The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-01
Facts and Figures.

Six thousand men and boys q day
patronize the New York public baths.
Sturgeon Bay, Wis, has shipped about
5,500,000 native evergreen trees this
year.
A grain elevator of huge proportions
is in course of erection at Usage Mis-
sion, Kansas.
The prairies near Ellsworth, Kansas,
are enlivened by the presence of about
$4,000 head of Texas cattle.
A farmer in West Fork Township,
Monona Co., Iowa, planted 113 bushels
of black walnuts, and they are growing
finely.
According to the last census, there are
in the United States five millions of chill
dren, of school age, who never attend
school! ..
The city of Springfield, ILL.,, has
brought suit against the churches in the
city for the taxes against them for the
year 1871.
The Chicago woman who married a
man in Jail, brags she is "the only girl
stays of nights"
Capt. Pindar, of Southern Florida,
has ten acres of pine apples he expects
to realize for the patch this year the
snug sum of $4,000.
Eight hundred and eighty-two thous-
and pounds of strawberries were ship
ped to Chicago over the Illinois Central
Railroad this season.
A Kansas City widow rejected suitor
hn o+ho, lo,, Tho for1o,-y, 1n,,oy
venged himself by getting the widows
little son dead drunk.
A snake bit man in Atlanta, GA,
and then Immediately bit itself. The
man was living at last accounts, but the
snake expired Immediately.
The Houston & Great Northern Rail
road, by late decision of the Texas
Supreme Court, acquires title to many
millions of acres of the Texas and pub
lie domain.
The report that there was but one
daughter still living of any of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence
turns out to be untrue. Two daughters
of Elbridge Gerry are still living in New
Haven, Conn.
Arizona has 100000 acres of public
land, but small portion of which has
been surveyed. In addition to mineral
territory of untold richness, there are
vast quantities of magnificent grazing,
agricultural and timber land.
The Nevada Legislature, in granting
charters to new railroads, declares that
no Chinese shall in any way be employ
ed upon the road, either in constructing
or operating them, under penalty of
forfeiture of all their privileges.
A Agentle scheol-madam in Minneapolis
Hogged q boy an hour and a quarter,
using up several ferules, and finally re-
sorting to stick of wood. Even bal
anced justice obliged her to pay fine
of $50 and costs in consequence.
A number of soda lakes have been dis
covered recently, twelve miles south of
Denver, Colorado. The grounds COM
prise sixty acres, and the water and the
soil together have nearly thirty-three
and one-halfper cent. of fsulphate of soda.
1t is well-known fact, that in many
| portions of the West and Southwest, GER
tain grasses retain their succulency and
nutritive qualities during the whole
year, and stock can be fed on them to as
much advantage during the cold months
of winter as during the season when the
grass seems freshest and greenest.
California papers say that strong
tide of emigration has set toward Oregon,
a great majority of the emigrants being
respectable and comfortable farmers from
the Western States, who have sold their
old homesteads on favorable terms, and
are attracted to Oregon by reports of
cheap lands, productive soil and abund-
ant crops.
Two maiden ladies in Louisville were
very much shocked the other day when
they observed young lady in neigh
boring yard dig deep hole and bury
an object carefully shrouded in. white
cloth. They at once notified the police
of their suspicious of foul play, and the
body was exhumed. 1t turned out to
be that of lamented cat, and the sus-
picious spinsters were booted by the
crowd.
An amorous Detroiter tried to kiss an
unwilling fair one last week, but she
became angry and bit his cheek. He
attempted to return the compliment,
but the pain of the bite was so intense
that he tainted, and the wound has since
so festered and swollen that the surgeon
has decided to burn the flesh with caustic
and treat it as he would the bite of a
mad dog. Both the bitter and the bitten
belong to the first families in the city.
1t would seem as though a mans beard
at least were his own peculiar property,
and that he had right to dispose of it
when and where he pleased without
bringing upon himself any great amount
of trouble. Nevertheless, man in
Evansville, Ind, lately did incur a deal
of trouble by sacrificing luxuriant
beard which he had worn for years. He
went home after his wife had retired
and she screamed and went into hyster-
les, on which the mans own brother ap-
peared and fired a pistol at him, and
then knocked him down. Next day he
could not get draft cashed at the bank
and was even threatened with arrest fol
endorsing it with his own name. He
thinks he will let his beard grow again
, Those little money-making specula.
tions known as suits for breach of prom.
ise of marriage are still successful enough
J to induce persons of the female sex who
, have no better use for their affections tC
J invest in them. There was a case a
, Westminster lately in which it appeared
z that a venerable but ardent lover o.
threescore years had become the deposi
tory of the tender feeling of a gentle