The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-08
NO. 49,.
Facts and Figures.

wrote with respect, pretty aged minis
ter" The sons of the minister "inter-
viewed" the editor the next morning with
shot-guns.
A negro boy of eight has picture
primer to teach him his letters. One of
the pictures is that of bull chasing q
boy, which the little darlzey watches from
day to day, gleefully exclaiming, he
hasn't cotched him yet"
A Rochester young lady has sued
photographer of that city for $4,000
damages, because he displayed one of
with this playcard attachcd Gone half
dozen photographs ordered by this very
stylish young lady and payment respect
fully asked and insultingly refused"
Another proof of the exaggerated idea
of the danger of being bitten by q rat
tlesnake is to be found in the experience
of the Connecticut colony in Kansas.
Eleven persons have been bitten since
their residence there, none of the eases
proving fatal except that of child. 1t
must be good place for rattlesnakes.
At late concert, testy old fellow,
who had suffered much annoyance from
the incessant coughing of his neighbor
behind him, turned around with, "Thats
very bad cold you've got, sir" which
met with this gentle reply, I'm sorry
for it, sir, but it is the best 1 have"
1t will probably surprise good many
people in this country, and would aston
ish more in Europe, to learn that boards
planks and scantling to the valuo of
$6,l55,192 were imported into the United
States during the last year, to say moth
ing of several hundred thousand dollars
worth of rough timber, and over 100000
worth of fire-wood.
An expedition fitted out more than
year ago to search for DR.. Ujji Living
stone, is still on the march through the
wilds of Africa. As a loser of himself
Dr. Livingstone is without parallel in
history. For our part, we can't see the
use of spending so much time and money
to find man who can't be hired to stay
found, and who is never happy except
when he is lost. .-LouiSrWe Courier-J0ul-
nal
Grace Greenwood, in her lecture on
"The Heroic in Common Life" tells
story of the wife of member of the
Arizona Legislature, whose house, when
her husband was absent on his Legisla-
tive duties, was attacked by Indians
She shot six, and the next day wrote to
her husband: "Dear John, the Apaches
attacked the rancho. l have won the
fight. You need not come yourself, but
send some more ammunition"
A married woman in Decatur, Ohio
the other day, pining for her husbands
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dren to the billiard room and took q
he, looking daggers at her. 81 know it."
continued the injured wife, "and you
have borne the disgrace SO long, my
dear, that 1 am determined henceforth
to share it with you," and she took out
her knitting-work and settled down for
the evening. He went home much earlier,
and it was the last of him seen in that
billiard room.
There is very nice family out in
Kalamazoo county, Michigan. While
the father and the mother were engaged
in fight the other day, child three
years of was pushed into tub of hot
water and left there to soak. A couple
of days after the leg of another child
was broken in the daily family fight and
left to heal itself. The human beings in
Kalamazoo have finally taken the mat
ter up, and are having this family inves-
tigated. This is an era of investigation
and reform, and we trust they will do
the business thoroughly.
1t has been discovered that smuggling
has been carried on to quite large ex-
tent at Detroit for some time past. Pas
sengers going from one side to the other
of the stream that separates the United
States from Canada carry considerable
amounts of merchandise back and forth
on the ferry and elude the examination
of customs officials. We are sorry that
the bulk of this business is done by wo-
men, who take advantage of the reluc-
tance of the officers to search them to
keep up profitable contraband trade.
Alas they will do SO.
This is about the right season of the
year for the usual crop of items about
the beggar who dies and leaves a fortune
for previously-unheard-of relatives to
quarrel over And so we have the story
from Fort Wayne, Indiana, of woman
who spent her life in gathering rags,and
who recently died and bequeathed to
her husband the snug little sum of
$4,000. The latter part of this informa-
tion will please the skeptic, and he will
reasonably doubt the truth of the whole
matter on two distinct grounds. First.
because she never could have kept the
money from her husband during her life
and, second, because it is contrary to
human nature to suppose that she would
have left it to her husband.
The town of Bristol, in Tennessee and
Virginia, with a population of three
thousand, is an anomaly among towns.
The place is located in two States, and as
the State line passes near the centre OF
the main street, the rogues and lawless
know where it is to an inch. This line
used to be deeply venerated, and in for
mer years it would have been considered
a symptom of the decay of the republic
for Tennessee constable to cross the
street on the sidewalk, on the sacred soil
of Virginia, and arrest criminal. But
the line is not now regarded with such
tender veneration. When man kills
another and steps over the line for pro-
lection, the officers step after him and
fetch him back killing is, consequent
ly, not SO popular as formerly. Eacl
side of the line has separate Mayor anC
board of Aldermen, and regulates it
own affairs in the sense contemplated b,
the Constitution. There are two paper