The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
Facts and Figures.

Extensive lead mines are being opened
in Utah. zorro v.rr $..l -.-u
One man and his son in Winneconne,
Wis, have slaughtered 3,301 muskrats
in two months. -
A man at Bloomington, ILL.,, scalped
another the other day merely to show
how it was done.
Thousands of acres of sugar beets are
being planted in the vicinity of Free
port, Ill, this year.
The Duluth Herald says that Dan
Shumway, notorious rough, killed at
Moorhead two weeks ago, was buried
face downward, with pack of cards in
his hand. n'9 -'t
Anaged gentleman, at Charlton, Iowa,
attempted suicide by hanging, but his
family cut him down; whcreupon he
took the rope and administered II gem
eral fiagellation. r var av h--
Some of the Indian clergymen in the
civilized tribes of the West have queer
names. Among them are Rev. Mr..
Black Fox, Rev. Mr. Muskrat, Rev. Mr..
Walking Stick, and Rev. Mr.. Johnny
Jumper.
II oh I'LL ~ llClcS Ill circumference
above the ears has been dug up at Du-
buque, Iowa. This seems to indicate
that Sin those days" there were men
with mighty deal of intellect above
their ears. .-arL
Brigham Young's quiet little family
circle consists Of thirty-two wives and
sixty-eight children, and when they all
gather around the hearth ON winter
evening the effect is said to be indescrib-
ably cosy.
Julia Z. Wallet, q poor Providence
girl of twenty-five, has sued Thomas
Grace, of Cranston, an old bachelor of
seventy-tive, worth round half million,
for $4,000, the price Of her blightcd
affections.
A wedding that was to have takon
place in st. Paul, day or two since,
was indefinitely postponed by the dis
appearance of the bride that was to be
on the wedding morning. She eloped
with former lover.
An English law compels q married
woman, if she has money or the means
of making it and her lord has none, to
support him, be he ever so worthless,
that the expense of his keeping may not
come upon the parish. .t
A lady in Clinton, Iowa, gave bur
glar very severe hogging with dust
brush the other night. She said she
wouldn't have done it if she hadn't been
under the impression that it was her
husband just getting home.
A gold mine has been discovered in
Stearns county, near New Richmond
Minnesota. The st. Cloud Journal says:
Though it is found at depth of 113
feet, the gold is so pure and the nuggets
so large that borings will pay we'll
The commission recently appointed to
lay out new highway in Wethersfeld,
Ct, have found it very difficult to obtain
prccedents for assessing damages, as
there has been no highway opened in
that town since the Revolutionary war.
At -Provincetown, Mass, more than
one-fourth of the entire population are
Portuguese. They settled there some
years ago, when the whale fisheries were
at their height, and are represented as
being hardy and daring set of fisher
| men. ..
There was once what was known as o
rainless region in the Territory of Col
orado, but for two or three years past
that tract has been favored with fre-
quent and abundant showers, and it is
thought that soon irrigation will be no
longer necessary. The Denver papers
are trying to account for this climate
change. We should suggest that it
might be one of the effects of civiliza-
ton, if we felt quite sure there was
enough of it there to have any appreci-
able effect. -'
A Missouri Judge has decided that
newspapers in that State cannot collect
payment for advertisements printed on
Sunday, because contract for work on
Sunday is void under the statutes. The
case has been appealed, and u final de-
cision has not been rendered as yet, but
whichever way the case is decided there
can be only one opinion regarding the
character of man who will gIt adver-
Using done on Sunday, ar after hav-
ing obtained the benefit Of it refuse pay
ment on such grounds.
A very curious business enterprise has
been recently discovered in Austria, car
ried ON by insurance companies which
undertake to pay certain sums to policy
hol'tSlo oil plicii StllihS hluiIlcii' VI
course it was a swindlc, but that was NJ
reason why it should not flourish unit
the projectors had lined their pockets
There were policies enough issued, but
the members of the company did mos
of the marrying and the officers received
large fees, and then there was little let
for outsiders, and they didn't get ever
that.
A Dutchman died lately in Holland
who had thoroughly tested the destruc
tive powers of tobacco and beer r. II,
had in his time smoked about 1Q00C
pounds of the soothing weed and drunl
!. 100000 quarts of the composing liquor
, and yet by reason Of strength OF SOM
: other cause he reached the age of four
score years. Of course the experimen
is not altogether satisfactory, because i
, he had not indulged in tobacco and bee
a he might have lived to be 100, and ol
the other hand he might never hay
!, passed sixty. Isi! a7 h.o4
I A London correspondent gives an ac
S count of an office for marriages "whic
4 has been established fer some time i,
| that metropolis and is in very flourish
t ing condition. 1t undertakes to obtai
f matrimonial partners with any desirabl
qualifications for all applicants. b TIL
matches produced by this concern elail
: to be more satisfactory than those sal
q to be made in heaven, and are doubtles
= better than the general run of thos
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