The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-10
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mills erected there for two years.
Feldspar, hitherto imported from
Spain, has been discovered in Connec-
ticut.
Some Of the Michigan pastures are SO
dry that farmers have to feed hay
already.
The Siamese twins, ChaNs and Eng,
are at last divided. One is for Greeley,
the other for Or mt.
Josh Billings says, very truly " You'd
better not know so much, than to know
so many things that amt So"
A Chicago advertisement for three
lady copyists brought in two days an
influx Of 249 beautifully written letters.
An undertaker's office recently bore
this cheering inscription on the front
door: "Gone for a dead man-back
soon."
Women are scarce in Northwest Kan
sas. Four men to one woman is the
proportion, with an active demand for
the latter.
A new peril for toilers at the needle.
A Harrisburg Pa, woman has been
made blind by sewing on poisonously
dyed cloth.
Native of the Emereld Isle-Is it me
bare feet that's troublin' yer? Bless yer
hammer, an amt 1 sportin pair of
Cork soles?
The new court house at Burlington,
Vt, is Just completed at total cost of
$4,000, and is the finest building of the
kind in the State.
"Insults," says a modern philosopher,
care like counterfeit money; we cannot
hinder their being offered, but we are
not compelled to take them"
Iron shingles have been recently
patented, and are said to be less expen-
sive than slate. They are made about
six by thirteen inches in size, and fas-
tened by headless nails.
AS so many articles in everyday use
are manufactured of paper, it is asked if
paper beefsteak can be invented to
take the place of the leather ones COM
mon at boarding houses.
The Gardner (Mass.) Ne,oS says Five
married ladies in this town have felt
called upon to bid their husbands an
abrupt goodbye during the last few
weeks, which signifies that the world
still moves"
Dollar gold pieces Of San Francisco
coinage have been put on the market,
and meet with ready acceptance. They
are of standard value, and are u legal
tender, equally with gold, as circu-
lating medium.
The Public Works Department OF
Japan employs 1Gl foreigners at an ag-
gregate cost of S29,621 per month.
There are Ill English, SO French, 6
Chinese, 4 Manilfese. 2 Americans, l
Indian, and Swiss.
A city fop who was taking All airing
in the country, tried to amuse himself
by quizzing an old farmer about his
bald head, who solemnly remarked,
"Young man, when my head gets as
soft as yours, can raise hair to SELL"
A Vermont pensioner has written to
the pension office as follows: "Have my
name dropped from the pension rolls, as
1 can do nearly as much work as ever
and feel in my heart that 1 can do
without it better than the government
can pay it."
A man hundred years old went to
have pair of shoes made. The shop
keeper suggested that he might not live
to wear them out, when the old man re-
torted that he commenced this one hun
dred years great deal stronger than he
did the last one.
A good illustration of the quiet of
Boston streets on Sunday nights is fur
nished by the fact that a gentleman
drove Sunday evening, between 9 and
10 o'clock, from State street to Boston
Highlands and only met two carriages,
except street cars.
A gentleman of Pittsburg wants to
pay $4,000 for Red Cloud, the trotting
horse that carried off the first money in
all the races there last week. Mr.. Alex
ander King subsequently bid $4,000,
but both offers were declined. The horse
is six years old, and valued at $4,000.
There is negro woman living in
Columbus, Ga, said to be only ll6.
Strange to say, she never nursed Gen.
Washington. Six generations look
with awe upon their venerable ances-
tress. Although deaf and blind, she
shows third set of excellent grinders.
A crazy man having got into the gal
lery of the Senate of the United States
during rambling debate was taken
out, the sergeant-at-arms telling him
that he was "out of place in that gal
lery." "That's so" said the lunatic 81
oug ght to be On the floor with the sena-
tors"
A Lockport girl based her breach of
promise suit upon the slender ground
that her recreant lover had told her that
if he married any one he would marry
her. 1t took the jury all night TO award
her one hundred dollars damages, and
one or two of the jurors do not feel
quite satisfied that she ought to have
even that.
A couple from the backwoods of Ten
nessee arrived at Nashville on their bri-
dal tour, and, on calling for a room,
were shown into the elevator, which
they in their innocence took for bed
room. When the servant, who had gone
for some matches, returned. he found
them partially disrobed, and expressing
their dissent at the closeness of the room
and the scanty sleeping accemmoda-
tions.
There are some medical enthusiasts
in England who think perhaps it would
be wise if all small or unhealthy chill
dren were suppressed when first born.
A writer says had this been the practice
in the past we should have had neither