The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-25
NO. II.
Items of Interest.
119, 900 Israelites live in France.

ll9,OUU lSraellteS live IN FRANCE.
California exempts editors from jury
duty.
Iowa erected /, 1866 school houses last
year.
Paris eats nearly 5000 horses every
year.
There are fifty Episcopal Churches
in California.
The hydrophobia days are come, the
maddest of the year.
A tune holds good until an organ
grinder gets hold of it.
The estimated damage by the Missis-
sippi floods is $20,000,000.
The average receipts of one Sandusky
fish house are six tons day.
Over 600cabin passengers sailed from
New York to Europe, one week.
Over. 3O,00O,0 900 acres of land in the
Southwest has been overfown.
Over 100000 pounds of wool have
been delivered in Lebanon, N. 81.
A Pittsburgh newspaper calls the
debt items of that city "due drops"
The New York State tax this year is
seven and one-fourth miles on the dol
lar.
A sewing machine agent was shot
half a dozen times, but his cheek was
left intact.
If you want to make hustle in the
world take five newspapers and piece
of tape.
An Orange county farmer has been
stabling his COW in an ice house to make
her give ice cream.
Why might carpenters believe there
is no such thing as stone? Because
they never saw it.
A matter-of-fact old gentleman thinks
| it must be very small base ball that
can be caught on fly.
A monster hotel is being erected in
San Francisco. to cost 81, 200, 600 and
accommodate 200 persons.
One hundred and fifty-five days of
sleighing were enjoyed in some parts
of Wisconsin during the past season.
A boy, having heard of sailors heav-
ing up anchors, wanted to know If 1T
was seasickness that made them do it.
In Middletown, Conn, magistrate
has lately decided that woman has q
legal right to get drunk in her own
house.
A Wyoming paper delicately announ-
ces that it's charge for marriage notices
is "iust what the ecstasy of the BRIDE
groom may prompt"
The number of failures in the United
States for 1872 was 4 4,O69 total liabili-
ties, $121, ,O56,OO For 1873, 5,1S3;
total liabilities, 1928, 400, 900.
A Minnesota clergyman has sued
thirty-five members of his church, who
refuse to pay pew rent because he al
luded to them in one of his sermons as
"empty heads"
A San Francisco man has been
sued for $40, 900 by another man whose
idea seems to be that he may keep the
woman if he will pay the money.
Prepare we'll hills for cucum-
bers four feet apart each way, and use
plenty of seed, and manure in the hill.
There are many devices for keeping off
the "striped bug" but some simple
covering answers.
The poultry propagator writes to
"our contributor to ask, "When is
a hen most likely to hatch ?" We have
devoted considerable attention to this
branch of fine arts, and answer unhesi-
tatingly, "When she is in earnest"
At a recent meeting where there was
much religious interest, an old man
gave expression to his JOY by shouting,
and continued it until it began to inter-
rupt the service. Brother III. said to
Brother W., SEQ stop that old mans
noise." He went to see him, and spoke
few words, and the shouting man at
once became quiet. Brother H."
asked brother w, "what did you say
to the old man that quieted him down
so promptly?" Brother W. replied,
ct asked him for a dollar for foreign
missions"