The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-28
Facts and Fancies.

adjourned aU w iiSS' wv
cinnati December 2.
Professor Dana strongly asserts that
it now seems demonstrated by astron-
omical and physical arguments that the
interior of our globe is essentially
solid"
At Poughkeepsie, John Wenz, junk
dealer. shot his wife and then shot
himself. Both are dead. They had
quarrel about money matters. Wenz
was intoxicated. They leave seven
children.
A little girl who had great kindness
of heart for the animal creation, saw o
hen preparing to gather her chickens
under her shelter, and shouted earnest
ly, "Oh don't sit down on those beau
tiful birds, you great, ugly old hen."
In Pennsylvania graveyard may be
seen a stone bearing this inscription:
Here lieth the body of Amy Major,
who departed this life March 20, 1892.
Suffice it to say she was an honest
woman-the second noblest work OF
God"
The proposed building at Philadel-
phia for the Centennial will, it is said,
cover an area of seventy-fve acres. This
will make it the largest of the kind ever
erected. That at Vienna, including
covered courts, the machinery, fine arts.
and agricultural departments, only cov-
ers 56l acres.
The Governor of Illinois recently par
doned a penitentiary convict because
they said he was dying or consumption.
That pardon did more for that young
man than would have been done by
twenty dozen bottles of cod liver oil.
In twenty four hours his lungs we're as
sound as if they had been made OF
brass.
When in Paris the Shah visited the
establishment of one of the most ex-
tensive jewelers. of that city, and pur-
chased for $120,000 collar of pearls,
and for $4,000 diamond bracelet, for
the wife of Marshal NJ M'Mahon. Every
thing he bought was first placed on the
person of the Grand Vizier to enable
the monarch to see how it looked.
The Southern editor rarely ventures
into his compositors room, and when
Obliged to do so, arms himself to the
teeth, and leaves on his desk an obituary
notice of himself appropriate to the
event of sudden death. Do you ask
why? His handwriting is such as to
invite violence from those by the sweat
of whose brows it is deciphered and set
up.
A terrible accident occurred on the
farm of Mr.. William Preston, at Butler,
Pa, by which three men were burned
to death. They were boring for oil,
and were in the we'll at the time the
oil was struck. The oil scarcely reached
the surface before it took fire, blazing
; up hundred feet or more. The bodies
of the men who were burned were re-
covered.
, The power of love is shown in the
case of the Iowa girl who went three
, miles from home to a pasture lot be-
longing to her father, and there cut the
+ throat of a calf, so that when the old
, gentleman heard of the matter he might
hasten thither and thus give his daugh-
y ter counting spell with a lover, who
had been warned not to appear upon
\ the premises.
1 The statistics of marine disasters re-
- ported by the Bureau Veritas for last
: month, gives the following, being the
0 list of disasters suffered by all flags !:
;, Sailing vessels totally lost, &c. OF
y these, At We're English, IL French,
e 7 German, American, Italian, 4
!. Norwegian, 2 Austrian, | Russian, l
e Turk, / Danish, l Swedish, l Greek,
> and / of which the flag has not been re-
n ported.
:. 1t will be remembered that an inquiry
n into trades-union outrages in Sheffield
d before a committee of the House of
&c Commons some years ago elected some
astounding revelations, man named
a Broadhead admitting, after an indemnity
g had been secured him against his state
t, ments bringing him into trouble with
If the law, that he had been mainly in
'e strumental in comprising the death OF
IL many men.
A good deal of sickness has been
caused in many places by eating fish.
1t is held that trout is unfit for food two
Is DAYS after it has been killed, and that
l. there is no process by which it can be
IS kept good. Not long since a family il
e. Cincinnati were made seriously i'll 10y
le eating smoked trout. And several per
IL sons in Pittsburgh, Pa, were taker
r violently sick, recently, after partakine
~ of smoked white fish.
p Several wealthy Boston ladies hav,
!. been raising fund to be devoted tC
q giving rides into the suburbs of the
- - city to invalids whose limited means dc
&c not allow them to procure any such in
:: =: diligence. Various methods of ar
u u ranging excursions for poor children
!" mothers with infants, and invalids ar,
% being carried out in many of our cities
ro rO The charity is worthy the consideration
g g of every one during this warm anC
Il, sultry weather.
j. Colonel Dunham, in Floyd county
er Indiana, recently instructed the gran'
an jury to investigate lynching, for doin,
as which he received several threatening
t. letters, warning him that his life was i
ty danger. To these he replied in lette
u addressed to local paper, in which h
says "The Vigilants, so called, tell m
he 1 had better keep quiet. Let me tel
lis them 1 never failed to speak my opir
ions. 1 denounce them as murdereri
as they are, and as all decent citizer
know them to be. L have stood befol
er the cannon's mouth, where not one
er the masked towards ever dared
at stand"
A A young man in Detroit having,
m. careful economy, saved 5000, with
ed natural dread of banks, deposited it,
he bills, in an old pair of boots in one co
ng ner of his room. In the course of
we few days his mother was struck wi
nd the untidy appearance of his chambe
7as and in the era of reform which she i
nd | stitutad threw tha boots into q no