The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-04
Items of Interest.

1t is easier to live within an income
than without one.
1t is said that fewer Americans are in
Paris this winter than for many years
past.
can infallible cure for consumption "
That's what a French doctor says of
the meal of oi,r Indian corn.
Advertising pays. A Dubuque, Iowa,
man who advertises largely was thereby
discovered by wife whom he deserted
years ago.
The only way some people can keep
their names untarnished is to make
Bridget spend about half her time scour
ing the door plate.
At the Rancho de los Laureles in
Texas, q wealthy stock raiser, at his an
nnal branding of calves, stamped bis
mark on 1000 head.
An Ohio stoneworker recently died,
and his lungs were found to contain
numerous pebble-like concretions of
particles of Bera stone.
Mt. St. Elias, which, from actual
highest peak on the American continent,
exceeds 10000 feet in height.
A Western paper has discovered that
"some change seems necessary in the
collection of taxes" The same thing
holds good in payment of them.
Herr Driesbach, once so we'll known
as a lion tanner, has sold his farm at
Wooster, Ohio, and has gone to hotel
keeping at little railroad station.
The centennial of Ethan Aliens cap
ture of Ticonderoga is to be celebrated
by the citizens Of northeastern New York
and Vermont The anniversary is May
10.
Being consonant with each other,
John Observation-Disclosures and
Julia northumberland were
married at South Bend, Indiana, last
week.
Tobacco chewing has one advantage,
where the man is much in the
heuse and spits freely upon the carpets
those carpets will never be moth
eaten.
A Minnesota Dogberry has decided
that stealing rails from fence is not
the reality, and real estate cannot be
stolen.
They have determined by experiments
ia France that trees are killed with great
rapidity by very small portions of com
mon gas escaping from the pipes and af-
fecting the soil.
A lady recently sent fur cap to fur
for some repairs. She ex-
planned her wishes in the following note:
" want mi kape mendid whar the misses
nored it in gud ship"
More people have been frozen to death
this winter in the United States than are
likely to be struck by lightning this
year, Twenty deaths from cold are re-
Mr.. Mitchell, of Sterling, ILL.,, while
under tho influence of Intoxicating
liquors, attempted burglary and was
each of three saloon keepers,
who sold him the liquor to pay her $500
damages.
There is nothing like testing an appar-
atus to see if it works well. A New York
boat builder constructed q trap for
thieves out of brace of pistols, and
while fooling about it inserted two or
three pounds of shots and slugs into his
legs. He knows it's good contrivancc
now.
Railroad travelling in Massachusetts
must be regarded as wonderfully safe, if
we are to rely on the published state
ment that oxt of 100000 passengerH
carried over the railways of that State ID
1874 only one person was killed ind
seven injured, except by personal care
lessness.
Under the terms of bill introduced
into the Wisconsin Senate the parties to
bribery at elections or at political con-
ventions may suffer penalty of five
hundred dollars fine, one years i'm
prisonment and disfranchisement and
disqualification for Office for period of
ten years.
The tenant farmers of England are as
sessed for income tax upon basis of
900 per annum, and the entire
rental value of agricultural land is absut
G14O, 100000. The capital represented
by the agricultural interest is over $780,
600, 200, sum exceeding the British
national debt.
A log of wood containing a sealed bot.
tie has just been picked up at Havrc,
France. 1t was one OF several thrown
overheard from the Prince Napoleon, in
its Arctic expedition, to test the force of
currents. The writing it contained was
perfectly legible, although the log had
been drifting since 1860.
Heavy damages are sometim es recov-
ed againstrailway companies in England.
Notlong since a seed merchant, named
got verdict against the Great
Northern railway for SAC, 900 damages
for injuries inflicted in a collision. A
motion was made the other day fora new
trialon theground that the damageswer
excessive, but the Court of Queens Bench,
sitting in banc, expressing the opinien
that the company should pay large sum,
it was agreed to give the plaintiff check
for $25, 900.