The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-21
Items of Interest.

| items OF INTEREST,"
Twenty chairs in the United
States Senate are to be vacated within
a year.
| Mental pleasures, unlike those of the
body, never coy, and are increased by
repetition.
A man may be great by chance, but
never wise and good without taking
pains for it.
It is now quite the fashion for rich
women in Boston to remember their
pastors in their wills.
Arthur Orton has become very de-
vout. He is an assiduous worker, and
still asserts that he is Sir Roger.
Throw life into method, that every
hour may bring it's employment and
every employment have its hour.
The liberty to go higher than we are
duties of our present sphere.
The wish of most people is for for
tune and nothing to do. How fully
men are punished when it is realized.
Faith which works by fear only leads
to selfish, dishonest repentance, if to
any, and leaves the soul at the gates Of
death.
In weighing the characters of men
we must penetrate the envelope of affec-
ton and assumption which many ha-
bitually wear.
Scoff not at the natural defects of any
which are not in their power to prevent.
Oh tits cruelty to beat a cripple with
his own crutches.
A woman in Indiana claims divorce
on the ground that her husbands
mother beats her, and her husband is
afraid to interfere.
Nature is frugal mother, and never
gives without measure. When she has
work to do, she Qualities men for that
and sends them equipped.
This country sent to England between
Jan. 1 and March 81, cheese to the value
of $2,610, ,230-a gain over the same
time last year of $4,000
A man at Weston, Mo-, fred in the
dark at q man who was stealing his
corn, and next day the county sheriff
was around with his arm in sling.
The third class ef naval cadets at
Annapolis are to be deprived of their
vacation this year in punishment for
udAluSy WulCll LIDS ulWdJb ISSultOU
in the dismissal of the ring leader.
The worst feature about this crema-
tion business is that some winter morn
ing, in a fit OF philanthrophy, your
widows second husband may empty
your ashes on the icy pavement for the
benefit of pedestrians.
can OK does not taste as good as an
oyster, but it can run twice as FAST"
was the result of boys effort to write
a composition on oxen. Another defined
panegyric as "something good for q
baby when it had the stomach-ache."
The San Francisco liquor dealers
having organized are to raise large
sum to fight against the interference of
the crusaders with their customers
in the interior and against "local op-
tion." Both questions are to be combat
ed in the courts.
AS two children were playing to-
gether, little Jane got angry and pout-
ed. Johnny said to her, "Look out,
Jane, or I'll take a seat up there on
your lips" "Then," replied Jane,
quite cured of her pouts, "Ill laugh,
and you'll fall off.
An Alabama paper reports curious
death OF child. She mad Deen sent
out to cut some meat on blocks of wood
used for the purpose, and falling asleep
was soon covered with red ants which
bit and stung her SO severely that
fever and death ensued.
The new style of oath is out. Mrs.
Marrowfat ordered her husband to peel
the onions for dinner before he left the
house, and Mr.. Marrowfat, bringing
down his fist upon the table with much
emphasis, observed "May 1 be cre-
mated, madam, if do p
Sylvanus thinks it would be good
thing to say, when the Governor blows
up and calls you as obstinate as mule,
Like enough, when you have an ass
for your father" Sylvanus does not
mean to try this himself. He has no
occasion. Any boy who wants it may
have it.
A Detroit gentleman prides himself
on his fine fowls, and his neighDor is
equally vain of fine coach dog. The
dog worries the life out of the chick
ems. A few days ago the owner of the
dog received the following note:
" Friend You keep dogs. I keep
chickens. If my chickens worry your
dogs, shoot 'em."