The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-12
FUcts and Figures.

How to prevent your wife from scold-
ing you--Don't marry,
The boys in Des Moines perfume their
stockings before walking to church with
their sweethearts.
Only think of Delaware for q peach
growing State, and big one at that.
One million five hundred thousand bask-
cts this season, and only half the amount
of last years cror. Commend us kindly
to Delaware.
There is well in Indiana which keeps
time like clockwork. At precisely two
o'clock, night and day, it throws up a
jet of water. 1t is now over thousand
feet deep, and is still being bored with a
view to ultimate oil.
"That man." said wng "came to
this city forty years ago, purchased
basket, and commenced gathering rags.
How much do you suppose he IS worth
now?" We gave up. Nothing" he
continued after q pause, "and he owes
for the basket"
GLOW many are there ov yoz down
there I" shouted an Irish overseer to
some men in coal-pit. Give" was the
answer. "Well, then the half OF yeS
come up here" said he. When they
dill come up he found that the quantity
exceeded the demand by fraction.
The foot-and-mouth disease among
cattle, sheep, and swine in England does
not abate, but from last accounts seems
to be on the increase, both as to the
number of animals attacked and in re-
spect to virulence. Pleuro pneumonia
has also appeared in localities, and seems
to be steadily spreading.
1t is said that the Rev. Mr.. Spurgoon
will visit Brooklyn in the autumn as tho
guest of DR.. Talnage, andwill probably
preach for him in the Tabernacle. That
would be an event in current religious
history which would cause an excite
ment similar to that which attended the
visit of DR.. Newman Hall to this coun-
try.
A young lady at Council Bluffs, being
informed by her "feller" that he in
tended to cease his attentions, cowhided
him round the room, and, as he sprang
through the open window, told him,
with a parting lick, that that would
teach him to be more careful for the fu-
ture not to triAe with gentle and low
ing heart.
A Bangor, Me-, prohibitionist was re-
Gently discussing the liquor law, and
strongly urged its strict enforcement.
To emphasize his remarks he gesticu-
lated with his umbrella; whereupon
black bottle fell to the pavement with
crash, and the odor of cold Bourbon
was dif,used around. That closed the
argument. o.
Since the war the Methodist Episcopal
Church has established ten conferences
in the Southern states, with member
ship of 100000 persons, and 707 travel
ling and 1000 local preachers. They
have expended about 81 100000, and the
value of the church and school property
there amounts to $l,300,000. The ten
conferences have paid $1,000 into the
Freedmen's Aid Fund.
Bessemer, the inventor of the process
of making cheap steel, now proposes to
revolutionize naval warfare by making
cannon twenty yards long, with bore
of thirty inches and walls eight inches
thick, and with this he will fire shell
weighing five tons. Instead of setting
fire to all the powder in his gun at
once he divides his charge into differ
ent calls and explodes them successively,
all going off before the ball leaves the
gun, and each giving it a new impulse.
Here is the love ditty of a Georgian,
which he dropped and was picked up
on the road: ITO miss Study: behole q
stranger at the doore of thy heart he
gentely nox has nox before, has waited
long is waiting still. miss Study you
trete no other friend so i'll. l luv you
now and will forever you may change
but will never. for even one be our
lot derest won forget me not miss Study
l must confess that 1 luv you the best
of all the girls ever new there is nun
to be Compared with you"
This is one of the newest descriptions
of Dolly Vnrden: "The starboard
sleeve bore a yellow hop-vine in full
leaf, on red ground, with numbers OF
gray birds, badly mutilated by the
seams, flying hither and yon in wild
dismay, at the approach of red and
black hunter. Calvary Mission infant
class was depicted on the back, the max
ing up of the garment scattering truant
scholars up the sides and on the skirt,
while a'country poultry fair and group
of American hunting dogs, badly de-
moralized by the gathers, gave the front
remarkable appearance. The left
sleeve had on it the alphabet in five diff
ferent languages.
An English test case as to laborers'
time was recently tried in Berkshire,
England. The oath of June farmer
had good deal of hay down and thirty
men at work. At 81 o'clock at night
there remained an hour and a half's
work to be done in order to secure the
hay. A portion of the workmen refused
to WORK longer, unless paid extra for it.
This was refused, the hay was not Sc
cured, rain came on, the hay was
damaged, and the farmer sued two Ia
borers whom he was paying by the
week, to recover. The magistrates de-
cided that the defendants were not bound
by their contract to go on with the work
at that time Of night, and the case was
dismissed.
The extreme danger of permitting
children to play with the toy steam en-
gines which are sold for one dollar wa
painfully illustrated last Saturday by {
fearful accident which occurred to 4
child of Mr.. G. l.. Van Zandt, Vic,
President of the American Bank Not
Company. The child was dreadful,
burned by upsetting the fluid LAM
used to generate steam, and before as
sistance could be obtained she was s
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