The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-31
GENERAL NOTES.

An Indian girl who was dumb re-
covered her speech while swinging.
A st. Louis engineer has been in
thirteen smashups and he still lives.
A farmer in Muscatine county, low a,
has just paid s2,26O for two cows.
Iowa grasshoppers eat up the tobacco
plants when they can find any.
The British Provinces have sent many
strawberries to the Eastern States this
year.
1t is said that mocking birds and
canaries sickened and died in Tennessee
towns where cholera prevailed.
A techy Wisconsin man stopped his
subscription to the local newspaper, just
because the editor eloped with his wife
Maine now has eighteen cheese
factories in operation, nearly all new ven.
turee.
A Brooklyn peuitent has lately added
ten cents to Treasurer Spinner's con.
science fund.
Newburyport. Mass, has an armies:
newsdealer who writes neat "fst" with
his mouth.
Divorce will next be obtained on the
ground of "emotional insanity" such as
marrying an empty purse.
New York is at present employing
5,572 men on the public works, ano
their monthly pay roll is s266,500.
Among the inducements 10 become
Mayor in Sioux City are diamond pin.
presented by grateful constituents.
A stone mason in New London rode
to the toy of spire of new church
astride the capstone he had made for it
A reverend clergyman at Logausville
Wis, has been arrested for getting
drunk and beating his boy, eleven year,
old, nearly to death.
A recent visitor to one of the islands
on the coast of Maine, discov cred /;
school of forty scholars, all OF whom
were grandchildren of one man.
The Treasurer of Lyons county
Mimi, kept the funds in the drawer Of
q sewing machine, and 1857 was drawn
from it without his knowledge.
A new kind of stone mug for lagel
beer has been introduced 1t is 81
that it keeps very cool, bit it does no
hold much beer.
A new English novel is called "Madt
in Heaven" whence we infer that it is ;
good book. But how the author 20
there to make it is one of those thing.
that no fellow can find out.
Marcus Morton was the defeated can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts
fifteen times, and succeeded at tn
sixteenth election by a majority Of on
vote out of 1O2,066 votes given.
The horse-chestnut is now used il
France for the manufacture of starch
The nut yields about II per cent. o
pure starch. Washing it with waite
containing carbonate of soda is said t.
remove the bitterness.
The Toledo Blade says the Liberal,
and Democrats are not shaking hand
across the bloody chasm as much a
they were, but they are shaking fists a
each other and making all sorts of horri'
faces.
George Smith, of Waco, Texas, th'
father Of twenty-three children, al
living, is the envy of all his neighbors
because he makes a handsome livin
playing poker with his boys.
A town in Massachusetts, is the prout
possessor of a cat that picks up pin
and puts them into a paper, wheneve
she finds one. After getting huudreC
she exchanges them for meat at III
butchers. The beauty of tale is it
undoubted, undeniable truth,
The colors of natural flowers ex
posed to the smoke Of cigar are S
affected by it that blue and violet flow
ers turn green, carmine and red flower
turn yellow. So says the America
Chemist, on the authority Of Londo
technical journal.
Young ladies contemplating an east
ern tour should provide themselves wit
peanut stands. The Shah married tn
reigning belle of his harem when sh
was peanut girl, and ayaukee peanu
girl could of course do better.
At a social science meeting in Bosto
General F. A. Walker read paper o
the prospective population of tn
United States, in which he contende
that, instead Of reaching lOO,355,l
in the year 1900, as calculated b
Elkanah Watson, or lOO,337 ,3O9, a
calculated by De Bow, or lO7 100000
as calculated by Commissioner Wilson
it will only be somewhere between SO
100000 and 34,0O0,0O0, most probabl
70 nm 0OO IN &c 600 COO