The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

ST. PAUL, Mlnn., is forcing the season
in the matter of thunder-showers.
CONCORD is proud of citizen who has
voted at every election since 1900.
MISSISSIPPI papers, in publishing mar
riage notices, put the name of the victim
last. .--..
FIFTEEN women have been qualified as
electors by the Selectmen of Windham,
Conn. r...
A BosToN gentleman keeps the small
pox hospital literally supplied with
flowers.
THE latest problem for civil engineers is
to make one of the keys of piano fit the
lock of canal.
A FRENCH commission has reported in
favor of prohibiting the sale of absinthe
in that country.
IT is not an uncommon sight in Russia
to see women working with men at paw
ing the streets.
PAGE county, Iowa, is going to try the
anomaly of an agricultural fair without
horse-racing.
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
set aside a verdict which the jury reached
by means of rattle.
GOLD is at a premium of only thirty
thousand per cent. as compared with pa
per CurTeHCy III dayu.
ONE member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of Pennsylvania, has called an
other Oily Cannon, Esq.
Pennsylvania proposes to found culi-
nary college as Soon as it can get suffic-
lent roaster of stewgents.
Nova SCOTIA yielded, in the ten years
ending January l, 1871, about eight tons
OF gold valued at $3,640,356.
A NEW town is just started in Kansas,
in which no one is to be allowed to settle
who smokes or chews tobacco.
THE epizootic has temporarily stopped
work at the Sutro tunnel, it being impos-
sible to haul fuel for the engines.
A PARTISAN gun-maker advertises ga
select assortment of revolvers for those
disappointed in love-" Little things like
this indicate the approach of the mil
lenium.
THE women school-teachers of Detroit,
Mich, are on strike for higher wages.
They haven't stopped work, but intimate
that they must do so or starve at present
prices.
A MICHIGAN girl drew a 81 900 farm at
gift concert recently, and now the local
poets describe her as beautiful being"
although she is lame, has red hair and
no teeth.
IT is estimated that over S50,O00,000
have been loaned on Chicago property
since the fire. The money has been
drawn mainly from New York, Boston
and Hartford.
THE number of persons out of employ
ment in Philadelphia is appalling. One
insertion of little advertisement for a
clerk in railroad office brought 9S5 ap-
plicants in single day.
a SMALL boy in New Haven made a
sensation for short time by quietly trans
terring card bearing the words, Take
one" from lot of hand-bills in front of a
store to basket of oranges.
A BROOKLYN real estate auctioneer. bent
on surprising his rivals, advertises in
1laring posters, that he has great num-
Der of "superb, gilt-edged. A No. lots''
for sale. Gitt-edged is good.
DIFFICULTIES have existed for some
time as to the exact boundary line between
Virginia and Maryland. Virginia claims
a portion of Maryland as within her ter
ritory, which has taxable value of $780,
100000.
IT is stated that the old hand presses,
on which so many fine books have been
printed, are again coming into use in
France. 1t is found that in small editions,
requiring much care, these presses are
much better than those worked by ma
chinery.
IT is said that pigeons can be nurtured
to the fatness and delicacy of ortolans, by
feeding them with wheat stepped in cod
liver oil. Those who have partaken of
pigeons thus fattened say that it is the
pleasantest way of taking cod-liver oil yet
tried by them.
THERE is a happy land, and we call the
seX's attention to it. A letter written by
a San Francisco gentleman on a voyage
to the Navigator Islands, dated at Apin,
in speaking of the inhabitants says: "All
are really slaves to them.''
A SACRAMENTO lawyer remarked to the
Court at is my candid opinion, Judge,
you are an old fool" The Judge allowed
his mildly -beaming eye to fall upon the
lawyer a brief moment; then, in voice
husky with suppressed tobacco juice and
emotion, said: SIT is my candid opin-
ion that you are fined Sl00.''
ROBIN redbreast has hard time of it
in the sunny South, according to the Muir.
freesborough (Tenn.) Nelcs, which says,
Ever since last Christmas millions of
robins have been roosting in the cedars on
the Puckett place, about four miles west
of town. Hundreds of people visit the
foOSt nightly, and bag as many as they
want. Up to this date thousands of these
birds have been caught, but there appears
to be no diminution of their numbers"
A REMARKABLE INvENTIoN.-One of
the most important improvements ever
perfected in musical instruments has late
ly been introduced by Geo. Woods & Co.,
in their improved Parlor Organs. 1t con-
sists of piano of excellent quality which
will never require tuning. The instru-
ment was lately introduced at a musical
soiree in Baltimore, and received the cor
dial applause and Endorsement of the
many eminent professionals present.
Boston Journal.
DR.. E. S. CARR, of Oakland, California,
maintains that gold-mining in California
is not only not profitable, but carried on
at actual loss. He affirms that every dol
lar of gold that has been dug there has
cost from one to one half dollars. Fifty
thousand people, he estimates, were en-
gagged in mining in 1872, and the product
was twenty million dollars. Reckoning
the labor at two and half dollars per
day, DR.. Carr calculates that the miners
wages would amount to thirty-seven and
half million dollars, making an aggre-
gate loss to the community, in a single