The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-21
Items of Interest.

new style Oh Klu gloves 10 Stilpeu
from the ends of the fingers to the wrist.
$50 dark, and yet so light" as the
rau said when ne looked at his ton OF
coal.
She was overheard to say to him:
{" Our parlor stove is up now; do call
and see what little spark it takes to
kindle flame ?"
The Milwaukee Sentinel remarks that
times will continue hard as long as the
81, 900 year man strives to appear as a
$4,000 year man,"
Is the millennium approaching9 The
conductor and engineer of train that
recently killed a man in Chicago have
been held for trial for murder.
For many years every table of State
areas has set California down as covering
1888, 9S4 square miles. The lines, as es-
tablished by recent United States sur
veys, show that the area is in reality
only 156, 100.
An old sailor, passing through a grave
yard, saw on one of the tombstones:
still live" 1t was too much for Jack,
and shifting his quid, he calculated
"Well, I've heard say that there are
cases in which man man lie but If L
was dead I'd own it..
Mr.. Walker, Cincinnati scientist, has
allowed himself to be stung once day
for three weeks by bees to ascertain the
effect He says that after about the
tenth time the pain and swelling We're
slight, the body seeming to become in
oculated with the poison.
A man in the last stages of consump-
tion was recently found in the New York
and New England railroad station at
| Boston. He had been sent away from
New Milford, Conn. (where he ived), by
the selectmen, who feared he would die
ON their hands, and had but ninety cents
in his pocket.
A citizen of Springfield, Mass, last
spring planted a sweet potato in hill Of
sand, with q liberal supply of compost.
This autumn he found the hill well filled
with potato weighing three pounds
and half, from which radiated roots to
which six pounds of potatoes OF ordinary
size were attached.
Feeling makes q lively man : thought
makes q strong man action makes
useful man-and all these together make
perfect man. Now, abide these three:
Feeling, thought, action, and the great
est of these is action. Some men think
much, feel little, and act less. They are
universally unsafe men.
John Chinaman's method of warfare is
slow, if not sure. The troops who
started from Pekin for their western
frontier three years ago to repress va
koob Khan, happening to get out OF
provisions en- route, stopped to supply
themselves by planting grain, and are
now awaiting the harvest.
Since the first issue of postal cards
two years ago, 255, ATS, 900 have been is
sued, for which the government has
paid the contractors 1857, ,349.S5, and
has collected 81, 554, ,7S0 from the people.
The entire shipments of the cards
weighed nine hundred and six tons, and
would fill freight train of ninety cars.
The French court of cessation has
Just given a decision of interest to
cleaners, and they have in this genera,
: tion driven the cleaners out of then
fields as thieves. 1t is now decided as
contrary to law for a farmer to turn
sheep into his fields for two days aftel
harvest OF to CLEAN the fields himself, OF
to sell the right, because "the poor
/ would thus be deprived of the benefit
which humanity and law have reserved
, to the INDECENT" Is there any othel
| county where the pitiful thrift of {
, cleaner could become subject of htiga
3 tion2
> The young wife OF a merchant il
} Barnesville, Ga, during his absence il
New York to buy goods, gave evidence
of alteration Of mind, and when friend
5 in her presence proposed 10 telegraph
) him, she said You need not telegraph
5 him. The good Lord has enabled m
| to apprise him of my condition. Blu
, they telegraphed him and in very shor
9 time he was home, and says that tn
4 night during which she screamed out b.
4 dreamed that she was in the condition
e he found her in and when the Telegram
=. come he was fully aware Of her condl
n tion.