The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-01-23
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A Scolchman, so years old, and near
ly deaf was natural zrd recently in Kay,
sville, Utah, the Judge descending to
shout his interr1gatories into the old
mans ear. When asked if he intended
to obey the laws, lie answered, in his
native Scotch dialect, that lit wlsna
worth while for him to dae otherwise
moo "
While Sarah Clark and Julia Thom-
son of Omaha were engaged in kicking
at mark III a barn the other day, their
feet at the same instant caught undrra
board that sprang away from the beam
to which it was nailed, and there they
were obliged to stand until their cries
brought help. The board that held
them was five feet and seven inches
from tie floor, and old Omaha sports
say that not Il nan in the State could
kick higher.
A bibulous gentleman went home
New Years about ten o'clock, after
making Sundry calls, and feeling rath-
er ",!iScOuraged," thought he would
walk up and down the street awhile to
cool off b fore meeting his better half.
The air was very thin and insinuating,
but he stood it for an hour, when lie
screwed up his courage, and, half fro
zen, entered his domiclle. His remarks
We're more empathic than otherwise
when the servant informed him that
his wife had gone out 10 spend the eve
ming and would not return until mid
night.
Allen, the Vermont burgular, made
Showed attempt to escape from the
Chelsea jail, the other night, by rig,
ging up dummy" in sitting pos
ture upon his beu and apparently read
ing newspaper and fixing its les so
that it logged quietly up and down.
The officer who came to lock the pIso.
ners up at night asked if everything
was right and voice said it was IL,
locked the door and went into the cell
above, when he saw some one going n.
long the walk, and running out caught
Allen, whom lie sup osed he had lock-
cd in his cell. The leg OF the dummy was
operated by string which passed into
the cell above, the occupant of which
worked to all Allen in his escape,
while the answer to the officers ques>
ton was mad through the ventilator.
Rev. DIR. Rogers, in his Thanksgiv-
ing sermon, said: Had Governor
Peter MinutS been told that this n. Y.
island, which in 1926 he purchased from
the Ildians for the sum of S24, would,
in two hundred ani fifty year., be worth
IN real and personal property, the as
founding sum of more than one thou
sand millions of dollars, he would have
probably considered it better invest.
mant than it appeared to be then. And
yet strange to say, such Is the law Of
lhe Increase of money, that if This S24
had been invested on compound inter-
est at that time, and had doubted Itself
in every ten years, aud been subject to
no loss,s nor deductions, il woald have.
approXimatrd, the entire value of the.
real and personal properly of K,nAat-
tan Island to day"
In connection with the visit of tho
King of the Sandwich Islands to this
country,the announcement will be read
with special interest, that monument
has recently been erected on one of the
Islands, TO the memuTy OF Captain Cook.
who was Killed by the savage uf . Yny-
Ire, Hawaii nine y.iiyr years ayo. TIA
ceremony took place ou the l4Lh Nav.
n the presence of Major WudeEou,e'
,he English Commissioner, and tha can
ain Of the Scout. The monument is an
,bslisk twenty-five feet Ugh, AMI noun
ed on a base eight feet square. IL
iears the following inscriptions: "In
II 'mnry OF the cIrcImnaWgator, Can.
AIN James Cook, R. N, who discoy-
red these islands on tne 18th of Jan.
ID, l7I5, and fell near this spot on
he l4th of Feb, a. ID. l770. TINS
monument was erected In Nov, A, ID.
S74. by some of his fellow country.
men," 1t Is erected on suitable spot
bout one hundred yards from the rock
a which the captain fell.