The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-09
items OF Interest.

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prevents man from keeping more than
two tame bears.
State prisoners are expensive luxu-
ries. It takes ninety-fve men to guard
Marshal Bazaine.
A deaf and dumb man belongs to the
Baltimore fire department, and is one of
the best members.
1t cost London four lives and twenty
four broken bones to do honor to the
royal bride and groom.
Peach growers are already beginning
TO complain of the effects of the cold
upon the coming crop.
The total weight to the window
weights to the United States Hotel,
Saratoga, is thirty tons.
Rhode Island has passed the law
giving discharged convicts one-tenth
of their actual earnings.
Only so far as a man is happily mar
ried to himself is he fit for married life
and family life generally.
Michigan has O Mormon revival, in
which some of the most wealthy fani-
lies have been converted.
Nevada expects to get forty million
dollars worth Of the precious metals
out of the ground this year.
A couple of lovers at Cairo we're
married by telegraph the other day,
the clergyman being in Memphis.
Nature provides no reserved seats for
the rich and dainty. When there is ice
on the pavement they sit where they
can.
There are said to be more false
alarms of fires in cities, and mistakes
about storms predicted by Old Proba-
bilities.
A Kansas rocking chair broke down
the other Sunday night, severely in
jured young lady and broke o young
mans leg.
A new simile.-The Jenkins of a
western paper describes one of the
bellies at recent party as "graceful
little toad"
M. Digne, French billiardist, in a
recent game at Bordeaux, "jawed" the
balls and made the extraordinary run of
$500 points.
The whole production of the precious
metals throughout the world during
| 1773 is estimated to have been worth
$219, 100000.
The women in the West have accom-
plished more for temperance in the past
six weeks than have previously been ef-
fected il six years.
Two thousand square miles of su-
perior yellow pine timber, now wholly
untouched by the axe, are about to be
opened to market in Florida.
A Judge of one of the ST. Louis courts
recently delivered very wholesome
lecture to his bar on the needless repe-
tition of words in their pleadings.
They found some land in Iowa, the
other day, of which the owner was not
known, and in twenty-four hours every
tree on that land was cut down and
hauled of,
Let us carefully observe those good
qualities wherein our enemies excel us
and endeavor to excel them by
avoiding what is faulty, and initiating
what is excellent in them.
The Boston Pilot admonishes Irish
men that the man who "drowns the
shamrock on St. Patrick's day does
his best to drown the teachings of his
church and the good name of his coun-
try.
Eli Love, of Wayne county, Ohio,
recently climbed tree to shake down
a coon. Eli, however, fell down him
self, and his dogs mistaking him for
the game, tore him badly before they
discovered their mistake.
A New York man living on farm in
Alabama was ordered by the Ku-Klux
to leave, but instead of so doing he re-
mained and shot three of them. His
neighbors expressed their qualification
by electing him County Clerk.
At juvenile party, one little fellow,
rejoicing in the splendor of his new
clothes, went up to another with the
triumphant remark: "You amt dressed
as well as am" "Well," retorted the
other, 81 can lick you, anyhow"
The castle from which the capital of
the Gold Coast takes its name, is not a
very formidable affair. 1t is feared
that discharge of the immovable guns
with which its ramparts are armed
would result in tumble-down of the
whole edifce.
The Committee on German of the
Washington School Board recommend
the study of that language in the pub
lie schools, on the grounds that it will
render the nation more homogeneous,
allure German youth to our excellent
schools, and promote business.
In Colorado, the jails are built of
adobe-sun-dried bricks-and spades
are furnished to the prisoners so that
they can cut their way in at night with
out disturbing the guards. The plan is
particularly useful where convicts are
in the habit of keeping late hours.
A little girl ran out to meet her faith
er, as he was on his way home to din
ner, exclaiming: spa, 1 declare some.
body has broken kitty all to pieces. y
An examination disclosed the fact that
fourteen little Thomases and pussies
had been added to the feline family.
A Mr.. Nichols advertises in a Lon
don paper, 81 tried your application
; for total deafness of the left ear and il
: took it away" and he adds that his
: daughter tried it for toothache and il
: took the tooth out. Wonderful medi
: cine that is to say, if Mr.. Nicholls''
statement is not tooth in.
A bill reported favorably to the Penn
{ sylvania Senate, aiding the enforcement
!. of the marriage laws, empowers clergy
q men and others having authority t
]. Join persons in wedlock to swear tn
i parties and witnesses in order to as
certain whether the candidates are eli
gible.
@ In the Yuba county hospital, Califoi
q MIA, interesting experiments have bee
8 made with a. magnet for the cure G
IS rheumatism and PARALYSIS. A larg