The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-18
Facts and Figures.

a company has paid $4,000 for the
privilege of boring and raising oil on
lands Of the Chickasaw Nation, north OF
Texas and west of Arkansas.
Fresh salmon is considered high-priced
at twelve cents pound in San Francis
co at this season, but they have to pay
fifty cents pound for halibut.
They have haunted house in Henne-
pin, MINI. 1t has been vacant for
long time, but every night the upper
windows are brilliantly lighted.
A man named Atcheson Wells, while
wading in the river at Brownsville, Tex
as, stepped into a quicksand, and van
ished from sight in second. A new
way of sinking wells.
A local of an Indianapolis paper says
that he does not depend upon journalism
for his daily bread, but raises hens.
Which moves an envious rival to ask
whose hens he raises.
An inventive genius of Kalamazoo has
succeeded in bringing out an eight-leg
ged steam walking machine that can
hitch to and walk off with any amount
of tonnage that wheels can roll.
A negro was rescued in good condi-
ton in Charlottesville, Va, on Friday
evening, after lying at the bottom of a
well, covered with about fifty feet OF
earth and stones, for nine hours.
Before we have had scarcely breath
of spring the annual croakers are pre-
dieting only half a crop of peaches.
According to them we have had only
half crop for many years, but that half
crop has served very good purpose.
In Michigan University, tall girl by
the name of Miss White, whom the stu
dents call alba Longo, has solved every
problem in the mathematical course, in
cluding one which has remained unsolv-
ed by the graduating classes for fifteen
years.
1t was said by locker on that when
President Grant introduced his cabinet
to the Japanese embassy there was no
hand-shaking. "The Americans snap
ped their heads i'll the usual jerky way,
but the Japanese gave them the grace
full salam of the East. An Oriental
only knows how to bow"
Madame Theirs, wife of the President,
has given her decision against women
being adorned with hair that grows not
from their own scalps. Madame believes
| that Paris rules the world of Fashion,
and that the wife of the supreme execu-
tive rules the fashion of Paris. We wish
her success in her endeavor it will re-
lieve the purses of men and the heads
of women.
| The ballot which it is proposed to in
troduce in England will consist of II
piece of paper bearing an official stamp,
and having on it the names and de-
scriptions of all the candidates. The
voter, after erasing the names of the can
didates for whom he does not wish to
vote, will fold it so that the names CAN
not be seen, and after exhibiting the Of
fetal mark on the back, will deposit it
in the ballot box.
They have resolute old fellow up i'll
Washington Comfy who, because his
property was placed in the hands of his
son, to prevent his squandering 1T upon
drink, took to his bed and stayed there
day and night for twenty years. He
was determined that if his son had his
property he should take care of him. He
has been in good health all this time, but
is waited on like child.
An Australian paper gives very sim
pie remedy for all forms OF sore throat
and one which it asserts is certainly eff
cacious. 1t is wearing q soft old silk
handkerchief next the skin and close
around the neck, especially during the
night. A common sore throat is said to
be relieved in an hour by this appGca
ton serious case requires day to be
cured. Such remedy is so simple that
every one may easily test it without
danger or difficulty. ..
Pigeon-hying is one Of the popular
sports of Belgium. The breeding and
training of birds are carried on in the
most systematic manner, and matches
are frequently instituted for various dis
tances from one to nine hundred miles
for trained birds of different ages Al
some of the railway stations in Belgium
large numbers of these birds may often
be seen in charge of single man, who
has instructions for letting them loost
at certain distances from their homes.
The Sacramento Bee says box run
ming the full length of the front of the
telegraph Office in that city has hereto
fore furnished tempting seat for th'
habitues. 1t is now covered with zinc
which has been connected with the bat
teries that were contained in the box
A person sitting upon the box withou
touching his hands thereto will not fee
{ the electricity, but if his hands drop OF
the box, or he puts them thereon to as
sist him in rising, he receives such sud
den and astonishing shock as sends hin
J an unbelievable number of feet towarC
the lofty roof and to the adjacent river
Any good day person may see some o
these unfortunates, unexpectedly strucl
, by this domesticated lightning, describ
! ing fifty-feet parabola in the air.
Mr.. Joseph Sullivant, of Columbus
Ohio, a well known naturalist, publishe
t an account in the Ohio State JoaornaL O
, the capture of the BaSsdris dStuta, o
: ring-tailed cat of the Rio Grande region
1t was taken in Fairfield County, Ohio
and was said to have been accompanie
by a second specimen. The occurrence
!, of this animal so far north is very re
e markable, and it may be a questiol
I whether it had not been brought fror
e Mexico or California, and escaped froI
confinement. 1t is an animal very muc
y sought after as pet, being clean in il
habits, and readily becoming very tam
b and affectionate indeed, it would seel
y to be quite desirable animal to domel
e ticate and keep about the house as
: protection against rats and mice. Som
, years ago a specimen of this same an
s NAL was brought into the Smithsonia
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