The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-16
Items of Interest.


"The quality of mercy is not strained"
but tho quantity is often squeezed re-
markably small.
1t is evident that spelling matches will
not be popular this winter. They spelled
spell and will now rest spell.
Joe Jeferson's boy Harry, who re-
Gently died in London, was born in
Chicago on the night of the great fire.
"He was one of our most energetic
trustees" says a village paper in an
obituary notice, "and we trustees
happy"
A Warsaw Qnd.) brother got up i'll
meeting and opposed the purchase of
chandelier for the church, because there
was 6@9 s9yYH 9p9H to tR2asv Rabav q on it,. it,. 49,.
diverse and innumerable to mention.
Perhaps the leading traits are dissatis.
faction with your salary, and contempt
for the way your mother irons your
shirts.
San Francisco has q whaling feet
of eleven vessels, and the catch this
season yielded 5000 barrels of oil, 15O,-
600 pounds of bone, and 10000 pounds
of ivory, the aggregate valuation being
100000.
Over the porch of the Old South
church at Boston is chiseled Be-
hold I have set before you an open
door" and under, on the door, is print
ed in emphatic letters Positively no
admittance."
q" Our lives are albums, written through
With good or ill, with false or true
And as the blessed angels turn
The pages Of our years,
God grant they read the good with smiles
And blot the ill with tears !"
A Sacramento lady who sports an ar
tificial tooth left it on the table of the
restaurant where she had taken break
fast the other morning, and on returning
for it about an hour afterward found it
attached as O charm to the fob chain of
the waiter.
The first piano ever taken west of the
Alleghenies was one owned by Miss
Sarah Sproat, the daughter of Colonel
Ebenezer Sproat, an officer of the Revo-
luton, who immigrated to the North
western Territory in 1898, and located
at Marietta, Ohio.
A Quakertown man has solved Mrs.
Livermore's query "What will we do
with our daughtersl" He has pur-
chased two washing machines and will
take in washing. His wife and seven
daughters are to do the work and he
will superintend the business.
Gingerbread germans" are the
newest and most reasonable entertain
ments in and about Boston for young
ladies who have not " come out" No
gentlemen are invited, gingerbread and
Io,,anoI> f1,a xyionIc on1 tho OIrIc
go home to their mothers before mid
night.
At an entertainment a young man
with downy mustache sang senti-
mental song, the closing line being rem
dered: "My mother died when l was
very young" Between the "y" and
the "g" disgusted auditor started for
the door, muttering "Sensible woman
that mother of yours.
An overgrown, lubberly schoolboy in
Ross county, Michigan, has succeeded
in that wonderful feat" whipping the
teacher" In revenge for slight punish
ment he quietly followed the pedagogue,
and struck the latter on the head with O
large stone, knocking him senseless, and
leaving him fatally injured, it is thought
About two years ago a young man
from the country, while visiting oul
town, lost his silver watch. Last week
he repeated his visit, and while walking
, up Main street about dusk saw something
| glittering along the curb, and hastily
, picking it up was greatly surprised t.
: find-a blacking box lid-instead Of hi
long lost watch, as he had hoped.
, If you are travelling on the cars ant
! some pleasant young man desires you t'
= "take hand just to make up th'
: game" don't you do it. Generally
4 speaking they are frauds, and would a
quick cut your throat, if opportunit,
offered, as rob you of yourmoney, whicl
they will do if you get in with them
This advice won't cost you anything l
, you leave the gamblers alone.