The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
GENERAL NOTES

Rhode Island is organizing society
for the protection of clans.
Alligator leather is coming into fash
ion for ladies' belts and satcbes.
Michigan claims thirty-three centen-
ariaus.
"For sale or to rent' is posted on
more than 5000 houses and stores in
New Orleans.
Nine industrial expositions, many Of
them on large scale, will be held in va
rious cities this fall.
New Bedford is building 500-ton
ship, and cherishes the hope of soon be-
coming Aourishing port.
Tie Virginia Educational Association
has voted against teaching girls algebra
A $1,000 libel suit against country
paper in Illinois has been settled by the
payment OF SIS.
Cooper's former retreat on the Hud-
son has been run down to fashionable
watering-place.
A boy eleven years old, in Nelson, ILL.,,
has gathered 10000 potato bugs from,
an acre field. and got $50 for it.
The Chinese workmen employed in
in one of the North Adams shoe iactor-
les have struck for higher wages.
The Boston Adcertiser thinks that
the monument Of Horace Greeley ought
TO be an "imposing stone"
The diamond market in London is
said to be much depressed on account of
the abundance Of the supply.
Pianos bear the best character Of all
manufactured things as they are classed
as grand, square aud upright.
There are two ministers in Lock Ha-
ven, Pa, who were formerly journey
men printers. They were devils also.
"Came to his death while being bit on
the head by spider in the hands Of his
wife," was the verdict in recent case iD
Illinois.
Newsboys are not allowed to "holler"
in Rome, but something like half mill
ion dogs can bark and howl without let
or hindrance.
A Boston gentleman, who disiik es for
mality, offered a lady $4,000 if she
would marry him without the usual pre-
limiraries OF courtship.
Montreal is complaining of the over
crowded state of the city Jail, which was
only constructed to hold $50 prisoners,
and now contains 400.
A New Hampshire man wants to
make Centennial cheese, to weigh many
thousand pounds, and be as large as an
ordinary size dwelling house.
Henry Page, a young man, formerly
an inmate OF the Aimshouse at St..
Joseph. Mo-, recently found himself the
lucky heir to fortune OF $4,000
The wife of New Haven alderman
threatens the Mayor with au action for
damages for sending her husband home
in disordered condition Fl ON a recent
civic feast.
A man at Lewiston, Pa, recently re
ceived letter from his nephew, which
had been written at Falmouth, Va, in
1868, aud hal taken ten years to reach
its destination.
Talk about "carrying Goals to New.
castle" Ireland is importing peat from
Rotterdam, while she possesses several
millions of acres of that fuel, better stuff
too, than the imported.
An old lady named Hancock, at Chik-
opee Falls, Mass, has lain on one side
for FIVE years. The physicians say that
any change of position would cause her
death. Her disease is water around the
heart.
A Boston paper thinks peach stones
worse than cobble stones for paving pur-
poses.
The "grasshopper twist" is the name
of the latest fashionable con:ortion
among ladies.
The Wells Female College at Aurora,
N. Y, has received a 100000 endow.
ment fund FROM Col. E. B. Morgan.
Philadelphia is building a water res.
ervoir that covers one hundred and four
acres Of ground, will contain, 100000
600 gallons, and will cost $4,000, 900
When finished it will be the largest res.
ervoir 10 the world.