The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-01-02
Items OF Interest.

The best illustrated paper-Green-
back.
Sunbeams should be used in build
ing lighthouse.
Offal to contemplste-Th contents
of the garbage cart.
The upshot Of the matter was that he
fred his pistol in the air.
The first temperance society in this
country was organized in 1908.
A man feels the need of a good char
acter most after he has lost one.
Eight tons of paper are used daily in
the manufacture of paper collars.
There is no good reason why it should
be 80, but doll babies are always girls.
It takes one-third of Russia's revenue
to pay the interest ON her national debt.
Always build pigsty with great de-
liberation, and in the sow-west corner
of your lot.
Within twenty-four hours after Pas
sanate's attempt on King Humoert's
life, the italian king had received 4,C00
dispatches of congratulation on his es-
cape, and Signor Carroll $500.
A clergyman in Rockland, III, has
found that even paralytic stroke has
its compensations. Though disabled
by it, the shock unstopped his ears and
opened his eyes, for before he was both
deaf and blind.
An exchange gives recipe for making
Russian name. It's as follows Take
three alphabets and shake them up in
hat throw on q table, like dice pick
out those that fall right SIDE up, stick
them in line, and add either the
"itch" or "koff," and you have gen.
nine, full-hedged Russian generals
name.
The drunkenness of Edgar Allen Poe
was recently under discussion by
Richmond temperance society. A speak
er dwelt on the poets disgraceful death.
DIR. Mason, who attended him in his
last illness, replied He died like n
gentleman. For days before his death
he utterly refused stimulants of all
kinds to allay his nervous excitement,
and died a sober man, truly penitent for
his past career"
When Leitch Ritchie was travelling
in Ireland, he passed man who was
painful spectacle of pallor, squalor and
raggedness. His heart smote him, and
he turned back. eff you are in want"
said Richie, with some degree OF peev-
lshness, "why don't you beg ?" "Sure
it's begging 1 am, Yer honor" You
didn't say word" Gov coorse not,
yer honor; but see how the skin is
speakin' through the holes Of me trous-
ers and the bones cryin' ont through
me skin Look at me sunken cheeks,
and the famine that's starin' in me eyes
Man alive! isn't it begin 1 am with a
hundred tongues2"
THE OTHER SIDE.
1.-TWO sides there are to every tale,n
And every proyerb, too;
And have sought to here present
Some truths in aspects new.
I" The early bird will catch the worm,
We in our youths were taught
But while the late worm sleeps in peace
The early worm is caught.
1.-THE rolling stone collects no moss"
Another fact that ts hurled
At many youth who feels inclined
To roam about the world
But there's one truth that seems TO be
Hid from our elders eyes:
The stone that changes not its place
Can never hope to rise.
"a quail that's caught" I've hesrd IL said,
O. Is worth two pheasants free"
But just TT fleet, the capture one
Will sooner eaten be.
"secure the pence" the sages say
9 The pounds will besecure;
But il you have the dollars safe,
The dimes will be, I'm sure.
'Tis well to look before you strive
To pierce the silsen shield,
II what is on the other side
Will just as quickly YIELD
Just so 'tis we'll to see, ere you
Disseminate your lore
II those whom you would strive TO teach
We're pot as learned before