The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-30
Items of Interest.


Church singers are said to live by
luck and chants. ...
Never mind where you work; care
more about how you work. ....
An orange tree in vigorous growth
yields from 500 to 1000 oranges every
year. ...r..H I.aH
Duluth is said to have city ordi-
nance which prevents man from keep
ing more than two tame bears.
In some of our western rivers having
rapid currents, a screw propeller mas
been fixed in the water, and employed
in driving mills.
Mrs. Partington wants to know If it
were not intended that women should
drive their husbands, why are they put
through the bridal ceremony?
As in letter, if the paper is small
and we have much to write, we write
close so let us learn to economize and
improve the remaining moments OF
life.
The Persians believe that all dia.
monds fell from heaven during the
earliest stages of the world, and are
therefore entitled to religious venera-
tion.
It is said that careful computation
shows the steam power of the Great
Eastern steamship to be equal to the
water power that drives the mills at
Lowell. .......
And now the Icelanders are begin
ming to seek homes in the United
States. They are said to resemble the
Scotch in appearance, and are bright,
healthy-looking class.
Prepay your postage. Bushels of
printed matter on which postage is in
sufficiently paid are every week deposit
ed in the general post-office, and there
detained and ultimately destroyed
A custom house officer in San Fran.
cisco having casually mentioned that
there was a case of smallpox next
door to him, was promptly gwen a
six weeks vacation, to his great salts
faction.
Experienced sheep men in different
portions of California are Of the opin-
ion that the losses of sheep this winter
have been so great that all the increase
by way of lambs will be required to
keep the numbers good.
A boy in Greenfield, N. H., told his
father that he guessed he could make
that hen quit setting, and his father told
him to go ahead. The boys plan was
to set fire to the nest, and in carrying it
out he burned the barn and all its con-
tents. ....
The question, What is a shyster? was
raised in q st. Louis libel suit Ac-
cording to one of the witnesses, the
word was first used in the Chicago
Democrat, and was originally, as now,
intended to designate q pettifogging
lawyer. "..
The time is with us when the femi-
nine dweller in the suburbs will say to
her little girl, "Susan, go in and ask
Mrs. Smith if she won't keep few of
those hens at home. I've just planted
my seeds and can't have all those fowls
here at once"
The Richmond Journal has this -
Wanted.-A few hundred young men
who part their hair in the middle of
their craniums, to stand in front of the
First Baptist church, Broad street, to
stare the ladies out of countenance as
they emerge therefrom.
In the Yuba County Hospital, Cal,
| interesting experiments have been made
with magnet for the cure of rheuma-
tism and paralysis. A large horseshoe
magnet is used, and one case of paraly-
sis has been almost cured, and several
cases of chronic rheumatism relieved.
An old proverb says:
Blessed is he
That planeth a tree.
To which we add:
Alas for the town
That cuts healthy trees down.
A Boston tailor having reminded a
debtor that he hadn't paid anything on
account for a long time, and that he
(the tailor) must have some money, as
he was very short, received this re-
freshingly cool reply: "Note received.
If you aye very short why don't you sell
one of your horses