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

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The handsomest thing in shawls is a
pretty girl.
Savannah, Ca, has a female street.
car conductor.
Our navy has fourteen admirals and
twenty-five commodores.
Lancaster, N. H.. reports tie first
frost OF the season on Aug. II.
The Rev. Newman Hall is now petit
tioning for divorce from his wife.
New discoveries of lead have been
made near Baxter Springs, Kansas.
The chinch bugs have attacked the
fields of corn in some parts of Wiscon-
sin.
The man who wrote, "I'm saddest
when I sing" was foolish if he sang
much.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany uses 10000 tons of coal every
month.
The subsidized iron interest of Amer
lean employs altogether only 137,545
persons.
Destructive forest-fres have lately
been raging in the woods of Northen
Michigan.
The largest farm in England, CON-
prising 5000 acres, is owned and man
aged by an American.
Mrs. Samuel Six-Shooter Colts in
come is six hundred dollars per day, and
she can't spend half of it.
There are 1000 slaves at Quiloa, East
Africa, offered at from half dollar to SO
each without finding a purchaser.
Pennsylvania, next to Connecticut,
raisesthe finest tobacco for smoking pur-
poses produced in the United States.
The Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga
Springs, which is owned by Alexander
7. Stewart, is the largest in the world,
Walter Trumbull, son of the Senator,
has entered the journalistic list, and is
now engaged as an editorial writer on
the New York San.
"Stamps" is the name of the editor Of
a North Carolina paper. He who
flnches from him his good name COM
mits larceny indeed.
Caliironians are drying grapes into
raisins with success. One hundred
pounds of grapes worth dollar will pro-
duce twenty pounds of raisins worth
$3.50.
A young man at work near Indianola,
Iowa, stood on a straw stach and boasted
that he could turn triple somersault in
reaching the ground. He made the at.
tempt aud broke his neck.
Ninety railroad accidents occurred in
this country during last month. These
occurances caused the death of eighteen
and the injury of one hundred and nine
| teen persons. Carelessness and incom-
potency somewhere.
Reports from Columbus, New, do moi
speak we'll for the prospect of the town
The population is estimated at 250, Of
which $50 are professional gamblers
fifty laboring men, working at 81 pei
day, and fifty dead-brokes who live on
what they can beg of those who have
money.
"Eli Perkins" writes that Dan Marks
a veteran baggage smasher, experienced
religion a: Round Lake, N. Y, and has
since confessed in open meeting that he
had smashed S12,000,000 worth OF
trunks in twelve years, and had been toe
sick good deal of of the time to attend
personally to the business.
A young man in Galveston, Texas, by
birth German of noble fomily, but who
had gradually grown so poor as to have
become helper in the kitchen of an in
ferior hotel was recently convicted o.
stealing. He begged that he might be
sent to the penitentiary, where he would
be taught trade by which he NIGH
earn his living, which was accordingly
done.
The lady who tapped her husband
gently with tan at party the othe,
night, and said, "Love, it's growing
late, | think we had better 60 home" il
the same one who after getting home
shook the rolling pin under bis nose anG
said, "ycu mean old scoundrel you, i
you ever look at that mean, nasty. calico
faced, mackerel-eyed thing that yor
looked at tonight, III burst your head
open.
One of the mcst atrocious instances o
Stealing the livery of Heaven to serve
the Devil in" has come to light in Green
wich, Conn. A burglar who has beer
operating pretty boldly in that village
was caught the other night and wa
found to be "Rev. DR.. John Moore.
who had been editying the good peopl,
with lectures on "Science and the Bible,
and who preached last Sunday from th'
text, "Go ye about and do good"