The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-02

There has been another silent
couple at Galway, N. Y, Jona-
than James and his wife, who lived
together over twenty-five years without
speaking to each other. Having dis
agreed about the words of a sermon
they heard in 1856, they vowed eternal
silence, and kept the vow, though
always on apparently good terms with
each other. Mr.. James died last spring,
but Mrs. James is still living.
From the statistics reported by the
United States commissioner of educa-
tion for 1880, just published, it appears
that in 1871 twenty-nine States re-
ported a school population of 1862, 1863,
while in 1880 the thirty-eight States
and eight Territories reported a total
of 15,536,2S0. The number enrolled
in the public schools, twenty-eight
States only reporting for 1871, was
6,393,OS5, while for 1880 it was $751;
521, all the States and Territories re-
porting this item.
1t is estimated that there are 5000
patent medicines manufactured and
sold. There is one establishment that
keeps them all. They include pills
that cure every disease humanity is
heir to, bitters, cordials, eliXirs, syrups,
salves, toothache drops and hair prepa-
rations. There are seventy-fve medi-
oipo1 Nvotarc 1SO 1iD;D,op+c 1QO hoi,,
dyes, and of plasters, oils and other
indictments an equal jumble. Mil
lions of dollars are yearly spent in adj
vertising them.
A German paper estimates that the
compensation which will have to be
awarded by the international commits
sion for houses destroyed by the Alex
andria bombardment at $7,700,O00.
The property destroyed covers an
area of $4,000 square meters, the ave-
rage value of which is estimated at
$50 per square meter. Adding $1O,-
100000 or $12,000,000 for furniture
and stock in trade, and $4,0O0,O0O fol
the locsss of the refugees, the aggregate
sum would be $22,000,000 or $24,.
100000.
The Suez canal was built with the
shares at the par value of 800, and,
although their price now is something
like $54O, the company is neither re
ducing the dues nor giving greater fa
cilities for the navigation of the canal
1t is not surprising, therefore, that til,
commercial classes in England take {
deep interest in building another ant
purely British canal, an undertaking
that could be carried out, it is said
with mechanical improvements ant
knowledge, at comparatively smal
cost.
In the event of postal savings banks
in the United States where deposits as
small as one cent may be received. {
gOOu opportunity VIII occur to teS
the old proverb which admonishes Us
to take care Of the pence and let thC
pounds take care of themselves. II
England last year such small deposits
aggregated S12, 100000. Another in
stance of the result of this policy il
afforded by the fact that the Bank O
England has obtained $716,300 b,
reckoning in its own favor in settle
ments of transactions involving frac
tions of pennies.
Commissioner Dudley reports tina
the 205,695 pensioners on the list a
the end of the last fiscal year, June &c
1882, have been classified. There ar
173, 1873 army and 1851 navy invalid'
76, 44S army and 1858 navy widows
minor children and dependent rels
tives; 7,134 survivors of the war G
1872, and "a, ,66l widows of those VIII
served in the war of 1872. The totf
amount paid to pensioners since 1856
is $500, ,641, ,324.75. 1t is an astoundin
fact that almost one-fifth of the whol
amount expended for pensions sine
the beginning of the war twenty-on
years ago will be paid for the sam
purpose during the present year. An
there are 290,966 claims for pension
ct to be considered.
An entire Gallo-Roman town h;
been unearthed in the neighborhood ,
Poitiers. 1t contains a temple II
yards in length by seventy yards
breadth, baths occupying five acres,
theatre of which the stage aloI
measures ninety yards on its longe
side, streets, houses and other bull
ings covering space of more thu
seventeen acres. The excavation
which are being continued, ha'
brought to light more edifces, scul
ture in the very best style and in go'
preservation-dating, it is though
from the second century-and
quantity of iron, bronze and earth,
articles. NJ. Lisch, the inspector
historic monuments, declares that t
town is little Pompeii in the cent
of France.
A street railway has been laid
Athens. But some 1000 years t
late to find out whether or not {
, Socrates, Xenophon or Demosthen