The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-02-01
NO. 4S.
Facts and Figures.

The messenger who had her in charge
was so pleased with his freight that he
offered to carry it back and forth all the
time at his own expense.
Dispatches from Shanghai announce
that the Chinese Government has de-
termined to follow the example of tho
Japanese, and send young men to Eng
land and the United States, to be edu-
Gated in the schools of those countries.
A gentleman who travelled through
Isabella County, Mich, says that he
stopped in ten houses while travelling
distance of twenty-one miles, and that
ten mothers proudly exhibited to him
ten lovely and interesting pairs OF
twins.
A negro on trial for murder in Ken
lucky, sharing the general belief that
he would be hung, sold his body to some
medical students, who waxed very
wroth when their fondly anticipated sub
jcct was sentenced to six years i'm
prisonmont.
Whitewater Wis, has vigilance
committee of twenty years standing,
which has a membership of five hun
dred. During the whole twenty years
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the society has had a horse stolen which
has not been recovered.
Discoveries of gold i'll considerable
quantities have been made in the Trans
vaal Republic, Africa. The reports at
tracted many adventurers to that quar-
ter. The diamond-seekers were aban-
doning the diamond district for the new
Undiscovered gold country.
The office of Light-keeper at Black,
Conn, recently vacant by the death OF
venerable captain s. T. Moore has been
| filled by the appointment of Miss Moore,
daughter Of the previous incumbent.
Miss Moore had fairly earned the office,
having discharged its duties with fidelity
for more than fifteen years past.
Retrenchlnent is the order of the day
everywhere. In Leavenworth Citi-
zens' Reform Committee has reported IA
plan for the reorganization of the city,
by which S2S,000 will be saved in the
matter of salaries alone. They suggest
other reforms, which if carried out, will
reduce their taxation sixteen mills on
the dollar.
An inventor applied to the Patent Of
flee for patent for q new process of
embalming, and in order to comply
with the supposed requirements of the
law, that n model be deposited in the Of
fee, he prepared neat little coffin with
glass face, in which he deposited the
remains of tiny infant, which had been
embalned by his process. 1t being con-
sidored not desirable to make the Patent
Office catacomb, the model was re-
turned to the inventor for burial.
There are more usos in n loaf of bread
than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
Thus, while number of men were
dragging the river at Detroit, recently,
for the body of man who was drown
ed, an Italian proposed novel way of
ending it. Taking loaf of broad, he
put quantity of quicksilver i'll one end
and threw it into the stream. 1t went
rapidly down with the current for some
distance, when it suddenly stopped, de-
scribed small circle, and sank like
plummet. Tho Italian then told the
dragging party that they would find the
body at that spot. And they did.
At Newbury, England, gentleman
recently made wager of $4,000 that at
eight o'clock on a particular evening, he
would sit down to dinner in a we'll
woven, well-dyed, well-made suit OF
Clothes the wool of which formed the
fleece on sleeps backs at five o'clock
that morning. The sheep We're shorn ;
the wool was washed, carded, stubbed,
spun and woven the cloth was secured,
fulled, tended, raised, sheared, dyed and
dressed the garments were made. At
at quarter past six, he sat down to a
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complete damson colored suit-this win
ming his wager, with one hour and three
quarters to spare.
Great Britain is certainly lucky as faI
as rich colonial acquisitions are concern
ed. Now comes the news that not only
diamonds, but also gold in large quan-
titles has been discovered in her last
. grab"-the Vaal River Country, South
. Africa. This will render the territory
doubly valuable to England, and, ot
course, make her proportionately unwil
ling to part with it. 1t is accompanied
however, by the news that the Orangt
Free State is very unwilling to give W
the land, and wishes to refer the matter
to an arbitration. This will not NEE
, the appreciation of England, who, al
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t of seizing Gibraltars and interfering il
r the affairs of Luxemburg, is Just a
r anxious as ever to enrich herself by tax
/ ing whatever can be found in out-of-th
: way corners of the world wheSe no pow
. er strong enough to be feared is likely t
= interfere.
> AS nearly every city in Italy is in
tested with smallpox, the American AM
), British consuls have very properl
agreed to call attention to the fact il
, their bills of health the reason tina
! !! other consuls have refused to do tn
i same thing is ominous. They think
: unnecessary because the disease is, i
: their opinion, raging over the Who'll
. continent of Europe" In other words
} it is so prevalent in their several coun
D tries that vigorous quarantine is of lii
: tie or no use. These officers shoul
= have information on which to found a
9 opinion of SO much importance. Wit
: the entire continent infected we ma
1s s well watch the ships carefully whic
= bring us elnigrants from every natio
Y in Europe. There need be no pani,
&c on the subject, however. 1t should |
; remembered that at the worst the ave
g age mortality arising from this disea
is only about one-fourth of one-fifth
those attacked-though the deaths
D the smallpox hospital in London duriI
n fifty wears averaged ahont thirtv ~