The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-25
Facts and Figures.


| citizens over 80.
Georgia banks close at one o'clock
| during the summer months.
| A Georgia baby has double set of
jaws all full of teeth, but no eyes.
Kansas has wild sea serpent travel
ling about and devouring cattle.
The Mayor and Council OF Dcs Moines
have been arrested for contempt of court.
A woman has had to pay 800 for
selling glass of whiskoy at Whitehall,
Ill.
A lady of Springfield, Va, was bitten
by cat having the hydrophobia the
other day.
A budget of 2,912 love letters passed
between couple now about to unite at
Fort Wayne, Ind.
The 100 girls in the st. Louis Normal
School wear calico dresses, and no CHG
mons as waterfalls.
Nebraska is the only State that had d
railroad in running order when admit
ted into the Union.
A Cedar Falls minister preached in
defense of croquet. His text was, "And
she took the mallet.'
A prying reporter in Richmond de-
clares that lady there has ordered $42
pair of stockings for her wedding.
A man in Richmond, Va, has worn
the same pair of linen trousers forty
nine summers. They are just in style
this year.
A vicious horse in Michigan lately
kicked his masters jaw off and knocked
his teeth down his throat, choking him
to death.
Macon, Ga, disputes Brooklyn's claim
as the "City of Churches" She has
church to less than every thousand in
habitants.
Mrs. Robinson, of Dubuque, was mar
ried on Tuesday, unmarried on Wednes-
day, and on Thursday ran off with an
other man.
A California jury, in suicide case
lately, returned the following verdict
eve, the jury, find that the deceased
was fool"
A daughter of the owner of the Crys-
tai Gold Mine in California, lately fell
10 feet down shaft, and was brought
out a shapeless mass.
An Irish lecturer Of note solemnly said,
one evening. parents, you may have
children; or if you have not your
daughters may have"
The Colorado desert, by late railroad
survey has been found to be in places
200 feet below the level of the sea.
Scientists are in a quandary.
They have flower in Alameda, Cal,
called "Aaron's cup" which measures
two feet eight inches from the base of
the flower to the tip of the cup.
| A gentle father in Vicksburg, Miss,
short time ago, tied his twelve-year-old
son to the rafters of the house by his
feet and fogged him till he was nearly
dead.
Limestone, ILL.,, boasts of a porker
with head and tail at each end, and
two sets of legs between. 1t must be
awkward for the animal to attempt to
go ahead.
An advertisement in Western paper
informs the public that board for the
summer can be obtained cat large
and shady brick gentleman's residence
in the country"
The latest snake story is to the effect
that lately in Crawford e., Ind, a
viper attempted to swallow q black
snake larger than himself, and was
choked in the operation.
Solomon City, Kansas, does not seem
to be a very healthy place for married
men. One day last week five wives de-
serted their respective husbands and
went back East to olive with mamma"
The following is certificate given by
Troy lawyer to an applicant for ad-
mission to the bar: "I hereby certify
that the bearer, - -, was student
} in my office for ten months; that dur
: ing the whole of that time his character
for piety, chastity, and honesty was
| above reproach; and his example was
: such that from my daily contact with
, him I have now become a pious and
consistent member Of the church, and a
useful member of society.
) The subject of impressions at first
sight was being talked over at the tea
table, when the lady whose duty it was
to preside said "She always formed an
! idea of a person at first sight, and gen.
, orally found it to be correct" " Mamma,
said her youngest son, in a shrill voice
that attracted the attention of all
' DTSScllt w cllt uCoi, "hoo 40 to'
: replied the good mother. '"I want to
' know what was your opinion when you
, first saw me?" The question gave a
2 sudden turn to the conversation.
, One of the most extraordinary facts
| revealed to us by DR.. Livingstone's ex-
| plorations in Africa is that the high
? table land of the interior, with, its rich
: agricultural resources, its noble flora
i its fine temperature, broad inland seas
s and inexhaustible stores Of mineral
9 wealth, is rendered all but impenetrabl,
8 to civilized man, certainly beyond al
a reach of colonization, by one of the mos
apparently insignificant of causes, a fly
), This terrible insect is little brown
e yellow-striped fly called the tsetze
r scarcely larger than our common house
e hold pests, but whose sting is absolutel.
G fatal. So deadly is its poison that it i
d said three or four flies will kill tn,
II largest OK. Soon after the bite, whicl
gives little or no pain, staggering ant
n blindness comes on; ; the body swells h
r an enormous size the coat turn
n rough, and in q few hours follow con
It vulsions and death. And yet thi
? deadly poison under the effect of whicl
Il the.horse and OK, the sheep and the do
}, fall as if plague-stricken, is perfectl
d harmless to man, to wild animals, to tn
pig, mule, ass, and goat. Here is a
aohiauamapt Of aoianca that would hrin