The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-30
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The time for orsetting has arrived,
WONDER if this will be good year
for boys.
Soon we will luxuratc on lamb and
green peas.
a NEW awning has been put up on
the front of Houk's store,
a FELLOW wanted to know of us
the other day how old Daniel Webster
was when he wrote the dictionary.
THE. met is said to be in the right
quarter for continued spell of
weather.
IFwe didn't have the probabilities"
every day Ridgway would soon sink
into insigniticance.
How unreasonable some fo)fs are.
A chap wanted TO borrow half-dolar
of us the other day.
"Nursing their dresses is what the
Ladies say when they hold their trails
clear of muddy crossings
KID gloves for children are made to
fit little ones ayear and half old, and
! from this age up.
THIS is the season of Lent-no
reason why we should lend our money
all over the country to Tom, Dick and
Harry. ....
No doubt our readers are highly de-
lighted with our continued story en-
| c,1p e I
Lands
THE Brooklyn 1yyus predicts a
speedy return to calico dresses and
plain collars. When calico dresses cost
from $50 to $1,000 they will be very
| fashionable.
SAID fyoung girl in st. MAry's to
an cd woman one day this week:
My husband is not so good husband
rs he should be, but he is powerful
sight better than nonc.o
WHEN yousee fellow-mortal slip
into stairway and rub his back
against The old taclls driven into bill
boards that means buckwheat. It's
working out on him.
WHAT follows-Thc lion and the
lamb shall lie down together and a.
little child shall follow. Married in
Freeport, Pa, Mr.. Alfred Lamb and
Miss Lucretia Lyon"
PRESBYTERIAN. - Rev. John c..
Hench, Of Nenango county, will
preach in the Lutheran church next
sunday, April 2nd, morning an d
evening. Also at the same place on
Saturday evening next at y O'Clock.
The chap that runs the Brockway--
vile paper is going to quit the bust
ness because his subscribers don't pay
Poor deluded youth! as though sub
scribers to newspapers ever paid any
thing.
IT is now demonstrated to q Ger
tainty that whiskey drinking don't
kill men; its friction. rhe contact of
the glass with the teeth jars the system
and the jar produces friction and
that's what wears men out,
AN item for "Bantic" MilIer:-A man
who, ten years ago, was known all over
the United States as one Of the most
promising of base. ball players living
has for few days past been peddling
onions and potatoes about the streets
of Elizabeth, uunoticcd and unknown,
Two slcighing parties went to Cen
trcvilc On the sicighing last week.
With the poet we will sing:
Bells RIM ging all the day,
Money spent and thrown away,
Sure there is the d--l to pay,
When alnan goes out a sleighing.
/ woMEN are allowed tC vote in Wyo-
ming. but they are Indifferent as to
who or what they vote for. At re-
cent local election there Il fellow run
ming for town clerk, bribed eighteen.
female voters with one pound of chew
ing gum.
NCAsE Of gel eral average: "Aren't
you rather old to ride for. ha'f-priceW
said Il car conductor to the elder Of two
boys. "Well,". remarked the youth,
Il am under II, and this boy with me
is under 6. That don't make 20, and
you viii take two boys under 10 for
half. price each" And he took them
LARGE PIECE OF COAL.-On Tues
day last u piece Of bituminous coal,
weighing scventy-seven hundred
pounds, or near,y half Il car load, was
put on the cars 1t this place for ship
ment to the Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia. The coal was mined on
the farm of John Keys about a mile
from Brocl1wayville on the Brookville
road.
Geo. II. CRITTENDEN, Of BCllefonte,
2 Pa, spent last Sunday in Ridgway,
visiting the Sabbath Schools and
preaching in the Lutheran church in
the evening. Mr.. G. called upon us be-
5 fore leaving on Monday and expressed
, himself much gratitied with his visit,
. the object OF which was to make ar
, rangements for Il county Sunday
} School Convention at an early day UNI
: der the auspices of the Pennsylvania
state Sabbath school Association.
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