The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

About 5000 watches are sold every
day in the United States.
Four-pound sweet potatoes is Florida's
showing this season.
A small boy would rather bust pa
per bag than be President.-ModeTn
Argo.
The Chinese have named their war
vessels alter the letters of the Greek
alphabet.
A good many Scotch and English,
with money enough, are settling in
Manitoba.
Two-thirds of the worlds trouble lies
between an extinguished light and the
edge of the bed.
A young man in Iowa has become
partly demented by his vain efforts to
raise a mustache.
Eighteen thousand Norwegians are ex-
pected to make the United States their
home this year.
At the Swiss universities this year
the female students have carried off
most OF the prizes.
A Chicago woman accidentally killed
her son while shooting at a target, and
is insane with grief.
1t was the man caught by prairie fire
on his own section of land who ran
through his property rapidly.
The skipper who lost his dog over
board remarked that his bark was on the
troubled seas.-LoUeU Sun.
The base drum player makes more
noise than anybody else, but he doesn't
lead the band. There is moral to this,
-SteubenviHe Herald.
A man arrived in Leadville with
white shirt on few days ago, and the
governor had to put the city under mar
tial law at once.
An impecunious man generally desig-
mates ten-dollar note as William"
because he is not on such terms of famil-
iarity with it as would entitle him to
call it "BiIl."
Ninety-one cities in the United States
have a population of over 5000, 900, or
about one. sixth of the whole popula-
| ton, and this does not include cities
with less than 10000 population.
To divert at any time troublesome
fancy, run to thy books; they presently
fix thee to them, and drive the other
out of thy thoughts. They always re-
ceive thee with the same kindness.
Sallie Martha Brown Washington
King Green Violet Ada Moore Thomp-
son, the only daughter of an aged
colored man in the Natural Bridge dis
trict, Virginia, is Included in the present
United States census.
| A Nebraska Sunday-school was on a
railroad excursion. A boy leaned out
OF Il Car window and fired a revolver at
the same instant that girl put her
head out at another window, and the
bullet killed her.
John Gels was buried at Rochester in
a coffin which he had kept in his house
eighteen years for daily contemplation.
His family had threatened to have it
removed, but his threat to haunt them
after death deferred them.
A lawyer wrote rascal on the hat
OF q brother lawyer, who on discover
ing it entered complaint in open
court against the trespasser, who he
said had not only taken his hat, but
had also written his own name in it.
The largest pump factory in the
world is said to be that of the Southern
Pump company, at East Nashville.
Tenn, where complete pump is turned
out every two minutes Their works
cover fourteen acres and employ 225
men.
The skull and horns of an uncom-
monty large mountain ram were found
imbedded in a pine tree in Idaho. 1t is
supposed that the beast was caught and
starved in the tree when it was sap
ling, leaving his head 10 be overgrown
by the wood.
A young lady of Iowa, Miss Annie
Conde, was lately married. We have
heard at some time of an ancient dame
who was tempted in the garden OF
Eden by serpent, but this is the first
occasion that has occurred to notice o.
man being willingly embraced in
the coils of an Anaconda Waterloo %.
SeTUer.
Now is the time when the gentle
housewife beseecheth her husband tC
write raspberry" labels for her canned
fruit, which she proceeds to paste OF
her Jars containing strawberries, ant
the argument will not take place unit
next winter when the company is as
sembled for the east.-KOkOnnO Tribune
, Some cynical elderly people say ther
are no inducements for young m n L
, marry in these days, but they ar
wrong. Where are all those nice lttl
: inducements that our young men spen
J four evenings in week with, and ca
! on between times t. see if th3y didn
leave. their cane behind the doorp-
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Z" If every ones internal care
. Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
That have our env, now.
The fatal secret when reveaPd
! OF every aching breast
q Would show twas only when conceald
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