The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Son-shine--- made by bootblack.
There are in Texas 75,59i, $50 acres of
land.
Approaching a crisis---Walking toward a
restless girl baby.
The peanut crop this year is estimated at
100000 bushels.
There are fourteen ex-governors in the
United States Senate.
There is a population in the French colo
geria, Of 5,49S,41O.
1t is very dangerous to make up your
judgment concerning young lady's weight
by measuring her sighs.
A schoolhouse is to he built at Lead.
vile, Col, which shows that the Lead
Williams desire to improve their minds.
Father is that a goose---that big white
bird p "No, my boy, that bird is the
swan-..that immaculate giraffe of the
wavew
." Smile when you can," is the latest
thing we are asked to do by those gratui-
tousy admonitory beings, the poets. No
one can smile when he cant. .---Saa Francisco
Post.
The manufactures of the State of New
Hampshire amounted to over 100000
last year, among them being S30,5SS, 200
worth of cotton goods, S11 ,766,000 of boots
and shoes and 1929, 900 of woolens.
The German government has prohibited
lectures on emigration, lest the alluring
pictures of an easier and happier life in
other lands should encourage young men in
escaping the detested years OF barrack life.
\ chat with some people makes you feel
as if you'd Just had a cold shower bath and
couldn't find towel, while chat with
others makes you feel as if you'd had a
pleasant walk in the sunshine.---A P1,-
dence.
Half the money that is spent for polite
III this country in one year would establish
every poor man in the country on good
arm, with all the machinery and stock he
would need to support his family comforta-
bly.---Psck's Sm.
Prof. Benz. Pierce, of Harvard College,
says the whole number OF comets which are
capable of being seen from the earth, and
which are contained in our suns sphere,
may be fairly estimated at over five
billion.
A comma may be the shortest pause known
10 man, put from tle breNlty OF the stay OF
old Tray, who thrust his nose into dish OF
milk at which puss was feeding, the other
day, We were led to doubt if in the expert
ence of the dog he ever found anything to
make a shorter stop at than the cats paws.
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The largest infant at birth of which there
is any authenticated record was born in
Ohio on the 18th OF last January. The new
born boy was twenty-three and three quar-
ter pounds in weight (the ordinary weight
being about six pounds), and thirty inches
in height (the ordinary height being about
twenty inches). The circumference of the
head was nineteen inches, and the foot was
five and half inches in length. Six years
ago the same woman became the mother of
a child eighteen pounds in weight and
twenty-four inches in height The size and
weight of the babe, though extraordinary,
are proportionate to the size of the parents
The mother, Mrs. NJ. V. Bates, of Nova
Scotia, is seven feet and nine inches high,
and the father, Kentuckian, is seven feet
seven inches high. The London Hospital
Museum can boast no longer of its giant
infant, which j. only twenty-four inches
high, with the head thirteen and half
inches in circumference.