The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-24
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Arkansas has cool winters and Hot
Springs
A wedding trip-Stumbling over the
brides train.
Six hundred thousand acres of the best
land in India are devoted to the cultlva-
ton of opium.
The Detroit Free Press wants some
one to invent o machine to pronounce
those Turco- Russian names.
England has annexed the Transvaal
republic in South Africa, despite the
protests of the president and some of the
people.
A young lady being asked, upon her
return from church, what the text was,
unhesitatingly replied Blessed are the
dressmakers ~,
The largest alligator ever seen in that
portion of Georgia about Macon was
killed in small lake, and measured
eight feet in length.
Students of Russian history state that
for several hundred years no quarter of
century has passed without the annex
alton of more or less territory to Russian
dominions.
The editor of the st. Louis RepubH-
can recently insisted that poets must be
brief. The next day he received the
following, entitled "The ballad of the
Merchant -: Tr1st-Bust
A Tennessee paper that prints coffin
over its death notices has cast a gloom
over its marriage notices, in the same
column, by inadvertently putting the
picture over the list of hymens victims.
An Iowa paper tells of smart wife
who helped her husband to raise seventy
acres of wheat. The way she helped
him was to stand in the door and shake
broom at him when he sat down to
rest.
"Do you think your father is going to
move out soon?" inquired the owner Of
a rented house of the son of his tenant.
I" Reckon So" was the reply, "we've
begun using the winder frames for fire.
wood"
Two church members in Atlanta, Ga,
quarreled over the question of the con-
troll of money raised to convert the
heatlsen, and came to blows in front of
the church while the congregation was
dispensing.
Brigham Young takes all the New
York dailies. He reads the articles
headed "The Doom of Mormonism,"
(about seven each day. and then he tele.
graphs to the New York elder: "Send
me three more wives"
An old woman who is crossing the
street has narrow escape from being
run over by hearse-" am not at all
superstitious, she says to her rescuer,
"but it had seemed to me that it would
be unlucky to be killed by hearse."
A school law recently adopted in Mis-
souri, requires school boards to give the
preference to colored teachers for colored
schools, and prohibits the employment
of white teacher for colored school
when competent colored one can be
had.
Interesting triangular struggle in the
Western States-A Congressional COM
mission are gathering grasshopper data,
the farmers are gathering grasshoppers,
and the grasshoppers are gathering the
crops. The odds are three to one on the
grasshoppers.
A youth went to a printer to ask the
price of wedding cards, and said that he
had been introduced to handsome girl
the night before who was worth some
money, and thought he would look
around to see how much the wedding
fixings would cost before proposing.
When the first newspaper was started
i'll Japan the editor asked Japanese
gentleman if he wished to have the paper
sent regularly "No, 1 thank you, he
replied, Il have a copy" The gentle
man of the old school had no idea that
newspaper contained fresh matter every
issue.
A blacksmith recently met with a sngu-
lar accident. He was engaged in shoe
ing a colt which had never been shod,
and in driving a nail, while holding the
foot against the right knee, drove the
nail through the hoof fully three-fourths
OF an inch, the point entering his knee
pan some distance into the bone.
A Kentucky dentist undertook to plug
one of the back teeth of favorite mule.
He bored and bored until the drill struck
something that seemed to lift the ami
mails soul right off its hinges. That's
the way the coroner explained it, and
since then a wild mule has been gallop-
ing up and down the country, seeking
for fresh worlds to conquer.
There is said to be a paper church
actually existing near Berlin, which can
contain nearly 1000 persons. 1t is cir
cular within, octagonal without. The
reliefs outside and statues within, the
roof, ceiling, the Corinthian capitals are
papier-mache, rendered waterproof by
saturating in vitrol, lime water, whey
and white of eggs.
Owls are of immense service as vermin
destroyers. An English gamekeeper
found an owls nest with one young bird
in it. He visited it for thirty consecu-
tive mornings, and in that time removed
from it 105 rats, forty-nine mice, eleven
shrew mice, two robbins and one SPAR
row. This was, and well it might have
been, over and above what the owls con-
sumption demanded.
A COW stealer in Pike county. Miss.
who had been captured by a party of
men, was recently punished in a novel
manner. They killed the COW, removed
the viscera, placed the thief inside, with
only his head out, and then sewed him
in securely with rope. He remained
there'four days, and was then taken out
almost dead, having had difficult task
in preventing the buzzards from pickino