The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-15
Facts and Figures.

East Cambridge, Mass, is suffering
from an army of locusts.
There are eighty Pullman palace cars
arriving at and departing from Chicago
every day. The amount of money ex-
pended in their manufacture ranges
from about $4,000 to $4,000 for each
car, the average cost being about Sl6,-
500. The amount of capital, therefore,
invested in the Pullman cars which ac-
commodate the business of Chicago,
amounts to about $1,300,000.
The Grand Jury of criminal court
in London recently indicted themselves,
not as nuisance precisely, but as
superhuity. They expressed the belief
that the function of Grand Jury is
fully discharged by the inquiries of the
committing magistrate. In regard to
this presentment the common Sergeant
of the court very decidedly disagreed
with the Grand Jury, believing the
existence of that body to be essential to
an effective administration of justice. 1t
is probable that in this instance the
hostility of the Jurors to the institution
may have arisen from impatience at be-
ing called upon to give the time and at
tention necessary for the performance of
the duties required of them in their Off
cial capacity.
"Crazy Black Dick" who died sud
denly at Harrisburg, Pa, on Saturday,
was man with mission, notwithstand-
ing he was insane. There is at Harris
burg tangled network of tracks between
the two depots, over which trains are
constantly passing. For years "Crazy
Dick" in all weather and under all cir.
cumstances, made it his chosen work to
run along in front of every train that
started, warning every one to clear the
track. Only once was he tempted from
his post, and then railway engineer
gave him ride to Pittsburgh. While he
was absent O child was killed on the
track, and after that no inducement
could persuade him to leave. The rail-
road men will find it hard to do without
his services, so freely and courageously
rendered.
At the FIRST battle of Manassas, a Vir-
ginian named Crockett Grayson was shot
in the head, the bullet entering the
temple, passing through the inner ear
and lodging in the bone back of the ear,
where it remained until recently, when
physician extracted it. Upon boring
into the bone with trefine the ball was
found SO firmly imbedded that it had to
be clipped out with chisel. The lead
removed weighed half an ounce. Mr..
Grayson went through the operation
without taking cnloroform, exhibiting
, great GOODNESS and fortitude. Once dur
ing the operation he called halt, and
after ejecting mouthful of tobacco
Juice, coolly laid his head on the table
and informed the doctor that he could
now ego ahead" He was doing well at
, last accounts.
The Evansville, Ind, Journal says -
"A story reached us yesterday of the
death-bed confession of man who,
about q year ago, pretended that he
woke up one morning and found his wife
dead by his side. The man is reported
to have been steady in his habits, and no
word reaches us of any disagreement
with his wife; but, after about year
of agony, he confessed to a woman who
was with him in his last hours that he
, had smothered his wife, and that ever
since she had haunted him-her face
being continually before his eyes re-
, preaching him for the murder. He ex-
, pressed himself as willing and anxious
to die, to escape the misery he endured.
Our own recollection of the case is that
: the coroner's jury returned verdict of
: death from heart disease on the testi
/ mony of the husband, but that no post
> mortem was held, the urgings of two
: physicians to the contrary notwithstand-
ing"
A man who has lately visited the
grand pyramid of Cheops, wading in the
sand fourteen hundred feet before he had
passed one of its sides, and between five
and six thousand feet before he had
made the circuit, says, that taking one
hundred city churches of the ordinary
width, and arranging them in hollow
5 square, twenty-five on side, you would
;, have scarcely the basement of the pyra-
mid. Take another hundred and throw
4 the material in the hollow square and it
1 would not be full; pile on all the bricks
1 and mortar in the city of New York, and
Q the structure would not be so high and
r solid as this great work of man. One
l layer of bricks was long since removed
!. to Cairo for building purposes, and
: enough remains to supply the demands
of city of half a million of people for
| a century to come, if permitted to use it
l with perfect freedom. The pyramid of
1 Cheops was built 2,123 years before the
q Christian era.
The Canadian Parliament has passed
a new patent law by complying with
! the provisions of which American inven-
/. tors will receive protection in Canada.
By this law all inventors or their assigns
= may receive patents, provided a foreign
! patent for the invention has not been in
existence for more than one year prior
: to the application being made for one in
u Canada. Improvements on existing
J patents may also be patented. The for.
. eign applicant is obliged to elect his
. . domicile in some known place in Canada
y y but this is mere formallty. The law
II II requires thatsthe patentee of any inven,
u ton or his assignee shall begin to manu-
o facture the article in Canada within two
= years of the date of the grant of the
70 patent unless sufficient proof be ad
duced to the satisfaction of the Com
y 70 missioner that the patentee has beer
le unable to do so from causes Beyond hi
u control, in which case the COMMISSIONS
is empowered to grant delay. Patent
will be issued for five, ten, or fifteel
vt years, at the option of the applicant, ant
Is patents issued for five or ten years ma,
he be extended for another term of fiv
l. years, but there is no provision for ex
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