The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-30
Items of Interest

| A new Chinese theater is to be erected
on Washington street, San Francisco, at
cost of 100000.
The foreman of a jury in Texas, which
lately granted divorce to a woman,
married her the same day.
Many of the wagons going to the
Black Hills are drawn by COWS, which
furnish sufficient milk to pay the tolls.
Three good-looking young ladies the
other day stood beside grocer's sign
which read /: "Don't squeeze these
peaches"
An international congress is to take
measures against the phylloxera and
Colorado beetle, the destroyers of vines
and potatoes.
The inhabitants of the mountain val
large numbers from Mediterranean
ports for America.
The United States occupies the third
place in the list of hop-growing coun-
tries, Germany taking the lead and Eng
land ranking second.
Some Europeans think that Europe
can take 100000 American cattle every
year, because some of the old countries
have reached the limit of cattle-raising.
A post-mortem examination on the
body of New York man who had died
of consumption showed that the heart
was on the right side and the liver on
the left.
Turkish soldiers are taller than the
Russians, and will average at least five
feet and ten inches. They wear full
boards, but have their heads shaved. or
the hair cut very short.
A market street lady purchased a nice
new door mat the other morning with
the word Welcome" stamped thereon
in glowing letters, and the first to come
along and plank his number elevens Oh
it was a book agent.
A wandering old portrait painter
named Cooper, always seen with rusty
satchel under his arm, has been found
dead near Martinville, KY, and the
| bundle when opened was found to con-
tain $65, 900 in government bonds.
A farmer named Reuben White, while
cutting oats in field near Washington
Courthouse, Ohio, cut through nest ef
heoG. Ills lvIoes, Iuaddoned by the
stings of the insects, threw him, From his,
seat before tie sickle. He was SO badly
mangled that he died in few minutes.
! A contemporary says in recent article:
If you wish to know whether man is
superior to the preiudices of the world,
ask him to carry parcel for you" A
fellow tried this plan a few days since,
upon well-dressed man he met at a
railway station. The well-dressed man
took the parcel, and the other was satis-
fed that he was superior to the preiu-
dices of society, but he has not seen the
parcel since.
They were walking arm in arm up the
street, and just ahead of them was II
woman in a new Princesse dress. The
setting sun was gliding the western
heaven, and throwing a beautiful Grim
son glow over all the earth. He said i'll
a subdued tone "Isn't it lovely3"
"Well, I don't know" was the reply of
his fair companion 81 don't think the
trimming matches very well, and it
doesn't fit her for any thing" He shud-
dered.
A gentleman had been bothered so
constantly with tramps and their en-
treaties for something to eat that he in
structed his cook to tell them she had
nothing. The other day one of them
dropped in and made the usual plea and
inquiry. The cook responded promptly:
"We have nothing at ALL" The tramp
then courteously asked: "Have you an
old basket you could let me have?" The
girl replied "No! What do you want
with basket?" Tramp Oh, l thought
I would run over to the poor-house and
get you some cold victuals."