The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-22
Items of Interest.

A large turtle was recently caught in
Lake Saratoga with the date 1892
engraved ON its back.
You occasionally meet man in this
world whose word is as good as hisbond,
and both are worthless.
Iowa has law which forbids a man to
marry his step-d p-daughter, yet allows him
to marry his mother-in-law.
A "Bonanza of Health" is what they
call new sulphur spring reached by an
artesian boring at Hopkinsville, Ky.
Men who never have five dollars read
descriptions of dangerous counterfeits of
that denomination with great interest.
A single association for fish culture
has since May distributed $780, 900 young
salmon through the streams of Con-
necticut.
A paper in Pittsburgh, Pa, says that
the West is every year becoming more
independent of the East in tools and
hardware.
"Cheap labor" comes up in q new
form in San Francisco, where Chinese
young lady is an applicant for vacancy
in public school.
A Boston mans second wife has had
him arrested for using her money to
buy his first wife tombstone with
poetry on 1T.
1t takes many years to make young
politician know how to be useful, and it
takes as many more to make an old one
understand when he has outlived his
usefulness.
A Washington man writes to the Re
publican of that city complaining OF
the water we drinks" The editor in
dignantly asks who he means by g we
and =" what water?'
The best rules to form young man
are To talk little, to hear much, to re-
feet alone on what has passed in com
pany, to distrust ones own opinions and
value others that deserve it.
A London medical journal informs us
that the action of pewter and hydro
chloric acid and nitrobromacetanilide
produces hydrochloride of ethenylbro-
mophenylenedtamits Much obliged.
The largest Cardiff giant story comes
from Sandusky, Ohio, near which, it is
said, petrifed man of gigantic size
has been found in a y-discovered
cave four hundred feet below the surface.
A countryman fell off ferryboat at
Vicksburg, and his wife, waiting coolly
until his head showed above the water,
shouted: "There, durn yer, know'd
you'd do it ! Bet yer never get out,
either |"
There was gold mine in Cherokee,
Ga, few days ago. After q little of
the excitement subsidized, somebody dis
covered that the deposit consisted of
gold foil stuck around on the rocks with
mucilage.
A New Orleans paper says that the
coming cotton crop will number $780,
021 bales. When an editor can figure
crop down as fine as that he'll soon be
ready to carefully estimate the sands on
the sea shore.
A millionaire of Granville, Wisconsin,
has recently made will, in which he
leaves $4,000 to any incorporated town
or village in Wisconsin that will not
tolerate brass band. Now that's some
thing like philanthrophy.
The newspapers state that a we'll
known banker Ill Paris has absconded,
leaving a large deficit behind. Mrs.
Partington thinks it was very good of
the poor old man to leave it, when he
might have got off clear with every
thing.
A common practice among the British
soldiers is to commit some small theft i'll
order to get their release from the army
at the cost of short Imprisonment.
The magistrates see the dodge now and
give soldiers full sentences for such Of
fenses.
A lady correspondent who assumes to
know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to an exchange as follows "Oh,
mother hunt out the soft, tender,
genial side of your boys nature. y
Mothers often do-with an old shoe-to
the boys benefit.
Acensus senumeratorin Liberty, N. Y,
has found German girl, fifteen years of
age, who speaks German and English,
and accurately writes both languagesl left
handed. She has made fifteen thousand
shingles since the snow left, besides
/" dragging in" many Of the crops in her
section.
If those dresses were twice as tight
they would wear them. If it were the
fashion to carry barrel of flour on the
back of the neck they would do it, or die
trying. You couldn't devise fashion
the women wouldn't meekly follow, from
no clothes in winter, to bearskin over,
coats in summer.
There is a lad who for five OF six years
has been selling fruit, etc., on the Maine
Central railroad, whose pluck and busi
ness tact are quite remarkable. He Is
now, perhaps, seventeen years of age
and owns several small houses and Other
buildings in Bath, and is said to bC
worth $1,000 to $4,000.
Mr.. Duane thought it would be {
good joke to have his only son learn the
alphabet early, and so he named hin
Aaron Burr Concord Duane, making hi
initials A. B. @. ID. When the bo!
married Ellen Francis Garroway HurC
(E. f. q. H. }, he began to think how
the balance of the alphabet would COM
in as applied to the children.
The Hartford Times reports that ther
were seen ON a wharf in that city, re
Gently, no fewer thar sixteen children
between the ages of four and eight years
all drunk. They had obtained access Z
some of the vile liquor of the dramshon
and drank enough to set them Graz
, drunk, or helpless. Some were weak
, trying to stab each other with sue
, weapons as they could reach.
: A wealthy man died some months ag
= Some of his heirs were sighted, an
4 tried to break the will ON the ground
: unsound mind on the part of thetestato