The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-01
Items of Interest.

The day laborer must strike for hire
wages.
Peaceful sleep is the sheet anchor OF
health.
There are ten printers IN the United
States Senate.
bit of nonsense-One that will not
check horse.
Houses will not go mp while rents are
comiug down.
An incalculable weight-The weightof
indignation.
1t is often easier to pick flaws than to
do better yourself.
Railroad agents are always ready to
answer fare question.
Please keep your eye on the fact that &.
medical men pronounce cigarettes '
great promoter of consumption.
The very shortest answer lady can
give to proposal is NO, for it consists
of only one letter, and nothing after it,
Inducements are offered by the land
department of Florida for 80, 900 wealthy
Mennontes to immigrate to the orange
groves
Gamblers in Virginia City have pre-
sented q petition to the Legislature to
prevent n mans wages from being at
tached for saloon bill of over five dol
lars.
The English society for the preven ton
of cruelty to animals obtained during the
year 1876 2,69S convictions. This does
not include convictions obtained by the
police.
A bullet fired by hunter in Texas
struck the surface of lake at consider
able distance, glanced upward, and
wounded girl who was walking on
hill beyond.
The rage for alcohol in the treatment
of fever, introduced in England twenty
years ago by Dr. Todd, has abated, and
hospitals are vigorously cutting down
wine allowances.
The narrow guage roads are gaining
favor rapidly. Several are being built
out OF Cincinnati, and over ninety miles
are already surveyed and will be built
this year in Indiana.
An exchange remarks that in China it
is customary to kill poets and eat them,
which moves the Norristown Herdid
man to add, son account Of their tender
lliieS, VIC oupPoot.
An old but still available Massach,l-
setts statute has been discovered, which
prohibits the extension of credit to stu
dents in colleges. The penalty is fine
of twice the amount of the debt.
"Pa, guess your man Ralph is a
good Christian" How SO, my boy p
"Why, pa, 1 read in the Bible that the
wicked shall not live out half his days;
and Ralph says he has lived out ever
since he was little boy"
Bashful youth Cat his wits end to say
something smarD Err hope you
er-like this-er-weather, Miss GA
brielle," Miss g.: "Oh, no indeed;
whatever makes you think SOP" b. Y.
"Er-oh, only because-er-everybo
says it's delightful weather for the little
ducks"
Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play, and
some good odcompanionship outside-other.
| wise young life runs the greatest danger
in the world of whitening, OF growing
3 stunted, or, at best, prematurely old and
turned inward on itself.
t 1t is surprising how many of the world's
most wonderful facts owe their discovery
: to trivial and unimportant circumstances
But for piece of ice at the corner of th,
street on which gentleman slipped up
u u we should, perhaps, never have know,
" that it was customary i'll our best circles
to put light colored Easements into darl
S clored pants.
= The London customs officers, it is re
ported, seized twenty-seven gills of
!. peculiar fluid the other day, and on ex
+ animation found it to be nicotine, tn
product of two thousand five hundre,
l pounds of tobacco sweepings, mixe'
4 with alcohol, which virulent fluid was
be used in transforming cabbage leave
n into the finest Havana cigars.