The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-11-21
Facts and Figures.

A scooped pumpkin made an excel
lent ballot box at a recent Kansas elec-
ton.
Two Indian mothers have been arrest
ed at Oakland, California, for papoose-
icide.
Native Alaskans get drunk on beer
made by fermenting sugar and -four to-
gether.
Immense white pearl buttons are now
much used as trimming for mourning
dresses. .'
Ostrich feathers and Chantilly lace are
much used together for trimming street
costumes. ''
A cigar factory has just been started
in Key West, Fla, which will employ
500 hands.
There is a negro woman living near
Columbus, Ga, 106 years old, who never
nursed Washington.
The creek which formerly flowed un-
der the Natural Bridge in Virginia has
entirely disappeared.
| The State of Nebraska is building o
penitentiary at Lincoln that will accom-
modate 800 boarders.
A good drain on farm.-Heavy mort
gage at ten per cent. will drain it about
as rapidly az anything.
One thousand dollars fine or imprison-
ment for one year is the penalty tor bet
ting on elections In Illinois.
Borax, hitherto mainly procured from
foreign sources. has been found to exist
in inexhaustible quantities in Nevada.
The " little busy bees" of Pennsylva-
MIA have been unusually industrious the
past season and the honey crop will be
large.
The Union Pacific Railroad is having a
snow plough constructed that will weigh
fifty tons and will require three locomo-
tives to move.
Professor T. Sterry Hunt, one of the
most distinguished scientific men of the
day, has taken up his residence in Bos-
ton, and become one of the Professors
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Circumstantial evidence is not always
correct, but when you see an old farmer
who owns fine water melon patch buy
ing jalap or ipecac, it is safe to wander
beyond his plantation in selecting your
melons after dark.
A colored gentleman went TO consult
, one of the most conscientious lawyers,
and after stating his case, said, "Now,
Mr.. -, know you's lawyer, but I
wish you would please, sir, jiss tell me de
truff bout dat matter"
The misery of being called upon sud-
denly to make speech Was got over by
mathematician, who delivered himself
in this fashion: Gentlemen, morbid
! desire for originality prevents me from
saying, this is the proudest moment of
my life,' aud it does not occur to me to
say anything else."
Much as we grumble about the travel
ling accommodations upon our railroads,
) we are much better off than our British
brethren. There is not in either Eng
land, Ireland or Scotland such thing as
sleeping car; nor, in fact, anywhere in
Europe save in Russia, where the rail-
roads are modelled after our own.
Cooperative dairying is becoming ex-
, tensively practised. In fact, it has been
; found to be the best, cheapest, and most
. satisfactory way of bringing the con-
tents of the dairy to market. Of all CO.
6 operative associations those for cheese
! or butter-making or for sending milk to
, consumers direct, have been the most
successful.
Baltimore oysters are now sent to Lon
. don by the ship-load. During the past
winter a British steamship made two
trips from the Chesapeake to that city,
Q loaded exclusively with Baltimore Uys.
q ters, and so great was the success attend
ing the experiment that three large ves-
: sells are now on the way to that port
q under charter to take oysters to Lon
don.
n A deer swan across the Ohio River,
}, from Ohio to the Kentucky shore the
a other day, near the mouth of the Little
IS Miami River, and was subse quently shot
S and was killed by the men working at the
t. pumping house of the Newport Water
t Works. a quarrel arose among some OF
:, the parties about the killing of the ami
. NAL, which resulted in one of them
=; breaking the others arm by striking il
: with gun. Eau.
h At Barnsley, Charles Garrety, an aged
% man, employed as cupola or furnace
! tender at the we'll. known Oaks colliery
was committed for two months, without
h the option of fine, for being found il
possession of quantity of matches. con
70 trary to the special rules of the colliery
~ The Chairman said in consequence O
" serious explosions which had occurred il
- Yorkshire and elsewhere the magistrate
! had come to decision to commit al
!; persons found with matches in their pos
70 session.
sr The Transcript notices the exportatio,
lie of Boston carriages and harness to Eng
l. land last week. 1t says: "The Englisl
" have long studied these branches of me
,e chanical art, and are quite perfect il
4 them, in some sense. But our schoolin
ID has differed from theirs, and our result
" differ. Distances are great in this coun
X try, roads heavy often, and American
he have been more concerned with the al
ID tainment of speed and light weight tina
o. with the stately, ponderous style of III
of Old World. As we lead the world i
ne that inestimable artificial product, th
trotting horse, so we do in the affair
ment of the desiderata in the way
equipage which 60 to complete his tr
n umph.
e. A good deal of discussion is takin
g place in England on a subject which
er anything but pleasant-the hogging
e. a certain class of criminals. A memb,
el of Parliament, whose opinions a.