The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-07
Facts ana Figures.


which work up 10000 bales ofcotton an
nually.
A little boy in Quincy, ILL.,, drank a
bottleful of ear-ache medicine, and died
in 80 minutes.
assaults with intent to become in
sane" is the way they put it now in an
nouncing deadly attacks. .--.. ..
A Laporte county Tnd.) horse has
learned how to operate pump. He is
the property of a milk-vender.
An undertaker's office in indianapolis
recently bore this cheering inscription
on the front door, "Gone for dead
man-back soon."
A tree which was cut down last week
in Kansas contained two bushels of bees
and three hundred pounds of beautiful
transparent honey.
The Danbury Ne,cS says "a Danbury
German is named Wachschleighen-
shamel. How would you like to stand
on back stoop, with the thermometer
IL degrees below zero, and call that in
to breakfast Z"
After the performance Of marriage of
Mr.. G. w. White and Miss M. Jennie
Brush, at Austin, Texas, the Rev. Mr..
Kegan extended to the bride her fathers
blessing, and presented her from him
with a check for $4,000.
An man in Robertson county, Texas,
has forty-one living children. Sixteen
of them served in the same company in
q Confederate regiment during the war.
He is now living with his eighth wife,
and is sixtv-fiye wears old
The girls in the State Iowa Agricul-
tural College not only know more about
farming than the male students, but
have become profcients in making beds
and dusting, under the superintendent
of a matron and general housekeeper.
The latest plan for increasing Yale's
endowment is proposed by q correspon-
dent of the College C0urant. He suggests
that on graduation each member of the
class shall get his life insured for 81, 900,
the amount to be paid to the college on
his decease.
While rather affected young lady was
confding to her admirer how ethereal
her appetite was, and the sensitive deli
cateness of her organization, the too
matter-of-fact help bawled out, "Say!
will ye have yer billed pork and beans
now or wait till yer feller's gomez" The
Teller" has been gone over since.
A young lady in Mississippi, who had
just graduated, came home and hired %
few colored people, and undertook the
experiment of woman farming. The
results at the end of the year were:
Eight banks of potatoes, 600 bushels of
corn, and 1869 in cash from the sale of
cotton, after all expenses were paid.
There is much talk Just now among
the stock raiscrs of the West about
domesticating the bison or American
buffalo. 1t is claimed that by taking
charge of their training and diet, at an
early age, they can be made to do all
kinds of work for which oxen are used
and to afford excellent meat for the
market.
A very careful bridegroom in Clevc-
land kept the wedding ring in his mouth
during the first part of the ceremony, so
that he could find it when the right
time arrived. He mumbled the responses
all right till the minister winked at him
as a hint to produce the ring, when in
his nervousness he swallowed It, and was
stood on his head by three groomsmen
to facilitate its recovery.
At late masquerade bali at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, one young lady's dress
was composed entirely Of newspapers,
the Daily Observer being the journal thus
honored and adorned. Another young
lady appeared at an evening party at
| Rock Island, Ill, with her dress founced
with copies of the Argus newspaper
her waist being spanned with the title
head of that journal.
Wapello County, Iowa, held a grand
circular and preheralded wolf hunt on
January 26. After due amount Of
bush beating, man was driven out
from cabin, and said that his father
knew a man who said he saw a wolf ont
there once-but it was in a menagerie.
The "hunt" disbanded, as the participa-
tors thought further investigation and
pursuit would be unnecessary.
Among other incidents of the temper
ance reformation now unusually active
in various parts of the country, we hear
that in Cambridge, Mass, the printers
employed by one of the largest book
manufacturing establishments in that
city, have formed temperance society
among themselves, and it is intimated
that those employed in other establish
ments will follow this good example.
There isn't kinder-hearted, more be-
nevolent, more intelligent, and more in
dustrious class of mechanics in the coun-
try than that which journeymen prin-
ters constitute; nor is there any which
has found bitterer foe to permanent
prosperity in strong drink. To this we
most cheerfully add our firm belief that
no men, when once they get started in
the right direction, can do better service
or more of it in the battle for total alb
stinence.
The overthrow of Japan's feudal no
biity has been accomplished without
serious disturbance Most of the DaiIni-
os are now living quietly in private
dwellings, having been notified that
their former extensive habitations are
required for the business purposes of the
Government. A few of the deposed no
bles still inger on distant estates, but
the Government expects to have them
all in the capital by the first of March.
A conflict is expected between the Mika-
dos troops and the populace at Taxa
mata, where the vassals rose up en- masst
to oppose the departure of their mediat-
lied lord. The gold mines of Sado have
been seized by 1000 desperate insurgents
The people of Yeddo manifestthe strong,