The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-16
Items of Interest.

A warehouse wall fell in Cincinnati,
niuring two men.
Two.thirds of the town of Fair Play,
Col, was destroyed by fire.
Michigan rustic rowdies amuse them
selves by skinning sheep alive.
An angry man is again angry with
himself when he returns to reason.
Fillmore and johnson are the only
ex-Presidents Of the United States that
survive.
Better be despised for too anxious
apprehension than ruined by too con-
fident security. ,...
Prof. Fonester, of Berlin, announces
the discovery of new planet OF the
tenth magnitude.
The Postmaster of Pittsburgh, Pa, is
charged with having made away with
over $33, 900 of the funds of the office.
Denver dispatches give forid re-
port of the riches of the territory lately
acquired from the Utes by the United
States.
A poor man. who was i'll, being asked
by gentleman whether he had taken
any remedy, replied, "No, I amt taken
any remedy, but I've taken lots OF
physic."
A little girl was asked what was the
meaning of the word happy. She gave
pretty answer, saying, 1t IS to feel
as if you wanted to give all your things
to your little sister"
Just before the bombardment of
Alicante began the German commander
offered to prevent fight taking place,
but the English and French command
ers would not interfere.
Money, which had been active during
| the second panic week, on best collat-
erals, ranging from one-half to two per
cent. per day, closed Saturday night at
seven per cent per annum.
Ladies' are gradually discarding one
by one the little trinl1ets and cheap
knicknacks worn on promenade depend"
! ing from the waist belt. The umbrella
and fan are about all they can manage
A movement is on foot to raise 91 200
| at Halifax, n. S., to send George Brown
to Europe to row match with Sadler
| for the championship of the world. The
race is to take place at the Cove OF
| Cork.
A woman and two children attempted
to lump on board the steamer Illinois
as she was backing out at Columbus,
Kv, They fell into the river and were
| drowned. Their names could not be
ascertained.
One of the Salt Lake Gentle papers
ridicules the idea that George Q. Can
non will consent to give mp his numer-
Gus wives for the sake of securing ad-
mission to a seat in Congess as the
Delegate from Utah.
Over 100000 bushels of wheat is
stored in Milwaukee, awaiting shipment
to the East. The receipts of wheat at
this city since January ], 1873, are
/, 1866, $50, against 1890, 134 bushels for
the corresponding time in 1872.
At juvenile party, one little fellow,
rejoicing in the splendor OF his new
clothes, went up to another with the
triumphant remark: "YOu amt dressed
as nice as I am." "Well, retorted the
other, 81 can lick you, anyhow" :"
During that awful year, 1904, not less
than twenty-five Spanish cities and
towns, with an aggregate population OF
427, 1928, were attacked by yellow fever,
which destroyed 80, 2,559. Other ac-
counts raise this mortality to 124,2O0.
A boy who maliciously scattered cay"
enne pepper through a crowded hall III
Janesville. Wis, setting two thousand
people into spasms of lrrepresslble
sneezing, was fined fourteen hundred
dollars and sent to Jail for four months
A novel application of ice was made at
st. Louis the other day, when forty-five
tons were used to cool and thus contract
! the iron tubes of the mammoth suspen-
, sion bridge across the Mississippi, to
allow the insertion of the connecting
= tubes.
I The fatal throat disease, first heard
9 of in Pennsylvania, has made It's ap~
g pearance in a number of New YORK VII
S lagos. 1t is almost exclusively con
: fined to small children, and battles the
4 skill of the physicians, many deaths
S occurring.
t A whaler has arrived at New Bedford
= from the Arctic regions, with some
!, relics of Sir John Franklin, consisting
: of forks, spoons, &C., bearing the coat
n of arms of the Franklin family. They
: were obtained from Esquimaux who
: had come from near the spot where
a Franklin's vessels were abandoned IL
Il 1913.
-Mahmud, the late Emperor o.
, Morocco, has been succeeded by his
+ younger brother, Abbas-Muley. The
1 present sovereign is of the family name
;, of Cherif- -Fileli. This family was es
tablished on the Moorish throne 22i
years ago, and its representatives hav'
reigned in unbroken succession from
p that date to the present time.
W Mr.. Methusaleh during his long lif
n was without doubt the recipient o
3 many honors, and since his death no
2. few have been done to his memory
'e But the greatest has been reserved t.
!: the last. He will be in future princi
l. pally known in connection with brant
d of cigars, every box of which will b
% ornamented with a correct likeness o
S, the old gentleman.
ID Who can read without emotion tn
D. story of two little girls in Green Bay
l. Wis. The eldest was seven years {
le age, the youngest only five. A drunk
RS en- father left them alone in their rooI
IN for six days with only small loaf {
er bread for food. When the childre
N were found the elder sister was nearl
" dead, having refused to eat of the brea
D. so that her little sister might not suffe
le A letter from the Gold Coast tells {
w fresh misfortunes for the English. I'll
s. whole coast west of Elmina has r,
y volted, and all the tribes have joine
l. Al L