The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-27
Facts and Fancl s.

| lster WHO conducts tnree chuio'
Minnesota exports annually about
$50, 900 worth of ginseng for the Chinese
market.
Pilot Temple, the we'll known trot-
| ting stallion, has been sold at auction
for So, 500.
An Iowa town offers o bounty OF two
cents for every rats tail LETT at INC
Mayors office. .,
The best statesmen are those who sell
their customers not what they want,but
what they don't want.
The Stats Zeitung Summoned the
foreign-born population OF Chlcago 10
the polls in nine languages.
A teacher in Cairo, Ill, lately thrash
ed small boy nearly to death because
he wouldn't multiply 63 by 7.
A Jealous Milwaukee wife fired two
revolver shots at her husband, neither
of which took effect, but he has quit
flirting.
The Providence Journal says that not
O single dollar has been diverted from
the Sprague estate as asettlement upon
the wife or children.
The Lowell Courier remarks that no
man can consider his literary repu"
tation secure nowadays until he has
written q comic almanac.
The Catholic ladies of Memphis deco.
rated the graves of the priests who died
at their posts of duty during the recent
epidemic of yellow fever.
A love-lorn young lady at Dubuque
does nothing all day long but sit and
hold her hands. In the evening her
fellow calls and holds them for her.
Most of the mustard sold by grocers
is not genuine. 1t may contain little
mustard. but is composed mainly ot
wheat flour, turmeric, and sometimes
capsicum.
During single week the police OF
New York made 1,569 arrests. For the
same period the Bureau of Records
registered 465 deaths, 480 births, and
1913 marriages.
Patents may be secured by American
citizens in England, France, Belgium,
Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The ag-
gregate population OF these countries
amounts to 219, 100000.
A straw-burning engine was recently
on exhibition at Vienna. From q series
of experiments the straw fuel is found
TO be equal to about one-ffth its weight
of coal in heat-producing power.
Mayor Hardy, of Selma, Ala, ap-
pointed Thursday, November 13, as
special day of Thanksgiving in that
city for its escape from the yellow fever,
and the day was generally observed.
Cholera ragged to terrible extent IN
Northern India in 1872. The regis
tered deaths due to it were l65, 45o..
Among til British soldiers stationed
there the deaths were 6l5 In number.
An Iowa wife eloped with young
fellow recently, and as soon as she got
intimate enough with him to have Tree
access to kis pockets stole $500 there
from and travelled triumphantly back to
her husband.
Swindlers of both sexes are reported
to be busy in various districts, collect
ing money from charitable but foolish
people. under pretence of the :ubscrip-
ton being in aid of the Memphis and
Shreveport sufferers.
Leather jewelry, which obtained some
popularity a few years ago, has been
revived this season, and will, no doubt,
+ become fashionable. The new styles
. are odd, and for that reason will find
' favor in the eyes of many.
a The tribunal at Santiago de Cuba,
= before which the prisoners captured on
= the Virginius were brought, condemned
\ Bernabe Varona, Pedro Cespedes, Jesus
I del Sol, and Gen. Ryan to death, and
they were shot on the morning OF the
4 4th.
= Anna B. Bassett, of Boston, who sued
: her husband to recover $62O which she
e "loaned him after their marriage In
) 1866, has lost her case on the grouno
y that no contract between husband and
!, wife for the payment of money has any
It validity in law.
. The island of Jamaica has been visit
I. ed by tropical rains such as she has moi
= experienced fer fifteen years. The
~ rivers rose twenty-five feet above theii
:, natural level in twelve hours, and there
:, was considerable loss of life and proper
v ty in consequence.
The Philadelphia Centennial /" Com
mittee on Plans have awarded $40, ,OO(
to the authors of four architectural de
signs, but remark that "no one OF the
p designs can be considered as represent
2 ing entirely satisfactorily what is re
is duired for the Centennial build
l. ings."
N Prisoner-to learned magistrate
II , "Has any one right to commit q nui
l. sance ?" Learned magistrate-"N No cir
4 ! not even the MayCr-no, sir, net eve
II he Governor" Prisoner-"Then yo
i can't COMMIT me, for was arrested a
~ ~ nuisance, and you've decided that
= am ope."
.. A good lady, who, on the death c
ot her first husband, married his brother
y. has q portrait of the former hanging j
4 her dining-room. One day a visitor
an remarking the painting, asked,
n. that member of the family p "Ol
60 that's my poor brotber.in-law," was th
yo ingenious reply.
he The Supreme Court of Maine ht
H. held that where husband and wife al
ry sued for an account against the vii
d, only, she being in a separate busines
ce the husband is not liable. A woms
rs, conducted a millinery establishment
and the husband was jointly indicte
with her for debt contracted in Il
course of her business. The jury four
be a ven dict in accordance with the rulin
en- of the Court.
he The Pennsylvania State Cenienni
IS, Committee has issued an address sayil
ed that although it has been deemed bt
all to relax the efforts of the committee 1