The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-04
NO. 49,.
Facts and Figures.

Winooski, Vt, who has had twenty
three children and 900 descendants all
told.
The girls of Evansville, Indiana, alb
jure side-saddles and ride man fashion
They are for women's rights to the back
bone.
A colored Amazon in Georgia resisted
policeman for eleven hours before he
succeeded in getting her into the Gala
boose.
The washerwomen of Detroit are said
to be organizing trade union, to pro-
tect themselves against "Chinese cheap
labor"
An Iowa lady believes in life insurance,
as by its agency she has realized $4,000
off two husbands, and not very good
husbands either.
A worm has been discovered in North
Carolina that marches in single file,
countless thousands of them forming
one continuous line.
A wealthy man in Pike county, Ind,
recently died, having left his property
to all the widows within radius of
eight miles from his residence.
A few days since the conductor of
freight train, running out of New Or
leans, left home before daylight to take
charge of his train. Soon after his de-
parture, some one, who must have been
well acquainted with the premises, en-
tered the house, administered chloro-
form to his wife, who was still asleep,
and stole 5000 from under the mat
tress.
A policeman in Lawrence, Massachu-
setts, the other night, encountered II
Mrs. Jones clad in the garments of the
night, with pair of mems No. 10 boots
on, parasol over her head and Bible
in her hand. She was under the I'M
preston that she was going to church,
but on being fairly awakened was in
duced to acknowledge the inappropri-
ateness of her attire.
There is wondrous child in Heard
Co., Ga. He was born only few months
ago, and when nine days old repeated
the words "new moon" nine times very
distinctly and at every appearance of
that orb in her virgin freshness he gives
the announcement in the same way.
This moonly voice belongs to child
bors vouch for the truth of the story.
Next month the Norwegians celebrate
the 1,000th anniversary of their national
independence by dedicating monu-
ment to Harald Haarfagar, the warrior
who won their freedom for them. 1t is
to take the form of light house at the
grave of Harald, which is at one Of tho
most dangerous points on the coast of
Norway, and this will serve as beacon
to warn the mariner from the danger
Gus rocks as well as to remind all Nor
wegians of the national glories of q
thousand years ago.
A married lady in Rock Island, Illi-
nois, had been in the habit, for several
years, of placing needles in her mouth.
Now and then she swallowed one, and
it was sure to appear in some strange To-
cality few months after passing down
he throat. During the last five years
seven needles have been extracted from
her body in different places-two from
the region of the stomach and short ribs,
one from the leg near the knee, and re-
Gently one was taken from the left tenn
pie. The lady has also enjoyed good
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convenience from her metallic diet.
An aged woman, of about eighty
years, lately arrived at the Albany depot
in Boston, completely exhausted by star
walton. She had been an inmate of the
Dunleith Qowa) Poorhouse for num-
Der of months. A few days ago she was
provided with a ticket to Boston by that
institution, and a pound of hard-tack
upon which to subsist during her jour
ney. Unfortunately the old woman had
no teeth, and was consequently unable
to make use of the food so generously
provided. She has daughter in Cam
fering her to the daughters care that
the Dunleith authorities sent her on.
There is nothing more beautiful in the
young than simplicity of character. II
is honest, frank and attractive. How
| different is affectation. The simple
minded are always natural. They are
at the same time, original. The affected
are never natural. AS for originality, il
they ever had it, they have crushed il
out, and buried it from sight, utterly
| Be yourself, then, young friend. To at
tempt to be anybody else, is worse than
folly. 1t is an impossibility to attain
it. 1t is contemplate to try it. But
suppose you could succeed in initiating
the greatest man that ever figured in
history, would it make you any better
| By no means. You would always suffer
in comparison with the initiated one
and be thought of only as shadow of 9
substance, the echo of real sound, the
counterfeit of q pure coin. Let tn,
fabric of your character, though ever Sc
humble, be at least real. Shun affecta
ton.
The Cincinnati Enquirer tells this
story of the discovery OF Salt Lake: "
party of beaver trappers who had as
cended the Missouri with Henry anc
Ashley found themselves in pursuit o
their occupation ON Bear River, in each,
| Tor Willow Valley, where they encamp
ed for the winter of lS25-26, and in dis
cussing the course which Bear Rive
ran, q bet was made between two of tn,
party, aud James Bridger (who is still
alive was selected to follow the cours
of the river, and determine the bet
This took him to where the river passe
through the mountains, and he discov
cred Great Salt Lake. He went to it
margin and tasted the water, and o.
his return reported the discovery. Tn
| fact of the water being salt induced th
belief that it was an arm OF the Pacifi
Ocean. In the spring of 1926 four me
went in skin-hoats around it, to discoy
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