The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-31
Items of Interest.


The boneless wonder-a well done
steak.
"Put your lips on ice," is the latest
slang.
Very useful to the tiller of the soil
steers.
Highly connected-the man in the
moon.
In South America the cities are lighted
with castor oil.
Europe obtains her sole supply of shoe
pegs from America.
To cure bachelors aches-carry to
the patient eighteen yards of silk with
woman in it.
Under Spanish law man suspected of
crime can be kept il prison for five years
before the case is called.
Straws show which way the wind
blows. You can get the same informa-
tion from pan of ashes.
1t is said that when Jonah saw the
whale getting ready to swallow him he
looked "down in the mouth"
Those young ladies at fairs who sell
five cent pin cushions for $3 ought to be
arrested for robbing the males.
A little boy inquired concerning the
stars "Pa, what are those things up
there-are they little drops of sun ?"
An Irish lover remarked that it is a
great pleasure to be alone, especially
when your sweetheart is by your side.
Constantinople contains $50, 900 in
habitants. The old eastern empire
walls, twenty-one miles in circuit, still
surround it.
1t was the late N. P. Willis who dis
covered that King Henry VIII. always
married his wives first, and then axed
'em afterwards.
A Montana justice of the peace doesn't
splurge any when he marries couple.
He says: "Arise Grab hands !!
Hitched Six dollars"
A lady living near Cynthiana, KY,
has used the same six pins for twenty
years. She is eighty-three, but her
neighbors say she is the same old six
pins still.
In wrestling match between Luciep
Marc and a bear, in Cincinnati, Marc
succeeded in throwing the bear, but i'll
the struggle the bear bit off one OF
Mares fingers.
Enamored writing-master Ito young
lady pupil 81 can teach you moth
ing YOU hand is already very desira-
BILE one, and your rs are the most beau
tiful have ever seen.
The coffee plant thrives finely in
California, producing bean of strongly
aromatic flavor. 1t grows best in Gen.
tral and southern California, and it's
culture is becoming profitable.
"I say, Charley" said one friend to
another on meeting, "I hear our friend
Brown has been dabbling in stocks late.
ly; has he made anythingS" Yes,
says Charley, che has made an assign
ment."
After the failure of the late insurrection
in Japan, a richly-attired Japanese
young lady was found lying dead in a
castle moat, with her fathers head in
her left hand and bloody knife in her
right. The devoted heroine had cut off
her fathers head, at his command, and
then killed herself, that the two might
not be taken prisoners.
The heaviest court in the United
States, in proportion to the number of
its judges, is probably the court of ap-
peals of Kentucky. Chief Justice Lind
sey weighs 232 pounds, Judge Elliott
220 pounds, Judge Pryor 208 pounds,
and Judge Cofer 201 pounds. The
average weight is 215s pounds. If
wisdom and weight go together, then
Kentucky justice is all right.
There's nothing to exceed the diaboli.
cal satisfaction a man will take in an
nouncing to his wife, after he has got
his shirt on, that there is button miss
ing, and the keen delight he feels in
seeing her dance around the room after
a needle and thread, while she listens to
a lecture on carelessness, approaches
ecstacy. But look out when she gets
that button on, bites the thread off with
a snap and commences" There now"