The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-27
Items of Interest.

| oregon produced Z0O,OOU cases OF can
ned salmon last year.
--latest from tho Black Hills" Send
me money to get home with"
DR.. Mudd, who set the shattered leg
of J. Wilkes Booth, has been re. elected
to the Maryland Senate.
The hens of France are said to earn
their owners S90,000,000 a year, and
their motto is eggs-sell-sior.
It is the crowd of fools. who rush to
the Black Hills. 1t is the army of wise
men who rush for home again.
When loafer enters the sanctum of q
busy editor, and the editor says: Glad
to see you're back, what does he mean2
When rich man becomes poor it is
but just that he should be cut by all
poor acquaintances who clung to him in
better days.
The March coinage of the San Fran
cisco mint amounted to $3,30S, 900,
against 50, $4,000 in the CORRESPONDING
month of last year.
Horace Greeley once said that the day
a oupg man finds out how he can get a
dollar without honestly earning it, is the
worst day he ever saw.
A child can pick up good deal of in
while its mother is conversing through
knothole in the fence with the woman
next door.
A bull rushed into millinery shop,
causing a stampede among the ladies
present. The woman in charge drove
the bovine gentleman out by exhibiting
the price of spring bonnet.
The king of Burmah is to have a jour
nal. He will be the proprietor himself,
and in the prospectus he says that all
his subjects who do not subscribe will
be instantly killed. His inducements
are even more powerful than gift
chrome.
One of Weston's competitors in
walking match in England was man of
the name of Martin, who had his skull
| trepanned after thu battle of InkermaDD,
| his breastbone and several ribs set after
the storming of Redan, and a bullet
taken out of his right leg during the
Indian mutiny, In consequence Of the
wound in his head he is subject to cpl
leptic fits, and he was seized in this man
ner during his match with Weston.
The Journal des Debats publishes
what may be considered an official state
ment to the effect that the number of
persons undergoing penal servitude or
simple imprisonment in France for Of
fenses connected with the commune does
not exceed 1900. Those who are under
sentence of penal servitude are serving
their time at the prison of Landernau,
| -, D,,,% ha ofh
confinement at Thouars and Belle-Isle.
A lumberman at work on the head
quarters of the Cache Ia Poudre was
slightly surprised the other day when a
big mountain lion sprung from covert
and landed squarely on his back.
Luckily for the man, he had thrown his
overcoat loosely over his shoulders, and
it was pulled off by the beast, which
evidently thinking its owner was under,
made carpet rags of it in moment.
But while he was doing this the lumber
man made very quick time toward camp,
and escaped.
A gentleman out of the kindness of
his heart asked dozen small boys to
take walk in the leld one pleasant sum-
mer day. But when be was ready to re-
turn home they began to get weary, and
he took the smallest boy on his back.
Then they all cried to be carried in the
same way. He then resorted to an in
genious experiment. "Ill get horses
for us oil, and jumping into hedge,
be cut small wands for ponies for the
little fellows, and n great stake as a
charger for himself, which put mettle
into their little legs, and they all rode
cheerily home.
The inhabitants of the little village
of Haselmere, England, were somewhat
startled by woman named Vincent, who
had an impression that she must offer
up Scriptural sacrifice. Selling cat
she decapitated it with hatchet. I'm
mediately afterward she cut off her left
hand with the same instrument, because,
as she said, it had offended her. When
she had severed it at the wrist, all but 6
small piece of skin, she ran about with il
dangling. A surgeon was sent for who
arrested the hemorrbage and made 8
proper amputation. Next day she wai
removed to an asylum, where she still
continues to madly rave about Scrip
ture.
Hepworth Dixon tells story of bri
gandage in California twenty years ago
Senati was the leader of a predatory
band, and Moreno was his first ieuten
ant. Los Angeles WAS the place of theil
chief exploits, the most audacious o
which was to plunder several houses
murder a marshal, and carry off severa
Mexican girls. A reward of 81, 800 wa
offered for Senati's body, dead or alive
and that was enough to make Moren'
disloyal to his chief. He shot Senati
put his body in cart, drew it to Lo
Angeles, got the reward, and. claime
that be had been prisoner with tn
bandits, not a companion. The trut
, came out, however, and Moreno ws
! sent to prison for fourteen years.