The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-10-30
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VARIETIES.


sea named after him.
England pays more for clothing her
military than any of the European ma
tons.
The pay of English sailors has in
creased from $12 month in 184S to
S17 SO in 1875.
The amount of fruits of all kinds ex.
ported from California this fall is larger
than ever before.
A man in Johnstown, H., was mar
ried lately, and one hour afterward ell
oped with au old lover.
A number of old counterfeit bank.
note plates have been uneaFthed near
Jewett City, Con.
A man in Montreal murdered his own
son the other day, This Is mans in
humanity to man.
China is large buyer OF railroad
iron in the British market, and is also
trying to buy cannon at Vienna.
The various straw works in Foxbor-
ough, Mass, which have been closed
for some month, will soon resume opera
tions. ....r.
The Empress of Japan has decided on
the erection of college for young girls
who wish to devote themselves to teach.
ing. ~
Cumberland, Nd, has centenarian
in the person Of Miss Nancy Valentine,
who attained her hundredth year in,
August last.
Miss Ida Demorest, whom the Grand
Duke Alexis considered the handsomest
woman in the United States, has married
a Nebraska doctor. g ICz lgv
The st. Gathard Tunnel, through the
Alps, is to be about three thousand.
yards long and will cost SIC, ,0O0,00 in
gold. 1t is to be finished in 1880. 10,
My son, put away that ball. Do
you know where the wicked boys 60
who play ball on Sundaya" "Yes'm;
they 60 down by the fair grounds
After storm and sudden change of
temperature in Southern New Jersey,
last Saturday, large number of song
birds were found dead in Cape May
City. . ID
A hairdresser In France, has been
fined 100 francs for stealinga quantity
of hair off the heal Of young woman
who had submitted herself to his care
for party. EyIlp- -5 .l
A man in England has performed the.
wonderful feat Of riding on a 50-inch
bicycle from Tunbridge to Liverpool,
a distance of about 234 miles, in 1S
hours and 35 minutes. tt.s -aH
The trees at Galveston, Texas which
were denuded of their leaves during the
late tornado are already in full leaf, and
present spring-like appearance in their
new dress. aaAt,
Some young men in Louisville hav-
ing formed an anti-lift-your.hat-to-a-
woman society, the young ladies of the
Western city propose forming an anti>
EOw-to-a,puppy cnb. HF'
Owing to the failure OF the Gulf Ash,
cries great suffering and distress is pre-
dicted. for the coming winter, among
the scattered fishing population along
the rock bound coast of Labrador.
A lady in Batavia, N. Y, herself
years Of age, has a sister
living aged eighty one, and four BROTH
ers, who are eighty-nine, ,eighty>seven,
eighty five and eighty. three years old
.Hi.Hn rf, ,'r
a Bangor, Me-, gypsy lately swap
ped horses nine times in one day, and
when pight set in he found he had the
same horse he had swapped in the
and that he had $40 In money
and watch in addition.
Two antique chairs, one formerly in
bhe possession OF Louis XVI, and the
other brought from Venice in the seven
seenth century, were sold at Boston a
few days ago, the former for $13 go and
5he latter for SIT so.
A recent "cloud burst" in the Dale
Creek region of Arizona completely
ruined a wagon road for distance of
sixteen miles, so that it is scarcely
passable, even by parties on foot, ow-
ng to deep gullles aud enormous boul-
1ers.
The national debt OF France at the.
ast statement was 32,6e2, 500, ,O0O
francs, equal to $4, ,524 300, 900, bear -
ng an annual interest of over one
thousand million francs, equal to $780,
600, 900. 1t was slightly Increased by
he loans Of 1879 IA, but that is near
enough for comparison. The debt OF
.he United States is 81, 122, ,466, ,227, on
which the annual interest will be about
S9S, 900, 900 for the current year.