The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

France has penny savings banks for
schoolboys. y .,,iI 4.,..f = -n+
Postal cards, now almost universal,
started in Austria in 1865.
The dentist, like the farmer may
reckon his profits per acre. ~"
He who gives you fair words feeds
you with an empty spoon.
"Swans sing before they die" They
have to, if they sing at all.
"None but the brave deserve the
hair" is the way the Indians put it.
The saddest words of tongue or pen.
=" Here's that collector of bills again.
There is a tea plantation at George
town, S. c., and it is paying its owner.
Fifty is the youth of old age; forty the
old age OF youth. So says Victor Hugo.
Cane City, Kentucky, has been ship
ping its strawberries of the second yield.
In San Francisco bay are ninety-two
varieties of fish for food. ..1er,
America had $50 exhibits at the
Industrial Exhibition at Sydney, Aus
tralia.i Ht 81 - r"rA Ars.|
A new kind of sweet potatoe is culti-
vated in Kern county, Cal, picked speci-
mems of which weigh from fifteen to
eighteen and twenty-five pounds.
Enterprising miners are mining gold
on the ocean beach in Currey county,
Oregon. The gold is found in deposits
of black sand on or near the beach.
Letter writing in Great Britain goes
largely ahead Of this country, it being
thirty-one per capita there, compared
with sixteen per capita here, for the past
year.
E. E. Mack, of Albany, New York
has secured hackers and is excavating a
long mining tunnel near Idaho Springs,
Idaho. The tunnel will be four miles
long.
The Cincinnati Commercial gives pre-.
ference to canal boats as safe means of
travel, for the reason that the boats never
run off from the track, and the propel-
ling mules seldom explode.
Some one has invented machine for
breaking the cactus into a mass of white,
elastic fiber, which will be used in
making mattresses. 1t is said the cost
of mattresses will be reduced forty per
cent. ,t
France, Germany, Italy Austria and
Switzerland have agreed that their EN-
bassies and consulates shall send home
INDECENT persons of their respective ma
tionalities at half the ordinary railway
fares. ...t ..,r '..-... ......
1t is pleasant forla man to go early to
church sociable, and then sit in the
parlor and listen to every fresh male ar
rival knock his new silk off the top peg
in the hat rack, down to the floor
HdaUkeye.
The Norristown Herald tells goot
story about a man who purchased an
alarm clock one day and returned it the
next afternoon. He said that it made
such an awful racket in the morning
that he couldn't sleep. ...r
No boy of ordinary ability, who has to
manipulate the buck-saw and AK, and
furnish the family with fire-wood, will
think of going to work before he has
selected convenient place where he can
hide the knots that split hard.-OSDego
Times.
The new machine for the manufacture
ofpaper boxes, which threatens to revo-
lutionize the important Birmingham
company in Cleveland, Ohio. A single
machine is capable of producing IL, 600
complete boxes day.
A new occupation for the young men
who are filing UP Western Texas, seek
ing their fortunes, is to start "goose
ranches" One ranch has 5000 geese,
whose feathers are plucked every two
months. Each goose averages pound
and half 2 year, the feathers being
worth fifty cents a pound.
News comes from Peru, that an Amer
lean, knowing in the geology of coal oil,
has discovered more and better petrol
cum oil in that country than Pennsyl-
vania or California can boast. Already,
with boring tools in hand, he has more
flowing wells than he can handle. He
is making a fine quality of Illuminating
oil, and he has sent East for men, means
| and appliances.