A hint, a word, a look, a breath
May bear envenom’d stings,
From all of which the moral learn:
Despise not little things!
IN A NUTSHELL.
Colonel Drake used the first driving pipe.
Adolph Schreiner, of Austria, made the first petroleum-lamp.
The first oil-well drilled by steam power was opposite Tidioute, in 1860.
Jonathan Watson put down the first deep well on Oil Creek—2,130 feet—in 1866.
William Phillips boated the first cargo of oil down the Allegheny to Pittsburg in March, 1860.