The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-04
GENERAL NOTES.

lSiuS.
Paola, Kansas, is rejoicing over the
discovery of an oil well.
A pure white vinegar can be made, ii
is said, from the juice of watermeIlons.
Highway robberies have been fire.
quent recently in the vicinity of Scran-
ton.
Raisin making in California is becom.
ing an important and profitable branch
Of industry.
Miss Dorcas Khonles, maiden of II
years, lately hung herself at Campdcn,
Me.
Thirty New York churches are re-
ported closed for the season or for re-
pairs.
The Boston courts are endeavoring to
overthrow the prize candy establish
ments'
A young girl living near Brighton, ,
ILL.,, has pet rattlesnake which she
shelters in her bosom.
Boston has refused to rent it's common
at the rate Of one dollar per foot per an
mum.
The International Railroad Bridge
across the Niagara will probably be
opened in October.
The st. Cloud Times reporta the crau
berry marshes in the northern part of
Minnesota as full of berries.
A Lynn shoemaker says that he sells
more eases of No. & ladies' shoes in
Cleveland than anywhere else.
A gay Widower in Man.stee, Michi-
gan, who has t0rty-eight children living,
has just married his fourth wife.
French capitalists are thinking of
starting direct line of steamers between
New York and Marseilles.
Minnesota estimates that she will have
surplus Of 80, 900 goo bushels Of wheat
Tor expectation this year.
A man shooting in the woods in Della
ware county was recently attacked by
minks, and only escaped after Il severe
igh;.
a wo@an at Yysilanti, Mi, ,h., gave
birth to triplets recently and on the fol-
lowing day took them to church aud had
them ehristened.,
1t is stated that the great bridge
across the Mississippi, at St. Louis, will
be completed by the st of March, 1874.
A Roman Catholic priest Of St. Louis,
has recently married wife, and has
therefore been discharged from his
charge, by his Bishop.
A Nebraska lawyer had a woman on
the witness stand three days to make
her tell her age, and thea gave it up as
4 bad job.
Colouel Noah Orr, OF Marysvllle, O.,
aged p, is feet l | inches high meas
uaes 10 inches around the chest, and
brings down the scales at $40 pounds.
lie is aid to be genial yoGt+.
A new import, Kangaroo skins, i,
talked OF. These make boots aud shoes
of great durability and of velver-like e
sof'ness. They will probably be chiefly
worn at hops.
Chef Justice.-lion. Daniel Agnew
will be the successor Of Judge Reed, as
Chief Justice OF the Supreme Court cf
Pennsylvania. Judge Aenew was
elected to the Supreme bench of the
State in 1868, and has hence five
years yet to serve.
A BrooSlin girl has applied to Wise
for passage in his balloon, and the pre-
iessor declares himself willing to take
her if she will wear full hoop-sklrt, so
that she may be safely dropped out OF
it if it becomes necessary to commpni-
cate with the land anywhere between
here and Europe.
The fruits and grains of Iowa and Ne
braska will be represented by more than
300 specimens at the New England fair
in-Mystic park, Mass, which will begin
September 2. Two car loads of them
are already on the way, and space of
100 feet in the big tent is as ked for
their exhibition.
An Arkansas housewife, on the au.
thority of the Memphis AIpeot takes
a spoon and kuite, and conforms the
shape OF butter 10 that of ones face and
features, even preserving the expression
as well as perfec. accuracy or outline, to
such an extent, even that Powers him
sell never surpassed in butter in d d,fuing
with perfect accuracy the outlines Of u
man ior,ns and faces.
IRISH PoTAToEs.-The Irish po'a o
is the subject of long article in a Con-
necticut paper. "They are large and
fair" we are told, and when you boil
them "they burst their jnckets and over
flow in cataracts of vegetable snow
flakes" That is unnIistakabe poetry /;
and we read with shock, directly after
the expression, that they cost but one
dollar a bushel.
Expensive Beverage e.-The city of
Bremen possesses twelve hogsheads Of
What, according TO certain calculation
undertaken by the Neue Freie Fresse
must be the most expensive beverage in
the world. The town purchased in
1924 twelve hogsheads of Rudesheimer
at 800 gold thalers each. These were
placed in the municipal cellars, where
they still remain. At the end Of next
year these hogheads will be $50 years