The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-21
Items of Interest.
polite fish-A pent-eel.

A polite fish-A gent-eel.
It is the tin business which is most
liable to panic.
Give cat money and it will, of course,
put it in it's purrs.
Tomatoes contain no cancer-producing
substance, says Prof. Arnold.
A printer in the New York World Of
fee has worked at his trade fifty-seven
years.
Deer are found in almost all parts of
the globe except Australia and south OF
Africa.
II you turn an American estate up
side down you will find the Etats of the
French republic.
A man named Putton has written a
book on music. It will be called "Put-
ton Airs, probably.
A couple were married on the cars in
Missouri, lately. What long " train "
the bride must have had
Albert Smith once wrote his initials
in q hotel register. A wag wrote just
underneath: "Two-thirds of the truth"
Get in your plants, your apples pick,
Ere both are knocked to flinders,
To daylight bring your storm-door quick,
Put on your double winders.
The popular idea that mushrooms
grow only in the night is not correct
their growth is nearly equal day and
night.
Gold is entirely unaffected by atmos-
pheric action or influences. Silver be-
comes dull, but gold retains its native
luster.
Talk about the angry sea and the mad
waves and all that. Humph you'd be
angry, too, were you crossed as often
as the ocean is.
GA splendid croquet ground in the
rear" said the real estate agent. And,
when he had bought the house and
moved in he found that the frogs kept
croaking all night.
The first steamboat used dry pine
wood for fuel, and the fame rose to a
considerable distance above the smoke
pipe; when the fires were disturbed,
mingled smoke and sparks rose high in
the air.
One time lion met elephant and
the elephant sed "You better go and
git your hair cut" But the lion it sed
&C Bah shant resent fellers in suits
wich has got his nose tween his own
teeths."
It is said that there is one word which
is never pronounced right even by the
best scholars, and that is the word
wrong. It is only fair to observe, how
ever, that there is another word which is
never pronounced wrong, and that is the
word right.
A drunkard in Sacramento, warned by
touch of delirium tremens that he had
carried his drinking altogether too far,
resolved to reform or die. He declared
his purpose to several friends, locked
himself in his room, seated himself in an
easy. chair, and put loaded pistol on a
table within reach. The craving for al
cohol grew stronger and stronger, and
at last, unable to resist his thirst, he
shot himself through the heart.
Proof that the top of wagon wheel.
when running along on the ground,
moves faster than the bottom, is given,
according to the Scientific american, by
instantaneous photographs of a wagon
in rapid motion. It is obvious, says the
writer, that an instantaneous photo
graph of wheel, revolving upon its
axle in the air, will show all parts of the
wheel with equal distinctness. But if
the wheel has progressive motion,
and any one portion has greater mo-
tion than it's corresponding part, above
or below, there must be liability to
blurring in that part of the picture.
These pictures are taken with so brief
an exposure that the horse, though
moving at 2:24 gait, is sharply out
lined. The wheels of the drivers sulky,
however, have different tale to tell.
The lower third of each wheel is sharp
and distinct as if absolutely at rest. Not
so with the top, that part of the wheel
showing perceptible movement dur
ing the two thousandth part of second
of the exposure of the plate. The up
per ends of the spokes and the rim are
| blurred