The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-16
Items Of Interest.


gether.
The walruses in the Acclimstion gar
den OF Paris have been taught to say
"papa aud "mamma.
Henry Ward Beecher advises Young
men not to run in debt, adding: I" But
il you feel that You must run in debt,
let il be for little home"
A man in Louisiana, who lost his arm
by the premature explosion of cannon,
offers $50 reward for the recovery of
diamond sleeve button attached to the
missing shirt cuff.
The latest instance of " married in
haste" was that of couple united IN
matrimony on an express train whlle IL
was humming along at the rate OF forty
miles an hour.
Jonesy was trying to explain to Julia's
father that Sublime Porte meant a big
gate. "Now," said the old man, "jest
Won take the sublimest kind of port
out of this, will youa"
When three good little boys get to-
gether of an afternoon the chances are
that there will either be fight, win
dow broken, or some stray dog will have
O pan tied to his tail.
Nevada never held 10000 people. 1t
contains one desert which alone covers
80. 600 SQUARE miles. None of the noun
tain Territories will average one acre in
twenty fit for cultivation.
Cider plays great part in a Norman
wedding. A young girl is seated upon
full cask, and she must drink both the
first and the last glass it contains IN
order to be married within year.
We can't understand why it is that
married man can't 60 into store to buy
new rolling pin without blushing to
the tips of his ears if anybody happens
to giggle when he prefers his request.
The man who has been sitting all sum-
mer in public square looking for job
of work lately transferred his observation
to warm barroom, where he can see
lust as much and be more comfortable.
"I meant to have told you of that
hole" said q gentlemen to his friend,
who, while walking in his garden,
stumbled into pit of water. &c No mat
ter" said the friend, 81 have found 1t.
The Scotch people are Mortified to
find that the whisky sold in the little
villages of that country is adulterated
with vitriolic acid, and committees OF
investigation are everywhere appointed.
The territories of Russia in Turkistan
cover ACC, 900 English square miles, or a
space as large as the Austrian empire,
Germany and Belgium combined. But
the population is only 2,5OO,OOO, or less
than that of Switzerland.
A man was hung at Tanna-Fort, near
Bombay, India, for horrible murder,
and made rather \ notable observation
in Gujerati. Standing under the drop,
he whispered to the executioner " In
one minute what lot shall know"
A man Just returned from prolonged
stay in the Black Hills doesn't give any
very encouraging account of the amount
of gold to be found there, but says it is
one of the grandest fields for young
mems Christian association or temper
ance society to open business in he ever
saw.
The total number of Irish proprietors
is 1929, representing a valuation OF
s1O, 1872, ,681. One hundred and ten per-
sons hold one-fifth of the soil. Ulster
has 8, 767 proprietors Leinster, $3.50 ;
Munster, 5,691; Connaught, 2,4SO.
Only LAB proprietors are returned as
rarely or never resident in Ireland.
Silver in Nevada was first discovered
very strangely. A woman picked up n
stone to throw at her husband. 1t was
so heavy that she examined 1t, and 1t
proved to be lump of silver /; 800,
900, 900 was the result of this to-the
country. The women must remember
that there is no silver in this State, SO
no experiments.
The life of an Australian sqnatter is a
struggle 'twixt drought and flood. He
is now terrible distressed by the former.
The rivers are choked up by the car
casses of sheep and oxen which have
died of thirst, and they are obliged to
kill the lambs TO save the sheep. On
one station 1000 head of cattle have
persisted, and ON another 10000 sheep.
The number of convictions for muir
der in England has been greater in 1876
! than in any preceding year, the exact
figures being, since 1870, respectively
|, forty four, tifty-six, sixty and sixty
three. Shooting, wounding and stab
bing have also increased, the number o.
convictions last year having been 1877
Crimes against property, and pauper
ism, are, however, steadily decreasing
, The buildings of the Paris exhibition
| of 1878 will cover space OF l,35O, OOl
, square yards. They are to be OF iro1
filed in with brick work, and will have
, the form of Pythagorean table: 1. 6.
if passed through in one direction th'
similar productions of different countrie
may be inspected, while if crossed il
the other direction the various product
of any one country may be passed in re
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