The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-21
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
Snoring is now politely described as
indulging in sheet music.
Petroleum is the favorite illuminator
in many French households.
About 1000 Italians annually immi
CRATE to this country to settle.
Turkeys experience is that iron clad
fleets do not amount to shucks.
DR.. Petermann, the leading geogra-
pher of the world, places Stanley fore
most among all explorers.
It is said by men who have sailed Il
mile minute on an ice boat that the
sensation is like falling from building.
A London paper estimates that during
the latter 200 days of 1877 that human
blood flowed at the rate of forty gallons
an hour.
A Chicago German, who wanted to
add postscript to letter after he had
mailed it, was found trying to dig up
the lamp post.
A paper speaks of horse that eats
meat. Harry says that he has never
seen q horse actually eat meat, but has
seen one running for stake.
Lieut.. Tlipl er, the only colored grad
uate of West Point, is to be appointed
military instructor of the colored branch
cf the agricultural and military college
of Texas.
A patent has been taken out-%pOG al-:
most everything of value, but there is
fortune waiting for the man who patents
a boOt.iack that will kill two Thomas
cats at one time.
An Indiana farmer missed 360-pound
hog and found him, after thirty-five
days, under box that had fallen and
caught him under it. The hog lived,
but he only weighed 200 pounds when
found.
There was q shower of worms in
Michigan, one day recently. Some days
previously there was shower of fish.
And now, if Nature understands her
business, shower of tish-hooks is next
on the programme.
The total dividends paid last year by
mining companies, banks, insurance and
express companies, and other CONNER
cial enterprises on the Pacific coast, not
including the Central Pacific Railroad,
was 1884 ,366, 600, an increase of 81 $50, 900.
A deserted Ute squaw, grieved by the
heartlessness of the Indian who had
only few months previously taken her
to his wigwam, drowned herself. Before
her suicide, she formally and elaborately
cursed him. The Indian belief is that
such a curse is potent.
A Frenchman has analyzed the dust
and debris of the streets of Paris and
Florence, and has found that thirty-five
per cent. of that collected from the road
way is iron given off by horses shoes,
and that from thirty TO forty per cent.
of that taken from the sidewalks is glue.
He proposes to ntilize both the iron and
the glue.
In the harbor of San Francisco wave
struck q fishing boat, aud overheard
went two disciples of Ike Walton. Some
parties who happened to be in boat
close by went to their assistance, and
rescued the half drowned pair. On be-
ing questioned how the accident occur
red, they replied: eve didn't capsize;
we only went down to see why the fish
wouldn't bite"
John Bright wrote, lately, o note in
which occurred this passage: "If
children at school can be made to under
stand how it is just and noble to be hu-
name even to what we term inferior ami
mails, it will do much to give them q.
higher character and tone through life.
There is nothing meaner than barbar-
ous and cruel treatment of the dumb
creatures who cannot answer us or re-
sent the misery which is so often need
lessly inflicted upon them"
POP CORN.
Pip, pop
Hip, hop,
Tip, top,
Pop corn
Out Uf the pan,
Into the fire,
Bursting and bouncing,
Higher and higher.
White az new snow,
Yellow as gold,
You'd better be patient
Till it is cold.
fond of fight. AT the battle of Goito,
in 1849, he charged at the head of regi-
ment, an Austrian battery, and showed
the same courage during the eighteen
hours strife at Novara. On travelling
one day in carriage without escort, to
his chateau of Polenzo, he found mum.
ber of gendarmes exchanging shots with
brigands. Victor Emmanuel seized the
carbine with which he travelled, and aid.
ed the gendarmes, two of whom were
killed at his side. The brigands who
were not killed finally fed. The Officer
in command of the gendarmes was rhhcii
astonished on learning that the king was