The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-05
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months and then digging them up and
selling them to colleges for petrified
Mohicans.
A Bridgeport lady remained too long
on train to kiss female friend and
trying to get off after it had started was
thrown violently ON her face, eff ever
/ kiss any body again y said she, venge
fully, as she arose "any woman, at
least !" she thoughtfully added.
A clergyman on his way to church,
one Sunday, was overtaken by o heavy
shower of rain. On arriving at the ves-
try he exclaimed, rather impatiently,
III wish 1 were dry" Never mind"
said his colleague, "you will soon be in
the pulpit, and there you will be dry
enough"
There is wheat-feld on the west side
of the San Joachim river, California.
thirty-fve miles in length by eight i'll
width, with an area of 10000 acres. Es-
| timating the average yield at sixteen
bushels to the acre, it would give total
yield of 1885,, 200 bushels, or S6,0l5 tons.
This amount of grain would load 9,6Ol
cars.
Endeavor to take your work quietly.
Anxiety and r-exertion are always
the cause of sickness and restlessness.
We must use our Judgment to control
our excitement, or our bodily strength
will break down. We must remember
that our battle is to be won by
strength not our own. 1t is battle
that does not depend upon the swift nor
the strong.
In New York there is u mill which
makes from paper such articles as milk
pans, cups, bread pans, wash-bowls, ETC.,
which are said to be superior to wood
or metal. The paper being pulped is
pressed to shape, dried, enamelled, and
subjected to heat that would destroy
some utensils of the kind. The material
is light and easily handled, and does not
rust, shrink, or easily break.
If you belong to wealthy family in
the City OF Mexico nowadays, and drive
into the country few miles from the
capital you will be gobbled up by
guerillas, who will send the cheering in
telligence to your friends that they
want $4,000 or $4,000, and if you are
not forthcoming in so many hours, you
will be shot. The funeral over you, a
few days later, when your body is
| ny put IOduSlltc hOlllDiy
lated, will be very impressive. Mexico
is more healthy country for poor peo-
pie at this time.
J How to fit n new collar to the shoul-
} der of a horse is thus told by The FdAey
Farmer: The collar should be of the
proper size; just before putting it on
the first time, immerse it in water, let
ting it remain about minute, and i'm
mediately put it on the horse, being
. careful to have the names so adjusted at
: the top and bottom as to fit the shoul-
der, and then put the horse to work.
The collar, by being wet, will adapt it
self to the shoulder, and shonld dry on
, the horse. When taken off it should be
left in the same shape it occupied on
the horse, and ever after you will have
snug-ftting collar and no wounds.
: The Missouri Legislature passed a
very sensible bill at the last session, a
circumstance in itself worth noting. 1t
provides that all doors of ingress or
egress to and from all public school
$ houses and other public buildings, and
also of all theatres, assembly rooms,
r halls, churches, factories, with more than
7 twenty employees, and of all other
t buildings or places of public resort
, whatever, where people are wont to as.
semble shall be so hung as to open out
J. wardly from the audience rooms, halls
!, or workshops of such buildings or places
4 provided that such doors may be hung
n on double -jointed hinges, so as to open
: with equal ease outwardly or inwardly.
The great globe which we inherit il
!, itself magnet. On the one side of th'
y = magnetic equator, the north end of the
u needle dips; on the other side, the soutl
9 end dips, the dip varying from nothing
: to ninety degrees. If we 60 to th'
+ equatorial regions of the earth with {
+ suitably suspended needle, we shall fine
y there the position of the needle to b,
= horizontal. If we sail north, one end o
~ the needle dips; if we sail south, the op
=, :. posite end dips; and over the north o.
% south terrestrial magnetic pole tn
% needle sets vertical, The south mag
= netic pole has not yet been found, bu
q Sir James Ross discovered the mort
y magnetic pole on the 1st OF June, 1881
~ Fdraddy.
Is The following items in connectio
,e with the Shorter Time -and-Mo None
Ie agitation have reached us: 60 A luna
J. telegraphic dispatch reports that tn
n Man in the Moon has struck work. III
r represents that eight hours a day ar
IF quite enough for such clever fellow t
sr shine in, and declines to carry his bundl
re- of sticks any longer. This announce
N ment has caused great consternatio
N throughout the whole of the Solar Sy'
lie tenn" A report comes from Hollan
ID that all the Dutch clocks have con
ly menced striking. They are determine
by not to work more than twelve hours
ID day. 1t is believed, however, that I'll
Government will deal with the offenC
I'd ers under the Winding-up act, as strik
ly are not allowed in Holland"
II !. A journey through the six New Ems
" land States, and a portion of New Yor
~ reveals the fact that the apple crop
le equally abundant in all quarters, Il
u trees everywhere being loaded with tn
d staple fruit Along the Hudson, fro
o. .. Troy to Poughkeepsie, it is nearly Il
90 same as in Connecticut; the apple tire
ne ne are loaded. "Golden sweets sell
LII dealers for 81 barrel, and purchase
are scarce, even at that rate. MAJ
farmers are feeding them out to tn,
an stock. In Maine it is the same. A lar
nd dealer refused, last week, to take Rho
ng Island greenings, deliverable in Octob
Ike at any price above 81 barrel 1t il