The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-17
Items of Interest.

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BE content with what you have" as
the rat said to the trap when he left his
tail in it.
Silver mounted rosaries, religious
medals, and the like, to the value of one
million dollars are sold annually in
France.
Some of the papers claim that Wash
ington was a Roman Catholic, because
after his army had crossed the Delaware
he crossed himself.
On the occasion of the marriage of a
Los Angeles man for the third time, his
iocose friends met and passed resolu-
tions against third term.
Economical fathers of grown-up
daughters are growing over the fact that
there are fifty-three Sunday nights this
year. And it's leap year, too.
Old Moneybags says that a girl with
an income of three thousand dollars or
more is always an object of interest, be-
cause she has so much principal.
A poor family of Bangor, Me-, ap-
piled to charitable society for clothes.
The next day the whole family dressed
up, went down town and had their pic
lures taken.
An exchange declares that Pitts
burgh milkman can pay $500 in fines
per year for watering his milk and then
make considerable more money than a
circuit judge.
A Philadelphia man gained four and
one-half pounds in one week by eating
oat meal. But he is wearing out his
Ulster overcoat scratching his back
against the door.
Infanticide is said to be an alarmingly
prevalent crime in London. 1t is re-
ported that in the district of Middlesex
alone three hundred children are annu-
ally smothered by their parents.
W. A. Kendall, San Francisco Bohe-
mian, committed suicide, leaving note
addressed to the coroner, in which he
said: "I have stated the immediate
cause of my death, hoping it will obvi-
ate the necessity of cutting me up"
The ex-Empress Eugene is thin and
pale, but still very handsome. She and
her son live in plain and unpretending
way at Chiselhurst; the late emperor's
place at table is daily decked with little
bunch of fresh violets. The Prince is
well male and gool looking.
At public meeting in a country
town, an eloquent advocate of popular
education thus delivered himself "Mr.
President, rise to get up, and am not
backward to come forward in the cause
of education; for had it not been for
education, should be as ignorant as you
are, MIR. President"
The Philadelphia Press, which has
been asking the hotel men of that city
what their charges are to be next sum-
Mer, says: We are glad to be able to
give the assurance of the proprietors OF
the several hotels in Philadelphia that
during the coming summer boarding
and lodging rates will not be materially
advanced.
Charles Schiller has contracted to
bury dead Chicago paupers for Sl.40
each, and says that he means to sell the
bodies for dissection. He argues that
there is no law to prevent the business,
that the burial. after the doctors are
through with the corpses, will fulfil the
contract, and that the plan will save the
city much money, inasmuch as in no
other way could contractor do the
work at that price.
For some time deadly jealousy ex
| AooCu pOp"OCii onO hSSoio i4AV1
on the Southern railroad at Emery Gap.
One of them went to third negro and
agreed to give him $40 if he would kill
the other. The proposition was accept
ed. The third negro then engaged a
fout th to do the work in consideration
of Sc. The enemy of No. was killed.
No. 3 received $40 from No. l, paid Sc
to No. 4, and pocketed 81 as his profit
in the transaction.
One of the most wanton and brutal
cases of torture to live animal ever
recorded has occurred in Shrewsbury,
England. A farmer was convicted of
having cut out hens "crop" while
she was alive. She was found living
next morning, with her chest cut open.
When interrogated about his motive, he
said that he had lost bag OF wheat and,
suspecting a neighbor, had cut out the
crop of one of his fowls to obtain proof
of the theft. He was fined five shillings.