The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-24
GENERAL ITEMS.

COTTAGES by the sea are going up in all
the New England towns that pretend to
| be summer resorts.
THEY have girl at Searsport, Maine,
thirteen years old, who weighs 220 pounds,
and is growing nicely.
LITTLE ebony barrels, with gold hoops |
and silver hunting horns, are the latest in
chatelaine vnaigrettes.
LIGHT brown is very fashionable color
Just now among the Partisan ladies,
especially for outdoor costumes.
In Buffalo, New York, the newspaper
owners run to fast horses, and seeing
which office can do the best job work.
"OLD Probabilities" is descendant of
a Connecticut family. Probably that S
what makes him so good on a guess.
A BosroNIAN asked few friends around
to strawberry supper the other night.
About twenty went, and there was one
strawberry.
from Burnham, Maine, to the asylum at
Augusta, who was rendered insane from
impure vaccine matter.
Boston editors care very little for dress
and wear paper collars, but their ambition
is to own the finest library and have eggs
very morning for breakfast.
AN aged couple in Delaware celebrated
their diamond wedding, recently, receiv-
ing diamond Tennysons, ,Longfellows, etc,
in token of their friends KIM remem-
brance.
A MAINE girl lost one of her earrings
on the road in recent snow storm, and
day or two after neighbor's horse picked
it up, and it was found in a SNOWFALL
knocked from his hoof.
GooD society seems to be waking up to
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bellies have recently been sent to Covent-
ry for bad behavior in the way of flirting
with other girls intended
The Vanderbilt University" accord
ing to the Nashville Union, is to be the
name of the Methodist university soon to
be organized In Tennessee upon the fund
of $500, 900 donated by Commodore Van
= derbilt.
IHr two TitusyillO, To-, editors live in
hopes that lightning will strike the other
office, and thus give their own a lift.
Their chief employment consists in rela-
ting confidentially how hard up the 9TH
er paper" is.
A REMARKABLE collection of china and
; pottery, illustrating the history of the va
rious kinds of work in ceramics carried on
; in England with so much success more
: than hundred years ago has just been
sold in London.
SINCE the breaking of Fosters neck the
= opponents of capital punishment have
come ell masse TO the front, showing up
> dead Caesars wounds to excite the pity
and disgust of the populace for such bar
, barous cruelty.
IT was Hartford swell who attempting
e to cross the Connecticut river, recently,
/. broke through the ice, and when rope
was thrown to him, requested those who
), were trying to save his life to be careful
n not to tear his coat.
It HATS of 'cereal disposition" made OF
t coarse straw and bedecked with ears OF
e wheat and other agricultural emblems
are already displayed by the wholesale
r dealers, foreshadowing that rural sim
:, plicity is going to be fashionable the com
r ing summer.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew
:, in Middletown, Conn., the other evening
r complained that one of the oysters WAT
y full of bones, and careful, if not attractive
y examination showed that it contained for
q ty-ive pearls, varying in size from pei
to pins head.
A WEsTFIELD Mass whip makers wifi
u appeared in person at one of the shops, re
s. Gently, to explain his absence, saying
- ''Jin is not well; you must excuse him
~ he and l had little difficulty at tn
i breakfast-table this morning, and he won
ie be able to work this week."
m A NEW style of rouge has made its ap
Is pearance. 1t consists of tablet of wha
s. looks like green tinsel, which, when rub
n bed with a damp cloth gives red pig
nj ment, which seems very natural whel
d. transferred to the cheek of metropolita
D. beauty. 1t is Chinese invention.
to The title of the new hair-dressing
horrible in its associations. "a la gui
ut lotine," it is called, because the hair {
ne the female victims of the French revolt
IL ton was arranged on the very top of tn
head, as initiated in the present fashion
l, in order that it might be cut of the wa
IF; of the knife Of the guillotine.
" Mr.. WHIPPLE says women, to the en-
of time, will never be tired of gazing o
to those insipidly handsome faces, and tho'
'e- perfectly but impossibly fitting garment
er which gladden. their eyes when they loo
at plates of the fashions. Mr.. Whipp
n stands a good show of being snatche
g, bald-headed by uttering such sentimen
hu as these.
T INSTEAD of regarding the letter of Il
- law they are going to make the law
=, gard a letter or rather two letters
;SS Baltimore. In that city there is man
i'' the name of Green indicted for embezzlin
,u but upon this little error he is likely
~ ''get Of" The indictment should char
on ~, him with having "fraudulently embe
on zled,n but because the two letters "ul
81 sS, were omit ed, and the word left to re
l1n or 'fraudently," the Indictment has be
'p- quashed because there is no such word
or the English language, and MIR. Gre
;Ia profits by the mistake.
but SOME time ago New Hampshire far
bu er discovered large toad near his b.
e a hive, actively at work catching. and
md youring bees. With that wonderful f
bearance and kindness of heart charact
the istic of New Hampshire farmers,
18th tenderly picked up that frog and carr
lse. him a half mile away from the hive. I
en-, next morning that identical frog v
red back again at the old stand, actively
as work as before. He again took him
carried him long mile away, and drop
tes- him. But in twenty-four hours he '
on, back again, reducing the number of
kes as successfully as ever.