The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-11
GEN ERAL NOTES.

COlOTauO.
The champion postal card writer Of
Charleston, s. G., has reach 2 OLA words.
Davenport, Iowa, has had four fatsl
cases of Asiatic cholera in one day.
In the past ten days there have been
ten deaths from cholera in Pitts6eld, III.
The grasshoppers are becoming fear
full scourge in Nebraska and Kansas.
The STATISTICS of the chewing gum
makers show that Indiana chews FIVE
times as much gum as Michigan.
The scalp of Modoc warrior killed
the lava beds, recently came through
Re mail to man at Brattleboro, Vt.
j. G. Cloud, the oarman, arrived at
Cincinnati on Saturday, on his way to
New Orleans.
PIT. Barnum sailed Saturday in the
steamship Scotia for Europe and the
Vienna exhibition.
Warren, Iowa. pretends to have a
woman who weighs 1853 pounds, united
to a 51S pound husband.
A new steamship line, under the
American flag, is to be established be-
tween New York and Venezuela.
Gratz Brown is in good health and
looks remarkable we'll He hasn't tasted
watermelon this season.
Helen Josephine Mansfield Lawlor is
under medical treatment at Paris for
cancer, which threatens her life.
The grange movement takes with the
women. They love to be "Patrons OF
Husbandry."
Olive Logan doesn't believe that one
married couple out of twenty have any
love for each other.
Letter carriers state that young ladies
generally write "Private" on the cor
uers of their postal cards.
Mrs. John Neill of Savannah. and
thirteen children, including four pairs of
twins, were lately at Saratoga Springs.
An Omaha girl introduced romantic
mode of snicde. She stuffed her lover S
letters down her throat until she suffo-
Gated.
The first woman in this country ap-
pointed to fill the Office of Deputp Col
lector is Mrs. DR.. Moody, OF Green's
burg, Ind.
The Joliet (Ill.) Methodist Episcoal
Conference has voted itself willing to Ii
cense Mrs. Jennie E. Willing to preach
the Gospel.
A few days ago man run entirely
naked from Middletown to Highspire, q
distance of several miles. He said he
was running for suit of clothes.
News is scarce in Minnesota. In the
effort to present something fresh, a
Lanesburgh paper has found it neces-
sary to publish the, ,Tep Commandments.
The farmers of Illinois propose to cut
down the saleries of conuty officers to
figures proportionate to what is paid for
similar services in private life, and save
the State s250,0O0.
The large supplies Of Austrian tin now
coming into the Eurepeaa markets are
reported to be seriously affecting the
English tin mining interests.
A man on his way to the Columbus
State prison passed himself of as mem,
Der of the Ohio Constitutional Conven
ton, and came near making his escape.
A Texas paper keeps the command
ments, in type at the head of its editor.
ial page, and the united Congressional
delegation of the State are trying tc
crush the sheet.
There is singular natural curiosity
in Sadawga Pond, in Whittngham. VT.
consisting of $50 acres of land floating
on the surface Of the water. The tract
is covered with cranbe-ries, and there
are trees fifteen feet high. When the
water is raised or lowered at the dam oi
the pond, the island rises and falls with
it. 1t affords fine shelter for fish, large
numbers of which are caught by boring
a hole and fishing down through, as
through the ice in winter.
Active steps are being taken in Phila'
delphia for the establishment off zoolog-
ical garden in Fairmount Park. Eighty
five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed thus far toward this end, and
number of liberal citizens will contrib
nte S25, 900 when the fund shall have
reached S125.00O. The Press predicts
that before 1876 Philadelphia will have
the greatest free geological garden on the
continent.
1t is rather late in the year TO record
celebrations Of the last Fourth Of July
vet it is notrivial matter to know that oul
national university was celebrated il
Chinese waters by thunder of cannon
and flying of bunting, not only by thu
United States ships in those distant seat
but by all vessels OF war from England
and Russia. France and Holland alike
which we're near the crafts manned by
our countrymen. This tribute to Amer
can influence as a nation among all th'
peoples of the earth must be gratifying
to every patriotic heart.