The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22
Items of Interest.

hands time folds not up his wings.
Lamp wicks should be changed fire.
quently if a clear, bright flame is de-
sired.
If persons would take more trouble
about living they would be less troubled
when dying.
TO scold people when TREY make con-
fessions is the way to keep them from
confessing again.
The blue glass treatment is ridiculed
by the Medical and Surgical Journal
as /" silly mania
The condition of the British coal trade
grows worse. The oldest man in the
trade cannot remember a time so bad.
They say it is dangerous to go into the
water after hearty meal. But who ex-
poets to find a hearty meal in the water?
Nearly 5000 persons worm out liv-
ing in silk manufacture in the State OF
New Jersey. There are $40, 10000 in
it.
Some hygienic writer says "Let your
children eat all the salt they want.
Bless you, it isn't salt they want-it's
sugar.
The hop crop of Maine for 1876 is es-
timated at 400,0 900 pounds, valued at
$4,000 Three-fourths of the crop was
raised in Oxford county.
Somebody in st. Paul. on the way
home from the doctors office, dropped
the following prescription: "Blue glass,
one part; faith, ten parts.
A young man having complained that
q young lady had sat upon his hat, he
was told that he ought to know better
! than TO hold his hat in his Ian
| It is thought that the time will yet
come when members of the choir will be
expected to behave during divine SER
vice just as well as other folks.
No trouble topay board in Mississippi.
The Handsboro Democrat says: "Saw
logs are legal tender here" Split wood,
of course, is fractional currency.
Bayard Taylor says: "It is wither-
ing commentary upon our modern cos
tune that no sculptor has dared, or ever
will dare, to model statue wearing q
stove-pipe hat"
Revenge is like a boomerang. AL
though for time it flies in the direction
in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden
curve, and, returning, hits your own
| head the heaviest blow of all.
Elder Evans, the leader of the Lebanon
Shakers, has started a graveyard on n
new plan. The graves are to be twenty
feet apart, with tree planted over each,
so that in time there will be handsome
grove.
A bill introduced into the Legislature
of Delaware enacts that where q bride and
groom, or the bride only, are resi-
dents of the State, and leave the State
for the purpose of being married beyond
its limits, they shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor
Your hand, Mr.. Hayes, and please re-
member, sir, that we carried torch for
you three separate times last fall, at
great personal sacrifice. Without being
presumptuous, sir, custom house would
be deemed a sufficient reward for this
tritiing service.-Erchange
The best solace for the desponding
patriot now may be expressed in the
words of the mighty Daniel Webster
"Fellow- citizens, you have waterfall
hundred and fifty feet high. No peo-
pie with a waterfall q hundred and fifty
feet high ever lost their liberties"
A lady, whose cook went to wake,
was given notice by hera fortnight after
ward that she was going to be married.
"Who to ?" asked the mistress. "Please,
man, to the husband of the corpse"
"Why, does he love you?" ''Oh, yes,
nam; he said I was the light of the
funeral"
In the United States, where a whisky
shop, a blaclIsmith's shop, grocery and
two or three residences, constitute many
a city, it is strange to read that the Eng
lish are only now talking of elevating
the great port of Liverpool to civic Dig
nifty. Yet such is the fact, Liverpool is
only town.
81 came out of the accident" " said he,
"and who do you think was the first per-
son L met ?" "Who, but that same eter-
nal prize package peddler who had bored
me for six hundred miles on the train,
and-Nemesis, where art thou ?-he was
the only one aboard who wasn't hurt
someway y
Brigham Young, Jr., is organizing in
Salt Lake City company of 500 Nor
mon families, which will colonize in So
nora, Mexico. The Mexican authorities
have promised perfect religious tolera-
ton, and large grants of land. A rendez-
vous of the colonists will be established
at st. George, Utah, and the march to
the new land will be taken up on the
, tenth of April.
Smiflkins always meant to be very po-
lite, and among the conventional rules
beaten into him was the one about
'present company excepted" At a
: gathering of young Beacon Killers, the
other evening, allusion was made to the
acknowledged good looks of Boston
; girls. "Yas," said Smifkins, sit is
| undoubtedly twew that Bahston
) lahdies are bootiful," and he turned
smirkingly to his lady listeners, "pwes-
; ent compahny excepted-ah.
Germany sends annually into the fur
market about 100, 900 fox skins, of which
$4,000 come from Bavaria and %. OOO
from Prussia. OF other skins, her aver
age annual produce is 10000. pine mar.
= tens, coo stone martens, 280,O0O pole.
Q cats, 5000 offers, 5000 badgers, and
S 600, 900 hare skins, which last are used
: by the felt hat makers. OF rabbit skins
/ the annual yield of Germany is only
I 100000, to 100000 in France. The
] skins Of 100000 domestic cats complete