The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-09
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new process from the national thistle.
Since last August twenty men have
been buried at Newton, Kansas, every
one of whom died with his boots on"
1t makes a modest man open his eyes
to read of a New York broker deposit
ing four or five millions of dollars to his
credit on spring morning.
The young folks of Raleigh have a
nice way of eating philopenas.. Tho
girls hold the almonds between their
teeth and the young gentlemen bite
them off.
"Is there any article in common use
in the country so dangerous as kero-
sene lamp Z" Answers to this coIlun-
drum to be sent to the Office of the Bos-
ton Globe.
Persons who have recently travelled
through Russia say that that country
resembles more vast camp than ma
ton on peace footing. Soldiers abound
in all directions, and the greatest mill
tary activity prevails.
The crack compositor of South Bend,
Ind, is one Mrs. Augusta Miller. She
learned to set type in her fathers Office
at the tender age of thirteen, and not
long ago proof of hers of 5000 ems had
but two typographical errors.
A Boston girl being asked if she had
not once been engaged to party by
the name of Jackson" who was at the
time Harvard student, languidly re-
piled: "I remember the circumstance
perfectly, but 1 am not certain about
the name"
The people of small towns in Iowa
seem to be very remarkable naturalists.
In one of these short time ago four or
five ribs were dug up belonging to a
man, or calf perhaps, that was buried
twenty-five years ago. Immediately
the county coroner sat on these ribs, re-
! CONSTRUCTED the entire specimen, and
made Il diagnosis of his final sickness,
arriving at the sage conclusion: "Name
unknown, but supposed to have died of
bilious fever" Agassiz could not have
done better.
There is story that the Princess
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte advertises to
supply millinery in the latest style to
the nobility and gentry of London.
Whether the lady with this imposing
title has gone into the bonnet and rib
bon business to supply the vulgar wants
| VI WILD Coi DOiCul cAlSbCliCS, VI llOlh tiC
vocation and desire to raise it to the
level of her own dignity, we are not
told; but in either case we hope she will
succeed just in proportion as she furnish
es good merchandise at fair prices.
In indianapolis they have a wonder.
A little orphan child, sent West by the
Children's Aid Society, and adopted i'll
that hoosier capital, gets up in her sleep
and plays the piano most beautifully,
though in her walking moments she
"knows no touch of it," At these times
she is possessed by the evil spirit of her
mother, who was French music teach
er, and died of starvation in New York.
The child is slowly but surely fading
under the influence of her midnight
music lessons, and will soon be with her
mother.
An affecting incident-reported by
the Racine ,JournaL. "The other day II
father and son were dressing hog,
the father doing the chopping. By
misstroke, instead of splitting the hog
open, he split his sons hand. In expla-
nation Of how it happened to the doc
tor, the father exclaimed: 1 cannot tell
a lie, doctor, indeed 1 cannot. did it
with my little hatchet' The son was
deeply moved, and was heard to remark
that he had rather have such father
than whole slaughter house full of
dead hogs"
The management of the Pacific Rail
road appear to have geat deal OF
difficulty in comprehending the mean
ing OF the word terminus. They have
hardly yet arrived at clear understand
ing as to whether their eastern termi-
nus is in Council Bluffs or in Omaha. And
now they are in difficulty about their
western terminus. The act of 1862 re-
quired the Pacific road to establish its
western terminus at San Francisco
The Western Pacific road, the last of
the series which constitute the Pacific
line, and the Central Pacific sought and
obtained subsidies to the amount OF
$650000 from the city of San Francisco
under this condition. Now the mana
gers of the road say that ferry landing
in San Francisco, five miles from the
end of the road, constitutes terminus
but the San Francisco people are un-
able to view the matter in that light.
They say that the cars of the Central
and Southern Pacific railroads should
enter the city by bridge, by the most
direct route not likely to iujure the har-
Dor, and that Congress should require
them to do this in fulillment Of their
obligations.
A distinguished oculist says, i'll refer
ence to the habit of reading in the cars,
the constant motion and oscillations OF
the car render it impossible to hold the
book in one position-its distance from
the eye is constantly varying, and no
matter how slight this variation may be,
it is instantly compensated for by the
eye, thus keeping the organ constantly
employed accommodating itself to dis
tance. This becomes fatiguing-the
eyes have a sort of weary, heavy feelisg,
and, if the reading is persisted in, soon
become bloodshot and painful. We have
often observed young misses, intently
engaged in the perusal of some ro-
nance, while upon a rapidly-moving
railway train, who have only been able
to finish their story with perceptible
discomfort. We have noticed them rub
bing their eyes, shifting their positions,
and holding their book at various dis
tances from the eye, making the great
est effort to see with eyes that have al
ready been fatigued beyond endurance.
Such practices lead to serious injury to
the eyes, and it is not unfrequently the
case that the oculist is called upon to