The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One concern in Maine has an order
for 10,000 sets of croquet.
Wilkie Collins, the novelist, says he
has earned $50, 900 with his pen.
Eighty-five per cent. of the members
of the Utah legislature are polygamists.
Half million people visited the
Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition last
year.
The Denver (Col) Herald says that
the mines of Colorado last year yielded
1926 1886, ,483.
New York city's assessed valuation
is S946, ,527, 200, an increase OF S2S,-
1913 900 during the last year.
The thrifty man will always put
something away for a rainy day, even If
it is nothing but stolen UMBRELLA
Picdyune.
Over two. thirds of the baseballs
manufactured come from a Boston firm,
who are now making 10000 dozen an
rually. The leather for covering is
tanned by their own workmen.
J. r. Holloway, of Marion county,
Tenn, grew l,50O bushels of peanuts
last year, and considered it a very
profitable crop. Everything about the
peanut can be utilized. The vines and
| leaves make a most excellent fodder.
To ascertain the length of II day and
night multiply the hour at which the
sun rises by two the result will be the
length of the night. Multiply the hour
at which the sun sets by two, and the
result will be the length of the day.
1t is said in Arizona that a miner,
doubling the capabilities OF a certain
assayer, got an old potato, dried it
thoroughly, pounded it up fine and then
submitted the powder for assay, and the
result of the assay gave yield of $40
to tue ton.
There are $50 varieties of grass in Ne
braska, luxuriant in growth, excellent
in quality, and they are among the
grandest resources of the State. They
fre the herdman's stock in trade, and
fat steers, mutton, wsol and dairy pro-
ducts are the net results.
Wheelbarrows are in very little de-
mand in Brazil, lowing to the almost
universal practice of carrying burdens
on the head" Not long ago the Ameri-
can consul saw sturdy negro carrying
a wheelbafrow on his head through the
streets of Rio de Janeiro.
One hundred years ago, during the
winter of 1880, the weather was so cold
that some of The harbors along the coast
: were frozen over 1Or nearly slN WeehS
In Marblehead harbor several vessels
were frozen in from the last of Decem
Der to the middle of February.
, A subscriber in the Norristown HerdIt
= asks: "Will the last shoe be made on I
shoe last?" The Herald says we must re
fer him to Proctor. He lis the only persol
g in the country-we believe he is still il
9 this countrywide knows what is goini
. to happen 100, 900, ,OOO, 900, 900, 900, 600, ,OC
o years hence.
/. A submarine diver was in the Gran
= procession at Philadelphia He stoo'
p on platform wagon, wearing his mug
. brass helmet, rubber suit and heav
leaden plates. The weight was yer
burdensome in the air, though just tn
thing for water. and he has since die
from the effects of it,.
,e When life insurance agent comes Il
g, and tells you that only last week a ma
d insured with him for 100000 and pal
IF one premium, and to-day he is dead an
a his family has the money, it doesn
4 make us any more anxious to insur
though it may be a convincing arg'
II ment in favor of the beauties of the sy
TEN. Boston Post.