The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-12-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pleasant quarters Twenty-fiye-cent
pieces.
The Utah delegate in Congress, Mr.
Cannon, has six wives.
Truth lies-When il is crushed to
earth. -NeW Yorb NeUs.
al like your impudence," as a pretty
girl said when her beau Kissed her.
A single property in California is halt
the size of Rhode Island.
Five children of Charles Dickens sur
vive him-three sons and two daugh-
ters.
To take out a patent in the United
| States, costs about $50, of which about
S25 goes to the solicitor.
Nh. Mori, who was once Japanese
minister at Washington, has been sent
to the cort of st. James
A salmon caught near Vancouver
island, on the Pacific coast, weighed
ninety. eight pounds.
1t is indeed brave man who has
courage enough TO peer into the future
as fer rs spring house-cleaning time.
Thirty-eight thousand five hundred
and forty one persons by the name OF
States government.
"Day-Aft fter- To- Morrow is the name
of Cherokee Indian chief. He is the
| brother of Procrastination.- - Wd'erloo
| Observer.
Every kind of leather of oak and
sumac tannage is produced in Cincin-
natl, there being thirty tanning estab-
! lishments there.
Asmany women learn to know their
husbands, they wish they had learned
to "No" "them when they were only
sweethearts.- s.-SeubenriH He; aid.
The Cane Growers association fin
ished its deliberations at st. Louis yes
terday. The other association for rails
ing Cain is still in session at Washing
ton Chicago Journal
The roses of p.easure seldom last
long enough TO adorn the brow of him
that pucks them, and they are the only
roses which do not retain their sweet
ness after they have lost their beauty.
He that embarks in the voyage of
life will always wish to advance rather
by the impulse of the mind than the
strokes of the oar, and maLy founder in
the passage while they lie waiting for
the gale.
Turning for the moment from affairs OF
State TO sporting matters, we note that
q Cincinnati gentleman yesterday broke
99S glass balls out of possible 600,
with the but end of an army musket.-
Cincinnati Enqatirer
A fashion letter says "pinched waists
are now thought vulgar" Fashion let
ters may say what they please. but rs
long as the owners of the waists don't
make fuss about it, young men will
continue to pilAch 'em-NorriS!OUR Her
dN.
Sc on;np in
Tennessee. Every water-mill and
saw-mil is saving it fast. Already
saO,OO worth has been shipped from
I.ewisburg. There is Il large demand
forit in London, and Tennessee people
expect great things Of the European
market.
A man fell through one Of the win
dows of his boarding house on West
hill the other day, and his distracted
landlady speaks of him rs "a pnneiul
roomer." But then she hardly knew
what she was saying poor thing.-Bnr-
Iington Rawkeye.
The NorrisIown HerdM regards ap-
urovingly the maintenance of the old
, custom Of flinging an old slipper after II
, bride, but holds the practice of ilinging
, lter IL woud-be SON in-law n heavy
boot containing the foot OF girls
} father as despicable.
f There are over $4,000 carriage manu-
, ftcturers in the United States, who enl-
= ploy upward of 100000 hands, pay
2 out from S2S, 600, 900 to S3l 900, 600 for
+, labor annually, and produced during
e the past twelve months upward o'
4 200, 600 carriages, amounting IT
= value to Sl25 100000.
: The number cf paper mills in tho
= United States have increased to Sl2, EN-
. y ploying %, 600 hands, and their aver
y age annual product is estimated q
3l7, 1897 tons of paper, valued at S6!,
= 600 900, and the capital invested II
= them is placed at si3, 100000.
\ The position of the Chinese in Brazi
:. is peculiar one. The government en-
y cou ages their introduction with tn
% view Of more extensive tea and sill
Il culture, while the people oppose Mon
!. gos on the ground that their immigra
,r lion will prevent that of the more dc
o. sirable Europeans.
,e Juries sometimes give very curlou
,t verdicts. One of the most remarkabi
A. was found by Washoe jury in cas-
w of miik-stenling. The prisoner wa
st tried on Il charge of stealing milk fror
NJ another mans cow. 1t was proved tina
a he had frequently milked the COW,
m night. thereby causing his neighbo
re great vexatiJn and annoyance. In
no jury desired to express in their Verdit
a their sense of the aggravated nature G
is the offense. They therefore found III
ID prisoner " gnilly of milking the cow
is the first degree. ."-IFacO (7sTdSl Tee
at phone.