The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

| asked With iAuch earnestness, wv hat is
to become of the,poor whales?"
Two little school girls we're lately
prattling together, and one of them
said, owe keep four servants have got
six horses and lots of carriages; now
what have you got?" With quito as
much pride the other answered, We've
dot skunk under our barn."
Printers ink is being extensively
used to keep grubs off trees. The rela-
tionSof printers ink to grub has. long
been known to editors, as it has been
successfully used by them as a means
wherewith to get their grub. Some ad-
yertisers discovered this use likewise.
As an evidence of the wonderful ex-
D ansion OF Methodisn in America, the
church ogan states the. fact that during
the past year there was new church
completed, on the average, every three
working hours, or four for every day in
.he year.
1t is the opinion of the leading mar
ket men Of New York city, who have
lust returned from prospecting tour in
Delaware and New Jersey, that the
peac h crop in those sections will be a
good one, much better than it was last
year.
The peach was originally Ipoisoned
almond. Its flesh parts were used to
poison arrows, and the fruit was for this
purpose introduced into Persia. The
transplantation and cultivation, however,
not only removed its poisonous qualities,
but produced the delicious fruit we
now enjoy.
The editor of a Bangor, Maine, paper
says he recently saw number of young
ladies enter public hall with dishevel-
ed hair and hat rims apparently wrink-
eled, and he fancied with excited coun-
tenances. "Upon inquiring what the
riot was about" says he, "imagine our
chagrin when told it was the fashion,"
Careful investigation shows that from
one-half to one-third Of the coal is left
III the mines as waste, and that from
twenty-five to forty per cent of that
which reaches the surface is lost in
breaking, screening and handling
These losses are attributed to the crush
ing effects of powder.
An Arkansas woman, named Emily
Lord, is reported to have had nine hus-
bands IN ten years. Two died with sus-
picious suddenness, and three we're d.
vorced. What has become Of the 9TH
ers is not stated. An exchange says
she is misuamed, for evidently she is
an Emma-Sarah of Satan.
A young fellow, who had been mar
ried for twelvemonth, said it was all
sunshine, the next twelvemonth, said it
was all moonshine, anG the latter period |
of his matrimonial career was without
shine at all, except when his better half
took it into her head to "kick up a
a shine"
A sure cure for bugs of all kinds upon
plants and vegetables, is to make a thin
pint of slack lime to
1 pailfui Of water-and sprinkle it
through watering can over the vines.
It will, without fail, kill potato bugs,
cut worms, or anything of that kind.
Probably the first instance in history
If a woman having been buried with
military honors was that of Miss Esther
Johnstone, young English woman con-
lGcted with the German ambulance
ervice, who died recently at Chalons,
md was buried with military honors by
he Prussians.
"Corner loafng" with the use of
Ibusive, indecent, or insulting language,
whether addressed to any person pass
ng upon any highway, to any other
person., or to no person in particular,
las been made statutory ofense in
Connecticut, punishable by a fine not
exceeding seven dollars.
A western journal suggests that "if
he Democratic papers had only shown
'ne-half the zeal in fighting JEFF. Davis
When he, was President of the rebel
onfederaSy, that they now evince IN
ighting hiai when he is only the presi-
ent of life insurance company, they
7ould have done the State some ser
ice.
Among the Mohammedans no lengthy
egal process is necessary to divorce
7ife from her husband. The "liege
'rd" simply says to his wife three
ines, ."You are divorced" and the
hing is done. The wife, however, has
o such power over her husband.
A member of the Legislature, from a
emote and isolated district, sat listen
,g to appropriations for repairing
reeches in the canal, and finally sprang
p and said, "See here, Mr.. Speaker,
ho is this fellow, Canal, who wears out
, many breeches? I've counted ten Of
lem already, and one pair lasts me a
carp
The round figures of the railroad in
rest are easily learned and remember
/. The whole length of all the rail
'ads in the world is 10000 miles
be cost of the same was, in round
lmbers, ten billions of dollars. Those =
Great Britain are the most costly.
I'd those of the United States the least
i. The railway system of the world
supposed to give employment to over
le million persons. S