The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-27
Facts and Figures.


Bend, Ind, is indignant at the Gil .um-
stance. He says he wasn't condemned
to solitary confinement.
During an illness of The editor of the
Albuquerque. New Moxico) Reeic,o, bis
wife, Leonora McGuinness set the type,
did the press work, got out every issue
Of the paper in good shape, and had
baby.
Somebody has 'unearthed Chinese
MS, written some 900 years before the
Christian era, which is said to show that
the Celestials were at least 1,S00 years
ahead of Christopher Columbus in dis
covering America.
An atfecnonate Chicago mother had
her boy arrested the other day for steal
ing twenty-five cents from the toe of
her stocking, and the culprit was sem
fenced to three years -seclusion in the
State Reform School.
Tilton, N. H., has small Enoch Ar
den case. Mr.. Murphy, returned to
town after six months absence, and
finding his wife married to another
man, attempted to take forcible possess
sion of his child. After short strug-
gle, husband number one was arrested
and locked up.
There lives man in the village of
Rochester, N. H., who is out every
morning, rain or shine, before other peo-
pie are up, searching diligently on the
sidewalks, in the gutter and through
the streets, for money or any valuable
that was dropped the previons evening
The result of his diligence is not re-
ported.
A servant giri at Pittsfeld, Mass, it
is related, was SO much impressed the
other night by dreaming that some one
was robbing the clothes line, that she
got up and looked out of the window,
when she saw man carrying off some
clothes. She was so overcome by the
singularity of the affair that she let him
go and did not tell the story till the
next day.
What is the value Of mans life?
Juries disagree on the subject, and for
our part we should say that it depended
on the character of the man. A court
and jury at Troy have granted $4,000
damages against the Boston & Albany
Railroad Company for killing a man.
We should regard it as a large price for
ssme men, but everybody has some one
to rate him at a high figure. .s
A Buffalo pastor in the course of his
sermon lately, stated that the fact had
come to his knowledge of child but
three years old being received into the
orphan asylum in that city, who was
afterward found to be suffering from
nothing less than deItrtum tre1ReaS. The
mother of the child was a most intem-
perate woman, and had actually fed her
offspring from the whiskey bottle.
We doubt the wisdom of any man
leaving property to any person on con-
dition somebody else dies. 1t is apt to
encourage death and give rise to I'M
seemly bargains. At Cohoes a man died
some twenty years ago, leaving a widow
and infant daughter. A large share of
property was bequeathed to the child,
but in case of her death before the age
of twenty it was to go to her cousin.
She grew up delicate in health, and as
she approached the fatal limit the
mother and the cousin bargained over
her chances of life. Finally the cousin
sold his chance of the inheritance for
$4,000, and because the girl died before
she was twenty he sued the mother to
recover the entire property, alleging
that he was deceived as to the state of
the girls health. The courts say that
won't do; he must stand by his bargain.
A Nevada paper, speaking of the
rarity of the atmosphere at Virginia
City, says that ballet dancers are fire.
quently unable to go through their
,, parts, and encores are impossible. Per-
sons arriving from places near the level
of the sea, who are at home rapid walk
ers, soon find themselves brought up with
a round turn, and either spit blood or
bleed at the nose. Little brisk walking
is ever seen in the city. People do not
seem so active as they really are, for the
reason that they have been compelled
to adopt gait which if not lazy is at
least rather leisurely. Hot weather is
felt much more severely and is much
more debilitating than at the sea level.
E When the thermometer makes eighty
degrees in this elevated region, the air
, is of much less value than it is at the
sea level under the same heat. Pigeons
that fly very strongly in California are
, almost like unhedged birds when
brought here. Lots of pigeons brought
from California for pigeon-shooting
matches are often almost worthless, as
being sprung upon the trap they will
hutter and come to the ground before
going two rods. ,--, "a ..r .ef,-, "a
, The merry account of midnight
murder is from the Springfield Republi-
can. 1t was the solemn hour of mid
night. The moon hung low in the west
and naught was heard but the far-off
tramp of a solitary policeman, when
f the dwellers on one of our most fashion
able streets were suddenly awakened by
5 fearful cries, as of some one in distress.
A window was quickly thrown open
3 and voice from inside was heard ut
tering vow of vengeance. The only an
swer was an unearthly and defiant
: yell from a Thomas cat which stood
/ with arched back and gigantic tail on
' the ridge-pole of the opposite house.
5 The owner of the voice felt that the
s time for action had come, and drawing
{ bead across the barrel of Smith &
Wesson, he pulled the trigger. There
n were cries of murder from nervous wo-
s men in that locality for the space of
: about ten minutes, but the window was
: closed and all that remained. of the
$ bloody deed, next morning. was very
+ dead cat, laid on the ridge Of the house in
v the picturesque manner that farmers
|. used to carry their grain on horseback
: to mill. The bullet did its deadly work
g the song at midnight was hushed and
the residents in that fashionable strao,