The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-28
NO. 13.
Items OF Interest,

Amateur entomologists have found
II different species of butterflies in the
Sierras.
Swinging is said by the doctors to be
good exercise for health, but many
poor wretch has come to his death by
It is stated that over 100000 Circas-
SLAMS have emigrated to Turkey since
the conquest of their territory by Rus
sia was completed.
A large coal merchant in England,
who is teetotaller, declines all orders
from brewers or distillers, for fuel to
| be used in their business.
There are said to beabout 1 500 miles
of narrow gauge railroad in the United
States and Canada, and over l 200 miles
in process of construction.
A pugulistic Irishman, being bound
over to keep the peace on all British
subjects, remarked /: "The saints help
the first foreigner meet"
Worse than gunpowder. During the
last ten years, $1,000, 900 of property
haf been destroyed, and 80, 900 persons
killed or injured, by the use of unsafe
oils.
Bobbs complains that his wife is an
infationist. She blows him up every
day, and makes him circulate until he
actually feels that he is beyond re-
demption.
A girl in Liverpool wants to know
who has got her young man. She hasn't
seen him since the evening she told
him there had been poetry in her family
for several generations.
1t is estimated that it takes a domes-
ticated fly q two-billionth part of a
second to wink, while an industrious
mosquito can do it in one tenth of that
time. Corrections solicited.
The instructions to the police force of
Alexandria are "Don't arrest the
Mayor or any member of the Common
Council for intoxication, but assist them
home and say nothing about it,"
A Boston servant girl, who thought
she heard a burglar in the house,
jumped from window across an alley
more than ten feet wide into window
of another building, the other night,
and there was no burglar round, after
all.
A bill has been introduced in the
Canadian Parliament to make each news
paper writer responsible to the law for
his articles, so that if an editor
could prove that he had not written
particular article he would not be liza
BILE to punishment for it.
Joseph Harrod, formerly of Portland,
Maine, but now of New York State,
claims that he introduced the tomato in
this country, raising the first plant in
1915 from seeds given hlm Dy 1flend
who brought them from Cuba. He ex-
pected nothing more than an ornamen-
tai plant.
The Massachusetts Anglers Associa-
tion, having become convinced from
the result of their investigations that
smelt during the spawning season are
not healthy food, since they then are
full of parasites, have procured the
passage of law to prevent taking them
at that time.
San Francisco is shortly to witness
an exhibition on a grand scale OF the
electric light, which, it is said, will be
so intense as to be visible at distance
of 200 milos. The machine for the pur-
pose has been imported from Europe,
and will be run by steam engine OF
four-horse-power.
A well-known and respectable Bos-
ton man, who wanted to be funny, ran
up to lady at the Parker House whom
he mistook for one of his friends, on
Sunday evening, and pulled her hand
kerchief out of her pocket. He was
arrested instantly and taken to the lock
up, but on explaining matters was re-
leased.
Three hundred barrels of wine, ready
for expectation, were recently conts-
Gated in Paris. The contents of the
barrels on examination were found to
be small quantity of alcohol or wine,
which was even wanting in some of the
barrels, water, carmine, cochineal, tine
ture of logwood, sulphate of alumina,
potass, aniline, fuchsine, &c.