The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-14
Facts ard Fancies.

Facts ard Fancies.
The comprehensive m1oney-syllable-
Gold.
The worst sort of I-dolatry is ego
tism.
The sporting fraternity may be termed
"fast friends"
A poor bachelors favorite exclama-
tion-A-lasS)i
The smartest architect-The architect
of his own fortune.
Why is drunkard's face like a vol
canoP Because it shows the eruptions
of the crater.
He who takes an eel by the tail and a
woman by the tongue, is sure to come
off empty. handed.
The last place in which TO look for
the milk of human kindness is in the
pale of civilization.
However paradoxical it may appear,
"blunt people have way of saying
very SHARP" things.
"I shall be indebted to you for life,"
as the man said to his creditors when
he ran away to Australia.
It is the reverse of mathematical law
to extract root by raising it with
power, but dentists do it.
Mrs. Louis Coran of Bay City, Mich,
has had seven children in five years
two pairs of twins and triplets.
The girl who succeeds in winning the
true love of true man makes C lucky
hit, and is herself q lucky miss.
The swells of the ocean soon subside.
There are a good many "swells upon
the land that subside about as soon.
A lady's dressing-table is probably
called a toilet because it is there that
most of her toll is generally performed.
A Frenchman intending to compli-
ment young lady by calling her
gentle lamb, said-"S She is one mutton
as is small"
Among the Romans the gift of ring
was badge of liberation from slavery.
Married people can best explain wheth-
er it is SO among the moderns.
A little boy asked razor-strop man
if he could sharpen his appetite. The
or-strop man Immediately stropped
him SO severely that the boy cut off.
A boarding house keeper in Balti-
more advertises to furnish gentlemen
with pleasant and comfortable rooms;
also one or two gentlemen with wives"
Marion Grange, of Iowa, seeded.
Dudley Adams, the Master of the Ma
tional Grange, says that he was about
to turn it out when it left. 1t had not
paid dues, and was misbehaving itself
in general.
From a letter of Daniel Boone to his
sister, which has just been published,
hn l0ne,,1t to haa,, cyp01
speller, but it took man of thought to
write that "God never made man of
principle to be lost"
Charles Walker, a negro who was
hung at Thomasville, Georgia, made on
the gallows singular request. Raising
the cap he asked his friends to pray for
the counsel that had defended him. He
then met his fate with composure.
"I killed ninety-nine pigeons at one
shot, this morning." said an old fowler.
"Why didn't you make it a hundred
while you were about it ?" said his
friend. "Do you suppose would tell
lie for one pigeon?" was the reply.
The Mississippi Legislature has
passed an act requiring liquor dealers
to obtain the written consent of a ma
jority of the men and women who are of
age, in the town where they propose to
sell, before licenses can be granted.
There is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark of a pretty girl:
=" If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was not
woman on earth, how criminally
wrong are the old bachelors, with the
world full of pretty girls /"
Mt, D;sroa1i hoe oivar rntioa fb of ~.
sons taking office under him must cease
from "guinea-pigging." To guinea-pig
is to receive a dictatorship in joint
stock company with the object of help
ing to form the company by adding an
Influential name in the prospectus.
To get to the Stickeen gold mines in
Alaska, one must travel fifteen days on
the ice. The diggings are described as
very rich, but before the ground can be
worked it has to be thawed out by build
ing large fires on it. In spite of these
drawbacks miners are making from $40
to $50 per day.
A young French girl was before a
Montreal court the other day, charged
with petty offense, and her case was
suspended. The prisoner in her fright
heard only portion of the word 1oendu,
and is almost insane under the delusion
that she is under sentence to be hanged,
no assurances to the contrary removing
her anxiety and dread.
While youthful couple were being
joined in wedlock in a Justices court in
New York, recently. the damsel rather
astonished a number of spectators by
suddenly breaking out with, 81 want
to know whether we are to keep house
or board before going into this thing p
The Judge ruled the question out OF