The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-09-28
Items OF Interest.

lDat was u UeBJ vi lshDcihios
on ostentatious charity: =" 1 owe much;
L have nothing give the rest to the
poor"
A city young man who read Now is
the time for husking bees" chased
bee fifteen minutes to ascertain what
kind of husk it had on.
A noted desperate who was killed
the other day out West is eaid to have
caused the violent death of no less than
two hundred human beings.
The Boston Methodist ministers
voted forty to eight, "that we hereby
disapprove of the policy of holding
camp meetings on the Sabbath"
A writer in BlackWood's Magazine
says that the moon has no more effect on
the weather than red herrings have on
the government of Switzerland.
Cotton pickers in Georgia are now
paid forty cents per hundred, without
rations; in Mississippi and Arkansas,
sixty cents, or fifty cents and rations.
Between May and August IL there
we're shipped from the various fish
cries on the Columbia river, Oregon,
mon.
A man, in his hurry to assist fainting
lady, got bottle of mucilage instead
of camphor, and bathed her face with it.
She was q good deal stuck up with his
attention.
Colored persons, who have heretofore
been considered exempt from the at
tacks of yellow fever, form large pro
portion of fatal cases in the epidemic IN
Savannah.
About 10000 persons in the United
States are constantly employed in pro-
ducing sawed lumber, and 1896, 1000
laths, 2,265, 100000 shingles, and
12, 75O. 600, 900 feet of lumber are manu-
factured annually.
A three-year-o boy in West Wards
boro, Vt, wandered into field re-
Gently, where he met and played with
two wild bears. The beasts did him no
harm, though they had been killing
sheep in the region.
A post n,ortem examination of the
body of German who died recently at
Plainfeld, N. H., revealed the fact that
the principal internal organs were IN a
reversed position, the heart on the right
side and the liver on the left.
While party of Chinese miners were
building dam across the Monolumne
| in California, two of them were drowned,
/ and the rest Immediately abandoned
+ the claim, although it was rich one,
for they felt that the spot was cursed.
"Wherever you find many men, you
find many minds" exclaimed a public
speaker. "'Tain't SO, by iingo" re.
sponded one of the auditors. eff you'd
!, only ask this whole crowd out to take
= = drink, you'd find 'em all of ono
y mind"
An Englishman, regretting the pres
cnt uselcssness of Mount Vesuvius, sug
gests that the crater be converted into O
I receptacle for dead bodies, and proposes
a the formation of a company which will
:, run funeral trains from different parts
of Europe to the volcano.
@ Some one says "Learn this lesson
J., 80 one cares about the size of your
feet except yourself ; therefore be COM
= Portable" But young man who is
IT going to see girl who has an eccentric
father cares more about the size of hel
# parents foot than he does about his
q own.
It Few persons net familiar with geo
II craphy will believe that the Pacific
)f has q greater extent of coast line thar
4 the Atlantic line. The aggregate of oul
shore line on the Pacific is II, 734 miles
while on the Atlantic it is II 800 miles
and on the gulf of Mexico, 6,843 miles
, OF $4,000 letters received at the deat
- letter office in Washington daily, full.
>" one-half cannot be returned to TIT
y writer's or persons addressed, becaus'
u the letters themselves do not contain
20 any clew to the names of the place
g from which they are sent, the names o
% ., the writer's or those OF the parties ad
-. dressed.
m A teacher asked one Of his pupil
is who sat on the extreme end OF the bencn
of where the sun struck with full fore
al all the afternoon, what business he'
le like to follow when he grew up to be
q man. "Well," said the lad, "fathe
al wants me to be lawyer, but guess
a. I've to sit in the sun all my life, L
st rather drive au ice cart"
ne The Erie railway furnishes sectio
at masters with blanks to fill out in case c
be accident, so that the utmost accurac
ed may be had in following up the case
az A COW was recently killed, and the SCI
,st ton master in filing up the blank cam
q, to the words "What disposition.
ed After chewing his pencil while b
nix wrote "Mild and gentle"
he A Providence boy went to birthda
TX party, and describes it as follows: Firs
IN we all had some bread and butter the
g we had some lemonade, cold enough
le- freeze us then we had piece OF brit
'p- day cake then we had lots of ice cream
sse and then we all had the stomachache
'h, then we all lay down, and the big gir
'ry gave us some peppermint; then we
lal went out to play"
us A gentleman of Arbroath recent
beat his wife after his champage.
the morning he forgot all about Il
quarrel, and called to his wife {: "Jea
be gle me some water" Say, will l, guC
on man." Rising and seeing his wife
m. face in such a state, he said: Lol
ed preserve us a., lassie. whaur have .
les been2" So he was told it was himst
an. that did it last night, on hearing whi
or he exclaimed, in agony Oh dear.
,er dear me it's awful thing ye Wilma ke'
Jhe out O. harms way"
er- The Burlington HaUkeye says: T.
l a thoughtless man who, in the wild, rec
tn less frenzy of pain and rage, hurled
400 the stovepipe from every room in I.
he house into disjointed mass in the voc
His shed, last spring, weeps over the rus
lot | ao.a,1 haa,, oo1 xp;chao ha had black