The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-01
Items of Interest.

A boy only twelve years of age COM
mitted suicide at Gainkirk, Scotland,
recently, on account of grief at the loss
of his situation.
The greatest discovery at Pompeii is
stove, while her husband is in bed and
| asleep. She was noble woman.
A Cleveland man puts waste papers
into his letters, so as to make them
weigh all that will pass for three cents.
He does this to revenge on Uncle Sam.
A witness in q Catskill law Office de-
scribed the poverty of field of corn as
follows: The crop was so stunted and
short that the toads could sit on their
launches and pick bugs off the tassels.
Some boys at Bristol, Vt, poured
kerosene on dog, and set him on fire,
the other day. The dog ran under q
barn among a mess of hay, and the barn,
with all its contents of hay and grain,
was destroyed.
Some days ago Henry Buzzard, son of
farmer living at Kemsell, village on
the border of Notts, while playing with
strange cat was bitten by the animal.
A short time after the boy became i'll,
and the surgeon who attended pro-
nounced him to have hydrophobia. The
poor youth died in the most terrible
agony.
"Herbert," said perplexed mother,
"why is it that you're not better boy?"
Well" said the little fellow, soberly,
looking up into her face with his honest
blue eyes, 81 suppose the real reason is
that don't want to be !" We think the
child gave the real reason why ali of us,
big as well as little, are not better than
we are.
A Boston wag once wrote to q former
President of the United States, asking
whether he would accept carriage and
horses as q token of esteem from the
Young Mems Christian Association of
that city. In due time all affirmative
answer was returned from Washington.
The wag thereupon sat down and wrote
back: "I thought so." 1t is needless
to add that the carriage and horses were
never sent.
A show exhibits in country villages,
and travels in sleighs. While crossing
the Green mountains from Ludlow to
Rutland, Vermont. short time ago, the
company were snow bound for three days
in farm house. The baggage sleigh,
which they had preceded, did not arrive,
and as soon as the storm had abated, a
search was made for it. The sleigh was
found overturned in a.drift, and the
driver frozen to death.
In the Malayan peninsula large apes
of naturally intelligent breeds are en-
ployed by their masters much in the
same way that human slaves are made
use of in some parts of Africa. The
cocoanut palm is valuable for its fruit,
but this is very difficult to procure, SO
the landlord of tope of palms trains his
pick the ripest nuts for nlm. Lie apes
seem to delight in the work.
In o space of ten years not much less
than two millions of British subjects
have left their native land. Some went
to Australia, some to Canada, and more
to the United States. Until lately the
Irish immigrants were in excess of the
English and Scotch. Since 1869, how
ever, the respective ratios are reversed.
During that year Great Britain sent
forth eighteen thousand more immigrants
than Ireland, and in 1872 this excess
was even more marked.
Of two members of well-known Bos-
ton firm, one of whom possesses the
larger capital and the other the larger
business influence, the latter became dis
satisfied, the other day, and advertised
anonymously for partner with $50, 600
capital. One reply was received to the
advertisement, and correspondence en-
sued between the two parties. At last
these parties met, and-the man who
answered the advertisement proved to
be the advertisers partner.