The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
Items of Interest.

Not drop of Intoxicating liquor is
allowed in the Nevada mines, where
serious disaster might easily result from
drunkenness.
A Sacramento man, assailed with
rawhide by a woman in the street, effec-
tuslly bagged ber by wrapping her head
and arms in her skirts.
The fishing season in Iceland was
failure this year, and the people are
suffering from want. Eighteen hun
dred Icelanders immigrated recently to
Canada.
A man twenty-seven years old has
just been sent to the Massachusetts
State prison who has spent all but two
years and three days of his life in re-
formatory and charitable institutions.
The freshmen classes at various
colleges stand as follows: Harvard,
GAG, Cornell, 1S0, Yale, $50, Amherst,
83, Williams, 68, Dartmouth, go, Ober-
lin, 81, Trinity, 35, Hamilton. 30,
Tufts, 26.
A man was playing dice in saloon in
Knoxville, CAL, when the funeral pre-
cession of his wife came by. He went
to the door, waved his hat, hurrahed,
and returned to his game. That night
he was almost killed by mob.
The grandmother of the late Gen. Nc
Pherson, whose monument was unveiled
at Washington by the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee, was invited to
be present. at the ceremonies, but died
before the invitation reached its destina-
tion. She was ninety-nine years of age.
The Pennsylvania Transportation Com
pany has contracted for three hundred
miles of four-inch pipe to carry oil from
the oil regions to the seaboard. This is
the most extensive order for pipe ever
given in this country, and probably the
greatest length of pipe ever included in
a single contract.
A druggist at Bradford in England
was discovered the other day by his
wife lying dead on his bedroom floor.
The body of his son, aged four years,
was found underneath the corpse. It is
believed that the man, seized by an
apoplectic fit, fell OH his son, who was
thus suffocated.
Mrs. Burnham, of Atlanta, visited the
Centennial Exhibition, and there met
man who said that he was Col. Delong,
of Boston, and very wealthy. On the
second day of their acquaintance they
were married, and on the third day the
bride was looking for her husband and
$1,000 which had disappeared with him.
An old man who died in Maysville,
KY, had 81 200 worth of United States
bonds in two mustard boxes, and buried
them in pile of scrap wood iu his
shanty. The wood was sold to rag
picker for seventy.five cents, and while
he was gathering it together bystand-
found the bondss,h tho mustard hnxes a"d
The German government has been try
ing tor nearly year to ascertain the
exact number of people who inhabit the
empire. The returns shows that on the
first of December, 1875, the total popu-
lation was 42, 726, 344, while in 1871 it
was Al ,023, ,095. This shows an increase
in four years of 1,703, 749, or about an
average of one per cent. a year.
A variety show performer advertises
for a partner, and says "no Jonahs
need apply" The phrase illustrates one
of the peculiarities of the show busi-
ness. A man who has been unlucky for
q long time is regarded with distrust,
no one will engage him for fear he will
bring disaster, and he is called a Jonah,
the idea being that he will sink any ship
that takes him aboard. Showmen, gen
orally, are as superstitious as gamblers.
The humanitarians of London have
come to the conclusion that the Italian
juvenile beggar nuisance is sustained
solely by the well meaning almsgiving
of the kind hearted. In late report of
the italian ambassador, reference is
made to an Italian boy who some years
ago went to England with performing
dog. Having gained few pounds he
began business as an importer of chill
dren, and in few years amassed 92O,-
600.