The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-01-09
NO. As.
items of Interest.

once week for sixteen years.
There has never been q season when
the Connecticut tobacco crop promised
SO many Havana cigars as this.
A Maine breach of promise suit, four
teen years old, has at last been ternin-
ated by the death of both parties to it,
A Belgian, to whose mad love for his
servant girl wife, sister-in-law and son
were obstacles, removed them by cutting
| their throats.
A Chouteau avenue (St. LOUISE girl
! frankly confesses that her advocacy of
the wOmans rights movement is due to
all insane desire to wear red-top boots
and pistol pocket.
| Mrs. Mary G.. Mast, widow of the late
register of deeds of Leavenworth, Co.,
Kan, has been appointed by the Board
of County Commissioners to succeed
her late husband in that Office.
A Georgia woman is credited with
having raised large family, although
not out of her teens. II was her moth
er-in-law's family, and she did it with
keg Of gunpowder planted in the cellar.
The Khedive of Egypt has ordered
| the wedding outfit of his daughter to be
made in Paris. One Of the items of the
order is founces of point dAlencon at
$500 yard, and $50, 900 of other laces
are to be added.
A parent in New Albany, Ind, who
| had fifteen daughters, has poisoned his
dog, taken the locks off the doors and
hung rope ladders over his dooryard
fence by the dozen, and still the pro-
vision bill is as ever.
Miss Florence Birney, a daughter of
General Birney, has been learning to
set type in the Office of the Dedham
! Mass Go:cttc for the past six months,
and last week she went South to assist
in editing newspaper.
A maiden of sixty lately died in West
moreland, England, and left $500, 900 to
a gentleman who had captured her ma
ture affections. The will is now being
contested on the ground of irTegularity,
incapacity, and ignorance.
| An ill-used husband around the lola
| (Kan.) Register Office makes this obser-
vation: If Susan B. and her conferecs
get shut up in prison for illegal voting,
we know lots of men who will urge their
wives to try voting next time.
Nettie Clauser, young woman of
sweet fifteen, in Algelica, Shawano Co.,
Wis, will give her left hand to her hus-
band in marriage, if she ever gets one.
Her right hand was shot off last week
while she was gracefully caressing
revolver.
A Young woman in Virginia, feeling
socially inclined toward a neighbor the
other side of a formidable rivor, ond
having no horse convenient, made the
transit in safety and dryness recently
by taking two chairs and using them
as stills.
The Cleveland girl who shot Henry
Prinz, otherwise known as Harry May
nard, the gymnast, whose home was at
Syracuse, gets off with no punishment
at all, the grand jury before whom the
case was called believing the shooting
to have been accidental and refusing to
) indict her.
The great grandfather Of Thomas
Edwards died at one hundred and four
teen his grandfather at one hundred
and four but the father died at the
: early age of sixty-seven. His young
son, Edward, now only ninety-tive,
recklessly committed matrimony with u
e chit of seventy This is what comes OF
being an unadvised orphan
u There are in Austria twelve prisons
| 1Or men anu SIN lOT NOHlcll. lliC mum
= Der of prisoners at the end of last year
y was 0,422 of both sexes. The number
: of persons who died III prison during
a the wear was 552. Every prisoner is
- obliged to attend school regularly, and
!. popular lectures are delivered to the
y prisoners on Sundays and holidays.
n Albert c. Abbott, fireman, of Charles
e town, injured at the great fire, died III
n the hospital, aged thirty-three. At the
< time of his injury he was engaged to be
al married to young lady, and at the de-
E. sire of both parties the couple We're
20 married three days before the young
d mans death. His brother was buried III
ID the ruins at tee same fire, and the
d mother died from grief at her bereave-
d ment.
Noble county, Ohio, county of 400
ID square miles, with population of 20
s. 600 persons, has not one single gro8'
II shop. The liquor nuisance was abated
al there in 1870 by the enforcement of the
o. Liquor Law. Not felony has beer
lt committed, not glass of liquor sold
IN not one person in prison, i'll that county
ld for two years; nor have the crimina
l. courts had solitary criminal to try FOL
any otfense.
pe ie Innumerable butterflies lately visited
~ ~ the city of Florence, III clouds so dense
y say the italian papers, that the gas
T., lights were obscured, and the streets a
y night rendered almost perfectly dark
~ - The municipal authorities immediatel,
., ordered fires to be lighted, which at
:, ~ tracted the insects and burned off thei
- =; wings, so that in short time the street
- =, We're covered with their white bodies t.
W W the depth of half an inch, as if with
. fresh fall of snow.
The term horsepower, as applied +
steam boilers, is so indefinite that it ha
come to be regarded by many engineer
as practically valueless. A committe
as recently appointed by the Franklin In
w stitute of Philadelphia, recommends
ed that it's use be discontinued. One of tn
ed members said that horsepower, as tn
j. term was used by different engineer
it and boiler-makers, indicated an actua
ne power, which in one case sometime
ed varied one hundred per cent. from tina
rs in another.
u The Panama Star and Herald gives
y, -. striking illustration Of the vigor an
% rapidity of vegetation in the tropics, b
~ ~ referring to the bushes and trees grow
40 ing in the'ruins of the burned Aspinwa
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