The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-16
NO. 26.
Items of Interest.

The center of gravity-An undertaker's
nose.
Of the 80, 219 school-going children in
San Francisco, 2,0S2 are Chinese.
The Alfred (Me. Jail prisoners are
put to work catching potato bugs.
The United States annually ships over
100000 boxes of clothes-pins to Eng,
land.
There are always twenty-five thousand
lost umbrellas at the Paris chief Of
policies office
"Whatever is, is right" Pope re-
marked. But the man who arrives ~
the depot Just as the train is scuddin9
along at the other end is generally left.
A stroke of lightning the other day
tore boys boot all to pieces and didn't
harm the boy. The reason was that he
had placed the boot under tree and
gone in swimming.
A writer says that when swimmer
gets q cramp, he should turn his toes
toward the knee. Another good way is
to turn your toes toward the middle OF
the pond, and paw for the nearest dry
land.
A New York reporter has complained
of q hand organ man as nuisance.
Sucb n man would never do i'll the West,
where the reporters are hushed to sleep
by the uproar of steam thrashlnS ma
chimes.
A trick resorted to just now by class
of sharpers in London, is to paint the
| feathers of sparrows so as to make them
look like bulfnches. They are disposed
| l. irl fonniarc at Dnnf
prices.
John A. CARRIER. of East Donegal
township, Pennsylvania, mixed some
paris green in bucket and set it near
the fence adjoining the pasture: -Four
COWS found the stuff, and clicked the
! bucket"
Nobody likes to be nobody; but every
body is pleased to think himself some
body And everybody is somebody; but
when everybody thinks himself some
body, he generally thinks everybody
else is nobody.
A young lady at Falls Church, va,
smoked cigarette given to her by
medical gentleman, and woke up IN the
middle of the night feeling as though
she had eaten peck of green apples
and several immature cucumbers.
Several English railway companies
are noted for the fast time made by their
locomotives. One, for instance, has
made run equal to seventy-elght miles
an hour, another seventy five, others
seventy-two, seventy, sixty-nine, sixty
seven, etc.
A Pacifc-slope Indian was pleased by
his Introduction to galvanic battery,
II 4. IL I:
as he remarked to his squaw: I" Me buy
'em one for you; knock spots out you
spose you no good woman. You sabe
me, Mrs. Jim.
One reason why the New York
Graphic refuses to publish anything
from George Francis Train is because
"Mr. Trains articles are worth $26, 600
apiece to any paper, if they are worth a
cent, but the times are too hard for us
to pay at this rate, and we decline to
give any man less than his DUE.
He wiped his heated brow, he did,
His brow SO intellectual
But all he said about the heat
Was sadly Intellectual.
But she, sweet lass, did say to him,
In mellow tones unwavering.
"Dear George, am so warm I'd like
Ice cream, with lemon flavoring.'
A young student in natural history
asks us if it is really fact that the lion
can be subdued by the force Of the
human eye alone. We do not know
from experience, but all the men whom
we have ever seen placed in situation
to try the experiment, evinced no desire
TO annihilate the beast with their eyes,
but appeared to have most insane long
ing to shin up tree.
"Tll bet you new hat said Il
gentleman friend, " that you will come
down out of that chair before J. ask you
twice" "Done" replied the friend.
"Come down." cried the other. 81
will not" said his friend, with much
obstinacy. "Then stop till l ask you a
second time," said the other. Perceiving
that he never would be asked second
time, the gentleman in the chair came