The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-29
Items of Interest.
Managing mammas at watering places
ara nananinn daunhtara.

Managing mammas at watering places
are managing daughters.
An original poem is never too long.
A considerable income in some news
paper offices is derived from the sale of
waste paper.
The grave of " Captain Moll Pitcher"
who figured 80 conspicuously in the bat
tie of Monmouth, June %, 177S, is at
Carlisle, Pa, unmarked.
A married man, of Greenville, N. j.,
forced quid of tobacco into his sixty
year-old wife's mouth the other day and
kept it there till she became ill.
There are many recipes for getting
rid of the currant worm, but there is
nothing so sure in its results as to
blindfold him and back him under pile
driver.
Two Chicago girls, who took solemn
VOW lately never to be separated, have
played their first game of croquet for
the season, and are not now on speaking
terms.
The Chinese are the merchants in
Java, and where they number 100000,
rank higher than the natives, and are
generally wealthier than the Dutch
colonists.
A Christian, seeing painter painting
death, as a skeleton with a scythe,
beautifully remarked: For my part,
should paint death as an angel with
golden key"
The laws delay. A case was recently
decided in England which first COM
menced in the year 1882. The amount
originally in dispute was 100000.
Nothing is left.
A little girl hearing it said that she
was born on the kings birthday took nc
notice of it at the time, but day or two
after asked her father if she and the
king were twins.
Holland (Vt.) brags about a woman
thirty-six years old, the mother of nine
Living children, who works every day in
a ssawmill with her husband, and who
can handle crosscut saw as well as he
can.
A lady in Luxemburg is now prose
cutting man who killed her son in an
affair of honor; not for killing him, but
for taking away his character by saying
that he fought in an undershirt OF chain
armor.
"It is strange" muttered a young
man, he staggered home from supper
party, chow evil communications cor
rupt good manners. 1 have been sur
rounded by tumblers all evening, and
now 1 am tumbler myself"
Durham, N. f., has a pork barrel
which was first filled with pork in 1865,
and from we'll authenticated tradition
has been filled every year since. 1t
will hold more than 500 pounds, and has
therefore been the receptacle of at least
$4,000 pounds of country pork" of
the first class.
A shocking crime has been detected
in the neighborhood of Gerardanes, in
the Vosges, France. A child three years
old was taken to an inaccessible part of
the mountains in midwinter by her
uncle, with the consent of it's own un-
natural mother, to perish there from
hunger and cold.
A butcher boy, coming up tho street
from market the other day, carrying a
large tray on his shoulder, accidentally
struck against lady's bead, and dis
composed her bonnet. "The deuce
take that tray!" cried the lady, in
towering passion. Madame" replied
the youngster, "the deuce cannot take
the tray"
"And you think, darling, you could
be content to share my humble lot, and
live in quiet way with love and me9"
queried the blissful lover, as he looked
fondly into her translucent blue eyes.
"Why, yes, precious; you have no idea
how economical 1 am. Pa gave me one
hundred dollars last week to buy new
silk, and 1 saved enough out of it to
purchase four pairs of six-buttoned
kids /"