The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
NO.. 81.
Items of Interest,

According to official statistics just
published, there were 5,275 suicides in
France in 1872.
During the past year the United
States imported 1884, 600 pounds of
tea from Japan.
The birth of tho Duchess of Edin-
burgh's baby increases the number of
Queen Victoria's grandchildren to twen-
ty-six, of whom twenty-three arc living.
A Boston philosopher says that you
want to look at mems boot heels to
discover their energy. A slow, sloth-
full man runs his boots over at the
heels.
A Missouri man swears he won't pay
any taxes on his farm, and he has
erected fort, supplied it with arms
and provisions, and the tax collector
keeps out of rife shot.
The Geological Garden of Cincinnati
was recently the recipient of package
weighing $50 pounds, containing live
specimens of all but three kinds of
native American snakes.
Thanksgiving hint. Charcoal is
recommended for fattening turkeys.
1t should be pulverized and mixed with
mashed potatoes and corn meal, as
well as fed to them in small Jumps.
The local authorities of Auckland,
New Zealand, are reported to have in
stituted a yearly tax of $5 head on
bachelors, the proceeds of which are to
be devoted to educational purposes.
The only excuse a Tennessee man
had for shooting Il stranger was that
the strangers name was Moses Bogar-
dus Smith. He said nobody could
bring that name into Tennessee and
live.
Some enterprising wasps started q
nest over night in the trousers of
boarder at st. Paul hotel, and when
the gentleman thrust his leg through
the next morning the whole town wasn't
large enough to hold him.
In certain Paris restaurant in Rue
de Trinidad a plate of meat, plate of
vegetables, dessert, and half bottle
of wine, are now served for nine cents;
and a writer on the Figaro, having
eaten, pronounces it good meal.
A lunatic from the Hartford, Conn,
Retreat, who was taken out to have q
tooth drawn, liked the operation so
we'll that he insisted upon having the
rest OF his teeth extracted, and it took
half dozen policemen to get him back
to the asylum.
The celebrated Merrifeld ranch OF
1000 acres, in Colusa county, CAL, has
been sold for $4,000. The parties sell.
ing the ranch purchased it two years
ago for $4,000, and have raised
about $4,000 worth of wheat upon it
since then.
A Mobile man, on returning home
congratulations OF MS family on MS
happy escape from drowning. He
thought somebody had been playing q
joke on them, and laughed heartily until
he found that they had given his best
suit of clothes to the colored man who
brought the news, and who said he was
sent for some dry clothes.
A young man at Paducah, whileromp-
ing lately with his cousin, the only
daughter of widow, and scuffiing with
her for the possession of pistol, seized
it, and, playfully presenting it, called
upon her to surrender, when it went off,
inhicting wound from which she will
probably die. Twice before the same
young man has come near killing the
young woman by accident.
A young lady, in a note to the WIo-
mans JOuradt, says have read with
interest all you have to say on dress
reform, and now wish to ask why we
have not the independence to give up
skirts at once? Warm, full trousers,
buttoned to a shirt waist, with a band
below the knee, a full-plaited skirt
reaching to the knee, with handsome
boots, would make graceful costume,
which would be admired by all so soon
as the eye became accustomed to it,