The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-11
Items Of Interest.
Members of the tor,-coal dealers.

Members OF the t07l-c0al dealers.
Never tell weather. cock to pull down
his west.
Hugo has fought seven duels and has
come off Victor every time.
Grabbing is the favorite fun with
beaux and bellies at Fernandina.
The other day deaf mute was given
o hearing by police magistrate.
A st. Louis child weighed one hundred
pounds when thirteen months old.
The Yonkers Gazette says there is one
consolation, very few snow banks failed
last winter.
The people of England are not allowed
to raise tobacco. 1t is strictly prohibit
ed by law.
Let ers were invented in Phynicia, and
you cannot Phynicia education without
them.--Cyn. Sat. Night.
The proverb, "out of sight out of
mind, is no where more applicable than
in the case of an advertisement.
r. II. Babcock, blind man, has been
made doctor of medicine at Chicago.
He graduated with high honors.
Everybody" says an exchange,
s' likes radishes in Japan" It's mis-
take. We don't for one. We like ours
here.
The world can maintain sixty thousand
millions of people. It has never had
more than two per cent. Of that number
living at any one time on its surface.
The value of fruit crops in the United
States is estimated by the government
statistician at $140, 600, 900 annually, or
about half the value of the wheat crop.
There are about one million operators
engaged in the iron industries of the
United States. The entire value of
manufactured iron for one year is $780,
100000.
Under the new army regulations every
Prussian soldier has to carry in his
left trousers pocket the plaster, lint and
bandage necessary for first dressing of
q wound, so that in an emergency each
can help himself or comrade.
The most expensive railway car in the
world cost $35, 900, was completed last
autumn by the Pullman Company, and
has since been used in various parts of
the country by tourists able to pay for
its luxuries. It is O French fiat in
miniature.
What is the difference between a
tenant and the son of q widow? The
tenant has to pay rents; the son of
widow has not two parents.
The noblest lesson taught by life
To every great, heroic soul
Who seeks to conquer in the strife,
Is self-control.
There is very curious race of sheep
living upon an island in Englishman's
Bay, coast of Maine. They are nearly
as wild as deer, living almost entirely
upon sea-weed in the winter, also de-
vouring the small branches and shrubs
that grow upon the island.
We see it stated in scientific journal
that every adult man has fourteen hun:
dred square feet of lungs. That may
be about the right figure, but we can
name people who would walk a mile to
find a chance to bet that the man who
sells fish in the suburbs has more than
Table.
Two young farmers desired the exclu-
sive privilege of dancing with the same
quarrel, ending in an agreement to settle
batants and few friends went to barn;
but before beginning the fight one de-
manded that the other be searched, to
see if he had any weapon. The search
was not thorough, for the searched man
drew q knife, on finding that he was
being whipped, and inflicted mortal
| wound.
WHY HE DID IT.
He stood on his head in crowded street,
Ataplace where the knights Of the paste-brush
meet,
And attracted mob around him;
A riddle he couldn't well solve on his feet
Stared him full in the face and SO not to be
1t was thus on his head found hun.
The cause was as plain as the rose on your face.
Though perhaps you'd have thought it lunacy
case.
And declined any further to heed it,;
But the fact was sticker of bills in hurry,
Had posted bill upside down in his furry,
So he stood on his head to read it.
Some stupendous figures are furnished
| by the recent census of the British
Empire. Its total population is 1884,
$50, 900, or nearly double that of the
Roman Empire in its palmiest days,
while its territory, 7,750,000 square
miles, is almost five times as great. A
sixth of the queens subjects are Chris
tians, q little more than tenth Moham-
medans, over two-ffths Hindoos and a
fourth heathens of various sects. The
titled property holders of Great Britain
number 1856. 900.
"Hold the Fort" may be q grand
song, but is not appropriate for all oc-
casions. At least SO some people thought
when worthy deacon, on some ami
versary occasion, formed his Sunday
school in line and marched them along
the aisles himself in front, and all vipor-
ously singing "Hold the Fort" The
CONSERVATION which seized all parties at
the second
"See the mighty host advancing,
| Satan leading on"
can be better imagined than described.