The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-02-15
Items of Interest.


sneakers is the car driver who tells
his mule to hurry up.
New York mourns the death OF an ac-
countant who overhauled dishonest DOCKS
and sent fourteen different CLERKS 10
prison. ....
AS an example of yanderbilt's econo-
nv in little things, it is recalled tIIlI
! few wears ago he caused the bright plates
ON ali his locomotives to be painted plach
in order to savc furnishing.
Sealskin sacks for poodles are coming
into fashion. A lady carrying canine
net thus attired called to comfort poor
woman who had lost two children by
starvation. The sack was cut pompa-
dour. s ..s rr.
A poet advises "In the quarres
should you toll, make your mark ; 90 yom,
delye upon the soil, make your marx.
But instead of taking his advice, you mac
better take lessons in pennlansh1p anu
learn to write your name. 1t LOOKS pe'-
ter than to make your "mark. "
In Fulton county, Pa, few days
since. youth named John III. Trlttle was
about throwing ball, having his right
arm drawn back, when it suddenly snap
ped off midway between the elbow and
the shoulder and dropped to his SIDE.
The swapping of the bone was heard for
a considerable distance.
Smoke from the leaves of belladonna is
said to give great and often immediate
relief in asthma, especially the spasmod-
ic form. The smoke should be drawn
down deep into the chest. Tobacco
smokers do not experience as much re-
lief as others. If the belladonna leaves
are used too freely, q temporary headache
may be produced.
1t is noticeable that the cat who mounts
the ridgepole of the woodhouse and sits
apart at the concert, and is wrapped IN
the thoughtful distracted silence until
the programme is about half through,
opens out, when he does come in, with a
wall that curdles the blood in frozen
beet. and rouses all the other members
of the troupe to very agony OF frenzled
emulation.
Near Epinal, France, three young
sters bought two quart bottles of brandy
at the fair, and drank the whole between
them within an hour, when they became
insensible. The youngest, aged thir-
teen. died on being taken home; an
} other, aged sixteen, expired few hours
! later. The third, aged seventeen, re
l covered, and attended the funeral of his
l two comrades
: 1t is said that atmospheric changes
! have a special influence on the rising of
cream. Milk seems to know which way
the wind is, and when it is north or
' northwest the cream rises freely The
. next best condition of the atmosphere is
Z @1,a -i,,I n
i condition is when the wind is east; the
: fourth, when it is south and the worst
: of all, when the wind is southeast.
9 1t is said that oysters have not been SO
v scarce in New York markets for twenty
G years as since the middle of last Decem-
| Der. This is due to the fact that the
n season has been an unusually inclement
0 one along the coast, causing the forma-
a ton of ice on the rivers where the oysters
L are usually obtained. The demand for
S oysters, however, has been less than
= usual, in consequence of the hard
e times"
e The private life of Commodore Van
g derbilt was simple and unostentatious.
}, In little matters as we'll as in large ones
S he was very methodical. 1t is said that
II his favorite breakfast was the yolks only
of three soft boiled eggs, cup OF black
tea, with twelve humps Of sugar in it, {
little toast, and a lamb chop. He always
ate this alone in his room, but the Other
+ meals were taken with the family.
&c ! This is Boston advertisement o
u 1908: Much wanted-A neat, wei
y behaved female, to do kitchen work in
!, small family at Charlestown, near Boston
~ ~ She may pray and sing hymns, but no
~ over the fish kettle may 60 to meeting
le but not to believe in the divinity o
u Elias Smith nor belong to the whining
Sc congregation of midnight worshipers
IL II. Inquire at the Repertory office, nea
=, Boston"
A A Boston woman believes that sh
is would die at once if she failed to kiss
I'd cross at exactly twelve o'clock ever
ed night. So precise is she as to the tim
i'll that she has costly clock in her room
lie regulated every day by a skilled work
e. man, and servants awaken her five min
IT'S utes before midnight At the instar
b. the clock indicates twelve she kisses til
to cross and is thus assured, she thinks, {
d. living another day.
The remains of balloon were latel
as found on the coast of Ireland, the car {
of which contained hum remains. Ih
ed De6ats thinks that they must be those
g- Prince, sailor, who quilted Paris OF
re- dark night during the siege, in yiolel
{ a wind, and was never afterward heard O
lat What strengthens this conjecture is thi
nd about the same time some Scotch fishe
re- men saw something balloon-shaped di
he appear in the ocean toward the nOrthwe
he coast.
y! .n A traveller packed himself and gre
il- quantity of baggage into stage in Or
IN III, vile, CAL The vehicle was so load,
he that he had barely room to squeeze hir
self in; but he lit his pipe, and prepar,
to endure the hardship of a journey II
on der such circumstances. The strs
Zee under his feet caught fire from t
er- pipe, and instantly the stage was
er- flames. He got out with difficulty, t
ere baggage hindering him, and was fatal
er, burned