The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-02-05
NO. 40.
Facts and Fancies.

It costs $101, 900 for a years sweep
ing out and watching of the Treasury
building at Washington.
The law association of st. Louis ro-
jected an applicant for admission, the
other day, because he had advertised
to procure divorces with secrecy and
dispatch"
How strong is mothers love An
Edinburgh woman paid two dollars
postage to send shirt to her son in st.
Paul, where he could have bought it for
forty cents.
The New York Evening Mail is re-
sponsible for the statement that there
is one member of Congress who has not
plan for the resumption of specie pay
ments, but it withholds his name.
A wonderfully sensitive signal-man
on an English railroad has committed
suicide because he had lingering ap-
prehension that he was remotely con-
nected with certain fatal accident.
An authority in the matter gives the
total pine resources of North America
as 249, 40, 900, 900 feet, and states, fur
thermore, that the pine crop east of the
Rocky Mountains will be used up in
five years.
The port of San Juan, Nicaragua,
which twelve years ago was one of the
safest and best in Central America, has
been gradually but surely destroyed, so
that now it is almost impossible for ves-
sells to get in.
The London Times correspondent at
Cartagena writes that the Government
troops, on entering the town, shot eight
insurgents who were trying to escape.
The occupation of the town was other
wise bloodless.
Judge W. E. Keller of Kentucky, who
presided at the trial of the Harrods-
burg shooters, startled the spectators
the other day by ordering the court off,
GERS to search every man present for
concealed weapons.
Iowa papers stoutly deny the exist
ence of frightful degree of destitution
alleged to exist among the farmers in
the northwestern part of the State, and
boldly insinuate that the whole thing is
gigantic swindle.
Well, this was aggravating A happy
Hartford couple had silver wedding,
and among the gifts received was fine
silver tea set. Alas! they had to give
it up the next day. 1t was left by
mistake of the expressman.
A Paris correspondent says it is cur
rent joke there that no titled person
may be too old or ugly or impoverished
but that he may hope to pick up an
American girl who will give him heaps
of dollars to become Madame la
Duchese or Madame la Baronne.
There is a story of Judge Grier,
which everybody delights in, how he
set aside the uui ust verdict of jury
against an unpopular man, with this re-
mark: "Enter the verdict, Mr.. Clerk.
Enter also, Set aside by the court I
want it to be understood that it takes
thirteen men to steal a mans farm ia
this court"
At Marsh Farm, Twickenham, Eng,
four children named Hadley had bsen
sent out by their mother for a walk,
and while they were watching some
ducks behind an open fence, a gentle
man on visit to Mr.. Keevil, the far
mer, not observing them, fred off a gun
at a small bird and wounded three of
them. The eldest, who had his young
est sister in his arms, was shot in the
leg the next was shot in one hand and
in her face and the third received
wounds on the forehead and arm, two
shots having entered Immediately over
the eyes, while the other child escaped.
They were not, however, very seriously
| injured,