The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-21
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

OF the total population of the United
St6tes in 1880 fraction over ninety
seven per cent. live on the Atlantic
slope, about onesha]f of one per cent. in
tue great basin and little less than two
and one-half per cent. on the Pacific
slope. This statement will startle some
who imagine that the star of empire is
going westward with break-neck speed.
Statistics show that since 1854 there
haa been an increase of risk from light
ming in various parts of Germany, Aus
tralia and Switzerland, while there is no
corresponding increase in the number
of thunder-storms. The explanation is
thought to lie in the clearing of forests,
the increase of railroads, and the great
use made of iron in the construction of
houses.
A recent decision of the United States
supreme court is of great interest to all
military officers, as it determines that
they hold office as do civil officers, at
the will of the President and the Sen
ate, who can remove them from Office
without verdict of court martial,
which has been supposed to be neces-
sary preliminary to the dismissal of army
and navy officers in time of peace.
The question what degree of heat is
necessary TO destroy trichine in swine's
flesh is of Importance. A German ex-
pert says that if the pieces put into
pot to hoil are large, trichinp in the
middle are not certain to be killed
by such degree of cooking as they
are usually subjected to. AS long
as the meat retains the pink color
known as "rare" it has been in
sufficiently cooked to destroy the para
sites. Smoking and picking the meat,
he asserts, are of no use whatever.
A. Keene Richards, who died in Ken
tucky recently, spent more than 81, ,O00,-
600. to improve the breed of race-horses
in America. He made two long journeys
in the deserts of Arabia to obtain the
pure Bedouin horse. and succeeded in
getting a few of the best blood at fabu-
lous prices, which he mixed with the
most fashionable English and American
racers. The result, however, up to the
time of his death, failed to meet his an
ticipations, though many winners were
sent from his beautiful blue grass park,
near Georgetown, Ky.
Seven men, residents of Gilboa, were
arrested for tarring and feathering one
Stephen Cantine and wife, and were
taken to Livingstonville, in the town OF
Broome, and tried before Justice Null
berry and jury. John II. Mattice and
and William H. Brayman appeared for
the people and Counselor I. Snyder de-
Tended the prisoners. The trial caused
great excitement in the towns of Gilboa
and Broome, some of the parties charged
with the otfense being prominent clti
zens of those towns, and the ottcnse
being ngunprecedented in the county. After
q three days trial three of the prisoners
were acquitted and four fined $50 each.
Secretary Kirkwood thinks the civil
ization of the Indians peculiar and
difficult problem, and we doubt if any
body will dispute him. He gays that
when the young brave, after days OF
hard and vezatious labor, has fairly
broken his Wild pony to the plow, the
will gather about him and taunt him for
doing squaws work; offering him articles
of their own female apparel as suitable
for his present occupation. He is
angered and ashamed, abandons his
plow, mounts his pony, rides off, gives
up agricultural life, and henceforth
devotes his valuable life to the consump-
tion of government rations and illicit
whisky.
The state department at Washington
has recently issued the correspondence
had with European countries for the
past twelveyears, on the subject of emf
grafton to this country OF the paupeI
and criminal classes of various Eastern
nationalities. From this it appears that
Switzerland has given cause for most OF
the complaint, tour-tifths of the cor
respondence having been had with the
authorities of that country. Mr.. Fish,
the charge d'afairs at Berne, Switzer-
land, in this correspondence states that
the ratio of the cases of Objectionable
emigration - the pauper and criminal
classes-was to the total emigration IL
1879 and 1880, in each nationality, as
follows: One to 30,53S; German, one tC
23,S4S; Italians, one to 1S,0Se; Swedish
one to II, 546 and Swiss one to 443 2-3
A Buffalo grand jury found an in
dictment against one Henry We'll, who
keeps an oleOmargarne mill in that
city Here is the indictment, which is
a curiosity: 1t is alleged that he "did Gre
ate and maintain n certain and common
public nuisance by keeping and accu
mulating the fat, bones, flesh, Tissues,
entTails and substances of divers dead
animals, and divers chemical acids tc
the jurors unknown, beef, tallow, offal
carrion, and other foul, noxious, filthy
and putrid matter and substances, botl
solid and liquid, which the said Wei
has cooked, steamed, soaked, mixed
puddled, fermented, stirred, brewed
converted and rendered together anC
separately, by which he has wrongfully
and unlawfully caused and permitted tC
raise, evolve, emanate, disseminate and
spread divers noxious, noisome, often
i've, deleterious, unwholesome and un
healthy gases, vapors, exhalations, ef
fuvia, miasmas, smells, stenches, whicl
contaminate, poison and infect the air. t.
the health, comfort and happiness o
many thousands OF the good citizens o
the city and to the common and pub
lie nuisance of said citizens"
The farmers in Louisiana are giving
attention IN fha cultivation of tho inf.