The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-12
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l misunderstanding to prosper.

An notwithstanding to prosper.
Always best when rare-Family broils.
Philadelphia is to have school for
silk culture.
Minnesota millers are now shipping
direct to Europe.
The increase of the population of the
United States is 100000 year,
1t is 1892 miles across the continent
from Philadelphia to San Francisco.
The total amount of lumber cut last
year is set down at 1884 ,2l6,000 feet.
A three cent stamp becomes sent
stamp after you have mailed your letter.
Good buy" as the overjoyed sales
man said when the liberal customer
turnedto go.
The flaming circus advertisement is
apparent once more throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
Scientific men generally believe that
the bed of the Pacific Ocean was once
above water, and inhabited by men.
In the Arctic regions, when the ther-
mometer is below zero, say thirty de-
grees, people can converse mile apart.
An ambitious young writer having
asked, "What magazine will give me
the highest position quickestP" was told:
"a powder magazine, if you contribute
a fiery article"
A correspondent in Baltimore paper
says that in q case of terrible burning,
followed by lockjaw, which came under
his observation, the patient was cured
by the application of dog fat.
Nine. Catacazy, wife Of the Russian
Minister at Washington, during Grants
administration, is dead. She had the
reputation of being the handsomest
women at the national capital.
Father" said cobbler's lad, as he
was pegging away at an old shoe, "they
say that trout bite good now." "Well,
WELL" replied the old gentleman, "you
stick to your work and they won't bite
youH'
Any one who wants a printing press
has now the chance of purchasing, the
one which Napoleon carried with him
to Moscow, and which fell into the
hands of the Russians during his retreat
1t is now at St.. Petersburg, and the
owner offers to sell it for 1000 roubles-
about $3.50.
Delaware and Rhode Island are the
sleeve buttons of the Western Hemi-
sphere.-Ne,O York Herald. And Ken
tucky furnishes the studs.-Boston Post.
Ana New 1OrK furnishes ulle rings
Albany ArguS. And Missouri the Vest.
Chicago Newspaper Union. And Wash
ington the Schurz.
Ossehasonlito Northumberland Ldpob
is the title of a little fortnightly journal
published in Kolozsvar, Hungary, whose
columns contain original articles in
French, German, English, italian, Span
ish, Portuguese, Morse, Swedish and Mag
var. Often the poems are followed by
translations into several languages.
A father said to an old acquaintance
who came to condole with him on the
unmanageableness of his two sons, who
had committed a burglary in the next
town and had been sentenced to prison:
1T is pretty rough on me to have them
both go to once, but there is one thing
to it-when it comes night now, you
know where them boys be-"
The daily circulation OF the most
popular newspaper in the City of
Mexico, with a population of 200, 900,
does not exceed 1900 copies. All the
newspapers in the republic aggregate a
consumption of only about 800 reams a
month; quantity that many single
mills in the United States could supply,
and yet not run fourth of the time.