The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-03
Items of Interest.

He has good memory who at this
season remembers the poor.
Scotch sayings doar plaat wi
mons mann on's wary goad thing, but
dinner platt wi mons dinner on is
better.
Many folks are 80 anxious for sorrow
that they are not only willing to hold
their own nose to the grindstone of life,
but are willing to turn the mean thing
besides. H
The laws are generally equal to all cir
cumstances. In order to get iurymen
whose minds have not been made mp,
men are selected with very little mindto
| make up.
A Nevada Chinaman cut down six tele-
graph poles for firewood and used the
wire to make fox traps. He was last
seen going up hill. There was man
after him.
We hear of merchant who reioices
that this is centennial year, for he says
that he has number of customers who
settle their accounts only once in hun
red years.
Isn't it little odd that while all de-
cent men are Mortified when they hear
of a wife being whipped, they should do
uOUulUR DuU lduRu dU u WIZ lS
whipped by his wife3
OF the one hundred and seventy-eight
Congregational clergymen who died last
year, eight were over eighty years old,
and only six under forty. The average
age was over sixty four years.
Some time in October last the Missis.
sippi river began eating into the Illinois
shore, two or three miles above Cairo,
and the process has continued until the
city is threatened with serious danger.
A paper tells about a youugster, aged
six, who went to neighbor's house and
remarked: evil you please let me see
your parlor carpet, for auntie says it
makes her most sick every time she
comes here!"
81 hate anything that occupies more
space than it is WORTH" says William
Hazlitt; "I hate to see load of band
boxes go along the street, and hate to
see parcel of big words without any
thing in them"
The Courier-JoMYaal properly ranks
Mr.. Fruits and Mrs. Fruits, of Indiana,
among the first Fruits of the earth, the
one being 113 and the other Ill years
old. The old gentleman neither smokes
nor chews, of course.
Women, SO amiable in themselves, are
never SO amiable as when they are use
full; and as for beauty, though men may
fall in love with girls at play, there is
nothing to make them stand to their love
like seeing them at work. ~ ... p
Says the Detroit Free Press: On the.
third of January Michigan farmers We're
blowing their fields, On the tenth of
t.,
dig the plows out of the burrows. Is it
any wonder that we all love Arnerica2
M. Dumas, in advising that a young
girl should be taught what dangers sur
round her, says: She would know, it is
true, what a young girl ought not to be
told, but, on the other hand, she should
know what young girl ought not TO do.
A Portland (Me.) Irish boy has just
come into fortune of 800, 900, being
the value of some property in Dublin
unrightfully occupied by an uncle. Last
year, before his departure for Ireland,
the heir was arrested for an assault on
his sister with hatchet.
At late prayer meeting one of the
brethren directed attention to stranger
who was sitting by himself near the
door, and asked why he wasn't invited
to pray. "Because," reprovingly OBJ
served deacon, "this amt no place for
practical Jokes. That mans the presi-
dent of gas company"
A remarkable incident is reported
from England. The Rev. Isaac Hanks,
for many years minister of an indepen-
dent chapel in Malmesbury, fell down
dead in his pulpit just as he had given
out his text, which was: "But man
dieth and wasteth away; yea, man Civ
eth up the ghost, and where is he9'
A number of years ago young Iowa
farmer dislocated his limb, which was
not properly reduced, and left his leg
two inches short, which was heightened
out with cork sole and heel. A few days
ago wagon ran against him, the wheel
hub striking him on the defective hip,
and knocking him over. When he arose
his leg was two inches too long, and he
was obliged to remove his cork exten-
sion. He walked home Immediately.