The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-09
Items OF Interest.

Partisan ladief are said to "look like
pencils covered with raiment."
History classes, it is said, will take
the place of spelling schools this winter
A single bolt of lighting in Dakota
lately killed fourteen horses and five
steers.
Complete success is said to have at
tended the attempt in Paris of raising
and training zebras for domestic pur-
poses.
Marian Singer, daughter of the over
married sewing machine inventor, has
appeared on the stage in San Francisco,
in burlesque.
Mathial Powell of Duncansville, Pa,
naval hero of the war of 1872, and
ninety-six years old, walks two miles
twice week to see his barber.
A happy thought that never occurred:
Mother lin continuation -" And so the
wicked Pharaoh ordered that all the
baby boys should be killed. Madeline
4" But, mamma ! didn't any of their
mothers say they were girls 2"
The National Grange, Patronsof Hus-
bandry, loaned last year $4,000 to sub
ordinate oranges throughout the South
and West, to aid them in recovering
from local pests. A total paying mem
bership of 762, 1868 is reported.
A West Indian schoolboy, after he has
committed his lesson to memory, crosses
and recrosses the pages of the book
from which he has learned it with q
"lucky bean," after which he feels no
responsibility, as according to prevail
ing superstition his lesson cannot fail to
be perfect.
The examination of the body of Lex
ington, the great Kentucky race horse,
revealed that the part of the skull under
the left eye, where the trouble seemed
to be, was filled with at least quart Of
masticated food, that had been forced
into the cavity through an opening in
the upper jaw, made by the loss of a
tooth.
They got up a mock marriage for
amusement at party in Portage county,
Ohio, the other evening, but real mag
istrate, who was among the guests, per-
! formed the ceremony, and it now ap-
pears that the couple are legally mar
ried. At last accounts they hadn't quite
decided whether to accept the situation
or get divorce.
There are in England and Wales one
hundred and fourteen local prisons, or
one to every twenty-five square miles of
territory, equal to one to every 200, 900
people. Some are nearly if not quite
empty at times. Through 1874 eight
had an average of ten prisoners thirty
three others had only fifty and only
thirteen had upward of four hundred.
Baron Edmond Rothschild and Count
de Turenne of France, two gentlemen
representing $500,000,00 Of property,
have arrived in San Francisco. They
travel, dress, and lodge plainly are ex-
ceedingly inquisitive and as they are
to spend month in the State, every one
is endeavoring to learn what financial
enterprise they have in contemplation.
"The Young Idea" Mamma -
Whatever are you crying for,
Annie 2" Annie (who has suddenly
burst into tears): "Because-because-
you've taken my orange" Mamma
"Why, you asked me to have it two or
three times" Annie 4" Yes, know
did but thought you would say no,
thank you, and give me another one as
WELL"
There is no such poverty in South
Australia as is known in England. If
workingman is healthy, sober, and in
dustrious, his family can have good meat
two or three times day, bread made of
the finest wheat, and fruit and vegeta-
bles are abundant and cheap. During
the fruit season, incredulous as it may
sound, the very pigs are fed on peaches
and milk.
MIR. Jones'" What q wonderful col
lection of walking sticks, Mr.. Brown !"
Mr.. Brown" Well-yes there are
ninety-six of them. And what makes
the collection really interesting is that
every one of them has history. Take
this one for instance-labeled No. 1. In
1887 happened to be ''-(Mr. Jones
suddenly recollects he has a train to
catch, and bids hasty farewell.)
William Ogg's twelve year-old girl, in
Georgetown, Ohio, became provoked at
something that her baby sister had
done, and slapped it. Mrs. Ogg in turn
chastised the elder child. This so in
censed the girl that she Immediately
welt to the river-the Big Miami-with
bundle of clothes under her arms,
and, first throwing the clothes deliber-
ately into the river, jumped in after
them, and was drowned.