The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-05-25
Items of Interest.

or Iowa's population over sixteen
years Of age, only one in 16S cannot
read.
The best animal food is said to be the
flesh of the sheep, and the best vegeta-
BILE food that of or from wheat.
Many persons look upon others as
they would look through the panes of
their windows-not noticing either, un-
less blemish OF flaw appears.
A Paris landlord levied on q tenants
wooden leg for debt, and the question
was whether the property was personal
tools, household effects or real.
Professor Dynamic" Can you give
me an example of heat causing expan-
ton, and cold contraction ~" Yes,
sir; the days are long in summer and
short in winter"
1t is unkind at this season Of the year
to laugh at q man who has splashes of
whitewash on his back, SCOT ON his nose,
frown on his brow and length of
stovepipe under each arm.
1t is said that California is we'll suited
for the domestication and breeding of
the ostrich, and it is quite probable that
an effort will be made to raise these
valuable birds in that State.
The sultan of Turkey swears off every
New Years day, and then every thirty
first Of December wonders, like the rest
of us, how on earth he managed to
squander $25, 900, 900 that year.
A Kansas paper speaks of ga lady )"
residing near Leavenworth, who has
been divorced once, married three times,
| oy,I fnr r,oivaI fayni1x, af
thirteen children, none of which are her
! own.
At this season, the question which in
| terests q boy is not so much whether
his life will be crowned with glory and
honor, as whether his new summer vest
is going to be made out of his fathers
| old trousers.
A Calhoun (Ky.) man, who lost the
power of speech by lying out doors
drunk one cold, stormy night, five or
six years ago, regained it when his house
caught fire, and nearly burned him up,
the other night.
The county of San Bernardino, Cali
fornia, has a population of 1000, and
an area which would allow every man,
woman and child 1000 acres of land.
1t is unnecessary to say, however, that
it isn't divided that way.
This is the season for planting gar
dens. 1t is also tho season for revenge.
Many man has avenged injuries which
blood could not wipe ont by keeping a
few industrious and enregetic hens after
his neighbor had laid out his vegetable
garden.
A heathen Chinee interprets the Scrip
tural passage, the "wicked fee where
no man pursueth, but the righteous is
as bold as lion," thusly "The flea he
much BADGE, he stand still likee stake
when many wicked man walkee by, he
shootee."
A postal card was received at the post
Office in Rochester the other day with
the following address in German "To
my cousin who lives four miles from
Rochester on farm of forty acres, the
cars runs through his land and he has
ten red heifers."
A startling rumor comes from Paris
that long gloves reaching nearly to the
elbow and requiring twenty buttops will
be essential to the peace of mind of
every we'll dressed lady this year Also,
that without court plaster patches no
true toilet will be complete.
The Alabama Planter complains that
its little garden patch vas Improbable
last season " The snails ate up the Gu
cumbers the chickens ate up the
snails; the neighbor's cats ate up the
chickens, and we are now in search of
something that will eat up the cats !''
A newspaper published in Bolton,
England, contains the following adver-
tisement "Wanted, Immediately, an
idle, drunken carter. The advertiser
has had so many sober carters that he
wants a change but moderately sober
one would not be objected to. Inquire,
etc."