The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-01

The man who thought friends should
be informed of their faults is now de-
void of friends.
A general reduction in the wages of
agricultural laborors has been made in
! most parts OF England since the close OF
the autumnal season.
r. X. Bcecher, of Elmira, refused n
pass from the president of railroad re-
Gently because the president was not
sole owner Of the road.
Isaac Friedlander, the wheat king of
San Francisco sold from his farm lastyear
$4,000 tons of wheat for S64S, 900 in gold.
He is certainly in a fourish-ing condi-
ton.
The leaves of coffee are now used to
make beverage not much different
from tea The new drink finds favor in
London, and has been introduced i'll
Boston.
A man in New Orleans advertises that
he will give tuition in law, religion and
journalism, I" fitting anybody to become
an able lawyer, clergyman or editor i'll
one year.
1t was an old but good thing said by
French parngrapher lately to the effect
that he hates a girl when she is trying to
/ be woman and woman when she is
trying to be girl.
1t is stated that several species of ca
nary seed are now used as food for race
horses on account of the large proper
ton of nutritive matter which such seed
contains, unmixed with any objectiona-
bic substances.
The postal officials believe that the
government is swindled in the aggrc-
gate to large amount by the washing
and second use Of stamps To check
/ the practice new tlree-cent stamp, so
made as to show any attempt to efface
! the canceling mark, is soon 10 be is-
sued.
+ Scene on steamer OF the - line:
Passenger" Can you tell me, sir, how
many miles we've come from New York.
/ and whether we've crossed the Gulf
Stream yet, and - Captain-' Madam,
/ advise you to ask the cook Passen-
ger" Excuse me, sir, | supposed I was
addressing that person"
An old gentleman, wishing to be at his
case on horseback, took his horse to II
riding master to be taught to amble
! Two on three trials were made upon the
animal with but partial success. "Comc.
! sir, do you call this an amble?' said the
owner. mo, sir, replied the eques-
trinn; g call it Il preamble"
J The Fort Worth (Texas) IS1anda,d
says the slaughter OF buffaloes is i'm
mense. On an average one thousand
will approximate closely to the number
killed each day during the pleasant days
of the hunting season, fifteen hundred
men being on the range engaged in kill
ing and preserving the hides and meat.
The proverb that "it's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good" has received a
striking verfication in the case of n
Georgia planter, whose cotton crop, four
hundred bales, WAS detained on its way
to market by low stage Of water on the
Chattahoochee river until the price adj
Vmced So that he realized 81, 500 more
than he would have received had his cot.
ton been carried through in the usual
time.
The total shipments of petroleum
from the Pennsylvania oil regions dur
ing 1876 amounted to 10000, 900 barrels.
In January the price was 81. II per bar
rel; in March it had reached So; in Au-
gust it averaged S3.55. Crude oil is now
selling at $500 per barrel at the wells.
ana refned oil mt 81. 90 per barrel at the
seaboard, netting the refner profit OF
So per barrel
Two men sentenced to death in Cata-
lonia, Spain, We're lately subjected to the
garrote. The first was executed. but
owing to some popularity in the neck of
the other, the instrument did not press
the locality intended. After repeated
trials by the executioner, resulting in
horrible agonies to the condemned, the
latter was recomfnitted to prison. Infor.
nation Of the event having been, in the
meantime, telegraphed to King Alphon.
so, he RENTED the mans sentence,