The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-10
Items OF Interest.


Edison is neglecting the waste power
of Vesuvius.
A plain speaker One who is the re.
verse of handsome.
Best things with which to open dead
lock-A skeleton key.
There are twenty five different kinds
of springs in Saratoga.
ain speaking Of persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own
Remember those with homes of glass
Snould never throw stone"
Why is cornetist always poor? Be-
cause he is continually blowing his
notes away, and the report of his wealth
is all in horn.
Mrs. Janville has "put up" twelve
cans of peaches, nine jars of plums and
bushel of pears, while her husband has
only "put up two stoves and his gold
watch. h.-NorristoWn Herald.
Mules are credited with being stub
born. Their obstinacy, however, is no
circumstance to that Of the strip of card
board one endeavors to coax into posi-
tion in an overgrown soft felt hat.
New York boasts of man who can
make straight Jump of over fourteen
feet. A Chicago man, however, has
beaten this. He dumped the town."
and hasn't been seen since. Some of
his employers funds went with him.
A young lady hesitating for a word in
describing the character of rejected
suitor sad "He is not q tyrant, not
exactly domineering, but >" Dogma
tic" suggested her friend. "No, he
has not dignity enough for that; l think
pupmatic would convey my meaning
admirably"
At an auction art sale, the other day,
a marine view was about to be knocked
down at handsome figure, when
bluff sailor, who had happened to wan
der in, exclaimed earnestly: "My stars,
if there isn't vessel drifting on to the
rocks with strong breeze blowing off
shore" The artist took his work home
to rearrange the wind.
| Acorns from remote antiquity have
been used for man and animals. The
ancient Britons lived mostly on acorns
so, says Galer, did the Arcadians.
They were prepared in many shapes,
boiled and roasted, dried and ground
and made into bread. At present they
are chiefly used for fattening hogs, deer
and poultry, though in Norway and
Sweden they are boiled and mixed with
cornmeal to make bread.
Dan Newman, of Sierra valley, CAL,
killed 205 blackbirds by emptying only
of them the other day. This may appear
vouched for by half dozen or 30 reli-
| Oh lo s,lp hrIlIol
| together in grain field where thresh-
ing machine had shortly before been in
operation, when Newman fired at them,
and each shot seemed to have brought
down a separate victim.
They were sitting on either side OF the
garden seat silence had bossed the oc-
casion for several minutes, when she
finally wagged her tongue thusly !:
"Jim, how many miles away do they
say the moon is?" "Well," said he,
with studious gravity, astronomers
differs believe Heliogabberlus cal
kerlated it was bout forty-seven bill
lion miles, but Dan Webster didn't
think it was more'n a couple of million
or so." 81 wish Gab'lus was right,
and was the moon, twas her sweet re-
joinder. And in about five minutes it
would have required an awfully clever
astronomer to calculate Jim's remote
ness.
In the years 1901 and 1903 Russia ex-
perienced great scarcity, and provisions
were extremely dear. The spirit Of the
times and the want of intelligence pre-
vented the application of remedies
suitable to the circumstance but
Boris Godounof, the czsr, in this crisis
showed himself the true father of his
people. He employed thousands in
erecting large stone buildings, furnish
ing everything that was necessary, and
giving them wages corresponding to the
increased price of the necessaries of
life and he distributed 10000 ronbles
daily for the relief OF the poor. He at
the same time compelled the boyars to
let him have the overplus of their maya
zines at half-price, to give to the poor.
Those who, Notwithstanding his care,
perished in this dreadful calamity, were
inferred at his own expense.
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