The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15
Items OF Interest.

The boss team-A yoke Of oxen.
Two-button kids-A young goat fight.
Hotel-keepers are people we have to
"put up with"
Agony personified-A bachelor editor
trying to prepare an able and judicious
article ON the baby show.
Charles Barth made a treasury of his
bed in Boscobel, Wis, and after his
death securities for $13, 900 were found
in it.
There are over 1000 convicts in the
penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, and the num-
Der is increasing at the rate of 100
month.
A murder jury at Reading, Pa, offered
prayer at every meal, and petitioned the
Divine Providence to direct them in their
verdict.
The Black Hills papers say if LOCO
women would immigrate there they
would at once find remunerative work
and husbands.
At midnight on lonely road q" You
don't recognize me? Why, you defend
ed me and got me off at the last assizes.
Thanks to you, I have been enabled to
reSulHe my uNochtlou' Ioui hhohOy VI
your life !''
A grub of boring species was found
in four-foot lath the other day, in Ber-
lin, Conn, that must have been in the
wood for thirteen years at least. 1t had
eaten almost the whole length of the
lath, leaving only shell.
"I was born in Bath" said dirty
looking customer, as he harangued a
crowd at political meeting, "and 1 love
my native place" "You don't look as
if you had ever been there SINCE" said
one of his hearers as he proceeded to
laud an opposition candidate.
From under the bluff on which the
town of Huntsville, the capital of Madi-
son county, Alabama, is situated, bursts
an immense spring, clear and cold, sup
plying the whole town with water for
domestic uses, for watering the streets,
and for use by the fire department. 1t is
the largest spring in Alabama.
If should come to high renown,
And compass things divinely great,
And stand pillar Of the State,
And count an empire all my own,
And miss myself were a child,
That sold himself to slavery
In some fair castle by the sea
That glimmered toward his mountain wild.
In Auburn IN. W prison there were
recently 1,405 convicts. Fifty-three of
the number were life men,, of whom
on their entrance the oldest was fifty
seven years old the youngest, fifteen.
The man longest in the prison was sent
there on September 25, 1868. The aver
age cost of supporting each convict is
$7O.31 yearly !; or nineteen cents an and
three mills daily. superintendent Pills
bury is negotiating for contracts, which,
if obtained, will give employment for
1000 convic,s. The total earnings per
convict are increasing. In 1876 they were
$51. SO; in 1877, $58.76.
The North Hill boys tied sky rocket
to dogs tail, and when it began to fizz
the dog looked at his watch, and remark
ing that he had Just time enough to get
to the depot to catch the train, started
off. So did the rocket. For second OF
two it was doubtful whether the rocket
would run away with the dog, OF the dog
with the rocket. But at last the canine
got the bulge, and settled down to two
minute gait, increasing the distance and
cutting down his time every Jump, while
they could hear him bowling clear to
Keokuk. The dog passed through Win
nebago county Wednesday night, and is
supposed to have reached the Evergreen
shore by this time.-B,TlingtOn Ha,ck-
eUP.