The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-26
NO.. SO.
Items of Interest.


in rendering boots waterproof.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean between California and China is
2b miles.
The amount expended on the Penn
sylvnnia Constitutional Convention was
$41O, 723.
You may always know an old bachelor
by the feet that he always speaks OF
baby as cit"
st. Louis wants branch mint if Chi
cago is to have one-otherwise she can
get along without it.
Over a quarter of the State of Mime
sofa, or 13, 3,209,0 900 acres of land, have
been given to the railroads.
The doll of the period is elaborately
dressed, wears jewelry, and is alto
gether too nice to play with.
Muscatine, Iowa, is reported to be
"stuck up" in view of the fact that
starch factory is to be located there.
A great drawback to this country, in
the view of an English journal, is the
adulteration of its liquors and its Ian
guage.
A naval officer who has been in China
testified in behalf of the excellence of
rat stews. We have not the slightest
objection.
Among the petitions presented to
Congress lately was a claim for SIC, 900,
made by chirapodist for operating on
the feet of soldiers.
The steam boiler of Baird e. Roper's
shingle mill at Deep Creek, Virginia,
exploded, killing four persons and badly
scalding four others.
Gen. Thomas A. Rosser is out with
an argument for towing canal boats with
locomotives, narrow gauge track to be
built on the towpath.
San Francisco editors are firing real
bullets at each other, and it is the poor
est method that could be invented to
furnish leading articles.
A well-trained family dog recently
officiated at Des Moines wedding by
carefully holding aportion of the brides
dress during the ceremony.
Humility is a grace that adorns
and beauties every other grace with
it. the most splendid natural and ac-
quired acquisitions lose their charm.
Joseph Davis was hanged at Vest
minister, Md, for the murder of Abra-
ham L. Lynn, and William 81. McCotter
was hanged at Cambridge, Md, for the
murder of his father-in-law, Robert
Insley.
"Take wing!" gushed a pompous
up-start, extending his arm to O sensl-
bic lady, at the close of prayer meet
ing. mot of gander - she quietly
replied, and walked home with her
mother.
The Wilmington IN. O. Star received
a proposition from the proprietor to ad-
vertise to the amount of $8 and take it
out in hotel accommodations, to which
the editor replied that he advertises for
cash, not hash.
A proposed amendment to the New
Jersey constitution is that property of
no kind shall be exempt from taxation,
except that of the State, counties, and
municipalities, and burying grounds
not held by stock companies.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
law providing that whoever aduiterates
milk with water, chalk or other sub
stance, or sells such milk, shall be con-
fined in the county Jail not exceeding
one year, OF fined not exceeding $5OO.
A London correspondent, in speak
ing of the Tichborne trial, says: "No
case has ever, I believe, produced as
many liars and perjurers in any country
as this one. A regular bargain and sale
of witnesses has been the rule on both
Sides"
A philosopher remarks that there is
something peculiarly instructive In
standing upon street corner in large
city and watching the men all rushing
around trying to make money, and the
women all floating around trying to
spend it.
The series of fourteen "extras" I"
issued by the New York Tribune are
undoubtedly the cheapest and best
popular scientific publication in the
world. The Tribune will send free to
any applicant circular giving the full
contents and details of this remarkable
Library for One Dollar"
The number of girl students of Ober-
lin college who fail to complete their
course, compared with the number. of
male students equally unfortunate. is
as two to one. W0 have this on the
authority of the president of the college,
and we should like him to tell us what
he expects of class just escaping
slavery.
A Nebraska journal invitingly says
"Who says farmers cannot get rich in
this State? Fifteen yeare ago a young
man came to the State, without dollar
in the world. Last week he went out of
the State, carrying with him the sum
of one dollar and thirty-eight cents, the
: savings of fifteen years of frugal life.
,, Come West, young man, come WestP =
As soon as the Congressional chap
lain closes his appeal to the Throne OF
! Grace there is clapping of hands all
r over the floor. 1t is the way members
have of calling pages to their side
Every Congressman begins his days
labor by giving an order to messen
ger; hence the clapping is universal ant
uproarious. "Well, that beats me,
said an elderly man in the gallery, witt
q mud on his boots, which looked al
, though it had been brought from tn,
other side of the Potomac; don't SCI
anything in that prayer worth cheer
, ing"
The philosophers of India once pos
< sessed book so large that it require,
5 thousand camels to carry it. A kim
/ desired to have it abridged, and certain
D scholars reduced il SO that it could b.
carried by hundred camels. Othe
3 kings came, who demanded that j
/ should be diminished still more unit
t at length the volume was reduced I
4 four maxims. The first of these max