The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-04-01
TIMELY TOPICS.

lar actors are thus stated f.. A. SOthern
gets every year $l50,000 as Lord Dun
dreary, and John G. Owens plays thirty
weeks annually for 100000; Joe Jeffer-
son plays forty weeks as Rip Van Winkle
and earns S120, 600, and Maggie Mitchell
earns from 100000 to $4,000. Dion
Boucicault has Just finished season as
"Shaughran," etc., at $4,000 a week,
and his managers scold him in the pub
lie prints because he would not
play longer at the same price. Miss
Nelson makes over $l50,000 a year,
while Fanny Davenport earns 81 900 a
week every week she plays.
TIE Countess Famine, lady-in-waiting
to the Empress of Russia, has been re-
quested to resign and to travel abroad.
She is of a romantic turn, and some
times received guests OF whose character
she was not fully aware. Among them
was young student, who, warned that
the police were about to search his
rooms, fled to her house with his papers,
and, being pursued to her room, hid the
papers under her pillow. The police
discovered them and arrested him. That
the Nihilists, however, have friends in
high quarters is shown, not only by the
cipher documen; found on Deutsch,
killed in the secret pres, affair, but by
letters found on Russian doctor and
refugee at Paris, who either threw him
self or was thrown into the Seine.
These documents were sewn in his
trousers ming and were handed over to
the Russian embassy, who forwarded
EN- to the St. Petersburg detectives.
Mr.. A j. Severance, of San Fran
cisco, says that the diamond drill has
played very important part in devel-
oping the mineral wealth of the West
The first great treasure house which
these drills opened up was that known
as the Consolidated Virginia and the
California Bonanzas, which have yielded
Sl07, 200, 900, of which the stockholders
have received S74 100000 in dividends.
One Of the owners of the mines told Mr..
Severance that the diamond drill had
realized for him S5.000,000 All of the
princil al Comstock mines, and many of
the largest mining properties located in
California and Nevada, use these drills.
They are also extensively used in Col
orado; have pushed their way to most
of the Territories; have been introduced
and operated in New Mexico, old Mex
leo and Australia. The Japanese gov
ernment have also been supplied with
| them.
A case of what may be called dual
existence has been discovered by the
Louisville Coarter-JourndI in the little
town of Millersburg, Ky. A pretty girl
about fifteen years old, who had some
trouble with her spine, is the interesting
object. When she is awake she acts
like a sedate and mod est maiden; but
when she is in one of her somnambu-
listic travels she is wild, romping
forward hoyden. In the former state
her nerves are super-scnsitive, and even
to touch her is to give her pain. In the
after state her nerves are entirely ca /
lous. Naturally, she likes to read seri-
Ous literature; abnormally she want S
nothing but Mother Gooses' melodies
She writes with her right hand in the
ore case and with her left in the other
That her eyes are entirely closed during
the somnambulistic freaks is vouchC
tor by several physicians, and that i4ers
is really not another case OF hysterica
deception is affirmed by DR.. Eads, who
has attended her since her childhood
She, OF course. does not, OF pretend
not, to remember what she did in he
abnorma condition, and when told sh
will not bell eve it.