The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-12
Items of Interest.

coal shale.
Lazy husbands are known out West
as stove watchers.
Paper as a building material has be-
come a great success.
Druggists are not appropriately
termed "pillers of society.
A Western butcher, whose premises
were robbed, said he lost flesh"
Hot sand baths have been introduced
in London for rheumatic patients.
Malleablo iron was we'll known and
extensively used four thousand years
ago.
The sophmore class at Wesleyan
University "embraces four young
ladies'"
Teach calves to drink when three
days old-that is, if they are to be
raised
Watch for little opportunities Of
pleasing, and put little annoyances out
of the way.
The coal question-Who's to tote it
up out of the cellar when Biddy resigns
you, or your wife?
A bill is before the California Legis-
lature making twelve hours a days work
for street car conductors.
In India nearly 3O0,0 900 persons die
annually from the bites of reptiles and
depredations of wild beasts.
The Congregationalists of the far
West have decided to establish their
central university at Colorado Springs,
Col.
st. George Mivart makes out that
the gorilla is the least and the orang
the most human of the anthropoid
apes.
George Brown, the founder of library
in Cincinnati, is now so poor the he Is
often obliged to sleep in the station
house.
Beware of pork that is not thoroughly
cooked. And never attempt to fatten
a hog that has been diseased in any
| manner.
A tract of land in Missouri containing
40, 900 acres has been bought for party
of French emigrants, who are about to
settle there.
In Canada, since the recent cold snap,
they sell whisky by the pound, weigh
ing it out as if it were maple sugar or
ordinary ice.
There are now 379 woolen factories at
the South, exclusively of the mills
manufacturing carpets, hosiery or
worsted goods.
There were nearly half a million cases
of cholera in Hungary, last year, lS2,-
549 proving fatal, while 2,97S still re-
main under treatment.
The La Cross man who touched
buzz-saw with his foot to see If theasaw
, was running is ready to go into court
, and swear that it was.
f An enterprising merchant in Paris
3 distributes umbrellas gratuitously, on
| which are displayed advertisements OF
the business of the giver.
The Journal of 1pplied Chemistry
states that absolutely pure iron has
been prepared by Russian chemist by
use of the galvanic battery.
It is believed that nothing would
purify Washington so much as three
months run of smallpox, but the dis
ease never touches that point.
Iowa raised more wheat in 1873 than
any other State in the Union. She did
the same thing in 1872. In the item OF
: corn she is only second to Illinois.
r Rhode Island, with q population of
2 about 10000, has 1914 savings banks
and 90, 3,124 depositors. The average
f amount of each deposit is $5OO.5O.
e Miss Hammond, the young lady who
D recovered $4,000 from her faithless
0 lover. in Brooklyn last week, now finds
, that his total assets foot up to only ST.
500.
y at recent fire at Springfield, Mass,
Il it was shown that in documents written
: with violet ink, the writing vanished
:, under the great heat TO which 1t was
o exposed.
= = It is stated that the Mormons are
# about to re-establish themselves at
4 Nauvoo, the place from which they were
,. forcibly elected by the citizens twenty
s five years ago.
% Tn Cincinnati restaurants, where pork
e is the fayorite diet, the CHEEKY cry o.
a Microscopes for two p is heard early
" and late. Cincinnati is frightened
le about those trichira.
7e A Cincinnati man has married hi
x wife's daughter-he was WldoWel
when the marriage took place-and TN
IS mother is still living. Local metaphy
ly sicians are studying out the problem.
le The boys of Boston and Chelsea ar
ig full of animosity. They have battle
le with sticks and stones between force
a' numbering two or three hundred. On
u, u, boy has been SO badly hurt that he ma
20 die.
be The French prints having complaine
I'D that foreign prints eni ioy too muc
a;r privilege, the government will, 1T is n
no ported, lay stamp duty on all forelg
he newspapers sold and distributed
he France.
as. A bachelor says if you hand lady
to newspaper with paragraph cut out
zes it, not a line of it will be read, bl
;he every bit of interest felt in the. pap
ual by the lady will centre in finding o
;he what the paragraph contained.
M Statistics show that the larger part
ess crime in England, committed by me
ent is committed by young persons betwe
ace twenty and thirty years old, and OF t
to- crimes committed by females, t
ty. greater share is committed by perso
between thirty and forty years OF az
A few days ago very handsome la
entered dry goods house and lnqulr
for "beau." The polite clerk thr
ous himself back and remarked that he v
erv at her service. "Yes, but l want
ten buff, not green one," was the rep
ws The young man went on measure
tv % goods Immediately.
in A Frenchman condemned to de-
-, r.. ...,,,,5 a,;nr, bic Uifa and child wi