The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-02-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Then February with five Sundays
in it will be in 1920.
Did you ever see dog bark his shinsP
Philadelphia Item.
I.ondoners are to have sea-water pipes
connected with their houses.
Beaconsfield says: "When I want
to read novel write one."
A poor relation-The crude effort of a
story -writer.-An1eTicon Punch.
The Indians in the school ut Carlisle.
Pa, are taught military tactics.
The English laws compel the veloci-
pede riders to carry headlight and
bell,
Words are cheap, except when they
are sent over the Atlantic cable.-Ctfa-
ct111adti Saturday Night.
The aggregate salaries of the New
York city school teachers for 1879
amounted to Sl,009,207.
tits better to give than to receive,
but the plan will never he very popular
in this country.-Nc20 York Express.
The Sultan of Turkey spends Sl2,-
600, 600 a year on himself the eunuichs,
sultana and courtiers that reside in his
palace.
An exchange wishes to know if sugar
is extracted from dead beats. No, sir;
dead beats have no sugar. " Waterloo
Observer.
A man can buy hat for ono dollar.
1t takes from ten to fifteen fsr woman
TO go comparatively barchc; q, d.-- Val
l0O Chronicle.
Henry Smith, the famous razor strop
man, of New York, was a heavy specue
| latOr and lost in one day, Il few year
l. In II ~
An Albany merchant recently shipped
some goods by way of New York TO
London. The freight to New York was
S20.90, and from New York to London
1924. The distances are $50 miles and
about 3, 900 miles.
! If the theorist who AYERS that animals
can resist temptation will experiment
by poking his neighbours big bulldog
in the ribs, he'll find that his theory,
together with his trowsers, will be torn
in shreds.-Hackensdck Republican.
A victim of domestic infelicity, who
is in the habit of dreaming, should
never go to sleep in church. A con-
gregation near Quincy was somewhat
startled last Sabbath when II venerable
member excitedly yelled, Here. new.
drop that skillet, old womann'- Quincy
Modern Argo.
A French lad, aged ten years, recently
ran away from his school in the village
of Savelot, and went to n neighbor's
house where wedding was being cele-
brated. The nuptial party made him
drunk on wine, and told him to beware
of his masters rod next day. This so
frightened the youngster that he got
rope and hanged himself in the garden,
where his body was found frozen the
next morning.
Old Nickelpinch's grandson called his
attention to bird the other day. That's
no bird" began the old man. "Why
yes, it is, grandpa, interrupted the boy,
don't you see it pick up the crumbs at
the door" THAT'S no Bird" repeated
Nickelpinch, when the youngest again
yelled, j say it is bird, an I'll leave
it to gran'ma if it amt" THAT snow
bird" calmly remarked grandpa, " is
the first one | have seen this season."
Yale has graduated A signers of the
Declaration of Independence; l40 men,
bers of the United States House OF Rep.
resentatives; A United States Senators
Is ambassadors to foreign courts; II
cabinet officers, including Mr. Evarts
l6 lieutenant governors and 20 governor:
of States; the photographers Webster
and Worcester; presidents Of theo
logical seminaries; 65 presidents of col
leges, and $50 professors in colleges anC
professional schools.
The comparative force of gunpowdel
and dynamite was discussed by two
miners at Tunka, Cal. They agreed, a
: a test, to explode certain quantities o
the substances under two planks, til
friend of gunpowder to stand on tn
dynamite plank and the friend of dyna
: mite on the other. The trial was mad
: in the presence of an interested crow
, of spectators. 1t resulted in a broker
leg for the man who was lifted ten fee
, into the air by the dynamite, and III
counted bruises for the one whom th
. gunpowder threw against the trunk of
, tree.
! In deepening river In the neighboI
I hood of Norrkoping, says the ISnl6t
q Trades Journal, in order to make it a.
d cessible for ships of heavier draugh
h among several objects of intere
n brought up from the bottom, eight oa
u trees were found at depth of seven fe
under the old bottom. The bark w
almost decayed, and when it was TAX
l off the wood was found to be hard al
10 black, resembling ebony. The trees a
IS. supposed to have, been lying in &
10 earth 900 years. The trees have be
& sold TO firm of joiners, who intel
using them for cabinet work