The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST

The early cucumber catches the best
cramps.
In California there are about 80O,0 900
cattle and 100000 sheep.
Take care of the onions and the scents
will take care of themselves.
Advice to young man who is about
to settle down-Settle up.-Rokomo
Tribune.
"a new broom sweeps clean" 1t
has been known to sweep a husband
clean out of the house.-Danielson0tlte
Herald.
Boston has about five thousand stu
dents of elocution and oratory. Many
of them study only for the purposes of
private life.
Two hundred and seventy-two trains
arrive at and depart from Chicago every
twenty-four hours. Forty-four railroads
have offices in that city.
A man living at Rimmorsburg, Pa,
| is the father of thirty-fo children,
burned to death at one time.
The first real discoverer of copper on
| Lake Superior, whose exploration led
to the development of the Cliff mine,
Is now an old and poor man, living on
| charity, in an obscure village in the
| Wisconsin lead region
John r. Smith, the coroner of Mont
gomery county, KY, was found dead on
a fence near his home, and is supposed
to have died of strangulation caused by
his clothes becoming fastened to the
fence as he was climbing over it.
The total cost of the Gothard tunnel,
the most gigantic work of the kind in
the world, will not exceed $4,000, 900.
1t has been very costly of human lite as
we'll as money, no less than $50 work
men having been killed. and 400 dis
abled during it's construction,
James Fisk, of Brattleboro, Vermont,
the father of James Fisk, Jr., has gone
to Michigan to enter the show business.
His show is unique affair, combining
golden chariot and tent for holding
religious meetings and for exhibiting a
harness which he has invented.
Going home from church. she re-
marked to her husband: "Did you
notice that baldheaded man in front of
us, and how young he lookedp never
saw any one so young before, with q
replying: My dear, was baldheaded
before I was year old."-Syracuse
Sunday Times.
One of the prodigies brought into
notice by the exposition at Nashville is
a boy only five years old who is able to
read promiscuously in books and news
papers, never stopping to spell II word
emphasizing well and enunciating
slowly and distinctly, like well-edu.
Gated man. His name is w. G.. L. Wet
more, and his home Wilson county.
uumming birds are very skillful and Sc.
cretive in their nest-building. A Georgis
paper thus describes one of their abodes
, 1t was set upon the limb of tree the
; thickness OF 4 mans thumb, and wa:
coated outside with the moss of an oat
so us perfectly to represent a knot. i
! was about the size of u large hickory
/ nut, an inch high, and constructed O
I cotton and hair. 1t contained two LITTLE
white eggs about the size of CONNER
snap bean.
The clipper ship Wandering Jew
which has made the passage between
Hong Kong and San Francisco in thirty
three days, the quickest run on record, il
; February last, touched at Pitcairn
island, twenty-three days out from Sal
Francisco. The Pitcairns, it will be re
membered, are descendants OF the mutt
5 neers of the English ship Bounty an,
I their Tahitian wives. They exchanged
, hospitalitieS with the crew ofthe clippe
y snip. Inc lady passengers were dehghte'
. with their visi. on shore, and brough
away many interesting presents. !
present OF barrel of beef, another c
T flour, and third of bread, made tn
e Pitcairns happy, who, in return. CAV
:, generous gifts of fruits and fowls.
= Did you ever notice the little rag
4 mu fin in the street with supremel
q dirty face ? Taffy, bread and butte
- y, and molasses form the groundwork fo
= the accumulation of dust and CRIME
II n and his cheeks look like twin maps {
~ the oceanic archipelago; his hands an
-, wrists look like animated tree root
y they are so dirty, and his feet an
y ankles partake of the mud they conta,
lo y with. Of course you've noticed hin
:, And he is the lightest- bunch
= human nature you ever saw. Di
!" doesn't strike any deeper than beaut
:, and within his heart is as clean lit
90 90 soul, and a great deal ireer one, as ev
3. grew inside the neatest and slicke
n ! young devotee of soap and water tn
a. ever lived, washed and suffered.-Nt
= Hauen Register.