The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-16
NO. Z.
Facts and Fancies.

band.
The discontented man finds no easy
chair.
The man vino pardons, disappoints
his foe.
None knows the weight of another's
burthen.
Wherever the speech is corrupted, so
is the mind.
Diligence is fair fortune and indus
try good estate.
Friendship is love, without either
flowers OF vail.
When you have no observers, be
afraid of yourself.
To those whose god is honor, dis
grace alone is sin.
To a gentleman every woman is
lady, in right of her sex.
He who chatters much to no purpose
climbs tree to catch fish.
He that finds a thing, steals it if he
endeavors not to restore it.
The ancients dreaded death the
Christian can only fear dying.
A laugh is worth hundred groans
in any market. t.-CharteS Lana0.
Happiness can be made quite as well
of cheap materials as of dear ones.
Many a mans vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities rua
wild.
The grangers of Perry county, Ala
bama, are about to start large cotton
factory.
A hungry man does right we'll to eat
the egg, for he might starve before 1t
got to be pullet.
Our prayers and Gods mercy are
like two buckets in a well-while one
ascends, the other descends.
When you see woman winding her
watch in q horse car, you may make up
your mind that she has not had watch
very long.
It is curious that in circulating Ii
braries fiction almost always comprises
Just about seventy-tive per cent. of the
circulation.
Texan journals are calling attention
to the extensive live-oak forests in that
State, into which their railroads are
penetrating.
Thirteen men were drunk at Holyoke
the other day, and the Transcript says
that they " got higher than the height
of an absurdity."
A western hen recently laid an egg
measuring a circumference OF ten ana
three-quarter inches by seven and
quarter inches.
Electric butter is the latest novelty in
the dairy line. A pint of milk is said
to be made into pound OF butter IN
less than one minute.
The largest man in Tennessee has just
died. His weight was one thousand
and forty pounds. They will bury him
in the Mammoth Cave.
A man who has lived next door to
school-house for ten years says he can
see no sense in calling any one " a gen
tleman and scholar"
Now then for the oldest overcoats |!
A Bridgeport man comes to the surface
with a coat on his shoulders in its
thirty first year of active duty.
A Brooklyn girl of six summers says
the reason the man on thenew fractional
currency looks so mad is because he is
only put on a ten-cent stamp instead OF
a fifty-center.
At Virginia City bystander, witnes,
sing an accident in which man tell
under the cars and had both legs cut
of. himself turned instantly gray,
tainted, and died from the shock.
$ Mr.. Gardener, of Montgomery Co.,
} Virginia, said at recent farmers meet
: ing that he supported his family on
forty acres of land, and cleared SIX
: hundred dollars besides, last year.
| A Vienna journal contains the follow
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sick nurse, watches dead bodies, re-
: pairs straw chairs, applies leeches, and
S makes pastry, desserts and delicacles.
: When Tennessee father walks
!. = into newspaper Office with shotgun
on his arm and says, My darter mas
: writ some poetry which want you TO
publish how's feller going to plead
: press of matter?
i Captain King, of Texas, formerly OF
4 Vermont, has an inclosed pasture OF
G 10000 acres, though he owns about
r 100000 acres of land in Nueces and
# Duval counties. The entire stock held
d by him at the present time is 500
: head of cattle, 900 head of sheep, and
d 10000 head Of horses.
- A Western paper says that the way
| 10 Kill Oll blc pocpo VIM O-SA W
!, pieces gratuitously is to accept then
efforts, hand them to the worst com.
9 positor, and let the rroof-reader correct
= them according to his own ideas OF
J prosody. This is warranted to destroy
q q the strongest poetical fever in three
4 weeks.
A wag went to the station of one o.
the railroads one evening, and, finding
the best car full, said in a low tone
"a "Why, this car isn't going J! o
# course this caused general stampede
l. and the wag took the best seat. In th'
a midst of the indignation the wag wa
o asked "Why did you say this ca
e wasn't going ?" "Well, it wasn't then,
l. replied the wag, "but it is now."
At The Christian Union replies to
20 query as to whether it is wicked t
y dance: ".It is wicked when it is wicked
IS and not wicked when it is not wicked
ID In itself it has no more moral characte
g. than walking, wrestling, or rowing
< Bad company, untimely hours, evl
le dances, may make the exercise evil
good company, wholesome hours, an
,o home influences, make it very gref
% benefit" t ..
IN A physician, writing to the Philade
of phia Press, says that angina pectoris
at a rare affection, and usually spares ind
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