The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-05
Items of Interest.

A national ode-The public debt.
Being threadbare is terrible bear to
proud man.
The great feature at seaside resorts
The big bill-owes.
Carlyle's recommendation was "Make
yourself an honest man, and then you
may be sure that there is one rascal less
in the world"
A flock of hens in Fairhaven, VT,
have been fed SO much on raw meat that
they kill and eat all the young chickens
that come among them.
A woman named Adelaide Robin,
fifty years of age, threw herself from an
attic window in Paris not long ago, being
a victim of unrequited love.
William Sangborn, of Medway, Me-,
is under arrest for having killed his
wife, aged sixty-one. He sets up that
he " dreamt he was fighting bear"
1t is proposed to have State law i'll
New Jersey prohibiting any one from
selling can of fruit which isn't full
weight. That's the right weigh to cure
the wrong weigh.
The oldest journalist on the staff of
the Cleveland Plaindealer sums up his
experience as follows: "No man can
keep habitual company with cockroach
and be cheerful"
Who can sound the depths of a
woman's love? A "Smoky City" po-
liceman shot drunken husband while
beating his wife, and now she is prose-
cutting him who perhaps saved her life.
A Frenchman has discovered amethod
of making paper incombustible, and it
will doubtless prove of great value to
nation that has her public records burn
ed so often as the one in which he be-
longs.
Burglars are common in Atlanta-too
common. When family man goes
home at night he has to hide behind the
gate post and bawl out, 'It'sme, my dear
est, F" at the top of his voice, in order to
keep from being shot.
| The superintendent of q Sunday
school in Washington is an undertaken,
and there is some talk of asking him to
resign because he makes the children
sing "I would not live always" re-
grllarly every Sunday.
Sixty miles north of Duluth, Mimi,
an iron mountain has been discovered
which rivals its namesake in Missouri.
1t is eight miles long, one and half
miles wide, and 1900 feet above the
level of Lake Superior.
A recent number of the Chicago 75'i-
6,aae serves up the murder and robbery
of one day in several columns of elabo-
rately headed matter, one of the lines
reading : " Several plain, upassuming
murders committed out West"
A certain young gentleman of Evans
ton, Ind, recently accompanied lady to
train to see her safely started on her
journey. He carried her railroad ticket
in his pocket for safety, and found it
there, when he reached home, some
hours after the train left.
Scientists have at last found out what
tobacco smoke is-a mixture Of cyanhy-
dric, sulphureted hydrogen, formic, ace
tic, propionic, butyric, valerianic and
carbolic acids, half dozen kinds of alko-
lolds and creosote. We don't wonder the
hunanitarians declare that it is killing
people.
A cat annoyed Louis Vollman of Mount
Airy, Ohio, and he loaded heavily dou-
ble-barreled gun, intending to shoot tho
pest. He fired once, wounding the cat,
and then chased it, striking with tho
stock of the gun. A blow hit the floor
hard enough to explode the other charge,
and Vollman was killed.
In the case of King VS. Fenton, where
the prisoner was tried in 1872 for the
murder of Major Hillas in a duel, old
Yudge Keller thus capped his summing
up to the jury Gentleman, it is my
business to lay down the law to you, and
nan m in due duel S is murder suTd II; therefore, in
the discharge of my duty 1 tell you SO
but tell you at the same time a fairer
duel than this never heard of in the
whole " coorse" of my life.