The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

BABES in the Wo0d-Dolls.
BosToN has just introduced the crystal
cabs.
GREAT roles are the favorite food of star
actors.
WHATEVER a man seweth, that also
shall he rip.
The favorite cape of Massachusetts,
Cape G. 0. d.
AN X lent is an excellent argument
against loaning.
SALINAS ALLEY, Cal, raised $4,000 sacks
of mustard seed last year.
A MUCH needed Civil Service Reform
Putting civil men in office.
ROCHESTER ice dealers refuse to deliver
ice on Sundays this season.
AN Abba, Iowa, firm recently shipped
$4,000 dozen ep0s to an Eastern market.
WHAT penance man Will unoergo Ior
pretty woman who cares nothing for
him!
JOHN STUART MILL opposes the private
ownership of land, and favors increased
taxation of real estate.
BEECHER says that babe is mothers
anchor. Wouldn't it be more correct to
call it her spanker boom?
RHODE ISLAND farmers will plant mini
ature torpedoes in their corn-hills as
substitute for scare-crows.
THE latest half-yearly German cata-
logue registers 5,4S3 books as published
there the latter half of 1872.
THE Library of Congress has twice
doubled within twelve years, and now
numbers 250,000 volumes.
KENTUCKY produced in the year 1872,
sc, ,207 ,26l pounds of tobacco, &c, ,236, ,37S
pounds short of the product for 1871.
A FASCINATING widow of eighty-five in
Indiana lately captured in matrimony a
thoughtless youth of only seventy-two.
The booksellers throughout the coun-
try talk of having a convention to take
action as regards the publishers "cutting
under"
GEORGIA hasn't yet got all the cotton
mills it wants; but a planter writes that
he has seen an unusual number of cotton
millers,
AN accepted suitor in California, lately
sold his interest and goodwill in his
affianced to rival for the price of new
waistcoat.
PARADISE, Pa, voted against local op-
| ton. in spite of the efforts of the women
Eve isn't as influential in Paradise as she
was in Eden.
|
university i, situated has been just the
thing for chaps this past winter. 1t was
Cam for ice, you know.
MR.. MORTIMER COLLINS has in prepara
ton treatise on 'Rhythmic Algebra, " il
which a scientific notation is applied tt
the science of rhythm.
"WHAT does the sun bring up in spring?'
asked New Britain Sunday-schoolt teach
er. Mud" made answer precociou
Gradgrind of an urchin.
The Chinese sunshade will be brough
into requisition again next summer; ais
the delicate affair of black lace over whit,
satin and white coral handle.
For a stout walking boot, those i
broadcloth, with thick soles and low heels
bid fair to become popular for mountai
excursions and seaside rambles.
WHITE neckties for full dress are nov
worn very wide; our fathers wore jus
} such neckties, and we shall soon be bac
to the "stock" of our grandfathers.
THEY said they wanted men wit
backbone" in Jetersville, Va, an
they've got cerebro-spinal mening'
ters," and yet they're not satisfied.
PERSONAL advertisements are like phi
, tols-very pretty playthings, and yer
! tempting withal but, like pistols, the
{ will burn the fingers and are apt to xii
? FARMERS in Ohio say the potato bug
are already so plenty in the ground thl
| it will be impossible to raise tuber III
less a hired man is stationed at each hi
with shotgun.
D The s'National Straw Works" at Yves
/. borough, Mass, seems to be going int
: : drainage pretty extensively, from the r
! port that there are 300 persons employe
! in the factory and 10000 sewers ou
) side"
THE African diamonds are shown
! their many shining qualities. Last ye
q it is estimated that not less than $l0,0U(
I 600 worth were sent from the Cape, and
q is prophesied that the best have not y
n been found.
: SEVERAL of the dozen widows of Il
late Rajah of Jodhpur were anxious
d have the rite of sat6 performed upt
" them, but the new Rajah restrained Il
e ladies from this burning evidence of {
e taehment to the dead.