The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-09
Items of interest.

A London court is deep in the mazes
of a divorce suit in which the respondent
is ninety years old.
Talking to her husband in loud
tone of voice " is enough to send n Per-
sian wife to Jail for thirty days.
A cat is popularity supposed to be
fond of her offspring. A popular delu-
sion She is constantly licking them.
"Alkali Jim," convict in San Quen-
tin prison, California, hid himself in a
shoe case and was shipped to San
Francisco.
The high price of meat in England has
brought to light the fact that there is at
present less live stock in that country
than in any other in Europe.
The old State-House in Boston is
doomed. The leases expire on the
first of July and Immediately afterwards
the building will be demolished.
A man has been sentenced to months
Imprisonment at hard labor, in Enniskil-
len, Ireland, for stealing sticks valued at
one penny from Lord Belmore's estate.
Western editor says: "We black our
boots with Is, 900, 900 boxes of domestic
blacking in year." He saves 5000, 900
boxes a year by not backing his heels,
adds brother editor.
Warren Parker, of Adrian, Mich, has
bid for distinction in meanness by forg-
ing the name of ono sweetheart to
note, and using the money SO obtained
in eloping with another.
A sure cure for pain in hollow tooth
is mixture of powdered alum and COM
mon salt, applied with lock of cotton.
A sensation of coldness follows the ap
pIication, after which the pain gradually
subsidies.
A Nevada sheep man, who had tried
and succeeded with sheep, said:
Sheep are better than a government
bond; you can tear off O coupon every
six months half as big as the bond, and
the bond is left as big as it was"
Three men were shot in row at ball
at Gaudaloupe, Cal. One of them re-
fused to stop dancing until physician
arrived, and then only long enough to
have the bullet extracted from his back;
but, upon trying to dance again, he fell
and died.
If there is anything calculated to make
even young swell of the most rugged
constitution nervous, it is to have two or
three children standing around eating
bread and jam when he has called in his
evening things, radiant in black AMI
creUe-ceur, just before making late
call on-her.
There are Az, 900 men and women and
| $4,000 children who live in the canal
boats on the English rivers end canals.
Of these 26. 900 men and women live as
husbands and wives without being mar
ried, and have 10000 illegitimate chill
dren. Ninetyfive per cent. can neither
read nor write.
He entered car door. When the
brakeman came inside and took key
out of his pocket, unlocked the shove,
put in some wood, and locked the door
again, he asked him what he locked the
stove door for. The brakeman shut his
left eye, and said he locked the door so
the fire couldn't go out.
A little six year-old city boy went into
the country visiting. He had a bowl of
bread and milk. He tasted it and then
hesitated a moment, when his mother
asked him if he didn't like it, to which
he replied, smacking his lips : Yes,
ma'am. I was only wishing our milkman
would keep a cow"
A bill has been introduced into the
California Senate which provides that
sail original articles or correspondence
hereafter appearing in any newspaper or
serial" published in that State "shall
be printed in said newspaper or serial
with the full real name of the author of
each article or correspondence"
Somebody said to Charlotte Cush-
man, not many years ago " You are
now alone in your great art-your fame
has no competitor. Where shall we find
an equal to succeed you?" Miss Cush-
man replied simply: "No, my good
friend, nobody is indispensable. Mime.
Janauschek is my equal, and, besides