The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-07-09
NO. 10.
Items of Interest.

An Arizona girl shot her lover, and
then nursed him tenderly till he died,
His last words were: "I forgive yous
Mary you did itwith an ivory handled
pistol"
Mr.. Beecher has discovered remedy
for somnolency in church. 1t consists
of sitting down at home in rocking
chair, about the time the second bell
rings, and taking out nap there.
The statistics of New Zealand for
1872 show population in 1860 of 76,-
800; in 1872 of 1922 There was a
falling off in the value of the gold ex-
ported in 1872. In 1871 Il was e., 49,
$40, and in 1872 el, 731, ,261.
State Senator Powell of Newport, II.
l., returned $50, sent him in payment
of services as member of special COM
mittee, with the statement that he
never allowed himself to take pay for
extra services as q member of the Legis-
lature.
Kate Stanton asserts that the planets
revolve around the sun by the intiu-
ence of love, as a child revolves about
his parents. When the average youth
was boy he used to revolve round his
parents a good deal, and may have
been melted thereto by love, but to an
unprejudiced observer it looked power
fully like q trunk-strap.
Conversation between an inquiring
stranger and steamboat pilot !" That
is Black Mountain ?" "Yes, sir the
highest mountain above Lake George"
Any story or legend connected with
that mountain ?" "Lots of 'em. Two
lovers went up that mountain once and
never came back again" "Indeed?
Why, what became of them?" "Went
down on the other side"
A countryman with his bride stopped
at Troy hotel the other day. At din
ner, when the waiter presented bill Of
fare, the young man inquired. Whats
that ?" "That's bill of fare," said
the waiter. The countryman took it in
his hands. looked inquiringly at his
wife and then at the waiter, and finally
dove down into his pocket and in
quired, How much is it ?"
As for the comparative longevity of
drinkers and non-drinkers, the English
life insurance actuaries, whose business
it was not to be mistaken in such cal
culation, have found that among 1000
drinkers and 1000 non-drinkers, taken
at random at twenty years of age, the
drinkers lived upon an average thiIty-
| five years and six months, and the non
drinkers sixty four years and two
months.
San Francisco rejoices over the puri-
tp of it's lacteal fluid, aud it is with GER
tain nervous pride that can only be ex-
perienced by the upright and lawfear-
ing, that the residents of the place pro-
pound the following conundrum 10 all
persons that have a suspicion of ver-
dancy attached to them Why is San
Francisco milkman like Pharaoh's
daughter? Because he takes little
profit out of the water.
A Chicago poet, upon hearing that
Nilsson was about to erect COW sheds
upon her Peoria lots, has burst forth
into the following verse: "Christine,
Christine, thy milking do the morn and
eve between, and not by the dim re-
ligious light of the fitful kerosene ; for
the COW may plunge, and the lamp ex-
plode, and the fire fend ride the gale,
and shrek the knell of the burning
town in the glow of the molten pail!'
This is bad year for Russian noble
men. One of them in Kentucky, a
count, purchased two thousand acres of
land there recently and agreed to pay
in ninety days (or as soon as his remit
tances came to hand), $500, 900 for the
property. In the meantime he borrow
ed ten dollars from the owner of the
land, and, subsequently, when the lat
ter was walking out in one of the fields
to take last farewell look at his former
possessions, he found the count dead
drunk, lying in a corner OF fence.
Thomas Wharton, one of the crew OF
the United States steamer Endeavor,
lying at the foot of Essex street, Jersey
City, became temporarily insane in
consequence of drinking to excess, and
pulling out his pocket book, containing
| Sl3O, tore it into pieces and threw it
; overheard. He then jumped overheard
5 and swan under the dock, where fol
t some time he eluded the efforts of those
/ who were trying to rescue him. He
was. finally caught and taken to the
t station-house, where a dry suit oi
r clothes was furnished him.