The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-08

It takes three days to get O check
cashed at q Turkish bank, and the money
is then worth only sixty cents on the
dollar.
A small fiat bug has appeared in
Massachusetts, which is armed with "a
sword, or point about quarter OF an
inch in length, with which it stabs the
potato bug, killing him in short time. I"
A New York physician has made the
discovery that "not one person In three
has legs of equal length, and that the
number of left legs longer than they
need be is nearly double that OF the
right"
Probably the Oldest minister in the
world is Rev. DIR. ingram, of INST, in
Shetland, off the coast of Scotland. DIR.
Ingram was 102. years of age, In April
last, and enjoys comparatively good
health.
The exports of iron and steel and
manufactures of iron and steel from the
United States for 1877 were valued at
$16, ,659,675. During the year 1876 the
exports of iron and steel amounted TO
$11, 794, TAB.
A bullock, the property of a farmer
near Peterborough, in England, tossed
a boy six years old, who was teasing 1t,
into dyke of water. The animal then
jumped on the child, and lay on him in
the water until life was extinct.
The largest -four mill in the world is
now being built at Niagara Falls. Its
capacity will be about 1900 barrels per
day. The building, including elevator,
is $50 feet long and five stories high,
and is arched over the railroad which
passes under the center, and connects
with all the roads for the purpose of ac-
commodating the freight to and from
the mill.
A letter-writer in the New York Sun,
gives an enquiring correspondent this
simple remedy for drunkenness: "About
half an hour, or earlier before breakfast
let him partake of an orange or two.
After time they have peculiar and re-
markable effect on an empty stomach.
The patient thenceforth abhors strong
drink, because it tastes nauseous to him.
The prime source of temptation is re-
moved, for he does not feel thirst. The
remedy has proved successful in every
instance that has come under my knowl-
edge.
Cremona, an italian painter of repute,
has just died at Milan under extraordin-
ary circumstances. He was man of
the most careless, not to say dirty, habits
and in order to save time he discarded
the use of the palette, which he deemed
unnecessary and troublesome. He was
won't, therefore, to spread his colors on
the palm of his left hand and on his
bare chest. The other day while stand
ing at his easel he was seized with strong
commissions, and expired after forty
eight hours agony. The doctors attrib-
ute his death to the abs orption into the
system of poisons used in painting.
Statistics furnished by the commits
sioner of internal revenue show that
during the year 1877 nearly $4,000, 600
gallons of spirits, 9,902,35 barrels of
ale, beer and porter, and 5,723, 900 gal
Ions of imported wines, were manufac-
tured and withdrawn for consumption in
the United States. The number OF
liquor-dealers who paid tax was 166, 900,
and it is estimated that the amount oi
money annually expended in the United
States by consumers is nearly 1896. 900,
600. This is at the rate of about fifteen
dollars to every man, woman and child
in the country.
1t is an odd spectacle to witness scores
of women doing the work of 'longshore-
men on the wharves of st. Johns, New.
foundland. When the time arrives fol
vessels from Southern Europe, Brazil,
West Indies, and elsewhere, to take
aboard their cargoes of salt cod, herring,
etc., files of buxom females, with tucked
up gowns, barred arms, and coarse bro
gans, may be seen along the wharves
carrying fiat barrows of fish to and fro
Each barrow has four handles, and il
borne by two women. They perform
the same labor as men at this business
but their pay is inferior. Women also
60 on the "summer voyage" to Labra
dor, and act generally in the capacities
of "splitters, "salters," and "headers. >
One of the largest and most expensive
lighthouses ever erected by the United
States is now in process of construction
of Fowey Rocks, on the northeast ex-
tremity Of the Florida Reefs. 1t is three
miles from land, and completes one
chain of similar structures around those
dangerous reefs. 1t is popularity Of
these reefs that they are 80 precipitous
that their locality can scarcely be dis
covered by the most careful soundings.
This new lighthouse is composed
wholly of iron, and its improved methods
of illumination render it, perhaps, the
most perfect in the world. The light
will be visible in clear weather about
eighteen nautical miles, and is composed
of both glass and metallic refectors,
constructed so as to send blae of
light along the whole horizon of the
ocean. 1t is estimated that this struc.
ture will last three or four hundred