The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-01-15
NO. 46.
Items of Interest.


A Spanish prize court setting in Ha-
vana condemned the Virginius as
lawful prize.
Do not run in debt to a shoemaker.
1t is unpleasant to be unable to say
your sole is your own.
An explosion in the Ferial Battery,
Cartagena, killed twenty officers and
men of the besieging force.
Twenty Poughkeepsie On. " fami-
lies are making arrangements to emil
CRATE to Lower California in the spring.
Five hundred children of Havre lost
their fathers by the Vile du Havre dis
aster; 110 widows have been made
there.
The Boston Public Library has been
open on Sundays, nearly year, al
though the city solicitor. declared it
illegal.
The cities OF Matamoros, Monterey,
and Tampico are much disturbed Just
now by conflicts between the municipal
and state forces.
A woman in Howard City, Mich, re-
Gently gave birth to five children at one
time. So, at least says the Grand
Rapids Democrat.
Here's an example for bores A
man in Livingston country, KY, hangs
his hat on gate-post, and talks to 1t
for ten hours at time.
A Terre Haute man lately ate 142
oysters at a sitting. Judge Downing,
of New York, devours from five to seven
dozen oysters every day.
A Dubuque man hired policeman at
So night to watch his wife, and she
was at the same time paying tho same
man 81 per night to watch her husband.
The police of New York made a de-
scent upon the Kentucky Lottery, ar
rested all persons found on the preml-
ses, and seized the safes, books, money,
etc.
The Missouri HarrisOnian advertises
four hundred and twenty COW bells for
sale, and explains that it took them
from hardware man in payment for
job work.
In Boston discussion of corporal
punishment by teachers it was argued
that driving the spine up into the head
could be nothing else than hurtful to
The brain.
The Third ASS. Postmaster General Of
theU S. decides that any number of indi-
viduals or firms may print their adver-
tisements on postal card before it is
deposited in the mails.
A prisoner in western Jail escaped
with leaden key which he manufac-
turned. In New York they use golden
keys for that purpose. In such cases
both lead and gold are base metals.
When you go to Mittineague, Mass,
don't say anything about fox-hunting to
any of those hunters who recently
chased yellow cat into hole whence
she was unearthed with much trouble.
It is a matter of indisputable record
that nearly half the children born i'll
civilized communities die before they
are five years old, and from 10 to 20 per
cent. of them during the first year OF
infancy.
Treasurer Spinner still keeps as
relic the torn and blook-stained play
bill with which Laura Keene attempted
to stanch the wound of President Lin
coin, in his box, at Ford's theatre, on
the night of the assassination.
The company raised for the conquest
of Cuba at Augusta, Ca, was very
strongly officered. 1t consisted OF
thirteen generals, seven colonels, four
captains, nineteen paymasters, twenty
seven quartermasters, and one private.
A Troy girl whose parents would not
let her marry him wrote letter to a
convent asking for situation as nun,
had the letter intercepted by her
mother, and a finale of white satin, lace,
orage blossoms, and things followed as
a matter of course.
They have a queer way OF suppressing
rebellions in Mexico, nowadays. The
$50 revolutionists of Sonora, who
promised such great things, last Sept,
being short of cash, recently accepted
from their enemies an offer of 81, 600
for their arms and then disbanded.
A correspondent of the Waterloo Oh
seruer tells story of a man who went
to q new town n..the West. When he
arrived with his wife the town was
building hotel. She being the first
woman here the town stopped work,
gave three cheers, and engaged her on
the spot to mend their clothing for 81
day.
In the little Swiss Republic, DIR. @.
Schenck, whose election to the Presi-
dency was announced, receives a salary
of $1,000, holds his position but one
year, and will not be eligible for re-
election until the expiration of another
year. The Vice-President has So, AGO,
and the seven members of the Council,
each of whom presides over an admins
trative department, also receive 50, 400
each.
A Nashville printer recently had
some very bad manuscript copy to set
up. Every word needed close study
before its meaning could be guessed at,
but at length two or three words came
in succession, which it was quite i'm
possible to decipher. All hands in the
office tried and failed, until at length
the printer, in despair, set up "copy
books ten cents each," and continued
the work, afterwards sending the proof
to the author for correction. The hint
was taken, and the author employed an
amanuensis.
Change of purpose is not invariably
the sign of a weak mind, and we trust
that resonsiderations of a similar i'm
port to the following, which we find in
the Rochester Democrat, will not this
season be infrequent. 1t has reference
to contribution to the orphan asylum
of that city, and is in the form of anote
to the treasurer, inclosing $50, which
was shown to the city editor " Mr..
Sage-I subscribed so for the asylum
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