The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-17
Who would be a turkey hen.
Fed and fattened in pen,
Killed and oat nv hungry men
hIII6U dIIU UNU " HVIHGIN IIlOIT
Oh ! who would be q turkey hen ?

| Killed ana cat by hungry men
| Oh ! who would be turkey hen'
For some years past there has been
an annual immigration of 10000 per-
sons from Italy.
Mobile is almost entirely supplied
with coal from the mines in the north
ern and central parts of Alabama.
Massachusetts proposes to have an
industrial census next year. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics is now pre-
pairing the schedules for submission to
the Legislature during the present win
ter.
Hair dealers who buy in the French
provinces the abundant tresses of the
country women pursue traffic that is
something dangerous. Recently
countryman, whose wife had sold her
hair, caught the buyer and shaved his
head.
One of the indirect advantages of an
animated political canvass is instanced
in the case of a candidates wife who
bases her application for divorce upon
the accounts of her husbands private
character published in the opposition
newspapers.
An Augusta hen-peoked husband
closed his testimony in his action for
divorce from his wife as follows: 81
don't want to say anything agin the
woman, Judge, but wish you could
live with her little while, and you'd
think told the truth"
A writer in the Montgomery (Ala.)
advertiser ascribes the troubles at the
South to cheap shotgurs, powder and
To $ho ohnntiTrV of tncpn-
tiverous birds has this year cost Ala
bama alone more than $4,000, 900 in
the ravages done by the cotton cater
pillar.
A gentleman at public table, who
had exercised his jaw for some fifteen
minutes upon o small morsel of steak,
turned to a neighbor and said What
o pity to kill this animal" "Why ?"
responded his friend. because" re-
piled the other, sit would have made
such d good working animal"
In South Boston a building four
stories high, and covering an area of
four thousand square feet, was raised
FIVE feet from its foundations. The
tenants were not disturbed, and no
machinery or merchandise had TO be
removed. Forty men working with
four hundred powerful screws did the
job.
The Changers and Sovereigns Of In
dustry in Kansas are discussing the
raising of means conformity for the con-
struction Of tanneries, oil mills, plow
factories, etc, by which the skilled
labor of the order shall furnish the
producers of the others, aud Uice cerSa.
A considerable amount has been
pledged.
A man sent to jail in Plainfi9ld, N. j..
for larceny, thought he would like to
write to his wife, and was permitted to
do so. This is what he wrote Dear
Wife: If they keep me in the jail,
make them keep you in the poor-house."
Unfortunately, that letter was not sent
Her reply would have been interesting
reading.
A Bridgeport Conn man, who was
cbopping wood, accidentally cut one of
his fingers badly, and was SO enraged
that he deliberately laid his hand on
the chopping- block and chopped the
finger entirely off. The hand, which,
but q few moments before, had been
cold and numb, soon began to warm
up, and the man began to howl.
1t is told of a man poorly dressed,
that he went to church seeking an OPP
portunity to worship. The usher did
not notice him, but seated several we'll
dressed persons who presented Ghem-
selves, when finally the man addressed
the usher, saying, "Can you tell me
whose church this is ?" eyes, this is
Christ's church" els he in?" was the
next question, after which seat was
not so hard to find.
A liquor dealer ordered barrel of
whisky from Portland, Me, some time
ago. The barrel came, was tapped, and
its contents freely drank OF. By'and--
bye a dance was given near by, and
such inroads were made upon the bar
rel that the morning after the dance
found it exhausted. That evening the
gentleman received letter from the
Portland house from whom he had pur-
chased, saying "Send back the barrel
we sent you last week, at our expense,
Immediately. By mistake we sent you
burning fluid instead OF whisky