The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-17

Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, now
seventy-one years of age, is the senior
member of the United States Senate,
and the youngest is Senator Aldrich of
Rhode Island, now forty years Of age.
Some one has taken the trouble o
collect statistics of the existing pawn
brokers in the United British Kingdom.
Their total number is 4,372, and during
q single year they take in, it is esti-
mated, some 200,OO0,O0O pledges. Re-
turns made by 731 pawnbrokers repre-.
sent business of 32,500. 900 pledges,
and the total of 200, 100000 is calculated
for these returns. ..
In order to make marching easier for
the German soldiers, their feet are
wrapped in linen soaked with lard. But
on the march, especially where the
boots are too big, the sticky mud will
pull the boots off. During a parade
before the emperor, not long since, the
boots came off by the hundreds, and a
fatigue party had to be sent out to pick
up the footgear.
A New York man has bee farm on
the top of his house, within few rods
of the postofiice. The bees have to fly
to Central park to get at the blossoms
to collect their honey. They come
straight home to their hives, and know
the spot where they are placed. 1t is
said that the bees being so much above
the streets are not disturbed by the
noises of the city.
Mrs. Campbell, the wife OF Alexander
Campbell, founder of the Christian
church, of whichl President Garfield was
member, is striking-looking woman
of eighty years. Her hair is as black,
her eyes as bright as in her youth, and
her mental activity is remarkable. She
reads and writes often until past mid
night, and is now engaged upon vol
ume of "reminiscences of her husband.
Mr.. Whittier's days at home in Ames-
bury, Mass, are devoted to his books,
with the exception of one hour in the
forenoon and one hour in the afternoon.
During these intervals he is always to be
found at the postoffice or reading the
Boston papers in book store, the
townspeople watching with real rever-
ence the tall, slender, white. haired
poet. He occupies two furnished rooms
in a pleasant home on Friend street,
Amesbury, and his life therein is that
of student-simple and hardworking
There recently died in Oregon mule
that has history that would fill small
book. He was forty.six years old, and
had been in the service of the govern.
ment for the past thirty-six years. He
was known all over the coast as " Old
Tom," and has been at different times
stationed at almost every garrison on
the coast. His funeral was attended by
the quartermaster'sd department in force,
and his body inferred with a feeling Of
profound sorrow at the loss of this old.
timer. A monument has been erected
over his grave.
The agricultural bureau estimates the
wheat crop of the United States for the
current year will be 3S1, 1,479, 200 bush.
els. The yield of 1879 was 45S, 600, OOC
bushels; that of 1880 is now set at 49S,-
100000 bushels. The decrease this
year from last is therefore III, 600, ,O0G
bushels. On an examination of the
table by States it appears thai there wa.
q loss, as compared with 1879, in every
Western State from Ohio to Colorado
excepting Texas. Oregon and the Ter
ritories alone show any considerable in
crease. Farmers will get more for theil
grain, but consumers will have to pay
more for their -four.
1t would astonish people in the coun
try to know to what an extent fortune
telling is carried on in New York city
A fortune-teller, calling herself MADAM
De London, was arrested q short tim,
ago for swindling, for the business i
contrary to law which is seldom en-
forced. It is estimated that between
fifty and hundred of these adventur
esses, for most of them are women. ge
" living by that business in New York
And most of the fools who allow thes
harpies to swindle them are women
says the Christian at Work, and man,
are women who dress we'll, too, ant
move in a pretty fair sort of socia
circle. They can hardly be set down a
ignorant, for they keep up with tn
times, so far as reading goes at least
But they believe in fortune-telling jus
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