The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
Items OF Interest.

The hypocrite can be anything but an
honest man.
The English West African squadron
has blockaded the ports of the king OF
Dahomey.
Question for debating societies.
Which is the most dangerous, to bave a
man shot at ball, or a ball shot nj q
man
The emperor Of China has forbidden
the immigration Of his subjects to Span
isb colonies, because the coolies in Cuba
are treated no better than slaves.
Connecticut produced 706 new inven-
tions last year, or one to 764 inhabitants.
Massachusetts, stood next in the number
OF patents. Arkangas is at the foot of
the list.
A boyin Tennessee committed suicide
the o'her day because his mother sent
him to the woods for hickory stick,
with which he was to be punished for
"taking sugar out of the sugar bowl. "
Some one who has been searching in
colonial history announces that up to
the Revolution no American had ever
exercised the Office of general. The
highest rank ever permitted to a colonist
was colonel.
The heroic act of William Roberts, of
st. Louis, was to dive into q cistern
through hole so small that it scraped
skin from his body, and keep boy
above water until the woodwork could
be removed for their rescue.
A few years since, at the celebration
of an anniversary, poor peddler who
was present, being called upon for q
toast, offered the following: Here is
health to poverty-it sticks to a man
when all his friends forsake him"
Lieut.. Rudio, whose remarkable es-
capefro the Sioux has been described,
ia said to be the same Rudio who, in
1868, participated with Orsini, Gomez,
and Peri in the attempt to kill Napoleon
III. by throwing hand bombshells in
his carriage in Paris.
Speaking of the eastward flow of
Chinese immigrants the Philadelphia
North american says: Remote as Phila
delphia is from San Francisco we have
steadily increasing Chinese influx, and
the element may now be fairly said to be
permanently established here.
Colorado potato bugs have been
washed ashore at Milestone and other
places in Connecticut in such numbers
of late as to poison the air. The captain
of New London vessel says that they
came on board in such swarms while at
sea that they had to close the matches.
Said 1 to little brother Howard:
There your toes are out Of your
stockings again; geems to me they wear
out in hurry" Giving conical leer,
he said: "Do you know why stockings
wear out first at the toes 2" " No"
" Because toes wiggle and heels don't"
Miss Collins, the conductor of Bof1ins
Bower, Boston charitable institution,
says that out of every hundred shop
girls in that city, fifty live at homo and
the rest in boarding houses. She thinks
there are 10000 girls employed in Bos-
ton shops in seventy different occupa-
lions.
"I'll bet a sheep" said old Meredith
to his better half, "that our boy Ohio is
going crazy; fur he's GRIMM at tho
plow, he's GRIMM at the barn, and he's
grinnin' to himself wherever he goes"
il" pshaw old man," said bis wife, "you
don't know nothin'. The critters got a
love letter !"
Brougharn, in speaking of the salary
attached to tho rumored appointment of
a new judgeship, said it was all moon
shine. Lyndhurst, in his dry and wag-
gish way, remarked at may be so
but 1 have strong notion that, moon
shine though it be, you would Ike to
see the first quarter of it"
A quaint writer says have seen
women so delicate that they were afraid
to ride, for fear OF the horse running
away afraid TO sail, for fear the boat
might be upset afraid to walk, for fear
they might fall but never saw one
afraid to be married, which is far more
riskful than all the others put together.
"There is boarding house,
Not far away,
Who're they have ham and eggs
Three times day."
"Oh, how the boarders YELL
When they hear the dinner bell
Oh, how the eggs do smell
Three times day."
Professor Rhode gives as the result OF
his experiments in feeding cows to as
certain the proportion Of food con-
sumed to the milk produced as follows:
The HOllander eats five pounds Of hay
for every quart of milk; the Breitonber-
ger, six and one-fourth pounds; the
Tondern, seven pounds, and the Ayr
shire, nine pounds.
A lady of great beauty and attractive
ness, who was an ardent admirer of
ireland, once crowned her praises of it
at party, by saying I" | think [ was
meant for an Irishwomau." "Cross the
channel, madam" remarked Samuel
Lover, the novelist, who happened TO be
present; "millions will say you were
meant for an Irishman,
A woman in Blrnstead, n. f., found
the egg of night hawk the other day.
She took it home aud put it under an
inverted bowl in a cupboard near the
cooking stove. A few days after she
heard noise under the bowl, and found
that the egg had Matched, and that she
had lively young hawk. But the little
bird would not eat and soon died.
Salmon, which few years ago sold in
the New York market at one dollar a
pound, can be bought for eighteen cents.
This great reduction is due the fact
that, since the opening OF new railroads,
enormous quantities can beput, at low
figure, in Eastern cities by refrigerator
cars, which bring the fish directly from
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