The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-04-25
Facts aa,,.d sEgitres.


The only steam-ploughing apparatus
in successful operation in the United
States, it is said, is on Louisiana planss
tation.
The Chicago Ecenipg Post introduces
its obituary of Prof. Morse with the fol-
lowing appropriate text: l"t His line is
gone out through all the~earth, and his
words to the end of the worldp
An air-loop has been inveated rby all
English man, in which the shuttle is al
most noiseless, thrown across the room
by the action of compressedair. Every
family can have an heirloom now gT
Mrs. Ann Thompson, of West Union,
Iowa, is distinguished for patriotism.
She has stopped the pension paid her as
war-widow, her son, aged fourteen, be-
ing now able to support the family.
A Connecticut paper says: An un-
happy and disgraceful family feud in
Danbury was brought to tragic end
Saturday, by the head Of one family pre-
senting a son of the other with an accor
deon. Hs-'
A remarkable coincidence was present.
ed in connection with the death of Jo-
mas Parker, at Goshen, Maine, lately.
Three cousins of the deceased, residing
in different States, all died the same
night, and nearly all at the same hour,
and each in fit. "a Ea--t
A California Court has granted
divorce to husband on the ground that
he was insane when he married. The
Judge has the immediate prospect of an
immense business, and the Pacific Rail-
way Company is making provisions for
an extraordinary travel westward during
the spring. ... .a ebI
The Danbury Ne,os moraGzes thus of
the peacock: Vocally the peacock needs
cultivation, but in attire it cannot be i'm
proved upon. When it puts up its avn
ing and sails around the yard there is
comfort in looking at it that is not ex-
perienced in looking at woman. This
is probably because the plumage is in
herited. .........
If any man has an uncomfortable de-
sire to elope with somebody, we recon-
mend to his thoughtful consideration
the example of the Missouri man who
few days ago ran away with his own
made mistake, the lady being in the
disguise of fancy ball costume, but che
result was the same. He had reason,
no doubt, to bless his luck that prevented
his falling into wicked ways.
A young man in Wilmington, Del,
lately helped a feeble old man over u
street crossing and soon after found
himself remembered in the old mans
will to the extent of $4,000. Ever
since this became known of course all
the young men in town have been ON
the lookout for feeble old men at the
corners of the crowded streets. 1t is al
ways safe thing to pay particular at
tention to these tottering patriarchs,
although very few fortunes of $4,000
are to be picked up in this way.
They have way of extracting teeth
in Iowa which has its advantages and
its drawbacks. The victim of toothache
goes forth into the woods, bends down
vigorous sapling, lashes the offending
grinder thereto, and then lets the sap
ling spring up to its natural position.
This process is economical and generally
effectual, but instances are recorded in
which the entire jaw has been extracted
or the individual landed bodily in a
neighboring pond after having described
graceful curve over the top of the
grove.
With regard to those gold discoveries
in the Black Hills, Gen. Hancock who
is in command of the Department of
Dakota, has written letter to an Iowa
paper in reply to many inquiries sent
to him, which ought to settle the minds of
all who had thought of seeking their
fortunes in the new Ell Dorado. In the
first place he says the Black Hills are
within the limits of an Indian reserva-
tion, and any expedition setting out for
that point will be unlawful, and will be
stopped by the use of troops; and
furthermore no gold has been discovered
there. ..
One of San Francisco's largest CAVIAR
ansaries is entirely under the manage
ment of the fair sex. From the proprie-
tress to the hall-girl, from the bartender
to the boot-black, all connected with the
establishment are women. The Fortress
es are muscular Germans, who handle
the most mammoth "Saratogas deity
and easily, while the clerk is handsome
brunette, who parts her short black ring
lets on one side, and makes bright re-
parties to the jokes of the drummers
and travelling salesmen who largely fire.
euent the house. The bartender can
make cocktail better and quicker than
any other in the State and drinks her
self every time she is asked to, which on
the average is about fifty times a day.
The landlady is fair, fat and forty, and
has received offers of the hearts and
hands of more than 400 of her sometime
guest.
Halls Journal Of Health protests cruel
error into which many fall in recon-
mending all consumptives to leave home
and its comforts to seek health in distant
regions, such as Minnesota or the South
ern States. DIR. Hall does not deny that
climatic influences benefit consumptive
people, but much depends on the stage
of the disease and how far the comforts
and Surroundings of home can be provid.
ed in the new home of the patient. II
is a cruelty, DR.. Hall contends, to send
away from home patient far advanced
in consumption. In fact he believes that
other things being equal, in any ordin.
ary case of consumption if man hai
money enough the chances of recovery
from consumption are better in a larg,
city than in the country with all it
boasted advantages of pure air, fresl
vegetables, luscious fruits, spring chick
ems, rich butter, and fresh laid eggs
These things can be better obtained il
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