The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-17
Facts and Figures.

as his curiosity is satisfied, but the girl
who sits next him in the school thinks
he looked better with his nose OH.
Putnot your faith in him who predicts
a hot season-he sells ices; nor in him
who predicts q cold one-he owns a
cheap clothing establishment nor yet
in him who declares a wet one-he
vends umbrellas; nor a dry one he
sells beer.
Among the oldest relics at the Berks
county, Pa, fair last week were a lady's
belt three hundred years old, which
served for four weddings; dark glass
bottle two hundred and sixty years old
brass tea-kettle two hundred years old,
and German copy of the New Testa-
ment three hundred and fcrty-tive years
cid.
According to Haller, women bear
hunger longer than men according to
Plutarch, they can resist the effects of
wine better; according to Unger, they
grow older and never get bald; accord
ing. to Pliny, they are seldom attacked
by lions ION the contrary, they will run
after ions)! and according to Gunter,
they can talk a week.
There are now 157 churches and
chapels in the city, OF which the Con-
gregational Unitarian denomination
have 26, the Congregational Trinitarlans
"a, the Baptists 10, the Roman Catholics
Is, the Episcopalians l6, the Presbv-
terians I, the Universalists 6, Jews j,
German Lutherans 2. Swedenborgians
2, Adventists ., and Swedish Luther
ans /.
That was not It bad reply given re-
Gently at barn-raising in Pennsylvania
to young man who had been relating
his more than wonderful exploits in
various quarters of the globe. At the
close of one OF these narratives he was
not little set back by the remark of
an old codger " Young man, amt YOU
ashamed to talk so when there are older
liars on the ground?"
Several days since Chinaman enter
ed the Western Union Telegraph Office
at San Francisco, at noon, with the fol-
lowing despatch to friend at Dutch
Flat: " All jim; All Foo die at ten o'clock.
He under ground now" The operator
sent the message, and sat him down to
muse upon the CELEBRITY practiced by the
Celestlals who bury their relatives in
less than two hours after death.
An old woman, who died the other
day at Lowell, was giving orders for her
black silk gown, and they must not take
out the back breadth as they did when
Sally Smith was i'd out. "For," said
the old lady, deprecatingly but seriously,
"what a fgger Sally will cut at the
resurrection with put any back breadth
in her gown"
A gentleman from Alabama, while
riding to South Deerfeld, Mass, on the
Ashfield stage, few mornings ago, had
an example of woman's rights that must
have astonished him. He was seated on
the top Of the stage, and as it stopped in
Conway was filling his pipe with tobac-
co for quiet smoke. At this point q
lady, rs she may be called by courtesy,
got aboard, choosing also an outside
seat, and her first move was to snatch
the pipe out of the Alabamians hand
and throw it away.
Texas is an active, pushing and flour
ishing State. Railroads are projected
that will give it the proper facilities for
reaching the seaboard, where, in time,
increased shipping accommodations will
give the wealth of its rich interior coun-
ties to the world. The chief interest of
the State will always rest, in all proba-
bility, in its agricultural and stock rails
ing We notice the formation there re-
Gently of agricultural, stock raising and
industrial associations, which is step
in the right direction.
A Papyrus has been found in a tomb
by Mr.. Harris, editor of the London
HerOgIyphical Standard. AS described
it forms roll l31 feet in length and l
foot 4 ] inches wide 1t dates from the
reign of Rameses III. (the Ramsinit of
Herodotus) and contains valuable infor-
nations relative to the political and re-
ligious civilization of Egypt at that dis
tant period. 1t is written in hieratic
characters-a mixture Of hieroglyphics
and signs for letters and syllables. The
text is an allocution from Rameses Ill.
"to his people and all the men on earth"
Rameses therein recounts how he re-
established the ancient Egyptian wor-
ship, rebuilt the temples, and endowed
them with munifcence. The religious
movement alluded to relates to the peri
cd of Moses, to the monothesistic wor-
ship founded or restored by him, and
comprises all the events which termina-
ted in the ruin of monotheism in Egypt
and in the exodus Of the Jews. This
papyrus is, consequently, held to be of
the highest interest for the study Of the
Mosaic religion and legislation.
The monopolists in California are de-
termed to kill the goose that laid their
golden egg. The entire wheat crop of
the State is estimated to be worth $27,-
100000 to the farmers, but it has fallen
at the mercy of a combination of interi-
or freighters, San Francisco speculstors
and shipping monopoly. 1t costs less
to ship car load of wheat from Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Ia, or st. Paul, Mimi, to New
York, 1900 miles, than it does over the
Central Pacific lines, 200 miles. And
when the cargoes are landed at Vallejo
or Oakland, it costs from five to six dol
lars per ton more to ship it by way of
Cape Horn to Liverpool than it did five
years ago. The wheat crop of Califor-
MIA in past years has been conveyed to
Europe at less than the average of ST.
per ton. This year freights are kept up
to $23 and $24 per ton, and only so be-
cause a combination has monopolized
the shipping. The effect of this on the
farming interest must be more disastrous
than season of food or drought. 1t