The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-11
NO. 45.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Duluth is the most nopeiul place III
the country. 1t has now a population
of $500, but expects an increase of 49,
600 next year by immigration.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road Company divided $4,000 among its
employees in Christmas gifts. Its divi-
dends will never suffer abatement on ac-
count of this timely benefaction.
The best yet. A Michigan woman,
the wife of an invalid, and mother of
twenty-six children, picked cranberriea
enough last fall to pay off mortgage
on her farm.
Mr.. Porter, of Missouri, having COM
pleted a century without any prospect
of dissolution, has concluded to rub out
and begin over again. Accordingly his
gray hair is turning black and he is cut
ting third set OF teeth at the early age
of 101.
A new feature in the Woman's Rights
movement presents itself in Spain.
Heretofore the men of Spain have nearly
monopolized all the honor and glory at
tending the performances in the bull
ring, but now two young ladies, feeling
the wrongs of their sex and burning for
distinction, have entered the arena at
Madrid and have slain not less than
three roaring. wild and dangerous bulls.
What next in the way of progress?
We wish that every boy in the State
could read the following paragraph from
the Albany Journal: Forty boys, now
pupils in the Free Academy, earn their
own livelihood while they are pursuing
their studies. Some of them rise at four
o'clock in the morning to carry newspa-
pers. Others are employed on afternoon
papers and other vocations. The boys
possessed of such spirit and capable of
such effort will make their mark in the
world.
In Hartford recently case had been
before the court for several days, and
was finally given to the jury, who went
out to decide upon their verdict. After
| they had been out nearly half day,
unable to agree, and while they were
still comforting, the Etigants agreed up
on settlement and started for home.
The jury were informed and appeared
somewhat disgusted at the abrupt man
ner in which the matter had been taken
out of their hands, while the court and
counsel smiled audibly.
a lad named Minor, in Cincinnati,
has brought an action against his father
and mother, claiming $4,000 damages
for abuse and i'll treatment. He says he
was thrashed with an iron ram-rod and
with rubber whips; dragged about the
house and down two flights of stairs by
the hair; thrust into a closet, under Il
tank of hot water, and kept there for ten
hours, in such position that he was un-
able to stand up or sit down, and the
like. The parents have refused an otfer
to compromise the matter.
This is the description Of terrible in
f.nt which is said to bo in Fentress
County, Tenn. The prodigy is only
three years old, and weighs seventy
pounds firm flesh; has as much beard as
a twenty-year older; his feet are eight
inches long, though small for one of his
build-of course, he is fond of the society
of the girls, but the boys he detests. HIS
voice is coarse and his fits of passion are
terrific. He expects to marry next year,
and go to Congress the year after, with
the Presidency in the near prospective"
Some not uninteresting statistics in
regard to the members of the United
States Senate are found in the columns
of an exchange. From these it appears
that Senator Cameron is the Oldest SEN
ator, and Senator Spencer the youngest.
Eleven senators have been governors of
States; nine were born in New York,
ffty-two in New England, seven came
from the British Isles and enc apiece
from Canada and Prussia. Of the pro-
fessions represented, the editorial has
eleven members. There are eight man
ufacturers, three doctors, two clergy
mon, one teacher and one general bust
ness"
The Southern railroad companies
which bought the railroad material and
rolling stock that the government found
itself in possession of at the close of the
war, are paying their debts, and, on the
whole doing very we'll. The value of
the property sold was $S,500,000. There
were fifty roads involved in the transac-
ton, and June 80, 1870, thirteen had
paid up all their indebtedness, amount
ing, principal and interest, to $2,3S0,000.
4 year later, on June /, 1871, over two
millions more had been paid, leaving
due at that time S4,724,350. Consider
ing the poverty of most of the compa-
is doing very we'll indeed.
An elderly gentleman was recently
confdenced" on a train running into
Keokuk by sharpers, who induced him
to buy draft (worthless) on Buffalo for
$l57.40, he paying them two 500 bills
and they paying him $42.60 as change.
The conductor on the train took the
first opportunity to quietly suggest to
the old gentleman that he was afraid
the draft was fraud. "Well,"
was the bland response of the
imperturbable greeny, "if it is any
bigger fraud than my two one hun
dred dollar notes were, then I am not
forty-three dollars ahead-which think
l am. am not in the habit of dealing
in counterfeit currency, but l always
keep a little of that sort of stuff about
me for the benefit of that sort of custo-
mers."
In Bristol, N. H., great public honors
are showered upon a young gentleman
whose only merit is that when he went
wooing, he sat with the object of his af-
fections, as many young gentlemen have
done before him, until three o'clock in
the morning. After tearing himself
from the lady, as he was walking home
he discovered a house on fire. Now
there hadn't been a house on fire in
Bristol before for a year and half. The
lover gave loud yell, the engine COM
pany was aroused, and the village saved