The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-18
The Wonderful Nation.
BIG MEN, BIG SNAKES, BIG VINES, BIG
AGES, BIG LIES.

Tne WOnuer1ul NAtiOns
BIG MEN, BIG SNAKES, BIG VINES, BIG
AGES, BIG LIES.
From Verdcious Exchanges.
John Jacob Wiler died at Mans
field, o., last week, aged 10l years.
--Bellefontaine, o., has colored
boy 10 years old who weighs 225
pounds. ..
Mrs. Susanna Shaffer, colored, liv-
ing near Cathagena, Ohio, Is over 1902
years old.
In Boone County, Indiana, the
wolf bounty upon full-grown wolves
has been raised from $40 to Sis.
A Canton, ILL.,, butcher found in a
cows paunch he butchered last week
few nails, screws, and emblematic
pin of the q. A, r.
Mr.. Henry GatliR Of Clinch
County, Ga, killed a buck the other
day weighing 100 pounds and having
eight points to eaci antien
"A willow tree in Bristol, n. H.,
measures % feet 8 inches in circum-
ferance one foot from the ground and
is Is feet inches nine feet from
the ground.
Officer w. II. Griffith, while fish
ing day or two ago at Green's mill
pond, Ga, killed black bear on
Tuesday in the Ocmulyee, Ga, killed
rattlesnake measuring II feet in
length and about 10 inches circumfer-
ence, which sported ~ rattles and II
button
--Mesars. Sam Arnold and james
Jones killed black bear on Tuesday
in the Ocnulgee, Ga, swanIps. the
animal weighed about four hundred
pounds. When discovered he was en-
joying feast of green corn.
Nick Overmier of San Diego, Cal.
says that the jack rabbits and the deer
are eating up all the orchards in his
neighborhood. Old velvety horn
bucks just pass up into an apple tree
and cleau uut the whole thing-apples
and limbs.
On Mr.. Reid's island, in the Chat
tahoochee River, there is volunteer
watermelon vine having radius OF
twenty-five feet, making II diameter
of fifty feet. This, being multiplied
by 3.l416, gives circumference of
l57 feet. Its size at the root is about
that oi II mans arm.
"A lady was getting dinner in Amer
icus, and while she Was busy at the
stove heard something fall on the
kitchen floor behind her. Turning
her mead, she was Mortified to see IL
large ratt,esuake laying OH the floor.
His snaKe-ship crawled out and dis
appeared under the kitchen.
-The Meriwcther (Geursia) Nimrod,
Henry II. Harris, caughta II veritable
wildcat laet saturday. The monster
cat weighed twenty seven pounds,
measured three lcet elght inches in
length, and had :tlSks three-iOurths oi
All iHch long. Our co.orcd town
butcher. Wills Jossy, Who saw NUM-
crous wildcats in his youth aud claims
10 Ue authority in natters relating t.
the wiidNot tiILo, ,uys tlI~ U,.e was
| about twelve years Old.
An engineer on the Macon and
brunswick Railroad approaching Il
! wood-track whrre he had to stop,
noticed an OK running after the train.
stopping to take wood, the OK came
up to the tender, and rename, stand
lng very c,ose thereto. The engineer
said to the fireman:"I guess that OK
wants wafer; give him some dut ol
the tank The fireman being afraid
| OF HIM, the engineer drew from the
tank "a bucket full, and the OK eagerly
| guiped it d0wn, bucket after bucket,
until he had empited II large Kali
road bucket three times, when he step
ped off II few PAGES, turned round and
bowed his head as much to say,
"Thank you, sirl"