The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-30
Items of Interest.

OF the 159 239 Inhabitants of Rhode
Island 135, ,O93 were horn in the State,
and $1,000 are natives of the United
States.
A Justice OF the peace in Baltimore
swore Chinaman on tea chest the
other day in default of the writings of
Confucius.
| OF FIVE robust young servant girls who
slept in room in Antwerp where the
gas escaped, four died and one was saved
with difficulty,
Put away the little uniform, lay the
torch upon the shelf, pay your election
bets mp promptly, you've realizing
sense how It's yourself.
This election excitement has caused
the "oldest inhabitant to forget the
usual proclamation that we are TO have
an unusually severe winter.
"Did you do nothing to resuscitate
the body9" was recently asked of wit
ness at coroners inquest. eyes, sir;
we searched the pockets - was the reply.
Milliners in Paris who furnish ladies
out of town with their hats send for
their photographs before they make
the selection of shape and color Of trim
mings.
According to the German philosopher,
Adelnay, the number of languages
spoken in Europe is 587, in Asia 937, in
Africa 276. and in America 1, 264, making
total of 1904.
The cost of sending a soldier to Cuba
is officially stated in a Spanish journal
to be 1873 pesetas or francs. Each soldier
receives cash bounty of $50 a substi-
tute receives 500 extra.
1t is roughly estimated that 5000
Western girls have taken husbands this
year for the only earthly reason that
they were thereby enabled to visit the
Centennial at somebody else's expense.
The builder of church now IN course
of construction, when the toast of his
health was given, rather enigmatically
replied that he was "more fitted for
the scaffold than for public speaking"
Dynasties may crumble, planets may
| be blotted out, George Washington's
body servant may eventually die, but it
is feared the idiots who make wheelbar-
row bets on the election will exist fer
ever.
Wood fires are becoming fashionable
again. The blessed wood fire! The
happiest moments we have ever known
were when sitting before one, with
blanket wrapped around US, trying to
get warm.
"Lenny," said her maiden aunt,
"you should eat the barley that is in
your soup, or you'll never get man."
Lenny, looking up innocently, in
quired: SIS that what you eat it for,
aunty"
The Corliss engine fywheel made
1856, 300 revolutions during the Exhibit
tion. The wheel is thirty feet in diane
ter, and any one point on its periphery
travelled during the period stated 40,-
LAT miles, or little over 260 miles each
day.
The full title of Miss Edith Pechey,
who was recently confirmed as a pbysi-
clan in Dublin, will be "L. X. Q. @. P.
L." ii she passes the examination. The
London Telegraph thinks that the idea
of rolling so much of the alphabet upon
an unprotected female is revolving.
A. young lawyer wrote to an old limb
of the law letter, which read thus:
els there an opening in your part of
the country which L can get into z"
Answer" There is an opening in my
back yard about thirty feet deep no
curb around it. II it will suit, come
on !"
An exchange says that society has
been formed in Siberia which compels
all males to marry when of age, and
makes the wife the head of the family,
and the husband marked subordinate.
g., iliao int thie
country that are run on the Siberian
plan.
According to the reports of the city
fumigators, the Chinese laundries in San
Francisco are q fruitful cause of the
spread of smallpox, as large quantities
of clothing taken from bodies of people
who have died of the disease have been
washed in them and then exposed for
sale.
A Georgia colored debating society
was lately discussing: (Which is the
best for the laboring man, to work for
wages or part Of the crops" An old
"uncle" spoke the sense of the meeting
when he thought "bofe was de best, if
dey could only be brung togedder some
how"
A person complained to DIR. Franklin
of having been insulted by one who call
ed him scoundrel. "Ahl" replied
the doctor, 'and what did you call
him 2" "Why," said he, "I called
him a scoundrel, too." "Well," re-
sumed Franklin, 81 presume you both
spoke the TRUTH
A man in Philadelphia wanted to be
excused from serving on q jury on the
ground that "he was a saved sinner and
could not sit in judgment on his fellow
men," The judge thought such an ex-
hibition of moral courage would fail of
its effects nowhere except before the
practitioners of that city.
Trufles are found by swine. The
trnffle hunter goes out with his trained
hog and pocketful of acorns, and the
beast roots the ground for the truf1le.
As soon as it appears in sight the vigi-
liant hunter raps the hog on the snout
and secures the prize, rewarding the
disappointed porker by an acorn.
Some curious statistics, just published,
show that out of population of more
than 36, 600, 900 in France there are 81
927 blind and 29,512 deaf and tumb (;
so that in $50 inhabitants there is one
blind, and in ,220 there is one deaf and
dumb person. In Paris alone thre are
1888 mad people. while in all France
there are 18, 123 male and IA, 964 female