The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-05-22
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was BoiuS Ny WhCh bCHllcLudu slcp
ped out and said to her: 'IIow'd do?"
extending his h and and smiling cheer
fully. 81 beg PARDON" said she, look
ing hard at him, "you have the advan.
tage of me-" "Why, don't you know
me?" he asked, amazed. ~ can't re.
member YOU" she said. "Why,
used to be your husband-John Au-
gustus Henderson, you know" She
remembered him. .-Danbury News.
The Rev. Esau Burden, o negro
preacher in Charleston, S. c., adopted
novel but effective way of raising the
money to bury dead parishioner.
Laying five-dollar bill OIL his pulpit
desk, he said: "Who'll cover that?" A
brother walked up and put down bill
of like denomination. The clergyman
then spread out two.dollar bill and re-
peated the question, "Who'll cover
that?" and somebody responded. So
he went on with decreasing amounts
until, displaying ten cents, he shout
ed; "Now for the Sunday school chill
dren-Which Of the lambs will covef
that?"
At the Frome Petty sessions in Eng
land, the other day, Major Wickham
and Mr.. George Wood Sheppard SEN
fenced Sarah Beachim, an old woman,
66 years of age, to fourteen days i'm
prisonment with hard labor for stealing
a halfpennyworth of coal belonging to
the managers of Trinity School, Frome.
The only witness called was q police
man, who said he saw the prisoner
come out of an iron gate leading to the
street with the coal in her possession
wrapped ia paper, but he could not say
that she came from the school house.
The Superintendent of Police said he
knew nothing against the woman. The
dung heap in the yard adjoining the
S school. She had been employed for tie
last twenty six years in cleaning out
5 the school every day. The old woman
/ seemed staggered at the sentence, and
It left the court crying bitterly.
: A moving tail-a hungry dogs.
II Between two evils choose neither.
u The end of everything letter G
is Can you spell consent in three letters
% Yes.
@ ie Even the LATEST BOY can sometime
ie catch whipping.
Sc How much does fool weigh gener
~ ally2 A simple ton.
NO The only suits that last longer thai
of you want are law suits.
O. Title for a fve-eent saving bank til
ne St. Nickleus.-Mail.
10 As twice e,eyen are twenty-five, ho'
n can twice ten be twenty, too.
or With care man can walk uprightll
70 One who is on the alert will not |
of found on the orange peel-Mail.
- 81 am bound to have my rights" ;
he the man said to the shoemaker who ha
ses sold him pair of boots, both lefts.
he Enterprise. The Chicago Times so
,o ol twenty thousand extra copies on Il
lie strength of the editors going to jail.
st. When Agassiz was pressed to deliv
ian a lecture for pay, he replied; II cam
an, afford to waste my time for money"
,ho What is the difference between
,an ellie and a burglar? 4 he belle CARR
of false locks, and the burglar false key
hat Love is sed tn be blind, but l RnC
a Iuu lots of phellows in love who can S
Of twice as much in their gals as can
ter Josh Billings.
as Story, the sculptor, is making Sc
INV INV sation in Florence, Italy, by his i'm p
of sonation of Shylock, who was a,,u
who ler.-Mail. ys1 "a .-a
OF A gentleman observing the sign
ahu iuht "Caswell" upon business establis
,er- ment, remarked that it would be 4
into well without the C.'-Alall.
nc nc "Is this the Adams House?" asked
uses stranger of a BOstonian. "Yes," ,
,me. the reply, ''it's Adams House until
was get to the roof, then it's caves"
aud .. ,.r..
was They wondered at the short col
chill tions in Missouri church, and inv
are tigated to find that one Of the collee
p''~ had tar in the top of his hat. =
A traveller called for mint-sauce q
rvv hotel the other day. and the waiter
ITEp that they had none, adding; "our c
NJ, makes all the minee into pies,
,hool sauce"
X ,picn ~ Why call him the "groom" as e
nfor. out of ten people do? A groom's |
/. 1t ness is to look after horses. A bri,
g the groom's busi ness is to look after
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