The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-11
Items of Interest.

vana in honor of the officers and crew
of the Tornado.
An Iowa paper took fifteen pounds of
dried apples as pay for publishing
marriage notice.
A barrel of oil is considered O fair
trade for a bushel of potatoes in some
parts of the oil regions.
The La Trappe monks at Eubuque
have received q mandate from France
forbidding them from shaving off their
boards.
A Florida colored boy, in the act of
eating sugar, was stung in the mouth
by bee and died from the effects of
the sting.
Two weeks ago, lumbermen in Min
neapolis refused $26 month for winter
labor. They are now ready to enlist at
the rate of $16 to $1S.
The Mobile Register appeals for aid
for the widow and seven children of
Capt. Fry of the Virginius, in destitute
circumstances in New Orleans.
A little Chicago girl who went
through the tunnel under the river, ex-
claimed on returning home, ooh, ma,
we went over the river under it"
The committee of the Georgia Press
Association decided to postpone the
National Press Convention, called to
meet at st. Louis Nov. g. to some fu-
ture time.
Diogenes hunted in the daytime for
an honest man, with a lantern if he
had lived in these times, he would hav
needed she he'd lite of lokomotif.-
Josh Billings.
During the past month 1877 per-
sons emigrated from Liverpool, 1883
of whom came to the United States. In
the corresponding month of 1872 1918
persons emigrated.
There will be undoubtedly over 50,-
600 persons thrown out of employment,
and without place to sleep or where
withal to feed their starving families in
New York this winter.
The Charleston Is. O. News says
1T is rumored that in the event of
President Grant declaring war against
Spain, the first regiment of National
Guards, of this city, will at once volun-
teer and embark for Cuba"
A sewing machine agent in Indiana
has been arrested for having four
wives. The immense profits that are
made on sewing machines may Justify
an agent in having four wives, but he
ought to know that nothing else does.
G. W. Graham, the ex-army captain
who attempted to murder and rob Army
Paymaster Major Brooks, has been con-
visited yaa4gd IA ct Rsenysr Of asseat with intent
fine of 81, 900.
Irascible old party-"Conductor, why
didn't you wake me as I asked you?
Here I am, miles beyond my station"
Conductor" did try, sir, but all
could get out of you was, AL right,
Maria, get the children their breakfast,
and I'll be down in a minute.
eff boys and girls" said clergy
man at Evanston, Ill, "do their spark
ing at church, I say amen to it. have
daughter whom I cherish as the apple
of my eye. When she is of suitable
age, L had rather she would be courted
in the house of God than in the theatre"
A man at Logansport, Ind, who sub
scribed $1,000 to Universalist college
of that place year or two since, now
refuses to pay his subscription on the
ground that he was insane. The trus-
tees. however, do not believe in such
: emotional insanity, and have sued him
for the money.
) An industrious, painstaking, Con-
y necticut parson, anxious that his SER
! mons shall make lasting impressions on
a the minds of his people, occupies his
: leisure hours in putting into type and
/ printing from hand-press outlines OF
+ his discourses for distribution to church
s goers from week to week.
e Working love is better than emotive
e love. 1t is well to have both, but 1T is
l. - Il, f0
work the engine and blow the whistle,
too. There is a love which never
speaks: it spends itself in work, like
:, sunlight shedding its rays on the ground
e and bringing up the beautiful flowers,
d softly and quietly.
o "Little Tommy didn't disobey man.
II ma. and go in swimming, did he ?
|. "No, mamma; Jimmy Brown and the
g rest of the boys went in, but L remem.
d bered, and would not disobey YOU
,. "And Tommy never tells lies, does
l. he ?" "No, mamma or couldn't &C
e to Heaven" "Then how does Tommy
If happen to have on Jimmy Browns
rs shirt ?"
~ ~ T. Lane Emory, residing near Taylor
~ Pa, recently lost horses by hydropho
II bia. While driving on the road one O
u them began to act very strangely, froth
e1 ie ed at the mouth, became ungovernable
~ and in a frantic rage seized its compan
~ ion by the neck, thus communication
d q the disease to it. A number of hogs
VI the neighborhood were bitten by th
as same dog, and died with all the symI
,o toms of hydrophobia.
4 The championship of gullibility
" claimed by Winchester, r. l., for Oh
as of its citizens who recently allowed
on genteel stranger to try on his new owe
ar coat "to see how he would look in it
m 1e while he, the owner, stepped into Il
mo- Providence depot to look at the tin
a91 table. He explains that the gente
stranger promised faithfully to wait f
him outside, but supposes he must ha
remembered some pressing busine
VS.: engagement and forgotten all about t
ON overcoat.
his 1t was Platt Evans of Cincinnati W
be taught his friends how to buy tend
eak geese, but he couldn't always get tn,
can in the market. One morning he saw
no. lot and inquired of the farmer h
lad many there were. "About a dozel
to was the reply. "W-w-well," :" said Pls
ole "I k-k-keep a b.b-boardin house. q
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