The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-23
Facts aud Figures.


a hero of himself by undertaking to swim
six miles from Buffalo lighthouse in
Lake Erie.
An English farmer in Iowa sent to
London for seed-sower at an expense
of $3.50, when better one could be got
at home for $40.
Wisconsin papers complain of man
who was mean enough to elope with the
only school-teacber in Green Bay, thus
shutting up the school.
Mr.. Stewards fortune is estimated at
between fifty and sixtv millions. Com
Portable amount, when there is margin
of ten millions to guess by.
Two English ladies, the Misses Chares-
South Sea Islanders in Australia-the
first marriage of the kind on record.
An Indiana maiden suing for breach
of promisd, has put in evidence not only
the letters of the faithless one, but also
her own, to show the depth of ruined af-
fection.
A woman in Manchester, England,
has been arrested for chloroforming wo-
men, and while they were in an insensi-
BILE condition, cutting off and stealing
their hair.
There are twenty female physicians
in Berlin who are Justly entitled to he
called famous practitioners. They have
amassed individually ample pecuniary
means, it is said.
A Michigan paper thus delicately an
nounces death from "non-explosive:"
Mrs Maria Flamely gave up the bad
habit of using kerosene for kindling fires
on Thursday last"
Believing in the provcrb, Never too
old to mend," Prof w. l.. Mitchell, of
the Georgia University Law School, has
Just commenced the study of Hebrew,
aged TO- 1t may be of service to him as
he grows up.
A female book agent recently called
the Governor of Rhode Island, from his
place in the Senate, during an important
debate, to solicit his subscription for
book she was selling. The interview is
said to have terminated abruptly
DR.. Holmes talks, in his pleasant way
of lawyers, ministers and doctors, whose
several virtues are summed up in the
single sentence, 1.-THE lawyers are tho
cleverest men, the ministers are the most
learned, and the doctors are tho most
sensible"
There is woman in Springfield who
is determined not to be cheated. She
purchased a spool of cotton thread at
dry goods store, the other day, and insist
ed on having the clerk unwind and meas
ure it to make sure that it did not fall
below 200 yards.
DR.. Oscar Liebrich, the inventor of
hydrate of chloral, has introduced new
organic compound called croton-chloral,
by which the head may be rendered in
sensible while the other parts of the body
remain unaffected. 1t therefore promises
to produce all the good effects of hydrate
of chloral without any drawbacks being
attached to its judicious use.
The heat was SO intense at Adelaide,
South Australia, last January, that bust
ness nearly ceased, sleeping become al
most an impossibility, and even cold
bath was scarcely attainable, the water
works being heated to seventy-nine de-
grees. For twelve days the mercury rang
ed in the day up to one hundred and
eighty degrees in the shade.
The en-mooted question whether
the great lakes have tidal movements
will probably be settled this summer, II
series of observations being about to be
instituted under the direction of the
United States Coast Survey, to ascertain
the cause of the rise and fall of the waters
: of Lake Superior, which have for some
time past attracted the attention of the
curious.
Country banks can take no better pre-
caution than to have tirst-class safe
with lock very difficult to open, but at
the same time they ought to have some
body around who knows how to open it
in case of necessity. A New Hampshire
bank lately obtained a valuable safe
with patent combination lock, and
slowed the valuables therein, but every
body forgot the combination, and it
took a brawny blacksmith all day to
? get into it.
The English Anti-Tobacco Society,
} wanting evidences of the evil effects OF
, the weed, took into their service Professor
} Newman. He had never used the stuff
, in any form; and the arrangement was
that he should take good smoke, get
sick, and then describe his horrible SEN
sations in course of lectures. The Pro
icoooi SOu hio iIilIc dut oiiiohOA "ootio htiA
5 an hour, but singularly enough he did
/ not get sick at all and, so far from being
. utterly disgusted, he just keeps on smok--
5 ing, and the Society folks are little
: discouraged.
= A droll account is given by the Ger,
man st. Petersburgh Gazette of the ex
traordinary way in which professor O
magic has announced his arrival in tina
: country. A distinguished looking gen
: tleman enters hairdresser's shop ON tn,
r Nevsky to be shaved. Mons. Philippe
n the master, not being home, one of hi
e men undertakes. that anxious and deli
s cate task. The gentleman sits down
n the operator tuoks in the inevitable nap
a kin, fathers the hirsute chin, CAREFUL,
n strops the chosen razor, and with hand
Il jerked out of reach of the impending
i cuff, is going to begin operations, when
is to his amazement, he discovers that b
d is about to shave his man with carrot
r The stupefed friseur stares at his custe
h iner, stales at the carrot, then, throwin
5. the vegetable away, and silently pick
ing out another razor, again comes t
the charge with-a cucumber 18th
y devil" he cries. aghast, when his mas
N ter, entering, undeceives him as to th
1. internal character of his subject by &C
n dressing the gentleman as Nj. lie Profei
te seur Welle. The writer does not vouc
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