The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-17
NO. 20.
Items of Interest.

Items or interest.
There are 100000 more women than
men in England.
A California hotel has water tanks in
the attic, and is proposing to cultivate
fish there in sufficient quantity to sup
ply boarders.
A lazy fop asked his physician what
he considered the best size for a man.
Exercise !" exclaimed the sturdy dis
ciple of Esculapius.
A Roman Catholic priest of Darn
stadt, Germany, has been sentenced to
eight days imprisonment for introduce
ing politics into the pulpit.
Grandma, why don't you keep
servant any longer" ?" "Well, you see,
my child, I'm getting old now, and
can't take care of one, as L used to do,
you know"
One.sixth of Americas population of
about 30, 100000 it is said cannot read
or write 100000 out of total school
population of almost 100000 receive
instruction.
A gentleman who landed from an
Erie express train in Brooklyn attracted
universal attentian by the magnifcence
of his diamond breast pin. He was
supposed to be hackman from Niagara
Falls.
Quite crop of carbuncles and malig-
nant pustules appeared at Varennes,
France, brought from the Beance in
sheepskins but they were stamped
out by iodine injections into the cellu-
lar tissue.
1t is reported that some people at
Port Henry, N. Y, use nitro-glycerine
for catching fish. 1t kills everything
within fifty feet, and from fifty to sew
enty-fve pounds of fish are taken at
single explosion.
The kicking to death mania has ex-
Nolan, in the county of Meath, recently
received fatal injuries by being kicked
by some persons who are not yet fully
identified with the crime.
1t is quite usual for q Colorado
farmer to be aroused in the night hy' .
knock on the door, and it is quite usual
for him to open the door and shoe the
stranger before asking any questions.
The stranger is most always some one
who deserves killing.
Bazaine's bargain was apparently
made with a STEAMSHIP company at
Genoa-a gentleman nd Il lody char
tered little steamer for an eAcu--in inn
along the littoral, witt privilege 10 sSoP r.
at any point for any ime, to pe l'"A'' "O
so much day.
They tell of an Admirals wife AZ
Newport who walked to church, ana
OF
thought there was something VILE WIn,
about her black mourning dress. WIZ tIn
sbasAft.thec church she touno o9V :Ho
herself was walking.
Give man the necessaries OF life and
he wants the conveniences. Give him
the conveniences, and he Graves for the
luxuries. Grant him the luxuries, and
he sighs for the elegancies. Let him
have the elegancies, and he yearns for
the follies. Give him all together, and
he complains that he has been cheated
both in price and quality of the arti-
cles.
An eight. hour man, on going home
the other evening for his supper, found
his wife sitting in her best clothes, on
the front stoop, reading a volume OF
travels. How's this ?" he exclaimed.
"Where's my supper ?" 81 don't
Know" replied his wife. 81 began to
get your breakfast at six o'clock this
morning, and my eight hours ended at
two P. NJ"
Benito Sarona of New Mexico, went
to Arizona, recently, and stole two
horses. He was followed by three
frontiersmen. They overlook him,
bound him to sapling, whipped him
till blood flowed, slit his ears, and left
him tied in the wilderness. A man
named Martinez released him, and i'll
less than week he stole Martinez's
saddle, but gratefully left his horse.
A bequest of $15O,OOO, made two
years ago by DIR. E. r. Johnson to es-
tablish charitable institution for col
ored people at New Bedford, Mass,
has failed of it's purpose by the fact
that one condition was that his daugh-
ter should leave no "heirs," when he
probably meant "no ISSUE" The
daughter has died without children,
but her mother is her heir and gets the
property.
Mr.. Higgin, @. c., sitting as Assis-
tant Judge at the Liverpool Assizes, on
August IA, sentenced young Wigan
collier, named John Glover, who had
all but kicked to death an old man of
eighty-four, to ten years penal servi-
tude. Mr.. Higgin had consulted Mr..
Justice Archibald, who agreed with him
that very heavy punishment was NEG
essary to put down this brutality in
Lancashire.
A disconsolate widow in the west
ern part of New York State, daughter of
a former noted railroad officer, repairs
to the tomb of her husband every even
ing at sunset, enters the vault, and
seats herself in a chair formerly used
by the departed, where she remains
sometimes several hours, always an
hour, and she has done this, with
scarcely an intermission, for two years
since her husbands death.