The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A green grocer-one who trusts.

ten thousand hens.
A white hedgehog twenty-five inches
in length, has been shot in New Hamp-
shire. % .'.. t...,
The drying of grapes for making raj.
sins is becoming a large industry of Cal
ifornis.
One of the most prolific of novel-wri-
ters is Louise Muhlbach, who has just
laid before the reading public of Ger
many the one hundred and first volume
of her novels.
| A Snowman in the State of Maine
wanted to exhibit an Egyptian mummy,
and attended at the courthouse to OBJ
tain permission. "What is it you want
to showY" inquired the judge. can
Egyptian mummy more than three
thousand years DID," said the Snowman.
"Three thousand years old !" exclaimed
the judge, jumping to his feet; "and is
the critter alive 7"
A Wisconsin editor is published all
around as in the biggest kind of luck,
because he happened to be on train
that was smashed up, had his leg broke,
life insurance company.
Since two shots were fred through
the windows of an editors sanctum at
Albany, the editors go around with iron
breastplates in their pantaloons, and
earthworks of boiler iron are being
thrown up outside the windows.
The party Of Japanese, twelve in
number, who recently arrived here, are
all intelligent young men, and form
portion of the corps sent out by the
japanese government to receive collegi-
ate education abroad. Six of the num-
Der will enter English universities, three
will proceed to Belgium, and one to
Germany. Two of the party will prob
ably enter some American college.
Black caterpillars have made their
appearance in some portions of Tennes-
see in such droves as in one instance to
stop a train of cars. This is almost
equal to the stories of the ravages of
locusts in the East, where it is not un-
usual to see vast regions swept utterly
bare of vegetation, the destroying horde
climbing hills and even surmounting
high walls in their resistless march.
The following programme for the OBJ
servance of wedding anniversaries seems
to be generally adopted throughout the
country; First anniversary, irou fifth
anniversary, wooden tenth anniversa-
ry, tin; fifteenth anniversary, crystal
twentieth anniversary, china; twenty
fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth ami
versary, woollen; forty-fifth anniversa-
ry, silk; fiftieth anniversary, golden !;
seventy-fifth anniversary, diamond.
The following is Western instance of
the "ruling passion strong in death"
Squire W was very fastidious in his
notions of propriety. At weddings and
funerals he was quite officious, and very
particular that everything should be
done decently and in order. In due
time he was taken ill-fatally so-and
relatives and friends were gathered
around his bed, sad and weeping. One
of these, more thoughtful than the rest,
asked the departing Squire if he would
like to have a clergyman called in to
pray with him, to which he replied:
"Well, yes; think it would be appro-
pirate" ..
Professor Winchell, in late magazine
article upon the climate of Michigan,
adduces figures to show that while the
July climate of Michigan is cooler than
that of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the
growing season begins on the western
side of the State thirteen days earlier
in the spring than it does at Milwaukee,
nearly opposite, and continues from five
to eight days later in the autumn; "a
still greater contrast being appreciable
if localities in the interior of Wisconsin
be selected. The lowest temperature of
Grand Haven, Michigan, is lac higher
than that of Milwaukee, the difference.
according to Professor Winchell, being
all that distinguishes between fruit
bearing region and one in which fruits
fail.
The Bridgeport Farmer tells remark
able story in regard to what, not many
years ago, would have been considered
miracle. 1t says that in the sold Divis-
ion street graveyard" at Bridgeport
there is marble slab marking the grave
of Robert Linus Backus, who died ON
the 10th of February, 1884, aged IL years
and months. On the reverse Of the
stone is stain which represents wo-
man grasping club with which she is
in the act of striking; all attempts to
obliterate this stain by scraping are in
effectual, and tive are told that this is
the fifth stone which has marked the
spot, the preceding ones having been re-
moved on account of their inveterate
tendency to represent the same scene.
The legend connected with this singular
circumstance is that the child was killed
by its mother. .......
Domestic matters in some of the West
ern States, are managed in a very practi-
cal, off-hand way, but one which is like
ly to lead to social complications very
difficult to straighten out properly. For
instance, in Missouri, some years ago,
George Bruner went off to Idaho to
hunt for gold, leaving his wife to wait
till he got back. One Mr.. Rains came
along and asked Mrs. Bruner to be his,
which she promised on condition he
would give her up if George should
come back at any time. She was ac-
cordingly married to Rains, since which
time there has been nothing but sun
shine, until short time ago Bruner
turned up again with his "pockets full
of rocks" and demanded his wife. She
was willing, and Rains was reminded of
the uncertainty of his own tenure ac-
cording to the contract. He admitted
the claim of Bruner to be good, and the
two proceeded to secure a re-adjustment
of the matrimonial moose, Rains applv-
ing for divorce and Bruner aidina n
the proceedings. The Judge Of The
Court said that the case was rather .
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