The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-28
Items Of Interest.

make him quail. This is fact in natu-
raj history.
"I can't undertake, wife, to crafty all
your whims; it would be as much as my
life is WORTH" "Oh, sir, that's nothing"
Twas ever thus from ohildhood's hour
We've seen our fondest hopes decay
The fire went out, the batter's sour
We can't have buckwheat cakes to-day!
The first hours of slumber are the
sweetest. If ever man sleeps the
sleep of the just, it is when he's just
asleep.
Immense beds of copper have been
found at Blue Hill, Me-, and in the
neighboring town of Sedgwick silver
veins of much promise have been un-
covered, the ore assaying from 800 to
$500 ton.
What beautiful example of simplici-
ty in dress is shown some of the follow
ers of fashion by that domestic animal
the cat, which rises in the morning,
washes its face with its right hand, gives
its tail three jerks, and is ready dressed
for the day
Gilmanton, N. H., has lady farmer,
Mrs. J. d. Piper, who, though over sixty
years of age, owns and manages a farm
of seventy-five acres. The past sum-
mer she has herself done all her farming,
planting, hoeing, harvesting and other
farm work, with the exception of hay
ing.
TWO REASONS.
| When kiss thee on thy lips,
'Tis my own love to impart
For between those sweet rose-buds
Lies the doorway of thy heart,
When kiss thee on thine eyes,
'Tis to bid thy love-tides roll
| For beneath those velvet lids
| Are the fountains of the soul.
A schoolboy being requested to write
composition upon the subject of pins
produced the following "Pins are very
useful. They have saved the lives of a
great many men. women and children
in fact whole families" "Aow SO ?"
asked the puzzled teacher. The boy
replied: "Why, by not swallowing
them"
In 1876 snakes and wild animals in
India killed 1928 persons and "a, $50
head of cattle. There were slain %, $40
wild animals and 212, 81 snakes, rewards
to the amount of $62, 287 being paid for
their destruction. There were killed
by snakes Is, 946 persons, by elephants
SO, by tigers 917, by leopards l56, by
bears 1913, by wolves S87 and by hyenas
40. The animals destroyed were 4: Ele-
plants 4 tigers 1888; leopards 3,76S;
bears 1852; wolves 5,976 and hyenas
1855.
Walter S. Harley and Robert Fish
burne, of WATERFORD, s. c., were
brothers in-law. They quarreled in
consequence of some opprobrious Ian
guage addressed by the former to the
latter. Fishburne sought to make Har-
ley withdraw the offensive words. He
declined to do so, and challenge fol-
lowed; they met at point few miles
from Savannah; Harley discharged his
pistol in the air, and Fishburne sent a
bullet into Harley's body, infiicting
mortal wound.
A narrow escape from singular acci
dent occurred in the hunting field in
England the other day. The Atherstone
hounds, n celebrated pack, were in pur-
, suit of fox, which tried to escape by
, ]eaping into q stone quarry, eighty feet
deep, but was killed by the fall. The
! leading dog of the pack also leaped in
{ and was dashed to pieces, and the others
would have followed had not the men
employed in the pit, seeing the danger,
: formed line upon the brink and driven
the dogs back.
!, For many years past in an eastern
= 7 city a letter addressed to "Philir
Gregory, Esq" has been dropped every
, day into the mail, with no indication oi
u the place of residence of the person fol
whom it was intended. All began, MY
, own darling Philip" and ended, "Youl
!, faithful and affectionate Mary" and ex
pressed the writer's undying love and
t confidence that her lover would return
:, Now suddenly the letters have ceased
v and the clerks in the dead letter Office a
a Washington really feel lonesome ant
sad.
Mrs. Angela Podesta- Onetta died re
= Gently in Cincinnati at the remarkable
d age Of one hundred and nin'
e years and one day, after being confined
u u to her bed only three days. For abou
y y three months previous she had beel
. alling somewhat, but she did not take t.
', her bed until the Wednesday precediRl
,, her death. Her last hours were painless
- and her death came as calmly as If sh
y were going to sleep. Mrs. Podesta
u Onetta was born Jan. 10. 1859, in tn
J village of Vignoio, Italy. At the ago O
% twenty she was married to Podesta, b.
y whom she had eight children, four boy
: and four girls. Her second marriag
was to wandering musician nance
Onetta, when she was eighty six year
l. of age. When 100 years old she dance
? all night at ball in Cincinnati.