The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-02
Items of Interest.
Anti-gamblist is the latest "ist."

A proposition IS before the trench
Assembly to impose tax OF twenty
cents on mems hats.
"Carl Schurz has voice like wind
sighing through sugar cane," says
Washington correspondent
The Cincinnati Enquirer offers to
bet $500 that no fashionable lady ever
goes to bed without first looking in the
glass.
In England recently man attending
the funeral of his father was arrested
for an offense committed fourteen years
previously.
An undertakers shop in Philadelphia
recently bore the following cheering in
scription "Gone for & dead man
back soon."
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has affimred the legitimacy of children
born of marriages between white and
colored persons.
It is believed that the bottom price
of rails is reached. The railroad COM
panies now contract for rails at $60.to
1858 at the mills.
The handkerchiefs, over which there
has been such q furore for neckware,
are going out rapidly. Windsor ties
ale taking their place.
1t is rule of etiquette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will eat with his
leg thrown over the back of his neigh
bors chair, if he can help it.
The New Orleans City Railroad re-
Gently sunk in the river q bag contain
ing AZ, 900 counterfeit nickel coins, the
returns of one years business
When women war against rum and
beer, and close for aye each drinking
place then shalt the salty, silent tear
roll down each lunch-fend's face.
1t was a western landlord who posted
the notice in his dining-room that men,
bers of the Legislature would be first
seated, ard afterwards the gentlemen.
The majority of the hands on Texas
ranches are Mexicans, who are good
and steady workers. A Mexican will
not allow his wife or daughter to work.
Rector's daughter Ito Sunday scholar)
=" "Oh, you have an elder brother
how old is he ?" Schoolboy-" Dunno,
miss, but he's just started o swear
ing"
"The Man with Two Wives is said
, to be " drama of great domestic in
terest." That may be, but it must GER
!, tainly be without any domestic prin-
| ciple.
Put this down to the credit of 1um.
A man in Wisconsin went home to whip
his wife, and was SO drunk that he fell
through the cellar stairway and broke
his neck.
The Maryland Legislature has
made it unlawful for children under
sixteen years of age to engage for more
than ten hours out of twenty-four in
factory labor.
Texas has two new legal holidays,
the I'd of March and the 21st of April.
The first is the anniversary of Texas in
, dependence, and the second that of the
! battle of San Jacinto.
: Experiments made upon a healthy
soldier in London go to show that alco-
. hol is useless in a state of health, and
: absolutely injurious in larger quanti-
ties than two ounces daily.
: The once formidable New Zealand
g chief To Kooti has become physically
/ a wreck through continued drunken
l ness, and pleads for liberty to settle
!. where he "can have eels and rum"
!, We have had almost every shape of
y parasols, and now we are informed they
are TO DO utu, u W tihNl So III
expensive that numbers can be owned,
to match every costume. just this OF
it
" 1t is surprising how much it takes to
o make man happy. There is a man IN
j. Indiana who is now living with his fifth
wife, seventeen children, and three
!. mother-in-Iaw. And still he is not
= happy
IL Mr.. Brady, who after the chief Off
y GERS of the Pennsylvania had been
II swept overheard by a heavy sea took
n command of the ship and brought her
Is safely into port, has been appointed her
" captain.
> A number of physicians and others
~ ~ are being prosecuted in England for at
&c tempting to defraud life insurance
% % company by obtaining policies unknown
Il !, to the persons whose lives they sought
-, to insure.
,r Peter Macnally, lame Dublin attor-
ney, wanted to be enrolled in volun,
teer crops. "You'd never do, Peter, u
said the officer to whom he applied fol-
admission 'the more we told you to
J. march, the more you'd halt"
,e The Maryland State Grange requests
luduuldCUuIClo anu uColClo III oSitSeA
rs tural and farming implements of al
As kinds to discontinue the practice of de
IN manding exorbitant pay for separate
lie pieces or parts of such, when needed
~ for repairs.
m There is a difficult gentleman in Kal
" amazoo, Mich, who refuses to pay hi
ne school tax. He takes the ground tha
e. schools have no right to teach any Ian
e, guage save the English, and that whel
ST French and Latin are taught nobody i
We obliged to pay any part OF the expense
eff you don't see what you want, as
for it, +" is posted up in a conspicuou
wv place in a Logansport grocery. ma
oi tive stepped into the establishment las
az week. He saw the card and remarked
ea 81 want ten-dollar bill, and don't Sc
a. it," "Neither do T." was the laconi
.n1 reply"
ha h"a The British Society of Arts offers it
re gold medal or 500 for the best "revo
ab luton Indicator" 1t must be capabl
nd nd of showing the number of revolution
~ marine engines are making, at an
NV w hour of the day or night, without th
=" necessityof counting or comparing wit
watch.
les According to the Greensburg CPa
en Argus, John Keller, of Unity, has di
he covered where the potato bug lives
FL tho xuiotar Grrhhinu On q ,oiaoa