The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-24
NO. Al.
Items of Interest.

music than any other city in America.
A brass band in Virginia City, Nevada,
has been earnestly requested to practice
exclusively in the isolated passage of q
mine 600 feet under ground.
An insect inspector for every town in
Massachusetts, is proposed. His duty
would be to examine orchards, and order
the destruction of infested trees.
A Chinese servant in San Francisco,
by way of revenge upon his mistress,
broke with pair of pincers piece out
of every dish in a valuable dinner set.
The saying, "He is as good man as
ever lived, but he can't keep a hotel,
was original with Mat Peel, a negro
minstrel, who died in Buffalo in 1859.
The highest prize in Chinese lottery
is twenty-nine cents, and the man who
draws it has his name in the papers, and
is looked upon as heap Of fellow.
Men in New York State who get drunk
in saloon, and then break all the glass
ware in the place, cannot be made to pay
the damage The seller of the liquor is,
under the present law, liable for all the
injury done by the drinker.
A suicide in New York left the follow
ing note "This act of self-destruction is
entirely voluntary. 1 am brought to it
by incurable disease, want of employ
ment, utter pecrlniary destitution, semi
starvation, no fuel, nor means to pay any
rent"
The British Government is engaged in
making such improvements to Cork har-
Dor that, when finished, it will be one
of the best harbors of refuge in the
world. The entrance will be protected
by forts armed with guns of the heaviest
calibre.
A young lady and gentleman, aged
respectively twelve and thirteen years,
were married at Gouldtown, Mich, re-
Gently. When last seen they were quar-
reling over pound of mixed candies,
and throwing out vague intimations
about divorce.
"When music, heavenly maid, was
young" she would have been startled,
says the London Echo, if not absolutely
frightened from the world, could she
have foreseen the terrible prices her
votaries would have to pay to hear the
warbling of her delicious strains,
Poor young thing She tainted away
at the washtub, and her pretty nose went
kerslop into the soapsuds. Some said it
was overwork others, however, whis-
pered that her beau had peeped over the
back fence and called out Hullo,
there, Bridget, is Miss Alice ut home 2"
The trick that the boys played on DR..
Wheeler, at Holden, Mass, was to sot
fire to load of hay upon which he was
riding. 1t burned beautifully, the horse
ran away, and, to cap the climax of fun,
the doctor fell off and broke his leg.
That was a memorable day for the boys.
A tailor in Harrisburg, Penn, adver-
tises that when people "with sallow, If
regular, and homely faces are clad III
garments of his making they are looked
upon with love and veneration, their
countenances being regarded "a the
index of pure and compassionate spirits,
According to the statistics of 1874
there are in America 36, 17S German
Methodist members local preachers,
37S; churches, 552 Sunday-schools,
| CAT scholars, 32,011. The Northern
| Methodist Church has had nearly 100,-
! 600 accessions to its membership this
past year.
Diphtheria has been very prevalent in
Australia, and one of the most successful
remedies is said to have been few drops
of sulphuric acid in tumblerful of
water. The result of this mixture is said
/ to be congulation of the diphtheritic
membrance and its ready removal by
coughing.
A big brother in Pottsville has been
brought to shame. His sister had
beau who was obnoxious to him. One
dark night ON the steps she seemed to
be affectionately kissing this beau good
night. The brother crept up softly and
kicked hard, and down fell an elaborate
scarecrow.
Mrs. Flanagan, of Philadelphia, who
is daughter of Judge Strong, of the
United States Supreme Court, is said to
have received the most valuable wedding
presents of all the brides this season.
Among her gifts We're $4,000 set of
silver and gold, S., 900 pair of diamond
earrings, a $4,000 set of pearls, and four
India shawls.
While workmen were sinking a well
in Kay Aounty, Mo-, recently, they came
to what appeared to be the bed Of
lake about twenty feet beneath the sur
face, which showed petritied stalks of
water lilies, embedded i'll sandstone, and
a fish about four feet long, with a very
large head and prominent eyes.
Mrs Wrisley's watch has had an event
full history in Haydenville, Mass. 1t
was stolen and recovered, the thief going
to State prison. 1t was again stolen, and
returned upon the payment of reward.
Then the Mill river flood came along and
swept it away. Recently it was found
hanging under the floor of house that
had been overturned bo the water.
A country deacon went home one
evening and complained to his wife that
he had been abused down at the store
shamefully. One of the neighbors, he
said, called him liar. Her eyes flashed
with indignation. "Why didn't you
tell him to prove ~ she exclaimed.
"Thats the very thing-thats the
trouble" replied the husband F; :" told
him to prove it, and he did prove it"
A clergyman was one day much an
! noyed by those who dropped in after the
services had commenced, invariably
closing the door after them. He bore
, the vexation with Job-like patience but,
at length, being fairly exhausted from
that, he vociferated to an offender
Friend, do for goodness sake let the
: door be open. l believe if l were
. preaching in bottle you would put the
cork in !"
The social function of Albert Wagner
of Berne, Albany county, N. Y, is to ac
as arbitrator in nearly all of the dispute