The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-14
Items of Interest.

A man of little wisdom isa sage among
fools.
Just the place for drummers-The
town of Fife.
A cheerful disposition is the sunshine
of the soul.
Making sugar out of melons is new
California industry.
A Philadelphia paper says the Cen
tennial will close $4,000 600 in debt.
GA prudent man," says witty
Frenchmau, "is like q pin; his head
prevents him going too far"
"Mrs. Robert G. Mason, of Gilbert
vile, has presented her husband with
third pair of twins l" She is brick
Mason.
Despite the times, the official returns
show a decrease of pauperism In Eng
land and Wales the present year, as COM
pared with 1875.
Horses employed in haying on the
marshes near Hustisford, Wis, wear
wooden shoes made of plank six by
eight inches screwed to the hoof.
It was George D. Prentice who de-
clined to discuss the question OF woman
suffrage because he had considered
woman, from the creation, as a side
| issue.
An old bachelor having been laughed
at by a party of pretty girls, told them !:
"You are small potatoes !" owe may
be small potatoes" said one of them
"but we are sweet ones u
A waiter advertises in Chicago forem-
ployment, giving as a recommendation
his ability to fold napkins in three
hundred different ways, in the perfect
image of every kind of bird"
Thomas Hassett, one of the escaped
Fenian prisoners, says that he once be-
fore tried to escape, and, though his
original imprisonment was for life, the
Australian judge sentenced him to three
years additional.
A Boston newspaper asserts that
Western manufacturer sent pair of
lady's slippers to the Centennial without
designating their use, and they were at
once assigned prominent place among
boats and nautical affairs.
A man paid $1,000 for Washington's
state coach to exhibit outside the Cen
tennial grounds; he put up building,
and offered sight CT it at ten cents
head. At the end of three weeks he
had not taken in single dime.
"What is the chief use of bread ?"
asked an examiner at n recent school ex-
hibition. "The chief use Of bread,
answered the urchin, apparently as
tonished at the simplicity OF the inquiry,
sis to spread butter and jam on.
The policy of the South, says the
Memphis AUo'dnche, is to stick to hog
and hominy. In five years, under this
measure of industrial II form, it will be
able to pay its debts and be the richest
section of the Union, or the world.
! The new United States postal law
allows a person to write his or her name
| on q newspaper wrapper, and also the
word "from," to let the party receiving
it know who it is from, without violating
, the law. 1t allows the sender to write
8 on package the number and kind OF
S articles it contains.
At recent funeral in Chicopee, Mass,
. the earth on one side of the grave being
s sandy, caved, and one of tho pail bear
+ ers having hold of one end of O lower
t ing strap, slid into the grave. The
Q coffin fell on him, head downward, and
y some time was required to disentangle
! the living from the dead.
u A statement of the number of cattle
= . destroyed in the Madras Presidency by
4 tigers and cheetahs during the three
J months ending the thirty first of March
J last shows that 452 horses, 529 COWS,
2O4 calves, 124 bullocks, I25 sheep, 189
goats, seven horses or ponies, eight
asses, eighty-nine dogs and twelve pigs
g we're killed during that period.
Is An attorney named Else, rather di-
IS minutive in stature, and not particularly
It respectable in his character, once met
II Jekyll. "Sir," said he, 81 hear you
70 have called me pettifogging scoundrel.
e Have you done so, sir?" Sir" said
l. Jekyll, with look of contempt, 81
$ never said you were pettifogger, or
/ scoundrel; but I said you were little
+ Else"
,, y Near bridge on the Seine a corpse
10 was found in the water and brought cI
> shore. 1t was in dreadful state of de
. composition. A lady and gentleman
= passing turned aside to look at it, ant
a the lady recoiled in horror. "Oh, hov
70 frightful! What can have made the poo
y man kill himself?" "Doubtless dis
~ ~ tress and misery" replied the husband
% "Ah, most likely" responded the wife
Il Il very simply. "He certainly does no
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