The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

q person at first sight, and generally
found it to be correct" Mamma"
said her youngest son, in shrill voice,
that attracted the attention of all pre-
sent. "Well, my dear, what is it 2" re-
piled the good mother. 81 want to
know what was your opinion when you
first saw me Z" The question gave q
sudden turn to the conversation.
The Chicago Times gives an account
of an old pointer dog which gentle
man brought to that city from his form
er residence in Portage. Wisconsin, and
which after few days mysteriously dis
appeared, turning UP two weeks after
ward at the family mansion in Portage,
two hundred miles away. The sagacious
animal had performed the whole distance
on foot, though how he found his way
is q mystery. The intelligence manifest
ed by this honest old dog in undertaking
so difficult and wearisome journey
rather than live in such a wicked place
as Chicago is certainly worthy of all ad-
miration, although the Times unsccount-
ably neglects to point out this obvious
moral
A women-woman who has started
pdp6E L OTJlduo, OISeOu, Opcus uoI
salutatory with this sharp broadside :
1--WE have served a regular apprentice
ship at working-washing, scrubbing,
patching, darning, ironing, plain ewing,
raising babies, milking, chufning, and
poultry-raising. We have kept boarders,
taught school, taught music, written for
the newspapers, made speeches, and car
ried on an extensive millinery and dress
making business. We can prove by the
public that this work has been well done.
Now, having reached the age of 36, and
having brought up a family of boys to
set type, and daughter to run the mil
linery store, we propose to edit and pub
lish a newspaper, and we intend to es-
tsblish it as one of the permanent insti-
tutions of the country"
The heirs of Lazarus j. Powell, who
died in Philadelphia about 1850 or 1851,
without making a will or leaving any
instructions as % what dispofition should
be made of his vast property, said to
amount to $2,OOO,OOO, have turned up,
and are about instituting inquiries rela-
tive to what steps are necessary to re-
cover the property. The heirs are all
residents of the Southern States, and
are prepared to offer incontestable proofs
of their rights. 1t was only recently
that they learned of the death of Mr..
Powell. Mr.. P. was an old bachelor
and a very singular man, devoting all
his time to business, never making any
attempts to open correspondence with
his kinsmen. 1t is understood that at
the time of his death the courts adver-
tised for the heirs to come forward and
present their claims, but they failing to
do so the property was escheat to the
State of Pennsylvania.
1t is not so generally known as it
ought to be that human being is liable
to infection from a glandered horse.
Numerous such cases have been recorded
in medical works; and only few weeks
ago man named Martin, who lived in
Washington county, Md, suffered hor-
rible death from this cause. While at
tending to horse which had the CLAN
ders, some of the virus from the deceased
animals nose or mouth found its way
into cut on one of his thumbs, and
shortly afterward he was taken with
spasms, which were succeeded by severe
nausea and utter prostration. Although
medical assistance was Immediately pro-
cured, and the man had every reasonable
attention, he lived only few days after
the infection manifested itself. Before
dying his body became a mass of ulcers,
and at the end the flesh fell in pieces
from his bones. When horse is found
to be glandered, it should be killed at
once, and proper measures taken to dis
infect every object that has been in con-
tact with the animal.
Many curious facts of interest are
coming to light as to matters in Paris
during the recent seige. For example :
No one was allowed to borrow more
than fifty francs on any article, no mat
ter what its value might be. In spite of
this, the pressure for money was so
great that the store rooms of the Monte
de Piete became encumbered with arti-
cles, which 100000 persons of all classes
had pledged. There were no fewer than
100000 watches and $4,000 clocks, dia-
mond necklaces, and bracelets of fabu-
lous values. There were also evidences
of the distress to which persons of rank
had been reduced-one piece of lace after
the other, the last cashmere shawl, or q
pocket-handke,c chief embroidered with a
coronet, of such fine material that it was
still possible to raise three francs, the
lowest figure allowed upon it; gentle
mems gold-headed canes. even ordinary
riding whips, and no fewer than 1000
opera glasses. No fewer than 1900 poor
wretches had pawned their mattresses,
and starving seamstresses had pawned
as last resource, probably, 1900 pairs of
scissors.
A correspondent of the Albany Jour
nal tells the following big story about
what two of his friends said they saw
one day. "They saw wasp riding on a
green worm one and half inches long.
How far he had ridden they did not
know, but after they saw him they
z watched him until he had ridden twen-
ty-fve feet. Occasionally the worm
would stop, lie motionless as though he
8 was dead, when the wasp after little,
would spur him up, and then the worm
would go on. The wasp kept the worm
b in as direct course as he could. After q
7 while the worm stopped and the wasp
i dismounted and ran quickly and re-.
moved little stone or piece of ground
s about two inches from where the worn
lay, and then seizing the worm by tn,
head drew it into the hole. PRESENT.,
Q the wasp came out, put on the gravel to,
r over the hole, covered the stone over
: and seemed to be ready 10 iy, whel
o they killed him and dug down abou
q two inches and took ont the worm