The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-11
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Items of Interest.

sylvania. -.' ~.
There are 10, 712 policemen in Lon
don, and they have to patrol 7,6l2 miles
of streets.
Chloroform will remove paint from
garment or elsewhere, when benzol or
bisulphide of carbon fails.
The iron trade in the United States
gives employment to 1877, ,545 operatives,
and the lumber trade to 163,397 opera
tives. - -
Pennsylvania tobacco, next to that
grown in Connecticut, is said to be the
best for smoking purposes raised III the
United States. ' r.' '.'
Caleb Gushing says that he believes .
his late affair about the yellow dog has
given him great eri notoriety than any
other act of his life.
Golden City, Colorado, is rejoicing
over q bar of black sand nine miles
long and one mile broad, which yields
5000 gold to the ton. .... ... ..t..
The hull of the British ship Confience,
the flagship in the battle of Lake Cham
plain. is being raised from the bottom
of that lake near Whitehall. ..
The Railway and Warehouse Com
missioners of Illinois have fixed the pas
senger tariff on first-class railroads III
that State at cents per mile. ,.,.|
Mr.. Colas attributes the blue color'of
the water of certain lakesTDake Ge.
neva, for instance-to the presence of
minutely- divided gelatinous. silica. The
blue color of the sky is credited to the
same cause. the particles of silica being
very freely divided, and Of gelatinous
nature. 3D.. . ~
Vermont is the banner state in its fl
nances. The debt of the State is only
$195, $40, and the treasury has almost a
quarter of a million dollars, and is cred
tied with large amount of uncollected
taxes. The current liabilities are about
$50. 900, and the government is econom-
ical. Last year $50, 800 of the debt was
paid.
In an editorial on the horse disease
the CongregatiOndIist suggested that 1t
might be we'll to sit at the, feet of
horse and learn humility. ''Just so,.
said the California NeaCS Letter, sit
down at the hind feet of a mule, and If
he don't hi1miliate you, pullhi tail and
tickle the inside of his leg with stable
fork" .t.t
In 1929 Wouter Won Twiller was the
old Dutch Governor of New York, and
under his administration there seems to
have been no use for regular jail or
prison other than the logfouse or Gala
boose. If the prisoners became tired OF
remaining long in one spot, they could
pick the jail up and remove to some
place more congenial.
Several frame buildings, once used as
government stables, and ropewalk ad-
Joining, near Louisville, KY, were fired
and nearly consumed. A colored man
named Willis, his wife, and four chill
dren, living in one of the houses, were
all burned to death, except Willis, who
is not expected to recover Two OF the
suspected incendiaries have been an
rested.
A poor widow in Cullen, KY, was
hoeing potatoes the other day when she
struck upon an old stone jar and, natu-
rally looking to see what was in it, she
found SIS, 600 in gold. She is plunged
into state of great distress by the dis
, covery; at one time she laments that the
sum is not $40, ZOO, and at another she
cries for fear that some claimant will
, appear.
A dog supposed to be mad was killed
, in Detroit, and the crowd had not dis
persed before the enraged owner ap-
peared. "Who killed my dog !" he
f yelled, trembling with passion. The
, crowd informed him under what circum-
v stances the animal had been killed,
. when the man exclaimed: Mad
e What set of darned fools Why
s that's licensed dog -
S A floating item informs us that Jeru
e sha BRYAN slew panther with a pine
h knot in Pennsylvania. She is not mar
o ried. "And she won't be, either, for al
5. us" says the st. Louis Journal. we
3, wouldn't go home intoxicated to such
n woman for all that could be otfered-no
y not for worlds Better would be din
: ner of herbs and stalled OK Herewith
e or something of the kind"
r; It was lately made subiectto boastint
q, by French gentleman to an American
to friend that the premium on gold II
e France did not reach a half of one pc
s, cent, when the American replied tina
III two or three Broad street men whom h
he could name could go to Paris and pu
rs gold up there to ITO in less than thre
c. weeks. Possibly" said the other
te "but we should put them in jail in les
s. than two weeks"
" A Louisville paper furnishes the TO
10 lowing "answer to correspondents
lg GA Youthful correspondent desires
OF know how we would like to sail wit
te Professor Wise on his balloon voyage
Europe. If you will go, my dear bo.
and climb the least of the many piles
twenty-dollar gold pieces that would b
Ie- required to hire us to undertake such
ty voyage, you will find that its summit
ar wrapped in perpetual snow"
M Precautions against cholera are vel
Is numerous at present. Taking all Il
~. advice given, we learn that if a ms
it ne subscribes and pays for his newspape
~ eats nothing, drinks no liquors, drin
m ~, no ice water, drinks no warm waite
on on drinks nothing else, wears fanne
elt bathes three times day, keeps b
'n 'n' backyard clean, pays his taxes. avoi
~ water, drinks brandy, eats ripe fru
RI ri wears nothing, does not smoke, and fl
jar lows such other methods of prevent
Ir- as his common-sense may dictate,
pe need have no fears of cholera.
I'd =. Miss Canda, to whose memory t
so beautiful monument in Greenwo
RE-. Cemetery was erected, met her death
M being violently thrown from her cal
on age, on returning to her house, on
has evening of February Sd, 1916. She /
the made her entree into society on t
dow IL beino her seventaenth hirthd