The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-24
Items of Interest.
Ground rents-Earthquakes.

Ground nts-Earthquakes.
During the past year 1876 tons OF
amber were dug up in Prussia.
In Japan alaw requires fish to be sold
alive. They are peddled in tanks.
Pittsburg has dog that can wait at
table. This must be Old Dog Tray.
Archibald Gordon of Granville, N. c.,
is the father of twenty-seven sons by
one wife.
A short time previous to the death of
Pongo, the famous gorilla, the directors
of the Berlin museum refused S12, ,5U
for him.
A Cincinnati "society" reporter says
"there's no end to balls" Balls, we
believe are always round.-NorristoaUn
Herald.
Blankets are "the circulating me-
dunn " of the natives of Vancouver. The
richest chiefs have them stored by the
hundred.
At dinner of shoemakers the follow
ing toast was given "May we have all
the women in the country to shoe, and
all the men to boot"
How busily the town COW goes
For the fodder OF her country foes
She climbs into the wagon box
Regardless of the well-aimed rocks,
And eats her fill of straw, the while
She wears peaceful, pensive smile.
General Grant passed in review
regiment of royal Bersaglieri troop
in front of the palace at Naples, and was
delighted, according to the local reports,
by their splendid drill.
The governor of Guatemala has given
large tract of land to two American
gentlemen, on condition that they shall
cultivate it in the highest style of
American agriculture.
"My DEAR" said wife to her hus-
band, "I really think it is time we had
a greenhouse" "Well, my love, paint
it any color you please red, white, or
green will suit me, responded the hus-
band.
eli. where did you get them
trousers ?" asked an Irishman of man
who happened to be passing with
pair of remarkably short trousers on.
"I got them where they grew"
was the indignant reply. "Then, be
me conscience" said Paddy, "you've
pulled them year too soon y
M. Hughes, the Marseilles journalist
who lately killed another journalist in
duel, has written from Italy to say that
he will give himself up at a proper time.
He concludes his letter to the authori-
ties 81 will answer to the law with
my heart broken, but my head erect.
When we have killed a man in o duel
we are sufficiently punished by his
death.
Herr Zeitteles has devoted eleven
years to the study of the phylogeny of
the dog, and comes to the conclusion
that neither wolves nor foxes are in
volved in the descent, but that jackals
and the Indian wolf were the original
canine ancestors. The author recently
read a paper before the Dresden Natu-
ralist's Society "Isis," giving sketch
of his researches and the reasons for the
conclusions at which he had arrived.
Among the friends OF Lord Brougham
was lady who always expected
present when she received calls on the
anniversary of her birth. Lord Broug-
ham, called upon one of these days,
forgot his present, but with ready
presence of mind seized upon the finest
ornament he could find in the ante-room,
WEupDbl IL CulSlullN uP IL :" P'NSS ~
paper and presented it. The lady was
excessively pleased with the gift, and
never discovered that she had possessed
il before.
CHE DOES NOT COME"
The following lines were taken from
young lady's hymn-book, few days
ago, which she thoughtlessly left in
church,
az look in vain-he does not come;
Dear dear what shall do?
l can not listen as l ought
Unless he listens too.
He might have come as well as not
What plaques those fellows are
I'll bet he's fast asleep at home,
Or smoking cigar"
The "gold" gliding so profusely used
for ornamental purposes at the present
day is said to be silver leaf, turned
yellow and golden by the application OF
shellac. The discovery of the process
is accredited to German tinsmith, who,
while soldering q saucepan, accident
ally dropped upon the metal some OF
the rosin he had been using. This
changed the bright tin to sort OF dead
yellow, resembling gold. The applica-
tion of the observation which this
humble workman made years ago, ls the
gliding process of to-day.
Among the novelties of the New York
cat show is a sleek, gray creature that
can play tag, hide and seek, and skip
the rope 4; black cat that has never
been blest with teeth, but which en-
joys life very we'll without them ;
"Jacob "a white and gray that former
ly belonged to the Brooklyn fire depart
ment, and rode to all the fires on the
engine, but now, being fifteen years
old, he has retired from active service ;
the " nautical cat" only four years old,
that has crossed the ocean sixteen times;
"Mother Puss," whose kittens, 173 in
number, are scattered the wide world
over and "Joe," performing cat that
sits in q cage with canary-birds, and at
his masters bidding, but with a protest.
ing NEW touches off cannon without
blinking.