The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Always on hand-Knuckles and finger
nails.--NelO York. NeTS.
Boots and shoes for dolls are turn ed
out of one London house at the rate Of
1000 week.
"Give tie indians n show" says a
Western paper. Yes; give them an
amateur "Pinafore. ."--BostofaAduerttser.
Adelina Patti received about seven
dollars minute during the perform
ance of each opera in which she sang at
Vienna.
"Switch off" as the car conductor
said to his wife when she took down
her back hair before going to bed
Salem Sunbeam.
Government typographical surveyors
report wonderfully great veins of silver
in the newly-opened ore districts of
Southwestern Utah.
Physicians say it takes hours to get
over too sudden rising. We have OBJ
served the same in connection with fall
ing.--NcW York Commercial.
A religious paper says that the Ameri-
can preachers receive $1,000, 600 an
nually, lawyers six times as much, and
the national liquor bill is some $780,
O00, 900.
n S1llOI IL HOl IL SdllOI WJlCu ut 10 Il
board; q sailor is not sailor when he
is q shore; but he must be either ashore
or abroad; therefore, a sailor is not
sailor.
In the north of England habit OF
ether-im mbibing is said to prevail. As
ga drunk on sulphuric ether is less ex'
pensive than on alcoholic liquids, the
practice is increasing.
A merchant may manage to grub
along without advertising, and so may
n man empty hogshead of water with
teaspoon, but both are decidedly
| tedious undertakings.
| CURIOSITY.
Watching the bees, he oft is stung
Who DER the hives too close his head has hung;
So, too, and righteously, he fares
| Who thrusts himself in other folks affairs.
| -Geo70e Birdseye.
A puzzle TO scientists is the remark
able persistence of certain odors. More
than one thousand years ago the mortar
used in the construction Of the mosque
of St. Sophia, in Constantirople, was
charged with musk, the perfume OF
which permeates the building to this
day.
The number of suicides at Vienna and
its suburbs last year attained the con-
siderable figure of 297, of which forty
six were of women. In most cases re-
verse OF fortune, misery, or want of work
was the disposing cause, and the ma
jority of the unfortunates belonged to
the poorer classes.
She hung upon his arm 50 loving ly.
and beamed up in his face with all the
radiance of those pale blue eyes. Her
heart would speak, and yet the tongue
refused its utterance. But love and
admiration broke the spell, and from the
rapture of her soul she breathed forth.
Your mustache is beginning to grow"
-F'mird Gazette.
The Anierican Manufacturer says that
this country is now making more than
one-third of all the paper in the world.
The product is about 1880 tons daily,
amounting to about 640,5 tons per
year. There are now 927 mills, repre-
senting n capital of 800, 900, ,O0G These
mills employ % COO persons. wt' draw
: about SO, 9,550,000 in salaries per car.
The ten orphan children OF General
Hood are to live in Austin, Texas. They
will be under the especial care of Mrs.
f. r. Hennen. their grandmother, to
whom they were consigned by General
Hood only few hours before his death
The fund raised for the orphans amounts
to about Sl4 900, of which $4,000 have
been invested in government bonds.