The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-11-18
NO 80.
BREyITIEs.


THE enrolled militia of Massachusetts,
numbers 245, 1852.
CANON FARRAR is said to have sweet
and musical voice.
SENATOR BLAINE wears nickel-plated
watch that cost $3.50.
APPLES were never before SO plentiful,
of such fine quality, and so cheap.
Ar recent dinner the Queen of En-
gland plucked ripe peaches from potted
trees.
"SwEAR not at ALL" not even when
putting up depraved and ungoverna-
BILE stove-pipe.
NUN YEw CHUNG, Chinaman who
weighs just 100 pounds, is coxswain OF
the Yale crew.
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL has postponed
her visit to the United States for the
present season.
JOHN E. OWENS, the actor, has given
up the stage for mining speculation in
San Francisco.
BELL, the telephone man, has been
elected professor in Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore.
THE Lowell Courier believes that the
lover who pressed his suit was q tailor
| or clothes-cleaner.
THERE are in Georgia S8,522 colored
men who own, by the tax receivers re-
turns for their respective counties, 661,-
1879 acres of land.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has twenty-five
national banks with capital OF Sl5,-
145, 800, and So, ,251 ,203 surplus and un-
divided profits.
"GaAsTLY Jolly" is given as the latest
addition to fashionable slang in England.
1t was probably created for use at o
mother-in-law funeral.
Mrs. JOHN O. GREEN has given $780,
600 to the American Sunday-School
Union, to be used in developing higher
order of Sunday school literature.
THERE are hundreds of entertaining
writer's who would be good historians il
they did not know so many things that
have never happened.-Neo Orleans
Picayune.
MARK TWAIN draws and paints little.
He drew the lumber to build fence al
the back of his house, and the white
washing on said fence is said to be one
of the finest sights in Hartford.
"IN what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life ?" asked o
Brooklyn Sunday-school teacher of a
quiet-looking boy at the foot of the
class. dead" calmly replied the boy.
A HORSE in Nevada, being sick with
collie, ended his sufferings by deliber-
ately dashing out his brains against the
stone wall of the corral. 1t was in Ne
vada, also, that q pet dog recently COM
mitted suicide by drowning.
w. N. ARMSTRONG, a lawyer of New
York city, has been appointed Attorney
General in the new Cabinet Of King
Kalakaua, of the Sandwich islands.
His father was one of the first mission
aries to the islands, and he himself was
born there.
SUICIDES are on the increase in France.
The number in 1870 was 4, 157 in 1872,
5,275; in 1874, 5,617; in 1876, 5,S04
in 1877, 1922; and in 1873 to which
only statistics have been made up
6,424. A great number of cases, too,
are hushed up and never appear.
A PRIZE was offered for the mothe,
who presented the greatest number oi
her own children at the Indiana State
fair. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Line wert
each accompanied to the fair by nine
but Mrs. Line gave birth to tenth OF
,, the grounds, and so took the prize.
A THEOLOGICAL professor asked hi
class the question whether they could
think of any reason why the grave O
Moses should have been so strictly con
cealed, and simple youth, who, un
fortunately, stammers, thought it mus
, be "be-because they would t-take hin
, up and st-stuff him"
AMONG the languages of civilized ma
tons English is the most widespread. /
is the mother tongue of about 80, 900, 0O
{ people; German, of between so, 900, 00
and 6O,OO0,000; French, of between
, 40, 900, 900 and 5O,000,0 600; italian, @
, 2S,O00,O00, and Russian, of betweel
, 30, 600, 600 and 60, ,0O0,0 900.
8 The correspondence of Peter th
Great will shortly be published by i'm
: perial authority at St. Petersburg
: The work of editing the materials ha
8 already been seven years in hand. Tn
text is elucidated by commentaries fror
. the pen of the Russian Academicia
Bytchkoh. The appearance of the vo
a umes has long been anxiously awaited
r and is expected to be literary event {
: the first order, no less on account Of th
: monumental character of the work tina
the elegance of its execution. It
q probable that it will contain many intel
. esting revelations.