The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-03
Facts aud Figures.


California wheat growers will this
year realize an aggregate profit OF
S2O,00O,O00. -
A young Connecticut lady was lately
taken back when her swain got upon hi
knees before her and read a declaration
of love which he had nicely written off.
The hospitality of Peoria in enter
tanning religious convention was re-
venged by the Offering of special payers
/" for this place, abounding in wickedness
and infdelity."
There are only about half-a-dozen
pin factories in the country, but they
succeed in making over two million
packages a year. One Boston factory
produces eight tons of pins per week.
Georgia has hale and hearty citizen
who has been struck by so mimic balls,
one mortar shell, one shrapnel, one three
inch conical, struck by lightning, bitten
by rattlesnake and chased by mad
dog.
A very modest young lady, who was
passenger on board packet ship, it is
said, sprang out of her berth and jumped
overheard, on hearing the captain, dur
ing q SloIli, oEuer Ilie uldte W udul uOWu
the sheets.
A company sinking an Oil we'll near
Pittsburgh, Pa, after penetrating to the
depth of eight hundred feet, struck
vein of hard coal. Going through this,
they struck vein of genuine birthstone,
and fer prudential reasons stopped bor-
ing.
An Indiana paper describes the feast
Of legislative delegation at railroad
dinner. The reporter is little reckless
in his language, but he narrates the facts
in the case very pointedly: "Tho dele
cation set at two P. N. They upset at
five"
The famo1 Us gem-mining projectors Of
California and Arizona, it is thought,
have claimed rather too much, mas
much as diamonds, rubies and sapphires
have never yet been found in the same
earth, any more than pineapples and
russet apples in the same gardens
A Western exchange proposes that tho
seats in the churches be arranged on
pivots, so that the devotional portion of
the congregation, who enter the church
at reasonable hour, may conveniently
turn around to examine the elaborate
toilets and decorations of the new COM
ers
Lemuel Scores, of Terre Haute, Ind.
who had courted lady with considera-
BILE pecuniary loss to himself, found, in
going to fulfill the marriage contract,
that she had eloped with another man.
He is silently waiting for them, vowing
they shall pay "old Scores" on their
return.
An old carpenter who has been EN-
ployed at job work by an old lady, was
asked why people of his trade always
charged more in proportion for coffinS
than they did for chairs and tables.
"Well, you see, ma'am, it's Just because
people won't bring cotfins back to us to
be repaired"
The great primeval northern forest Of
Maine contains about 10000 square
miles of the 10000 which composes the
whole area of the State. There are about
1900 lakes in the State, covering nearly
5000 square miles. The estimate of the
total water power is equal to the COM
bined working of 34,000,000 men, all the
year round, night and day.
A singular accident occurred recently
upon the White Mountain Notch Road,
N. III. A stage-coach on its way from
Ammonoosuc station to Crawford House
was struck by lightning during storm,
the horses thrown down but not killed,
and two passengers sitting on the top
Of the vehicle were somewhat injured.
Their clothes were scorched, their gold
knLA al Il.
their pockets, and one of the men was
burned upon the breast, the lightning
also completely eltclrcling his body.
The crops in Western Europe this
year have turned ont very favorably.
France, Germany, Belgium, and Switzer-
land have been favored with an abund-
ant harvest, and the little land culti-
waited in Spain has yielded well. Italy
forms an exception, and advices from
of the country such bad crop has never
been seen since 1858. In Hungary, the
Danubian Principalities, aud Russia, the
results are generally unfavorable, and
the expectations from Turkey are ex-
pected to be smaller than usual.
Rev. Geo. Rodgers, leading Inde-
pendent or Congregational minister of
Dorsetshire, South of England, accom-
panied by number of tenant-farmers,
has recently made tour of inspection
through Minnesota for the purpose OF
selecting lands for a colony of 1000
persons-well-to-d do farmers, possessing
;. capital of from $4,000 to $4,000 each,
and who are among the most successful
agriculturists in the world. The dele
gatiOn selected eight townships in Clay
county, Minnesota. on the line of the
Northern Pacific Railway. A railroad
town, to be named Yeovil Gn honor of
the district from which many of the
colonists came), has been set apart near
the centre of their tract. Two hundred
families will leave England in April for
this colony, and the remainder, with
their pastor, will follow during the
season.
The San Francisco papers state that
the vintage of 1871 is the best ever pro-
duced by the State, and that the one of
the present year will probably excel
even that. The current prices for last
years growth, in caak, are given as fol-
lows: Dry wine from Mission grapes,
40 to so cents; dry wine from the fine
varieties of foreign grapes, 55 to IS
cents; dry Muscat, 65 to IS cents Mis-
sion Port, rs cents to 81; sweet wine
from Muscat, Tokay, and other choice
| varieties 81 to 81 so; native wines. two