The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-23
Items of Interest.


Kansas of 13, 900, 900 bushels.
Wyoming Territory has one saloon to
every hundred and eighty Inhabitants.
The Mormons are educating twenty
five girls at Salt Lake City to be physi-
clans.
If walls have ears, planks sometimes
speak-did you ever hear stage whis-
pers
Eight hundred paper mills in the
United States produce annually SIC, ,OOO,-
900 in stock. r..,
David E. Porter, son of the admiral,
has accepted position on the staff OF
the Khedive.
"I have bought my first last" was
the remark of cobbler when he set up
business for himself.
Of the 10000 persons arrested in Eng
land last year for debt, one-fourth were
able but unwilling to pay.
Although it is generally done, it is not
necessary to bump against each separate
stair in falling down stairs.
A Chicago clergyman says he never
feels 80 familiar with Satan as when rid
ing over a cobblestone pavement.
Dublin and Belfast are the only cities
in the British islands, outside of Lon
don, that support seven daily papers.
Statisticians say that there are now
over two million Williams " in the
United States, without counting the lit
tie bills.
Most of the men who spent $500 to
81, 900 to get to the Black Hills have been
haorl f,op, TNhou ont fn
borrow more money.
1t has been raining in the country. A
rustic lover writes: "Dear Mary Why
Kant Kun Rownd to Mite yu no well
Enuff aint Got no Kanoo."
Old daddy-long-legs has mission.
He has been observed to devour the
larvae of the terrible potato beetle, and
there are prayers for his health.
1t is all explained-this row about the
Chicago custom house. There are three
bottles of whisky in the corner stone,
and the building has got to come down.
What people should know-That if
they spoil stamped envelope when ad-
dressing it they can get the value in
stamps by presenting it at the post
Office.
A Baltimore servant girl the other
morning tried that good old time-honor-
ed plan of lighting the kitchen fire with
kerosene. Nothing has benzine of her
since.
Doctor to wounded Carlists-" Why
did you not seek shelter behind the
rocks 2" "The rocks were too few, and
had all been occupied by our officers,
| DOCTOR"
Somebody kindly sends us fac Sina7e
of the autograph of John @. New 4; but
really we don't like the color or size of
the paper which contains it.-Rochester
Democrat.
This is the way it goes. Miss Clara
Rose, of Philadelphia, had $1,000 ex-
pended on her Latin, French, and Ger
man education, and then married man
who has to buy his butter half pound
at time.
A husband in Massachusetts, can't
make up his mind on the currency ques-
ton, and 30 he refuses to allow his wife
any pin-money until a decision can be
arrived at.
The city court of Louisville, KY, re-
Gently decided that newspaper men have
right to carry deadly weapons, if deem
ed necessary for self-defense, while in
the discharge of journalistic duties.
Colonel Baker pays the following sums
for his famous railway ride in England
Value of commission, 10000; fine,
e500 cost of prosecution, 91 800, and
of defense, $1,000, Total, say $40, 900.
Of all the vices avarice is the most
generally detested it is the effect of al
avidity common to all men it is because
they hate thos from whom they expect
nothing. The greedy misers rail at sor.
did misers.
The three wonders of the world at
present, says an exchange, are How
fluff accumulates in vest pockets, where
pins go to, and why man when he
comes out of saloon looks one way and
goes the other.
A mixture of peroxide of manganese
and water glass is recommended to be
applied to cooking stoves when they are
red hot, as it is said to make goo6
blacking, not as liable to burn off as
common black lead.
Kingston girls are opposed to introduc
ing the letter carrier system in that city.
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having letters left at the house Ther
we can't go to the post-office, and won't
have any excuse for going down town."
In 1776 Massachusetts had 295, ,0S0 in
habitants ; in 1870, 378,7S7; in 1900
423, ,345 in 1910, 472, ,040 in 1920, 523
159 in 1880, 610, 409 in 1910, 737, 500
in 1850, 994, ,514 in 1860, 1921, ,066 f; il
1870, ], 1,457,351 and now about 1,640,
600.
Nothing new about pull-back skirt
after all, In the reign of Edward H., o
England, a monkish chronicle record
that the ladies "wore such straigh
clothes they were constrained to hav
long foxes brushes sewed within to holC
them forth"
O'Connell, in addressing jury, having
exhausted every ordinary epithet o
abuse, stopped for a word, and then add
ed, this naufrageous ruffian." Whel
afterward asked by his friends the mean
ing of the word, he confessed he did no
know, but said he thought it sounde'
WE'LL"
Calcraft, for many years the hangma
in England, and now superseded by
younger man, was a puzzle to newi
paper reporters. He wouldn't intervie'
worth penny. He invariably whisper
ed in the ear of his victims just befor
the fatal moment, and it has never bee
, discovered what he said.
: The Chicago Adpance says A frien
of ours has little niece, whose mothe
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