The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-12
Facts and Figures.

F. Why is donkey that cannot hold his
head up like next Monday? Because
it's neck's weak.
James McElhany, convicted of the
murder of his wife in Boston, has been
sentenced to be hung.
1t is said that iron is q good tonic for
debilitated young ladies. That may be
so, but ironing is better one.
The reports of diamond discoveries
brought by Stanton and others to San
Francisco are not believed there.
The question of calling Convention
to form State Constitution for Wash
ington Territory has been voted down.
Forty landed proprietors will probably
be raised to the German peerage, to
qualify them for seats in the upper house.
The official vote of Missouri for Presi-
dent is announced as follows: Greeley,
l51, ,433; Grant, 119, 1876; O'Conor. 2,429.
DR.. May, the American who shot and
killed laborer named Nagle, in Lon
don some time ago, has been tried and
acquitted.
During the year ending the 30th of
June last, 100000 acres of United States
Government land were disposed of in va
rious ways.
Mrs. John Baggs, of Omaha, has left
Mr.. John Baggs, taking the money bags,
and leaving John to hold the little
empty Baggs.
An enthusiastic Nebraska editor says:
"Nine months of the year in Nebraska
is summer, and the rest is mighty late
in the spring"
At Newburgh, N. Y. boy eight year,
of age dropped stone front fridge
upon the head of man, killing him
almost instantly.
The total loss by the fire in Galva, ILL.,,
is now figured at S2lS,000. Thirty-five
business firms were burned out and thir-
teen families rendered homeless.
1t seems to be understood that in boat
racesin England hereafter coxswains will
be dispensed with and the sliding seat
will supersede the stationary one.
The Khedive Of Egypt intends sending
force of 5000 troops, under command
of an American officer, to aid DIR. Liv-
ingstone in exploring the source of the
Nile.
"How does that look, eh ?' said big
listed Wall street man to friend, hold
uB OhS VI hio hdtf
said the friend, CLOCKS as though you'd
gone short on your soap"
Pennsylvania proposes to amend her
constitution so as to prohibit her judges
from indulging in gratuitous rides upon
railways, and to render valid verdict
by two-thirds majority.
The U. S. Treasury balances are: Cur
rency, $S, S,lSS,329 special deposit in le-
gal tenders for redemption OF certificates
of deposit, $26, 755000; coin, $7l ,3S6,272;
coin certificates, $20,6l3,500.
We once heard woman of the world
say, "the state of widswhood is incon-
venient, for one must assume all the
modesty of young girl, without being
able to feign her ignorance"
Learing is as good as ready money in
the country. A schoolmaster in Marietta,
Ohio, gets twelve dollars month and
finds himself He is afraid he won't be
able to find himself much longer.
A Jesuit has written to his superiors
in France that he has narrowly escaped
death at the hands of an infuriated pop
ulation in Chinese town, because they
believed that he killed and ate young
children.
The epidemic which proved SO affiict-
ing to the horses seems to have extended
to the wild deer of the northwestern
woods. The lumbermen in the vicinity
of Manistee, Michigan, report many deer
found dead.
Jacksonville, Tenn, young ladies tie
up their taper fingers, ana when the
young gentlemen callers in the evening
inquire the cause, blushingly reply: II
burnt them while broiling the beefsteak
this morning"
Electricity has recently been success
fully applied to the breaking in of hor-
ses. A wire was attached to the bit, and
becoming refractory shock was given,
which soon restored order.
Mr.. Joigneray, an athlete of pro-
digious strength, has made his appear.
ance in Paris. Among other exercises,
being suspended by his feet from
trapeze, he lifted from the ground a real
horse by the mere force of his wrists.
There are in New Jersey forty-three
Lodges of odd Fellows, and 3,344 mem
bers in good standing, an increase in the
year OF l,016. The receipts during the
year have been $l03,35 and the
amount paid for relief was $34,377,50.
Sam Collyer and Patsey Mcclure
fought prize fight two miles above Lit
tie Rock, Ark. The fight lasted twenty
minutes, during which time seven rounds
were fought. Collyer was declared the
WINNER because of foul on the part of
Mcclure.
There is law in Austria by which the
Government may take possession of any
railroad which is not kept in good cendi-
tion for travel and traffic, and manage it
at the expense of the owners, and under
this provision the Lernber- -Czernovitz
railway has been seized.
From the propeller Mary Ward.
| aground between Thornhury and Col
lingwood, Ont, eight men were lost in
endeavoring to get ashore in small
boat. Mr.. Stephens, of Owen Sound, is
, reported among the drowned. Three
J fishing boats took off nine passengers
safely-all who were on board.
The 5l-hour per week system is about
{ to be adopted largely in the Scotch iron
} trade, but the workmen are dissatisfied
with the manner in which some of the
employers proposed to work the system
which would, it is represented, divest the
reduction of the hours of labor of all the
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