The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-15
Facts and Figures.

really good ones short of sixty cents
bushel.
Illinois is the great railroad State of
the Union. She has now in operation
1925 miles-just 705 miles more than
any other State.
A human footprint fifteen inches long
has been found in slate quarry near
Seneca, Kansas. The pre-Adamite man
wore large boots.
A Boston coroner has been accused of
presenting bills for viewing bodies that
he never saw. He gets 81 head, and
gets ahead about 81 every time.
A woman engaged in passing counter
felt twenty-dollar notes has been arres-
ted in Milwaukee, and large amount
of counterfeit money found in her pos
session.
A Cincinnati paper says that the To-
cation of the Union Pacific depot
grounds at Omaha, on G. +. Trains
property, will make Train worth over
$100,000,000.
Among the literary people who make
their winter homes in Washington, are
Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Ann Stephens,
Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, Mrs. Mary
A. Dennison and Mrs. Harriet Prescott
Spoford.
A prominent manufacturer of wood
working machines in Cincinnati has re-
ceived orders from the government of
Japan for shingle and lath machines,
turning lathes, and other machinery for
woodworking.
Some of the towns in Vermont having
x-oo 4o1 r.f +boir ,lo4i
now little inclined to grumble because
There is general feeling that all the
trouble has been taken for nothing.
Some of the quiet villages of New
Hampshire have a commendable way of
reliving the tedium of their long winters.
Two rival towns engage in spelling
contest, which is carried on without any
of the bitterness which is apt to be de-
veloped in other "wars of words" Antrim
and Bennington have been fighting it
out on that line all winter. At last re-
ports Bennington was two words ahead.
Carroll county claims to have the big
gest man in Tennessee, in the person of
William 3. Shaver. According to q
recent measurement he measure around
the wrist eight and one-half inches;
around the arm, eighteen inches around
the calf of leg, nineteen inches; around
the thigh, midway above the knee, thirty
three inches around the chest, five feet;
and around the waist, six feet. His
height is six feet five and one-half inches.
Boston has had another big swindle.
An enterprising man named Brock
opend Commercial Agency" in that
4Lro,,,xl ~, h.,
could Of course make their purchase at
q vast advantage. So large was the
concern that it had its own printing
establishment for getting out circulars,
reports, etc, and employed large num-
bes of men and girls. No sooner had it
got well a-going than the protector sud-
denly conceived that he would find the
climate of Canada beneficial. He left
many debts unpaid and carried off some
plunder.
Aunt Phillis," an old colored wo-
man, who was we'll known in and about
Railway, n. j., was burned to death at
Breakdown, near Railway, the other
night. She was born in New Jersey
about the year 1867, and during the
Revolutionary war, although a mere
girl, is said to have been of some service
to the American cause as O spy. She
herself used to say that at one time she
was in the special service of General
Washington. She had in her possession
gold snuf-box, which was given to
her by Governor Livingston as tes-
timonial of her services to the Federal
cause.
An ardent youth Of Cleveland, over
whose romantic head seventeen summers
had passed, blew out his brains the other
day because he was "crossed in hopeless
love" with young woman some years
older. His mother made the course Of
his true love exceedingly rough, and
poor fellow he had nothing to live for,
and so got rid of the small modicum of
brains that nature had lodged in his
Uranium. If he had had his wish, and
married the woman, it would only have
postponed the catastrophe, for he would
very likely have awakened from his rosy
dream to discover that he had been a
fool, and had no resort but the pistol to
end his married woes. He evidently was
marked for woes anyhow.
The suggestion of Gen. Hazen of the
United States Army that Government
SnOu1u Jake SOME means 10 prevent the
determination of the buffalo, appears to
be a sensible one for there is no reason
why animals so valuable and so easily
subsisted should be wantonly butchered
by thousands, and their carcasses left to
rot on the plains, as is now the case.
The buffalo lives upon a short grass
which grows luxuriantly upon the high,
arid plains of the far West, and while it
is svaluable as food, its skin, when dressed,
is an almost indispensable adjunct of
sleighing equipage. If any effectual
means for protecting these animals from
unnecessary slaughter can be devised a
great benefit will be conferred upon the
country.
Mr.. G. E. DeLong, the United States
minister to Japan, is a selfrmade man,
who, by his indomitable energy and
ability, from small beginnings has
climbed the path to distinction. In
1856 he was constable in Fosters Bar
Township, Yuba county, California. He
afterwards studied law, and practiced
with considerable success. He represented
that county several times in the State
Legislature. From California he went
to Nevada and acquired a very large
and lucrative practice He was twice a
candidate before the Nevada Legislature
for the United States Senate. bat was
dsicatsd both times by very small ma