The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-06-26
GENERAL NOTES.

The pleasure seekers complain OF a
backward season,
North Carolina papers complain Of a
scarcity of hands to work their crops.
A complete set of Burglars tools
cost about $1,000.
A Detroit girl was found dead, kneel-
ing at her bedside, in the attitude of
prayer.
A vile il Sigourney, Iowa, who was
sold for an old gun and small sum in
cash, is seeking for divorce.
Out of 6S3 children received into a
foundlings hospital in Mon treal, last
year, 642 died.
The city of Wilmington, Delaware,
has just paid $50, 900 for land for free
public park.
The first half of this year will show
100000 foreign emmigrants arrived at
New York.
BY the abolition of the common
schools of Texas, over 127 600 children
are turned out to attend dog fights.
The City Council of Boston has ap-
propriated three thousand dollars tor
open air concerts.
The Boston brick market is over
stocked, though they have had two fires,
and have got prohibitory liquor la@.
The Shah of Persia has sent his
wives home. They clamored to go to
balls and theatres like European ladies.
The cornerstone of Bunker Hill
monument was laid forty eight years ago,
and Lafayette assisted Oh the occasion.
Thirty book agents called on St.
Louis merchant IN one afternoon, and
he met the last one with a smile aud
\ kind word,
A large vein of sulphite of lime, the
gypsum Of commerce, and valuable as a
fertilizer, has been discovered near Lin
colnton, N. G.
1t is stated that there are twenty
seven steamers in China waters waiting
to bring Chinese to the number Of 30
600 to California.
Farmers are beginning to harvest
crops in Santa Barbara and Ventura
counties, CAL, and report the yield to be
fully up to the average.
Stokes, they say, has already CON-
menced writing his lecture, and hopes he
will be able to make engagements for
next season.
A widow in Maine has lately worked
out her tax on the highway, and the
surveyor said she did her work better
than any man in the town.
A Peoria, Ill.,, man has nice looking
library, made up entirely of patent Office
reports, with the backs neatly labelled
with the names Of the great authors and
their works
An Indiana lady recently gave a
brilliant party in honor of the success
of her application for divorce. The
guests at leaving wished her many
happy returns of the occasion.
A steam wagon is to be built very
soon TO run on the turnpike between
Nashville and Pulaski, Tenn. 1t will
weigh about three thousand pounds, and
be able to carry ten thousand pounds, or
fifty or sixty passengers with ease
An exquisite lady inquired at dry
goods store in Lewistswn, Maine, for a
piece of goods of the "slumbering
shade." The clerk replied that he had
none in the store, but he believed there
were severa. pieces snoring at the depot
The wood Of some tools will last linger
than the meta! as in spades hoes and
plows. In other tools the wood is first
gone, as in wagons, wheelbarrows, and
machines. Such wood should be painted
or oiled; the paint only looks well and
petroleum oil is as good as any Other
kind.
John Franklin, a farmer of New
York, deliberately threw valuable
plowshare into the river on account OF
his wife's incessant scolding, Mr.
Franklin, it might be we'll to add, was
attached to the weight by rope; con
sequently Mrs. F. has lost a husband, a
plowshare, and three feet of good rope
just through a chronic propensity tc
wag her tongue.