The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-18
Items of Interest.

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During the last year the Boston banks
paid 81 ,024, ,819 taxes to the city.
We mount to fortune by several steps,
but require only one step to come down.
1t has been estimated that the great
American nation smokes $685. 900 cigars
a day.
The California State prison has 1000
inmates. Of these 160 are under twenty
one, and 241 under twenty-six years of
age.
A man may be properly said to have
been drinking like q fish when he finds
that he has taken enough to make his
head swim.
Learn, to be economical when you are
prosperous, that you may know how to
live without spending money when you
have none.
Never trust with secret married man
who loves his wife, for he will tell her,
and she will tell her sister, and her sis
ter will tell everybody.
A convicted criminal never objects to
the grammar of the judge, but he
doesn't like to have him show it off i'll
court by passing long sentence.
LII Is eSUllDdUeu ullilJ OHe ,yOllllS
women stand ready to do copying at two
dollars per week where one is willing to
do plain cooking at double that sum.
A vessel has just left San Francisco
for Liverpool with a cargo of 100000
bushels of wheat. This is the largest
cargo of that grain that has ever crossed
the ocean.
A horse who is in the habit of gnawing
his crib can be cured of the practice by
applying a strong wash of cayenne
pepper and hot water, or a coating of
tar, to the crib.
Now, then, children" said parish
schoolmistress, showing her children off
on examination day, "who loves all
men ?" "You, missus," was the uneX-
pected reply.
"Where awoman, says Mrs. Parting
ton, "has been married with CONCEAL
ing heart, and one that beats desponding
to her own, she will never want to enter
the maritime state again.
While on the stand testifying in the
Beecher-Tilton case, Moulton, a leading
witness, received news of the sudden
death of his mother. He did not know
she was i'll until the news of her death
came.
Truth rhymes with youth. We heard
little Elsie exclaim, rapturously: ooh,
90 dear lion Oh, 90 boofrll lion Oh,
90 nice lion Oh, 90 love, do love oos sol"
Then she added, in q whisper, " But he
melis awful -
An indianapolis widow made her lover
deposit So, 900 in the hands of trustee
on the morning of the wedding day. the
money to be at her order for divorce
purposes should she ever desire to take
such action.
| 1t is reported that somewhat juvenile
dandy said to fair partner at a ball
"AIiss, don'tyou think my mustaches are
becoming?" to which Miss replied
"Well, sir, they may be coming, but
/ they haven't yet arrived
Lewis, the wit of the Detroit Free
/ Press, is youth of about twentynine,
with dark and rolling eye, and a
moustache like the shadow of a great
papa is worth half million.
I" You in the post-of1icel" said father
to his son. "Nice party you'd be in
the post-office. What could you do i'll
the post-otlice except stand in the door
way with your mouth open for folks to
wet postage stamps on your tongue!"
1t is said that the aggregate cost-ex-
elusive of jewels-of the dresses worn by
/ the ladies of certain household -four i'll
number) to a charity ball was 81, 800;
while their tickets cost 500. Oh, charity,
what extravaganza is committed in thy
name.
In Oregon the canning of salmon has
been overdone, and prices have deterio-
ated to such an extent that the Gamers
have gone to canning beef instead. AS
they can buy cattle in Oregon for two
and half cents a pound, there is n mar
gin to work ON in the business.
A man was recently found lying in
sensible in the street by the police of
Baltimore. He has since been claimed
by woman who positively identified
him as her husband, and by young
man, stranger to the woman, who is
just as positive that the man is his
father.
The last King of Spain, before the one
Just proclaimed, bearing the name of AL
fonso, was Alfonso XI., historically
known as the Avenger, who reigned from
1924 until his death before Gibraltar in
1850, so that between Alfonso XI. and
Alfonso XII. there is only the little pc
riod of 525 years.
A business man in one of our Eastern
cities asserts that during the past year
he and another man made $500 each by
reading one little advertisement in the
local newspaper. 1t opened to them q
chance for trade which otherwise they
would not have heard of. Moral-but
everybody can see the moral by reading
the item.
The growth of the Granger order
throughout the South is remarkable
In Alabama there are now reported to be
! GAL oranges, with $4,000 members; il
Florida, 10S oranges, with 5, 5,500members
in Arkansas, 521 oranges, with q, ,OOt
members; while in the other States there
are also numerous lodges with large
membership.
A former Indian agent states that the
tribes under his charge observed a Gus
tom of making New Years calls-th,
,, squaws calling ON the warriors. All tn,
! American savages formerly observed tn
same custom. The Dutch settlers of NeI
, York adopted the custom from them, wit
slight modifcation-the gentlema
calling on the ladies.
q A busy housewife was sitting in
A doorway plying her needle. Her hus
: band was lounging on the rail, when hi
l.. foot slipped, and he bruised his knee o