The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
NO.. 4.
Facts and Figures.

of the King of Siam is lecturing in Bos-
ton.
The O'Brien Pioneer, Iowa, goes forth
to the world from wooden printing
press.
The best customer of the shaving cup
of an Aberdeen, Scotland barber is a
woman.
A resident of Indiana is reported to
have had seven wives all named Mary.
Like Byron, he had ga fondnes, for the
name of Mary"
Kansas brags of a pumpkin vine with
LOG branches measuring in the aggre-
gate, 1868 feet and bearing pumpkins
five feet five by six feet six.
An able-bodied North Carolina negro,
the other day, swallowed two dozen raw
eggs, shells and all, and washed them
down with a pint of raw whiskey.
Clarksville, Pike County, hath
young gent with a hole in his back, and
a young lassie who exclaims, "I did it
with my little pistol" ."-Kdnsos City
Times.
Michigan University female Sopho-
mores haze good-looking Freshmen by
blindfolding and then kissing them.
We shouldn't think that was capital pun
ishment.
A microscopic examination of flesh
from the body of a young lady who
died at Urbana, ILL.,, from eating ham,
revealed fifty thousand trichin@ to the
square inch.
A drover who sells his cattle by live
weight, always gives them as much wa
ter as they will drink before driving
them on the scales. That is his way of
watering stock.
A woman in Iowa compelled to go to
the Poor House who is 105 years of age,
has raised large family, and is the
mother of a wealthy citizen who refuses
to support her.
A Philadelphia woman who had
broken her leg was so modest that she
would not permit the surgeon to set it,
and there beingno female doctor around,
modification ensued which resulted in
death.
Swindlers tried to seduce WcsteSl
man on a railroad train into betting
that he could open a patent paddock
which they carried about. He took the
bet and opened the lock with sledgs
hammer
The Supreme Court of the United
States having decided that husband
can recover damages for the loss of his
wife proportional to her usefulness and
capacity to earn money, a Boston man
way accident was allowed by the dis
eliminating jury exactly six cents.
Mrs. Mary Miller, who rode from Exc
ter to Pottstown, Pa, on horseback, to
attend the funeral observances of George
Washington in that borough on the 18th
of January, 1900, is still Lying at Mount
Airy, Berks County, aged ninety-two,
but looks and acts and talks like young
thing of sixty or thereabouts.
They claim to have clergyman in
Lowell, Mass so familiar with the hymn
and tune book in use in his church that
if any page of the book is mentioned
he can tell what tune is thereon, and all
the hymns set to it, and if the name of
any tune is mentioned, he can tell what
page it is on, and repeat the first lines
of the corresponding hymns.
The Norwich Bulletin says, next TO
Massachusetts, Connecticut has the
largest deposits in savings banks of any
VI ulc NcN IIllSlttHtt iClultS. lllU
amount on January !, 1871, was $55,-
1,1O5, and now must exceed $60000,-
600. In the six New. England States
these deposits now exceed $215,000,000,
and perhaps reach &300,000,000.
Prof. Silversmith, of Chicago, has in
vented machine for making copper typo
bycold pressure process. The value of cop
per is about three times that OF ordinary
type metal, but the type made by this pro-
cess, it is said, will last ten times as long as
the old cast type. 1t is curious fact
that hardly any improvement has hither-
to been made in the manufacture of type
for the last three hundred years.
A handsome young gentleman walked
into the Adams Express office the other
day, and desired to express package Of
letters to a lady, to whom he desired to
return them. "What are they worth 2"
asked the clerk, who, in making out his
account, desired to know what was the
risk. The young gentleman hesitated "a
moment then clearing his throat from n
certain huskiness, replied, "Well, 1 can't
say exactly, but a few weeks ago /
thought they were worth about four
hundred thousand dollars"
There is an obsolescent proverb to the
effect that shoemakers' children always
go barefoot The significance of this is,
of course, thatmechanics and profession
al men are slow to give themselves or
their families the benefit of their special
avocations. The proverb is strikingly
corroborated by some vitality statistics
that have recently been elaborated by n
learned gentleman at Berlin. These
show that of all classes of mankind the
shortest lived are the doctors. There is
another fact developed by these figures
that conveys grim sarcasm; among
the classes whose average of longevity is
the greatest are military men. The in
evitable inference is that to destroy hui
man life is healthy; to save it, fatal.
TO young men going to college or
desiring to go there, the question of ex-
pense is sometimes an important one.
The last number of the College COuraHt
has an article on this subject, in which
it gives figures showing what students
at Yale have actually paid for their tut
ton and subsistence In the class OF
1871 there. were those who lived ON $3.50
year, and Others who spent $500. II
depends mainly on the students them
selves, of course. 1t is easy for young
men to spend large amount of money
if they have it at command and, OF
the other hand, an INDECENT and am
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