The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-25
NO. 43.
Facts and Fances.

A Milwaukee company has imported
1SO, 600 bushels of barley and 300 bales
of hops from Italy.
A big ear of corn, surrounded by
thirteen little ones, lately entered an
editors sanctum in Iowa.
Peter Shamboo, the first licensed
navigator of Lake Superior, still lives
and is ninet-eight years old.
Men were farmers long before they
could read and they never could have
read had they not first been farmers.
A police justice in Chicago was some-
what astonished when vagrant tried
before him counted out 1913, ,000in green
backs.
If the united power of all agricultural
colleges would teach us how to grow
good crops of potatoes, we would be
thankful.
Many farmers complain that their oc-
cupation does not pay. What is the use
of saying so? Nine merchants in ten
fail, but they never brag about it.
If hard work bends the body, swells
the joints, and blisters the hands, 1T
yet gives expertness and power to the
muscles, such as gentility may seek in
vain to exhibit.
When plows, reapers, and other inn
plements are left in the field over win
ter, the greatest loss is not in their de-
cay but in the evil habits established
in the farmers mind.
If every planter would grow so bush
els of corn for each bale of cotton, he
would get more money than now. There
would be less cotton, but it would bring
more, and the corn would be clear gain.
Western farmers have discovered that
it is cheaper to haul grain 80 miles with
their teams, if they have load back,
than to ship by rail, and they are doing
it. Railroads are getting behind the
times.
The weight of the new fractional
silver coin is metrical, that of the half
dollars being just twelve and one-half
grammes, the quarter dollar six and one
quarter grammes and the dime two and
one-half grammes.
An Irish nobleman, attended by
twenty-six dogs, passed through In
dianapolis, lately, on his way to Florida
on a hunting expedition. He had a
car attached to a freight train devoted
to himself and attendants.
When you go into a new country
don't be too smart. Listen and watch
and find out how things are done, and
be careful not to insist on your own
way. The farmers of every section
have, as general thing, good reasons
for their practices.
The sailors of the Tornado were COM
PEELED to shoot Captain Fry and his
EeE eEns g4 {af IT'D torufes HHsHe on ARsA The CON- in
demned. The bodies were carried off
to the cemetery and thrown into the
graves, six persons in each, clothes and
all.
An old, rough clergyman once took
for his text that passage of the Psalms,
" I said in my haste all men are liars"
Looking up apparently as if he saw the
Psalmist standing before him he said
"You said it in your haste, David, did
you? Well, if you had been here, you
might have said it after mature delibera-
tion."
Perhaps one of the oldest elections
On record occurred at the last general
election for members of the General
Assembly in Germany. A certain dis
trict had only one legal voter, who
walked proudly up to the polls and
voted for himself, the only eligible
member in the district. But when his
name was announced as the elected
member, he pompously arose, and said,
"Messrs. Commissioners, do Dot ac-
cept the election p and walked gravely