The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
NO.. 10.
Items OF Interest,"


1t is wise saw that works both ways,
"Winding up business - Starting
the clock.
Knife-grinders get their work in dur
ing dull times.
No one but q coward strikes in the
dark, and then he only strikes light.
If were in the sun and you we're out
of il, what would the sun become Sin.
A man in Kern county, Gal. has a ten
acre lot of mignonette, on which his bees
feed.
When fisherman should be thank
ful-Wben his lines are cast in pleasant
places.
As the twig is bent the average small
boy is inclined, when it comes to pun
ishment.
"The older the tree the thicker the
bark" but the older the dog the thinner
the bark.
In New York city alone the capital
employed in the ice business exceeds
$5, 900, 900.
When a prize-fighter's mill is stopped
only four hands are thrown out of en-
ployment.
The laugh of the farmer-Hoe |.
Hoe Hoe !-Hackensack Republican
Also, Hay Hay Hay
What is the difference between q
butcher and gay young lady? The
former kills to dress, while the latter
dresses to kill.
Edward Wheeler, who died in Nashua,
N. H., worth $1,000, ordered the
expenditure of the whole of his fortune
on his funeral and tomb.
PITY the SORROWS Of n poor old man
Whose trembling limbs would fly the poor
house door;
Who failed for ninety thousand; retail plan;
Assets, one hundred and twenty, ffty-four.
A Japanese laborer receives 1000
"cash" day, and he can get a satisfac-
tory meal for forty "cash." BY the time
he has saved 1OO,0 "cash " he owns
$40.
A hand-car, with a mast and sail at
tached, is in operation on the Kansas
Pacific railroad, and with favorable
wind the vehicle makes forty miles an
hour.
The Czar has offered prize for the
best hymn celebrating the recent Rus
sian successes, and adapted for the army.
The competition is restricted to Russian
composers.
A sweet Seeding orange-tree in Her
nando county, Florida, bore two genuine
lemons with it's crop of oranges this
season. 1t had not been grated with
lemon.
More than 700 persons have entered
the competitive examination for the
thirty.two additional clerkships which
Congress recently authorized in the
surgeon generals Office.
1t is saddening to watch the dying
day, to see the Pickering light fall pulse
less bekind the western hill. It is
harder still to watch for water to boil,
over doubtful fire, when in hurry for
breakfast.
What blessing the phonograph will
be to editors The bores can slip right
into the phonograph room, and plead
with the instruments, and the editor can
grind it all ont afterwards-if he wants
to.-Boston Transcript.
SIT was my wife's wedding ring, but
cruel circumstances forces me to part
with it for $l.50." The pitying servant
girl produces the money, gathers in
brass circlet and the scamp moves on to
repeat the game at the next house.
! Write on your doors the saying wise aud old.
q Be bold /! be bold and everywhere be bold |;
BE not too bold J" Yet better the excess
Than the defect better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
| Than like the perfumed Paris turn and fly.
-Lon9tello,o.
Russia has recently purchased 200, 900
ounces of quinine in the United States,
and that essential tonic has in conse-
quence experienced a sharp advance in
price. Shaking with the ague promises
to be an expensive amusement this year.
A philosopher says: "We learn to
climb by keeping our eyes not on the
hills behind us, but on the mountains
before u.s." Another way is to take a
couple Of rods the start, and try to beat
an enthusiastic bulldog over nine-foot
fence.