The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-06
Items Of Interest.

A man died in GAINESVILLE, Wis, while
experimenting burial.
Mantillas of lace and cream tulle are
much worn at evening amusements.
A Chicagoan was arrested while fol.
lowing his wife to the grave for pass
ing counterfeit bill.
A single vessel left Mobile few days
ago en- route to Liverpool with 6,237
bales of cotton worth $411 ,405.
General Sheridan's arms are said to be
so long and his legs so short that he can
gather catnip without getting red in the
face.
A Bostan journal says that New York
spends $2,000,000 year for flowers
alone, and for plants and fruits $3,000,-
600 more.
The new church of st. Nicholas, at
Hamburg, just completed, is the highest
in Europe, 472 feet. The next is the
Strasbourg cathedral, 461 feet.
"Oan you see me-" said Chicago
man to his sick wife. "Tell me, can
you see me ?" "No," she family whis-
pered, "but I can smell your breath.
Most of the men in town prefer to go
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preaching is better then. The collection,
however, is always taken in the morning.
Petrarch, the favorite for the Two
Thousand Guineas and the Derby, has
been purchased from Mr.. Spencer, his
breeder and owner, for S52 900, by Lord
Duppin.
Columbus, Ga, claims the position of
the Lowell of the South. She is now
running 35, 900 spindles and 1 900 looms,
besides many iron aud other industrial
enterprises.
A boiling lake, two miles in circum-
ference, has been found in the island of
Dominica. 1t is on the top of wooded
mountain, and is $500 feet above the
level of the sea.
1t is said that the old Romans also
loved Office, but they never had the
feeling which an American constable has
never felt their shoulders carried half
the burden of government.
The Danbury NeaOs says: They had
such shower of flesh as that recently
occurring in Kentucky in Great Britain
two hundred years ago. There's no use
in trying to compete with monarchical
form of government.
A South Carolina boys gun would not
go off, and he heated an iron rod,
dropped it into the barrel, and ran.
The gun fell with the muzzle toward
him, and the hot iron was driven into
his body, killing him.
Icelanders and Mennonites from
southern Russia are cultivating farms in
Manitoba; French Canadians, half
breeds, and Scotch servants of the
Hudson Bay company congregate round
the old trading post; while at Kootenay
pass, in the Rocky mountains, Chinese
settlement claims protection from the
Canadian authorities.
A scholar in school was asked
"How do you parse Mary milks the
COW p" The last word was disposed of
as follows "Cow, noun, feminine
gender, third person and stands for
Mary" "Stands for Mary How do
you make that out p Because" add
cd the intelligent pupil, if she didn't
stand for Mary, how could she milk
herf
A threadbare tatterdemalion applied
at low inn in Paris for nights 'odg-
ing. When asked to register his name
he wrote: "The King of Spain" The
police were at once notified, and when
they came they asked him "Do you
pretend to be king of Spain 2" Not l."
"Why, then, did you SO register your
name2" "Because I wish to travel
incognito."
Brussels has the largest ice house in
the world. The roof covers an area of
$4,000 square feet the walls are double,
and filed with moss and sawdust.
There are nine separate ice chambers,
each of 10000 cubic feet capacity.
There are galleries for storing meat in
hot weather, capable of holding 1000
quarters. A million tons of ice have
been stored in the building at one time.
An old colored woman in Jackson,
Tenn, SO firmly believed herself to be
the victim of fetichism that, although
suffering from no ailment except dis
ordered iu agination, she pined away,
and seemed likely to die. The physician
put ball of crimson yarn, smeared with
pitch. in place where she would find it,
and suppose it had been hidden. She
was convinced that this was the mystic
rious agency employed by her unknown
enemy, and, after burning the ball,
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