The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Germany has nearly 100000 more
women than men.
Tennessee has paid 100000 for dog
license so far this year.
The importation of Italian marble
into this county is on the decrease.
A large brewing firm at Glasgow,
Scotland, has begun importing Caliior-
MIA barley.
The Prismoidal or one-rail railroad,
completed from Houston to San An
tonia, Texas, is now open for traffic.
The foundations of the new Chicago
court house are to rest upon piles,
driven sixty feet deep, at cost Of $780,
600.
An explorer claims to have found 10
the interior of the island Of Ceylon
tribe Of melancholy beings who are in
capable Of laughter.
A letter containing money, which
was mailed at Ravepna, Ohio, in 1861,
has just been received by a firm, in
Cleveland, forty miles distant.
A man seventy years old is to be
hanged at Cleburne, Texas, on the first
Friday in October. Determined to
make the most Of his opportunity, he
has asked for three hours in which to
deliver speech on the gallows.
Poughkeepsie, Dec. 26'-The horse
disease is rapidly spreading in this city
and county. 1t not only affects the
head and throat, but seems to also affect
the heart. All of the horses in the
city railroad stables are affected, and to-
morrow cars will be run on half.hour
time.
DR.. Barrett, of Middletown, c., thinks
he has discovered the cause Of hay fever In
the pollen of the ambrosia plant, which
natures about August, and, carried about
by the wind, causes irritation in the nasal
passages; and says that the way to escape
TIA disease is to 60 to some town where
this plant is not found.
On the fourth of July last. little son Of
Luther Cain, of Summit township, Crawford
county, swallowed "a cent while playing
with it. The boy showed no effects of it
until about three weeks since, when he
was taken with the hux, throwing him into
spasms. Death came to his relief. The
copper corroded in his stomach.
The postal card factory at Springfield,
Mass, is now making postal cards Of
the new pattern at the rate OF about
100000 a day, but as there are still
2,270,0O0 in the vault, the public will
not see the new cards until next month
The new card has finer surface than
the old, and can be used for copying
with a press. 1t is heavier than the
old card, but is calendered SO thoroughly
that it is somewhat thinner.
A new industry will probably be
founded upon recent successful expert
ment in making steel nails at the Troy
Bessemer steel works. The small scraps
which were formerly refuse are now
worked up into nails, which are said to
be preferable to the best wrought or
malleable nails for the purpose to which
the latter are applied, while they are far
better than the ordinary cut nails Tor
other purposes.
The New Orleans Picayvne reports
that at the Office of timber merchant
in that city there is exhibited cypress
board from Alabama, l3 feet long, SO ]
inches wide and 2 inches thick, without
knot or split. This is the largest piece
of timber ever seen in any market out
side of California. The companion to
this enormous plank is reserved for ex-
hibition at the Centennial. The tree
from which the timber was taken must
have measured at least seven feet in
diameter.
Ons Of the proprietors of the alpaca
factory in Chautauqua county, N. Y,
having been presented with fine pair
of Angora goats attempted the remarka-
BILE feat of taking the fleece from their
backs, and making fashionable dress
OF the wool within twenty-four hours
Operations were begun at sunrise, and
early in the forenoon the goods we're
ready for the dressmakers. Four ladies
then made the dress complete in every
particular, and ready for wearing by
sundown.
"And so they have nominated my old
friend Cyrus for Governor Of Pennsyl
vania, have they? said old Uncle Bill
Alleo wheu he received the news from
Erie. "Well, well! How things d.
come round. I've known Cyrus-le
me see-well, can't exactly remember
how long I've know'd him, but I allu
rather liked him. Me and him haG ,
good time at the destruction of j cru
"Uncle" interposed Thurman, "aren'
you a little mistaken in the man
Wasn't it you and Titus that enjoyed
the little jollifcation you mention to
gether?" "Well 1 dunno but wha
you'er right, after all Nevy," replied
the old man, reaectively. ayes
guess you're right, when come t.
think of it You see l get mixed prett,
easy now, anyhow. And then the nom
ination of that skunk Pontius Plate 70
State Treasurer set me thinking O
plunderln', and that, you see, brough
up the sackin' of Jerusalem. That
how l got wrong. That PLATE was allu