The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-25
Items of Interest.

The tenor and soprano i'll a South End
choir are to be married soon. They met
by chants, the usual way.
In Contra Costa county, California,
the squirrels destroy q million dollars
worth of property every year.
A man of large experience said bis ac-
quaintance would fill cathedral, but u
pulpit would hold all his friends.
The spelling schools that are spread
ing all over Ohio are said to have demon
strated the fact that a woman can spell
four times better than a man.
The Mount Gents tunnel cost about
1915 yard, and at the same rate the
proposed tunnel under the English chan
mel would cost about $50, ,035,000
Mrs. Walworth is working in right
good earnest at Washington for sigma
lures that will influence Gov. Tilden, of
New York, to pardon her poor Frank.
The Mayor of New Orleans has adver-
tised for proposals for planting around
that city a great number of the EUcd
Wptus gtobul'es, or Australian fever
tree.
In jubilee in 1775, two boys who ac-
companied the cross as acolytes quarreled
and fought one another with the golden
candlesticks. One of them became
Pope Leo XII, the other Plus VIII.
Joshua Bailey, of Cohoes Falls, n.
Y, promised the bulk of his fortune to
whichever of his nephews raised the
largest family of boys. w. w. Bailey,
of Waverley, Iowa, raised five boys, and
got 1000, 600 at the death of his uncle.
Alexander Dumas, it is said, never
sketches q scheme for any of his pieces.
He takes for four-act piece seventy
seven big sheets of blue paper. He de-
votes twenty pages each to the first,
second and third acts, and seventeen to
the last.
The contractors who have undertaken
to furnish 240,000 headstones for the
national cemeteries cut the names in their
works at Rutland, VT, by means of the
sand blast. This cuts q name in four
minutes, and they complete five hundred
stones daily.
An outbreak occurred among the
Chinese prisoners in the criminal jail i'll
Singapore, in which Superintendent
Digby Dent was mortally wounded. Six
teen warders were also wounded. Eif-
teen prisoners were killed and thirty
five wounded in the repression of the
outbreak.
The following notice is conspicuously
posted in a small hotel at country town
i'll Kansas: "At proper hour at night
the. house will be closed for retirement,
by which time each boarder is expected
to be in his room by that time as near as
practicable.
To pastor who had been condoling
with female parishioner in poor health,
the good woman made reply: "Ah,
yes, Mr.. Cribbs, I've had the cholery
woman m With shiehlt shehlt u what's hats c. eholery te
hoverin' around her."
We learn from the New York Times
that Michael Sandford, the receiver Of
the suspended Union Bank, in Jersey
City, has announced that he is now pre-
pared to pay fifty cents on the dollar to
all editors who are not themselves debt
ors of the institution" Mr.. Sandford
will find our card inclosed.
Phenia Epps, of Hamilton, Ohio,
asked her mother to take note for her
to friend of the family living in a near
street. The note when opened was
found to read: "This is q little ruse OF
mine to get mother out of the house.
Before she can get back L will be on the
cars with dear Lorenzo, and before night
will be married."
Cremation appears to have been prac-
ticed in this country in ages anterior to
it's occupancy by our present race. In
the region of North Carolina the Gus
tom was to cover the body with clay
and build fire upon it, which not
only consumed the body, but converted
the clay into hardened mass OF sar-
cophagus.
A clergyman in Fond du Lac, Wis,
publicly prayed: "Oh, Lord, Thou
knowest that my hated wife is one great
obstacle in the way of revival in my
church. Wilt Thou, in Thy goodness,
remove herr" The next day the wife re-
moved herself to her fathers house, and
row the petitioner is likely to be re-
moved by his congregation.
A cannibal has been arrested in Hayti
with his dinner in basket. A black
man was brought into Jacmel the other
day from the interior to answer charge
of cannibalism. Unfortunately for the
accused, when taken into custody he had
in basket the head of victim, who
seemed to have been only recently killed.
He was sentenced to be executed.
According to the last census in Eng
land and Wales the females of the popu-
lation outnumbered the males byupward
of half a million; but above the age OF
twenty five the males exceeded the
females in number. While there are
100000 widowers, there were S73, 3,00C
widows. Above the age of ninety
females numbered two to every male.
A benevolent gentleman from West
ern State applied to a gentleman for aio
in sending missionary to Turkey.
The reply was as follows : 81 have in
vested much in Minnesota securities
and lost many thousands by the acts o
your railroad men, sustained by the peo
pie and the courts. / have also lived IL
Turkey, and had much intercourse will
her people. L would far rather G i've my
money to send Turks as missionaries t.
Minnesota.
The late Hon. Sam Galloway, of Col
umbus, Ohio, was remarkably homel,
man. On one occasion, while dining
with personal and political friend il
Chillicothe, the six or seven-yearo ol,
daughter of his host, who had been il
tently studying Galloway's face, said
loud enough to be heard by all at table
"Ma, didn't that mans mamma lov
children mighty welli" "Why SO, m
dear2" asked her mother. sob, jus
cause she raised him."