The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-07-28
THE ADVOCATE.
All Vouched For.

IDClT ldlHSTS,
An idol collector in San Francisc
who has just died, had collection (
500 little gods.
1t takes true humorist to apprec
ate the fun of practical joke when
is played on himself.
Man may want but little here below
but he usually keeps up a fearful
kicking unless he gets it.
The parents long vacation will
begin in September when the children
start going to school again.
.'You kick the bucket, and l do thu
rest" heads the advertisement of al
undertaken in a St. Louis newspaper
Somehow robins never seem to get
the collie eating cherries, much as the
exasperated cherry-tree owners wish
they might.
1t takes some people all their lives
to learn that the man who does not
make many promises does not have
many to perform.
People, ideas of good and bad are
more oft II based OH what others
think than own their own ideas Of
right and wrong.
We all of us think we know as
much as our neighbors, as a rule, have |
more or less difficulty in getting our
neighbors to believe it.
1t is not easy to win woman's
love, but it is even easier to teach
girl to love you than it is to teach her
the intricate mysteries of base ball.
A perfume lamp, which burns CO.
Iogne, and spreads delightful scent
about the room, is the latest house.
hold novelty.
The sales of Victor Hugo's works
still continue to be very large, the pro-
ceeds from them amounting to over
l ,4S3,373 francs during the past five
years.
B. L. FaUeoD, the novelist, is an ex- !
pert stenographer. He carries note
book with him at all times, and when {
an idea strikes him he jOts it down for
future use.
Five students of the California
State University, at Berkeley, caused
4 surprise to the professors the other
night, by hosting a beer-barrel to the
flagstaff.
Considering the tendency of ticket :
sellers and door-keepers to show the ,
effects of little brief authority, what
on arrogant old chap st. Peter must
be!
1t is great thing to be friendly
and sympathetic, but man needs to
little before he tries TO
be friendly with strange dog or
strange man either.
Water refracts light. That may be
why trout looks seven feet long
when you see him in the water, aud
measures only about seven and a hall
inches when when you get him in the
boat.
Incemdiarism is just now very rife
in Russia. Nine out of ten fires are
intentional, while CONGREGATIONS are
so frequent and extensive that the
annual loss amounts TO nine millions
sterling.
Fully $500 persons commit suicide
in Russia every year; indeed, the vio-
lent deaths of all kinds annually
reach $4,000, while $4,000 people die
of typhus fever, the mos; destructive
national disease.
The spot wherein Laurence Sterne
is buried-St. Georges graveyard, in
the Bayswater road, LOndon-con-
tains also the grave of Annie Rad
cliffe. the author of "The Mysterious
of Udolpho."
Gladstone is comparatively a poor
man, and the occasional literary work
he does for magazines and periodicals
is not the result of any desire to add
to his established fame as writer.
For every article he writes he receives
$1,000.
Cremation is very economically con-
Quoted in Japan, and therefore is very
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