The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-06
Items Of Interest.
Some men are good because goodness

some men are ROOu UeC'tuoo So
pays; some are good for nothing.
Cuban money is coming up little,
Thirty dollars now buys cheap PAIR Oh
boots.
"Where are the great men?" asks "I,
exchange Perhaps they are at tat mehS
picnics.
Between 5000 and 10000 glass eyes
are sold annually in thu United States.
An eyemaker gives one in 125 as the
proportion of one-eyed people.
It is estimated that Louisiana this year
will make about 400, 900 bales OF cotton,
200. 600 hogsheads of sugar, 300, GOO bar
rels of molasses and 0,00O pounds OF
rice.
From many of the larger places in Con-
necticut there is reported large increase
in beer drinking within year or two,
and corresponding decrease in the use
of spirits.
Tweed's daughter, who married Ma
ginnis in 1870, and whose wedding pre-
sents cost $50, 900, is now living in alb
solute poverty, the bridal presents and
finery having all been sent to the pawn
shops.
Swearing on the Bible was first intro
duced into judicial proceedings by the
Saxons about A. d. 600. 1t was called
q corporal oath because the witness with
his hand touched some part of the holy
scripture.
Fifty thousand shirts, on which arc
printed extracts from the Koran i'll blue
characters and as many woolen waist
coats, whereUn is emblazoned the pro
phet's seal, are being manufactured in
Paris for the Turkish soldiers.
Her majesty Queen Victoria has been
pleased to appoint Lady Elizabeth
Phillippa Biddulph extra woman of the
bedchamber. And they say it is beau
tiful to see her take pillowcase between
her teeth and slip the pillow in.
"I want five cents worth of starch,
said little girl to grocer's clerk. The
clerk wishing to tease the child, asked:
"What do you want five cents worth Of
starch for" "Why, for five cents, OF
course" she answered, and the clnrk
concluded to attend to his own business.
In the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, i'll
Paris, there is grave from which rises
a woman's arm, beautifully chiseled In
marble. The hand is clasped by another,
evidently a mans, that comes from an
adjoining grave. 1t was the fancy OF
young husband who did not long survive
his bride.
A New Hampshire register of deeds
recently traced the name of Rollins back
two hundred years. He discovered that
within that period the spelling had been
changed nine times, as follows: Rowlings,
Rawlings, Ralins, Rallins, Rollins, Raj
ings, Rallings, Rollings, Rollins.
Did it occur to you" said he, timidly
leaning around the doorpost, "that
steam engine and trained clam are not
wholly unlike?' Mingled with the
racket produced by an Office chair vio-
lently hurled after his vanishing forul,
came certain confused sounds which re-
sembled: because, You see, they are
both controlled bivalves."
Why she wouldn't: A young lady was
at party during which quarrels between
man and wife were discussed. :" think,
said an unmarried older son, that the
proper thing is for the husband to nave
it out at once, and thus avoid quarrels
for the future. l would light cigar in
the carriage after the wedding breakfast,
and settle the smoking question forever.
81 would knock the cigar out OF your
mouth" interrupted the belle. "Do
you know, don't think you would be
there" he remarked.
Oh, the flies the horrible flies
BuzZing around like election lies:
Dodgng about like maniacs dream,
Over the butter and into the cream
Holding conventions all over the bread,
Biting your ears and tickling your head
Crawling,
Buzzing,
Too busy to die,
Begone, thou buzzmg, pestiferous fly