The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-12

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Washington was eventually lost.
"To Greece we give our SHINING
blades |" said the fellow at the boarding
house, plunging his knife into the butter
dish.
That was a queer boy in Wayland,
ILL.,, who went into the house, got into
bed and fell asleep after seeing his
mother fall into well.
A Springfield congregation was amused
by young woman who leaned her head
languishingly on fellows shoulder and
ate candy throughout the service.
A woman in Oshkosh ground nearly
half of shirt through a clothes wringer
before discovering that her baby was in
the shirt 1t was an awful strain on the
wringer.
Young lady (who is tired of his COM
pany)-"You amt bit nervous, are
you, Mr.. Post2 All my gentlemen ac-
quaintances start when the clock strikes
twelve"
There was report current on the
streets that n prominent citizen had
! beaten his wife. Upon investigation 1t
was found that he had really beaten her
at o game of chess.
Chicago has seven hundred hackmen,
and if you ever go there you will Won
der how the whole seven hundred can
| get hold of your carpet bag and holler
into your left ear at once.
A Tcnnesseean took his first and last
ride on a railroad train recently. He
stepped off when it was going forty miles
an hour, sllpposing that such was the
custom, and was fatally injured
"I make it a principle not to lend
money!" said good man to friend;
"but in your case 1 sacrifice principle to
interest" And when the latter found
he had charged twenty per cent. discount
he said he thought he did.
1t was an Irish pilot who, being asked
if he knew the rocks in the harbor, re-
piled, with confidence !: 81 do, yer hon
or, livery wan av them. That's wan,"
he added, calmly, as the ship struck it,
filled and sunk.
In the police court of Nassau, New
| Providence, the justice allows defendants
| to go free until the time for their trial,
on their personal recognizance. He
says that he has never known one to fail
to return at the appointed time.
It must be exasperating to the enter
|
inches of advertising in the papers head
ed, "now is the time to top-dress your
lawns" to wake up the next morning
and find the lawns stop dressed with
six inches of snow.
Says the London Hornet: The filthy
habit of painting the lips is again to be
observed at several of the metropolitan
tbeaters. There is no language too
| ctr f,.. ;{e
for its continuance. 1t is ugly, silly, un-
healthy and offensive.
William Bright, of Knox county, Ten
nessee, heard a noise in his smoke
house. He armed himself with gun
and fired at the thief. The shrek of pain
that followed had familiar sound The
thief was his son, who was seriously if
not mortally wounded.
The property of the Farrell brothers,
near CovingtOn, KY, has been levied on
to satisfy the bail bond for $4,000, on
which they were sureties for the return
of Tom Allen to stand trial for engaging
in the prize fight with Joe Goss. Allen
deserted the young men who risked
their little fortune to save him from a
few weeks confnementin jail, and fled to
Canada.
The fanatical Circassians drill their
horses in their villages by curious and
brutal exercise. They spur and whip
them repeatedly through crowd of
shouting men armed with long sticks,
which are mercilessly used on the poor
brute until it stands the torture with
philosophy. The principle is to impress
the animal with a notion that the iron
will of its master is beyond all it's ma
tural instincts of fright and the bodily
pain.
cts all very WE'LL" remarked q red
nosed man in bad hat and an ulster of
the vintage of '73; tits all very well to
say let business revive; but what we
want, sir, is confidence, public conf
dence, sir. Each of us must be willing
to bring out our boarded dollars and put
them once more in circulation. Then
the skies will brighten; then-by the
way, changed my vest this morning
lend me fifty cents, will you ?"
The State of Delaware has Just passed
q law making it penal offense for any
railway engineer to abandon his engine
upon the track in case of a strike. The
law also forbids, under penalty of fine
and imprisonment, railway employees
from refusing to transport over their
own roads cars received from connecting
roads, and the coercion or bribery of
other employees to abandon the service
of the company.
William Delahanty, who murdered
his brother-in-law forty-four years ago
in Stonecarty, Ireland, has made a full
confession Of his guilt. At the time of
the murder Delahanty was arrested, but
was discharged for lack of evidence.
His demeanor while making his confess
sion was that of sincere penitent. He
sought no mercy at the hands of the au-
thorities, and desired that the law should
be fulfilled in his case to the letter.
The funeral of a Chinaman, who was
recently murdered in San Francisco,
seems to have been quite a unique affair.
The dead man held keen-edged carver
in his hand, and yellow flag, bearing
the word vengeance" covered the
coffin. A mounted Chinaman rode at
each corner of the hearse, and Ah Qua
rode ahead to clear the road. He sue
ceeded i'll running over white man, in
juring him severely, and getting himself
trrested.
In southern India children are mar
ried at eight years Of age. Native fathers
consider it a disgrace to have single
girls in the family, and endeavor to get