The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Champagne is made out of tomatoes
Figs grow and ripen well in Califor-
MIA.
Minnesota raises frogs for exporta-
tion.
A favorite word with women-The
| last one.
There is one good thing about mules
"A good appetite.
A prudent housewife makes her bread
when she kneads it.
1t is believed that the United States
will produce 100000 bales of cotton
this year.
The difference between some girls and
grapes is that you can't make the girls
whine by squeezing them.
There are sixty-three stations that
have a record of 2:25 or better, and of
these nineteen were bred in Kentucky.
During late balloon ascension speed
of not less than 100 miles an hour was
attained.
When the Constitution was adopted
there were seventy five postoffices in the
Union. Now there are over forty thou
sand
1t takes considerable produce to rear
animals on farm but mule, we have
observed, will rear itself.-Maratlson
Independent.
In Germany and Austria eminent
physicians are generally associated with
private hospitals, of which they are often
proprietors.
A Reading (Pa.) man only sixty-five
years old has been married three times
and is the father of eleven pairs of twins.
He has forty-one children in all.
There have been opened since the
present furry six thousand mines in and
about Leadville, COL, one hundred of
which will perhaps pay the ordinary
expenses of working and a little more.
Chicago thinks that it has the cham
pion cat of the United States. He stands
fifteen inches high in his stockings,
weighs fourteen pounds, and is exquis-
itely sweet tempered. The little dearl
Petroleum is now the fourth of the
export commodities ofthe United States,
although the first artificial we'll was
sunk only twenty-one years ago. The
annual production is now fifteen million
barrels.
On the farm of Albert Perro, at Bark
hamstead, Conn, is trinity of trees,
consisting of a birch, ma pie and hem
ioShs Oil .DOilCu tOSClllcl dU llG DuUU dUu
apparently springing from the same
roots.
1t is an interesting fact, not generally
known, that all the flags tor the navy,
war and treasury departments of the
United States are now made seamless,
the fabric being woven in white bunting,
and the red stripes and blue field being
dyed in pattern.
&" There's a leak in the soup kettle"
said Mrs. Barker to her husband, as a
gentle hint that he ought to have it
memded, and the unteeling brute re-
piled: LET the leak stay there, ard it
Will be great saving in enions."
Teacher-" Suppose that you have two
sticks of candy and your big brother
gives you two more, how many have
you got thenw Little boy Shaking his
head) -'' You don't know him; he amt
that kind of boy."-Galveston Nesos.
During the first six months of the
present year 800 ships were registered in
England as unseawOrthy, and were in
consequence detained from proceeding
TO sea, while l25 others were prevented
from sailing because overladen.
1t is singular how the expectations of
youth fall short of realization. Many
bright, promising boy, who starts out
with the full intention of being pirate,
never rises above the station of CLERK on
ariver steamer MiddIetooOn Transcript.
Ten thousand English miners are an
nually injured by accidents, and $50 of
these die. In Prussia the mortality is
much hi yher, a life being sacrificed for
every 20, 45l tons of coal raised, while in
England the proportion lis only one in
every 99,4l9.
The sorrowful tree, so called because
it dourisnes only in the night, is found
on the island of Goa, near Bombay. The
flowers, which appear soon after sunset.
close up or fall off as the sun rises. The
treehas afragrant odor, and blossoms at
mig ht the year round.