The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-13
Items of Interest.

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second wife.
The population of Sitka in January
was five hundred and two, exclusive OF
Indians.
Why do people call for q piece of
string, and did anybody ever hear OF one
calling for whole one?
An edition of the Bible is to be printed
in London with all the proper names
accented to show their pronunciation.
A company has been formed in Canada
to manufacture caoutchouc from milk
weed, the Juice of which is said to yield
about four per cent. of India rubber.
A wealthy woman died recently ia
Michigan who had paid taxes "under
protest" for fifty years. The protest
part seemed to afford her great comfort
in her last hours.
Darling Ito mamma, who superintends
cooks operations)-"I wish I was a
pudding, mamma" "Why9" "Cause
1 should have lots of sugar put into me-"
Mamma takes the hint.
At Monaco q gentleman came to the
roulette table and put down his hat full
of gold pieces. Another said to him:
"Beg your pardon, sir, but could you
favor me with the address of your hat
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The San Francisco Bulletin predicts
that the time will soon come when every
farmer will cure his own fruit and store
it away as he does his hay; the drying
apparatus forming part OF every we'll
regulated farm outfit.
"Then you won't lend me that dime
novel, eh1" inquired one boy of another
in the post-ofice on Saturday. "No, l
won't" !" "All right, then; the next
time our chimney burns out you shan't
come into the yard and holler."
"Spell defendant, said Prof. Sprague
at the last spelling match. "B-e-e-c-h-e-r,"
whispered little school girl, but the
audience did not hear her, and so the
precocious child wasn't presented with a
copy of the great trial in book form.
A Methodist church in Maine has hit
on new plan of taking up collections.
The boxes are passed by the best-looll
ing young women in the congregation,
and with no difficulty in getting passers;
there is also great increase in receipts.
Fact!
A Milwaukee chap kissed his girl
about forty times right straight along,
and when he stopped the tears came into
her eyes and she said in sad tone of
voice: "Ah John, I fear you have
ceased to love me-" "No haven't"
replied John, "but I must breathe"
AS an indication of the advancement
that science has made recently, it might
be stated that gentleman at one of the
city markets, the other day, saw half q
bushel of white turnips run through
cider-mill, and half an hour thereafter
noticed the same article, bottled, ON
sale, and labeled "Pure grated horse
radish."
In an action for slander tried at the
Kingston assizes in England the other
day, the plaintiff charged that the de-
fendant had called him convicted felon.
The truth of this assertion the plaintiff
did not deny, but he claimed that having
already suffered for the offense he ought
not to be made to suffer for it again.
The jury were of the same opinion, and
gave him $500 damages.
The German papers tell this story i'll
connection with Baron Rothschild's
death: A. and b. meeting, B. weeping
and sobbing aloud. Says A., "Why do
you weep2" Because, says B., as if
his heart were breaking, "because he is
dead, the powerful, the rich baron"
"But," replied A., "why do you cry SO
much; he was no relation of yours 20
"That's just what am crying about"
howls B., more affected than ever.
According to the Danbury News, a
prominent citizen, who is the proud
possessor of handsome daughter, went
home to tea the other evening and said
to his wife: Mother, 1 have finally
succeeded in my petition for street
lamp on our street, and it is going to be
set directly in front of our gate - A
sudden scream and heavy fall sounded
from the next room. The affrighted
parents rushed in there. Their daughter
lay PROSTATE on the floor. She had
tainted.
The Mobile Register pays tribute to
the memory of Daphne, colored woman
who has just died She was known to
the citizens of Mobile for more than a
generation as one of the most efficient
and tender-hearted of nurses. Before
emancipation she was nominally slave,
though she had full control of her ac-
tions, and during the successive vista
tions of yellow fever she saved hundreds
of lives by her skill and faithful care.
She was also assiduous in her attentions
to wounded soldiers during the war.
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