The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-25
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Items Of Interest.

lU Is SAID venus mas mountain nfe
times as high as our highest.
More snow is said to have fallen in
France this year than for twenty years
previously.
Mark Twain says the Sandwich
Islanders are generally as unlettered as
the back side of a tombstone,
According to French journal there
are still living in France and its colonies
$4,000 men who have fought under the
first Napoleon.
A Pennsylvania has served thirty
seven years in jails and prisons, and says
that he prefers it to keeping house with
an ill-tempered wife.
The total number of locomotive steam
engines in the world is said to he 1867,
of which IA, 223, or nearly one-third, are
in the United States.
A little girl upon her return from
childrens party, being asked if she had
good time, replied: eyes; but there
wasn't much boys there"
eco it, old fellow, said two idle
.scapegraces to an honest laborer at W ork.
"Work away while we play; SOW and
We'll reap" every likely, my lads"
replied the old man, coolly; "Tm SOW
ing hemp"
"J. Gray-Pack with my box five
dozen quills.' There is nothing re-
markable about this sentence, only that
it is nearly as short as one can be con-
structed, and yet contain all the letters
of the alphabet.
There is man in q Chicago hospital,
a victim of railroad accident, whose
head is alive, but his entire body seems
! to be dead. Knives have been stuck
into his body, but they produce no effect
upon him whatever.
The Kansas City (Mo.) journal says
that there is a young lady living in Clay
county, about five miles from the city,
twenty-five years of age, who has for
years shed her finger and toe nails and
her teeth every year.
A short-horned steer was recently
butchered in Detroit that weighed 4, 100
pounds alive, and yieled three thousand
pounds of dressed beef This is believed
to be the largest animal ever slaughtered
for beef on this continent.
High moral teaching having failed to
stop daily deficit in the cash accounts
of the Lawrence 1merican, the book
keeper next tried what steel trap would
do, and made the thief show his hand
within twenty-four hours after.
A would-be school-teacher in Toledo
recently replied to question by one of
world is round or fiat ?" "Well, some
people think one way and some another,
and I'll teach round or flat Just rs the
parents nlease,"
A Western lawyer, noticing the PRES
ent of cup to brother lawyer, says
"He needs no cup. He can drink from
any vessel that contains liquor, whether
the neck of bottle, tho mouth of a
pickle jar, the spilet of keg, or the
bung-hole of barrel.
A countess was arrested in Paris, q
day or two before Christmas, for shop
! lifting. Her raids had been very profit
able. She pleaded that she was separated
from her husband, had little means, and
as her pride compelled her to give New
/ Years presents, she was driven to theft.
A Western granger shipped a barrel of
| -four with the address, "Queen Victoria,
! Windsor Castle, England" He waited
| ter of thanks, and was much chagrined
the other day at learning that his flour
had been sold Mt auction with mass of
|
Kalakaua remarked to friend, before
leaving Washington, that the ladies of
that city appeared to him livery for
ward" One of his attendants, who
Glanced at the moment to espy fashion
able dressed female with an enormous
hustle, expressed the opinion that they
seemed to him principally backward. "
1t is safe to assert that lease for 900
years has never run out in this country,
but this has recently occurred i'll Eng
land. An estate let for that term has
reverted to the representatives of tho
original holders. The land is at Wool
wich, and was church property 1000
years ago, but was leased to the crown
for military purposes.
The population of Paris, numbering
about 100000, is said to consume
about 46,000,000 gallons of wine, nearly
100000 gallons of alcohol and alco-
holic liquors, 100000 gallons of cider
and 6,S00,000 gallons of beer-some
twenty-eight gallons of wine, beer, and
spirits year for each of the inhabitants,
including women and chi ildren.
A lady residing in Newark Valley no
ticed the oven doors of the stove open.
On retiring she closed them. In the
morning, on going out in the kitchen,
she noticed a peculiar smell emanating
from the oven. On opening the door
she found that her two favorite cats
had crawled in the night before, she
closing them in, and they had been lit
orally cremated.
A New Orleans minister recently mar
ried colored couple, and at the con-
clusion of the ceremony remarked !:
Son such occasions as this it is GUS
tomary to kiss the bride, but in this case
we omit it," To this unclerical remark
the indignant bridegroom very per-
tinently replied: son such an occasion
as this it is customary to give the min
lister ten dollars, but in this case we will
omit it."
A peculiar libel case is 10 be tried be-
fore the Chester county (Pa.) courts. A
Mr.. William Benner posted notice ON
his property forbidding neigAbor,
named Lewis H. Hammond, or his
family from trespassing ON his grounds.
Hammond retaliated by a similar prohi-
bition of Benner from his grounds, add
ing the words: "As 1 have only four
turkeys left" and therein lies the al
legged libel.
A serious objection to the use of West
I ern bituminous coal is found in the ex,
cess of sulphur it contains. This mineral,
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