The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The keeper of lighthouse holds a
high position in the world.-Mdrathon
Independent.
The man who picked up the hot
penny originated the remark: "All that
glitters is not cold"
1t is estimated that Oregon will fur
nish surplus of 25O,60O tons of wheat
Tor export the coming season.
An experimental plantation of olive
trees in Georgia is said to have yielded
an excellent quality of olive oil.
A tract of fifty thousand acres on the
| Northern Pacific railroad has been
bought for a colony from Belfast,
Ireland.
The trees on the trail toward fortune
are all blazed with printers ink, and
every guide-board reads Advertise. y
MCdeTn Arg0.
The lower jaw of an antediluvial
mammoth was recently fshed out of the
River Dnieper by Russian fishermen; it
is as black as coal, and weighs seventy
! five pounds.
1t is said that during the next fifteen
years almost all the Russian railroads
| now in operation will undergo the pro-
cess OF redemption and become govern
ment property.
The locomotives used on the railroads
| OF the United States, it is said, are do
ing the work of over 90, 90, 900 horses,
while the census of 1880 aggregates
horses OF all ages at less than 5000, 900.
A man fell down short time ago and
was pretty badly used up. He says he
will be all right by next tall. We beg
leave to differ. We think he will be
worse off the next fall.-Reokuk Con-
StttatttO7a.
An expert estimates that in a single
decade 100000 persons engaged in in
dustrial pursuits in Great Britain sus-
tain personal injury or are killed; in
mines, 30O,O 900: in railways, 10000, and
in factories, 10000.
1t is very fortunate that the crop of
lightning-rod agents turned out short
this season. The farmers have enough
trouble with the army worm, without
having to contend with any other pest.
-MtddIeto0n Transcript.
The manufacture of sporting impIe-
ments las assumed large proportions in
this country. 1t is estimated that from
$4,000 to 10000 sets of croquet, 2OO, 900
baseball bats, and -250.OOO baseballs
viii be made for this seasons trade by
a single firm in Chicago.
1t almost unnerves man to watch a
woman undergoing the operation of pin
ming on her bonnet, and a fellow heayes
sigh of relief when the four inches of
pin disappears in O mass of toggery
and hair and the female comes out of
the perilous operation uninjured and
smiling.
When dog eats grass it is said to be
a sign OF ram. 1t certainly is an omen of
something, when the brute gets long
spear stuck in his throat, and the5
erawIs under the table when the family
nave company at supper, and heaves his
shoulders, and howls, and kicks with
ms nlnd legs, and screams horribly in a
foreign language, and is lifted out the
room by his tail by the hired girl. 1t is
the sign OF storm.-Rockld1d Courier.
THE FARMER AND POLITICS.
The farmer in the paper
Read the editorial mentions
That the fate OF nations rested
On the r. and d. conventions.
But the trees had leaved and blossomed,
And the grass continued growing;
All the sprouts OF corn were starting,
And the farmer went on hoeing,
When the matter was decided,
And they made the nomination,
one declared 1t was blessing,
And another ruination.
Still the fruit grew ripe and mellow,
And the wheat was nicely growing;
Whlle the farmer in his garden
Bout his turnps went on hoeing.
OIL City Derrick.