The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-10
NO. 10.
Items of Interest.

What is the difference between jailor
and ieweler ?-One watches cells, and
the other sells watches.
Capt. Jack has confessed to Shack
Nasty Jim that he is the real author OF
"Betsey and I Are Out"
A sanitary commission recently ap-
pointed to inquire into an extraordinary
outbreak of typhoid fever in London
traced every case to the use OF impure
water.
The latest compiled returns of the
wheat crop of California show an esti-
mated yield of over 100000 centals.
The surplus for export will doubtless
be fully as large as that of last year.
During 1872, the Lake Chanplain
iron mines yielded 375, 900 tons of ore;
81. .474 tons were extracted from the
Missouri iron mountain, and over one
million tons were mined in the Lake
Superior iron region.
Somebody, we suppose, must bear
the brunt and be saddled with the re-
sponsibility of the great Boston fires;
and it seems natural enough that it
should be Mr.. Damrell, the Chief Engi-
neer. A petition for his removal on
the ground of incompetency, is in cir
culation.
Some of our beautiful "Indian" names
are not so romantic as they are suppos-
ed to be. Kearsarge Mountain, in New
Hampshire for instance, received its
name from an old farmer, named Heze-
kiah or Kiah Sergeant, who used to
dwell at its foot. Its Indian name was
Cowissewaschook.
81 say, old boy, cried Paul Pry to an
excavator whom he espied at the bot
tom of a yawning gulf, "what are you
digging there ?" "a big hole, )" the old
boy replied. Paul was not to be put
off in this fashion. "What are you
going to do with the hole?" he asked.
"Going to cut it up into small holes,
reioined the old boy, "and retail them
to farmers for gate-posts."
1t is estimated that the number of
miles of railroad in operation in the
United States is $1,000; that the cost of
$4,000 per mile, was 50, 400, ,000,0 900;
that the gross earnings last year were
1868, I'll $50; and that the gross value
of the tonnage exceeded S15, 900, ,0OO, 600.
These means of transportation are the
| SIOWun VI -uWo IcdlS, loi III iOoo
the first railroad track was laid.
"Lame p sighed Mrs. Partington.
"Here I have been srfferin the biga-
mics of death for three mortal weeks.
First was seized with a bleedin' phre-
nology in the hampshire of the brain,
which was exceeded by the stoppage of
the left ventilator of the heart. This
gave me inflammation of the left borax,
and now am sick with the chloroform
morbus. There is no blessin' like that
of health, particularly when you're i'll. ;
A common crime in London is to en-
tice away children, strip them of their
clothing, and then leave them naked in
the street. Twelve such cases were re-
Gently heard before one magistrate. In
one of them a mother who had hunted
frantically through the streets for her
child, was so fortunate as to encounter
him, at eleven o'clock at night, in the
hands of woman who was dragging
him towards Westminster Bridge, ex-
hausted and stripped of nearly all his
clothing. The persevering mother res
cued her child and arrested his alb
ductOr.
According to Burleigh," the way in
winch LII. OtOrrS, Oh DrOOklyH, cOIn-
menced to preach extemporaneously,
was this: His congregation, though small,
was respectable and wealthy. He found
, new men coming to Brooklyn and draw
ing large congregations, and he said
that something must be the matter with
} himself if he could not draw. He re-
solved on new departure. He laid off
| his gown, left his notes on his study
l table, and went at it. The experiment
= more than met his expectations, and he
l is now one of the most effective preach
ers in the country.
Freemasonry has gained a somewhat
, notable success in Brazil, where the
l government has warmly espoused the
3 order in its conflict with the priests
e and clerical party of the country. The
t Premier gives assurance that the Ma
, sons will be hereafter relieved of religi-
e GUS persecution. South America, the
i least enlightened quarter of the civil
lied world, has for many years been the
!, only place where an open contest has
e been waged with the Masonic order,
n and it is probable that the clerics have
: begun to see the futility of any further
S warfare of that kind.