The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-16
NO. 80.
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Two children in Cedar Rapids were
nearly killed by chewing green card
board.
Deposits of silver of extraordinary
richness at Rife river, Mich, are re-
ported.
A clergyman at Pittsfeld, Conn.,, has
declined to marry couple because the
groom couldn't repeat the Lords
Prayer.
An exchange defines club to be an
organization effected by men for the
purpose of paying dues and securing the
privilege of buying liquor at a particular
bar.
The city court of Louisville recently
decided that newspaper men have right
to carry deadly weapons, if deemed
necessary for self-defence while in the
discharge of journalistic duties. Sugges-
tive.
The last we have heard from Ben
Butler, says the Boston NeaCS, is his
reply to man who asked him what he
was going to do in the coming campaign?
"Im going to see if the d fools
will let me alone"
In Nevada the law imposing tax OF
$400 every three months on every gam
bling place has been sustained by su
preme court decision. The effect, it is
anticipated, will be to close the small
places and extend the business of the
large ones.
"What is ratio2 ?" asked a professor
of student, who replied Ratio, sir
ratio is proportion" "And what is pro-
portion ?" I" Proportion, sir : why, pro
portion is ratio" And pray, sir, what
are both together" "Excuse me, sir, I
can answer but one at time
Bees have become so numerous and ag
gressive in Brownsville, Texas, that en-
ergetic efforts have become necessary to
rid the place of them. They took pos
session of stores where sugar and molas-
ses were kept, stung everybody who
tried to drive them away, and stayed un-
til smoked out.
A Pittsfeld (Mass.) paper tells Of a
into Senator Dawes office, the other
day, and asked: "What business is
carried on here, sir 2" The Senator
looking up from his law book, replied:
" Writing recommendations for office"
and resumed his work.
In the Canary isles the vine ran out,
and that was the end of Canary wine.
Then they raised cochineal, and now the
soil is exhausted for good qualities of
that article. So they have tried tobae-
co. and that will in future be their great
crop, and they will apparently produce
an article finer than ever before known.
Rosie Cotterman, aged ten, little
German girl of Bloomington, ILL.,, brave"
ly stood in the way of an infuriated COW
till she had put four or five smaller chill
almost all ripped from. her and she was
badly bruised, but the mayor and police
force, as they descended from the lamp
posts and telegraph poles, were loud in
praise OF her courage.
AS proof of the confidence of wild
fowls, it may be we'll to note that pho
tographer at Alexandria bay, on the st.
Lawrence river, this summer, photo
graphed ruffied grouse on her nest,
placing the instrument within few feet
of her. After her eggs had become
Matched some workmen proceeded to
build summer kitchen near the nest,
but took great care not to disturb her,
and in course of time she became so
tame that she declined to leave her
nest.
The extent to which black silks are
weighted in the process of dyeing is in
credible. ga silk dyer " writes to the
Scientific american, inclosing skein
of black silk, one-half OF which, he says,
is silk, the other half being chiefly iron
added in the bath by chemical agents.
These silks will not wear well but as
silk is sold at retail by measure, and not
by the pound, unless adulteration adds
to the length it is difficult to see who is
the gamer by this fraud. How are we
to tell weighted silks
An amusing story is told of Governor
Bagley, of Michigan, who is a good Sab
batarian. He was lately in Detroit on
Sunday, and, passing billiard hall with
some friends, heard the balls clicking as
if it were week day. He politely in
quired of the proprietor if he made a
practice of keeping his hall open on
Sunday, and was astonished when the
man replied Ono, governor, not as
general thing; but if you and your
party wish to play quiet game I guess
/ can fix it for you"
A. p. Rogers, of Anoka, Mimi, writes
to the Pioneer Press in regard to the
history of William Morgan. He states
that his father was a missionary in the
wilderness of northern Maine from about
1890 onward, and visited all the settle
ments in that district; that one day he
came upon a cabin in the woods inhabit-
ed by a solitary man he subsequently
often saw this man, whom he thought
he knew, and whom he eventually recog-
nized as Morgan. He had known Nor
gan earlier in life. Morgan finding him
self recognized left the neighborhood
secretly.
The schooner Wyoming, of Glouces-
ter, Mass, ON trip to the banks was at
tackled by a swordfsh in the night. He
struck the vessel with great force, and
succeeded in putting his sword through
one of her planks some two feet, and
after making fearful struggles to extri-
cate himself, broke his sword off, leav-
ing it fast in the planking. 1t is fortu-
nate that he did not succeed in drawing
out his sword, as the aperture would un-
doubtedly have made leak sufficient
to sink the vessel. AS it was she leaked
badly, requiring very active pumping to
keep her free from water,