The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-29
Items of Interest.

NJ. Thironin has been imprisoned for
one year in France because his dog kill
ed a little boy.
Pitch lucky man into the Nile, says
an Arabian proverb, and he will come
up with fish in his mouth.
Compared with the quantities of
pianos practiced on mornings, the num-
Der of suicides is very small ut this season
of the year.
The theory that two railway trains can
pass each other safely on single track
is again disproved, and yet the expert
ment will be tried again.
A San Francisco rumseller was con-
vinced of the degradation of his business
when his daughter, eleven years old,
got drunk and was arrested.
It is q great comfort to ,ald-headed
men in these red-hot, star-spangled,
centennial days, to reflect that the eagle,
too, is bald-headed. Style is nohair.
"I declare" said Susan, as she watch
ed the people coming into church, "that
man looks like piece of dried beef"
"Hush," said her sister, sit isn't meet
in you to talk SO"
The "black death" scourge, which
has recently appeared on the rivers
Tigris and Euphrates, is the same which
destroyed millions of lives in Europe
and Asia during the fourteenth century.
A young man fell from an attic window
in Baltimore the other day, distance
of fifty feet, and, strange to say, did not
kill himself, though he broke both arms.
He had been sitting in the window
asleep.
Professor Collier, secretary of the Yer
mont State board of agriculture, says
that all the specimens of potato bugs
sent to him from different towns in Yer
mont prove to be something else than
the Colorado beetle.
An English tourist who recently start
ed alone to ascend to the summit OF
Mount Snowdon, in Wales, is missing.
He is supposed to have sunk in a quick
sand on the edge of lake near his path
in descending the mountain.
William Ingraham chose a sapling in
Savoy, Mass, from which to hang him
self and it bent with his weight so that
his legs trailed on the ground, compel
ling him to strangle himself to death by
leaning heavily in the moose.
1t is noticed that twenty-nine land
marks have already been secured i'll the
patent Office for the word Centennial,
as applied to various articles of manu-
facture, such as almanacs, cigars, black
ing, bitters, shirts, watches and even
lager beer.
A couple of confidence men at st,
| T IL rp11cr1,lxr-
dressed SO Granger" and got him to take
some bogus twenty dollar pieces for
greenbacks. But the joke didn't end
there, as the victim was the famous
detective John Eagan.
Santa Anna is seventy-seven years
old, but he is still erect and slender,
and his black hair and black eyes yet
preserve their original brilliancy. He is
as fond of cock fighting as ever, but
hasn't money to indulge in it as much
as he would like.
Solomon Hagar was lazy drunkard
who lived with his industrious brother
at Harvard, Mass. He went home
drunk and the brother threatened him
with expulsion from the premises if he
did not reform. "You will be sorry for
that" said the sot; and thereupon he
went to the barn, set fire to a NOW of
hay, and was burned to death in the
confagration.
An Albany gentleman was few days
ago annoyed by the noise Of four spar
rows that had built their nests over one
of his window copings. He accordingly
tore down the nests and threw them into
the street, when, much to his surprise, 9
flock of sparrows Immediately gathered
on the spot and with much chatterine
restored to their old place the habita
tions of the homeless birds.
A timber raft sent down the Missis
sippi from Wabasha, Mimi, to st
Louis few days ago, was composed o
, 256 cribs, making 2,343, ,265 feet of lum
, ber, after deducting the usual ten pc
: cent. In addition to this there was
l stop loading" composed of 11,2S
, bundles of lath, 1,0S1 palings, 779
S thousand shingles, and 470 sticks {
@ square timber, assorted sizes rangin
from tue largest down TO the smallest