The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sound advice-A locomotive : whist e
to tell the people to get off tn track
Picdytu,e.
Had dime my way, oh, beauteou,
maid, I'd steal q kiss!" he cried. "Then
I'd do ten times worse than that-rd
dollar!" she replied. .-Eugene Field.
An engineer on the Grand Trunk rail
way is said to have run single engine
100000 miles within period of four
years and three months, without repairs.
This is said to be an unprecedented feat.
nnd creditable alike to engine and en-
gineer.
A common way of imposing upon ig
norant prospectors in the mining regions
of Nevada is to shoot gold filings into
the ground from gun. Even brass is
made to serve the purpose, and by this
means many worthless claim is sold at
a high price.
Nothing is lost in France. The orange
blossoms and grass in the public gardens
of Paris are sold to the highest bidder,
and ut country railroad station visi-
tor lately saw sale of the grass on the
embankments. The purchasers were
peasants wives.
The importation of American leather
into Europe has increased over one hum
dred per cent. since 1873. In that year
Europe received 659,9l2 hides, and to
Judge by the exports from the United
States thus far this year it will receive
at the close over 100000.
"You love meP" echoed the fair
young. creature, as her pretty head oiled
he said. terderiy, "you are my own and
only" "Hush!". she interrupted,
don't say that-be original. That
sounds too much like Barnum's show
bills.-Rockland Courier.
There is said to be one very picturesque
parsonage in Sitting Bulls camp-a Nez
Perce, named Step-sO-called, it is sur
missed, from the fact that he has no legs
and can't walk an inch. His lower
limbs, left arm and part of the right
hand have been frozen off He is strap
ped to his pony, and his weapon is
horse-pistol, which he manipulates with
the stump of his dexter fin.
A young lady graduate in neighbor..
ing county read an essay entitled EN-
ployment of Time" Her composition
was based on the text. "Time wasted
is existence; used, is life" The next
ofditferent shades and commenced work.
ing n sky-blue dog with sea-green ears
and pink tail on q piece of yellow can
vas. She expects to have it done by
next Christmas.-NorriStoaCn Herald.
The surgeon had prescribed bath for
u soldier who was ailing, and ordered
that he be conducted to an adjoining es-
Enlistment by a sergeant. At the end
of an hours waiting at the bathroom
door, the sergeant, hearing no noise, en-
tered the room and found the soldier
seated by the side of the bath-tub. The
water was as it was when the soldier
went into the room, except that its level
had been perceotibly lowered. MA fol,
sergeant" said the soldier, "you may
put me in the guard d-house if you want
70, but | can't drink another drop!"-
The practice of weighting" silks mas
begun to excite serious attention, Some
idea of the extent to which silk adultera-
ton is carried may be formed from re-
cent statements by Justus Wolff. He
says the public is made to pay the full
price for mate rial containing only one
third of silk and two-thirds of sub
stances which are not only of little
value in themselves, but injurious to the
small quantity of genuine silk. u
know English manufacturers who send
their silks to France to be dyed black
and then returned for working up, be-
cause in France they are able to increase
the weight of silk while dyeing it black
much more than they can do in Eng
land. The result of such practice is a
beautiful black silk fabric, changing into
rags remarkably quick in the possession
of the buyer." He recommends analyses
of weighted" black silk fabrics to be
made and the results published, with the
names of the firms manufacturing or
selling the adulterated goods.