The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-18
Items of Interest.

Rents have fallen 80 per cent in Chi
cago.
Twenty-Five miners were killed by an
explosion in colliery at Wlgan, Eng
dies. A muff and boa alone cost as high
as $500.
A Doniphan County, Kansas, preach
er thrashed three fellows who were dis
turbing the services, and the congrega-
ton increased his salary fifty dollars
per year.
By vote of 209 to 81 the printers of
Chicago have reduced the price of COM
position ten per cent, and also aban-
doned the claim for extra compensation
for holiday work.
What was intended for a mock mar
riage at Fond du Lac evening party
has been found to be legal one, and
the funny pair are having a heap of
trouble about it.
The expense of running railroads in
Italy is enormous. Every ton of coal
is bought in England, costing SO
(gold) per ton, and transported at an
enormous cost to Italy.
The editor of Minnesota paper has
buffalo robe which was once the prop
erty of the Sioux chief Son of the Sun,
whereupon are pictured all his battles,
scalps, and other trophies. He uses it
as a means to frighten delinquent sub
scribers.
A man with pistol bullet in his left
side, an inch above his heart, six.inch
cut on his head, and a fractured leg,
called at a Bangor doctors Office to get
fixed up, the other morning. He said
they had been having some fun "over
the way" but he refused to tell where.
The Chicago Tribune has been care
fully examining the hotel system in that
city, and declares that the extravaganza
and waste are outrageous. Every first
class hotel employs at least one servant
for each boarder. One hotel costing
$780, 900 made in ten years $500,000
profits.
Conversation IN the horse car: First
Young Lady-Father says that we girls
must be economical, for the panic has
struck him. What does your father
say? Second Young Lady-Oh, he
don't say much you know pa is so
slow that / don't believe he'll hear the
panic is in town till it has most gone
away.
The Society of Shakers at Shirley,
Me-, number about eighty one-third
are males, and two-thirds are females.
The society was organized in 1870, and
now owns 1000 acres of timber, pas
ture, and tillage land. Ten thousand
firkins of apple sauce have been put up
by them this year, besides several
thousand cans of fruit.
An unfavorable year should always
be profitable one for a good farmer ;
then he is to make money, if ever. In
favorable years crops are abundant and
prices are low. With rich, deep-plowed
land, drouth need not be feared, and
average crops can be grown, which will
bring two prices. 1t is the good farm
er only who ever makes money.
The question whether man can talk
or not after his tongue has been cut
out, has been recently decided in the
affirmative. The Lancet describes 9
case to the point, occurring in the
Royal Free Hospital in London. In
order to remove an ulcer, the patients
tongue was wholly cut out, leaving the
floor of the mouth entire. Within {
week he was heard to say distinctly
81 should like some more beef tea."
The libel suit brought by William
Murphy to recover $25, 900 from the
publishers of the Cincinnati Enquire,
was decided in favor of the defendant
by default, the plaintiff not appearing
whereupon the Enquirer remarks
"We have no objection to libel suits
but when a man asks for damages h,
ought not to expect us to get out
search-warrant for him on the day o
trial. This thing is getting entirely to,
common"