The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-25
Facts and Figures.

| heokuk, Iowa, mas e6JoDnSDeu ueu
centoourse of lectures by employing home
talent exclusively.
The receipts of grain at Buffalo last
year were 7s,OO0,0oO bushels, against
100000 in 1870.
Trenton, N. j., owns the largest circu-
lar saw in the world. 1t is twenty-five
feet in circumference.
A Sioux City paper tells of q woman
there who "died, and was dead two
hours and recovered again"
Samuel Goodridge, of Canaan, Me-, is
the oldest man in New England-105
years. His last farm labor was perform
ed in his ninety-ninth year. His wife
lived to be ninety-seven, and their Oldest
child is now living at the age of eighty
one.
Several ladies of Troy, married and
single, are talking about getting up
society to oppose the organization of any
more "lodges" of any kind in that
city. They claim there are too many at
fractions at the lodges every night in the
week to suit them.
The st. Louis Democrat is q little Sc
we're on Tennyson's effusions in the New
York Ledger, and says that if it had been
sent anonymously to country editor,
unaccompanied by piece of fruit-cake,
, or cord of wood, it would have been
, unceremoniously consigned to the waste
paper basket.
At recent election in Greeley, CO.
dorado, to take the will of the inhabitants
: as to who they would wish for post
master, the women were allowed to
. vote-ninety- eight in all embracing the
: opportunity to express their preference.
Both candidates had sleighs running for
the purpose of bringing in the lady
voters
/ A thief stole the overcoat of one Of the
= reporters on the Cincinnati Gazette last
= week. The paper announced the fact,
Y together with the information that the
:, owner Of the garment was just recover
S ing from an attack of smallpox OF the
e most malignant type. 1t is to be feared
t the ruse of the despoiled reporter will
= prove to be "too thin"
c An ingenious Yankee was before the
a Postmaster General the other day with
I postage stamp that had on its adhesive
a side taste of choice candy. One sort
4 had chocolate, another orange, third
lemon, and so through the list of popu-
s. lar sweetmeats. The inventor urged in
i creased sales and waste that would come
from this improvement. The Postmas-
ter General reserved his decision as to
the advisability of the Government buy
ing out the confectionery business.
e There is still house standing in
o Greenland, n. H., which was built in
is 1888, and is consequently 233 years old.
l. 1t is two story brick building, with high
y gable ends. 1t is 80 feet in length by
u % in width. The walls of the lower
story are eighteen inches thick, and al
1t the timber which enters into the construc-
20 ton of the house is of oak, massive and
n strong This was for better protection
q against the Indians. There is serious
Is rent high up in the east wall, believed tc
c, be trace of the earthquake of 1927, Oh
n that of 1915. A Mr.. Weeks built the
e house, and it has remained in the family
+ possession ever since--a rather remarka-
~ BILE circumstance
IS The War Department, in addition to
,e its weather-signal system, is about to
IS establish an electrical system OF storm
IS signals in all the larger cities OF the
" country, by which every man who Is or
\ the magnetic belt can, by watching the
,p signals on his chimney-top or ridge
W board, tell Just the moment when it vii
ne be safe for him to leave port Tor cham
lis pagne) for home. A black flag hyins
al will signify "cross as q bear--typhool
ty approachng." A white flag-"every
or thing is lovely she is asleep" red flag
he with white centre-"look out for squalls
H. baby Just spanked" While white fas
ga with red centre, indicates simply "cau
ue tionary" measures on the part OF tn
as. "old man." who can go home under flu
w. SAIL but should reef his boots and dous
", the pinnacle lamp before going up stair
,st -1ituspille Herald.
en- A Kansas paper revives amusingl
'rs how Gen. Sherman failed as conspicr
CT en- ously in law as he succeeded brilhantl
NY in war. In the early jayhawking
an days, the General made a slender hveG
OF hood in Calhoun county, and once, whe
ne he had prepared himself most elaborate
ly, it is related that a " long, lank, lea
genius" leaving his OK team, came b.
fore the court as his competitor. III
-. General summed up grandly, quotinn
'oSs freely from an immense pile OF bool
OF placed carefully before him, and citin
ore the English common law to prove b
ne point. The bullwhaclker" followed hiI
,he and ridiculed his precedents and scoute
Pe' at his books. He said it was an insu
!, to the court to read from the commc
ne law of England" and declared that :"
p we were compelled to take any of tn
rp,, aristocratic British law" he wanted Il
.I mo "very best Her Majesty had, and mol
the of her common law" That was enoug
IN Ine the Justices face was set, and the Gene
ms al lost his case. 1t was the last he ev
ou' ou' tried in Kansas.
tri-
ere At reunion of the New England A
hey sociation of Deaf Mutes, a few days SIM
ing dinner-table speeches were made in t
the sign language by several persons in
s. company, and one individual suppl
entertainment and expressed the genel
sentiment by singing "We Won't
Home till Morning" with his mimi
Ter- fingers. The Philadelphia Bulletin thin
nf- sit would be fortunate thing for MI
roy, persons who are compelled to atte
oers public dinners, if all the orators up
the such festive occasions could be Undue
his to tumble out their eloquence with tn
in thumbs and fingers. And the apph,
,ver ton to church choirs of the suggest
nan afforded by the deaf-mute singer wo,
Iout be productive of even more pleasi
lat results The services at many of
am churches would be made much m
ars. reyerential if the singers should a