The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-16
GENERAL NOTES.


to have read the Bible through 4S
times.
1t is stated that another railroad
bridge is to be constructed across the
Niagara river at Clifton.
1t is estimated that S1,000,O00 will
not cover the losses in cattle, horses and
sheep in California during the past win
| ter.
A Georgia bridegroom who did not
appear in time for his wedding, was
found asleep with fifteen cents in his
pocket waiting for the imitation of the
currency.
Senator Summers pictures of his
house in Washington have been cata-
logued. There are 80 oil paintings,
valued at S25 900, and more than 5000
engravings, photographs, etchings, &C.,
worth about as much more.
At Trukee, Nevada, March 25th, an
icicle eighteen feet long and estimated
to weigh ten tons, fell and smashed
portion of the fume of the Truckee
Lumber Company at their mill. The
icicle was over six feet in thickness.
The New York milliners say it is use-
less to prescribe what is to be worn this
spring, as the weather will not allow Of
ladies appearing in the streets unless
clad in overshoes and waterproof cloaks.
Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon went
to Kansas City with cent, and the
other day he signed check for S16,-
900. He signed with another mans
name, and his supply of freedoms air
has been abbreviated.
The toothless may derive hope from
the fact that at KILN, IN Perthshire, an
old man died at tie aye OF ninety-one
years; but five years before his death,
be cut six new teeth, which he said
we're quite serviceube and 'as sharp as
lancets."
A sufferer who has suffered with
these "comforts," says he has been very
successful in treating boils by the use Of
white pine pitch, applied as soon as they
begin to appear The effect is to bring
the boil to head without severe pain.
At school exhibition in Middleton,
Wis, last week, kerosene lamp ex.
ploded, and the audience of three hun
dred persons made rush for the door
After all the men had got beyond the
reach Of danger, two courageous women
entered the building and smothered out
the fire with overcoats and carpets
Forty persons were injured in The panic.
A new method of preparing coffee is
becoming popular in France After
roasting the coffee is ground to a very
fine -four, which is then slightly moist
ened, mixed with twice its weight OF
powdered sugar and pressed into tablets.
Coffee prepared for use in this manner
is claimed, pound for pound, to be sus-
ceptble of far more complete utliza-
ton.
Wild coffee bushes are plentiful 10
Amador and other counties in Califur.
MIA. The berries are known to the set.
tiers as scat berries" but are in every
respect similar to the coffee of com.
merce. A Columbian consul, who is in.
timately acquainted with the cultivation
of coffee in South America, is confident
that the shrub is the genuine coffee
plant, AMI capable of producing under
cultivation superior quality of coffee.
A member of the Ohio Legislature
recently visited the State penitentiary
and while there, had his hair cut by the
prison barber. While undergoing the
tonsorial process party of ladys and
gentlemen visitors looking in, and the
legislator was made happy by catching
such remarks as, "UGly look about the
eyes" "Vicious mouth" "Looks capa
Bile of any wickedness," "Wouder wha
he did," etc.
Revised and complete returns of the
election held in Connecticut on the 6ti
inst. give total vote of 81 GIL, o.
which Harrison (Rep.) has 4O,O42
Iugersoll (Dem.) 6,7S4, Smith (Prohi
bitionisD 1926; scattering, 10. Inger
soils plurality is GAP, and his majority
over all 1897. The Senate stands Il
Democrats to 4 Republicans, and the
House l4S Democrats, 96 Republicans
and 2 Independents,
The Brooklyn Eagle has discovered
the existance, just beyond the limits O.
that city, in stables filled with filth anc
dirt, packed together in the closest pos
sible space, and in all conditions of dis
ease, eight hundred cows fed upon no
swill emptied from an adjoining distil
lery, and publishes the names Of som,
twenty dealers who peddle the swill
milk as "Orange-county milk" to retail
dealers and citizens of the two cities.
Gen. Edward Lee, who was actin;
Governor of Wyoming territory whel
suffrage was granted to the women, de-
livered lecture at Boston, las
Wednesday, on its workings. Ill
declares that no domestic jars have oc
CURED, even when in one case hus
band and wife were rival candidates fo
the same Office, the one on the demo
cratic, and the other on the republican
ticket. The women usually vote for tn,
best candidates, and cannot be brlbed
and the whole political situation is i'm
proved.