The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-22
Facts ana Figures.

manufacture of wine is now conducted
on such highly scientific principles that
grapes are gradually being dispensed
with.
1t is q notable fact that there are liv-
ing two widows of revolutionary soldiers
under forty years of age, while the old
est surviving widow is one hundred and
thirteen years old.
One of DR.. Chapin's Oldest jokes is
started again; "Can you tell me how
old the devil is?" asked an irreverent
fellow of clergyman. "My friend,
you must keep your own family record"
was the reply.
Child-selling in Japan is carried on to
such an extent that the Government is
trying to suppress it. The purchase
money of little child is only three
rios (dollars) and girls of fifteen years
of age can be bought for twenty.
A youthful Danbury lover who sang
and played before his young lady's
house for two mortal hours, was electri-
fed after a short pause by q cordial
thank you," gracefully pronounced by
the " other fellow" who appeared at the
window.
doorstep" parties are coming into
fashion among our people. The moon
light evenings are passed on the door
steps, and ladies and gentlemen make
calls and are received in style, refresh
ments being also served.-HarJord
Post.
The five ladies with the japanese En-
bassy, at the suggestion of their Ameri-
tan hostess, recently consented to be
| laced up and tied down, ruffied, panier-
ed, hounced, and trailed in the "style."
Then they were powdered up from an
orange-peel hue to a delicate lemon, and
pronounced perfect, as far as dress goes.
Half an hour later, however, their dis
mayed civilizers found them smiling
and happy in their half-petticoat, half
pantaloon dress. "Too muchee," said
the gentle japanese.
Mrs. Toodles purchased door plate
with the name Of Thompson on it but
San Francisco mother recently accom-
plished something much wiser and more
practical. Her daughter was to be mar
ried, and her clothes were properly mon
ogrammed with her own and her lovers
initials; but the young man failed to
make his appearance and the old lady
sailed out and found some one, with his
initials, to take his place. The story is
told by the San Francisco papers, and it
is perfectly reasonable.
Speaking of the enterprising spirit of
the rising generation, young Charles
Beck, of Madison county, Illinois, dis
played an unusual capacity for getting
along in the world. Before he was
twenty years of age he married girl of
fifteen, and then raised funds to support
his new estate by robbing his father.
He had distracted about $4,000 from
the paternal treasury before he wrs
found out. A youth who will rob his
own father is sure to get on in the
work., though he may be swung off in
the end.
The New York Observer says: "The
weakest side of Christians character,
in our country and this year, is his pOlit-
ical side. A good man is tempted to
say and do things, as a politician, that
bring his Christian character into sus-
picion and reproach, and when the
waves of excitement run high, as they
do now, many frail barks go down. If
principle has anything to do with poll
tics, there is just as really a moral
wrong in abandoning principle for the
sake of expediency in politics as in
science or trade. But there is little rev.
erence for principle now left, and Chris
tians very generally find it easy to go
with the multitude"
The man with his lung-tester who ac-
| oox,,,o-,n1 Bo onl lync hon
est penny by testing the wind of the
multitude, came to grief at Terre Haute
the other day. A healthy farmers boy,
with chest on him like an emigrants
! valise, drew in a mouthful of the at
mosphere, wrapped quarter-section OF
his lips over the nozzle and breathed.
An explosion followed, first of the ma
chine and then the bystanders, and the
"professor" was heard to say, as he
gathered up the fragments of tinkling
brass and springs, He had been eating
onions; that's what made his breath so
: strong"
The largest iron steamships ever built
in America have Just been ordered to be
built at the Delaware River Iron Ship
,, Building Works of Messrs. John Roach
& Co., at Chester, by the great Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, being two
ships each four hundred feet long and
) FIVE thousand tons burden. These ves-
sells are to be placed on the mail line
from San Francisco to Yokohama, japan,
under the new contract authorized by
the last session of Congress providing
for semi-monthly mail service instead
of a monthly one. The voyage is about
twice as long as that from New York to
Liverpool, with only single stoppagG
at Midway Islands, several small islands
in the mid-Pacifc belonging to the
United States, having been discovered
! by American navigators.
g Last week, near st. Louis, Mr.. JohI
4 J. Murdoch found large meteoric stone
4 at the bottom of hole on his farm
Q The hole was clean cut and reached to {
depth of more than thirteen feet in the
S ground. The stone weighed abou
e twelve pounds, was coated with blacl
: crust, and was composed mainly of iron
4 In shape it was an oblate spheroid, anC
v therefore before it reached the earth wa
y probably in semi-fiuid state and revol
t wing on its axis. 1t should be kept as
S specimen of what the earth was befor
g it cooled down into its present habitabl
# condition; it could be used to illustrat
n the nebular hypothesis, ii necessary
It From several other parts OF the countr
" ranorts hava latelv heen coming in tal