The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-30
Items OF Interest.
Blunt people often say sharp things.

Blunt people often say sharp things.
A lady in New York sang three hours
on stretch.
An important suit-the first JACKIE
and trousers.
The more suits at law, the less suits
go on your back.
February is the most impecunious
month; is is always short.
When may ship be said to be in
love7 When she wants mate.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany owns over 200, 900 miles of wire.
A gamecock drove his spur into a
child's head, in Bullet county, making
fatal wound.
A correspondent writes to ask what it
is proper to wear at picnics. We should
say "clothes."
edison has been asked to invent
machine that will cause carpet to
get up and dust"
The coast of Florida has but one Mus
quito Inlet, but the interior of Florida
has musquito-bar for every bedstead.
A New York dancing master has added
his to "one of the few immsrtal names"
ETC., by waltzing for sixteen hours. 1t
must make Longfellow. and Tennyson
sick to think of what labor and study
it cost them to become famous.
Close limitations of silver dollars are
made of block-tin, bismuth and pulver-
lied glass. An immense number OF these
bogus coins are in circulation In the
West They initiate exactly the true
color and ring, and are about right in
weight.
"That's our Jeremiah" said Mr..
Sheldon: she went off to make his own
living by his Wits" "Well, did he
succeed :" inquired friend. No."
said the old man, with sigh, signif-
cantly tapping his head, he failed for
want of capital"
The man who advertises in the news
papers to send directions that will ena-
BILE person to make 5000 Alonth,
owes his washerwoman for three months
washing, and was seen q few days ago
trying to borrow five dollars to pay
weeks board bill.
Fish in Germany are seldom brolied ;
| they are boiled. The size of fish that
need not be returned to the water when
caught is fixed by law. Thus salmon
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five and an eel fourteen. Germans do
not fish for sport as rule.
A growth of human hair, the longest
on record, is among the curiosities to
be seen at the Paris Exposition. 1t
came from the head Of Norman girl,
Merlot by name, who lived with her
mother in the EXTREMIST poverty. 1t is
seven feet long. of On exquisite golden
color luxuriant, and silky.
An Illinois farmer has told his rat
story. He was going out to his corn
crib the other morning, he says, when
he saw large rat with head erect, car
rying full sized ear of corn in his
mouth, while at the same time his tail
was wrapped around another large ear,
which he was dragging behind him.
Mr.. Edison, who has within twelve
month made his name household word
in the scientific, social, and business
world, was married in 1878 to Miss
Mary Stillwell, of Newark, New Jersey.
They have two children-a little boy
four years old and little girl aged two
-nicknamed A" Dot" and "Dash," ;tfter
the characters in the Morse alphabet.
A couple of young men were out fish
ing the other day. and on returning were
going past a farm house, and felt hum
CRY. They yelled to the farmers daugh-
ter: Girls, have you any buttermilk?"
The reply was gently waited back to
their ears Yes put we keep it for
our own calves" The boys calculated
they had business away and they went.