The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-18
A Chicago paper talks of sour outsquirt"

A Chicago paper talks of sour outsquirt"
when it refers to the aristocratic suburbs.
The library of the Law Association of
Philadelphia contains about six thousand
volumes.
There are only sixty thousand idiots in
England. That doesn't agree with Car
lyle's estimates.
There are 1,700 miles Of railroads in
Massachusetts,, and l60 miles more are in
process of construction.
A Buffalo coroner adjourned the examina-
tion into railway disaster in that city, to
attend the races.
Some three hundred thousand cotton
wood trees planted near Denver, Kansas,
in 1871, are thriving finely.
The dying words of O Delaware woman
were: ''Hen1y, if you marry again, remem-
ber that it only takes a cupful of sugar to
sweeten q quart of gooseborries.
The State geologist of Texas has re-
ported the discovery, near DEVILS river, of
q cave, the interior of which contains very
remarkable paintings and sculpture, ap-
parently of Attic origin.
Buyers prices for produce at Empire
City, Oregon, are as follows: Wheat 60
cents; oats, 80 to 33 cents; butter, Is
cents; eggs, 20 cents; wool, % cents;
bacon sides, 9 to 10 cents; hams, II cents.
The ravages made by cockroaches in
Augusta, Ga, seem to rival one of the fa-
nous plaques Of Egypt. They eat and
thrive on the various insect destroying
powders, which the distracted inhabitants
give them in abundance.
An eminent chemist, after careful inyes-
tigation, has decided that pastures ma
nured by city seware are poisonous, that
they affect the mill of the COWS, and plant
the seeds of typhoid in the systems of those
who use the milk.
A grocer being solicited to contribute to
the building of church, promptly sub
scribed his name to the paper in the follow
ing eccentric manner John Jones, (the
only place in town where you can get
eleven posnds of sugar for a dollar.
twenty five cents.
The Morgan Envelope Company have
thus far entirley failed to meet the ex.
pectations of the Department, or to sat
isfy the terms of their contract with re
apect to postal cards. 1t is believed tha
to this day they have not furnished {
single card fully up to the requirement.
of their contract. Within few days
$4,000 cards in one lot have been abso
lutely rejected. The sample of the lo
forwarded here was little better thar
blotting paper. The Department, sus
pecting that the mill which manufacture
the paper might be using improper ma
terials, last week dispatched an inspect
ing agent to visit it. The government
agent took two samples of the pulp
which were taken from his hands to bt
wrapped up by the manager of the mill
and which, it would appear, were subse
quently changed in the absence OF tht
government agent. At all events, The
sample which the Postoffice agent tooi
from the vats unobserved and placed il
his pocket is a very inferior to the sam
pie furnished him by the mill agent
The actual sample the experts pronounce
to be of jnte and manila. The pre-
tended sample is of fine linen and cottor
rags. The jute sample could not make
the paper cost more than sixteen cents
per pound, while the lowest of the papel
under the estimates for the contract, wa
twenty -four cents a pound. 1t is be
leived that, Notwithstanding the state
ments that the contractors are working
at loss, they are really making prof
by attempting to use an inferior quality
of paper.