The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-04
Items of Interest.

The Canadian canals are to be deep
ened to fourteen feet.
Make out your bills and them collect
them. The first is comparatively easy
not so the last
The Bishop of Carlisle has pronounced
himself i'll favor of the administration of
the cat to wife-beaters.
The first impressions made by printers
are invariably cast aside, because those
that follow them are better.
A Fall River mule spinner has to
travel nine thousand miles while on duty
during the year to earn S675.
Paris annually consumes an average of
one hundred and twenty-five pounds of
meat for each of its inhabitants.
The population of Louisiana, accord
ing to the last census, numbered 3Ol ,45O
whites and 1853, ,067 blacks, colored
majority of 61,617
The obituary notice of much respect
ed lady concludes with" In her life
she was pattern worthy to be followed;
and her death oh, how consoling to her
friends"
Friendship is good deal like cbil a.
1t is very beautiful and durable as lol e
as it is quite whole but break it, and I'll
the cement in the world will never quite
repair the damage.
Gen. NJ L. Smith, whose sudden
death has been announced, is said to
have had his life insured for nearly $780,
600, and Just before leaving Washington
for New York took out $6, 600 accident
policy.
"The child has since died." is the
laconic remark which a paper afliXes to
an account of year-Old girl who
had already mastered logic, rhetoric,
geology, botany. and the mysteries of
mental and moral science.
The present system of penal sorvitudc
for women in England is one of solitary
confinement, and it is asserted that not
one woman in twenty undergOes i'm
prisonment of over a years duration
without showing signs Of temporary i'll
sanity.
At l'revouX, IN France, Il farmers 10y
killed two young owls i'll IL nest near the
house, and the old owls watched around
for several nights, till on the fifth night
an old male owl struck the same boy i'll
the face and put one of his talons III the
boys left eye.
A Western l1dtcyJunlHjds, who has
raised two families, has discovered that
children grow more between January
and July than in the other half of the
year. His theory is that the growth of
humanity is governed by tho same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
dom.
eyes, like these short days" said
old Trr,o,,aDpu Tho otbnr ,,lp,,,incr inip-
ing in the discussion; "the interest
counts up so fast. Why, when ! come
into my place mornings, and get ont my
securities, can fairly hear them draw
interest, right through the side of the
box"
A New York life insurance company,
in a recent publication giving list OF
gentleman who hold policies on their
lives, puts down Alexander T. Stewart RS
insured for 100000. This paper is
authorized to state that there is not and
never has been any insurance whatever
on Mr.. Stewards life.
A party of juvenile fends out in Mis-
souri, tied an unpopular schoolmate to
the railroad track, where the life WAS
crushed out of him by passing train.
These young villains, when grown up,
will probably black their faces and assist
in the administration of the laws accord
ing to the code of Judge Lynch.
The committee of relief for the
famine stricken people of Asia Minor
urgently request the English and Ameri-
can press TO let it be known that their
funds are exhausted, while the distress
is increasing. They state that it will be
necessary to clothe, feed and give medi,
cal assistance to several hundred thou
sand persons until next June.