The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-07
NO.. 10.
Items of Interest.

The number of hares and rabbits
produced annually in Great Britain is
said to be 10000, 900, supplying 10000
tons of foud.
A Western agricultural editor says,
it makes "good garden sass to let
your hens and chickensinto your neigh.
boris ground.
Using a cancelled postage stamp
caused man to be fined $500 and costs
in the United States District Court the
other day in Utica.
boarding house boy, on being asked
by an amateur mineralogist what he
thought was the strongest of substances2
replied, promptly, "butter."
Among party of Swedish emigrants
recently arrived in Portland, Me-, was
man and his wife. about forty-fve
years old, with nineteen children.
An uncle left eleven silver spoons to
his nephew in his will, adding, "He
knows the reason why have not left
him the whole Dozen" The nephew
had stolen one.
PRoF. Fl. r. PALMER of Chicago, Prof.
L. o. Emerson of Boston, and other
noted teachers, hold four weeks Musi-
cal Institute at Dunkirk, N. Y, be-
ginning July 10.
The editor of the Leavenworth Datly
Argus touchingly remarks in the obitu-
ary of his paper: "We went into the
business determined to run it or bust.
We have busted"
The Maine people are waking up to
the enforcement of the fish laws, and a
man was fined $50 the other day for
merely bringing salmon to market in
Bangor out of season.
Henry Meiggs is free to return to
California. TIE Legislature have pass
ed an act declaring his long forgotten
offences to be bygones, which the Gov
ernor vetoed. The bill was then pass
ed over the veto.
1t is calculated that if the body of
each of the 270,673 persons who died
in the United States in 1870 was allowed
a fullsized grave, the whole would oc-
cupy about two hundred and two acres.
If they were cremated, the ashes would
make excellent manure for about
thousand acres.
Now here is case of pure innocence.
An Iowa railroad employee, whose sig
nal lantern, like that of the foolish vir-
gins, was left without oil, wrote to the
supply officer for "some more of that
red oil, not knowing that the color of
the lantern globe had something to do
with the shade of light it threw out.
1t takes six goats month to feed a
large boa constructor. They are swal-
lowed whole, the time for each being
two hours and twenty minutes, during
which the reptile makes terrific efforts
and disgusting contortions. He then
lies in torpid state till his food is dis
solved, when he makes known that he
is ready for another meal.
The newspapers and periodicals pub
lished in this country in 1860 numbered
4,051. In 1870 the number had in
creased to 5,a71. According to recent
statement the number has increased
since that time to 6, S75, more than ], ZOO
having been added within three years.
OF this number CAT are dailies, 5,175
weeklies, and 1,053 monthlies, etc.
The movement against railroads in
the West operates disastrously on cer-
tain industries in the East. The re-
ceipts of Western railroads have fallen
off more than twenty. five per cent, and
the result is that the corporations can
not afford to order the manufacture of
rails. AS consequence orders are
slack in the Troy mills, and some of
them will probably close.
A western paper speaks of the house.
cleaning season as that when divine
woman has her own way about the
house, while the "old man" takes his
solemn repast from the top of the -four
barrel, and, in sleeping, enjoys the
freedom of the interval between his
bedroom and the front fence. 1t is
season of meditation, white wash, and
calm unimpassioned profanity.