The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-15
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Items of Interest.

Always marry the girl you love best
that is, if she'll have you.
There are two hundred and sixty
miles of street railways in Pen nsyl-
vania.
Ole Bull is sixty-five years old, and
he has o collection of twenty-four
fddles.
Every husband thinks that he can
tame shrew except the poor fellow that
has her.
If a man is insane upon the subject
of money, is his disease monomania, or
moneymania9
An entire family in Harrison, Ohio,
has been made insane by a stroke OF
lightning which hit their house.
An impudent adventurer having mar
ried an heiress, wit remarked that the
bridegroom's brass was outshone by the
brides tin.
Mr.. Moody, the American revivalist,
who is now making SO many converts in
London, was q colonel i'll the United
States army.
Mysterious Little johnny / heard
somebody crying in there, and it wasn't
ma nor the DOCTOR" Sissy" Maybe it
was the kitten"
A veteran shopkeeper says that, al
though his clerks are very talkative dur
ing the day, they are always ready to
shut up at night.
When Detroiter was asked the other
day by traveller if he had ever been i'll
Brooklyn, he fastened to reply : "Do l
look like one of that sort of men, sir."
The Vanceburg Kentuckian remarks
A farmer lives ON the average sixty-tivo
years, printer thirty three. The
former should pay the latter promptly.
New Zealand prohibits females from
attending public schools, holding that
woman does not need book learning
to enable her to split wood and hoe
corn.
The paper makers say that the rags
they have received this year are more
! threadbare than usual, which they at
| tribute to the general prevalence of hard
times.
1t is estimated that 5,0OO,0O bushels
of wheat will be marketed in the United
States within the next ninety days At
present prices here, this would bring
! S,O00,0 900.
A five hundred pound Parrott shell,
lately used for breaking iron in Peekskill,
was filled with water which froze solid
and burst the shell into three pieces, al
though the iron was upwards Of three
inches thick.
The Lewiston Journal says that the
word mosquito " vanquished a social
gathering in that city, in which the
spelling mania had broken out. 1t was
too much for q doctor of divinity, II
Judge, a professor of language, to say
nothing of less learned people.
"Jack in the Pulpit" in 81. Nicholas
for April, says: For five years past a
rich farmer in our neighborhood has
d or SBiat stfBpangs nssS ptsr 5 ct etSS $4,000 in gold
is, the upper and lower rows complete.
Yet his offer has never been taken up.
A captain in the navy, on meeting a
friend as he landed, boasted that he had
left his whole ships company the happl-
est fellows in the world. "How so?"
asked his friend. "Why, I have just
flogged seventeen, and they are happy 1t
is over; and all the rest are happy that
they have escaped"
Cowden Clark tells a story Of gem
tleman who, lately, in making a return
of his income to the tax commissioners,
wrote on the paper For the last three
years nv income has been somewhat
under ESQ; in future it will be more
precarious, as the man is dead OF whom
1 borrowed the money.
A Pittsburgh critic remarked that
"Miss Soldene's mouth was suggestive
of the Mammoth cave" and the next
night, when he presented himself for adj
, mittance, the French business manager
told him: "Not at all, zur; you no see
zee Mammoth cave tonight oonder Amy
zeerkoomstances. We will zell you nc
teekets."
, Jekyll told Moore of man who had
said his eating cost almost nothing, fol
son Sunday" said he, " always dine
a with an old friend, and then eat so much
: that it lasts until Wednesday, when
/, buy some tripe, which l hate like the
a old boy, and which accordingly makes
= me SO sick that / cannot eat any more
k until Sunday again.
@ It takes Pittsburgh paper to grasp
Q problem and wiring the juice out OF 1t
n Says the Leader: Ii an ice bridge
+ thirty-fve miles in diameter were built
d from the earth to the moon and pro
s tected from dissolving till everything
= was ready, the heat OF the sun turned
It on suddenly would melt it, boil tn
It water and dissipate the whole busines
!. in vapor in one second.
h The contents of the stomach of trou
g weighing forty pounds lately sent from
e Michigan to Washington in this State
n We're found to consist of eight distinc
n fishes, six of which measured twelv
s inches in length each, and the other tw
VI eight inches each, making total c
p seven feet and four inches of fish in
> trout forty-three inches long. The eigll
l. lay side by side, the heads and tau
,, being partly digested.