The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-12
GENERAL NOTES.

A new papsr in Hudson county, N.
j., is called the Highland Fling.
Wildcats are plenty in the Catskill
Mountains this winter.
A balloon is soon TO start from France
for the United States.
Thistle tea and poultice Of thistle
leaves are said to be good for neuralgia.
The first shad are selling in North
Carolina at 81 each.
Ship building promises to be brisk in
Maine this year.
A band of trained nurses are to be
sent out for duty to the Gold Coast
The Governor OF A4rkansas offers re-
wards for the apprehension of fifteen
murderers.
There is an ice bridge over the Hud.
son at Newburg, sixty miles from New
York.
A Richmond paper complains Of the
large nunber OF Virginians who are
leaving their native State.
1t is said that by using hot salt water
in tempering a steel, flaws and cracks
are prevented.
Allentown makes her tranps sweep
crossings, as set off against nights
lodgings and breakfast.
The public schools Of Chicago are
about to get wind-fall in the shape of
an estate valued at Sl,000,000.
A Chicago man says that instead of
building any more school houses, they'd
better build couple of jails.
A bold thief IN Cincinnati stole
eighteen hogs from a stock yard, drove
them through the city, and got clean off
with his plumber.
The ministers OF st. Joseph, Mo-,
propose to send a committee to the diff
fereut newspapers to pray for the edi-
tors.
Between 500 and 900 women are en-
ployed by Government at Jacksonville,
Ind, in the manufacture of army
clothing.
Santa Barbara, California, had grand
bull and bear fight recently, which is
said to have been attended by all the
best citizens.
The religion Of Buddha is older by
six centuries than that founded by
Christ, and proiessod by $50, 100000 Of
the human race.
Congress has been invited to semble
in Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia, on
the 9th of September, the one huud-
redth anniversary Of the meeting Of the
First American Congress.
Bret Harte, it is soid, can command
higher price for his work than any
literary man in the metropolis. Serb
ner's Monthly has paid him as much as
500 page.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas has
decided that State certificates of indebt-
edness, with which that commonwealth
has lately been inflated, are receivable
for taxes.
1t is estimated that during the i'm
pending famine in India the Govern
ment will be called upon to supply half
a pound of grain per day, for eight
mouths, to $4,000, 900 people.
"Now could / drink hot blood" says
Han,let; but Boston people actually
9uaff the un pleasant draught and are
cured of consumption, paralysis, and
many other complaints.
A Washington letter calls attention
to the fact that not a dollar has ever
been missing from the department Of
the Comptroller of the Currency, where
are ladies exclusively employed as clerks
Some old traveller remembers that
when he was in Europe in the winter
of 1862 there was neither frost nor
Snow, fires were not lighted for the pur-
pose of warmth either in France or
Germany, and trees flowsred in Febru-
ary.
1t is generally corceeded that the
Philadelphia physicians who went to
Mount Airy, North Carolina, have
agreed 10 pay considerable SUN of
money for the privilege Of making the
autopsy Of the Siamese twins, and that
it will be do ne in the most private man-
ner.
A new battery gun, invented by Col.
j. p. Taylor, OF Tennessee, has just been
tested at Colts Armory, Hartford, Con-
necticut 1t fires 450 fusilade or 700
volley shots in minute. 1t will coDcen-
trate shots at one centre, or spread them
over twenty-five feet at distance Of 500
yards.
The German government evidently
do not believe in expending money un-
necessarily, for 1t is proverbial that the
representatives of that country all over
the world never entertain save when it
is policy or compulsory to do so. Bach
elors are usually sent out as embassa-
dors.
The question of fuel is becoming i'm
portant, even iu Minnesota. Coal is
scarce, and wood is dear, away from the
forests. Peat is considered as the great
resource. In some counties where there
is no wood, two days work with good
spade will excavatc enough fuel for ;
year.
A Detroit negro prisoner, on his way
to the penitentiary for larceny, was asked
what he thought of his trial. lie said!
"When de lawyer dat tended me made