The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-04
Items Of Interest.

Items OF Interest.
The more suits at law the less suits go
on your back.
A Kansas newspaper offers premium
for the best poem on mud.
France smoked $50, 600, 900 cigars last
year, and 1872 tons of cigarettes.
In 1872 there were thirty-two circus
shows on the road. This year there are
but thirteen.
This is world of secondhand goods.
Every pretty girl has been some other
fellows sweetheart.
Rice is more largely grown and con-
sumed as human food than any other
cereal. 1t is said to be the main food of
one third of the human race.
Chicago has $500 liquor saloons for
her 100000 inhabitants, giving one ga
loon for every 178 people, or one to
every thirty five adult males.
The number of children lost daily in
the city of New York is very large. Over
thirty found temporary quarters at the
police central station one day recently.
It costs just six cents to paste
printed slip on postal card and send
It through the mails. The sender con-
tributes one cent and the receiver the
other five.
Josh Billings says lasting reputa-
shuns are slow growth. The man
who wakes up famus sum morning IL
quite apt to go to bed sum night and
sleep it all off.
In a New York druggists window q
placard announces : "Ladies afflicted
with pale, faded eyes can now have
them tattooed black, brown, or dark
blue with India ink.
In Kentucky vagrancy is punished
with involuntary servitude, and colored
offender was sold on the block ut auction
for six months &, the highest bidder at
Hickman, in that State, the other day.
It is when man is carrying pound
of honey on one arm, and bag of eggs
on the other, and leading bulldog by
string, and attempts to brush a fly off
his ear, that he feels ne man can be an
expert in all things.
Queen Victoria has seven palaces.
Three in London buckingham, st.
James, and Kensington. Her out-of-
town palaces are at Windsor, at Osborne,
Isle of Wight, and at Balnoral, in the
Scottish Highlands.
There is no grove on earth's broad chart
But has some bird to cheer it;
So Hope sings on in every heart,
Although We may not hear it.
And il to day the heavy wing
OF sorrow is expressing,
| ferchance to-morrow's sun will bring
The weary heart some blessing.
DIR. G. b. Eddy of Finchville, KY,
who has recently imported from Canada
! drove of Berkshire hogs, has erected
for them the finest pen in the country.
, 1t is made of heavy stone, and through
it runs hallway six hundred feet long,
traversed by stream of water. Per-
feet light and ventilation have been Sc
cured, and the entire cost has been
100000.
A fanatic Mussulman at Constanti-
nople attributes the Sultan's disasters to
the fact that Baron Tecco, former min
lister of Italy in that capital, fraudulent
ly purchased for mere song the
Prophets sacred flag and sent it to
Turin. The flag certainly is in the pos
, session of the Royal Museum of that
city, but its sacred character and magic
| al value are entirely ignored by its pres
ent owners.
, A popular doctor of Utica while escort.
/ ing lady home the other evening, at
} tempted to relieve her cough and sore
S throat by giving her troche. He told
3 her to allow it to dissolve gradually in
A her mouth. No relief was experienced
0 and the doctor felt quite chagrined the
/ next day when the lady sent him pan
: taloon button with note saying he must
: have given her the wrong kind of troche,
l and might need this one.
A fearful catastrophe occurred at Par
;; ma. Italy. An artillery officer and six
men we've trying to uproot an old horse
chestnut tree by the use of dynamite in
the public promenade when, owing to
=. the officers carelessness, an explosion
I occurred, killing the officer, two soldiers,
two children and another person, and
wounding sixty-three. Among the seri-
ously wounded were four noblemen and
D several gentlemen who were out for an
S afternoon walk, and were attracted to
+ the spot from curiosity to see the
!, experiment.
= OF FLOWERS.
There were no roses till the first child died,
0 No violets, nor balmy- keart's-eass,
! No heliotrope, hor, buds so Dear to bees,
= The honey-hearted suckle, no gold-eyed
q And lowly dandelion, nor, stretching wide,
Glover and cowslip-cups, like rival seas,
> Meeting and parting, as the young spring
1 breeze
!, Runs gidiy races playing seek and hide.
, For all flowers died when Eve left Paradise,
, And all the world was fleweress awhile,
: Until little child was laid in earth
Then from its grave grew violets for its eyes,
: And from its lips rose-p petals for its smiles,
@ And so all flowers from that chifds death
took birth.
Maurice F. E3dn in Scribner.
The ancients had neither pen, ink,
pencil, nor paper; but their needs were
q small and their necessities of publication
q slight, so that their primitive methods
4 sufficed. They cut upon stone, and
. sometimes blackened the letters after
. cutting; more generally and longest,
% they used scratching implement called
a the "stylus." For materials, they had
+ bronze, brass, leaden sheets, palm-leaves,
skins, bark of trees, tablets covered with
= a thin sheet of wax, and as convenient af
. the modern slate for erasure, and the
= layers of the stalk of the papyrus. The
!, brittle papyrus would not endure fold
E ing, and 60 the book was continuous
y roll.
v There is no nationality ON the face ol
d the globe that can compare with the
Chinese as vegetable gardeners, with the
exception of the Italians. The gardens
d of the latter south of this city are mar