The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Leadville, Colorado, is 10, 400 feet above
the sea.
At Marseilles, France, diphtheria ex-
SITS in fowls.
Bridal tours will be short this year II
he "old man y" is.
st. Louis claims to be the mule me-
tropolis of the world.
Did you ever see pretty milkmaid in
quan-dary p-Lukens.
A New York dealer in birds imported
last year 100, 900 canaries.
Water, when it becomes steam, is eX-
panded LOO times its original bulk.
The length of lady's train should
never be under foot.-Boston Post.
The elephant is afraid of baggage
smashers; he never checks his trunk.
Sitting Bulls favorite hair remedy is
warranted to bring the hair out-by the
roots.
1t is between the ages of twenty-five
and thirty years that most people be-
come insane.
The military chest captured at Isan-
dula (Zululand) by the Zulus contained
100000 in gold.
"You are beneath my notice. as the
balloonist said to the receding crowd OF
gaping citizens.-N. Y. Ne'CS.
By diigent observation, Sidney Bux-
ton has decided that dogs and horses are
the only animals sensitive to ridicule.
Tobacco is largely cultivated in Rus.
sia, and the seed used on the plantations
is from the United States and from Tur-
key.
Bismarck reads every word of advice
to him in the American newspapers, and
he does just as each newspaper think
best.
Cclluloid can be made to closely imi-
tate ivory, and is making great inroads
in the business of the ivory manufac-
turers. . t.r...
Putnam's winged atom is the smallest
of all known insects. Its body is only
Lao of an inch in length, and the
antenna only 100000.
According to Professor Trowbridge's
calculation, a man with an average step
lifts his own weight foot from the
ground in every twenty-three feet he
travels.
1t is curious fact that although rice
is the principal food Of the Arabs, not one
grain of it is grown in their country
1t is procured by them either from India
or Italy.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports
shower of several thousand herrings near
a cemetery in that city. They were not
picked, and there is not salt enough in
the stony to save it.
OH maiden sweet, with delicate feet,
Tripping the fair fields over,
What do you seek by the gurging creek
And amid the dewy clover?"
"Why, Mister" she said, "you don't know
beans!
I'm gatherin' yuller dock for green's"
-CiRcfnnaH star.
"You make me Think John William
said, dropping upon the sofa beside the
evening, "of n bank whereon the wild
thyme grows" % DO ~" she murmured.
. 1t is so nice, but that is pas step in the
hall and unless you can drop out of the
front window before get through speak
ing. you'll have little wild time with
him, my own, for he loves you not"
But John William didn't quite make it
and now YOU can make him grow wild
time and time again by simply asking
him what makes him go lame when he
walks. lie knows. but lie won't tell
burlington Hawkeye.
Hardly any better retort is on record
than one made to Professor Bonamy
Price. of Oxford University on his late
visit to this country. He was not re-
markable for his geniality, and at Il din
ner party, at which popular ideas of
heaven happened to be under discus
ion, he turned to DR.. ii. w. Bellows
and said would like to have your
opinion of heaven, DR.. Bellows, as that
of one who stands outside the pale of
Piled: My idea of heaven is that of a
great dinner party where we can have
everything we want without money and
without Price" All but one joined in
the laugh.-LadependeH