The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-19


Auburn, IN. II State Prison contain
twenty three convicts under sentence q
imprisonment for life.
The Library Of Congress has tvic
doubled within twelve years, and now mum
bers $50, 900 volumes.
A Detroit woman vainiy tried every in
sursnce Office in the city 10 get $500
policy on o six months old baby.
Saratogs has instituted . New Englsn,
Society, with the regular accompaniment
Of pork and beans, Graham bread and hub
bish exclusiveness.
The blind st the Penn sylvania ins stitu tiou
for the instruction Of that class Of unfor tn
mates, manufactured $12,26l.s4 worth o.
goods last year. w. ~ -.
Georgia produced, in 1873, 1874 pounds
Of lint cotton to the acre, and Arkansas l9t
pounds TO the acre--only eleven pounds u
the acre in favor Of Arkansas.
As an evidence that the black race can.
not be civilized, a Georgia paper mention,
the case Of . negro who returned q one
bundred-dollar bill which bank overpaid
him.
"who daIes spit tobacco spit on thil
car foor," asked bury passenger on Z
railway train. al dare" answered slen
der youth. 81 did it, You're just tn,
chap I'm looking for; give mo chaw."
When a young farmers wife made her
first boys pants, precisely the same before
as behind, the father exclaimed: '!Good.
nessl he won't know whether he's going tc
school or coming home"
Spanish proverbs are al q discount just
now; but this is one at par; eat eighteen
marry your daughter to her superior, st
twenty to her equal; but at thirty, to any
body who will have her."
A New Hampshire farmers wife fell into
we'll, and it was four days before he
missed her and made search. He said he
thought the house unusually quiet, but he
didn't know what made it so.
The State of Minnesota contains about
80, 900, 900 acres Of land. all told. OF this
13, 200, 900 acres have been granted to rail-
way corporations, and are now held by
them. That is to say, the railroads own
more than one-tourth Of oil the lsnds in
the State.
An old German, while travelling from In
dianspolis to Lafayette, had his nose
frozen. While they were thawing it out
for h i'm at the tavern, he sat by the stove
and put his hands to his head, and thought
' cry solemnly for awhile and said; al
don't understand dis ting. hsf carry dat
nose fordy year, and he never freesed
hisself psfore!"
Pennsylvania is valued at seven
thousand millions.
A Georgia editor was bitten by dog,
''beiug evidently mistaken for bone."
The women are having it pretty much
their own way in Ohio.
An Iowa farmer who has been mar
ried seven weeks offers to bet that his
wife can whip panther.
Iowa has a lilliputisn--Edward Ong
who is smaller than Tom Thumb or
Commodore Nut.
A colony Of Germans is said to have
been organized in Chicago, who have
bought 1000 acres Of laud 10 Landudah
county, Mississippi, with tho intention
Of raising silk worms.
A mushroom was recently found near
San Bernardino, California, which
four feet in circumference and
fourteen inches high, weighing twenty
pounds.
The woman's crusande on the liquor
traffic continue to spread. The move.
tering success, but in Indiana the beer
sellers are moking more determined re-
sistance. News comes from Covington,
KY, that the movement is about to be
inaugurated there, and, if so, it will
very likely extend to the very heart Of
tho Bourbon country.
A remarkable rose bush adorns the
cottage of s. A. Kendall of Santa Rosa
California. 1t was planted 10 1858
and is of the Lamarque variety, the
most beautiful Of the white roses. I'm
agine an immense boquet Of white
roses, twenty-five feet high, twenty-five
feet across, beautifully rounded, with 9
blosoming surface Of four hundred
square feet, with four thousand full
blown roses and twenty thousand buds!
New York, February ia Trib,n'
Philadelphia special says that the su
topsy on the bodies Of the Siamese twin
took place yesterday. The examination
Of the ligament joining the twins wa
made, and the question as to whethe
the severance could have been mad
safely in life, was settled in the negativ
with almost certainty. The lin inI
membrane Of the abdomen in each wa
found to enter the band and form
pouches, overlapping each other at tn
centre Of the, so that a knife passip
through its centre would sever tn
pouches and open the abdominal cavity {
each Of the twins. 1t was also prove
that there was blood circulation throug
the band.