The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
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held annually In HYDE farE, LONDON
INV works dun," remarked the col
lector as he started out in the morning.
-Mtratho,, Independent.
Two Iowa men had cow race the
other day on bet of $50. The best
time was seven minutes.
The latest London fog: First pcdes-
trian-" Is your lantern outP" Second
pedestrian-"I don't know; I'll feel"
A Cuban cigar manufacturer made
for the King of Spain 1000 cigars, for
which he received $1,000, and refused
to duplicate the order.
In the six New England States there
are learly 1000 divorces every year,
and within twenty years the number
has fully doubled.
The cattle on n thousand hills
Contribute to the milkman's wealth,
So does the water from the rills
That's slipped into the cans by stealth.
The Canadian senate lately rejected,
by thirty-two to thirty-one, the bill
legalizng marriage with o deceased
wile's sister or deceased brothers
wife.
A man who offered for five dollars to
put any one on the track OF a paying in
vestment, seated an applicant between
road. Rochester ETpresS.
w, at the world is in need OF is fewer
mon of an inquisitive turn of mind, men
who are cosfssssnted with looking at a
buzz. saw witho1it>a desire to feel Of
It with their fngeTs>N-naS naSiels0n ui'le
| Sentinel.
This is the season when the gTessan-
sward in the front yard is kept smooth
Nl,St pfc cd ond a will
| stumble on the lawn mower during the
next few months more than in any other
part of the year.-Keokub Gate CITY.
The Auichkoff palace, the residence
of the czarevitch, is now connected
with the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky
theater by the telephone, and the czare-
witch and his wife listen to the music
without having to go to the theater.
That which takes the conceit out of
rising young statesman as quick as any
thing is to be caught in the act OF going
for cents worth of yeast in his native
village. He feels like p tting himself
in the hands of his friends. PicGy~He.
A man had $l(O with which he was
told to buy 100 cattle. He went into the
market and found he could buy cows
at $40 each, sheep ut 80 each and pigs
at fifty cents q lead. He bought leo
animals with his 500. How did he
make up his assortment?
An old miser, who was notorious for
self denial, was one day asked why he
was SO thin. II Go not know said
the miser; have tried various means
for getting fatter, but without success"
"Have you tried victuals?" inquired
friend.
When a man comes limping into his
place of busine late in the morning.
and presents the general appearance OF
having had his spinal column shattered
by q railway accident, his friends need
not be alarmed; he has been working
in the garden.-Al6Gny Argus.
A report to the annual conference oi
the Mormons says that the Mormon
population of Utah is Ill, $50, that The
church in that Territory has lost 600
members and gained 800 IN o year,
and that the church receipts in that
period were over 81 100000.
A colored Liam at Danville,. ILL.,,
offered to drink all the whisky that
barroom party would give him. The
effort killed him, and the widow sued
those who had supplied the beverage
for $4,000 damages. but q jury cut
down the valuation OF the drunkard TO
Sl5o.
The summer days are here, and the
perspiring editor dreams of green fields
and babbling brooks and soft breezes
laden with the fragrance of June roses
and awakens to the sad fact that there
is such thing as composing room
and a horde of printers hungry for
"copy."
A third-o of-s-century plant is attract
ing much attention in Greenviile, MISS.
Thirty-three years ago lady, now nv
ing in Greenville, was married, and this
plant was in bloom and some OF Its
tiowers graced the wedding breakfast.
TIE owner has carefully tended the
plant ever since, and this season 1t has
burst into flower for the first time since
the wedding day.
There is a long grade on the Terre
Haute and Logansport railroad in In
diana. A heavily-loaded freight car
broke loose from train and started
down this incline. 1t gained irightful
rate of speed, and was going In the di-
rection from which a last passenger
train was soon to come. A dreadful col
lision was thus imminent. A iocomo-
tive was quickly sent in pursuit OF the
runaway. The chase was most excit.
ing. The engineer, by forcing a speed
of sixty miles an hour, finally oyertook
g the freight Car, fastened TO 1t, ana drew
: it in a reverse direction, lust In time to
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