The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-18
NO. 20.
Facts and Fancies.

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the injured nine.
THE Feeiee Islanders are in insurrec--
ton, and have murdered number OF
white settlers.
A tender Des Moines father wishes to
exchange one of his newly-arrived twin
boys for girl.
There are twenty million acres OF
wild land along the Mississippi River,
of great richness of soil.
Four women and one child were killed
by an accident, recently, on the Detroit
and Milwaukee Railroad.
The last murderer hanged in Virginia
remarked that he "was going to meet
his little babies in heaven"
Should Don Carlos gain the throne of
Spain the estimated cost is an increase
of one-third in the national debt.
There have been twenty-seven deaths
from cholera in Lancaster, KY, since
the breaking out of the disease.
Brown is a fashionable color for Ia
dies note-paper. We have some new
freak in this line to record every other
day.
All emigration agents in Germany
who fail to prove that they are German
subjects are to be expelled from the
country.
A telegram from Liverpool announces
the loss Of the British ship L. @. Lem
on. A portion of the crew were
drowned.
Long waists, tight sleeves, and high
ruffs will be the distinguishing charac-
10, of fo,,,i i,,iI,n cfrpnt frorr1onntq
next winter.
A kind expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing-an
honest heart and friendly acts make the
dullest lovable.
The insurgents in Cartagena have lib
Grated their Carlist prisoners, and the
Carlists have responded by liberating
the communists.
The hull of the British ship Conf
dence, the flagship in the battle of
Lake Champlain, is being raised from
the bottom of Plattsburg bay.
An Englishman who is visiting in
Danbury says he has but poor idea of
the freedom of q country that has to
get its weather from the government.
Californians are drying grapes into
raisirs with success. One hundred
pounds of grapes worth dollar will
produce twenty pounds of raisins worth
$3.50.
Trying to do business without adver-
tising is like winking at a pretty girl
through pair of green goggles. You
may know what you're doing, but no
body else does
Details of the late hurricane in Nova
Scotia show that many vessels and
smaller craft have been stranded, that
churches, dwellings, and business build
ings have been blown down and wharves
and crops destroyed.
The grangers of Winnebago county,
Wis, have passed resolutions denounc-
ing the attempt to draw the order into
political movement, and affirming
that they will have nothing to do with
anything of the kind.
IT is said that the mothers of Bangor
(Me. y tie cardboard tags around their
children's necks when they are sent out
to play. When the Juveniles stray and
become lost, the policemen refer to the
tags and take them home without loss of
time.
Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody advertises
to the effect that anybody who is pre-
pared to enter the Boston University,
and whose only difficulty is deficiency
of means, is requested to confer with
her at Cambridge. That is unselfsh
generosity.
A fact of some Importance in connec-
ton with the farmers movement is the
yield of the corn crop sooh to be har-
vested. According to dispatches from
Chicago this, in Illinois and Iowa, is
not likely to be more than one-half to
two-thirds the average amount.
According to a Washington letter, the
Signal Service officers claim that the
predictions or statements of probabil-
tiles for the first year were verified in
about sixty-nine cases out of a hundred,
and their accuracy may be expected to
increase with increasing experience.
The Masonic fraternity have under
way at least $4,000,000 worth of new
halls, most of whichsswill be completed
this year. The one in Philadelphia is
the most magnificent structure of the
kind in the country, and when furnished
and entirely completed will be worth at
least 81, 100000.
Additional details of the frightful
disasters caused in Nova Scotia by the
late storm, show that the vessels blown
ashore at Cape Breton alone number
more than 100, and at Canso more than
100 have been destroyed. The number
of lives lost is not yet given, though
known to be very large.
In the list of importations from
France during last week there appeared
two cases of butter packed in tins. This
importation is intended as an expert
ment to try the market, and consider
ing the demand for fancy articles,
especially fereign ones, it is not at all
unlikely that the experiment may be
successful.
An idea of the value of house proper
ty in London may be cleaned from the
following statement: Upon block of
handsome offices just erected in Lead
enhall street, the ground floor of the
back block-simply q room under fifty
feet by forty-lets for one thousand
guineas year, on twenty-one years.
lease, and all the other rooms in pro-
portion.
AS soon as any soreness is felt in the
ear, let three or four drops of the tine
ture of arnica be poured in, and the ori-
flee be filed with little cotton to ex-
clude the air, and in short time the
uneasiness is forgotten. If the arnica
be not rresorted to until there is actual