The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-18

from the lungs of consumptives ha
been found to be swarming with para
sites which are highly infectious. H
has propagated the disease artificial,
and killed animals with the parasite
thus produced. And now if he vii
only produce parasite which will de
stroy the tubercular parasite, he vii
have conferred lasting benefit upor
the human race.
Keep your eye on coins passins
through your hands and you may max,
a strike. The rarest coin in the United
States is the double eagle of 1S49, O.
which there is only one in existence
belonging to the cabinet of the United
States mint. The next in rarity is the
half eagle of 1915. It is said that the
king of Sweden, to complete his col
lection of United States coins, paid
$4,000 for specimen. Only five OF
these half eagles are in existence. The
silver dollar of 1904 is rare and valua.
BILE. Only ten pieces of the kind are to
be found.
A peculiar business has been COM
menced 10 Texas, the breeding of ponies
for the use and pleasure of children.
An 8,000-acre ranch in Bexar county,
has been fitted up for that purpose.
The owner has on it forty-five Shetland
mares and 100 Zacetecas ponies, a
Mexican breed, and he thinks that he
| will succeed. The Zacetecas ponies are
| spotted, cost no more than a goat, are
very hardy and we'll adapted to the sad
die. They roam over the mountain
like fiocks of sheep and are about as
gentle. In short time every child in
the United States will be supplied with
beautiful prize spotted pony-accord-
| ing to the owner OF the ranch.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner writes
from Palermo that brigandage is about
at an end in Sicily. The organization
of the brigands is broken up and they
are discouraged. "My own explana-
tion of the change" writes Mr.. War
ner, e." is that the brigands have gone to
keeping the hotels in Sicily, and take
it out of the travellers in legal but
more thorough manner. I might as
we'll say here, from considerable expe-
rience in Sicilian hotels, that they are
on their way to he first-class. Their
prices are already first-rate. They have
only to raise the accommodation, the
food and attendance up to the prices
and they will be all right. The land
lords have simply begun at the wrong
end"
A piece of good luck has befallen the
prisoners in jail at Council Bluffs,
Tow" y~--o e:-~t. who rLor1s oiv
feet eleven inches high in his stockings,
weighs 275 pounds aud is only twenty
years old, has been added to their num-
bers. AS soon as they perceived that
his gigantic proportions were likely to
fix the gaze of visitors to the Jail, they
put their new comrade on exhibition at
ten cents head. At the approach of
visitor the giant retires from the cor
ridor to his cell and refuses to emerge
until the dime has been handed to
another prisoner duly appointed to col
lect the fees. With the funds thus
provided the prisoners purchase to-
bacco and other Injuries to cheer the
dull routine of Jail life.
An accurate little photograph of Mr..
Longfellow is given by q writer in the
Indianapolis Journal: "His dress was
scrupulously tasteful and becoming.
His hair and beard, set off against a
snowy collar and coat of black, showed
silvery bright, but were in quantity
and texture much thinner and nner
than his engravings represent. The
features, too, were not so full and
rugged as in his portraits, but were mi
nutely lined with time, and of that pc
culiar pallor of complexion that comes
only of extreme age. Yet ne was won
derfully agile in his movements, and
continually shifting positions-some-
times settling forward, his elbow rest
ing on the table, the head propped rest
fully in his hand then, suddenly lean
ing backward, the entire figure assuming
an air of enviable languor."
Cincinnati has q strange hermit in
Edward Holroyd. He was once part
ner in large and successful dry goods
house, and at that time was public
spirited, jovial and widely known.
Twenty years ago he retired suddenly
from business, secluded himself in
very handsome suburban residence, and
has never since been off the premises.
For months no human being sees him,
his orders to the family who live in the
house being sent out from his room in
writing, and his food being passed in
through wicket. The building is
going to ruin through neglect, and the
grounds are INTENDED, but neither
through stinginess nor lack of means,
as his property has appreciated to $780,
900 in value, and he frequently gives
away money in charity. He takes the
daily newspapers, and seems to keep
informed as to what is going on in the
world, but will have nothing to do with
it, and lately refused to see one of his
former business partners. Many of his
old associates believed he was dead, SO
completely had he dropped out of
notice, when description in the En-