The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-07
Items Of Interest.

The governor of Missouri offers
$40, 900 for a sure remedy against hog
cholera.
It cost the Northampton Mass. bank
800, 600 to arrest and convict the men
who robbed it's safe.
Printers seldom follow the hounds,
and vet the chase takes no imposing
form without them.
A householder in Charleston, 8. O.,
was fined the other day for allowing his
chimney to take fire.
The Central Pacific railroad company
have ordered 10000 trees to be set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
Turkish soldiers have recovered from
theif wounds in a marvellous manner, in
many instances, owing to their strictly
temperate lives.
By Michigan court it has been de-
cided that oysters are fish; but very few
people, however, will think OF going
fishing when they want oysters.
Japan has no system of patent laws.
The Japanese, with their native skill and
ingenuity, copy very successfully many
of the machines sent to that country.
The Turk has an immense horror OF
amputation, preferring death. For
long while Osman Pasha refused to allow
the surgeons to dress or even examine
the wound in his arm.
One of the largest shoe firms in Bos
ton has just concluded an arrangement
with the Peruvian government to fur
nish 35, 900 pairs of mems shoes. The
firm had previously filed an order for the
came government for 10000 pairs of
shoes.
John Fletcher, of Tennessee, fred at
his nephew with double. barreled shot
gun a few days ago, and shot out nearly
all of his teeth, destroyed both OF his
eyes and shot his nose off. The ply
sicians think that the youth will live,
thus disfgured and totally blind.
Captain Boyton has achieved another
great feat In swimming, having descend
ed the Loire from Orleans to Nantes,
where he was received by an enthusias-
tic crowd assembled to greet his arrival.
He seemed quite worn out from excess
of fatigue and his wrists were swelled
and painful.
The very latest "Turkish atrocity" is
to be seen in Cheapside, in London,
where a peripatetic vender Of penny
wares is carrying about trayful Of
Bulgarian ears" made of flesh colored
india rubber, and initiating, with fright
! full fidelity, human ear severed from
| hrman head.
In some parts of Maine huge focks of
geese feed by day in the fields with only
a.small boy to attend them. Returning
home under his charge in the evening,
| as they march down the roads they drop
off by detachments without confusion,
and proceed soberly of their own accord
to the houses where they dge.
WHAT'S in name2 Chinaman in
San Francisco found the were thirty
days. He stole Frisco mans door
plate aud fastened it to his own door as
an ornament. He didn't know that the
name would betray him, as he thought
that was merely carved on for the beauty
of the thing. The Chinaman now Ian
guishes in the bastile, another victim to
the mysteries of English photography.
I In northern China, people of all ages
are dying of actual starvation by thou
sands. The famine extends over dis
trict which includes at least 5000 villa
ges, and it is said that at least 500 die
daily. Houses are pulled down in every
village to sell the timber and thatch
in order to get food. Those who can get
husks and dry leaves ordinarily used
for fuel. are considered well off, Most
of the poor young girls have been sold ;
old men, middle-aged men and young
men, and children die daily of starva-
ton and others freeze. The dead can
not get burial they ore too many,
and none can afford the exper Sc so
they are cast daily into large pits. The
people at Shansi are said to be living on
the corpses OF their fellow beings who
die of starvation. And the strong are
killing the weak for the sake OF obtain
ing their flesh for food.