The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-03
Items of Interest.

Christian and a cannibal ? One enjoys
himself. and the other enjoys other
people.
There are 1O5 millionaires in Califor-
mia, many of them rating ut from three
to five millions, and not a few still
higher.
The man on the scent for bargains is
| informed that two thousand acres OF land
were sold recently in Alabama Tor one
cent an acre.
The king of Holland has generously
offered to send 10000 tulips to the Paris
Exhibition of 1878. He has also prom
ised to have them taken care OF Mt his
own expense.
"I'm afraid it is mixed goods" said
the lady to the clerk. "Oh, no, madam,
impossible" replied the polite gentle
man, call our camels hair shawls are
made of pure silk direct from the worm.
The khedive of Egypt is about to visit
France. He will leave Cairo on the fif-
teenth of May, and, after short stay IN
Constantinople, will proceed to Vichy-
for the benefit of his health, it is said.
The serious attention of eminent
scientific circles has been lately engaged
on the question: Can clam walk =
How glad we all are there is no doubt on
the more vital inquiry: "Can clam
bake p
"Why, Sammy" said father to his
little son the other day, 81 didn't
know that your teacher whipped you
last Friday. "I guess" he replied,
I" if you'd been in my trousers you'd
knowd it..
A farmers wife near Dixon, CAL,
while closing the gate OF a corral into
which she had driven some horses, was
almost instantly killed by one of the ami
mails running against the gate. 1t opened
outward and fractured her skull.
A western Missouri paper says: "Two
weeks ago we stated that DIR. Downing
was thrown from his buggy and badly
hurt. We have since learned that he
only had both his legs broken in two
places and half his scalf torn off, and
that he is doing WE'LL
DIR. Benjamin Franklin invented and
constructed three clocks, ,and one of them
is owned in the Old Kings Arms inn, in
Lancaster, England. 1t has only three
wheels and strikes the hour. 1t is to be
sold at auction in May, with other curl
Gus historical objects.
A woman recently entered store and
sat down in front of an iron safe to warm
her feet After sitting some twenty or
"never did like them kind of stoves,
they don't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas burners don't"
1t is estimated that 1000 business
men attend the daily noon prayer meet
ings organized in the various centers of
trade in Boston. The first held for the
representatives of the press was presided
over by aN editor of the Boston Journal,
and was attended by 100 persons.
A lady in Rome, the Sentinel says,
who is an enthusiastic Republican, named
her canary bird Jim Blaine. He did not
sing much, but she loved him tenderly,
until last Saturday she discovered that
Jim Blaine had laid an egg. Now she
declares that no dependence can be
placed on politician.
There is a lady who has fed the spar
rows in Madison square, New York,
every morning regularly since October
last, never having missed day, no mat
ter what the weather. The little birds
know her some distance off and flock
about her by the hundred while she scat
ters the bread crumbs.
A safety envelope to prevent tamper-
ing has been devised. On the flap the
words attempt to open are printed
with double set of chemicals, the first
impression containing nutgalls and the
second green vitriol. If the flap be
steamed or moistened in any way the
magic printing will appear.
"What do You do for living ?" asked
| farmer of burly beggar, who applied
at his door for cold 1victuals and old
clothes. /" 1 don't do nothing much but
travel about" was the answer. care
you good at travelling ?" asked the far
mer. eyes," replied the beggar.
: "Then let's see you travel" said the
farmer.
Any one would suppose that the en-
= ployment of sewing was the most peace
full and quiet occupation in the world,
? and yet it is absolutely horrifying to
l hear ladies talking of stilettoes, bodllins,
5 gatherings, surgings, hemmings, gorg-
| ings, cuttings, whippings, lacings,
cuttings and hastings! What list of
abominables
They were husband and wife, and as
D they stood before the capitol at Wash
ington she asked: WHAT'S that figure
: on top?" "Thats S goddess, he answer
D ed. And what's a goddess ?" GA
4 woman who holds her tongue" he re-
l piled. She looked at him sideways, and
then began planning how to make q
: peach pie with the stones in it for the
l benefit of his sore tooth.
A story told in the American colony a
4 Dresden is of an encounter between one
of the young lieutenants of the arm,
e and a stalwart American. They iostlec
on the sidewalk, and the officer drew hi
a sword Ihereupon the young American
= i knocked him down violently enough t,
L stun him, and having broken the swort
over his knee, laid his card between th,
pieces and proceeded calmly on his way
+ Burlington Hawkeye: "When Sal
Franciscan gets to be immensely wealth,
he builds palace of stable, with mar
BILE halls, Brussels carpets, and hot an,
" cold water in every stall; Chicago mil
) lionaire builds hotel nine stories high
l. New Yorker builds hospital; Bos
e tonian builds college, and Burlington
Y man builds another bay window to hi
d house and paints his front fence"
:, 1t has been said that unmilitary me
q imagine that soldiers are always fightine
20 One OF the Duke of Marlborough's ger
n erals dining with the lord mayor, an a
'e derman who sat next him said "SiI
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