The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-27
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The woman question: "Why did you
stay out till this unseemly hour, STRIP
Buffalo Cypress.
Joseph Abair, of Winooski, VT. is the
father of q boy six years old that weighs
one hundred and five pounds.
Caesars motto was to always be first,
but when it comes to fighting duel we
prefer to be second. d.-BoSton Post.
"The music at marriage procession"
says Heine, always reminds me of the
music of soldiers entering upon battle"
A new song is entitled "My Love She
is a Kitten" Kittens scratch like the
mischief, and so perhaps does his love.
-NorrtstoaOn Herald.
ave are living at present in the very
arms of tyranny" exclaimed western
scribe. Aha! just been married, have
youp-W Waterloo Observer.
A maiden lady of our acquaintance
Conclusions" having heard that men
sometimes jump that way.
The bureau of engraving hasn't sim
and the Rockland Courier wakes up and
yells, Neither have we."
w. T. Blackwell, the great tobacco
UldnuIdCIuTeT VI Dul udiu, IN. W, pays
more taxes to the government than any
one man in the world, to wit, $500 600 a
year, $4,000 a week, or over 81 ,42S per
day.
Experiments recently made on the
Lake Shore railroad prove that petroleum
can be successfully used as fuel for loco
motives with a great saving of money
beside doing away with smoke and
cinders.
A house too closely haded by trees
will be apt to suffer from dampness. In
building, let the living and sleeping
rooms, as far rs possible, face toward
the south, and thus gain the advantage
of the sunshine. The sun is Il great power
of health.
They were out driving. Said Theo-
dore: "What tree. Angelina, bears the
most precious fruit?" Angelina" "Oh,
Dory, 1 can't tell, unless it's cherry
| tree" Theodore looked unutterable
sweetness as he gazed into Angelina's
eyes and said, 1.-The axle-tree, darling"
The Choctaw nation, which numbers
about 1900 people, has forty schools
and two academies. 1t also pays for the
college education of twenty-five stu
dents in the States. The Office of super
intendent of education is elective, and
has been held by Choctaw for four
years.
The giraffe is n singular animal. IF
Romeo had been constructed on the
giraffe plan, the bplcony scene would
have been much more interesting. He
would have been enabled to "snatch
immortal blessings from her lips" with
out barking his shins in an Intellectual
endeavor to climb up stone WALL
NorristoWn Herald.
When two young people, with d sin
gleness of purpose and doubleness of
affection, sit up with each other, and
when the clock strikes twelve, he says
is it possiblepn and she says, "Why,
l didn't know it was so latep" you may
draw your conclusions that if the busi-
ness boom continues, a unified couple
will be hunting houseto rent in the
sring. Herald.
A young man not more than twenty
two years old, a son of one of our best
families, says the Burlington HaWkeye,
came into this Office yesterday and offered
us three dollrrs to print a paragraph
fatally poisoned. dying in indescribable
agony, from eating oysters ut church
sociable. We have enough mercy on
the young man to refrain from publish
ing his name, but the next time any man
tries to save seventy five dollars by a
three dollar paragraph in goes his whole
pedigree.
At the principal railroad stations in
India the native passengers are served
with water by a Brahmin, from whom,
, being the highest caste, all persons may
take without defilement. He goes along
the train with his brass vessels sudra
! for low caste man, stsops, and in his
open hands placed together and raised
! to the level of his mouth, receives the
precious liquid. The vessel of the
Brahmin is not touched, else he would
be defiled. A Brahmin asks water, anG
is served with it in the smaller vessels
from which he drinks, there being nc
defilement between Brahmin and Brah-
min. n.-NineteenM Century.