The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! A proved thing-A ship.
Cold mullins -Ragamurlins.
A moving sight Old cheese.
You can't beat porcelain egg.
| A judges position is trying one
Post.
Did the man who ''shot at random"
hit it? . ......
How strange it is that hot words
should produce q goodness. ......
1t is reported That the Indians in
| Florida now number only 300.
No hotel porter ever tried to smash an
| elephants trunk. .-NeW York Neacs.
The siren 9Th of in elephant is cacula
ted us equal to that of $50 men com bined
| BY new law the French postoflicc
undertakes the collection of small bills
in the provinces.
The Philadelphia Times says that girls
who sing in hotel parlors have conspicu-
ously large mouths.
| 81 expend good deal of pancs at my
work." as the glazier said to the window
sash -New York Mail. ...
Mr.. Barry Sullivan, the English actor,
prides himself on having play ed Hamlet
more than $500 times in all quarters OF
the globe.
"All's we'll that ends well, :" said vic
tim of the toothachc, us his swollen
cheeks resumed their former size.-Dd1a-
ielSonUiHe Sentinel. ..a...s.
A lad being asked" What is Rhode
Island celebrated forP" replied: . 1t is
the only one of the New England States
which is the smallest"
The official returns of the registrars of
Ireland for the second quarter of the
year contain II record of the death of
persons aged respectively l05, lO7 and
III. ........
Two boys have been arrested in Paris
for cutting buttons from mems coats.
1t was learned that they collected
dozens IL day and sold them to obscure
tailorS. r .... -...
The Touring mill industry in the United
States employs $4,000 men in 25, 900 mills,
turning out yearly 10000, ,0o0 barrels of
flour, of which 4,OO0,000 are exported to
foreign countries. -.
Tie worlds wheat crop in 1879 is put
at $40, 600, ,00O,-not much above a
bushel to every human being in the
world; and much wheat is consumed by
the lower animals.
New Hampshire's manufactures last
year amounted to over 500, 900, ,000, among
them being 800, 5o6, 500 WORTH of cotton
goods, SIl,7O9, 900 of boots and shoes,
and so 222, 900 of woolens. II .t
OF the 8O,250,OOO English-speakingp peo-
pie in the world, H,750,000 are Eplsco-
palians, IA 100000 are Methodists,. 49,
500, 600 Roman Catholics. 100000 Pres
byterians, S,00O,0 900 Baptists, and 7,000,
600 Congregationalists. r.- ..s.
We believe l. stands for fifty, according
the Roman notation, and that is the rea-
son why young man who had just in
herited fifty dollar legacy won the con-
sent of the girls iather by telling the old
man he had just been left a bare l. of
money.-Keokuk Constitution.
Learning from physiological sources
that carrying pitcher OF water on the
head would conduce to graceful polse
of the system, n downtown girl tried the
experiment. She hasn't paid Tor the
pitchef vet, and she is ;snXiously inquir-
ing for, Something to take water spots
out of her hest: silk,-TNeiO HqvS's Req
: lister. ... ...t.. .-
"Im sitting on this tile, Mary"
He said in accents sad % Hs.
Removing from the rocking chair FetE
The best silk hat he had; ,.L
And while he viewed the shapeless mass,
, That erst was trim and neat g. "a
: He murmpred, F" Would il had been felt,
Y Before took my seat"
e ''t'-' "" ''- : Faco5 Strauss
= james Stewart, twa I've. year-old son ot
: James Stewart, residing near Willy
c Neck, Dorchester county, Md WAS sen
g into an out-field to make Smother, tc
e keep the mosquitoes from the cattle
d 1 Not coming back after reasonable tim,
d had elapsed the father went, into. tn
e field. to search for him. He was fount
n lying face downward on the ground dead
i his mouth, throat, nose and ears liter
= ally packed with mosquitoes.
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