The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-01


be marked by monument. the Congress.
sional appropriation for the purpose
having been spent by Secretary Evarts
In the purchase of neat stone.
The grasshoppers have appeared in
central America, --latest advices from
Honduras state that crops have entirely
disappeared in day, and the sparsely
populated localities are entirely &C their
mercy.
A French physician has recently
given four rules which he recommends
water-drinkers TO observe in hot wea-
theri l. Not to drink cold water imme-
diately after exercising. Q. To eat some-
thing before drinking. 8. To drink in
small mouthfuls. 4. Not to drink too
much at once.
The reigning beauty in London Just
now is Mrs. uangtry, daughter OF q
rural clergyman, married to q rich law
yer. Recently, in the midst of an ad-
miring circle, she asked her husband to
introduce to her certain gentleman.
He did 80, and the gentleman smiled
end bowed. Giving him her handker-
chief, she said, 1 want you to wipe the
paint from my cheek, as 1 hear that you
say at the clubs that ] am painted.
1t is not generally known to what ex-
tent we are indebted to worms for the
productiveness of our gardens and fields.
1t has been found by series of expert
m nor ria ad nt,t hx,o N
ist, that the tunnels made by worms into
the earth are frequently of much service
to plants whose roots occupy the chan
nels that have thus been made. The
mould of our gardens, and fields too, is
improved to an almost inconceivable ex-
tent by the borrowings of this humble
insect. Each worm in less than week
passes through its own weight in mould,
and the soil thus produced is fine and
light and extremely helpful to the
growth of plants. When it is remem-
bered that there are in every acre some
thirty-four thousand worms, and that in
addition to forming every day about
thlrty-seven p lunds of fine mould, they
open up the subsoil and render it fer
tile, we shall gain some slight concep-
tion of our Indebtedness to these appar-
emily Insignificant and generally un.
thought-of little workers.
A serious affray took place under ex-
traordinary circumstances at st. Peters
burg recently. A tradesman despatched
porter after a shopliftipg sailor. The
porter, Tartar, pushed him into
droshky to get him to the police station,
whereu upon happy thought seized the
sailor, who shrieked OUT "Save me,
ellow-believers, from the Tartar |" This
brought a number of Russians to his
rescue, and the porter managed to effect
an escape to his employers shop. The
mob, baffled and furious, then sought
the porter's dwelling place, where they
beat two of his friends. Then, hearing
that he was concealed in shop near by,
they repaired thither, and finding a
Tartar and his daughter, threatened to
throw them from the window unless they
gave up the offender. The man assured
them that the porter wasn't there, and
when they refused to believe him begged
that at all events they would throw him
out first. Notified apparently by this,
they did him no harm, but one of his
shopmen, whom some of them had pur.
sued, threw himself out of a third story
window, and his life is despaired of.
Then they did frightful damage to vari-
GUS Tartar shops. until at.lepgth. a alGs
was got together, and several arrests
made. Six tartars were taken 10 the hos.
pital. The sailor escaped.