The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A thief steals in fit of abstraction.
Great hoax from little falsehoods
grow.
It was the man that fell downstairs
who spoke of his extended trip.-StateS-
man.
It is better to have loved short girl
than never to have loved tall.-MOd-
ern Aryo.
The tramp question: Madam, will
von nlease rive me some old clothes? l
am so hungry don't know where
shall sleep tonight"
Iowa has 4.OCO school districts, 10000
schools, 81, 900 teachers, 365, 900 scholars
in average attendance, and school
fund of over $3,500,000.
Several undergraduates of the German
university of Marburgh have been SEN
fenced to three months imprisonment
in fortress for dueling.
The burning of widows has not wholly
ceased in India. Recently, a case oc-
Cured in Bamra, although the parties
sbetting it were fined oy the authorities.
9Life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness," is an Americans inalienable
birthright. He keeps up the pursuit of
happiness, but very seldom catches MN.
-Keokab Gate City.
A little daughter of w. v. Stoy, of
Lafayette, tied a balloon to the $lo neck,
lace she wore. The jewelry slipped
over her head and the toy sailed away
with it, and it was seen no more.
Captain Gerard de Nisme, Of the royal
Irish hussars, was killed in India by
stone, dislodged by a goat on hillside,
striking him on the head while he was
taking his afternoon ride on horseback.
The Swiss government is to send as its
contribution to Wasbington's monument
a suitably inscribed stone from the
| chapel built on the spot where William
Tell escaped from the tryant Gessler.
A citizen of Stafford county, Kansas,
has made record of 600 rattlesnakes
killed by him within three years. The
largest one was killed recently, and
measured six feet four inches long and
| flo lrished sixteen large rattles.
Sir Alexander T. Gait, the Canadian
| statesman, surprised London recently
| by registering at hotel as Sir A. L.
| Gait, and fifteen children" the latter,
| mostly girls, creating n sensation in the
dining-room when ushered in by their
| governess.
American advertising agents in Italy
/
tices to "post no bills " on the very
walls of the remains Of Pompeii, and
when a tourist sees one of these notices
the chances are that he'll exclaim !:
Things in those days were about as
they are now."
More than 1876 900 children die in
France before reaching the end of their
first year. One-fifth of the entire mum :
Der are in Paris. In the reimbursement
of Nogent-le- Rol, where mercenary baby
farming is common, there are fifty-two
deaths in every 100 children under one
year of age.
A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla,
and finding a news stand ordered Il lot
of papers, which he took from the clerk
with profuse thanks. He was aston
ished though when the clerk asked pay
ment, as he 'never heard of charging
for newspapers before" lie had been
reading his neighbor's paper for nothing
and never knew they cost money.
If a man ever realizes the inequalities
communists, it is when he goes home
to dinner with q good appetite and is
encouraged on the way by pleasant
odors of roast beef broiled shad, chicken,
, beetsteak, chops and broilcd dinners,
!. waited to him from aromatic kitchens,
and finds when he sits down to his own
repast that it consists of yesterdays
meat pie warmed over.-Ronse Sentinel.
One of the home missionaries on
Puget sound, holding a meeting in a
mixed neighborhood OF whites and In
dians, observed that the Indian women,
carrying their babies according to their
usual custom, were surprised to see that
/ among the whites the men carried the
) babies. At next appointment the
power of example was seen, as the In
, dian men came carrying the babies fol
the first time.
Poison to be palatable
Must be sugared till it's nice,
7 For poison, taken natural,
l Never would entice.
r And thus it is with people,
When they get so awful sweet,
You may set it down with safety,
they're sugaring their deceit.
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