The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-02
Items of Interest.


A largo number of cotton seed oil fac
tories are being erected in Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi.
| Since 1873 the Consolidated Virginia
mine has yielded $40,000,000 nearly
one-half OF which was gold.
The London Times has been trying
American made paper, and praises it as
the best article in the market.
Great Britain has 75,0C0, 900 of Mus
sulman subjects, and is, next to Turkey,
the largest Mussulnfan power in the
world,
A tall man having rallied friend on
the shortness OF his legs, the friend re-
piled: "My legs reach the ground
what more can yours do 2"
The value of the natural and manufac-
tured products of Rhode Island for the
year 1875 was over $500 for each man,
woman and child in the State.
Gen. Cortina, the notorious Rio
Grande robber, but recently prisoner
in the city of Mexico, is again at work
plundering and numbering on the from
tier.
"Bright of my xis10ce give me an
NJ |" said printer 2 his sweetheart.
| She made - at him and planted her
sT between his lis, which made him
G ****.
Thoughtless, that is to say, selfish
people who hoist car windows at this
season of the year, and let the wind
blow upon people behind them, are
morally responsible for colds, consump-
tion and frequent deaths.
A Springfield girl, having rebuked her
brother for using the term "sweat, the
latter bitterly remarked: " When it's a
horse, he's sweaty; whenit's a man, per-
spire is the word; but when it's o yourg
lady, like you, she only glows."
When any one is run over in st.
Petersburg, the carriage causing the &C.
cident is confiscated, the horses are
taken to the fire brigade for public use,
and the driver is imprisoned and hogged.
Hence fewer accidents than anywhere
else.
One of the chief results of the election
is to convince large number of young
men who made bets that.it isn't going to
be very cold winter, and that an UNI
brella trimmed with fur will be very
comfortable substitute for winter over
coat.
She wouldn't stand to have tooth
pulled for one million two hundred
thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked the street all day in tiny CATERS,
two sizes too small for her, and thought
nothing of it; but then nobody saw that
tooth, and several saw the CATERS.
An agent representing several compa-
MES of English capitalists, has written
to the Tennessee bureau of agriculture,
statistics and mines, asking whether or
not there are 800, 900 acres of coal lands
in the State for sale, and if 30, to in
form him at once, that his principals can
purchase.
Several months ago the practice Of
| shaving the heads of prisoners in the
San Francisco Jail was resisted in the
courts by Cinnamon, who preserve their
queues as part of their religion; but
the judicial decision is in favor of the
officials, and the hirsute desecration
goes on.
When Prince AlBert died, an editorial
in the London Telegraph so gratifed
the queen that she ordered a copy Of the
paper to be sent daily to each of the
royal palaces. Ever since then royal
edition of twenty-five copies has been
daily printed in the highest style of art
and duly forwarded. No payment has
ever been asked or ordered.
A professional trapper with two hun
dred traps is catching muskrats on the
Housatonic river, below Pittsfeld, Mass,
moving two miles day and catching
about three hundred rats week. He
ays that in twenty years experience he
has never seen them better or plentier,
and he gets twenty cents apiece for
them from the dealers of New York.
One of the richest men in New York
town put an attachment upon the pots-
toes of poor creditor, and in its exc
cution the matter was complicated by the
exhumation of fifteen bushels, more or
less, of potatoes belonging to paupef
who had expected soon to be able to re-
lieve the town of caring for him by the
crop, but now falls back into the arms of
the town again.
"L." writes to the London Times
that his butcher sent him prime ribs of
American imported beef at ninepence a
pound. The meat was fresh and tender,
although perhaps not of quite 20 fine a
quality as the best English. He pub
fishes the fact as an encouragement, not
only to American exporters, but to all
countries where meat is cheap. The
lowest market price for prime ribs in
London is shilling pound.