The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-30
Items of Interest.

It makes O great difference whether
glasses are used over or under the
| nose.
"My husband" says lady, i" is the
most even-tempered person in the world
he is always mad"
Thirty-fve lives were lost on New
Orleans steamers during the first half Of
this year, twenty-one by fire.
The youth becomes a man the very
day he begins to feel uneasy at the idea
of being dependent on another.
"The one thing" says Jean Paul,
(Which lady most easily forgets is how
she looks-hence mirrors were invented.
The too-sensitive chief of police in
Portland resigned because robber whom
he "wanted" not only eluded him, but
broke into and robbed his house.
A correspondent wants to know by
what authority we said that flies were of
the race of Beelzebub. Doesn't every
body knew that Beelzebub is the father
of fiies2
Lady-"Wel, Biddy, and how is the
toothache this morning?" Biddy-"It's
yerself's the rale lady to think of poor
old Biddy but sure, me lady, the pains
|
feel it now at all, at ala"
A Tennessee girl told fellow she
would give him kiss if he would catch
her. She ran well till she got out of
sight of the old folks, and then gave
in. This shows what a Tennessee girl
will do when she's hard run.
Hezekiah Leland, who died in Angus
ia, was the feshiest man in Maine. He
was thirty years old, and weighed three
hundred and fifty pounds. The coffin
in which he was buried was six feet long,
twenty inches deep, and thirty inches
wide.
Charles Dorr of Orland, Me-, went to
Bangor to buy wedding suit. He re-
galed himself on peaches and ale on his
way home, from the effects of which he
died the day set for his marriage, and
was buried in the clothes he bought for
his wedding.
Cider may be preserved sweet for
years, by putting it up in air-tight cans,
after the manner of preserving fruit.
The Houor should be first settled and
racked off from the dregs, but fermenta-
ton should not be allowed to commence
before canning.
The other boys shouted, "boys be-
hind % and it was astonishing how quick
the boy let go the tail gate of that bread
wagon and commenced making faces and
feeling for something in the seat of his
breeches, as the wagon went on without
him and the driver laughing.
Fine cane you've got," said Crab
apple to Shawneybaum. eyes, sir"
said Shawneybaum 81 brought it from
Hengland. " What kind of wood is it ?"
said Crabapple. "Well, sir, it looks
like 'azel or 'icllery, or you might take
it for a helm but, halter hall, it's only
hash !"
Kerosene flames are readily extin-
guished by throwing cloth over them,
thus sitting them. But cloth is not al
ways in the kitchen, where kerosene
accidents are most likely to occur.
Flour is recommended as substitute.
Thrown upon the flames, it quickly alb
serbs the fluid and deadens the flame.
The mule felt funny and playful, or
he wouldn't have upset the milk wagon,
kicked the cans full of dust, split the
milk all over the driver and gone home
with the shafts and front axle-tree hang
ing to him. There is no true confidence
to be placed in a mule. One may think
he's too lazy to kick and run, but he
knows more about himself than we do.
y. If we knew the cares and crosses
Ccowdng round our neighbor's way,
If we knew the little losses
Sorely grievous day by day;
Would We then SO often chide him
For his lack of thrift and gain,
Leaving on his heart a shadow,
Leaving on our lives stain?
Excellent advice is given to teachers
in the Brooklyn Journal of Education ::
eff you cannot answer question point
edly and clearly when asked, say so );
think of it until you can then, after
the lesson is recited, give the informa-
ton desired" Some teachers are afraid
. to say frankly that they do not know a
4 thing. Pupils soon find out their weak
Q ness.
A young man in Dallas, Texas, awoke
suddenly the other night to find a large
snake in bed with him. For fear of
o provoking an attack, he lay still till
3 morning, when friend who came to
= call him to breakfast killed the intruder.
= The same room has been visited by
. reptiles more than once before. In the
= spring three tarantulas were caught, and
. about a month ago a rattlesnake four
feet long was killed there.
5 The fashionable people of Louisville,
S KY, habitually go to the theater only on
o Friday nights. So fixed has this usage
. become that ON this evening of every
q week the house will not hold all who
@ come, and on others it is nearly empty.
v This is not profitable custom for the
9 manager, and during the coming season
o he viii endeavor to break it up by call
@ ing the favored occasions "populal
h nights for the people" and reducing the
h price of admission.
If During the recent food on the Wild
n cat river, in Indiana, resident of Clin
e ton county awoke late one night to fine
i the ground floor of his house entirel,
N submerged, and the waters rising
Of rapidly. He took his children out o
= bed, set them ON the highest part of th'
ID roof and began firing shots from his gun
ut as signal of distress, until his ammu
n milton gave out He had just set abou
ry composing his mind for death when som
le of his neighbors, coming down the rive
Id ON n boat, sailed in at one of his win
dows and pascuad fine marty .~r.