The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-20
Items of Interest.

Nefer run Ill ueDt. winning Is luolo
dignified.
A tailor says he can never think of one
of his customers without singing GA
charge to keep have"
Sweden has no national debt, and its
surplus revenue last year amounted to
nineteen millions of dollars.
A patent churn, invented by Sioux
suuaw, is on exhibition in Washington.
It shows considerable Immunity.
A crusty bachelors objection to ladies
with beautiful teeth is that nine out of
ten of them would laugh at q funeral.
Among the pleasure yachts on the Nile
last winter, there are said to have been
more American than British colors dis
played.
Winneshiek county, Iowa, has never
known such smell as that caused by
the recent burning of its only Limburger
cheese factory.
Who's going to win the five hundred
franc prize offered by the Paris Hippo
phagic Society to the first person who
opens horse butcher shop in the United
States
"Why do you use paintl" asked
violinist of his daughter. "For the
same reason that you use rosin, papa"
"H How is that ?" "Why, to help me to
draw my BEAU"
Roast dog, raw fish, and raw pork were
among the delicacies served up at re-
cent native feast given by King kalakaua
to party of foreigners who had to sit
on the ground and eat with their fingers.
A new article of diet is promised from
India. 1t is a weed called mulmunda," )"
the seed of which makes an excellent
kind of wheat. 1t has been officially
much nutriment as peas or beans. Good
for the horses, perhaps.
While a Nelson Ky man was driving
his stock to his farm, large gray fox
broke cover and ran across the road i'll
front of the drove, when one of the mules
started after the animal, and, of its own
accord, pursued him for nearly half a
mile, finally running him down and
stamping him to death.
Mr.. John w. Sedgwick, o Washington
gentleman, has bequeathed 500 to
Miss Belle Sherman, of st. Georges
county, Md, in recognition of assistance
rendered by her several years ago, on
the occasion of severe fall of the testa-
tor from q horse, from the effects of
which he lay for some time unconscious.
Paris is determined to keep up its re-
nown as the city par erceAcnce of living
phenomena. The last arrival is of novel
kind. It is said to be an italian baker,
who possesses the sense of hearing SO
acutely that he can heard what any
| -, +ha 1o1uoot x.,l,ic,,ar of
twenty yards distance. His name is
Amotti.
The following notice is conspicuously
pasted over the counter of bank:
"Never stamp a check before present
ing it at the bank, but give the teller
two cents and ask him to lick the stamp
and cancel it, The teller expects to lick
all stamps, as it saves buying lunch, and
is therefore disappointed when not al
lowed to do So"
Some of the Belgian journals say that
secret societies, rivaling the organization
of the Carbonari, exist in the Prussian
provinces which have q large Roman
Catholic population. They are COM
posed of groups of ten persons each, OF
whom nine are not informed as to the
other members of the society, but know
only the tenth, their chief. The ten
chiefs of ten such groups know only the
chief of the hundred.
The following curious passage occurs
in the answers of Justice Lush to the
British Secretary of State on the use of
the lash for crimes of violence: "When
L first went to Manchester in 1866, there
was q general feeling of alarm at the
prevalence of what is called garroting.
/ fogged every one-as many, think,
as twenty or twenty-one. went again
in the summer of the same year, and had
to administer the same punishment to
about half the number"
"Why," said Mr.. Dorkens to the part
ner of his claws" "why, my love, is
an old blind horse in a new harness,
with H. L. B. on the blinders, tied to q
post in front of the new post-otfice, and
hitched to junk wagon with string OF
COW bells and poodle dog tied to it,
and one-legged man and fat boy OIL
the seat, like two orphans!" "Good
gracious sakes alive, can't tell, saio
Mrs. Dorkins. "Why are they like two
orphans p" "Because," said Dorkins
triumphantly, "because they've got nc
farther, not even a stepfather !"