The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-13
Items of Interest,

When man thinks the world owes
him a living he generally quits working
for it.
The professional contortionist leads a
hard life; he has to twist every way to
make living.
In Waterloo, Ind, recently, milk
man found bunch of shingles in his
cowyard one morning bearing the in
scription: "Shingle your COWS"
"Go out, young man; she's not
here |" said an Owego preacher, in the
midst of his sermon, to youth whom
he saw standing hesitatingly in the door.
way.
During the past year free high schools
have been in operation in one hundred
and sixty towns in Maine, to which
State aid was granted to the amount of
$40, 900.
A factory is to be started in Nevada
City for the manufacture of a newly in
vented explosive, compared with which,
it is said, giant powder is an insignif-
cant destroyer.
"Look here, Jim, there's a hole
knocked out of this bottle you gave
me-" "Why, not at all; there's the
hole in it now. If it was knocked out,
how could it be therea"
The shipments Of butter from st. AL
bans, VT, for the year 1876 aggregate
81, 1868 tubs or about 2,598, 150 pounds.
The shipments of last year exceeded
those of the present year by 4,010 tub'
or about 10000 pounds,
If turnips or cabbages are fed to
milch stock at all, it should always be
when they are being MIXED, or just
after, for then the odor is completely or
nearly evaporated (probably through the
lungs) before the next milking
Charles Francis Adams says, in letter
to the Quincy (Mass.) Patriot. that
three-fourths of the books in brisk de-
mand at the public libraries are "vapid
and sensational" He thinks that pa
rents ought to guide the children's taste
in the choice of reading more than they
do.
There were 1929 deaths in Ireland
during the first three quarters of 1876,
in a population of $780, 900 the greatest
morality prevailing in Ulster. Immigra-
tion has greatly decreased, 5000 immi-
grants less having been reported than in
the corresponding period of last year.
A considerable decrease in pauperism
and crime is also recorded.
A New London connoisseur of liquor,
understanding that rum improved by
being sent to sea, intrusted a cask to an
old captain who did not return for three
years, when the New Londoner found
that all the rum had been absorbed.
Ahectionately seizing the sailors hand,
he naively gave thanks, asking; "Can
ever forget your goodness in bringing
back my casbl Never, meyer !"
M. Schneider, the great iron manu-
facturer, who died recently at Paris at
the age of seventy, began life as bank
clerk, whence he rose by degrees to be-
come sole director of the great iron
works at Creuzot, which supply nearly
all the French railways with their rolling
stock, rails, and machinery. He had
$4,000 workmen in his employ, and ell
joyed boundless popularity in his dis
trict, which he had earned by his devo-
tion to the social and physical comfort
of his employees.
A dog was bereaved of his master, and
became old and blind, passing the dark
evenings of his existence sadly in some
corner, which he hardly ever quilted.
One day came step like that of his lost
master, and he suddenly lett his place.
The man who had just entered wore
ribbed stockings the old dog had lost
his scent, and referred at once to tho
stockings that he remembered rubbing
his face against. Believing that his
master had returned after those weary
years of absence, he gave way to the
most extravagant delight. The man
spoke. The momentary illusion was dis
PEELED; the dog went sadly back to his
place, lay down YEARLY and died.