The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-28
GENERAL NOTES


better than an umbrella.
The softer the head the harder the
work of driving anything into it.
A womans love for military officer
is generally uniform.
They have managed to squeeze 420
school districts into Rhode Island.
When is an umbrella like a person
couvalesoent When it is recovered.
The Persian monarch's smile must be
sad one as it is simply Shah grin.
What nation is most likely to succeed
in difficult enterprise? Determination.
1t is said that the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
Diggers.
Boys on land often play at the game
of pitch-and-toss. When on sea still
oftener,
A Detroit servant girl was recently at
tacted by rats in cellar, and it re-
9uired the efforts of several persons to
drive off the vermin.
Edmund d. Scudder, of Trenton, N {.
j., recently died fir m congestion Of the
brain, brought on by oyerheating him
self at game of base ball.
A bed of peculiar clay is said to have
been discovered in Jefferson county,
Nebraska, from which bricks are made
of a blush 4inge, and of great hardness.
A man in Colorado has shipped hun
dred prairie dogs east. with the intention,
it is thought, Of raising the animals for
the market.
The cradle which Abraham Lincoln
rocked in can be seen in thirteen differ
ent places in Illinois. They must have
rocked him by sections.
The three oldest citizens of Phiadel-
phia are Coddington Cheseboro, ninety
four; Horace Binney, ninety. three; and
Ambrose White, ninety-thi ee.
Another new order has been organ
lied in Pennsylvania; and is called the
'Knights of the Golden Eagle" Its
members are business men, merchants,
manufacturers, professional men and
clerks
The question of taxing church prop
erty is now widely discussed, Ohio
loses $4,000 in taxes yearly, because
S25, ,554,725 of church property is ex-
empt from taxation.
A lunatic in Erie offers to Jump from
the top of the highest elevator in that
city for twenty-five dollars. BY all
means raise the amount; it will prove
the cheapest way of getting rid OF him.
The Supreme Court of New Hamp-
shire has just decided at Concord that
railroad companies have no right to
grant to any party Or parties exclusive
privelage to carry express matter over
their lines.
The new Masonic Temple in Philadel-
phia is almost finished. The deGicatory
ceremonies will begin on the 25th of
September and continue three days 1t
is estimated that over 100, 900 members
of the mystic tie will be present and as
sist in the c,rJmonies.
! 1t is noticeable that in the United
States in 1870 there were ,345 deaths
by suicide, while there were only POP By
lightning in other words an individual
i, six times as likely to kill himself as
lightning is to kill him.-[ Hartford
Courant.
A Lager Beer Protective Association
has been formed in Syracuse. Accord
ing to the rules, the members of the as
sociation are to assist only those dealers
who sell beer on Sunday. All those who
deal in other liquors on that day are cen
sured by the association.
While Troy man was in beer sa-
loon, the other day, speaking to the
toast, "NVomau, God bless her" his wife
waltzed in and led him out by the ear,
and he now says that on the occasion of
another festive meeting he will have
that toast changed to woman something
else-to which improved sentiment he
will respond with an eloquence that will
cast a cloud upon the fame of Daniel
Webster.
The War Department promul gates in
general orders the findings and sentences
in the case of the Modoc captives, Cap
tain Jack, Schonshin, Black Jim, Boston
Charley, Barncho, alias One-eyed jim
and Sloluck, alias Cox, who were tried
by military commission for the murder ol
General Candy and Commissioner
Thomas, and assault with intent to kill
other peace commissioners. They arc
found guilty of the specifications and
charges, and sentenced to be hanged
The proceedings have been approved by
the President and Secretary OF War, and
the sentence will be carried into effect
at Fort klamath, Oregon, on the Sd of
October, under the direction of the Gen
eral commanding the department of
Columbia.
Overproduction, n ew wells, the exten,
sion of the oil fields, and variety OF
other reasons, have united in prod ucing
an unusual depression in the oil business,
the price now being but Sl,25 per bar
rel. Last year the average daily produc.
tion was $4,000 barrels, but the esti,
mates for it at this time are $4,000 to
10000 barrels. Some of the wells re.
Gently opened in Butler county are said
to produce 600 barrels day, The de-
preston in price, compared with the cost
of boring wells, raises an interesting in =
quiry. A we'll lasts from five to six
months, and the cost of boring it is from