The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-05
items of Interest.
No one but fool is always right.

| Gladstone has created forty peers
since his accession to office, five years
ago. tf
A club of farmers in Chesterfield, ILL.,,
takes $100 worth of newspapers annu-
ally. r~- g.
Queen Victoria is said to be writing
book, the scene being laid In Ger
many. ..-.. ...-e
A colored man living near Hunting
don, Tenn, claims to be the father of
sixty-fve children.
The Spanish Government rs said to
have agreed to an exchange of prison
ers with the Carlists. ...-r
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of
the New York Herald, has given $50, 900
to the poor OF New York City.
A Butte County (Cal.) man receives
$2, 900 a year rent for 100 acres of land.
The Land is worked by Chinese garden
ers ,-.t g..
Bancroft recently appeared on skates
at the Thiergarten Pond in Berlin. lie
is said to have done the eagle " very
nicely.
An italian musical education, together
with the advantage of a chaperOne, costs
n young lady $1,000 year on an
average.
There is an Establishment in Paris
whose sole bushnell is to make over and
rHo1mohs reSurl feathers he business done is
The question frequently asked,
"How much is a horse power p We
saw man who was kicked by a horse
the other day, but he is too sick to
tell. -.-.
The question of the legal right of a
woman to be Justice of the Peace in
Maine is at issue, and the Governor has
asked the Supreme Court for de-
cision.
1t concerns those who trip the light
fantastic toe to know that one young
lady lately received such injuries by
falling on O waxed ballroom floor as
resulted in death.
Young Lady: 60, 1 am so glad you
like birds which kind do you admire
most ?" Old SQUAD Well, L think
the goose, with plenty of stufing, is
about as good as any"
John Eiswarthf of Hartford, dreamed
that he was carried on train to ST..
| huu UuCTo llou Ills
brother-in-law He wrote to st. Louis,
and the brother-in-law was there.
Mrs. McCrum, of Kalamazoo, has
twins; but she nt,proud, for one of
them weighs only lb. 10 o., and the
. other only 1 ID. s or. This is case
in which he ounces are OF Importance.
A man lost his railway season ticket
| nearly year ago. Last week he found
, it in his Bible. He has thought il
, necessary to publish in the newspapers
B statement that "it wasn't his other
: Bible"
A correspondent piteously inquiries
Chow long are the people of Missouri
to be robbed p We cannot answer,
says the st. Louis Globe, as the Legis.
lature has not fixed the day of adjourn.
, ment.
| Douglas county, Oregon, boasts of g
l lady who has been married nine times
/ has eight husbands living, and is living
5 with none of them. More than this
she has a daughter who is now twenty
,, three years of age, andeliving with he
! third husband. i; ....
81. B. Harvey, Wor. Master of Ma
sonic lodge in Troy, N. Y, says th
, country is overrun with bad character
l who solicit relief ON the ground o
; being Masons. He has had eight ap
> plications in day from men who, as HI
: learned upon investigation, had beel
, expelled from lodges.
= "May it please your honor" said
: lawyer, addressing one of the cit
, judges, " I brought the prisoner fror
! Jail on a habeas corpus" swell" sal
!. fellow in an undertone, who stood il
q the rear of the court, "these lawyer
!. will say any thing. I saw the man ge
! out of hack at the courtroom door.
" Bret Harte says the success of Arte
Q mus Ward in England was surprise
G even to his warm friends. He toll
IS Bret that on the first night of his ap
j. pearance in London it was a toss-u
n whether he would be arrested after tn
lecture or invited to dinner. He added
with that delicious because half-uncoI
scious satire, "Heads won p
M. Tany, in communication to til
It Academic des Sciences, objects t
n vanes as indicators of the wind, sine
d they indicate direction when there
h no wind, and they do not indicate th
t. force or velocity of the wind. III
would substitute little flag suspende
l. by cord from metallic ring, pulleye
Vt on vertical rod. This is worthy {
n consideration.
o interviewing has reached its heigh
,s in Chicago. A reporter of one of th
IL leading papers visited the police il
spector, and informed the public thu
rs "Mr. Sheridan sat back in his cha
7, gracefully smiling at group of fedI
"a . ling firemen, and squirting richcolore
l. tobacco Juice into ravenous spittoo
9, with marvellous accuracy and owe
g whelming constancy."
- A young man who was married
.r Detroit six months ago has Joined
the discussion of the question of fami
economy, but his little contribution
a. far from satisfactory. 1 do not"
IS says, understand how it is. 1 use
a. to figure it out, as 1 sat with my ar
"a round her waist on Sunday nights, IN
IA all it would then cost to live would
IS $2.75 week, and now spend $15 an
ID am hungry half the time" liiEi
70 Wishing to keep souvenir of h
N visit, an excursionist to Brighton, WI
ir had never seen the sea before, though
TO he would take home with him a bottl
ID full of sea water. While he was in IL
is act of filing the bottle, an old sal
10 who had been Watching him, aske
/; What are you up to % q" Why, Fl
ID ing my bottle with salt water, as "