The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
Items of Interest.

Wispers of summer-The street sweep
ers.
More people die from hate than from
love.
A defective memory overlooks multi
tude of sins.
There is no philosophy that can con-
vince man to the contrary when lie
knows he is hungry.
London market gardeners pay 5000
per acre yearly rent for lands they clllti-
vate, and their average profits are $500
| per acre.
/" Heavens Own" is the name of q new
Nevada town where a railroad passenger
saw woman pinning her husband to the
fence with a pitchfork.
Are Unese soups all uue oUcnt?" in
quired q lady of ajuvenile salesman.
"No, ma'am, they're all ten cents, repG-
ed the innocent youngster.
An English publishing firm has adopted
the singular device of giving copies of its
new books to the public libraries to Gre
ate demand among readers.
The army worm in Alexandria, ILL.,, is
destroying crops at fearful rate. One
farm of $50 acres of corn was destroyed
in few hours, although forty men
fought them.
The largest lumber raft on record was
towed down the Missouri river the other
day. 1t was fourteen strings wide, six
teen cribs long, and twenty inches deep,
containing over one million feet.
The petition against conventual insti-
tutions, raised in England, is said to have
borne III, 900 signatures, and to measure
three quarters of mile in length. For
ty thousand signatures were obtained in
London alone.
Mattrass, Chippewa chief, was put
in his little bed in the st. Croix valley,
Mimi, last week. He was one hundred
and one years old, and might have been
older if he had not smoked tobacco and
drank tire-water.
An encouraging sign of growing pros
perity among the italian people is found
in the increase of deposits in the savings
445, 900, 900 in 1874. The increase is i'll
the part of the country north OF Rome.
A verdict has been rendered at Auburn
n. Y, in favor Of man who recently
sued the New York Central Railroad Co.,
asking damages for being elected from
drawing car, into which he had
gone because there no seats left in the
ordinary cars.
A man in Nevada, shot by robbers, re-
covered consciousness in time to hear
one of the rascals say, "Had we better
shoot him again Z" to which another re-
piled, " No; guess the cuss is dead. !"
He wisely kept quiet until they had de-
parted with their booty.
When Denver husband misses the
wife of his bosom at meal time nowadays,
he don't yell for the police, or rush around
the neighborhood asking everybody it
wakes down to the auction room, puts
his head into the door and sings out A:
MARY Jane, them beans is billed p
In the First Lodge of Jerusalem, it is
said, the master is an American, the past
master an Englishman, the senior war
den German, the junior warden q ma
tive, the treasurer Turk, the secretary
aFrenchman, the senior deacon Persian,
and the junior deacon Turk. There
are Christians, Mohammedans, and Jews
in the lodge.
They have away of doing things at
Pottsville which may be fun for lockers
on, but it is death to the lawyers. A
party Of Germans had a suit at court
! which went against them. They be
came SO enraged at this that they chased
their lawyer into the sheriff's Office, ant
he only escaped from them by jumping
, out of window.
, The chairman of the vigilance com
' mittee, who was instructed to duck al
l obnoxious citizen, thus reported to hi
. constituents "We took the thief dow
5 to the river, made a'hole in the ice
3 and proceeded to duck him, but h
+, slipped out of our hands and hid unde
i. the ice. All our efforts to entice him [
y come ont failed, and he has now had h
start some hours"