The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-23
Items of Interest,

California has added to the States in
which local option laws prevail.
The boys are thinking of forming q
National Association of rnarble-players.
Remove wax from the ear by tepid
water never put a hard instrument IN
to the ear.
It is reported that Brigham Young
has 81 ,000,0 600 slowed away in the Bank
of England.
| A substitute for the whites of eggs,
as employed by various manufacturers,
has been invented in Europe.
How doth the little busy politician
Improve each shining hour,
| To scatter bayseed in his hair
| And dust his coat with flour.
A butter factory, which, according to
local paper, twill pump four hundred
cows" is about to be established in
Iowa.
There is prejudice in human kind
! against large ears. AS the poet says !:
"Man wants but little ear below, nor
wants that little long"
Nine tenths of the women be-
lieve that if one hears dog howl at
midnight for three successive nights
that there is to be death in the fami-
ly.
Iron Notifications are to be used for
the defense of German strongholds, the
experiments made during the past six
years having proved them to be almost
impregnable.
An Ohio church prohibits admission
to tobacco -chewers and a notice is con-
spicuously posted in it that every man
who chews, whether he chewses or not,
must take his leaf.
Jones-I wish somebody would leave
you, Will, to me in the shape of half a
million. WILL guess people have
left enough of me already to you, Jones,
in the shape of Bills.
Telegraphing is a game that prairie
chickens do not understand, and i'll con-
sequence many of them are killed by
coming in contact with wires in their
flight in large focks.
Hereafter no portrait is to be placed
upon any of the bonds, securities,
notes, fractional or postal currency of
the United States, while the original of
such portrait is living.
Some fellow, with no respect for the
dignity of butter, remarks of the lady
who models busts in that article of
food, that her talents would have re-
flected credit upon Greece.
A French statute DEGREES that any
person animadverted on in newspaper
may claim for his printed self-defense
twice as much space as was occupied by
the article to which he takes excep-
ton.
A Texas gentleman four years ago
bought SOW and four pigs for five dol
loose. He now enjoys the proud dis
tinction of being the "Hog King" Of
Texas.
A saloon keeper in Des Mones, Iowa,
has put up sign in his establishment
for the benefit of crusaders And thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thy
closet-and not into somebody else's
rum shop.
The production of coal on the Pacific
coast is rapidly increasing. The Mount
Diable Mines have averaged 175, 600
tons year for two years past, and the
lowest prices are Sc. % for fine and $6, 20
for coarse.
Passengers to the Pacific by rail
breakfast in Sierras with twenty feet OF
snow around them; four hours later
!! they find wheat four inches high, and
the next day see pear and peach trees
in blossom.
Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon went
, to Kansas City without a cent, and the
other day he signed check for SIG, GOO.
He signed with another mans name,
and his supply Of freedom'sair has been
!, abbreviated.
The Albany Argus, in local article
! on the "Corning farm" says Erastus
Corning, Jr., Esq, has refused $4O,;-
/ 600 for the trotting horse George Pal
, mer. He is better horse to-day than
ever before, but it is not probable he
will ever trot in public again.
t The boundary dispute between Vir-
$ ginia and Maryland runs back to 1868.
1t involves the possession of the Po-
. tomac, with its riparian rights, and ..
9 about $50 square miles of land, part OF
: which is now immensely valuable on ac'
5 count of the oyster harvest.
There is an old story that st. Peter
, when he revisited earth, was obliged
t among the multitudinous changes OF
4 every hand, to have guide through
most of Europe, but on entering Spain
, he dismissed him "for here" sait
t the Saint, " everything is just as lef
D it," -'
There is a farmer in Flushing whC
owns Kentucky-b bred mule that has
:. within the last thirty days, kicked
q in seventeen barn-doors, unroofed
: dozen chicken -coops, and trampled tn
I life out of four of his favorite pigs. Ill
u u calls it, says the Brooklyn Argus, Bel
y Butler. ....
In his "Notes on Virginia" Thoma
Jefferson sneered at these reports, say
ing I" 1t is claimed that there was
prior declaration of independence i
Il North Carolina, a statement havin
>, about as much foundation as the re
L port that a volcano exists in the noun
Il tains of the same State"
n The San Francisco Bulletin think
a the loss in the death of cattle in tha
=. country since fall has been over 81 900
: 600. The feed has been very scarce
n and consequently the cattle were in n
a condition to meet the long storm
n Shelter is out of the question. Son
"A individuals own $4,000. Of course the
1t cannot be fed.
a, While the women were praying {
Y. the sidewalk in front of a saloon
III New Albany, KY, recently, fight W
10 inaugurated between some men clio
a at hand. and though oaths and ribs