The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-08-13
FAEsTs NOTES.


and took his cow with him ; but the animal
turned up at her old home, ninety mills o! /,
a few days alterward.
DR.. Arnott affirms that no wave OF the
ocean rs more than ten feet from the or
dinary sea level which, with the ten feet
its surface decends, gives twenty feet to the
whole height.
Fifteen acres of wheat were burned,
near San Jose, Cal, some days since, by a
passen ger on stage coach throwing light
ed cigar into some dry grass on the roadside.
All the people in. the locality had to turn
ont to prevent the flames from spreading TO
other grain fields in the valley.
The Toronto Globe publishes crop re-
ports from all parts of Cana la, indicating at
least average crops generally. Wheat will
fall 8 to 12 per cent. below the average, and
corn about l6 per cent, but other cereals
promise an abundant yield. Potatoes and
otI.cr roofs also promise well.
Some years ago bankrupt Michigan
editor offered his creditors a warrant for l2O
acres Of land in satisfaction of their claims,
and they refused it, prelerring to take other
property valued at $3.50. The despised 100
acres now yield the former bankrupt editor
an annual income ol $4,000 or more from
mines.
A society is now forming in England TO
introduce the participation " system of
manu- acturing, in which a share Of the net
Or fits of an undertaking is allotted to the
W rkingmen in addition to their wages paid
at the ull market rate. No less than one
hundred firms in continental Europe a'e
Low worked on this plan with universally
good results.
Miss Frances II. Willard writes TO the
White Mountain Echo suggesting hat the
White Mountain peak called "The Hay
stack " be renamed Mount Garfield, in
honor of the President, "whose face was set
Toward the White Hills on the morning of
his attempted assassination.
At Port Jcrvs, N. Y, Colonel Anthony
p Keer, well known farmer, went into a
lciu W cd'Oh HoIse' WuSn ue WAS kuOCh-
ed down by the animal and trampled to
death. He was so years of age.
"A curious performance in vegetation
has been noticed recently at the residence
OF Mr.. Howard S. Collins, in Collinsvlle,
Conn. Out of the full blown roses on one
of his bushes have come forth buds, three or
four on the same blossom, and these fresh
buds have gone on and developed into per-
feet roses like the flower they have sprung
out of.
"A few days ago some quarrymen, in
getting out a hogstone at Prospect Hill,
| found petrfed rattlesnake imbedded in
the solid rock. 1t measured over seven feet
| in length and had fourteen rattles. There
being no cervice in the rock, how it 3, t
there is a mystery. 1t is believed to have
been there at least thousand years. 1t has
been forwarded to the Smithsonian Institu-
tion at Washington.
Amos Dow is an eccentric character
! living near Seabrook, n. II. Some twenty
years ago he went into a BARRIERS shop and
was shaved with razor which the owner
said cost fiheeh dollars. Whether be thought
the story too big or the price to muah, 1t is
certai;. that a razor has never touched his
face since But his most singular freak is in
regard to women. He built house and
placed over the door sign which reads as
follows "Notiee, Admittance to Gents but
no Ladies, and no woman has ever crossed
the threshold of his door. He lives alone,
does all of his own work, and appears to be
happy.
Waldo F. Brown reports in the Country
Gentlemen that a barrel of hen manure, silt-
ed and drilled in on one AGRA Tor wheat, pro-
dueed as good results as another acre "dTess-
ed literally with stable manure" or a third
acre with 200 pounds of ground bone, also
drilled in. The yield from each acre was
over thirty bushels. He thinks the manure
alone from fowls Will pay for their keeping,
Probably this is an overestimate, but doubt
less few farmers appreciate hen manure at
ITS full value.