The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-01-08
NO. 45.
Items Of Interest.

The French Assembly has passed the
bill increasing President MacMahons
salary.
An English wag says that "machin-
ery wheels are so modest that they gen
orally travel il cog"
Gordon, the convicted Thorndike
murderer saws now that he would
rather be hanged than imprisoned
for life.
Persons with small capital are ad-
vised to take three-acre sand patch IN
Virginia and raise $1,000 worth OF pea
nuts on it.
Whooping- cough is affecting the
adults in Trinity County, CAL, to an
annoying extent, and the children are
laughing at them.
Gov. Newton Booth received sixty
votes in the California Legislature, and
was elected to the United States Senate
for the full term.
Three men were lost in the woods
near Cheboygan, Michigan, recently,
and subsisted for an entire week on
Eastwood sprouts.
The Massachusetts Commissioners
offer prizes of $1,000, 81, 900, and $500
tOr the DeSb LOT IL l. AioOlA w
commodate" 1000 prisoners.
A postmaster sent to an inquirer a
letter which reads: "I Received your
Lines & To the Best of My Noleg THAR
Has Never Bin eney such Letter com to
this offes."
Mr.. e. j. Dunlap, an Illinois farmer,
has warmed his house and done all his
cooking for two years by natural gas
which he discovered on his farm III bor-
ing q well for water.
The Massachusetts Dental Society has
adopted the following resolution: Re-
solred, That in the opinion of the Mas
achusetts Dental Society, the use OF
chloroform is not advisable.
Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have when
YOU are convinced he lacks principle.
ga friend should bear with friends
infirmities." but not his vices.
A wooden railroad is suggested to
connect Clinton, Iowa, with the coal
mines at Knoxville. 1t is to be con-
structed of wood entirely, even to
wooden rails and wooden car wheels.
A family OF SIX persons IN Fort
Wayne, Ind, has been reduced within
short time to q single member by
mysterious disease, which is supposed
to have been caused by using impure
water.
The editor of q Colorado paper was
asked by stranger eff it were possible
that that little town kept up four news
papers," and the reply was No; it
takes four newspapers to keep up the
town."
Two Kentucky clergymen have been
experimenting to see how cheaply
man can support his family. One re-
ports that he does it at 81 head per
week, and the other claims to have
given 'good, plain food" for ninety
cents each member per week..
The West don't seem to be better
place for workingmen than the East. A
Denver editor says that wagonful OF
coal stood for twenty minutes in front
of his office, and he had not less than
twenty applications to unload 1t from
men anxious to earn half dollar.
A shoal of herring, so vast and dense
as to be almost compact mass, recent
ly swan into the harbor at Waterford,
Ireland, and the fishermen caught them
by the netfull. The total catch was
immense, cart loads being taken into
the country, and ship loads in barrels,
sent to England.
A lad in Worcester, Mass, has been
fined S5 and costs, amounting to Sl4.5
for stealing a sopy of newspaper from
thedoor of a subscriber. In passing
sentence the Judge said it was not the
mere market value of the goods stolen
that called for severe punishment, but
the great annoyance attending such pet
ty pilfering.
Mrs. Workman, the wife of Baptist
preacher, charged with the murder,
some time since, of a lady of whom she
was Jealous, was acquitted, after trial
lasting several days. The parties live
in Eureka, Ill. Mrs. Workman is said
to have believed the woman who was
murdered to have been intimate with
her husband.
, Lienine is chemical substance
which is found in old rags and other
unattractive articles, from which tempt
. ing syrups for the table are extracted.
SulpRuric acid is the dangerous ele-
ment in these seductive articles, and no
person with proper regard for his IN
, testines can abide it. But what can be
done in these days of adulteration to
correct these evils Everybody can
|, not 90 about with chemicals in his
pockets to test such deleterious sub
' stances. AS for the concoctors of can
tankerous syrups, let no mercy be shown