The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-17
Items Of Interest.

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The trotting stallion Thomas Jeffer-
son has been sold for $4,000.
The Danbury NeaUs man says: eff we
had nothing else to do we should like to
be sick"
A man in New Orleans walks SO slow
that his shadow frequently falls asleep
on the sidewalk.
One who knows says that the worst
behaved children in the country are
those at the watering places.
They pretend to have young lady in
st. Louis so kind-hearted and lazy that
she will never beat an egg.
The city authorities of Boston have
given notice that only one COW for every
5000 feet of land can be kept in the
city.
1t was rather personal of California
newspaper man to chronicle the purchase
of mule by brother editor as " a
remarkable instance of self-possession."
Says an Omaha obituary "He was
q splendid penman, systematic book
keeper and a systematic driuker." 1t
explains everything.
The happiest life of O woman is per-
haps attained when she adopts the opin
ions of reasonably intelligent husband
and conscientiously thinks they are her
own.
A little girl was asked what was the
meaning of the word happy. She gave
pretty answer, saying cit is to feel
as if you wanted to give up your things
to your little sister,"
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the spectacle of an auctioneer attempt
ing to sell SIS, ZOO worth of goods to an
audience whose aggregate and tangible
assets foot up thirty cents.
1t is said that the subscription book
trade has fallen off in late years, but
that the profits to the authors from this
method of sales is still more than by the
usual manner of publication.
A New York policeman arrested boy
while in the act of drinking milk from
milk cans under the stoops of private
houses by means of rubber tube insert
cd through the iron grated door.
A Georgia theorist, who wishes to in
crease the production of corn in tho
South, proposes tax of $40 an acre on
every acre of cotton more than five
which may be raised by any planter.
On one of the bodies found on Gus
ter's battlefield, that of German sol.
dier named Ackerman, there were no
fewer than seventy-tive wounds. All the
limbs had likewise been hacked off.
A man named Bodda turnsup in Lon
don, who states in court that he "gets
his living by making claims on singers
who sing copyrighted songs in public,
aud taking out summonses in the names
of the proprietors.
Centennial Exhibition correspondent
tells of pills, in the Chinese pharmaceu-
tical display, which are the size of mar
bles, neatly covered with wax, and other
wise decorated with Chinese characters
in gold and vermilion.
A young second warder of New York,
who was thirsting two months ago for
| life of romance and adventure among
the Black Hills, has experienced Il
change of heart, and is now digging
CLAIMS for a living at Fire island.
Church fairs work as follows Some
ladies borrow money from their hus-
bands, buy materials and make up fancy
articles, which they give to the fair.
Then they change places, borrow more
money and buy the articles back again.
A married man from L'Anse. Mich,
at Waupaca, Wis, arranged with a
pretty Swede girl to elope with him, and
gave her 5000 to purchase an outfit. She
took the money, told the scamp's wife
about it, and went home and stayed
there.
Sister" Well, you know, Bobby,
your eyes very inAamed; you can't go
out with Tommy Brown till that speck
of dust's ont of it I" Bobby (auxious
to be off," I'm all right, l know it's
out now Earnestly; II think 1 heard
it fall"
It is said that no one can remember
ever having seen living evergreen that
had been struck by lightning. 1t has,
therefore, been suggested that build
ing we'll surrounded by such trees would
be comparatively free from danger OF
being rent by lightning.
An exchange says that while two Ohio
tramps were working to pay for their
dinners, the other day, they were both
struck by lightning and killed. 1t was
the first time the lightning ever got a
lick at a tramp at work, and it struck as
if it was going to be the last.
A cockney at the falls of Niagara,
when asked how he liked them, replied
"They are 'andsome, quite so but
they don't quite answer my hexpecta'
tions besides, l got thoroughly vet
ted, and lost my at prefer to look al
'em in an hengraving, in 'ot weather
and in the 'ouse.
Conversation between an iEquirine
stranger and steamboat pilot :" THAI
is Black mountain ?" Eyes, sir high
est mountain above Lake George.
"Any story or legend connected with
that mountain r. "Lots of 'em. Two
lovers went up that mountain once and
never came back again" " Indeed
Why, what became of them 2" "Went
down on the other side"
The estimates for the Paris exposi
tion of 1873 have been made. The,
provide for a total expenditure of 35,
! 313, 900 francs. The receipts are esti
mated at 10, 225, 900 francs, which vii
leave deficit of some 10000, 900 franc
to be borne by the government anC
city. The exposition will be upon
much larger scale than that of 1867
which only cost $4,000, 900 francs.
a., Even Cinnamon now ask to have thei
t names kept out of the police column, a
s witness the following request made of
: California editor: "You alice sam