The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-24
Facts and Fancies.

There are 33, GIG seamen in the British
navy, and 1928 marines.
The revenues of the Church of Eng
gland amount to $25, 1000, 600 annually.
Chilian women have received the
right to vote, the only qualification
being they must be of age and able to
read and write.
During the past twelve years Dart
mouth College has received about $780,
900 in gifts, and about 100000 more
will become available in a few years.
The Pennsylvania Legislature have
under consid Grafton bill making it
penal offense to point agun or pistol at
a person, whether in jest or earnest.
A girl inquired of the mayor of Meri.
den, Conn, if he could not forbid her
widowed mother to marry again. She
thought the police ought to be made to
interfere.
Mrs. Kirby, widow residing in Cald-
well county, N. O., lost eight children
in January by diphtheria; four of them
in such quick succession that they were
buried together.
Silas Horton Stringham, rear admiral
of the United States navy, died at his
residence in Brooklyn, recently. For
several years past he has been great
sufferer from disease.
At marriage in Boston, a few days
since, the daughters of the bridegroom,
who had no great partiality for the bride,
stripped the shawl from her shoulders.
A police officer restored order.
Forest planting is thriving in Mime
sofa. The st. Paul and Pacific railroad
has set out over 100000 young trees,
and altogether it is estimated that 20,-
CO0,000 have been planted on the prairie
lands.
A Chicago millionaire, M. o. Walker,
died few years ago, leaving will that
pleased nobody; and there has been re-
allied thus far from the estate $35, ITO,
of which $26, 100 have gone to the lawyers
and administrators.
A man named Gill sued the Grand
Junction canal company, England. to
recover compensation for the lunacy of
his wife, which he swore resulted from
fright caused by boiler explosion on
the canal in 1874. The jury awarded him
G100.
In those parts of Louisiana where the
rice was cut early the long continued
rains which followed kept the fields
soaked and flooded, and now from the
old stubble second rice crop has come
up and is ready to be cut. This will
add largely to the rice estimate.
The Piute Indians, of Nevada, do not
gain by contact with civilization. They
beg in the daytime, and at night return
to their wickiups, which are huts made
of brush and old gunnysacks, warmed
only by sagebrush fires. They do not
seem to think of bettering their condi-
ton.
They call DIR. Peters, of Decatur, Ind,
the meanest man in that State, because
be spent a good deal of money at a
church fair in buying votes for cane to
be given to the most popular doctor in
town, and, failing to get the prize, sued
the church for the money he had spent
! for votes.
A ball was recently given by the vol
untetr fire brigade of Coventry, and at
three in the morning, while the dancing
was in full progress, the gas was turned
off, and the entreaties of the tiremen
could not persuade the authorities to
turn it on. The result is that to-day
Coventry is without any fire depart
ment.
One cause of the great increase of the
number of rabbits in Nevada is found to
be the operation of the law giving a
bounty for all coyotes killed, the latter
being the natural enemies of the rab
bit The Indians scarcely ever kill a
coyote, notwithstanding the bounty.
They have superstitious regard for the
animals, and before the whites came
among them never killed any.