The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-10-03
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weather for transplanting.
Most kinds of roots and barks arc
now used as edicines, except the cube
root and the bark Of the dog.
Types continue to cut up antics,
even in well.regulatod Offices, we infer
from seeing John Brown announced es
"a linseed preacher"
AN agricultural paper recommends
quart of brandy to cure the staggers.
We have thought brandy was the cause
of staggers.
AN old maid is not without power.
A writer observes that he has known
one such to turn steamboat excursion
into an occasion of gloom and despond-
ency.
Had you, SIR" said Henry Erskine
to & dilatory carpenter, "been there to
build the ark, we should not have had
the flood yet"
-"How on earth do you manager"
asked gentleman the other day of two
inseparable loungers. "You are always
together, you never do anything, and
yet you always have plenty of money"
Simplest thing in the world, my dear
fellow" was the candid reply: ave
borrow Of one another"
The Danbury man thus briefly re-
iates hisexperience on English railways:
"The engine consists simply of the boil
er, smoke pipe and steam whistle.
Sometimes you imagine that ii consists
entirely of the steam whistle, but that
is only when it blows. l always crawl
under the seat when 1 hear it. 1 can't
help it.
"A man bought horse. 1t was the
first horse he ever owned. He saw in a
newspaper that side window in q
stable makes horses eye weak on
that side; window in front hurts his
eyes by the glare; window behind
makes him squint.eyed; a window on a
diagonal line makes him shy when he
travels; stable without window
makes him blind. So he sold the horse.
Getting rid of owls. An old farm.
er who was troubled by owls that inva-
ded his hennery got rid of them in a
rather novel manner. One night he
ground a scythe blade very keen, split
a long pole at the top, inserted the blade,
and hoistsd the pole. The birds Of
wisdom never lit on this but once. One
gallon Of owl-toes were picked up next
morning, and the farmer has not lost
hen since.
In certain village not far away,
lived very honest farmer, who hav-
ing number of men hoeing in field,
went to see how his work went on.
Finding one of them sitting still, he re-
proved him for idleness. The man an
swered, II thirst for the spirit" Grog,
you mean, suppose" said the farmer;
"but If the Bible teaches you to thirst
for the spirit, it says also, "hoel every
one that thirstethl"
"A gentleman at Lake George after
waving his handkerchief for half an
hour or more |. at ,anIunl-nown lady,
whom Le.discovered at a distant point
on the shore, was encouraged bya warm
response to his signals to approach his
charmer. Imagine his feelings when,
on drawing nearer, he saw that it was
his own dear wife whom he had left at
the hotel but a short time before.
"Why, how remarkable we should h ave
recognized each other at such a dis
tance," exclaimed both in the same
breath; and then they changed the SUBJ
ject.
AT Fair Oaks, while standing in
the very tempest of death, with his
sword uplifted in command, Gen. o. o.
Howard had his right arm carried away.
The night, after Howard had suffered
amputation, and was lying spent and
raeked with pain in box car which
was to take him to Washington, Kear-
ney, who had lost his left.arm in Mexi.
co, drew near, and looking in the car,
said; "Howard, ..old boy, I'm sorry fol
you-sorry with all my heart; but, How
ard, I have just thought of something
When you get to Washington, buy {
pair of gloves; send me the right and
keep the left for yourself, and 1 will
divide the cost with you, and hereafte
we will live more economically" And
turning away, Kearney muttered
'"That is better for him than praying
and then: Howard can beat me praying
any way"
OF Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, it
said that she is ruddy faced, with pro
fusion of gray hair, and somewhat stou
in figure. One summer Mr. Beeche
had gone to Peekskill in advance of hi
wife, who remained in Brooklyn to sc
that the house was left in proper cond