The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-14
Items Of Interest.

The mourning color of the Turks is
blue.
A Lecture Field that no man has yet
taken-Kate Field.
Motto for the Crispins-" Strike till
the last armed foe expires ]"
Thieves in Quebec steal the fur caps
from the heads of the passers-by.
The man who takes the most interest
in his business-the money lender.
The great difficulty in skating is to
maintain unanimity among your feet.
The rats in an Ohio barn rose in their
might and killed the dog that had been
sent in to exterminate them.
There are now 851 manufacturing es-
Establishments in San Frsncisco, whose
aggregate products amount to 962, 1885,
600.
Great Britain has 154, 5S4 acres in Or
chards, 38, 957 acres in market gardens,
IL, ,O42 acres in nurseries, end 2, 187, ,07S
acres in forest.
The Ashtabula accident cost the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railway
company S4S3, $40, and all the claims
on account of the accident have been
settled.
The worst we ever heard--What is the
difference between a man struck with
amazement and a leopard's tail ? One is
rooted to the spot, and the other is
spotted to the root.
He-"By Jove, you know-upon my
word--if I were to see ghost, you
know, would be chattering idiot for
the rest of my life." She" Haven't
you seen a ghost ?"
The British government has entered
into contract for the supply of large
number of telephones, and the introduc-
tion of the new invention into the postal
service promises to become general.
} John Rhodes, an English miser, living
at Hounslow, died recently at the age of
eighty, leaving S500,000 to vsrious
London charities. He dressed like
tramp and systematically starved him
/: self.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets, and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it is COM
:, ing out. Good luck is man of pluck,
with his sleeves rolled up, and working
/ to make it come out right.
, Reduced to ST." remarked Jones, as
he passed a fashionable tailor's store
and read the above statement promi-
+ nently displayed on an overcoat.
, "That's nothing; I am reduced to a
l much smaller sum than that myself"
, You can sell your cat for ten dollars
in the Black Hills. 1t will cost you
!, eighty-fve dollars to get out there with
. the cat, and get home again, but then
you will be rid of the cat, and that is
worth one hundred and twenty dollars
to any one.
, THE POTATO.
9 I'm a careless potato, and care not pin
) How into existence l came;
II they planted me drill-wise CT dibbled me
To me It's exactly the same.
The bean and the pea may more loftly tower
d But care not a button for them;
. Defiance nod with beautiful flower
When the earth is hoed up to my stem.
!, Thomas Moore.
v The banyan tree of India is sometimes
!. found to spread out so as to show with
: one parent trunk three hundred and
q fifty stems descending, and again taking
i. root in the ground, each stem equaling a
: large oak tree, while there are thousands
i of smaller ones. This tree is so expanded
t as to form a small forest of itself, where
: in 1000 persons could stand.
s An Arkansas shotgun is sometimes
Is more merciful than an Arkansas hus.
>. band. The other day ruffian, deem
ing his longtime bed-ridden wife an
incumbrance, undertook to shoot her
but the weapon refused to explode.
Then seizing it by the muzzle he was
= about to dash out her brains, but the
10 stock struck on the head-board of the
bed and the contents of both barrels
IS were lodged in the brute's body.
A singular discovery has been made
/, on board the Irvine, full l.rigged vessel,
recently in dry dock at Rotherhithe,
70 London. The ship had recently arrived
% woman was found imbedded in the cargo,
-, in good state of preservation, and is
earthquake which occurred many hun
j. dred years ago in Perm. Rings are in
serted in the ears.
@ The Louisville, (Ky.) Argus recalls
this about the stalwart new justice OF
!. the United States supreme court
"The success which has attended the
practice of General John NJ. Harlem il
u largely due to his physique and endur'
= ance. Iu the great Pullman palace cal
case he was employed on short notice as
d one Of the counsel. He had but day
l. to post himself and study up the author.
tiles, but he undertook the task. Lock
l. ing himself up in his Office with Judge
g Lochrane, of Georgia, and Mr.. George
NJ. Pullman, he examined them thor
~ oughly upon it, grasping all the points
e and collecting ana arranging his cita
tions. For twenty-four hours, during
which time his companions alternate(
- between sleeping and dispensing infor
~ nation, he studied the case, and at th,
10 end of that time he had every point a
his fingers ends, and was as fresh as {
l. daisy"