The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

King Oscar of Sweden is said to be
the tallest monarch in the world.
A house full of daughtersGs cellar
full of sour beer.-Dutch Pro,ef5s.
Sixty sailors have been drowned in
Lake Erie the past season.
The feast of imagination--having no
dinner, but reading cookery-book.
The Grecian ladies counted their age
from their marriage, not their birth.
I prefer an erroneous honest man to
the most orthodox knave.-[ Leighton.
Railroads have three gauges-a broad
gauge, narrow gauge, and generally
mortgage.
December, the twelfth month of our
year, receives its name from the Latin
decem-10.
A bwz-saw Jumped out of an low
mill, recently, and ran half mile with
out stopping.
Anna Dickinson wants peace. Then
why don't she-but what's the use Of
arguing with womanY
Beecher says that more lies have been
told about i'm every year of his public
life than would shingle a cathedral.
A large fire has occurred at Auckland,
New Zealand, destroying buildings and
other property to the amount of $780,
600.
A dog with two tails was seen in Taun-
ton the ether day. One belonged to an
OK, and was carried in the mouth of the
canine.
Portsmouth, N. H., il making prepar-
a4, oh 30, .ta OSnth
July 4th, 1873, by grand reunion Of
citizens.
A pin carelessly dropped in loom by
a female operative, spoiled seven hun
dred yards of cloth in one of the mills at
Lawrence
A drove of hogs scared Providence
gentleman's horse the other day, and
damaged things thereby one thousand
dollars worth.
Mistress-"I did MT ring, Mary"
Mary-"I know that, Mum; but as I
was moping in the kitchen, thought I'd
come and sit bit with you"
The English Secretary of War has con-
cluded to let the soldiers play cards in
their recreation rooms, and see if it won't
keep them out of the grog shops.
An energetic German woman who
came to Detroit couple of years since
has earned enough to buy place and
bring out her husband and children.
Church weddings have lately come to
be such occasions of vulgar display in
New York that the best people have
dropped them altogether, and get mar
ried at home.
TG "a aRtfnay4J that n SolaI oe ,o-ro,,
million bales of cotton. valued at four
hundred million dollars in gold, is now
consumed every year in Europe and the
United States.
A fellow in Canada, who was too poor
to afford q regular swell hang tied q
handkerchief around his neck, thrust a
stick through it, and twisted himself into
the hereafter.
A Western paper notes that "in
Northwestern Kansas there are four men
to one woman" In New England fac
tories there are often foremen to one
hundred women.
A Chinese star actress is experiencing
the vicissitudes of an American lawsuit
because she broke her engagement with
one manager on account OF better prom
ises from another.
The Mansard-roof has received many
pet names of late: fatal gift" tinder-
box Z" "top-lofty fire-trap," fatal, fasci-
mating invention" and treacherous de-
vice " are some of these.
A stranger travelling through Indiana
is struck by the large number of tomb
stones bearing the inscription, "Sacred
to the memory OF -, born -,
pulled gun out of a wagon -"
| According to statement made by the
Paris Faculty of Physicians, the blood of
the enc hundred thousand men killed
| by the Franco-Prussian war would have
yielded iron enough for nearly thou
sand gun-barrels.
The newspapers of the country are
urged to warn advertisers that postmast-
ers are forbidden by law to deliver let
ters addressed to initials or fictitious
names, unless sent to the care of some
responsible person.
A marriage which makes great sem
sation, says the Paris Journal, is that of
the lady who was Princess de la Mosko-
wa, by her father, and Duchess de Per-
signy by her husband. In few days
she will only be the wife of simple ad-
vocate.
Henry Smith and George Drew, who
were engaged together in chopping wood
in Johnston, r. I were found dead. The
indications are that both were crusheo
by large rock under which they had
built fire, and which parted and fell
over them.
The Old South Church of Boston is
one of the cherished relics of that city.
The mural tables upon its walls read:
CHURCH GATHERED, 1869.
FIRST HOUSE BUILT, 1870.
THIS HOUSE ERECTED, 1923.
DESIGNATED BY BRITISH TROOPS, l775.
Some of the river counties in Iowa,
where timber is scarce, have large
number of homesteaders who live in sod
houses, and burn the rank river bottom
grass for fuel. They twist it, when dry,
into ropes Thus prepared, it gives out
an intense heat, and has lasting quail
tiles.
We have more distinct bones in youth
than in old age, by reason of the con-
solidation of MANY into one nv the pro