The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-13
Items of Interest.

Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as to
be hardly worth marketing.
Ten thousand glass eyes are sold an
nually in the United States.
The only religious daily in this coun-
try, the Witness, of New York, has just
died.
A farm hand for harvesting is paid in
Central Italy seven cents day, and
considers himself a lucky man to find
employment at that rate.
Three men were found hanging from
tree in Texas, and one of them was
placarded: "They stole horses; here is
where we found them, and here is where
we left them"
The great Corliss engine in Machinery
hall, Philadelphia, has been taken down
and packed ready for removal to Provi-
dence, r. I. Seventy railroad cars will
be needed to carry it.
Gentlemen, L introduce you to my
friend, who isn't as stupid as he appears
to be-" Introduced friend, with vivaci-
ty-" That's precisely the difference be-
tween my friend and myself"
Blue glass is coming to the surface
again. Now it is related that a boy i'll
Vermont put blue crystal ON his five
dollar watch, and in three days he had
5000 movement and gold case.
In the Mount Auburn cemetery, Bcs-
ton, is lot containing five stones, one
at each corner and one in the center.
The latter is inscribed: "Our Hus-
band, and the others respectively bear
"My I Wife" T." My II Wife, p" " My Ill
Wife," and "My " Wife"
When you see woman standing on a
kitchen chair, looking up at a ragged
hole in the plastering, while she holds
hammer in her right hand and her left
thumb in her mouth, there is your
chance for q candid opinion about the
nail works. .-B,rlipgton HaaOkeye.
1t was very careless leaving the parrot
in the parlor Sunday evening, but she
never thought anything abont it until
Monday morning, when he reused the
whole house by making smacking noise
and crying: darling Susie Darling
Susie" He kept it up all day, too, and
the old folks are much interested in tho
case.
A machine has been invented in New
York, mounted on wagon wheels, which
is intended for use on farms in the West.
It deluges the ground behind it with
smoke from burning chips and b1i1n-
stone, and holds the smoke down long
enough to suffocate every potato bug,
locust and other insect that comes within
its influence.
DR.. Tye, San Francisco Chinaman
of some prominence, carries six
shooter and bowie-knife to protect him
self against hoodlums. Inside his shirt
he wears a coat Of mail, and decorates
this with Chinese account books, which
are long and flexible, and almost imper-
vious to a knife thrust.
The Petaluma (Cal.) Argus says
James English is still at work on the
redwood tree he felled at Russian river
station months ago. He has already
made from it 250,000 shingles, 1000
fence posts, 5000 shakes, lumber for II
dwelling house and outbuildings, and
has timber left for 300, 600 shingles.
The tree was fourteen feet in diameter.
A young man of twenty-one named
Boyer, lately drawn in the army con-
scription at Beaune, in France, was in
despair at the thought of being sepa-
rated for five years from young sewing
| girl to whom he was betrothed, and re-
tired with her - Verjus, ON the river
Saone, where they agreed to drown
themselves. With his cravat he tied her
right arm to his left, her left arm being
thrown aroud his nenck over his right
shoulder. The handkerchiefs of each were
then linked together and tied around the
bodies of both. They walked steadily to-
ward the center of the stream until the
rapid current carried them away, ,and their
bodies were found, still enlaced, at some
distance below.