The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-07-03
News Items,

through ? A greenhorn.
The poorest nan in the world is one
who has nothing but money.
A FOOLS heart is in his tongue, but
wise mans tongue is in his heart.
A panther, seven feet long, was kill
ed recently near Vicksburg, Miss.
An immense peach crop is expected
in Delaware, perhaps two millions Of
baskets.
Perhaps angeis are less blessed than
man from being able to remember no
childhood.
Mrs. H. B. Stowe has turned orange
woman. She has some three hundred
acres planted in Florida.
The Republican candidate for Cover
nor of California was newsboy in Con-
necticut twenty years ago
A destitute lady in Baltimore has
beer provided with comfortable home
by one Of her former slaves.
The petition of Tennessee citizens
asking protection against Brownlow is
forty feet long.
Barnum has secured the Connecticut
pig with an elephants trunk and an eye
iu the center Of its forehead.
Prentice says; " We won't believe
that to kiss pretty girl is so delicious
till we have it from her own lips.
Governor Geary has become a Good
Templar, it is good news to hear that
Geary has become a good anything.
In speech delivered eight years ago
Brownlow said negroes are only monk
eys with their tails cut off,"
The Pennsylvania oil regions have
lost fully third of their population,
and the number is lessening every day.
A man who had been insane for thirty
years recently recovered his senses on Lis
death bed. There is still hope for
| Wendell Phillips.
Judge Kelley lost his hat in the Mo-
bile riot. Won't General Pope issue a
military order that the corporation buy
him new one
A person asked an Irishman why he
wore his stockings wrong side outward.
Because" said he, "there's hole on
the other side"
A young lady, Just married, in New
New York, had twenty-four pair of shoes
to match twenty. four dresses. She was
q whole Soled maiden.
What is the difference between a
mischievous mouse and a beautiful
young lady ? One harms the cheese
and the other charms the he's.
A man in Connecticut has invented a
machine which makes and counts in
bundles of twenty-five over six thousand
envelopes per hour.
Barnum has sold his place at Blidge-
port, Conn, for $4,000, and left the
State, which had become quite too dis
tasteful to him since the election.
The New York Tribune says that on
his way back from Richmond the Presi-
dent has made characteristic speeches,
noticeable for good feeling.
The last "outrage on freedman at
the South was that of being struck by
lightning. Congress must meet in July
to regulate thuader storms.
Lord Mas, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, announced in the House OF Com
mons, June 6, that the sentences of all
the convicted Fenians had been COM
muted.
Thirteen regiments of regular British
troops, numbering 5000 men, have been
distributed along the Canadian border,
with view to preventing Fenian ag1
gressions.
Philosophers say that shutting the
eyes makes the sense of hearing more
acute. A wag suggests that this ac
counts for so many closed eyes that are
seen at church on Sundays.
The Radical Council of Washington
City have organized, and the Board ap
yointed John 7, johnson, negro bars
Der, as chief clerk, and another negro
was chosen as messenger.
The population of the United States
is now 81, 100000 Great Britain has
30,OO0,000 France 38,00O,O0O; Prus.
sia and its dependencies 35,000,00O !;
Austria 81 100000, and Russia $1,000,
600.
A Frenchman has invented new
paper which instantly stops the hemorr
hage caused by wounds Marshal Mel
has passed contract with him for 300,
COO,OOO quires of il for use in the Frenh
army.
The President aud Cabinet are unaui-
nous in the belief that the Satrap