The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22
NO.. 9.
Items of Interest.

erS are en- TOHc from Englanu 1Or
Canada.
The value of the coal and lignites
mined in Germany in 1872 was not far
from 800, 100000.
Don't imagine that you were born to
reform the world You can't split o
mountain with a toothpick.
Enterprise. The Chicago Times sold
twenty Thousand extra copies on the
strength of the editors going to Jail.
Did you see the sun dance yesterday
morning2 asks the Oswego Palladium.
No; we were sober, replies an exchange.
How on earth woman can keep her
gab going while holding backcomb and
six hairpins in her mouth has always
been mystery and always will be.
A silent member of Congress, being
entitled to send his speeches free by
mail, put his frank on himself, and
wanted to ride free in mail car, under
the pretext that all his speeches were in
him.
The women of Boston paid more taxes
last year than all the men who voted for
and elected Gov. Gasten. SO says
William I Bowditch in his pamphlet on
the d" Taxation of Women in Massachu-
setts."
By moistening the knife OF borer with
q moderately strong solution of caustic
soda and potash, instead of with water
or alcohol, it is said that India rubber
may be cut with as much ease as ordinary
cork wood.
1t is claimed in England that the title
of cardinal is not necessarily ccclesiastic,
and that it comes within the category of
foreign orders of nobility that cannot be
legally held without the direct consent of
the Queen.
Those who are disposed to be gloomy
because there is more crime than there
used to be, should remember that there
are more folks than there used to be,
and what is quite as noteworthy, more
charity and benevolence than there used
to be.
The ordinary expenses of the Massa-
chusetts militia last ear were about $34
man. The annual average expenses per
man in Connecticut is $35; in New York
(without including rent of armories of
pay of men on duty, $25; in Maine,
$16.25, and in Rhode Island, $40.
London has another new industry. A
man advertises himself as window
ticker, from three to seven" He wakes
heavy sleepers who wish to get up early.
Window tickling is waking without
ringing the bells, by means of long
pole, with which he taps on the window
pane.
A quiet, peaceable gentleman in
Philadelphia has recently given up bust
l., fo,>i1x, iptr fha country
and calmly announces his determination
of devoting the remainder of his life to
discovering the man who sent him
paving stone by express, with SIT charges
on il.
At Salinas (Cal the other day, man
who was detected whipping his wife was
visited by an improvised court of vigi-
lantes, tried by the most primitive pro-
cess of law, and hung to one of the trees
in his doorynrd. He was cut down, how
ever, before he had been seriously in
jured.
After relating snake story, the
Owensborough (Ky.) Erdmtncr adds:
Were our informant not man of truth
and strictly temperate habits, we should
be more than half inclined to suspicion
that his little snake story was erected
on the ruins of pint of Cincinnati
whisky.
A writer in the Druggists Circuldr
says that in treating some cases of tape
worm he has employed no preliminary
provisions beyond forbidding the patient
to take any breakfast the day on which
it is intended to remove the worm, and
giving him large dose of Rochelle salts
the preceding night.
A resident of Milledgeville (Ga.) who
saw the recent whirlwind strike the Oco-
nee river, says the water went up, he
thinks, a hundred feet in the air, and for
q few moments the bottom of the river
where the tornado passed was laid bare,
and the mud and soil was blown into
the tops of the trees.
An inebriate stranger precipitated
himself down stairs, and on striking the
landing, reproachfully apostrophized
himself with: "If you'd been a-waltln'
to come down stairs, why in thunder
didn't you say so, you wooden-headed
old fool, and I'd came with you, an
showed you the way9"
A smart young Bostonian offers to
wager considerable amount on his
spelling. He says you may give him
any word in the English language, in
common use, or obsolete, technical, or
otherwise, and he will spell it correctly
the first time. Almost any smart young
New Yorker can do the same, "It" is
not difficult word to tackle orthographi-
sally.
Some economical Parisiennes recently
attempted new mode of revivifying
their old ball dresses. The gentlemen
at a prefectoral ball found that, as they
danced, their dress suits became white
from head to foot. On inquiry they dis
covered that the Partisan bellies had del
uged their skirts with ueLOlttine to make
the faded and dirty dresses look fresh
again.
Two boys were recently tried at Vol
verhampton for stealing goods that were
exposed outside of n shop door. The
recorder, in sentencing them, said tha
the custom of tradesmen exposing goods
not only tempted to crime, but led t.
public expense for the prosecution o
the thieves. He therefore determined
to try and put step to it by compelling
shopkeepers to pay the cost of an,
prosecution.
} A wealthy merchant OF Fairport, il
J New York State, had so strong pre-
J sentiment that he would meet his seat
through suffocation, that he refused t
introduce gas into fine house which h