The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-18
Two Dollars per Annum.
NO. 16.
Items of Interest,


Items OF Interest.
The treasures of the deep are not so
precious as are the concealed comforts
of man locked up in woman's love.
"What is the maximum ball ?" said
young lady to a soldier IN the Woolwich
Arsenal, "The Minie--mum, was his
reply.
As an excuse for rejecting a widower,
fair young damsel informed friend
that " she did not want warmed
over man" ....
Regard this world as though thou
vert destined to live forever, and the
world to come as though thou vert to
die tomorrow.
The sage observed, GA good name is
the noblest pedigree, and closing the
eyes the surest protection against world
ly alfurements.
A boy was recently killed near New
ton Highlands, Mass, while trying to
"stump" another boy to cross the track
before locomotive.
A lady asked Mr.. johnson if he liked
children. "Don't know, ma'am, an
swered that grabbed old gentleman
"never tried 'em-am not an ogre"
The Rev. DR.. West of Cincinnati de-
clared in o recent sermon that "the
crimes of that city have we'll nigh made
Sodom and Gomorroh respectable"
A Western editor thinks that the
habit of carrying tobacco in the pistol
pocket is bad one. To meet man on
lonely road and see him reach for his
tobacco box suggests unpleasant pos
sibilities. ....-... .s.,........ .......
At one point on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, where two years ago was a
bowling wilderness, there is now hand
some depot and-not house for 20
miles around.
Certain Vermont rumsellers have es-
tablished their saloons on the Canada
line, the back part, with liquors, being
in her Maiesty's dominions, and the
customers room in the United States.
La Mothe was not great writer, but
he understood human nature. Finding
that his book had slow sale, he pro-
cured prohibition against the read
ing of it, and every copy was dis
posed of.
A woman should never consent to be
married secretly. She should distrust
man who has any reason to shroud in
darkness the act which in his own esti-
nation should be the crowning glory
of his life.
It is estimated that three million
cubic yards of levees are required to be
built to save Louisiana from another
inundation next year, and the State is
not in condition to pay for one'third
of the expense.
According to the last German Army
List, the German army numbers now
1924, $40 men, with 2, 740 cannons. The
field forces number 705, 700, the field
reserve forces 243, $40, and the garrison
troops 375, 700 men.
A woman at Lewisville, Oregon, who
was blackballed from grange, blamed
a man living near her for doing it, and
shortly otter, meeting him at church,
gave him drubbing. She is fifty years
of age and the man seventy.
An equal quantity Of chalk and an
thracite produces strong fame and
good heat, and experiments recently
made in England prove that q certain
mixture of shale and coal will yield
greater heat than ordinary coal.
A Virginia politician is so anxious to
go to Congress next session that he
promises faithfully to be content with
one term, and moreover that he will
give 81, 900 yearly from his salary to re-
ligious and benevolent organizations in
his district.
A physician Of skill and experieece
says mustard plaster should never be
mixed with hot water, but with the
white of an egg and when so prepared
does it's duty as counter-irritant with
out producing the anguish of blister,
as in the old method.
Seth Green's grayling spawn at the
Caledonia trout ponds are Matching sat
isfactorily, and probably in few years
the grayling will be as well known in
our cold waters as the trout. 1t is be-
lieved that they will increase twice as
rapidly as the trout, being much
harder.
No French or English woman of cul.
tivation nowadays wears her garters
below her knees. The principal vein
of the leg sinks there beneath the mus
cles and varicose veins, cold feet, and
even palpitation of the heart may be
brought ON by tight garter in the
wrong place. When it is fastened above
the knee all this pain and deformity
may be avoided.
If additional testimony be wanting to
prove that the English language is
rapidly becoming the universal tongue,
the card of hotel proprietor at Havana
is herewith offered to SUPPLY the lack
"The Both Void Hotel, Mum San Ig'
nacio Street, Plaza Yieja. In this es'
tablishment set as the European style,
receives dodgers which will find an
splendid assistance SO in eating as II
habitation, therefore the master coun
with the elements necessary"
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