The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-06
Hooks and Eyes.

about bail bonds and cOnVeCione, NY H. VI.
The "coldest March" on record
Bonaparte's retreat from Russia.
The wheat crop Of North Georgia is
said to be immense, and promises to be
one OF the best ever harvested.
A French college has given a girl the
degree of Bachelor of Sciences. 1t
means that she is Made Of knowledge.
An exchange graveiy says: Was
Rhoderick Dhu anything like a Scotch
mist?
Early rising was once an indication of
thrift. but now it indicates that man is
dry.
There is time for all things. The
time to leave is when a young lady asks
you how the walking IS
A California man was thrown out Of
bed by the earthquake. He doesen't
consider it fair shake.
The population of Great Britain is
placed at 31,000,000, while that of
France is 100000.
1t is estimated that there are over
80 600 canary birds brought to this
country every year.
Lobsters will be very scarce this year
.-"probably because the long winter
has killed the vines," suggests Mr..
Greely.
The coal beds of Missouri are said to
have an area of two thousand seven
hundred square miles, mostly in the
northwest
An eccentric Connecticut gentleman,
recently deceased, left to religious insti-
tutions $4,000: to his cook S120,000,
and to each of his five children S400.
One OF the results of the civilization
of Japan is to leave ten thousand Budd-
hist priests penniless without employ
ment.
Which is the oldest-N1iss Ann IT.
guilty, old Aunty Deluvian, Miss Ann
Terror, Miss Ann Gestor, Hiss Ann T.
Mundane, or Miss Ann T. Cedent?
A fool Of dog in Indiana chases his
tail until he drops down with exhaustion.
This is one of the cases where the tail
wags the dog.
a Michigan Indian was promptly es-
corted to the happy hunting grounds by
can Of nitro-g lycerine which he endeav-
ored to open with his little hatchet.
Glass bottles we're made in England
about 1853, but the art was practiced by
the Romaus 70 A.D las they have been
found plentitully among the ruins Of
Pompeii.
You will alwus notis one thing, the
devil never offers to go into partnership
with bizzy men; but you will often see
him offer to jine the lazy, and furnish
all the capital,
Sprinks says he knows just the kind
of dwelling that his wife wants, because
she has described 1t to him. She wants
"a house large enough to accommodate
eight persons, with parlor. dining-room,
five bedrooms, nursery, bathroom, clos
ets in every room, basement, kitchen,
cemented cellar, aud high attics, all on
the first floor"
1t will be remembered that an elc-
plants tooth was found in gravel-pit
in Louisville. KY, last summer. After
giving the subject due consideration, sci
entifc men say it must have been there
for over two thousand years.
1t is related of I.essing that he was
occasionally so absent-uinded that
he once Knocked at his own door,
when the servant, not recognizing her
master, looked out Of the window and
said, "the Professor is not at home"
"Oh, very wel!," replied Lessing COM
posedly, walking away. 81 will call
again"
THE manufacture Of beet sugar in
Europe has been 50 large and so profit,
able that the attention OF American agri-
culturists was attracted to il many years
ago, but their experiments have so far
met with little success, except in Califor-
MIA. 1t is believed in Massachusetts,
that the culture of tie sugar beet may
now be undertaken under circumstances
more favorable to success, and the Legis-
lature of that State has been asked to
give encouragement to the enterprise by
exemptiug from taxation all the property
used in the manufacture, excepting the
land on which the beets are raised.