The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
NO. rs
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

is SAID, then 1T has had at this season for
several years. The fashionable season
there for incarceration is stated to be
the winter.
The Chicago Common Council are go
ing to Salt Lake city, and an exchange
says 1T is understood that their purpose
is to strike decisive blow at polygamy
by distributing Chicago divorces among
the Mormons.
The simplest and cheapest way to cool
room is to wet cloth of any size, the
larger the better, and suspend it in the
place you want cooled. Let the room be
well ventilated, and the temperature
Will sink from ten to twenty degrees in
less than an hour.
a Wyoming husband advertisas him
self as a monthly nurse. He says his
wife formerly supported the family by
that business, but since she acquired the
right to vote and sit on juries she does
nothing but talk politics, and so he
must keep the business up or himself
and children will starve.
Constantinople is to be connected
with the opposite Asiatic coast by rail-
road tunnel, consist sting of sheet-iron
double tubes, under the water of the
Bosphorus. The tunnel is to be about
twelve hundred feet long, ten feet in
diameter in the clear, and to be thirty
six feet below the level of the water, in
order not to obstruct navigation.
A couple of children were lost at
Delhi, a., recently, and much grieving
was done, the church bells were rung
and the whole village organized for
search, when it was suggested to look in
their bedroom for them, and there the
little innocents lay, fast asleep, and un-
conscious of the excitement they had
caused.
The Apache Indians are rather luxuri-
GUS III their warfare. Not long since a
party of miners and prospectors in Ari-
zona had fight with some, and defeated
the cred SKINS" with dead loss to
several. In the pouches of the slain
Indians were found golden bullets, ham
mered out of the nuggets which they
picked up.
Togolanda, small island in the Malay
archipelago, about fifty miles northeast
of Celebes, has been visited by terrible
calamity. An outburst of the volcano
of Ruwang was accompanied by a wave
one hundred and twenty feet high,
which swept all the inhabitants and cat
tie from the island. Four hundred and
sixteen souls perished.
The Berlin Correspondent, in an ac-
count of the German navy, saws:
Every ship in the German service,
even the smallest gunboat, is provided
with detailed drawings and sections of
every foreign war ship. Its weak points
are specially stated, and details given as
to the spots to be aimed at with most
likelihood of disabling the machinery"
A romantic pair were blessed with
number of daughters. The eldest was
called Caroline, the second Madeline, the
third Eveline, the fourth Angeline, when
10 the fifth made its appearance, and no
name could be found with the desired
termination. At length mamma pounced
upon name, and forthwith the baby
was baptized O,inoL1NE.
A farmer cured baulky horse in the
town of Eden, Fond du Lac county,
Wisconsin. He hitched pair of cattle
to log-chain around the horses neck,
and prevailed on 'em to lean few tons
weight on the yoke. The horse didn't
start, but his head came out by the
roots. The hide, set of shoes, and a
lunch for the crows are all that is left OF
the indocile steed.
A young and newly-fedged Justice of
the peace out in Illinois was recently
called upon, for the first time, to marry
couple. He nervously looked through
Every Man His Own Lawyer" and
"Haines's Township Laws" but failed to
find the desired form. The crowd grew
impatient, and he told the couple to
hold up their right hands. This done,
he pronounced the following charge:
"You and each of you do solemnly
swear that in the cause now upon hear
ing you will tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, and
that you will love, honor, cherish, and
obey each other during the term of your
natural lives, so help you God" Both
answered solemnly, az WILL" and the
Judge charged them dollar each, and
pronounced them man and wife. -.
The editor of a newspaper in Rich
mond, Va, received, on Thursday last, a
polite note from lady of respectability
in that city, signed by her full name,
announcing that she would, at eight
o'clock in the evening of that day, pro-
ceed to take her own life by the most
available means, and respectfully solicit
ing the pleasure of a reporters company
to witness the ceremony. Punctually at
the appointed hour, the reporter and
several other invited guests presented
themselves at the residence designated,
but, owing to the interference of friends
or some other circumstances, the attempt
was indefinitely postponed. But the
purpose of the writer came very near
being carried out. Of course, the lady
is deranged. .-..
The Illinois Board of Railroad Com
missioners are preparing to enforce the
statute passed last winter by the Legis-
lature of their State, reducing the rates
OF freight and passenger fare on rail-
roads. They have called upon the vari-
GUS railroad companies for statements OF
their earnings up to July l, in order to
make the classification provided for by
the statute. The officers of the eompa-
nies profess their readiness to furnish
the statements as soon as they can be
prepared, but protest against the consti-
tutionality of the statute, and aver their
readiness to bring the question of its
validity before the courts. The Com
missioners have replied that they will
use every means to aid the companies in
obtaining the judicial decision they de-
sire, and to that end will either assist