The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-27
Items of Interest.

Indians are not at all contagious.
They are very difficult to catch.
1t is not supposed that the crop of
Centennial anniversaries will be spoiled
by the early frosts.
The annual product of all the cotton
making establishments in this country is
valued at nearly $2, 100000.
There is man somewhere whose men,
ory liz so short that it only reaches to
his knees, therefore he never pays for
his boots.
Sharks won't bite swimmer who
keeps his legs in motion. If you can
keep kicking longer than shark can
keep waiting, you'll be all right.
The squirrels are SO numerous and
destructive in some portions of Kentucky
that the farmers are offering q premium
for scalps. Some hunters kill fifty squir-
rels day.
Ofthe l, 1886, 600, 900 acres of land which
constitute the States and Territories of
this country, 1,154, 900, 900 acres are yet
to be explored and surveyed. This work
is progressing at the rate of 10000, 900
annually.
That boy that took hornets nest,
and undertook to carry it home, think
ing he had bag of treasures, lost the
bag on his way, but succeeded in getting
the hornets to accompany him to his
destination.
"Do you play the piano?" he asked
her. "I play that I play sometimes" )"
she answered, "but when I play am
not playing, then play better than I
play when playing. When L play play
it is sorry playing. and sorry playing is
a contradiction, SO do not play at all. ,"
A st. Louis policeman who was at
tempting to arrest man for cruelty to his
mule, incautiously came in the rear of
the ill-treated animal, and the migrate
full brute, with characteristic prompt
ness, struck out from behind with his
feet, and so disabled the policeman that
month.
Three English women recently distin-
guished themselves in the Forest of
Dean. They attacked grocer. One of
them brushed him down with tar
brush; another poured down his back
the contents of a pot of tar, and the third
bound him up to his neck with tarred
cloth. The grocer complained and the
women were fined.
In Louisiana county, Virginia, last
week, a Miss Knuckles died after a
painful illness. Her sister came into
the room where the body was lying and
threw herself upon the bed in paroxysm
of grief, and, as was supposed at the
time, tainted. When her friends made
an effort to revive her it was found that
she was dead.
RED CHEEKS.
Oh lovelier than the light that breaks
At morn, o 'er Cashmere sSearly lake,
Is the soft hue that shames the roses,
And on my ladys cheekreposcs.
That winey tint soon leaves the rose;
But on her cheek perpetual glows,
Loves fiery shade. Fair little syren,
She would bewitch the heart OF Byron.
Upon her pearly cheeks. divine,
The soul of Beauty Ger does shine,
because all silly joys forsaking,.
She stays at home and does the baking.
Joseph Dumond murdered woman
and two children in Merced county, Cal. +,
and reward of $500 was offered for his
delivery to the authorities, "dead or
alive" Two white men and two Indians
started in pursuit. The fugitive was
tracked to his hiding place, where he
had made breastworks of logs. The
pursuers advanced incaut;ously, and
Dumond killed the Indians and one OF
the whites with his rifle, but he fell
mortally wounded, and his body was
carried away by the only survivor of the
contest in order to secure the reward.