The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Items of Interest.

The poorest income on which mar"
ried couple can live is iucome-patibll1ty.
At Salisbury, N. f., Master Cushion,
aged fifteen, killed Master Couch, aged
fifteen, with club.
A society for the introduction of tenn
pefance literature in the public schools
has been formed in Chicago.
The sale of onions has largely in
creased in Maine, those who would
like alcohol if they could get it being,
according to one theory, the purchasers.
In October the affectionate husband
weeps to see his wife skip about the
house fourishing a duster, and to hear
her shrek in accents wild, xiii him
There's another moth miller y
A good meal, it is said, is served in q
restaurant in the Rue do Trinite, Paris,
for nine cents. The menu comprises
plate Of meat, plate of vegetables,
dessert, and half bottle of wine.
A couple of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad whisky got
into the gutter. After houndering for
some time one of them said, "Let's 60
to another house this hotel leaks.
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the
man had. The curiosity Of each was
fully satisfied.
The lifting power of plants is we'll
illustrated by an oak tree in South Had
ley, Mass. A rock had a seam in it,
and q fbrous root from the oak crept
into the seam, grew and lifted the rock,
weighing over ton, to height Of one
foot.
A Western man set fire to the prairie
for fun, but after he ran seven miles
and climbed a tree, with his pants
about all burned of, he concluded the
sport was little too violent exercise
to be indulged in oftener than once in
a lifetime.
Good advice. When you use postal
card, always write the address the first
thing. Tons of postal cards without
any address are destroyed in the Dead
Letter Office, because people write
their message first and then forget to
address the card.
In Hartford, not long since, where
the estate of a bankrupt, upon settle
ment, only allowed a dividend of one
half of one per cent, the highest divi-
dend was $55 on debt of 81 900 to
the wife of the bankrupt, and the low
est was four cents.
A bashful young man mortally offend
ed the bride of his most intimate
friend by stammering, when taken
aback by request for toast at the
wedding supper: "Tom, my f-fr-friend,
may you have wedding once a year
as long as you live."
A pistol to be used by Marietta Ravel
in play at Troy theatre was loaded
with a decidedly realistic bullet. A
boy had been rat hunting with the fire.
arm, and had left in a deadly charge.
The discovery was made just in time,
probably, to save the life of an actor.
Nineteen years ago a Tennessee
fatker refused to let his young daugh-
ter go to candy-pull, and she disap-
peared. The other day she returned,
lifted eleven children out of the wagon,
and entered the house and took off her
things as coolly as if she hadn't been
gone over a day.
Excellent paper pillows may be made
: of old letters-the sitter the paper
the better. Newspapers will not do.
, The paper should be cut into strips
and rolled round an ivory knitting
, needle; it is then almost like spring,
, and makes a much better cushion
, than the torn paper, being more elias
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