The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-20
Items of Interest.

California is successful in raising
tobacco, as in everything else.
President Grant is in favor of adding
$44, 100000 legal-tender reserve to the
permanent circulation.
Many Southern and Western towns
are crying out for sparrows to keep
down the caterpillar crop.
It is unkind to ridicule hose items
in the papers about centenarians. 1t is
no easy thing to become centenarlan
several have failed.
Five hundred miners at Leith, who
struck against the employment OF one
man, have gained their end by the sacri-
fee of SO, 500 in wages.
The Governor of Turkestan is a
miserable tyrant, and makes people sell
their children, to pay the heavy and
unnecessary fines he imposes,
A Vermont man went over to an island
to live as Robinson Crusoe did, but his
wife followed with club, and his soll-
tary life lasted only three hours.
A letter from st. John, N. F., says
that merchants, fishermen, and all
traders are jubilant over the splendid
success of the fisheries this season.
A Western editor has placed over his
marriage heading a cut representing
large trap sprung, with the motto, "Lhe
trap down; another ninny caught u
A new style of collar, said to be in
tended for gentlemen, is the nearest ap-,
proach to the kind worn by ''end men"
in minstrel companies we have seen.
The eight new sloops of war author
lied at the last session of the U. s.
Congress, will probably be ready before
the close of next year, and sent abroad.
An emigrant on his way to Kansas
with his wife and seven barefooted
children was lately swindled out of $3.50
by confidence operator at Indianapo-
lis.
The farmers in some parts of the
country are boarding greenbacks to
such an extent in their houses that it is
thought the enterprise of bank burglars
will be turned in that direction.
A Vermont woman who recently fol-
lowed the remains of her rather irregu-
lar husband to the grave, afterwards re-
marked that she had one consolation
she knew now where he slept nights.
In Keene, N. H., q toadstool was
lately observed to have grown up be-
meath a concrete walk, breaking and
pushing away O crust that bore heavi-
iy loaded team without perceptibly
yiel1ing.
The Rangoon Qndia) Gazette fur
nishes the following item of news:
"Four troopers have been sentenced at
Cabul to be blown from guns for the
, murder of Mallik Abdul Kadir, Lugh-
man chief.
Workmen have been discharged from
the iron-works in Bangor, Me-, and
other places, wages have been reduced
at Alexandria, Va, and Louisville, Ky,
and mills in many of the States are to
work on half time.
The vote by which resolution au-
thorizine a loan of Sc, 500, 900 to the In
dustrial Exhibition Company was re-
Gently adopted by the Board of Alder
men of New York, has been reconsider
ed and the resolution tabled.
Probably the oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected to the
use of man is found in the ancient tenn
pies of Egypt. 1t is found in connec-
!. ton with stone work which is known to
be at least four thousand years old.
A correspondent of the Scientific
american says certain cure for nose
bleeding is to extend the arm perpen-
, dicularly against wall or post, or any
a convenient object for O support. The
+ arm on the side from which the blood
proceeds is the one to elevate.
An English veterinarian adduces
facts to show that rabies or canine mad
2 ness is very rare in extreme tempera-
j, lures, while it is of frequent occurrence
, in the temperate zone. The disease is
s less frequent in Spain and Southern
: Italy than in other European countries.
: First reveller (on being turned out of
u the Caledonian Club: "Come and
:, take glass at my rooms" Second rev.
= eller: Ma, ma, ah've had mair than
:; eneuch !" First reveller: "Hoots
u TAX anither, nun Dye no see ye're
. lettin' yer Judgment get the better O.
q ye?"
"What is it, Katy ?" said the teach
h er. "I want to know how to spell tun-
e kan" said the little girl. "Explain," :"
J, said the teacher. "Why, I want to
n write, 1 love my teacher moro than
!, tunkan tongue CAM tell" said the
e child. That child understood phonog-
0 raphy.
Il "Oh, what is the panic ?" the little
. boy said, as his mamma was tucking
) him snugly in bed. "The panic, my
love-" was the mothers reply, while a
. tear all unnoted distilled from her eye,
~ and she stihed sob, at the risk of her
~ stays, els beast that has cost ma a
" new polonaise!'
s. An exchange pertinently asks How
II can any person with common sense
(mother or servant girl push the baby
carriage towards the rays of the sun
along the whole street 1t seems i'll
/ credible; yet we see it every sunny day.
:, . When the baby will be twenty years old,
= it will have weak eyes-and wonder
, why"
5. A correspondent of the London NeDS
is writes:-I was struck by the genuine
10 politeness of the audience at the Mos
y COW opera. The Czar entered in the
h middle OF the first act. At his entering
5, there was no demonstration. But after
y the act was over the whole audience rose
n and made a simultaneous bow, whish
y the Emperor returned quite formally.
20 20 A confidence operator literally cap
10 tured the town of Gilman. III thf