The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-09-25
NO. 80.
Facts and Fancies.

Many of the newspapers are caliln8
upon delinquent subscribers for their
back pay.
It is now believed the farmers oranges
will secure the next United States Sena-
tor in Kansas.
Three Socialists have been sentenced
to death by the Tribunal of Justice OF
Valencia, Spain.
Bad temper bites at both ends; it
makes ones self nearly as miserable as
it does other people.
In Richmond they take note even OF
the fall of a sparrow, and fined the
New Yorker who did it So.
The scalp of "Modoc warrior, killed
in the lava BEDS" recently came through
the mail to man at Brattleboro, vt.
The man who was recently lynched
in Missouri had thoroughly trained his
eleven children in the burglar busl-
ness.
A Detroit man brought his cooking
stove to town last week and sold it to
get money enough to take his family to
the circus.
Persons who are liable to be sea sick
are recommended, on the eve of sea
voyage, to take mucilage with their
food, to keep it down.
More than half the acreage in Illinois
is in corn. The Chicago Tribune indi-
Gates from one-half to two-thirds an
average crop this year.
interesting Invalid" Doctor, want
my husband to take me to Paris. Now,
do tell me, what complaint ought L to
have ?" And that's what the bill was
for.
A Colorado justice of the peace
sentenced man to be hung for horse
stealing, and the gallows was ready be-
fore the official found out he had no
jurisdiction.
"Good morning, gentlemen" says
book peddler, entering railroad car:
No one responded. Beg pardon, if L
have said too much; L withdraw the
last expression"
"What should I talk about this
one of his expectant auditors. "About
a quarter of an hour would be just the
thing" was the reply.
Two young ladies of La Crosse were
standing by the side of ditch thirteen
feet wide which they didn't know how
to cross, when their escort said "snakes,"
and they cleared it at bound.
A correspondent of the Country Cen
tIen1an has discovered that, as law of
nature, every spotted dog has at the
end of his tail white, and every spotted
cat at the end of the tail black.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Journal says:
"Some of the two-cent politicians are
trying to make point for the next cleo
tion, on the fact that the city is working
the women vagrants in the burying-
ground"
A smart man of Sandusky put arsenic
in bottle of wine, hoping that a
burglar would drink it, and his wife
placed it among 100 other bottles. The
smart man is now wondering which is
the bottle.
Ayoung ladyin Gloucester is charged
with keeping light burning in the
parlor until very late on Sunday night,
in order to harrow the sensitive feelings
of an envious neighbor into the belief
that she has really got beau.
The Boston Daily advertiser says
that Col. j. II. Devereux, the new
President of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad received 100000 as
a bonus far taking that Office, and an
annual salary of $4,000 besides.
Two gentlemen are prospecting Was
CO County, Oregon, with view to en-
gaging in the sheep business. They
are from Australia, and, should they be
favorably impressed, will bring large
flock of sheep from that country.
A Wisconsin newspaper says:-" Our
farmers have now secured all their rye,
barley, wheat and oats in good condi-
ton, and it is not only the largest yield
they have had for years, but the wheat
especially is of better quality than We
have ever seen.
The New London (Ohio) Record gives
an account of the falling of meteoric
stone near that place. l. was heard
passing through the air by MIR. Hotch-
kiss, and struck close to where he was
standing. 1t came from a southeasterly
direction, and when taken from the
ground was quite hot.
Recent experiments have shown very
conclusively that cold-blooded animals
behave like plants with regard to freez,
ing temperatures. Thus, they die at
different freezing temperatures the
honey-bee at degree the spider at 8
degrees the fesh-fy survives at tenn
perature of 6 degrees /; the silk-worn
: egg at one of 81 degrees.
The way the shoes fly is shown by {
seoemaker at Lynn, who makes two
, pairs in forty-eight minutes. He re
ceives for his work forty-fve cents {
pair. How they fly in other ways il
discovered by the unlucky folks wht
buy them, and who, to save their soles
can not make them last much longe
than it takes this man to make them.
A dissipated but wealthy citizen o
Cincinnati, while too full of spirits
3 saw flag hanging out of an enlistmen
e office, and went in to see what day wa
: celebrated. Seeing a number of men il
: uniform sitting around, he was con
o vinced that the liberty of his countr
Q was in danger, and at once enrolled hi
!, name among the recruits. When h
!, became sober he discovered that h
t could not make joke of the affair, an
a his father, mother, and wife, who ar
e greatly alarmed at his prospects, wi
!, use every exertion to get him dischare
), ed.