The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-04
Items of Interest.

| very ohi"ii O''A 'S
thing.
Time never " stays" That accounts
for the great waist of time.
A California dog revealed murder
by bringing home human arm.
An attempt is being made to use saw
mill refuse for smelling iron IN Mlchl-
gan.
IT, is expected that Minnesota will
export this year 10000, 900 bushels OF
wheat.
The st. Louis Dispatch is going to
publish an edition on Sunday afternoon,
a novelty in newspapers IN this country
The proposed new constitution OF
Pennsylvania covers sixty large printed
pages, being five times as large as the
old one.
Suburban Peorians mistake their new
letter-carriers for book agents and
lightning rod peddlers, and throw stones
at them.
A Louisiana paper states that the in
scription for sale" or "for rent IS
posted on more than 5000 houses and
stores in New Orleans.
Ceylon exports between two and three
million gallons of cocoanut oil every
wear. The business has increased since
the opening of the Suez Canal.
From Dubuque: "In order not to
ruin the reputation OF Dubuque pusl-
ness men, the names of drunkards be-
fore the police court are suppressed by
the papers,"
1t is proposed to change the name OF
Chicago to Edwardsville, in honor OF
| 1,nc dom
city what no legitimate census-taker
could do.-,S. Louis Globe.
A Frenchman processes to have dis
covered, by experiments upon himself,
that coffee taken upon an empty stomach
: renders the mind abnormally clear ana
the temper unnaturally bad.
A young lady was thrown from car
, riage in Shrewsbury, Mass, the other
: day, and had one leg broken, and the
. accident was still farther complicated
by her falling on wasp's nest.
; A fastidious lady in Chicago broke an
engagement because her lover stained
t her sash and the back breadth of her
t dress suit with tobacco juice. The dis
a carded lover now taunts her for her
i pride.
1t is said that many thousand pounds
of trout ere annually caught among the
: Adirondacks which are left to rot along
: the shore. Such senseless barbarism is
, fastening the depopulation of the
streams.
Peter Kessler, the mule-stealer, who
T was imprisoned in Jefferson City, Mo-,
has been hanged by mob, and the
-, Sheriff who had him in charge has been
a mortally and two others very seriously
wounded.
{ Thirty years ago Mr.. William Allen
of Ohio used to say that the Gulf OF
7 Mexico was the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river, that Cuba was its tongue,
and that every mouth had right to its
own tongue.
The crush " for Europe this season
has not been so great as was expected,
, the number of departures being Is, 533,
g against 1S, O1S during the same period
d last year. The Vienna Exhibition didn't
"draw much.
:, A father in Wilmington, Del, who
took a great dislike to one of his child
: rem that was "reel footed having
Ii feet turned out-was arrested for en-
+, deavoring to persuade his wife to assist
u him in poisoning it.
No locomotive is allowed to use
steam whistle in Altoona, that city OF
railroads where engines, trains and
II shifting cars are almost constantly in
h motion by night and day-so that If
II whistling is essential in any town that
/ would be one of the places.
l. The German Minister of War has re-
d Gently issued an order that every man
n subject to military service in the en-
is pire shall present himself for enroll
D ment with a photograph of himself in
" his possession, duly certified to by the
1t police or municipal authorities of the
re locality in which the candidate may re-
IS side.
lg A new and important fact in silk cul-
n ture has been developed by the Accll-
le nation Society, France, namely, that
l. silk of varied color can be produced by
is feeding the silk-worm on different leaves.
it Worms fed on vine leaves produce q
70 silk of magnificent red color. Lettuce
t. has been found to produce an emerall
te green colored silk.
We Scene in the Goldsboro' IN. o. post
e, office: Nothing, sir" "Thar amt nc
,h letter for me, you say?" "Nothing.
n. "Dad fetch the luck! Say, mister
at amt thar 'nuther 'postofice in town 2
Id "Only ore." "Well, all I've got tC
We say, it's q one-horse town that cam
h- sport but one postofice," " was the com
es ment of the countryman as he strod'
90 into the street.
ye There is now current story OF gir
bt who killed calf belonging to her fathe
os in order that his attention might be dis
~, tracted while she went to meet her lover
bee This is evidently rehash of the olc
oh NEUROLOGICAL legend, relating how Me
oa dea tore her little brother Absyrtus il
in pieces that her rather Aetes might hav
Ie- something to detain him while she. raj
cd away with her beloved Jason.
* Ammonia is a useful household al
ticle which it is worth while to keep o.
hand for common purposes. 1t is ex
cellent for cleansing paint, silver, an
glass; teaspoonful put in the waite
NJ produces a wonderful effect. Whereve
ia, there is grease to be removed, ammoni
he is efficacious. Consequently it is excel
il lent for cleaning air-brushes. Indeed
In it is an almost indispensable toile
a article.
he A new motor has recently been pat
Is. ented in this country, the operation @
I'd which the journal of the Franklin In
lle stitute describes as follows: Oil
Wy sprayed into the cylinder behind til
or pistOn and haino mixad with oir