The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-03-14
Current Items.

Birds and flowers will soon appear.
Utah Territory can boast that it is
free from debt. ..'
The national sin of Americans, says
DR.. McCOsh, Is self.adulation.
There are 25, 900 women in the Iowa
oranges, each of whom is entrus ted
with vote. .,.... .........t ......
Alderman Mutually of the st. Louis
Council refers with gratitude to the fact
that he has been member of the body
for two years, and has escaped without
getting black eye. ...rl ."t #.
Mrs. Vermeul, President of the WO-
mems Temperance Society, proposes
that the ladies should labor for the
cause by conversation and otherwise,
but not exhibit themselves in grog-
geries. ar -. 1H
John Van Valkenbnrgh, of Chatham
Centre, Columbia county, is the oldest
legislator so far discovered. He served
Ia 1920, and is ninety.two years of age.
His wife Is still living, the pair having
been married for seventy-four years. '
A clerk in the uiare Island Navy
tell the commsndant how $40, 900 could
be saved in purchasing supplies for his
department. The comnandant imme-
diately began to retrench by dispensing
with the service of that clerk.
Senator Sumner has in his posses
sion gold watch whichwas presented by
Washington to Lafayette Al tel the bat
tie of Yorktown. Upon it is this in-
scrition: sc. Washington to Gilbert
Mortier de Lafayette, In commemora-
ton of the capitulaton of Lord Corn
wallis at Yorktown, Oct. IL, 1881. ..
A new "wrinkle" about the age OF
horses is the discovery Of an Illinois
farmer, who determines the age of all
animals over nine years old by the fol-
lowing novel method: After the horse
is nine years olda wrinkle comes on the
upper corner of the lower lid, and every
year thereai ter lie has one well.defned
wrinkle for every year over nine. If,
for instance, a horse has three wrinkles,
teen. Add the number of wrinkles to
nine ard you will get it. ..., .......
Patrick Kane, aged tblrty-three years,
died in Laceyyille, Pa, March 2 under
peculiar circumstances. About two
months ago he was prostrated with
typhoid fever. After six weeks his
doctor pronounced him out of danger,
and ordered him to take nourishment,
Kane, however, sent for Father Riley,
his priest, who, at Kane's request, pre-
pared him for death. Kane refused to
eat food of any kind, saying that he
was lit to die, and die he would. For
thirteen days he tasted and prayed, and
OIL Sunday died OF starvation.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the
Bo>tOn Journal of Commerce tells how
money is spent at Centennial head
quarters. thomas Webster receives
$500 a month for special literary
services, b. IL. Halnes receives $500 per
month. and William B. Robbins $3.50
for the same sort Of work, which con-
sists mainly in copying circulars. The
other benefciaries are j. K. Peyton,
who, as general visitor to different
States, gets $500; Hart, general editor,
$500 man named Blake, $500; man
named Petit, s300;i and Charles d.
Norton, $400 per month"; At this rute
II will take about the amount donated
by New Jersey TO keep these .eopyists
aud runners going until '76. Cd. i.....H
There are some funny things In the
temperance movement, In Lincoln,
Neb., the ladies invaded Major Klein
tsch's saloon about the time he usually
closed for the night. He told them TO
get out, but they wouldn't go. So hs
turned off the gas and locked them in.
The prisoners sang and prayed In the
dark, until friends came aud rescued
them by breaking In the door. A law
suit for trespass las been begun by
Klentsch, In Madison q saloon keeper
| paid fifteen dollars to father tn escape
prosecution for selling rum to his son,
a minor; hut, upon learning that the
legal penalty is only i've dollars, he
sues to recover the excess. In CalifOr-
mia a bill Is in the Legislature prohibit
| ing the sale OF liquor within one mile
OF any school. The dealers Claim that
II 1t becODes law the temperance folks
will start shrewdly. y.locatedapologies for
schools, so that virtual prohibition will
be- the result. In a late liquor raid in
Rutland, the truckman hired to cart OF
the seized goods made q private bargain
with the owner, and tookaO0ut half of
| them back TO the store after tue trouble
was over. Boston enemies OF temper
anoe say that until recently Dio Lew
let q bnilding for liquor selling, and 40
much elnted. 20 % 49,
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