The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
Items of Interest,

Seeing is not believing. There are
many men you can see, and yet cannot
believe.
A beautiful seven inch centipede will
be one of Texas contributions to the
centennial.
"But few men can handle hot lamp
chimney, and say there is no place liks
home, at the same time"
Louisa Alcott used to feel that it was
a mistake that she was born girl, be-
cause she did not like girls and did like
boys.
The wonderful man in Detroit who
puzzles the doctors by being able to
make his heart shift sides can rest as
sured that he will be beautifully cut up
as soon as he dies.
Mr.. Meagher, the present owner, has
offered to the Centennial commissioners
q portion of the gallows on which the
thirty eight Sioux Indians were execu-
ted in Mankato in 1862.
why" asks an exchange, "d0 they
bury Japanese with his head down
ward when he dies ?" We really don't
knoS, unless it is because they think
that's the only proper time to do it.
A pauper inmate of Horsham work
house, England, died on Christmas day
from the effects of gluttony. He attack
ed his Christmas dinner so ravenously
that in few minutes he was choked.
Snowfalls under cloudless sky arc
common in Virginia City, puzzling
strangers. The snow is blown from
Mount Davidson, which is close by the
town, and is whirled through the streets
by the wind.
A Richmond paper says that in that
vicinity they no longer say "since the
wa" or "befo' the wa" but use the
earthquake as the marking stone for
dates, as: "That happened befo' the
earthquake"
An exchange says: The other day,
when they stopped the Columbus con
victs from making counterfeit nickels,
the said convicts rolled up their eyes
and sighed " How very wirtuous they
expect a jailbird to bel"
The United States ships St. Lawrence
and Macedonian were sold at auction at
Norfolk recently. Ghe former brought
$4,000, and the latter $14,071. These
are among the Oldest ships in the navy,
and have been famous in their day.
A San francisco saloon keeper, CRATE
full for business prosperity, gave to each
patron bottle of whisky. Lewis Losee
finished his botile, went home drunk,
and whipped his wife to death, inficting
nearly two hundred great and small
wounds.
Tt is said that since his release from
confinement, Brigham Young acts as a
changed man. 1t is only necessary for
one of his wives to hint that the fire is
getting low, and he will trot Slt to the
woodshed as if he was thankful for the
exercise.
Commodore Stephen Decatur who died
lately at Boston, when three of his neigh
bors were attacked by ship fever, and
no one dared to nurse them, tended them
through their illness, aud when they died
he dug the graves and buried their
bodies himself, reading the funeral SER
vices over them.
You just imagine five big loafers
working all Saturday night and Sunday
to pound safe to pieces and divide up
three cents and bundle of Letters, and
you have faint idea of what took
place in Iowa few days ago. That
much hard work on q woodpile would
have returned $40 in cash.
A rhyme for "month " is now in de-
mand. Here is one that is very old, but
the best we know of
"Tve tried hundred times l guess,
To find rhyme for month;
I've failed hundred times, know,
But succeeded the hundredth and one-th."
While service was being conducted in
the parish church OF Cherry Burton, an
English village, the other morning, the
clock weight came crashing through the
belfry roof and alighted on young girl,
housemaid at the rectory, who was in
iured beyond hope of recovery. A young
man sitting by her was also hurt severe
ly. The rope on which the weight was
hung was renewed only the week before.
The two injured were to have been mar
ried the next day.
Mrs. Burlington was missed by her
family, in Lansingburgh, N. Y, and,
after an absence of three days, was
found in a room of an otherwise unoccu-
pied house. She was standing in cor
ner, and she begged to be allowed TO
stay there, declaring that the Lord and
the devil had commanded her to stand
immovable until she died. She had
nearly obeyed the imaginary injunction,
for hunger, cold, and the fatigue of the
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