The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-06-26
Facts and Fancics.

five hours fighting the carDlneers ltiu
down their arms and surrendered to the
citizens.
A thrifty sheriff in Indiana, when he
has an idle jury on his hands, sets them
to work moving the grass around the
court house.
The Indiana editors are about making
nm excursion to Wyandotte Cave, and
have invited the Press of Louisville,
Ky, to Join them.
The st. Albans (Vt.) Messenger
thinks "sky blue is n pretty color for
ceilings, hut not 80 tasty for country
milk Mt eight cents quart.
A Peoria man has a nice looking Ii
brary. all made up of Patent Office re-
ports, with the backs neatly labeled WIN
the names of great authors and their
works.
A Kansas paper asks its readers why
they will pay five cents haIf-pint 1or
peanuts, when they can make lots OF
money by raising them at fifty cents
bushel.
A Portsmouth man contracted to
brild a barn for specified sum and all
the cider he could drink. 1t took him
five months to build the barn, and he
drank four barrels of cider.
The topers of Salem. Ind, were con-
siderable riled to see their names con-
spicuously posted in every saloon. with
| orders from the town officers forbiddlng
any one to sell them liquor.
Mr.. Truesdell saws he never made a
better bridge than that which collapsed
at Dixon, H., and sent so many people
| ,oin no
bod better go out of the business at
once.
Before Towering, the beet contains
from eight to ten per cent. OF sugar
in proportion as the seed forms the
sugar disappears, So much so that, when
the seed is ripe, there is no trace OF su-
gar in the beet.
A man who had his new hatexchanged
for an old one in BARRIERS shop ndver-
tises, that unless it is returned he Will
forward to the wife of the person who
took it the letter found concealed i'll
the lining of the old one.
A poor widow, now living in the
southern part of Delaware, has had
eleven children, seven of whom were
terribly afflicted, being deaf and dumb,
and most of them, in addition, almost
as weak in mind as idiots.
The farmers of Carroll county, Iowa.
passed the following pithy resolution
the other day Resolved, that the in
crease of Congressional salaries in these
hard times is an Internal outrage upon
the working people of the country.
A father in Massachusetts, who grew
inpatient the other evening, at the pro-
longed stay of an ardent admirer of his
daughter. entered the room and invited
the Young man to remain to breakfast.
The Young man declined the invitation.
A California paper insists that 5000,
gold, is a liberal allowance for the eX-
penses of a trip from the East to Gall
fornia and says that it "includes " Il
cost of transportation to and stay ut
every one of our great scenic attrac-
tons"
A Western Methodist has been col
lecting tobacco statistics among his
brethren. He found that eight leading
members in a certain place paid in one
year S195 for tobacco and $33 for the
support of their pastor, and We're too
poor to take religious paper.
1t is said that when man is perfectly
helpless from intoxicatiOn, ice water
poured down the spinal column and
back will give such shock to the ner-
vous system as to perfectly Oyerpower
his intoxication. The effect will be
that in two minutes time he will he en-
abled to walk rs well.as he ever could.
Ohio newspapers and periodicals
number Al, with an average circula-
ton of from 500 to 6, l4S, and an aggre-
| I g n
35 for each inhabitant. There are 800
weeklies, SO monthlies, % daiiies, 10
Seml-monthlies, 8 -weeklies, semi
weeklies, 2 bi-monthlies, and l quar-
terly.
OF the Connecticut State Senators, 1
are farmers, manufacturers, 4 lawyers,
1 merchants, butcher, l auctioneer, l
surveyor, aud l carpenter. or the 24l
members of the House, 1l5 are farmers,
13 are ,wyers, 5 clergymen, 81 mer-
: chants, physicians, aud the rest are
divided up among various calllnsS ana
pursuits.
Gen. Meacham thinks Capt. Jack the
best of the Modocs after all. He says
he was the first and most persistent adj
vocate of peace, but whenever he talked
in its favor some of the tribe would
throw a shawl over his shoulders or put
a woman's bonnet on his head, signify
, ing that he was a coward and to their
taunts AND jeers he at last yielded.
! Even burglars are sometimes handy
1 to have around, This was the case the
} other day at the Jail at Springfield,
E when it was found impossible to open a
. locked door. Locksmiths were sent for,
/ and worked hours without success upon
b it. and finally the sheriff called an old
S burglar, who was in custody, to try his
hand at it. He opened it in few
moments.
A reporter for Westernpaper, speak
;, ing of certain fair creature, remarked
o that "the profusion and color of hel
: hair would lead one to look upon it az
though it was spun Ivy the nimble Tin
!, gers of the easy hours, as they glidet
I, through the bright June days, whose
!. many sunny rays of light had beer
7 caught in the meshes, and We're con
= tented to go no further" This is bet
v ter than saying the girls hair was red.
Il 1t was the old fashion-and not
S good fashion, either-for Congressmel
> to give West Point cadetships to til
S sons of their most influential constitu
e ents. In view of what We have hitherI
b said about political corruption, it
k pleasant to record that out of the l.