The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-19
Items Of Interest

A good advertiser practically puts
his show windows into the newspapers.
Five hundred dollars was found con-
cealed on the perssn of man in Salem,
Mass, who had been taken to Jail for
debt.
A woman sick with typhoid fever was
recently refused admission to the county
hospital at Milwaukee, Wis, because
at the time when she appeared it was
late at night. She died shortly after
ward.
There is an old Indian in Kansas who
has been nicknamed "Old Prob"
When asked to prophesy of the COM
ing weather, he sagely and safely says,
"Mebbe snow; mebbe heap-hot. Bet
ter wait little, you bet."
The Rev. Phillips Brooks has refused
salary of $4,000 year from Phila-
delphia, said to be the highest salary
ever offered to an Episcopal clergy
man in this country, and one of $15,-
900 from New York. He loves Boston.
"Sir," said the astonished landlady
to q traveller who had sent his cup for
ward for the seventh time" you must
be very fond of Coffee" "Yes, madam,
I am," he replied, " or should never
have drank so much water to get a
little"
A number of practical iokers in an
interior California town accused poor
Swiss Of having set fire that occurred
in town. He took the matter very
much to heart, wrote pathetic fare
we'll letter to his brothers, and killed
himself
A newly married couple in Connecti-
cut recently started out on their we'd
ding tour accompanied by small sized
two-year old infant, which they had
hired for the purpose, deluding the
public into the belief that they were
old stagers.
An Alsatian woman goes to confess
"Father, have committed a great
SIM" "WelI p "I dare not say it
it is too grievous." "Come, come,
courage" CT have married Prus-
sian;" "Keep him, my daughter.
That's your penance."
Rather good rife-shooting is thus de-
scribed by the editor of the Troy
Wing =: "We have seen a man hold his
rife in his left hand and toss a chip
with his right hand into the air, and
then, bringing his rife to his shoulder,
put bullet through the chip"
A Washington lady, upon the mar
riage of her daughter, gave her in
tended son-in-law three dollars in
sealed envelope with which to fee the
minister. The enterprising youth alb
stracted thirds of the amount and
delivered the remaining one dollar to
the preacher.
According to statistics, the following
nine cities stand above New York in
the matter of population London,
3,254, ,260; Sutchan (Ch1na), 100000 ;
Paris, 1851, 1872; Pekin, 100000
Tschantschau-fu, 100000; Hangts-
chau-fu, 100000; Siangtan, 1,000,-
O0o; Singnan-fu, 100000 Canton,
100000.
A gentleman can stand it to hear
couple of ladies discuss the fashions
for three or four hours at time, but if
he tarries much longer than that he
gets jet galloons and cuirass basques
most horribly mixed up with shell
jabots on Vatican folds, and begins to
feel that if he doesn't get out into the
fresh air pretty soon he'll die.
A married man, hearing that the eat
| ing OF certain kinds OF animal 1000
would aid the same tissues of the hu-
man body-as, for instance, calves
brains would nourish the eaters brains,
or beef's liver the eaters liver-imme-
diately gave strict orders to his butcher
that no more tongue OF any kind should
be sold to his wife or mother-in-law.
The coolest robber that Boston has
seen for long time is man who went
to the Public Library building recently,
and, borrowing tools from some work.
men, removed the copper lightning
rods, laboring at the job several hours,
and, having loaded his spoils upon q
wagon, rode off. The workmen sup
posed he was acting under orders from
the city.
1t is on record that simultaneously
with the outbreak of an epidemic, like
the cholera, birds deserted the fated
town. This phenomenon has been OBJ
served in st. Petersburg, Riga, and in
cities of Prussia, in Hanover, Galicia,
and Southern Germany. Some scien-
tific men suppose the birds are warned
by the poison in the atmosphere, and
instipctively fly from it.