The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-17
Items of Interest.

Worth, the great Partisan milliner,
employs ], 200 assistants.
Two widowers, in Perry county, Tex,
married each others daughter.
What is the nearest thing to a cat
looking out of q window? The window.
A florist on Fifth avenue, New York,
has sacred palm tree over five hundred
years old.
The man who promised to get his
boys some new skates this winter, has
since concluded to "let 'em slide"
A crusty bachelors objection to ladies
with beautiful teeth is that nine out OF
ten of them would laugh at funeral.
A man would never lose his character
provided he could fasten it to a jack
knife with cracked handle and broken
blades.
Little "All Right" the first of the
boy performers brought to this country
from Japan, is now living in his native
land, cripple.
It is calculated that if all the insects
of the world were piled in one mass the
heap would be greater than of all the
beasts and birds.
A Cedar Key, Miss, man advertises
for sale curiosity in the shape of pig
with four ears; five toes ON one foot; no
holes in the ears, and now three months
old.
A cloth made from the down of birds
is coming greatly into favor in Paris.
It is waterproof, and estimated to be five
times lighter and three times warmer
than wool.
There is an old German proverb to
| the effect that a great war leaves the
country with three armies-an army OF
cripples, au army Of mourners and an
army of thieves.
An English clergyman says that the
chatteling of the South African apes is
language, and that if he could live
long enough with them he could learn
to understand it.
Mr.. Henry Stanley is to receive
gold medal from the King Of Italy; and
this will be it's legend: "To the in
trepid explorer of Equatorial Africa,
Stanley; given by Victor Emmanuel"
They were at dinner party, and lie
remarked that he supposed she was fond
of ethnology. She said she was, but she
was not very WELL and the doctor had
told her not to eat anything for dessert
except oranges.
"Sing Sing" shouted the brakeman,
as a Hudson river train slowed up to the
station. Give years for refreshments"
yelled passenger with short hair and
| bracelets, as he rose to leave the car in
charge of deputy sheriff.
The amount of the fund for the relief
OF the widows bereft by the Custer fight
has been rendered; it shows total re.
ceipt OF $14, 4,068, of which $7,477 was
distributed to the widows of officers, and
$5,773 to those of enlisted men.
The Pope has accumulated fund of
S6, 900, 600, which is held by Toctonia
and some French and Brussels bankers,
for the pay of ex-pontificial soldiers
and officials, and divers other purposes
incidental to the papal interests.
Mrs. Dalby, of New Orleans, locked
her baby, five months old, up in a room
with pet terrier, and when she returned
| found that the dog had almost eaten off
| the little ones foot, which was so badly
maDgled that it had to be amputated.
Senefelder, the inventor of Hthogra-
ply, has Just had monument unveiled
to his memory. Too poor to get the
means of printing his own works, he
sought some cheaper mode Of multiply
ing copies, and by a happy accident
invented ithography.
A family in Springfield, which was
disturbed by an untimely ringing of the
door bell the other evening, at first sup
posed it was done by unruly boys, but
after while discovered their dog with
the bell-pull in his mouth, and ringing
to be let in out Of the cold.
! TO A COW.
| Why, COW, how canst thou be SO satisfied
So we'll content with all things here below,
SO unobtrusive and SO sleepy-eyed,
So meek. SO lazy and 80 awful slow
Dost thou not know that everything is mixed
That naught is as it should be on this earth,
That grievously the world needs to be fixed,
That nothing We can gain is any worth,
That times are hard, that life is full of care,
OF sin and tronblo and outwardness,
That 1--we is folly, friendship but a snare?
Part, cow this is no time for sziness
The cud thou chewest is not what it seems
Get mp and moo! Tear round and quit thy
dreams. -Darid l.. PrOmH.