The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-11-18
Items of Interest.

A goose recently died in Paris at the
age of 230 years.
Noses are fashionable, and have al
ways been followed.
Whisky is alike an internal furnace
and an Internal trlrn-us.
Oregon has new town called Pay
Up. 1t is said to be good place for
settlement.
Abiel Walker, robust farmer of
Dummer, N. H., was butted to death by
his ram few days ago.
1t is reported that Know Nothing
lodges are being organized in New Jer-
sey, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
A Swedish schoolhouse, fer exhibition
at the Centennial, has been shipped
from that country to Philadelphia.
In London, with 100000 inhabi-
tants, there were three births to two
deaths to every quarter of an hour in
1874.
A Texas paper says: Mr.. j. Johnson,
the cotton planter, has received his gin,
and now has commenced work in good
earnest.
Some person recently advertised in
the London Times for q servant girl,
zone who fears the Lord and can carry
one cwt."
Californians say they can tell an East
ern man as soon as he makes purchase.
If there's two cents change coming to
him he wants it.
1t is estimated, from such census re-
turns as have been published this year,
that the population of the United States
is about 46,250,000.
Fast mail trains are great convent
ence to retail merchants. They receive
dunning letters now several hours earlier
than under the old plan.
Eight southern counties in California,
which polled but 10, 1873 votes in 1861,
cast Is, 421 at the late September cleo
tion, showing rapid increase Of popu-
lation.
Twenty forts and large number OF
provisional camps are being constructed
| in q circle, about twelve miles from
Paris, and will be completed in 1878,
three years sooner than was anticipated.
An exchange advises that if a person
be attacked with cramps, hot bath be
prepared for him as quickly as possible.
But while the bath is being prepared,
some attendant should rub the cramped
part briskly.
"How many little ones now, grand
mother ?" you ask Queen Victoria since
the Duchess OF Edinburg increased the
lumber by one, and the good old lady
will smilingly reply: "Twenty-seven,
sir-twenty seven grandchildren, thank
you bless their little hearts !"
A thief entered the cellar of grocery
store in Canada town the other night,
and ingeniously contrived to steal several
gallons of molasses by boring hole
through the floor of the salesroom above,
and letting his augur penetrate the bot.
tom of cask, whose position he had
carefully ascertained in the daytime.
Allen A. Angel and Elizabeth Hunt
were married at Jackson, Mich, the
other day, their marriage contracts,
signed by both, ending thus: If the
: union and harmony that now exist be
tween us should exist through our natu
raj lives, then this contract is to remain
in force; otherwise to be null and void
He used to cramp his feet up in little
boots and limp painfully to her residence
every Sunday evening, but the morning
after his marriage he went into shoe
store, drew a mark around his foot, ant
I about an inch distant from it on botl
sides and at the heel and toe, and order
ed the proprietor to put him up pal
of boots after that pattern. Oh, there
sweet liberty, there's balmy, boundles
, freedom in the marriage state.