The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What an oarsman likes" A real good
time"
The total number of American patents
extant and expired is more than PIG, 900
The man who runs up large bills is n
man of some account YOnkerS Sdtes-
man.
The mosquito almost always succeeds
in getting a speech from the person it
honors with serenade.
Next year will be a very prosperous
one for dealers in smoked glass. No less
than seven eclipses are advertised.
"Those whom the gods love die
| young" That's what benomes of all the
honest advertising agents. -Middletown
IrunScriDt.
Fort Wayne, Ind, has professional
I frog catcher, who works the canal from
that city to Defiance, Ohio. He some
times catches as high as 5000 frogs on a
single trip, which retail from twenty-five
to seventy-five cents per dozen.
| There are very few feminine criminals
in India. The average prison popula-
tion in Bombay is | to l,Sl5 of the total
population but that of the female pri-
soners is only to 23,5O0. This is at
tributel to the subiection of women, and
the absence of drink.
There was a moments lull in the de-
bate, and then q member known as
"Old Reliable" spoke up: "Why, down
to Arizona, when lived thar, it was SO
hot that they used to have to splice two
thermometers together SOS to get any
idea of the heat, and even then the quick
silver would spurt over the top one
sometimes"
"Walter, do you think the stars are
inhabitedp" she said glancing at him
with an expression that showed what
confidence she had in his superior wis
dom. "Clara," he replied, "your father
only allows me ten dollars week, and
you can't expect any but high-priced
clerk to answer that question. ."-A,,-
dreaO's Bdzdr.
CAsABIANCA.
The boy stewed on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
And when they shouted, "Leave the wreck"
He turned and hotly said,
"Tm gon' down with this ERE ship
Hulk, mast, jibboom and spanker;
And, when Pve made my brny trip,
You'll find Casa-by-anchor."
American Punch.
A London paper describes the assegais
used by the Iulus, stating that the name
"assegai" or "hassagaie (which is
nearer the native worlds derived from
the tree from which the wood used in
making those weapons is usually taken.
This wood has peculiar properties. being
brittle and at the same time slightly
elastic, and spears made from it quiver
in their fight, a movement upon which
the accuracy of their aim and their great
penetrating power depend.
"Say, mister" said an urchin to a gal
liant protector of the peace, there's a
cnl1n,t hno,, ct,I1nly with hon a
fell n fearful way!'' "Where is hep'
asked the excited peeler. "Just around
the corner!' And it wasn't till he
rushed madly around and discovered a
man sitting down and wrestling with
the sunbeams with II pocket handker-
chief that he took in the situation.
Meanwhile the boy remembered that he
had been sent on an errand just two
hours and u quarter prcviously.-Yon-
kcrS Gazette.
MIDSUMMER IDYL.
Thou art so near and yet so lar,
20 flmy, pale mosquito bar
In silent watches of the night,
When owlets moan and bats disport
And cats upon the woodshed court,
We stretch our hands to thee so white
To pluck thee round us all about.
Lest flies baspheming find us out
BY dnwning morning light.
Thou art Sc near and yet so far,
Coquettish, = mosquito bar!
Some nail have cAched thee on the fool
Perchance some hook upon the wall
Impedes thy graceful, sheltering fall;
Yet when the dreary night is DER
We find thee splattered on the bed
Entwined about our feet and head
clinging' gauzy bore!
Dr. Enward G. Lorng speaks in Har-
pcr's Mdgazine of persons not taking
proper care of their eyes us follows:
Whatever an ounce of prevention may
be to other members of the body, it GER
tainly is worth many pounds Of cure to
the eye. Like II chronometer watch,
this delicate organ will stand any
amount of use, not to say abuse, but
when once thrown off its balance, it
very rarely can be brought back to it's
original perfection of action, or, if it is,
it becomes ever afterward liable to re-
turn of disability of function or the scat
of actual disease. One would have sup
posed from this fact, and from the fact
that modern civilization has imposed
upon the eye an ever increasing amount
of strain, both rs to the actual quantity
of work done and the constantly in
creasinO brilliancy and duration of the
| illumination under which it is per-
formed, that the greatest pains would
have been exercised in maintaining the
organ in condition of health, and the
greatest care and solicitude used in its
treatment when diseased. And yet it is
safe to say that there is no organ in the
body the welfare of which is so p crisis
tently neglected as the eye"
Just Like Man.