The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-09
Items of Interest.

Lawyers have clear majority in the
in the House.
Edmond About calls France a sick SOL
dier of God needing to be cured through
the lapse of time.
"Whence came our aborigines 2" asks
the Baltimore Sun. Where are they 60
ing is more practical inquiry.
French immigrants complain of the
treatment they receive in Venezuela.
Nobody is SO we'll off as at home.
A Rochester paper suggests to Mr..
Frost, who is lapguishing in the jail of
that city, that he had better thaw out
The African locust has appeared this
summer in Germany, and laid waste the
crops on the Berlin and Anhalt railway.
81 had my money and my friend
lent my money to my friend
asked my money of my friend
lost my money and my friend"
At Ramseys, N. j., recently, a dog by
digging gained access to q hen coop and
killed twenty-eight chickens and two
ducks.
The school commissioners of Mem
phis have succeeded in placing all the
colored schools under the charge of col
ored teachers.
The Russian aristocracy are opposed
to their government taking any part i'll
the Centennial exhibition. For all that
it will be held.
A satirical writer in German paper
observes that if people go to the apothe-
carries because they are cheap, then doc
tprc r,1,et ho fri iol, Joo,
When freedom from her mountain
height unFurled her standard to the air,
her skirts, pinned back so very tight,
made her appear exceeding spare.
When man sees cat moving unsus-
pectingly along, within easy range, he
will involuntarily look around for stone,
however good and noble he may be. {.
In 1874 the United States furnished
five per cent. of the importations into
Brazil, and received forty-six per cent.
of the expectations from that country.
There is lake in Lagrange county,
Ind, called Wall lake, confined by an
embankment evidently artificial, and is
thought to be the work of the mound
builders.
When a Canada girl loves she loves
like handengine going to fire. In Il
breach of promise suit the other day it
was shown that young lady wrote to
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The elevators in the new Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, have their uppermost
landing on the roof, where q fine place
is prepared for the guests to promenade
and enjoy the extensive view of the city,
suburbs and harbor.
A little boy in Amity township, Berks
county, Pa, although seven years old,
measures but thirty-two inches in height.
He has grown but little, if any, since he
was two years old. He is said to be
very bright and intelligent for one of his
age.
A hen belonging to citizen of Beaver,
Pa, is said to be as fond of catching
mice and to be as expert in that art as
cat. She will pass long time watching
a hole, and spring on her prey the mo-
ment it appears, almost always with sue
cess.
A farmer in Des Moines, Iowa, while
driving his COW to pasture by rope tied
around her neck, was thrown down by n
sudden movement of the animal, and
turned a complete somersault, break
ing his neck and driving his head vio
lently into the earth.
A very tall and shabby-looking man,
after having a glass of liquor, asked the
bartender if he could change a $40 bill.
The gentleman informed him that he
could. Well," said the tall one, with
sigh of satisfaction, " I'll go out and
see if I can find one."
An enraged woman, with knife i'll her
hand, pursued her lover, of whom she
was jealous, through the Paris streets.
People jeered at his fight, and, ashamed,
he turned and waited for to come up,
when she plunged the knife in his throat,
and he died in three minutes.
This illustration of Sankey's melody is
given in the London Times:
Weary, working, burdend one, wherefore toll
you SO?
Cease your doing all was done long, long ago.
Till to Jesus work you cling by simple faith
Doing is deadly thiDg-doing ends in death
A youth named Stanislaus Morell was
instantly killed by lightning while feed
ing a horse in stable in the town of
Clay, N. Y. On removing his clothes
the perfect image of tree was found in
delibly stamped upon his left side. The
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of red color, and were as perfect as
could be drawn with pencil. No other
mark or wound was visible.
A youngster being required to write a
composition upon some portion OF the
human body selected that which unites
the head to the body and expounded as
follows: ga throat is convenient to
have, especially to roosters and minis
ters. The former eats corn and crows
with it,; the latter breaches through his'l
and then ties it up. This is pretty much
all can think of about necks.
There is in Dallas, Texas, chain four
teen and a half feet long, and consists Of
one hundred and fifty different silver
coins, no two of which are alike. The
coin of almost every country on the
globe is represented in the chain, whicl
is linked together with small silver wire
1t was found in the Indian Territory, re
Gently, and at one time was, doubtless
the talisman of some mighty monarcl
among the red men.
A queer civil funeral, that of Clori
Pontonnel, the little son of wine mel
chant, took place in Paris the other day
} Two persons carried the coffin and abor
l twenty friends followed. At the gray
the boys father delivered the followin
: address, Adieu, my son, adieu citizel
: for you were a citizen of the future-nt
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