The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-22
HOOKS AND EYES.

The brain gets fifth OF our blood.
Fifty-one persons were convicted Of
violating the postal law
Horace Greeley was 6l years of age
on the Sd inst.
Apprehension of evil is often wors
than the evil itself
An honest employment is most ex.
cellent patrimouy.
The divine faculty is to see what
everybody may look at.
The sterpest irony of fate may lie in
the tu!flImeut of our wishes.
The rays OF happiness, like those OF
light, are coiorlcss when unbroken.
Montesquien wrote: "Happy is that
people whose annals are written in sand
A game OF pitch and toss-Lite on
the ocean wave.
Eight millions of persons in the
United States use tobacco.
The Supreme Court of Maine decides
that au oyster is a fish with crust on.
Three hundred and twenty four firms
tailed in New York last year.
Be courteous to all, intimate with few,
and let that few be well tried.
Happiness consists in the ability to
appreciate.
Connecticut girls talk of CELEBRATED
papers s"--meaning the pictorials
IF England says war, the whole of
the Niagara Falls becomes ours.
The richest gold fields in the world
are said to be in East Siberia.
Maine girls say there ain't enough
bridges on the sIeigding route.
"You can't sometimes most always
generally tell" is both elegant and
grammatical'
Out in Montana the cold has been
50 intense that whisky has bad to be
sold by the stick.
Siberian milk men carry their COM
modify in frozen state aud chop off
quart with hatchet.
Whichever We hear a man curse the
town, we conclude he had better leave
it for the towns good.
A hundred cents will make q dollar
out million dollars won't make goon
sense.
The jesuit body throughout the world
now contains 9,l64 members. Iu 1851
it hardly numbered 400.
Chief Justice Chase is announced as
of the field of the Presidency, and favor
ing the nomination of Senator Trumbull.
If you want your neighbor to "kncw.
all about YOU, give party, ana don't
invite the folks who live next door.
Bad habits are thistles of the heart.
and every indulgence from which will
spring a new crop OF weeds.
"Extending your shop front into the
newspaper" is the latest defnation for
advertising.
Josh Billings says: "If man has
got eighty thousand dollars at interest,
and owns the house he lives in, it amt
much trouble to be a philosopher"
When a man owns himself to be in
error, he does but tell you, in other
words, that he is wiser than he was -
Dean Swift.
We have but one minute at once. let
US improve it Our moment will soon
come when this life will cease-may we
so live to meet it without regret.
Look always at the bright side of
things, as the cheering and invigorating
,uu does; and remember that content is
the mother Of good discretion.
Pennsylvania has 2,S93 post offices.
2OS more than the State OF New Yuk. I
The whole number of post Offices in the
The United States is 30,045.
An Ohio paper mentions housewife
n that State Of such extraordinary neat
hess that she scrubbed her kitchen floor
Until she fell through into the cellar.
A young lady in Rock Island has
made bet of $1,000 that she can col
tet million Cancelled postage stamps
n four years. and is DOW at work trying
O win the bet.
1t Grace Greenwood had the framing
# the law, only such women should be
4llowed to vote as had sewing machines
md knew how to use them.