The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
NO. 40.
Items of Interest.

A Dubuque COW hooked a. 81, 900 horse
to death.
Over 100 ladies are studying law in
the United States.
The most unpopular fellow about is
General Shrinkage.
A platform philosopher says that a
man falls in love as he falls down stairs
by accident.
A Texas farmer turns his cattle out to
! pasture in an enclosure one hundred
and fifty miles long and fifty miles wide.
A woman who once refused to marry
President Buchanan now lives in a
story-and-a. half house at Moulton,
Iowa, with her husband and lots of
children.
Admiral Porter says that the United
States torpedo fleet in the event of war
with Spain will alone be able to demol-
ish all the iron-clads that that nation
can send across the Atlantic.
A goose few against telegraph wire
at Hecksverville, Schuylkill county,
with such momentum as to sever the
fowls head from its body as neatly as
it could have been done with an axe.
No woman, however nervous she may
be, has q right to wake her husband
from a sound sleep only to tell him on
his inquiring what is the matter,
Nothing, only I wanted to know if
you were awake"
A Kansas pastor has wisely declined
an additian of $10C to his salary, on the
ground that the hardest part of his
labor heretofore has been the collection
of his salary, and it would kill him to
undertake to collect 800 more !
Four counties in Iowa have elected
women for county school superintend-
ents. The man who ran against Abby
Clifford for that office, and received
eight votes to her two thousand, con-
cludes that this is an off year in politics
and that there is apathy.
A professor, in explaining to class
of young ladies the theory according to
which the body is entirely renewed
every seven years, said: "Thus Miss
B., in seven years you will in reality be
shan't," demurely responded the girl,
casting down her eyes.
American corn is now largely used in
the manufacture of alcohol in Germany
and Italy, the export to ports connect
ing with Germany during the last five
months having reached 800, 900 bushels,
and within few weeks about 1905
bushels have been sent direct to Naples
and 10000 bushels to Leghorn.
Is it not about time that good many
gentlemen began to think seriously of
going to work and doing something
! For we can't all be merchants and bank
ers and brokers and dealers in real es-
tate. There's q good deal of square
work to be done about a country, and
A substitute tor du1nlfe mas Deen
discovered in the echises plant, which
grows abundantly in the Philippine
Islands. 1t is said to be remedy for
all kinds of fever, that the use of it in
wolves none of the unpleasant after eff
fects of quinine, and that it can be pre-
pared at one-half the cost Of the latter
drug.
Most American travellers throw away
much of their reading matter at their
journeys end. But in England at each
station can be found box fastened up,
very similar to our letter boxes, but
sometimes larger, into which the trav-
eler puts his papers, books, &c. Those
are in turn collected by men who carry
them to the hospitals, homes for old
men and women, and similar institu-
tions, where they are gladly received.
A certain lawyer had his portrait
taken in his favorite misunderstanding
with one hand in his pocket. His
friends and clients all went to see it,
and everyday exclaimed, "Oh, how
like it it's the very picture of him y
An old farmer only dissented-" 'Tain't
like" Exclaimed everybody, "Just
show us where it amt like" "'Tain't
, no, faint p responded the farmer.
"Don't you see he has got his hand in
his own pocket; 'twould be as like
/ again if he had it in somebody else's."
A celebrated doctor - celebrated
almost as much for his love of good
, living as for his professional skill
called upon an eccentric nobleman
; whom he found sitting alone at very
nice dinner. After some time, the doc
tor, receiving no invitation to partaks
:. of it, said, " My dear lord, if were il
your lordships place, 1 should say
Pray, doctor, do as am doingH" 81
e thousand pardons for the omission,
{: replied his lordship. "Pray, then, m.
!, dear doctor, do as am doing-go hom,
: and eat your own dinner !"
!; The rumor that Captain Hall wa
}, poisoned has not yet been finally pu
: at rest. Mrs. Hall is understood t.
I, fully believe that her husband wa
= murdered, and she has made an appli
v cation to the Government to send a
/, expedition to recover his body, with
/, view to having post mortem examina
(; ton made. 1t is unfortunate that tn
), Tigress or the Juniata did not complet
: their work by recovering the body d
is the unfortunate explorer, since Il
mystery of his death can only be sati
|: factorily solved by the course now pr
s. posed by Mrs. Hall.
Victims of the Plague.