The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-18
Items of Interest.

Old time rocks-Rocking the era
die.
How to signal bark-Pull dogs
tail.
A good excuse for borrowers--It's
Lent.
Benjamin Franklin was printer, and
he said: my son, deal only with men
who advertise"
A young man has sued his barber for
cutting off his mustache. The barber
says he didn't see it.
| Gentlemen who talk incorrectly are
the ones who make the largest fuss if
they are not reported correctly.
Samuel w. Allen of Nevada is believed
to be the greatest herdsman i'll the world.
His ranch is eighty miles long, and he
owns 225, ,000 head of cattle.
The Sultan of Turkey is i'll the enjoy
ment of an income of ten millions of
dollars year, and his entertainments are
fabulous for their splendor, variety and
quantity.
The man who predicted mild and
open winter because the hair on squir-
rels' tails were not as thick as usual, had
his ears fro zen four inches deep the other
morning.
The other day the town clerk of Fair
port, H., advertised that call persons
not having licensed dogs must call on the
undersigned within thirty days and OBJ
| tain one"
The commerce of France is passing
beyond any period in its history. The
exports and imports of 1874 amounted
to over 81, 800, 900, 900, largely exceeding
any former year.
Since the suspension of specie pay
ments in 1862, the State of Massachusetts,
! has paid for premium on gold to meet
its liabilities up to January l, 1875, the
sum Of $2,917, 1887.
Mrs. Jepson, who lectures in and
around Boston, was born deaf and dumb.
From girlhood she has gradually acquired
the faculty of hearing and speaking, nm
| til now there are only a few letters which
she cannot utter distinctly.
Seldom in the national history has
there been so general a release of old
stagers from the cares of public life. OF
the twenty-five Legislatures i'll which
elections have been held, only four have
returned the present Senators.
The hunting for Indians skulls and
thigh-bones on the plains is reported to
be very profitable business. The skulls
are worth 81. 25 for combs, and the thigh
of the red man makes knife-handles that
are equal to ivory in appearance.
A French traveller arrived in Paris the
other day from the Cape of Good Hope,
bringing with him diamond larger and
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gents diamond. 1t is of the purest
water, and is worth more than 81, 400, 900.
caa caalled llsdf tie tGg1DS Devils Table. ''"' ''''''"
1t is said that kerosene and rats have
no affection for each other The kcro-
sene is not particularly sensitive, but the
rats are, and refuse to live i'll the same
cellar or shed where kerosene is kept. \
great quantity of kerosene is not neces-
sary, as they only require steady odo*
of it for brief season to be looking up
another boarding house.
David Crockett, after returning home
from his first trip to New York, gave his
bacbwoods audience his idea of the first
gentleman in the metropolis: "Philip
Hone is the most gentlemanly man iii
New York, boys, and I'll tell you how
know it. When he asks you to drink he
don't hand you Il glass-he puts the de
canter on the table, and walks off to the
window and looks out until you have
finished.
Gibbs, of Helena, Colorado, is Il mllr-
derer who has escaped conviction through
a legal quibble. Thirty vigilantes sur
rounded his house in the night and com
manded him to come out to be hung. He
refused. They set fire to the house.
When the flames had grown too close for
a longer stay inside, Gibbs sprang sud
denly out of window with a revolver i'll
each band, and began firing rapidly at
his assailants. Three of them were
killed, two wounded, and the rest fed,
leaving a coil of rope bekind them.