The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-03-19
NO.. 8.
Items of Interest.

Lots wife got into pretty pickle.
Some say that the northern pole is
bear spot.
The wicked drop orange peel for the
good to kick at.
Panic times even affect bales of cot
ton. They are frequently hard pressed.
A certain man has watch which he
says has gained enough to pay for itself
in six months
The rector of Trinity parish says the
wealth of that corporation is greatly
oyer-estimated, and the actual income
last year was only a half million.
An exchange asserts that Vanderbilt
believes in plain talk, and when one of
his clerks contended that Worcester"
was pronounced "Wooster," Van. paid
him off.
When they find man in Washington
who hasn't plan of his own for the
solution Of the financial problem, they
drown him in the Potomac. No one has
been drowned there yet.
Nothing mean about them. The De-
troit Free Press tells us that an Eaetern
man was lynched there the other day,
but the lynchers, finding that they had
made mistake, sent the body home In
very nice coffin.
Illinois is having hard time of it by
reason of wolves. Seven of the animals
were seen on one farm in Scott County
in one day; $50 sheep have been killed
by them in Ogle County; a railway
train ran over and finished one wolf at
Jacksonville.
The quarrel about the kind of re"
ligion that shall be taught to childrenip
reform schools has extended to Minneso-
ia, and the Senate of that State has
passed a bill providing that minors
shall be educated in the religious faith
of their parents.
j. A. Van Pelt, the reformed saloon
keeper, and comrade of Dio Lewis, is
man of large frame, broad, square face,
and struggling black beard. He wears
sack coat made of velveteen. He is
success at frightful example, but q
dead failure as speaker.
ct see," said a young lady, "that
some printers advertise blank declara-
tions for sale; I wish I could get one"
"Why? asked the mother. because,
ma, Mr.. G. is too modest to ask me to
marry him, and, perhaps, if L could fill
blank declaration he would sign it.
The Missouri State Grange is dis
cussing the utility of establishing ex-
change and discount banks to assist
farmers in holding their products, as
well as manufactures of agricultural
implements, and depots and ware
houses where grain can be stored until
the market justifies a sale.
A good wife is like a snail Why
Because she keeps in her own house.
A good wife is not like snail. Why?
Because she does not carry her all on
her back. A good wife is like town
clock. Why? Because she keeps good
time. A good wife is not like town
clock. Why? Because she does not
speak so loud that all the town can hear
her.
The vestry of church in Somer-
vile, Mass. is used for parish school.
A twelve-year old girl was a scholar,
and SO unruly that sharp punishment
was inflicted. While the building was
deserted during the next recess, she
took a red-hot coal from the stove and
dropped it into waste-paper basket.
The church narrowly missed destruc
ton.
Thackeray tells q story of a street.
crossing sweeper, who, when his days
harvest of coins were gathered, stepped
into his private cab around the corner,
when his man in livery speedily drove
him to his lodgings in Belgravia, where
he took off his eye-patch, rags, and
wooden leg, arrayed himself in evening
dress, and went and dined sumptuously
at his club.
1t is alarming to find that the 81 good
Mrs. Brown" whom Dickens sent to
everlasting fame in Dombey & Son +"
for her infamous treatment of children,
has still her imitators in London real
life. For stripping little children whom
she meets in the street, and turning
them adrift in the cold with scarcely
any covering on their bodies, Mary
White, alias Mayne, against whom
there had been previous convictions,
was lately committed for trial.
1t has long been known that the
simplest method of sharpening a razor
is to put it fer half an hour in water
to which has been added one-twentieth
of its weight of muriatic or sulphuric
acid, then lightly wipe it off, and after
a few hours set 1T on a hone. The acid
here supplies the place of awhetstone by
corroding the whole surface uniformly,
so that nothing further than smooth
polish is necessary. The process never
Injuries good blades, while badly-hard-
ened ones are frequently improved by
it, although the cause of this improve
ment remains unexplained.