The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-14
Facts and Fancies.

A man at De Soto, Iowa, lately swal-
lowed several of his teeth while playing
croquet.
The Treasurer of Lyons county, Min.
nesota, kept the funds in the drawer OF
n sewing machine, and 1857 was drawn
from it without his knowledge.
A telegram from Mons, Brussels, says .
an explosion of fire damp occurred IN
a coal mine at Framieres. Five miners
were killed and several injured.
A $4,000 libel suit has been COM
menced against the Chicago Times by q
young lawyer whom it called shyster,
and eleven more suits are to follow.
Irate party to bus-driver-" Why
didn't YOU attend to my hail ?" Bus
driver, with dignity and q "pulling
team ''-''' Cause had my hands full OF
REIN"
An Indiana man, who shot another,
and afterword repented, wrote to his
victim that if he would only get well he
would give him $4,000. The wounded
person expressed willingness to get
well at any price.
Mr.. H. 9. Rothery, Registrar of the
High Court of Admiralty of England,
has been appointed British Agent for
the Settlement of the Fishery Questions
between the Canadian Dominions and
the United States.
The Houston (Texas) Mercury ex-
presses the opinion that it is necessary
for the better security of our borders
that we should possess slice OF Mexl-
can soil, and that the people are ripe for
any move that tends toward its acqul-
stion.
A young "man in Hudson, Mich,
asked to accompany young lady nome
from church. She declined his COM
pany, and he walked behind her and
spit tobacco-iuice upon herdress. Since
then the police have paid him much at
tention.
A rural correspondent of the Oitnadn'S
Journal, in describing belle OF the oc-
casion, says she "wore a snowy white
dress, enlivened with pink, which was
in harmony with her jolly good nature"
Pink good-natured harmony is desir-
able quality.
A Maine girl who was awakened the
other night by the fash of light in her
room, jumped out of bed and discovered
q burglar creeping on all fours through
the hall. She screamed and threw
bed-wrench at him, and he scampered
down stairs and out of doors.
Earl Russell has obtained a return
showing the number OF persons tried for
murder in Ireland during the last six
months previously to the 9th of May
last, and the verdicts returned. There
are nine cases in the list. In five of the
trials the jury disagreed in the other
instances the verdicts were for man
slaughter"
Hon. Charles Francis Adams has ac-
knowledged, in letter to Western
man, the reception of card containing
what is denominated a platform of the
Farmers and Peoples Monopoly
party of Livingston county, and says
"I see but little to object to and good
deal to approve. But at this day it is
not profession that is SO much wanted
as practice"
This is the Nellie Grant bathing suit
which has become so fashionable at all
the seaside summer resorts: a Carl
baldi waist, with sailor collar; short
skirt attached to the waist by belt
and trousers hempen shoes and chip
hat tied down with a broad band of rib
bon. Ash gray, bound with scarlet,
and blue with white are the favorable
combinations.
The consumption of potatoes in Sar-
, atoga is large. At the Lake House it is
, the fashion not only to nibble a goodly
! quantity of this delicacv Cried, of
,, course) while there, but to carry some
away for future consumption. 1t is said
that the proprietor sold no less than
, thirteen thousand packages of fried po-
tatoes to the visitors of Saratoga in the
season of 1872.
A civil service committee in Washing
ton asked an applicant for clerkship
what was the distance of the planet
, Saturn from the earth. The candidate
{ answered that he was unable to state
the distance in miles, but did not think
it was sufficiently near to interfere with
! the performance of his duties as clerk,
a nor to beget in him desire to meddle
with the rings.
e Stephen Chase, living near Fort
/ Wayne, Ind, recently discovereda large
= tree lying directly across the railway
h track. He procured an axe, and had
b.. partly removed the tree, when the axe
n slipped and cut deep into his foot. He,
n however, bravely continued his work
: until the track was clear, just in time
g to prevent the destruction of passen-
= ger train which was approaching.
" The Dubuque Telegraph presents a
e new platform for the "new party" of
. Iowa. 1t goes in for free commerce, free
: banking, a uniform national currency,
. payment of the debt at par in green
= backs, the right of labor to share in the
y profits of labor and capital, retrench-
. ment and economy in Government ex-
. penditures, low taxation, and opposition
/ to vested rights. The name suggested
). for the party is the Democratic Re-
publican"
q A young ladyof Nashville is changing
% her views somewhat relative to the
It question of matrimony. She says that
il when she "came out" in society, she
If determined she would not marry man
It unless he was an Episcopalian. Time
l. passed on and she did not get married
II and then modified her views, and con
cluded she would marry no man whc
was not Christian. That young lad,
is still unmarried, and says now that al
j, she is looking for is man that don
G. drink whisky.
a. A silent, but veritable revolution hai
v taken place in English Fashionable
E. world. Hitherto it had been the prac
ly tice when friends or acquaintance
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