The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-20
NO. 16
Facts and Figures.

lnere are fU,UUU,UUU bottles OF CataWDa
wine in Cincinnati cellars.
A Chicago lady 70 years old is the
mother of baby aged 10 days.
Shrewd Illinois farmers have taken to
raising wolves for the purpose of getting
the bounty on their scalps.
Go not for every grief to the physi-
cian, for every quarrel to the lawyer,
nor for every thirst to the ale-pot.
The negroes have commenced build
ing new town between Birmingham
and Elyton, Alabama, which is known
as Baconsides.
A foolish woman in Des Moines got
up in her sleep, the other night, and
walked into well thirty feet deep.
The locust eggs are poisoning mul-
berries in Tennessee by being deposited
IN them, and the mulberries are poison
ing children by the same process.
Some jocose fellows in Newbern, Ind,
robbed q friend in the night for Joke,
and paid heavy fine the next day in
earnest. The friend had no sense of
humor.
An Iowa paper says the grasshoppers
and potato bugs met in joint conven-
ton at Conncil Bluffs the other day.
They decided to reject the one term
principle.
A Boston woman claims to have read
last year fifty metaphysical and scientific
works, as many more of history and
belles-lettres, besides 500 novels, plays,
and poems.
A man in Kansas lately rode twelve
miles after being bitten by rattlesnake
before he could get medical assistance.
He did it in less than an hour and his
life was saved.
If you would live to purpose, and live
long, live industriously, temperately,
regularly, oil tho while maintaining u
conscience void of offence toward God
and toward man.
The Mariana (Fla.) Cougsy says thst
the county Jail Of Calhoun county has
not had an inmate in over four years,
and the county Commissioners have de-
cided to let it be used for better pur-
pose--a corn crib. 1t has accordingly
been converted into that useful adjunct
to farm.
A few days since the surveyor Of high
ways in Danville, N. H., notified u wo-
man having tax Of four cents to ap-
pear near the Union Church on a GER
tain day, ut an appointed hour, then
and there to work out her tax. Accord
ingly at the appointed time and place
she appeared, armed with q hoe, nnd
toiled until her tax was cancelled, about
fifteen minutes.
There is a camp of gypsies at Spring
field, ILL.,, who have annually visited
that place for many years. They are
said to be quiet, inoffensive, honest, and
industrious. They have employed the
rector of st. Paul Episcopal Church to
marry three couples, and to baptize
seven children. They incline, therefore,
to the doctrines of the Protestant Epis-
copalians.
The kentucky Legislature, in order
to check the practice of opium eating in
that State, has passed a bill that, on
suitable affidavit, any person who,
through excessive use of opium, arsenic,
hasheesh, or any drug, has become in
competent to manage himself or his es-
tate, may be confined in an asylum and
placed under guardianship, as in the
case of drunkards or lunatics.
1t is bad business attempting to set
matters right with a revolver, especially
if one is unpractised with that dangerous
implement. A young man in Saginaw,
Mich, endeavored, the other day, to
clear his sisters reputation by shooting
her traducer, who CHANGED at the mo-
ment to be one of group of three.
The excited young man shot both the
others, and the traducer escaped shot
free.
We have little story for boys with a
nice moral to it. Little Johnny Moore,
away out in Monroe, Mich, went to
picnic last week, and like foolish little
boy that he was, tried to smoke cigar.
1t made him sick, of course, and he threw
himself on the wet grass and lay there
long time. The result was he had con-
gestive chills and died. 1t is sad story,
and the moral is-that you can go to
piccics if your parents are willing, but
you had better not try to smoke cigars,
and by all means don't lie on the wet
grass.
We trust that the business of finding
petrified giants has received a salutary
check this time. The man that tried it
lately in New Hampshire has come to
grief. Some miserable employees of
who assisted at dead of night
in planting the craven image beneath
the honest farmers apple, turned traitor
and exposed the little game. The hon
est farmer was thereupon arrested, and
has been mulcted in the sum of $500 for
trying to obtain money under false pre-
fences in his attempt to sell the giant.
We trust that this will be warming
and that no daring mortal will any
longer abuse our patience with the dis
covery of Cardiff giants.
There is good deal of dry humor in
the American press. The following ex-
tract from the Louisville Courier is a
gem in its way: "The New York Sun.
which is seldom satisfied with things,
objects to the proportions of a rattle
snake recently seen in Carter County, in
this State, and described as reaching
from one side of the road to the other,
while its body was as big as an ordinary
churn. The San says that was a very
badly-proportioned snake, and that it
should have been a good deal longer Ut
else a good deal thinner We should
like to know who is running the snakes
OF this State, herself or the editor of the
New York San. When things come to
such a pass that New York arrogates to
herself the right to dictate to Kentucky
the size and shape of her serpents, it is
high time for the trumpet to sound to