The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The French government owns about
half the railroads in France, the whole
of which are valued at 90, 600, 100000.
Lord Falmouth's celebrated horse
"Wheel of Fortune" only three years
old, has already won for her master $685.
800. -.r -. ...... .... ..... ~. ..
A New FORK barber derives quite an
income shaving dogs. He gets from
fifty cents to ten dollars a canine GUS
toner.
There are four hundred and thirty
four Chinese business houses in San
Z Francisco, and twenty-five of these are
druggists. -. ..-..
Five miners in Nevada tunnel re-
fused to abandon a comrade who had
been overcome by gas, and were all
suffocated.
| A tight-rope walker exhibiting at
Virginia City, New, dropped a boy whom
he was carrying across rope, and the
lad fell fifty feet, receiving fatal injuries.
The first American paper mill of which
there is any account was owned by Will
liam Rittinghuysen, and was built in
1890, in Rox borough, near Philadelphia,
on stream called Paper Mill Run.
The first export of apples from the
United States to Europe was made in
lOtO, anu blltN SlA anu GJRuU
dollars barrel. That country now re-
ceives 10000 barrels of American apples
per year. ...
'Fare well, my own!" sang the man
who took his sweetheart into fashion
able restaurant, handed her the bill of
fare and then slipped out of the back
way and left her to settle the bill.-Salem
iSat,abeGn1. r. ..
"What is your nameP" asked a teacher
of boy. my name is Jule," was the
reply; whereupon the teacher impress
sively said, "You should have said
Julius, SIR" "And now, my lad,"
turning to another boy, "what is your
nameP" Bilious, sir"
The large railroad companies keep as
careful record of a locomotive and its
performances rs ship owners do of an
ocean steamship. The Pennsylvania
railroad does not repair one if the cost
will exceed $1,000. The engine is tl!en
marked as dead on the record, and is
either sold or broken up.
! Vaccination appears to have untold
! terrors for the country folk of Germany.
A woman of Mellcnberge, who was re-
peatedly notified to submit her child of
eight months to the operation. and was
| threatened with arraingnment in court
! if she did not comply, jumped with the
! baby into the Fulda. Both were drowned.
An excellent invisible ink for postal
cards can be made by diluting sulphuric
acid with fifty times its volume of water.
A slightly acid fluid is the result, which
does not injure a quill pen. The mes
sage is developed by holding the card
over any convenient flame-that of gas
or spirits for example, or by laying it on
Il hot plate.
The fastest run on record of Il steamer
was that of the Durham, from Table Bay,
Cape of Good Hope, to England; 5000
miles in eighteen days, sixteen hours, of
actual steaming, an average OF l3.l
knots an hour. 1t is far easier to run
5000 miles in nine days than 5000 in
eighteen days. because OF the extra
weight of Goals that must be carried.
The X club is society of nine dis.
tinguished Britons-Sir John Lubbock,
Mr.. Herbert Spencer, Sir Joseph Hooker,
Prois. Tyndall, Frankland, Busk, Hux-
ley and Hurst, and Mr.. William Spott-
iswoode. The invitations TO the club
meetings are very odd, displaying mere
ly the letter X linked to the date of
meeting, thus: "X-9." ometimes-
but rarely-the wives of the members
are permitted to grace the feast, and
then the card reads: "XXYVS-9.
Prof. Huxley and Mr.. Spottiswoode are
reported to be the life and soul of t hese
hilarious meetings, the only member who
approaches them in vivacity being Mr..
Herbert Spencer.