The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-20
Items of Interest.

T
ing-Put your foot in it.
London pays nearly one-third of the
whole of the income tax of England.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with new pair of boots and
no mud puddle.
Nature is nature, you can't alter the
crook of dogs tail much and preserve
the length of it too.
A Nevada highwayman bought six
books of an agent just for the pleasure
of stealing the money back.
If there is past in which men have
done ill, let them have hope, for there is
q future in which they may do well.
Every married woman is personally
acquainted with a man who will sit right
alongside of stove and let the fire go
out
A small place has been selected for
the Greek contributions in the Centen-
NAL building. 1t is known as the
Greece spot.
Four thousand head of cattle have
died in Utah this winter on account of
the deep SHOWS, which prevented their
getting to the grass.
"Thou Hast Loved Me and Left Me,
for twenty-five CENTS" is the latest case
of heartless desertion, and may be seen
in the window of music publisher.
A Western paper says every member
of Congress has q good angel continu-
ally looking over his shoulders. Those
angels must be dreadfully shocked occa-
sionally.
In the Spanish department of the
Cenntenial there will be display of re-
markable taste, for at the restaurants
you may not only see cigar smoked
but a cigarette.
A Buffalo dyer will send to any part of
the city for five cent job, dye it, and
return it to the owner, and send the bill
by mail. The only mean thing about
him is that he wants his pay.
Wholesale dry goods merchants, who
know to advertise, an exchange says,
sold more goods in the last twelve
months than in the corresponding period
of any former year. Make. a note of
this.
Formerly it was maxim that young
woman should never be married until
she had spun herself a set of body,
table, and bed linen. From this custom
all unmarried women were termed spin
sters.
Here is the model verdict of
coroner's jury "We do believe, after
due inquiries, and according to our
best knowledge, that we do not know
how, when and where said infant came
to its death"
A skillful doctor who cured the sultan
of carbuncle, has been made general,
and received four thousand dollars in
gold. The reward shows medical man
what industry, patients and good car
bunc'e will do.
"And canst thou always love me
thus, Alfred ?" she murmured, "even
when age has crept upon me and left his
traces here 2" There was q pause on
his part, but it was only momentary,
when he replied, in tone of deep re-
monstrance: Can duck swim r.
A celebrated scientist is going about
telling that our sun is much inferior to
other great lights in the universe. AS
if it were not enough for poor, down
trodden man to know that his gas is a
failure, he has to be taunted with the
fact that even the daylight is far from
being frst-rate article.
A remarkable duel is reported from the
neighborhood of Toulouse. The COM
good shots. They met at eight in the
morning, and after the usual prelimina-
ries the signal to fire was given. Both
the duelists fell dead on the spot, each
having received a ball in the region of
the heart. They were both married and
leave large families.
Norwich Bulletin says Mr.. Buckle
states that human nature has changed
!, very little in the last three thousand
years, but we do not remember any re-
cord of Roman senator trying to ac,
count to his wife for light deposit Of
pearl powder on the left shoulder of his
toga on the ground that he had been
playing checkers in a grist mill.
Michael Mcconnell, who was hanged
recently for numbering Mr.. Nelson
Mills, at Hamilton, Canada, said on the
scaffold eff Mr.. Mills had taken {
, little more pity on me this would no
have happened. He made me bank
, rupt for debt of $l4, when all asked
,, for was little more time. rgot angry
anu hllleu ulu III my anger. uOp'
this will be a lesson to all present"
| The editor of the Hopkinsville Err
l asks, with the air of one who has haC
losses Chow are the people of tn
: United States to enjoy the Centennia
celebration when they are haunted b,
the consciousness that, notwithstandin,
their existence as a nation covers
period of one hundred years, they hav
: never invented noiseless shooting gu
' by which burglars and other pest
/ might be killed without disturbing th
' police2" -
t The Journal de Roatbair tells hear
r rending tale of the horrible fate of
J, family who could not escape from th
4 top story of high house in which a fiji
Q was fiercely raging below. Mattresse
# having been placed on the roof of an az
o joioing shed, the eldest daughter, age
), twenty, leaped first, and, notwithstan,
n ing she fell ON mattress, broke ht
/ skull, jaw and hips, surviving quartz
@ of an hour. The father followed an
was instantly killed, next came the sol
vs. with the same result, the younge
l. daughter jumped last and shared the fa
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