The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-11
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Hanging isn't played out in New
York" No, but the art of hanging has,
Judging from the last exhibition.
The Maysville Bulletin sagely remarks:
The season for Staying hogs and sleigh
ing girls is at hand. The difference is,
the girls like it, and the hogs don't.
The New York Tribune has sent
81, 500 to Kansas and Nebraska, the re-
suit of its dollar subscriptions, and
claims that it will increase this amount
to $4,000.
Only a military despot will be able
to govern Spain, and it is new lllustra-
ton of the poverty of that wretched
country that it does not possess, 80 for
as is known, even good despot.
81 will my son shouldlear the german
Just SO good as english then man who
know two Languages know more as
another who knows only one" wrote a
fond Burlington father to his sons
school teacher.
Baggs got up too carly one morning,
and began to scold the servant girl. His
little six-year-old, who had been listen
ing attentively during the conversation,
broke in with: "Father, stop scolding;
you needn't think that James your
wife"
A little child of James Doran, of
Bridgeport, died suddenly a few days
since, and his mother, while viewing the
remains lying in the coffin, was so over
come with grief that she dropped dead,
and both mother and child were buried
in the same grave.
Sharp little Katie Doyle, of Pittsburgh,
cot ont of patience with her bashful
lovers backwardness, and so brought
matters to favorable climax by saying
to him: "I really believe you are afraid
to ask me to marry you, for you know /
would say yes.
An editor bemoans the calamities of
the present year in the following touch
ing strain: First that Beecher business,
then the grasshoppers, then the Demo
cratic victories, and now an increased tax
on whisky My goodness, what is this
country coming to ?
A Scotchman, so years old, and nearly
deaf, was naturalized recently in Kays-
vile, Utah, the Judge descending to
shout his interrogatories into the old
mans ear. When asked if he intended
to obey the law, he answered, in his
native Scotch dialect, that lit wasna
worth while for him the dae otherwise
noo."
The most extraordinary instance of the
application of the proceeds of theft is re-
ported from Montreal, where a letter .
carrier on probation stole registered
letter containing six dollars, and used the
contents to insure himself in one Of the
companies that guarantee the honesty of
their policy holders in responsible posi-
tions.
Lady Dudley, whose jewels, estimated
at $3.50, 900 in value, were recently stolen
Mt railway station, is sister OF Lady
Mordaunt, defendant i'll famous divorce
case. Lord Dudley was made an earl by
the wings for satisfactory votes His in
come averages 81, ,500,000 but last year,
owing to the great increase i'll the price
of coal, was S., 100000.
All who handle money must occasion
ally get hold of counterfeit bills, for the
Note Printing Bureau at Washington
makes the startling admission that seven
out of the nine denominations of the
national bank notes have been counter
feited. Nor is this the worst yet. 1t is
llrUller uSSeTutl lllttb thC iLuhcio VI
spurious notes are getting more expert
every year.
A little fve-year- boy in Indiana
said to Judge who had called at his
fathers: care you going to your store!"
81 haven't got any store" Are you
going to your mill?" 81 haven't got
any mill" care you going to your
shop 2" "I haven't got any shop. J."
"Well, then, how do you make money p
81 make it by my brains. " "Well my
papa makes money and he hasn't got any
brains"
The British Postmaster General is
charged with an act of petty tyranny
A number of the lower rated emloyees
signed memorial (Which, under the re-
gulations, they had right to do) asking
for an increase ofpay. Lord John Man
ners replied that they must withdraw
their request, which is done. He charges
them with insubordination, and then
dismissed those who signed. For this
act he is being severely criticised.
One of the boys, just. before. returning
to Cornell the other day, sent young
lady friend of his cake of Lubin's
finest variety of toilet soap, with the re-
quest that she would draw no inferences
in receiving such a gift. The young
man was somewhat astonished the next
day when he received letter from the
young lady containing the present OF a
fine tooth comb, with the request that
| l,o ,,,o,,1J Jro,y no inferenceS therefrOm