The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-18
NO. 46.
Facts and Figures.

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General Andrew Porter, formerly Of
the United States army, died at Paris re-
Gently.
An Illinois girl made eighty -four bar
rels in six days, and thereby earned
S11.20.
In Manila $4,000 women and girls
make cigars at average wages of seven
cents per day.
Women have been admitted as mem
bers of the parish by the Unitarian So-
ciety of Springfield.
Joe Jefferson's Orange Island promises
a yield of nearly two hundred barrels of
oranges this season. The crop is being
taken to St. Louis.
In Switzerland, editors who advocate
woman's rights arc prosecuted according
to law, and one n.rrowly escaped convic-
tion recently in the Canton of Uri.
Mr. Spurgeon has been compelled
within the past year to receive ten
warm offers of marriage, all of which the
reverend gentleman has been obliged to
| decline.
Eugenia is selling out all her real and
personal property in Spain. She has
| just offered for sale the magnificent
Chateau of Arteaga, one of the fiefs pos
sessed by her family for centuries.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames is to write
the memoirs of Alice and Phoebe Cary.
The letters and papers left by the two
sisters will be entrusted to Mrs Ames.
who was one of their most intimate
friends, by their executors.
For the past nine months there has
been in operation III Philadelphia II
"Womcns Christian Association" which
provides employment and homes for
young women. Many young girls have
been rescued from ruin by this associa-
ton.
A number Of girls at st. Louis theatre
lately insisted upon going out to drink
every time their escorts did, and invari-
ably took brandy, although the latter
drank lager-beer. Notwithstanding their
more potent potations they remained
perfectly sober, while they were obliged
to take their masculine companions home
in very inebriated condition. The st.
Louis women evidently possess all the
qualifications appertaining to the right
of suffrage.
A singular death recently occurred
| from diptheritic poison contracted by
bite from child suffering from dipthe-
ria. A little girl daughter of a station
agent on the Boston and Maine Railroad,
was very i'll with diptheria. Tho father
for some reason-perhaps to examine
the throat-put his hand on her mouth,
when the child seized it, and bit it just
enough to break the skin. The virus
from the teeth penetrated the wound
and was diffuscd through the system.
His body became much swollen, and af-
ter a weeks illness he died.
There is a rich girl in Louisville Ken
lucky, who is as much troubled with
suitors as was Penelope. She, however,
gets rid of them in way the wife of
| Ulysses never dreamed of. When one
offers himself whose affection she has
reason to think is centred upon her cof-
fers and not upon herself, she begins to
fire at him with a six-shooter, telling him
that if he is true lover he will prefer to
die by her hand than live to offer his to
some one else. So far, no one has ''pre-
ferred."
1t is related that when the late Cover
nor Bigler, of California, was Minister, to
Chill, he procured situation for Harry
Meigs, the great defaulter, in mercan-
tile house, the latter being then under
ban and an exile from California. The
friendly act was remembered by the
now South American Railroad King and
millionaire, and less than year ago the
Governor received a check by which he
was enabled to purchase the comfortable
homestead in San Francisco, in which
his last breath was drawn.
People who are willing to sleep shut
up like jack-knife will be delighted to
know of new process of insuring lon
gevity. A California scientist, whose
head like his back must be a trihe weak,
declares that he has prolonged his life by
sleeping with his finger tips touching &
his toes, and has invented machine o
hold the body in that graceful and
pleasant position. He contends that the
vital electric currents" the prin-
ciple we suppose of the understanding
stove-''are thus kept in even circumfow,
instead of being thrown off at the ex-
tremities and wasted" There is no pa
tent upon the great discovery, and any
one with sufficiently supple back is of
course free to try the experiment.
Friend Hazard, of San Francisco, did
not get a wife as cheaply as he thought
He happens to be an itinerant vender
of potatoes. Meeting Mrs. Parrott,
who was impecunious, but who wanted
some potatoes she proposed to exchange
her daughter Clara for "a bag of peraties." "
Hazard agreed to the bargain and went
into the house to secure his bride. But
Clara thought the price too small by far,
and Hazard returned to his wagon, only
to find sack of potatoes missing and
Mrs. Parrott with them. Nothing could
be proved against the lady, however, and
so Hazard did the only thing left for him
to do-he went on jolly drunk"
Can a woman legally inform against
her husband, and claim her share of the
damages for giving such information
Judge Lowell in the U. S. District Court
in Boston, has decided that she cannot
unless when she has been divorced In
the case at bar, the divorced wife of {
tobacco dealer gave such information
and evidence that her late husband'
stock was seized and confscated Sh,
claimed her share of the proceeds, anC
had her claim allowed. Judge Lowell
in rendering his decision, said that h,
should not have sanctioned the claim i
the parties had been living together a
| husband and wife. Another instance O