The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-06
Items of Interest.

A Terre Haute babe, crawling around
the floor, had an ear bit off by pig.
It is said to require higher art to con-
vey a delicate compliment than to utter
biting sarcasm.
A veteran shopkeeper says that, al
though his clerks are very talkative
during the day, they are always ready to
shut up at night.
They wondered at the short collection
in Missouri church, and investigated to
find that one of the collectors had tar i'll
the top Of his hat.
The inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands,
in the Bay of Bengal, are the only per-
sons who had front seats at the total
eclipse of the sun.
The most curious freak of one of the
recent cyclones in Georgia was the driv-
ing of hickory tree two feet in diameter
four feet deeper into the ground.
Somebody sent to lady in London an
Easter egg which contained an African
scorpion, by which interesting insect the
lady was bitten so that she will probably
die.
The greatest feat in eating ever re-
corded is told of man who commenced
by boiling a door, after which he threw
up window, and swallowed O whole
story.
The saddest thing in life is the specta-
Gle afforded by young person who has
burnt all her hair off her forehead with
a hot slate pencil, and cannot afford to
buy row of curls.
The cavaliers, during the protectorate,
were accustomed in their Gbations to
put a crum of bread into glass of wine,
and before they drank it, say: Good
send this Crumwell down."
No Iishman ever made greater bull
than the English lawyer who drew up an
indictment charging that the prisoner
killed a man with certain wooden in
strument called an iron pestle.
Epitaphs were discussed before fellow
of twenty five, who thought they were too
complicated, and gave the following as
what he would like to have on his tomb:
"JoHN THOMPSON, 1650-1950."
Mrs. j. J. Astor recently sent $3.50 to
childrens aid society, to pay the fares
of fifty-nine homeless boys to the West.
The little fellows started, after being
comfortably clothed and well fed, under
one of the agents of the society.
The Narragansett Indians at Charles-
town, r.. l., held their annual town
meeting a few days ago. The method
of election consists in placing the two
candidates some distance apart, after
which the members of the tribe divide
with the two men, and those in the ma
jority are declared successful.
A physician of Saylorville, Ia., who
was made the victim of first of April
hoax, by receiving summons from
fictitious patient and travelling a consid-
erable distance in haste to answer it,
turned the tables on the Jester by send
ing in to him bill for professional SER
vices, and compelling payment, with
costs, by process of law.
A smart young Bostonian offers to
wager considerable amount on his
spelling He says you can give him any
word in the English language, in com
mon use, or obsolete, technical, or other
wise, and he will spell it correctly the
first time. Almost any smart New
Yorker can do the same. "It " is not
difficult word to tackle orthographically.
Arsenic out West is considered as q
remedy for hog cholera, and carelessness
in using the poison frequently produces
distressing accidents. Recently at Camp
Chase, Ohio, mother and ten children
nearly lost their lives by eating bread in
which arsenic, purchased as medicine
for stock, had become mixed. The
drug was left lying loose on shelf i'll
the pantry.
There is not a drinking saloon i'll
Hutchins, Iowa. There used to be four,
but the widow of a man who froze to
death after getting drunk in them sued
the proprietors, and gained a verdict of
$2,S00 against each. The liquor bust
ness is becoming Improbable in Iowa
since the passage of the civil damage
law. A similar law exists in New York,
but is seldom enforc a.
A convict in the Nashville penitentiary,
who has been regarded as dumb idiot
for the two years during which he has
suffered incarceration there, succeeded
in evading the vigilance of his keepers
the other evening, stole a suit of clothes
and some money, and escaped. When
he was recaptured few hours afterward
he had, in some singular manner, re-
covered both his speech and his reason.