The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-19
Items of Interest.

Married people will have no difficulty
two bears in the house-bear and for
bear. .-a. .'f -.""t
Cleanliness, in all the surroundings of
family mansion, pays richly in many
ways, in good health, moral elevation,
personal comfort, and dollars and cents
besides. -
One of the saddest things about hui
man nature is, that q man may guido
others in the path of life, without walk
ing in it himself that he may be IL
pilot, and yet castaway.
1t has been estimated that one plant
of the red poppy bears $4,000 seeds;
one sow-thistle, $4,000; one corn-cocklc,
$500; the charlock, 4,500 groundsel,
$500 and the black mustard, 1,50O.
Burning incense, Mr.. Brown ?" said
Mrs. Farrintosh, as she passed Bro WI in
the act of lighting his post prandial
cigar. "No, ma am" said the practical
Brown, II am burning twenty cents"
A gentleman in Kingston, N. Y, has
cured his hen of mania for Matching.
Stones, clubs, basins of water wcro in
vain but when frecrackers exploded
Il nder her she concluded to come off.
Two hundred Thousand Americans,
not one in. five hundred of whom ever
saw prairies, mountains, canyons, falls
or other Western sights, are over in
Europe hoofng it around through heat
and dust.
During recent tornado in Minnesota
two sheep were carried fully a mile by
the wind, and finally landed in tree
top, where they were found pinned to-
gether by board that had been driven
through their bodies.
The Maine Farmer suggests that
farmers, by building on adjoining cor
ners of their farms, might organize little
farmer villages which would give
then, the advantage of society and mako
their children much more contented
with farm life.
A Jefferson (Me.) farmer had q COW
and calf struck by lightning during a
thunder shower, and, supposing them
dead, they were dragged off into pasture.
In the morning, having occasion to visit
the pasture, he found both COW and calf
as lively as if no thunder shower had oc-
CURED the night before.
Shortly after ex-Presidcnt Johnson's
trial he said to friend who was con-
graduating him on his narrow escape
Yes, and when 1 die L want to be
buried quietly, and hope the same
wretched set of scribblers who have Just
been writing me down on impeachment
won't be allowed to write up the funeral.
In no country in the world is there so
large consumption of animal food as
in the United States. The average to
each person, as derived from statistics
OF meat consumption in the leading
ponnd TsaedE per dayf from we h IN pSHna t0
Europe the average consumption of
meat per head is only from two to three
ounces per day.
Men have often been puzzled to ex-
plain, even to themselves, why they
liked tobacco smoke. But the scientists
have found out just what it is, and it is
no wonder we like it. Tobacco smoke
is, they say, mixture of cyanhydric,
sulphurated hydrogen, formic, acetic,
propionic, butyric, valerianic and car
bolic acids, half dozen kinds of alka-
loids and creosote.
A girl has recently gone through a
remarkable attack of catalepsy at pub
lie hospital in Paris. She fell into Il
lethargy, and her respiration became al
most imperceptible, but her color and
pulse We're natural. Soon afterward her
muscles became hard and stiff, and dur
ing six days she lay rigid, taking no
food, and being wholly unconscious.
Her recovery was slow, and attended by
relapses into q cataleptic condition.