, though he may remain
permanently bald"
The bulk of the American families who
used to spend the winter in Paris and
Rome have emigrated to Germany. Ber-
lin, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich are
all full of American idlers, and the result
is that the proverbial cheapness of living
in these cities has become thing of the
past, the tendency of an influx Of trans
atlantic tourists being to make shop and
uOUPl kGGDtTS IuOIt tAtIdNuBuhu III phCii
t pretensions.
3 Grand Rapids, Mich, is the strong
r hold of the women-righ The city
i physician is woman, one of the city
t pulpits is occupied by woman, who
y has good salary, the city library, con-
o sisting of several thousand volumes, has
t been gotten up by women, and to crown
:. all, they have history class, composed
y of ladies, which has been organized sew
;, eral years, which has regular lectures by
y a lady from an adjoining city.
A The unsatisfactory nature Of winning
e q case at law is evidenced in suit re-
q Gently tried in Cincinnati. A young
y lady sued d shoemaker for making her a
9 pair of shoes too small and refusing to
= give her another pair. The litigation
y has wasted great deal OF the time OF
!, the parties, who can i'll afford to lose it.
n The young lady gained, after a long lie.
e gal fight, verdict for 1925. The costs
y amount to $25, and the lawyers fee.
4 about twice that sum. What is gained
;r by such going to law as that?
% Mrs. Slower, the daughter of Andy
johnson, who presided with so mucl
ID quiet dignity for three years at th'
White House, is now Mrs. Brown, tn,
r, wife of country storekeeper in Green
is vile, Tenn. Mr.. Brown is plain ant
ID elderly looking gentleman, well to do il
k the world through his dealings in dr..
goods, groceries, and notions. And,
?" Johnson's only living son, youth sew
enteen or eighteen years of age, is
s, clerk in Mr.. Browns store.
- There is a curious condition of affair
&c in Rutland, Vt. All the hotels hav
- - been closed, even to the exclusion of tn
=; regular boarders OF the various estab
:, lishments The cause is the enforcement
'o of the prohibitory liquor law, the pro
~ prietors having been repeatedly prose
:, cuted and fined for the sale of liquor
- They therefore combined and close
q, their doors. The town authorities hav
~ leased house in the outskirts of tn
w w place and opened it as hotel; bu
&C whether the Mayor and other official
do the honors, and whether the place
of run on temperance principles, we al
I,a not informed.
The Engineer states that when the Rul
sian American telegraph is completed th
he following feat will be possible A telS
gram from Alaska for New York, leavin
Sitka, say at 40 ON Monday mornin,
would be received at Nicoleaf, Siberi
he at six minutes past one on Tuesda
in morning; at st. Petersburg, Russia, {
,e- three minutes past six on Monday ever
k ing at London twenty-five past four O
no Monday afternoon and at New York
he forty-six minutes past eleven on Monds
of forenoon. Thus, allowing twenty mil
" utes for each re-transmissi0n, messas
ad may start on the morning of one day,
,ts be received and transmitted the next da
la~ again received and sent on the afternoC
,ty of the day it starts, and finally reach
ey its destination on the forenoon of Il
1 On. first day, the whole taking place in OIL
- hours time.
lus A New Haven dentist has reconstruct
the face of a person who had suffer-
nd from cancer. The left cheek had fall
srs' in and presented very sunken and ha
up gard appearance; SO much so that o
or side of the face seemed at least fife
all years older than the other. By means
OF this artificial appliance the cheek
red brought out again to its original fullne
ok and made an exact counterpart of
ght other. The invention consists in wi
OF of elastic rubber, which is attached
,iHs the ordinary rubber plate, and read
hat yields to the various movements of t
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