The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-02
Items of Interest.

Seven thousand immigrants nave ar-
rived in Oregon this year. '.'s t.-rr
A sparrow and chicken fought in
Pottsyille, and the chicken was killed. 1g
The ninety-two papers in Mississippi
have combined circulation of 30, 223.
The woman who neglects her hus-
bands shirt front is not the wife of his
bosom.
The United States raises twenty-eight
millions of swine, and Europe about
thirty three millions. ''.r"'.- .
The boys at Reno, CAL, amuse them
selves lassoing Indians. Indians used to
lasso them, but they know the ropes
now.
One of the first pennies issued by our
government bore the inscription, Mind
your own business. Very cent-sible
advice. .... -.-.....
The French mint has struck 10000
francs, worth of centime pieces i'll bronze,
each representing about the twelfth of
an American cent.
The new Jail at Fort Worth, Texas, is
described by local paper as &C miser-
able failure, and not a safe place to con-
fine prisoners in"
near McDade, Lee county, Texas, took
out four men from among the dancers
and hanged them to tree.
When the czar's soldiers got into Paris
in 1916, they drank all the alcohol in
the jars in which the scientific French
preserved the museum serpents.
Under the head of " Marriages in
an exchange we find one commencing
Paris-Green. The happy couple
should never be troubled with potato
bugs. ....
I The Turkish soldiers are taller than
the Russians, and will average at least
five feet and ten inc hes. They wear full
boards, but have their heads shaved, or
the hair cut very short.
The cereal product of Europe is about
five thousand millions. OF this, Russia
grows 1,OO6, 100000; Germany, 73,-
100000; France, 6S7, ,00O,O 900; and the
Austrian empire, $50. 100000
Stereotype printing was used in Hol-
land early in the last century. The
rollers for linking the type were invented
by Nicholson. Stereotype printing was
introduced into London by Wilson in
1904.
The United States, with a population
of about 45, 900, 900, produces about 34f
bushels of cereals to each inhabitant,
while Europe, with population OF
297, 100000, produces only about l63
bushels to each person.
A Brooklyn man went to the peniten--
tiary for his health. He was unwell, and
! his physician told him to go right home
and take something. He went right
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calls that going to the penitentiary for
! his health.
/ At recent party in Iowa young man
sat on pyramid of ladies hats. Rising
quickly, he glided from the room, and
bolted for the depot, where he poked
his head into the ticket Office and yelled,
"When does the next train leave for
Batoum ?"
A locomotive on the Lake Shore rail-
road struck two-year-o'd bullock. The
animal bounded over the smokestack and
| fell across the boiler, the fore legs on
one side and the hind legs on the other.
The fireman went out on the engine and
/ held the animal until Il train could be
stopped. The lively little bullock was
scratched, nothing more.
A famous old horse, owned by gen.
tleman in the northwestern section of
Baltimore, kills from three to half
dozen rats every night. When the rodents
come into his trough to eat the feed, and
old equine Just seizes them by the back,
gives a grip with his teeth, opens his
mouth, and they fall dead at his hoofs.
He is worth a half dozen cats.
] A lady in the suite of the Princess Of
Wales, when that lady and her husband
visited Constantinople, speaks.of dinner
with the sultan as being very good, and
in the European style, but as very dull
affair. 1t was the first time that the
sultan had ever sat at dinner with ladies,
or that any of his ministers, except the
grand-vizier, had sat in his presence.
There We're twenty-four at the table,
twelve of whom We're Turks, who looked
frightened and astonished, and dared not
speak. 49,.