The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
NO. 81.
Facts and Fancies.

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A French writer has described
young lady as creature that ceases 10
kiss gentlemen at twelve and begins
again at twenty.
California will produce this year, 12,-.
600 gallons of wine, 1900, 900 pounds OF
grapes for table use, and 25o,oUo
pounds of raisins.
It is unkind to ridicule those items
in the papers about centenarians. IL is
no easy thing to become centenaran
several have failed.
A woman stated to a London mapl5-
trate recently that during her five years
of married life her husband had knock
ed her down 115 times.
Nels Nelson, Neils Nelson, Nelson
Nelson, Nelson Nelson, and Mel Neils-
nelson were lately fined $15 each i'll Des
Moines for drunkenness.
George Halliday, an Edinburgh coal
dealer, has been sent to prison Tor
thirty days for fraudulently delivering
eighteen hundred weight as one ton OF
coal.
Minnesota boasts of having the larS-
est and best wheat crop ever produced
by it. It offers to sell thirty million
bushels besides what its own people
want.
The history of New York under
writing for the last fifty years shows
that the gross premium receipts are less
than the gross losses by fires sus-
tanned.
It is pleasant to remember that not
an hour passes in the increasing march
of time. but that there is half dressed
man somewhere on the earth calling for
shirt.
| It is estimated that the cost to Eng
! land of the Ashantee war will be from
ga, 900, 900, as a minimum, to GlO, ,OOO,-
900, or even e12, 100000 as possible
maximum.
Near the Oreana Mine, Nut Pine
Valley, Nevada, are three small lakes,
in one of which no bottom has beon
found with any sounding line that has
yet been tried in it.
The woman who said the latest thing
ont was her husband, was answered by
her neighbor, who remarked that her
husband always came home early-be-
fore any one was up.
This description is from the Topeka
(Kan.) Commonwealth "The happy,
quiet, sleepy, yellow, spider-webby days
known as Indian summer are here III
the perfection of laziness."
A female lecturer in Boston said =:
Get married, young men, and be quick
about it. Don't wait for the girls to
become angels. You would look well
beside angels, wouldn't you, you
brutes?
There are rumors that the Mormons
oro preparing for an exodus from the
Salt Lake region, and it is conJecrurtd
that they will seek their next earthly
paradise in the Sandwich Islands or the
isles of the South Pacific
One of the young ladies at the Elgin
watch factory, it is said, is at work upon
patent watch, which will have hands
so made and adjusted as to seize the
wearer by the coat collar every evening
about ten o'clock, and walk him of
! home.
As ships meet at sea, a moment to-
eether when words of greeting mustbe
spoken, and then away upon the deep,
+ so men meet in this world; and l think
!, we should cross no mans path without
q hailing him, and, if he needs, giving
v him supplies.
: 1t is hardly safe, now-a.d days, to name
1 a mountain or baby after q man till
= he is dead. He may embezzle, OF take
e back pay or become a dreadful rail
a.; road autocrat, or q candidate for the
e presidency then you'll wish you
,. hadn't done it.
l. A man in San Francisco lately APP
:, piled for q divorce on rather novel
6 grounds. It seems that his Vife's
brother, whom he had not promised to
love and cherish, insisted on living
with him and twas eating him out Of
house and home"
81 Rude boys daily collect about the
le horseguardsmen on duty at the entrance
w to the Green Park, London, and make
re irritating remarks, knowing that the
ID statue like horsemen ore forbidden to
IN speak. The fun continues until the az
is rival of policeman.
ss Sometimes we come across few
r. words that do the business up COM
n. pletely. Here, for instance, is an ex'
ID ample You might as well try tC
of shampoo an elephant with thimble
yn ful of soap suds as to do business anC
We ignore advertising"
is Tyndall, in letter to Nature, com
ne bats the theory entertained by many
ne that the rainbow is reflected after th'
III fashion of an ordinary floating clouC
rs which emits light in all directions, ant
Ms which, by the light thus emitted, paint
eo its image in the water.
y Imitation ostrich feathers appear t.
no be quite as fashionable this autumn a
tb the genuine. The former are very ad
Iva mirably made and almost defy detec
90 ton. Ostrich ''tips" are so reasonabl
,ot in price that manufacturers say ther
a;r is no inducement to put imitation o
vi the market.
ed At weekly meeting a straight-face
is, and most exemplary deacon submitte
an report in writing of the destitute vic
ep ows who stood in need of assistanc
IN from the congregation. care you SURE
nd deacon" asked another sober brother
in 81 that you have embraced all the wiC
tes ows?" He said he believed he had.
ces When Wilkie Collins was about |
for step in front of the curtain at Syfacus
the he said to Mr.. Hanchett, who was
on. introduce him: "Don't introduce N
is as the greatest living novelist. hay
the been introduced so number of time
ON and I'd rather be simply Mr.. Collin
You know everybody is the create
NV living something"
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