The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-21
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There is not single national bank in
Mississippi.
Japan has forty-three Christian
churches. Seven years ago it had none.
The manufacturing business is so dull
in England that ten mills do not make
cent.
When man uses his cane to help him
walk rapidly it becomes hurrycane.-
LoaoeH Coarter.
There is an establishment in New
Haven which manufactured 22,42i, ,772
fish-hooks last year.
The Japanese think paradise is eu-
closed by high board fence; and so
does the small boy in watermelon time.
The boy who has love for swimming
and nervous mother is one of the most
unhappy beings on the face of the earth.
We hear of men sowing wild oats, but
who ever heard of a woman sewing
anything but taresP-S. Louis Tines
Journal.
The Emperor Alexander, of Russia. is
devout, well intentioned. and physically
very weak. He lives simply and is given
to long walks.
The United States half-eagie contains
ll6 grains of pure gold, equivalent to
$5; the British sovereign, lib grains.
equivalent to S4.S7 of United Stat,s
money.
A young man went into restaurant
the other day. and, remarking that
"Time is money" added that us he had
half an hour to spare, if the proprietor
was willing he'd take it out in pie.
A Norristown man who was advised
to 90 to the Hot Springs for the benefit
E L.. h.. 1tI l., l,n
going to do it, as it was about us much
as he could do to worry through the hot
summers.-NorristOu Herald.
We are told that not one American
woman faints to-day where thirty years
Nothing like variety! They got tired
fainting in the same place, probably.
Men are not so easily fatigued by it.
Boston Courier.
One of series of Indian mounds,
twenty-five feet in diameter. has been
unearthed by the Albany Oll.) scien-
fists. Curiously carved drinking YES
sells of stone were discovered, and skulls
and bones, evidently belonging to an
ancient race of mound builders, were
found in profusion.
A British army captain and two
licutenants have been fined $50 each for
breaking into the bedrooms Of two
other officers and sprinkling pepper on
the carpets in order TO make them sneeZe
funnily when they returned. The com
plainant was the hndlady, whose furni-
ture had been damaged.
The blind PAGER, Sleepy Tom, slackcns
his speed toward the end of each heat
rs soon us he hears the crowd yell, for
he thinks he has finished. This ten
dency has to be met by talking and with
the whip, and even then counts seriously
against his success, although he has
made the best time on record.
Immense pumping machines were or
dered by the Hungarian government OF
English firms for the rebuilding of SEE.
gedin, at an expense of over $500 600
but this money proves to have been en-
tirely wasted. 1t has become evident
says the Syegeai Nap,o, that Szegedin car
be rendered dry only by the falling OF
the river that caused the inundation
For the money these enormous pumps
cost the banks of the river might lave
been fortified, and future Ovcrtiows tC
that extent guarded against.
Here is an incident of railroad trave
in Hungary. A mail train came to c
sudden stop in tract Ol open country
The passengers thrust their heads out O
the windows to see what had happened
A pig had leaped from n van and wa
skurrying away. The train EMPLOYEES
joined in pursuit, and the fugitive wa
hotly chased for twenty minutes. TheI
all returned to the waiting train excep
!, the official who had charge of the bag
,, gage vouchers, and the delay was pro
longed, but in vain, for him to com
, back. At the end of the journey tn
passengers could not get their trunk
until next day, when the voucher mai
! arrived