The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Over 200 cheese factories are operated
in New York State.
The Boston Post considers judges
position trying one.
A California paper says that it is now
considered well-settled point that the
production Of raisins in that State will
be made profitable.
English authorities state that, out OF
every five loaves of bread eaten in Eng
land in 1860, three must come from the
United States and Russia.
Turkeys territorial loss is estimated
by German authority as territory
almost rs large as Prussia proper, with
a population of l,000,000
A pork packer at Indianapolis has
shown great inventive genius in get
ting into scrape. He has invented
machinery which will scrape 1000 hogs
a day.
A new steam hammer in the establish
ment of Messrs. Park Bros. & Co., Pitts
burg, weighing fifteen tons, and costing
$50, 900, will, it is said, be the largest in
the country.
An agent of the Mormon Church has
been down in Mexico looking for good
location in which to make q Mormon
settlement. 1t is to be hoped that he
will find one.
Over 1922 ,OOO,0O0 was expended in
New York city last year in the erection
of new buildings, which is in excess of
the amount expended for new buildings
any year since 1871.
A few years ago, when an unprece-
dentedly cold night left little skim of
ice on the pools in Jerusalem, the Arabs
declared that it was a miracle by which
water had been turned to glass.
Henry Nelson, of New Orleans, is
ninety eight" too old to be fooled
with" he says. But some boys amused
themselves by tormenting him, until he
shot off the arm of one of them.
Mrs. Harris was i'll, at Mite, i, Ind,
and deliriously insisted on geti ing out of
bed. The husband tried by persuasion
TO keep her quiet, and then losing his
patience, killed her with an axe.
On recent voyage from Hong Kong
to San Francisco the captain of the ship
had one son washed overheard and
drowned and another born to him, so
he landed with as many as he started
with.
The Smithsonian institute has sent
commission to the Pacific coast to make
Il complete collection OF all the fish found
in the sea, lakes and rivers of California
and the neighboring States and Terri.
tories.
1t is said that there is one COW for
every four persons in this country. and
if the wells and springs were to fail
some of us would be put on short allow
ance of milk and cream.-NOrristo,On
Herald.
The Suez canal receipts are reported
to have decreased in 1878 1929 200 from
those of 1877, and 1879 showed a still
greater falling off. About three-quarters
cf the vessels passing through are
British.
Mrs. Blessersole thinks fre-escapes
very proper things to have. She says
it is well enough to give fire a chance
to escape from building, if it will; if
it won't, why then put it out, of course
Boston Transcript.
mind words can never die" How
bitterly does man realize that terrible
truth when he sees all the kindest words
he ever saw in his life glaring at him
from his published letters in a breach
of promise suit.-Haukeye.
There are about 60, 900 Mennonites in
America. They have 500 meeting
houses. They abstain from taking the
OATH do not inflict punishment, do not
accept public office, and never go to
law. They ale nearly all farmers.
M. Say, the Frenchman of leisure
who, on pleasure bent, started around
the world in private yacht recently,
but was driven into the Chesapeake by
storm. concluded that his yacht is too
small for the undertaking, and so has
ordered 100000 ship from Balti-
more firm.
According to the developments Of a
lawsuit in Buffalo, the business of manu-
featuring glucose is a very profitable
one. 1t is alleged that the shares of
the Buffalo grape sugar company, the
original value cf which was 500 each,
are now worth $4,000 each, and it is
said the concern makes from $4,000 to
S40,O 900 per week.
Although to-day there are as many
boards in the House of Commons MS in
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. 1t be-
longed TO Mr.. Muntz, member from
Birmingham. who did the public SER
vice by persuading the government to
adopt the pertorating machine in the
manufacture of postage stamps. Mr..
Muntz shaved until he was forty, when
MS DIoGheI reIurheu from Germany
with a fine beard, which the NJ. P. de-
ter mined to emulate. "H. b." the
| famous caricaturist, was soon at "the
man with the beard" as every one called
! Muntz, and represented him in cartoon
as "a Brummagen M. p" In this por-
trait he carries stout stick, which has
special prominence, the reason being
that an irrepressible practical joker, the
Marquis of Waterford, was supposed to
have laid n wager that he would shave
Muutz; hence the cudgel to defend him.
sell fl, m disbarbament. Mr.. Muntz
died, yery wealthy, in 1857.