The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-30
Items of Interest.

days.
Everybody is anxious to lend the
man something who does not want to
borrow anything.
"All is vanity" remarked tin ware
peddler the other day. "What's life to
me, anyhow, but holler and tin-sell9"
A bill for compulsory education re-
Gently received only one vote in the
House of Delegates of West Virginia.
An economical japanese family can live
on six cents day at home; but to OBJ
tain the cents is what causes the suffer
ing.
Canes OF umbrellas containing swords
or other weapons cannot be sold hereaf-
ter in Paris without permit from the
chief of police.
Circumstances alter cases. There are
times when things are not themselves
any more than men are. A tooth is not
tooth when it is a-king.
The average yearly cost of eaclr
prisoner in England and Wales is about
$160. The daily average number of
prisoners last year was 1876, and The
profit on their labor was 1857, 400.
"Does cooking injure the health of
stock?" inquired an agricultural ex-
change. We are inclined to think it
does. There are numerous instances
ofbeeves and porkers having been cooked,
and they've never entirely got over it.
A Boston clergyman advanced the
idea in a sermon that striped stockings
are destructive to female modesty.
"But little while ago." said he,
"young ladies refused to go up stairs in
advance of gentlemen. Now they seem
anxious to do SO -
The pearl fisheries of the Gulf of Cali
fornia threaten to be entirely ruined un-
less the government shuts down on the
wholesale use of submarine armor. Last
year they yielded about 100000 worth
of pearls and 100000 worth Of shells,
while this years operations will hardly
pay expenses.
Arthur Wilson, fourteen years old
and permeate with admiration of Claude
Duval, broke into a London store and
stole $50. A few days afterward he was
arrested in Paris. He had bought arms,
ammunition and horse, and was taking
riding lessons to qualify him for life as
mounted highwayman.
A farmer in Cambria county, Pa,
having the deed of his farm in his vest
pocket, hung the garment on the fence,
while at work in his field, and COW
coming along, ate part Of the vest and
the deed. The question in that vicinity
now is: els that COW a freeholqey ?,eS
the title of Tho Land ---~" '"lJ vested Ill
Leaves of the pineapple, now being
extensively cultivated in the East In
dies, are turned to account by being
converted into kind of wadding,
which is used for upholstering, in
stead of hair. A sort of flannel is
also manufactured from them from which
substantial waistcoats and shirts can be
made.
A Detroiter, who didn't exactly know
how to get letter registered, sent some
money away the other day, and he wrote
on the envelope: "Registered with a
two dollar bill inside" Fearing that
this might not be strong enough, one OF
! his friends wrote: "I'll swear that /
saw Jim put two dollars in this" The
man who fools with that letter will get
into trouble.
We like fine writing when it is prop
erly applied so we appreciate the fol
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ostrich uses both legs and wings when
the Arabian courser bounds i'll her rear
AS the winged lightnings leap from
the heavens when the thunderbolts are
loosed-so does little boy run when a
big dog is after him."
Little Willie, having hunted in all the
corners for his shoes. at last appears to
give them up, and climbing on chair,
betakes himself to big book on side
table. Mother says to him: "What is
darling doing with the book ?" I" 1t ith
the dictionary; papa lookth in the die
tionary for things, and 1 am looking init
to see if / can find my Shoes"
Green" How is it, Brown, you al
! ways have such splended fruit from your
garden? 1 exhibit and carry off cups
and prizes Cat least my gardener does,
for / only see If in print), but L have
} never seen such fruit as this on my
table" Brown-"S Simplest thing in the
world, old fellow. keep gardener tol
my garden +; you keep garden for youl
} gardener !"
There was lately shown at the rooms
of the Society of Art, in London, piece
,, of milk, "solidifed by the Hooker pro
cess" and weighing one hundred
pounds, and which has been exposed tc
the action of the air for four years an6
, three months" The Agricultural Ga
zette of that city says that "its quality
was still so excellent that in few min
utes it was resolved, by churning, into
good fresh butter"