The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-10
Items of Interest.

A German physician says that only
those who perspire easily are subject to
rheumatism.
The efforts to stock the rivers of Vic
toria, Australia, with salmon have COM
pletely failed.
"Ah |" said young lady, "'tis sweet
to be watched over by brother-of
ones dearest friend"
There are at Clapham, suburb of
London, some palm trees, formerly pro-
tected by glass, growing in the open
air.
Strong butter that must have been
where it had been hidden in Ia cask since
1898.
"I shall follow her soon," said sad
eyed man at the grave of his wife.
Within O month he was following an
other woman.
The Crystal Palace, London, has paid
no dividends for many years, and it is
now proposed to sell it, lease it, or dis
pose of it by lottery.
The late sultan of Turkey had 1900
cooks, it is said cooks and sub-cooks;
but his successor has prudently dis
missed 1,450 of them.
Fishermen, wrap your trout in brown
paper, put him into the ashes with a few
live Goals atop, and in fifteen minutes he
will be fit for king to eat.
Men who ego West to pick up gold
in the streets of San Francisco hire out
in the wheat fields, and, settling down,
obey the philosophers injunction.
A Chinese newspaper published at
Shanghai, under foreign auspices, has a
circulation of 5000 daily, and is sold at
ton cash, or something less than cent.
"What does Good Friday mean ?"
asked one schoolboy of another. "You
had better go home and read your
Robinson Crusoe,' was the whitening
reply.
A couple of fishes, brought from
Sherman, Colorado, have received the
name of walking fishes. They have four
legs, which they use on land, and double
up when in the water.
Along the st. Johns river, in Florida,
the estimates of the orange crop have
been reduced one half, and the young
trees are said to be dying by scores on
account of the dry season.
GLOW early should the education of
child begin a' was the question asked of
learned physician. "Twenty years
"Good mothers make good children"
Complain not that tho way is long
What road is weary that leads there?
But let the angel take thy hand,
And lead thee up the misty STAIR
And there with beating heart await
The opening of the golden gate.
An undertaker's clerk at Chicago has
an eye to business. He observed man
eating watermelon, and succeeded in
obtaining his name and address. He
said it would save much unnecessary de-
lay.
A man who has evidently been victim
lied writes: Fifteen thousand dollars
in gold will now buy an American lady
q decent outfit to be married in, and
there's no use talking about prices going
any lower.
A Southerner, writing from watering
place to his home paper, wonders why
a prudish girl who will dance with no
one but her brother will run along the
beach "naked as to the knee" and
kicking sand at'her beau.
Surgeon Major Colvill, of the English
army, writes from Bagdad to London
paper that the true Oriental plague I'M
doubtedly prevails in that city. 1t has
been treated with quinine, as an expert
ment, but not successfully.
The honor of the best centennial joke
&c onoorInI tn fha Of Rpa1;l
On learning the number of revolutions
at the Philadelphia Exhibition, he said
"That beats our South American re-
publics."
It has been estimated that since the
first of April $4,000 to so, 600 bushels of
oysters have been taken from st.
Michael's river, Md, and sent to New
Jersey waters to be planted, while from
other points large shipments have been
made also.
"Are you going to make flower bed
here, Judkins 2" asked a young lady of
the gardener. "Yes, miss, them's the
ORDERS" answered the gardener. "Why,
it will quite spoil our croquet ground"
"Can't help it, miss; them's your pas
orders. He says he'll have it laid out
for horticulture, not for husbandry."
1t is noticeable that the Black Hills
Juror has not ragged so furiously among
the youths of our land since the arrival
of news from General Clusters command.
Many a boy who, some days ago, was
saving up his pennies to buy railroad
ticket and revolvers, now walks out into
the back yard and cuts kindling wood
without murmur.
1t was at Paris restaurant where he
had dined with friend and given the
waiter twenty-franc piece to pay for
the meal. The waiter returns, and
ringing the coin on the marble table,
says: "Sir, it is bad" "Bad!" cries
the guest; "don't you see the date
1885 Ii it were bad, do you think they
wonld have let it remain in circulation
so longa"
The deepest perpendicular mining
shaft In the world is in Prizibram, Bo-
hemia, and measures $3.50 feet. 1t is a
lead mine, and is supposed to have been
begun about $50 years ago. In other
places greater depths have been reached,
but not by straight lines. A rock salt
bore near Berlin is 4, 175 feet deep, and
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