The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-16
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Facts d1td Figures.

days old Daoy, or was Wnen unls para
graph set out.
An irate colored female on Tennessee
train, failing to find the expected prize
in some "prize" candy boxes sold her,
pitched into the newsboy and gave him
sound thrashing.
The Hartford Post says two-thirds of
the people of Poquonoc pass Sunday in
fishing for muskrats with shot guns, and
that is the way the other third know
when Sunday comes.
A gentle school ma'am in Minneapolis
fogged u boy an hour and a quarter,
using up several ferules and finally re-
sorting to stick of wood. She settled
the case by paying $50 and costs.
A Pacific paper says: A fellow i'll
Oregon thought he would be smart, and
Just have a little fun with a young lady
on whom he had waited two or three
times. He asked her what she would do
if a nice-looking young fellow asked her
to marry him. She smiled, oh, so gush-
ingly, and looked good enough to eat,
but said nothing. Then he asked her
what she would say if he asked her to
marry him. She threw her arms around
him, and rushed out of the room for her
hat and shawl. The poorfellow says he was
never rmarried so sudden in his life. Prob
ably that was the nearest she ever came
to being asked, and she thought fooling
around with sentiment would be danger
Gus.
In the Superior Court III Boston a de-
cision has been rendered which is of in
terest to the managers of public convey
ances. A man named Standish took pas
sage at Fall River on one of the boats of
the Narragansett Steamship Company
for New York. He claimed that while
OH the passage he either lost his ticket or
gave it to the wrong officer of the COM
pany; at any rate, when he arrived in
New York he did not have it. Failing
to produce a ticket, and refusing to pay
the fare of four dollars, the officers of the
company detained him, and threatened
to carry him back to Fall River. III
consequence of this he sued for an as
sault and false imprisonment, and the
jury gave him verdict for fifty dollars
AS matter of law, Judge Putnam in
structed the jury that the officers of the
company had no right to detain the
plaintiff merely for the purpose of COM
pelling him to pay his fare.
The New York Sun says: An illus
tration of Yankee pluck has just
reached this city through private
letters from the South African diamond
: fields. A party who left this port for
the mines about year ago, on their ar
!, rival at Cape Town had not money
? enough to procure transportation to the
S diamond district. They at once set out
on foot and after weary walk of 80
, miles through most cxhausting coun-
+ try, arrived safely at the nesting place
of the much-coveted brilliants. The Ia
test advices, up to the latter end of
March, say that most of them had been
successful. We are informed that the
last packet from South Africa to South
ampton brought diamonds valued at
3 e160,000. There are now about one
/ hundred thousand persons at the mines,
| including very few Americans. The
l most popular place at present, is far in
land, where the Vaal river and its tribu-
9 taries flow down from the Quathlamba
= mountains through the highlands to
| join the Orange river, in the Orange
= River Free State.
The Japanese are engaged in reform
: ing their currency, so that it will closely
resemble in size, shape, and value the
: coins of the United States. The gold
: coins heretofore used in Japan are called
nibos. They are fiat pieces of gold,
! about an inch long and half an inch
wide, containing twenty per cent oftsil-
= yer, and are valued at fifty-three cents.
j When it was determined to change the
: currency system, it was found that with
the limited refining works of Japan it
= would take four or five years to accom-
: plish that object. The Japanese have
s a mint at Hiogo, and can turn out the
!. coins as fast as required but the diff
d Guilty was in refining the metal, There
: fore the Japanese Government made an
s arrangement with the Bank of Califor-
a mia and the San Francisco Refining and
|. Assaying Works by which nibos to the
$ amount of S2O000,000 are to be sent to
: San Francisco and refined. The pro-
@ ceeds will be returned to the japanese
J. Government in the form of gold bars
n of about 900 fineness, all alloyed and
}, ready to be converted into coin, while
,, the silver extracted will be sent back in
IS fine silver bars, also ready for coinage,
{ The first shipment of this coin from ia
t pan, amounting to $2,O00O00, has been
: received in San Francisco.
While narrow-gauge railroads are
d being projected in all directions, Mr.
y Burrus, of Wisconsin, comes before the
n public with scheme for railroad from
g the Atlantic to the West, to be built with
p a gauge of thirty feet. The road is tC
t, run from the East by the most direct
ID line to Lake Erie. When it reaches the
ID lake the road is to be built out into tn,
ID water about twenty-five feet below tn,
as surface for some distance, and there end
ut 1t is to be operated with a machin
re which is even more wonderful than tn
T. road, and which will navigate the waite
81 as we'll as traverse the land. When thi
amphibious locomotive arrives at tn
jumping-of place at Lake Erie, it is t.
m slide gracefully into the water, and b.
,g a slight transposition of its machiner,
or become steamboat. When it has ar
be rived at Monroe it resumes its characte
rs of locomotive, and rolls off on anothe
n broad-gauge road to Lake Michigan
nc whence it is to take water for Chicago
ad The machine is to be sufficiently larg
or to carry vessel of five hundred tons, S
that all necessity for ship canals will b
done away with. The inventor expec
to attain a speed of one hundred All
y. twenty-five miles per hour on land, an
,se twenty-five miles in water. Probabl
he no one will doubt that great reductic