The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-10-10
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Ministers of the interlor-the cook
and the doctor.
Candy shops adjacent to schools re.
port brisk fall trade.
-"High, bold and flaring," is what
they say of the new bonnet.
Now the Sultan of Turkey "wishes
he was dead" DR.. Mary Walker is
there.
The worlds memory is short. 1t
will forget you if you do not jog it fire.
quently.
The pillows in the Duluth Hotels
are so large that travellers can hardly
pocket them.
Josh Billings says: "Tew enjoy
good reputashun, Civ publicly and steal
privately"
The "Richmond Enquirer" has
"Letter from Louisa" every week. She's
courthouse.
An exchange asks: "Where does
the cotton go?" We know where a
good deal of it goes, but don't like to
tell.
The odor Of Brooklyn sanctity is so
strong that when the wind is from the
East, New Jersey people shut down
their windows.
"A Delaware man lost his wife and
race-horse by the same stroke Of
lightning, aud lie tried for two hours to
revive the horse.
Napoleon ". is cultvating a very
lovely moustache, and this gives the
American girls who have seen it some-
thing to dream about.
The Shakers of New York, number
eighty less than two years ago, and
they've got to throw away their single
bedsteads or become an extinct sect.
One of the meanest things small
boy can do is to put tacks in the chairs
when he knows that a young man Is
coming to call on his sister that evening.
-"Lord, what q cow!' was the ap-
proving remark of teetotal judge Of
Vermont after swallowing potent
punch, which had been offered to him
as glass of milk.
.-''Do you know your good pastors
chief end and aim?" asked New York
Suuday.school teacher of her favorite
pupil. eyes" replied the sagacious
child, "to get his sermons printed in the
papers,
"A Snowman whose notices called
for few fat boys to "feed his canni-
balls" received card from man say
ing that he couldn't spare his boys, but
he had a good "stall-fed mother-in-law"
that he thought would suit.
"A minister approached mischiev-
Gus urc hin about twelve years old, and
laying his hand upon his shoulder, thus
addressed him: "My son, believe the
devil has got hold Of you" 81 believe
he has; too" was the significant reply
of the urchln.
General Sherman won't talk about
the Presidency, but interviewers still
keep calling upon him, owing to bad
habit he has fallen into of asking, with
thoughtless generosity, as soon as a re-
porter shows himself, "Young man,
will you take brandy or grasshopper
juice?"
"A hasty man, with his arms full Of
his wite's baggage, thought he was left
by the train last night, and running
rapidly across a platform, fell over a
truck He straddled one of the handles
and rode it for second, ,lunged forward
and got his legs tangled up In the cross
pieces, when the malicious thing reared
upand slid forward just tenough TO throw
the man off his balance and get him
down; he blacked his eye and broke his
spectaeles against the handle, and ran
over his foot with the wheels, and even
after he got away from it and was seat"
ed in the car, he says the truck ran after
him and kicked him twice in the ribs
before the brakeman could take it away
from him.
-"What is bull-head luck?" asks
Kentucky paper. Twisting mules
tail and getting away from his heels
without being kicked comes near enough
to answer the question.
"A circus lion is roaming around
Weston, Missouri, and people have a
good excuse for remaining away from
prayer meetings.
Common sense-Pennies.