The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-26
Facts and Figures.


editor as "senile singer of unsavory
English"
Mr.. Holloway, the English pill and
ointment man, is going to erect hos
pital. Which is as good way as any
of expiating the sin of selling patent
pills. ..7
Four bales of palmetto leaves were
recently shipped from Savannah to
England, where they will be tested and
their value determined as paper-making
material.
Fashionable patroness to charity girl,
who has been away for holiday" Well,
Betsy Jane, and what did you do when
you went to see your friends?" Betsy
Jane" Please MIN, wore panier."
A new and profitable branch of bust
ness is invented in Georgia, by a genius
who sprinkles salt ON the railroad to al
lure cattle upon the track. The animals
are killed by the trains, and the railroad
company has to pay for them.
A Superintendent of police made once
an entry in his register, frem which the
following is an extract " The prisoners
set upon me and called me an ass, pre-
eious dolt, a scare-crow, ragamufin and
idiot-all of which certify to be true"
In an advertisement by railroad
company of unclaimed goods, letter
dropped from the word lawful, and SO
the advertisement appropriately reads:
"People to whom these packages are
directed are notified to come forward
and pay the awful charges on the same"
A lecturer undertook to explain to a
village audience the word phenomenon.
May be you don't know what phe-
nomenon is. Well, I'll tell you. You
have seen COW, no doubt. Well, as
COW is not phenomenon. You have
seen an apple-tree. Well, an apple-tree
is not phenomenon"
What are we to say of father who,
having little girl three years old run
ming about the house, carelessly leaves
four ounces of cyanide of potassium
within her reach This is what Mr..
La Boute, photographer, of Cambridge,
Mass, did recently. The child found
the poison-enough to kill seven men
drank it, and was dead In half an hour.
A youth while travelling in California
was ambitiously displaying a small pis-
tol before brawny miner, whose belt
was weighty with two heavy six-sheot-
ers, when the miner asked what he had
there. "Why," replied the youth,
"that is a pistol" "Waal," said the
rough, if you should shoot me with
that and I should find it out. I'd lick
you like fun"
A Utica man las invented trav-
cling trunk with this improvement
Taking hold of the handle and lifting
one end from theHoor, sharp pull draws
out hand-bar similar to those by which
hand-cart is drawn or propelled, and
at the same time two strong wheels drop
beneath The trunk is at once box OH
wheels, and the traveller can draw it
away independent of pcrters or express
men.
From the 10th of July, 1872, to the
26th of August, inclusive, there were
forty-eight days when the thermometer
in Washington rose to ninety degrees or
above fourteen days when it was at
ninety-fve degrees or above and one
day, July 3, when it rose to 10l degrees;
these temperatures being indicated by
thermometer fully exposed to the air,
but protected from the sun or reflected
heat.
Following the example set by the ia
: panese, the Chinese Government has
sent forty students to the United States.
These young men, who are OF the Man
darian class, are to receive a collegiate
education in this country, in course
that shall embrace knowledge of our
language, and practical art and science.
The intention at first was to send these
students to England, but the advice and
influence of Geo. F. Seward, U. S. Con-
sui General, caused them to be sent t.
, our country.
z A London letter says that the striking
J, mania is prevailing all England. The
: chairmakers of Wycombe, the coalmen
S of Lewestoft, the silk weavers of Sud
o bury, stone-masons of Preston, bakers
n of Dublin, engineers of Birkenhead, the
: china aud earthenware manufacturers
Q of Staffordshire, are all on strike. The
Q London carpenters, painters, bricklayers,
Q bakers, and cabinetmakers continue
t their strike. The Post-ofhce employees
2 have petitioned for an advance of wages
The iourneymen butchers of London
f have formed union for the purpose OF
t getting higher wages.
The Paris Figaro warns its readers
: against placing too much confidence in
. the announcement of hotel whose pro-
. prietor informs the public that Eng
. lish, German, Italian and Spanish are
spoken here" An Englishman, it says
who lately descended" at tho hotel in
question, and could find no waiter pos.
sessing oven the most rudimentary ac.
quaintance with the English language
o asked for an interpreter, and being TOLD
d there was none, demanded an explana
: ton. "By whom, then," he inquired
n "are English, German, italian anC
> Spanish speken?" "By the travellers
y sir, who come to the hotel" was tn
l. reply.
;s The demand for false hair is in
- creasing. Even the colored sisters fla,
= it necessary to supply the parsimony o
. nature by the prodigality of art to NEE
4 that demand those who have must di
"a rectly or indirectly supply the defcien
:. cies of those who have not. One set Q
"a lambs must be shorn, in order that ali
# other set may have heeces. In the move
IN the woman sells her flowing tresses as
10 last resort to erect tombstone over he
~ dead child or to save the honor of he
~ husband. In real life, she does it t
- buy a silk dress. Here, she will not d
il at all for what is the use of selliu