The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two hundred and eighty-one members
of Congress are lawyers.
Talk about catching 'possums asleep,
did you ever see pillow-shamP-NeW
York Nears.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, is the
youngest mem ber of the United States
Senate, thirty-nine.
The library of the supreme court at
Washington is the most complete law
library in the world.
The cotton trade of Charleston, S c.,
amounts to 800, 100000 year, and the
rice trade to $2,C00,000.
A man refused to be treated by a
physician the other day. But suppose
it had been a saloonistp
Youth will never live to age unless
they keep themselves in breath with ex-
ercise and in health with joyfulness.
Japan has iron coins worth about
Tooth of one cent. They are alleged to be
chiefly used for aims and as offerings to
gods.
Upward of 100000 acres of land
have been taken by settlers in Mani
toba, British America, during the past
two years.
The New Orleans Picayune calls the
gout sort of brake which wise Prov
idence puts on mans legs when he is
living too fast.
| Virginia has 675 colored schools,
taught by AIS colorcd teachers. The
male teachers salary averages $50 a
month, the females S24.
King Humbert has been able to takes a
sleigh ride at home for the first time in
nine years, there having been no snow
in Italy before since 1871.
| A physiognomist says that large ears
denote generosity, which is probably the
reason why a mule squanders his hind
| Ilegs.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Embroidered crash is much used for
piano covers" says fashion exchange.
That makes terrible samencss about
the instrument. Boston Post.
A poet in one of our exchanges be-
walls the loss OF kiss. The short
Drained driveler, it seems, does not know
enough to go and get another.-Rochester
EapreSS.
What is the difference between the
meat, flour, ETC., this country ships to
England and a hungry boy alone at the
dinner tablep Ans; One is food-stuffed
and the other stutfs food NorrjstoWn
Herald.
The average housewife will take more
pains to carry sickly fifteen-cent plant
through four months of winter than she
will to keep butter on the ice during
three months of hot weather. Detroit
Free Press.
| l sing thee praise OF the cobbler bold,
A merry old sole is he,
| Heel peg away through heat and cold,
.dWtways rs merry ms merry can be.
| -Cinctnn0ti Commercial.
|
dence in Columbus, o. The head of
the family said, Get along, or I'll set
the dog on you.'' Then the tramp bet
that within five minutes he would be
invited to eat the best that the house
afforded. He won, too, because he
proved that he was wandering son
returned.
A German journal publishes curious
| list of the decorations conferred upon
Prince Bismarck, forty-seven in number.
Among them may be mentioned the star
of the Grand Commanders of the House
of HOhenzollern, with brilliants; the
cross of the Knights of st. John; the
order of Fidelity of the Grand Duchy of
Baden, with brilliants and chain of
gold; the grand cross of the Hanoverian
order of Guelphs; the grand cross,
with brilliants, of the Austrian order of
St. Etienne; the order of the Annuncia-
tion of Italy; the grand cross of the
Legion of Honor: the order Of the Sera-
phins of Sweden; the Lion and the Sun
of Persia; the White Elephant of Siam;
the Osmanie, with brilliants, and the
Toison dor.
Last spring the five children of NJ. B.
Corbin, of Colorado, promised to earn
money enough to pay for an organ if
their father would buy one. The bar
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dozen chickens and an acre of arabic
land were given to them. The ground
was planted with onions, and yielded
the remarkable crop of three tons, for
which Sl45 was re ,eived. The net re-
ceipts from the chickens was S55, making
the total receipts $500. Tie organ cost
Sis, leaving balance of SS2 still in
the children's treasury. The children
are from six to fifteen years of age, and
worked throughout the season with
great energy and perseverance, and
hence deserved their success.
The wisdom of the German postal an
, telegraph authorities in determining TO
f connect Berlin with the chief cities of
the empire by means of Il system of un-
/ foreground telegraph wires, has been
fully confirmed during the severe
weather recently prevailing. While tho
! violent storms of wind and snow have
, in many districts been the cause OF con-
stant stoppages in the telegraphic COM
| munication between places connected
by verground wires, the traffic between
| towns connected by subterranean lines
| has gone on through the worst weather
| without the least interruption or in
5 convenience. A considerable extension
of the underground system is looked
upon as probable both in Germany and
other continental countries.