The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-07
NO. 23.
Facts and Fancies.

Inc new IOtUCttS LGttUftU pllupluE oihSO
in New York cost $S00,0OO.
Hartford proposes to erect $50, 200
monument 60 the memory OF its first
settlers.
A mine of superior sealing wax is the
latest meteorological discovery in Ken
lucky.
A well-bred Californian shot a fellow
boarder dead, at Vallejo, for drinking
out of the water pitcher.
A Fountain County Qnd. man went
into a mill-pond to rescue q dog; and
then both went over the dam to death.
The Washington Headquarters at
Morristown, N. j., will soon pass into
the possession of the New Jersey His
torical Society.
The defalcations of E. S. Mills, late
President of the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, have caused the concern to sus-
pend payment.
The Boston Journal says that money
is so easy in that city that it is hard to
make a loan of large amount at any
thing above five per cent.
A woman in Richmond, Va, turned
her mother, who is more than ninety
years old, out of doors because she is
old, useless and expensive.
Four hundred and fifty Germans are
on their way from Russia to the United
States because of having been declared
liable to enforced military service.
Illinois farmers are attempting to ex-
terminate the Cannda thistles, by cut
ting them off near the ground and plac-
ing salt on the stumn to kill the root.
Iowa farmers complain OF a scarcity
of laborers. Three dollars q day will
not bring them help enough to attend
to their crops. And yet the city is full
of idlers.
Two trusting young men in Michigan
were lately inveigled into an out-of-the-
way place to see big snake, and there
robbed of such valuables as they carried
about them.
The property of the Alden type-set-
ting and distributing machine was sold
by auction recently for $500. The
inventor has sank half a million dollars
in his failure.
In few weeks the fall and winter
fashions will be announced. The usual
predictions regarding their great novelty
and beauty are made, and fashionables
are on the Qut Viue.
A gentle parent at Greencastle, Ind,
lately broke the arm of his sseven-year-old
| boy with a club, because he took a
piece of candy without leave and divided
it with his baby brother.
In Vienna, there were in one day
sixty-two cases of cholera, forty-two of
which had proved fatal. In one hotel
there had been forty-two cases, and the
| hotel has been closed.
Two apparently respectable ladies
were arrested in Montreal, few days
since, while attempting to steal flower
pots from a cemetery. They placed
them for concealment in an umbrella.
George Francis Train is laid up at
Hamburg in Germany with chills and
fever contracted while imprisoned at the
Tombs. He has been confined to his
bedroom there for weeks, and his con-
dition is represented as precarious.
1t was found impossible to open q
locked door in the Jail at Springfield
the other day, even with the assistance
of a locksmith, and an old burglar, who
was in custody, was appealed to try his
hand. He opened the door in q very
few minutes.
Tommy was as bright as usual on his
first night in the country last week. He
did not like his pillow over much, and,
on feeling it over, announced his ver-
dict that in the country they sold the
soft ends of feathers, and retained the
quill part for home consumption.
There is q bank president in New
York who was contemplating trip to
Europe during the summer, but who
found that this would deprive the clerks
of their usual vacation. He generously
remains at his post, taking the place of
each one in turn as he goes for period
of recreation.
A sea-horse has been secured for
the Manchester aquarium. The Man.
chester Examiner says With the
head, neck and body, of horse, it has
tail like a lizard, which it entwines
round seaweed or bit of natural rock
work. In this position it waits with
remarkable patience for its food.
AS an exemplifcation of the economy
of labor in manufactures, the making
of railroad bars is most striking one.
No manual labor except supervision of
the machinery is used. The shapeless
lump of heated iron is seized, passed
through thirteen sets of rolls, aud is
turned over five times for side rolling
without stop. The time occupied is
thirty seconds, and thereis completed,
perfect rail.
The Philadelphia Press says that if
the money which our people spend in
going to Europe were expended at
home, in planting trees, in improving
streets, and in building up manufac-
lures, we would soon have a country
more worthy of being seen than Europe,
and the Europeans would come to visit
us. Enough money will be spent in
Europe this year to build manufactures
in Illinois that would increase the value
of corn 10 cents bushel.
A novel strike has occurred 10 Lowell,
Mass. About 100 girls employed in the
stitching and mending room of the
hosiery department of the Lawrence
corporation left the mill because the
agent would not give them the privilege
of having the windows of their room
open at the bottom. One objection to
the opening of the windows at the bot
tom is that the employees are in such O
case more liable to neglect their work
in looking out. The strikers returned
to work.
The young ladies of Vassar College
have daily allowance of 126 pounds oi
ekA oil 60. a1rf. l.