The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-07
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
Army Observation-Disclosures and re-
views.
How to find girl out-Call when sho
isn't in.
The man who would like TO see you
The blind man. n
Boston contains the only cymbal fac
tory in the land.
Do not entertain visitors with your
own domestic troubles.
cold Nick {" is none other that Nickr,
the dangerous water-demon of Scandi-
navian legend.
There is a parish in Wales, near the
famous tubular bridge, named Slanfair-
pwllgwngwillgogerbwlidysi
With all his treachery and mean
tricks, there's one thing the Indian
ought to have little credit for. He
never steals an umbrella. Cincinnati
Breakfast Table.
Every man who makes any preten-
sions to sight must have seen snow
squall some time in his life, but show
us the individual who ever heard one
squall. .-OU city Derrick.
"Surely you must be tired, aunty.
I can't think how it is you are able to
work so long" "Lawks bless you,
nv dear, when / onst sits down to 1T
like I'm just too lazy to leave off.
LIFE AND DEATH.
On parent knees Naked newborn child
Weeping thou satst, while all around thee
smiled;
So live that, sinking in thy long last sleep,
Thou then mayest smile while all around ttes
weep.
The publisher Of weekly newspaper,
in Illinois, prints in each number
chapter of the Bible, and upon being
ridiculed for it by it's contemporaries re-
marks editorially: eve publish moth
ng but what is news to our readers"
Influenza affords familiar example
Of an epidemic disease, a whole com
| munity being often attacked in the
course of a few hours. From this it may
be inferred that the occurrence of this
disease is connected with some particular
condition of the atmosphere, but what
that condition is. is not yet known to
science.
A distinguished politician, while
conversing with lady the other evening"
became piqued by her attention to q
beautiful dog that was resting its bead
confidingly in her lap and impatlently
asked, +" How is it that lady of your
intelligence can be so fond of dog p
because he never talks politics" was
the prompt reply.
Recent excavations at Big Boone
county. KY, have brought to light an
immense number of animal remains.
Among them are immense teeth, tusks,
| &hop, ,.ihc cninol
columns-in fact there are bones for
nearly every part OF the mastodon, be-
sides many that are not like any ever
before found in that place.
HUMILITY.
"The bird that scars on highest wing
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth must sweety sing,
Sings in the shade when all things rest.
In lark and nightingale we see
What honor hath humility.
Inquiry into the wicked ways of Phila-
delphia's mock-auction men revealed
that they hired two OF three women to
attend the sales, carefully inspect arti-
cles that were to be sold, start the bid
ding at the articles cost price, and run
it up among themselves until an out
slider put in bid It was then
promptly knocked down-to the out
slider.
A post-office clerk in Russia was
found to be constantly in trouble with
the stamps. The accounts would come
wrong. Sometimes there was not enough
money in return for stamps sold, and Oh
other occasions there was too much.
This made dishonesty on his part less
likely, but it was incomprehensible how
he could make the accounts 80 en-
tangled. At length it was discovered he
was color blind, and could not distin-
guish red from green stamps.
The sea mouse is one of the prettiest
creatures that lives under water. It
sparkles liks diamond and is radiant
with all the colors of the rainbow, al
though it lives in mud at the bottom OF
the ocean. 1t should not be called a
mouse, for it is larger than big rat. 1t
is covered with scales that move up and
down as it breathes, and glitter like gold
shining through feecy down, from,
which fine, silky bristles wave, that
constantly change from one brilliant tint
TO another.
As William drew his Susy near,
He whisper d to his bride:
"Though queer it sounds, love. my dear,
To live by ,Suey's side" Exchange.
When years have passed and Sue his head
Has clutched, as wives oft do,
Poor Will will wish that ho had wed
Some other sort Of Sioux.
-Boston Globe
Dom Pedro, while returning to Brazil
in the autumn, wrote on the steamer O
letter to an American friend, which let,
ter contained this passage: "In few
days 1 will see my native land, which
God has so wonderfully endowed, and
hope that that which have learned dur
ing my absence from her will enable MT
to be useful to her. One thing / cal
truly say is, that 1 return with earnest
longings, and with a passion stronger
than ever for progress.