The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-20
Items of Interest.

Nearly seven hundred infants under
one year died in New York and Phila-
delphia IN one week, recently. -
Two women, a mother and her mar
ried daughter, were recently cut in
pieces by reaper at Dayton, Ohio.
In round numbers it costs the British
people So, 900, 600 annually to support
the royal family. and one princess yet
to be married off.
A stout old woman in Detroit got
mad lately because photographer
wouldn't let her fan herself while she
had her picture taken.
He's gentleman and sculler,"
is O compliment which, in the light OF
recent events, cannot be applied indis-
criminately to college oarsmen.
A Delaware man thrashed his wife
almost to death because their baby
didn't get prize at the baby show, and
then he offered to trade the baby for q
pig.
This brief chronicle was written by
the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger
"Lowell-S Saturday. Two little boys
and pistol. Now, only one little boy
and pistol"
The girl who generally writes her
name in O straw hat and marries mill
lionaire through its influence hasn't
been hear of this year. The million
aire was probab ly married before the
hat came out.
"Sakes alive, would no more name
boy Alias than nothing in the world.
They're allus cutting up some caper.
Here's Alias Thompson, Alias William,
Alias the Night Hawk, all been took
up for stealing" ...... .
A friend invited Horace Greely to
call and see him, ending the invitation
with, eff I am not at home you can al
ways see my wife" ooh" said the
philosopher, "I don't think it is well
to make q practice of that" And 1T
isn't.
The following letter has been re-
ceived by Treasurer Spinner :-"Please
send me new Bill or the worth of this
bill. I droop the letter on the floor
and one of my men had his dog there
and his dog chewed part of the bill to
peeces."
It is bad to be bitten and not know
what bites you. Austin, Texas, is i'm
mengely annoyed by a gnat SO small
as to be invisible to the naked eye an
insect with o bill so delicate and gentle
that the bitten knows not his wound
until he finds himself pimply all over.
The head of the family is about to
eat an apple. Mother" Say, father,
give me a piece" Daughter" 0,
father, givo me q piece" Son" o,
father, I want piece" Niece-''Won't
you please give me piece, too ?"
Father (disgusted) -" Here, you all
take the apple and give me piece"
Mr.. Beecher having been represented
as being quite jolly, the Louisville
COurier-Journal is moved to say !:
"The man who wouldn't be jolly at the
thought of being the chief proprietor Of
the most beautiful and extensive scan
dal of the age must have a skin as
thick as the epidermis of rhinoceros.
"In Gervais, Oregon during storm,
large tree was struck by lightning and
cut completely off, as with sharp in
strument, about four feet from the
ground. In falling the tree was thrown
forward ten feet, raised high in the air,
and the butt driven into the ground,
the shock shivering the branches and
leaving the trunk standing upright"
To grow rich is not to make more
money, but to spend less. Ii one is
not accommodating money as fast as he
thinks he ought, the remedy, in nine
cases out of ten, is not greater exertion
to make money but greater care to save
it. Indeed, he who saves money sys-
tematicaily, putting away a part, even
though it be q small part, OF each
weeks or each days earning, is rich
already. His means exceed his neces-
sites, and that is wealth always.