The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
items of Interest.

fort.
Marine blue is one of the fashionable
colors for the winter.
England must import 10, 900, 900 quar-
ters OF wheat this year. So
On tombstone Mt Stenday, Prussia,
is inscribed "she died of corset"
There wasn't even one friend to fol-
low poor Beau Hickman at his last rest
ing place. ,...
There are from eight hundred to nine
hundred beer and whiskey saloons in
Milwaukee.
Redingotes are as popular and fash
ionable as ever, and will be worn
throughout the winter.
Two Texas cattle men in Wichita
recently played q game of marbles for
one hundred steers side.
Fifteen persons have been killed in
Ohio during the last year by weapons
supposed to be unloaded.
Chloroform will remove paint from
garment or elsewhere, when benzole or
bisulphide of carbon fails.
Gen. Sheridan presided at the seventh
annual reunion of the Army OF the
ICumDeflanu, III IlJuSDurSu.
A Vermont buzz saw jumped out of
saw mill and ran q straight half mile on
the highway before stopping.
"Terrible Outrage--An Orphan Boy
Murders his Mother" is the heading
of an item in Kansas paper.
Arvanitaki, the chief of the band
which massacred the English travellers
at Marathon, has been killed.
They say the largest English settle
ment made in this country is in Kansas.
We thought it was the Alabama.
1t is becoming quite a common GUS
tom to sell potatoes by the weight. The
standard is sixty pounds to the bushel.
The injurious effect of artificial light
upon the eye is said to be due to the
presence of an excessive number OF non
luminous heat-rays.
Mrs. Fannie Oakes has sued q
Georgia railroad for 100000 damages
for the killing of her husband, who was
an engineer on the road.
The Warden of Sing Sing Prison
says that during his service of 20 years,
he has never known of the attempt Of
81 life prisoner to escape.
The Vizier who accompanied the
Shah of Persia on his recent visit to
Europe has been sent to prison on the
return of the party to Teheran.
The Chinese of Nava Creek (Cal.)
dam up the shallow places, and when
the tide has run out they find their fish
by the basketful in the holes above.
The London Times keeps "libel
suit lawyer" and he has carried the
paper through thirteen suits without
Judgment being rendered against it.
Western papers are ,nauirng the
reasons why the Germans do not
share in the grange or farmers move
ment. No very plausible explanation
is afforded.
A strange and fatal disease, producing
great CONSERVATION, is very prevalent at
Kelton, Oregon. Persons die in few
hours after they are attacked. The
disease resembles fever.
Gath epitomizes Long Branch as ga
stretch of frame houses on a green bluff,
with good air, fair roads, bad, dirty
and dangerous surf and great monot-
ony, relieved only by dissipation.
They didn't invite Jim Cummings to
a wedding ball in Nebraska, and Jim
took position at window and shot with
his shot gun until he had effectually
marred the harmony of the evening.
The bodies of four men and one
woman have been washed ashore at Big
Bras Dor, G. B., supposed from the
wreck of the schooner Eureka, of New
York, lost at that place during the great
gale.
Many hop. growers have been called
upon to respond in various amounts for
infringing on patent for stringing hop
vines, that of using short poles and
running strings between them for the
vines to cling to.
A Maryland woman is shortly to be
tried under the old English law as a
common scold. Her counsel is con-
fdent of an acqnittal, however, as he
can produce her husband to testify that
she's most uncommon scold.
A call has been issued for National
Convention of Colored Men, to meet in
Washington, December 8, to impress
upon Congress the necessity of passing
Civil Rights Bill. Each State and
Territory is entitled to twenty delegates.
Over the shop door of pork butcher
III ~ NllldBo III one VI buC IIaSUClIl Oouh-
ties of England, may be seen a sign
board representing q man in black
coat brandishing hatchet, with the
inscription, "John Smith kills pigs like
his father"
In one of his letters to the London
Times, Mr.. Alfred Since mentions the
curious instances of a cat that would
J not drink the milk of COWS fed on sew
, age grass, or that otherwise adulterated,
while it Tapped up eagerly fresh can
from the country.
Anew version of "Old Uncle Ned" has
become popular in the suburbs. 1t
runs something as follows: "Then pull
up the wicket and the stake, and put
by the mallet and ball for no more
croquet'l be played this year, it's get
ting too late in the fall. "
A novel cure for whooping- cough is
reported in Collinsvllle, Conn. A little
four-year-old boy was severely attacked
with the above complaint, when little
kitten was given him which he was very
, fond of holding most of the time. The
kitten soon began to cough and whoop,
with symptoms of being quite i'll. The
boy rapidly recovered, and he and the
kitten are now both well.
, A little girl, probably six years OF
? age, appeared at Cne of the juvenile
balls held recently at Long Branch, il
an entire dress of lace of the most valu
able description. IT was made in tb,