The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-23
Items Of Interest.

Coming to blows-The fruit trees.
Indians are not at all contagious. They
are very difficult to catch.
When do ones teeth usurp the func-
tions of his tongue2 When they are
chattering.
Experience is dear teacher old
maxim. Not half 30 dear as pretty
school marin.
When is mad bull as Objectionable
as an absent husband? When it is
getting on towards one.
The Minneapolis fire has raised the
question, ''Will dust explode?" We
have known it to blow up.
Ten per cent. of the husbands income
is what it is legally decided in England
he shall pay for his wife's dresses.
Brilliant and impulsive people,"
says an exchange, "have black eyes,"
Impulsive people are only too apt to get
black eyls.
The amount of British capital invested
in various ways in the United States
and American securities of all descrip-
tions is roughly estimated at 800, ,000,-
900.
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most common monosyllables in the
language answered.: "I don't know; but
the most common money symbols are
I. o. U.
"What are Russia's terms2" asked a
visitor, referring to the San Stefano
treaty. "Two dollars year, in ad-
vance," replied the abstracted editor
HaUkeye.
While a little girl was playing in
graveyard at New Lexington, Ohio, the
other day, she suddenly ran against
gravestone, which fell over upon her,
infiicting fatal injuries.
The United States sold to France in
1876, $52, 900, 900 worth of raw cotton
and other stuffs, and bought in return
$45, ,920, 900 worth of silks, velvets, dress
goods, and other articles.
A man at Evansville, Ind, in fit of
jealousy, cut his wife's eyes with
butcher knife for the purpose of "spoil-
ing her beauty" The unfortunate
woman will be totally blind for the rest
of her life.
When you Put your pen-holder be-
hind your ear be sure that you have the
pen to the front. Ideas of great pro-
| luublbf arc DdblchCo hOPC-
lessly from the mind by failing to OBJ
serve this rule.
In 1877 there were 2,99Y. GIT electors
in Great Britain and Ireland, or more
than one in twelve of the population.
There are about nine million qualified
voters in the United States, or one in
every five of the population.
It's all very we'll to talk about econo-
my, but the difficulty is to get anything
to economize. The little baby who puts
his toes in his mouth is almost the only
person who in these hard times man
ages to make both ends meet.
Scene in car: Seats all occupied.
Lady enters. Elderly gentleman rises.
Don't rise, I beg of you. 1 much pre-
fer you should keep your seat, SIR"
"Should be very happy to accommodate
you, madam; but want to get out
here"
A. B. Robson has probably the larg-
est poultry yards in New York. He
keeps 5000 ducks, 1000 turkeys and
1000 hens. They consume sixty bush
els of corn, two barrels of potatoes and
other food daily. His fowl house cost
$1,000.
He was fully six feet tall, yet he
Strengthened up and exclaimed: "Talk-
ing of short men, look at me!' and no
one could tell what he meant until he
turned both pockets wrong side out and
gasped, "Who is there in the crowd
;hat'll lend me quarter?"
Tire Emperor of Austria, on his visit
10 Venice in 1875, conferred decoration
upon a colonel of the italian army in
command of the fortress of Mantua.
The latter, in accordance with the rules
OF the service, was compelled to accept
it; but few weeks ago, having resigned
his commission, he at once returned the
decoration to the Austrian Government,
saying that he did not wish to hold any
honors from Emperor Francis Joseph,
who in 1852 had caused his brother sc
he shot aud had condemned himself 10
iAo same death.