The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-05-11
NO. 12.
Items Of Interest.

Buckwheat flour will remove grease
spots from carpets. A chattel mortgage
will do the same thing, and remove the
carpet to boot.
Liverpool is to be supplied with water
from Lake Windermere, at an estimated
cost of $40, 100000 for daily supply OF
100000 gallons.
There is an establishment at Passau
on the Danube, where eggs are dried.
They are said to equal fresh eggs for
omelettes and for making pastry.
An old edition of Morse's geography
says "Albany has four hundred dwell
ing houses, 2,400 inhabitants, all stand
ing with their gable ends to the street.
A shrewd old Yankee said he didn't
believe that there was any downright
cure for laziness in q man. "But," he
added, "I've known a second wife to
hurry it some."
A New York doctor says that three
bottles of stomach bitters ought to kill
the strongest man. If they fail to do so
the consumer may know the bitters are
not worth anything.
Michigan has got him The man who
hasn't written to newspaper to offer
his services as Centennial correspondent
lives in Michigan and can be seen for
fifty cents per head.
Brother, why don't you ask the
stranger to prayl" "Because," re-
provingly observed a deacon, "this
amt no place for practical jokes. That
mans the president of a gas company.
How on earth one hundred oyster
cans, two hundred bottles, sixteen old
baskets, ten barrels and box full of old
boots and shoes ever got into back
yard is more than any one man can
cipher out.
A youth of Lafayette, Ark, recently
undertook to frighten q doctor by the
name of Westbrook by presenting
plug of twist tobacco at his head. The
doctor, thinking that it was a pistol,
drew his revolver and shot the boy dead.
A Franklin (Ky.) man lately took a
live bee into his mouth along with some
honey. He then reflected" Chew bee
or not chew bee, that is the question -
here his tongue happened to touch the
hot end of the aggressive insect, and he
decided negatively.
Two tramps in Westchester county
stopped at the house of a lone widow
and one went ir to beg. Very soon he
came out with bloody nose and first
class black eye. "Well, did you get
anything, JACKIE" eyes" growled the
sufferer, "I've got the widows might"
Here's an argument in favor of cheese.
Prof. Peck says that in this country,
where cheese is least used, one physi-
clan to every five hundred persons is re-
quired. In Switzerland and countries
where it is most used, only one physician
is needed for every ten thousand per-
sons.
At Leipzig there is a school reader
printed, now in it's eighth stereotyped
edition, which describes Niagara falls in
one chapter. 1t says of the cataract that
it might be supposed that it was not
navigable, but that some Indians do in
their canoes venture over the falls in
safety.
"You cannot keep me down, shouted
somewhat windy orator at public
meeting though 1 may be pressed
below the waves, rise again you will
find that come to the surface, gentle
men," eyes," said an old greaser in
the audience, "you come to the surface
to blow"
A certain servant maid was left-hand-
ed. Placing the knives and forks upon
the dinner table in the same awkward
fashion, her master observed that she
had placed them all left-handed. "Ah,
true indeed, sir, and so I have-would
you be pleased to help me turn the
table ?"
A witness on the stand said that he
did not believe that any man ever got so
drunk that he didn't know what he was
doing. To prove what he said, "if a
drunken man bothers you give him a
sound licking, and no matter how many
times after that he got drunk he never
would bother you again"
Annie Besant, the English radical
heroine, has started a petition to Par
lament praying that no further grants
of money to or for the royal family or
any member of it shall be given under
any circumstances whatever. The sig,
natures have run up into the neighbor-
hood of $4,000, and, when presented, it
will be the largest petition ever sent to
that body.
Hens eggs hatch in from nineteen to
twenty-ope days; turkeys in from twen-
ty-six to twenty-nine days; ducks in
twenty-elght days; Guinea fowls in
twenty-five to twenty-seven days pea
fowls in from twenty y-eight to thirty
days geese in from thirty to thirty-two
days. Fresh eggs will hatch from one
or two days sooner than those two ol
three weeks old.
Says the Nautical Gazette: Mares
tails leave scanty sails red in the east
like the least red in the west 1 like
the best; when the clouds spread like Q
feather, mariners look for fair, goo6
weather; when the lofty hills the mis-
doth bear, let the mariner then fol
storms prepare lead, log, lookout, an6
be steady, keep an eye on the glass ano
for changes be ready.
The iron prov of the old steamer New
Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail
road company's yard at Perth Amboy
N. j., and is to be sent to the Centennia
exhibition in few days. When sh'
first came from England she was know
as the r. II. Stevens, but was recharter
ed as the New Jersey. She was the frs
steam vessel that crossed the Atlantic
and no smaller steam vessel has crosse,
it up to this day.
A Georgian owns a place eighteel
miles south of st. Augustine, Florids
, where he raises a big crop Of strawbei
ries. He drove to st. Augustine wit
his first lot of strawberries last Christ
mas-and sold them at the fancy pric