The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-05-08
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louisville April 2I.- BY the explosion
of coal oil lamp, the house of Mrs.
Rachel Haley, below Mount Carbon,
was destroyed by fire last night. Mrs
IIaley's body was found in a room burn
ed TO crisp.
The Lackawanua & Bloomsburg Rail-
road bridge across the Susquehauna at
Plttston, has been rebuilt, and the FIRST
train passed over 1t Monday, "a,
San Francisco had a spelling match,
in which the worst speller was to have
the prize, which was copy of Josh
Billings book Virtue" was one of
the words given out, and the man who
spelled it "Beechertllton"', was awarded
the prize.
We see it stated, in the fashionable
intelligencer," that 'ladiesf are going
to wear their hair this season as they
did three hundred years ago" We
had no idea that there we're any euch
old ladies about. rN+f
An Atchison, Kan, girl ate four
pounds of wedding cake in order that
she might dream of her future husband.
And now she says that money wouldn't
hire her 10 marry the man she saw in
that dream. 'N's .'. t'.i .3F '"
There was once a Pennsylvania leg
islator who laid by thirty. thousand
dollars in one session. When he was
asked how he managed this with sal
ary of one thousand dollars, heisaid he
saved it by doing without a hired girl.
a Chicago court room was lately en-
livencd by the presence of bushing
young lady, who appeared before the
court to sustain a petition for the
restoration of seven love letters,a glove,
a curl, and a ribbon, which she had
given to the defendant during an en-
gagement Of several months. She
didn't get them, though. 50" 'I.'t
When a young man in Patagonia falls
in love with girl, he dosen't visit her
six nights in a week and twice on Sun
day, and feed her upon molasses candy
and gum drops, and sit up until two
o'clock in the morning burning the old
mans oil, and that sort Of thing. Not
at all. Courtship in Patagonia is much
more simple. lie lassoes the girl,
drags her home behind his. horse, and
that is all the marriage ceremony nee
essary, '''i 800 .aI W'f1 --'.
The Vallejo (Californla) Chronicle
relates the following incident of the re-
revival Low in progress at that place,
conducted by the Rev. Mr.. Hammond:
Last Thursday evening Mr.. Hammond
preached from the text, "Saul, Saul,
why presecutest thou me?" In the au-
dience there was an engineer named
Saul, who was accompanied by his wife
and little girl. The reverend gentle
man repeated his text several times,
"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"
At last the little one, who thought that
the text had personal application,
looked up into the face of her parent,
and said, "Father, don't mind him ;he's
drunk" l1' -..
"NoT THE RIGHT "ScENTIN' STUFF"
"A long lean, guant Yankee entered
drug store, and asked; " Air yeow
the drugger ?"
"Well, suppose SO I sell drugs,
'Wal. hev lyou any Nv this here
scentin' stuff as the gals put on their
! handkerchers.?" ...a.I. 6,
"oh, yes" .a IA
"Wal. our Sal is goin to be married,
an she gin me a ninepence and told me
to invest the whole amount in scentin
stuff, so as to make her sweet, if could
find any to suit; so if you've mind
I'll just smell around" .ns..I .l
The Yankee smelled around without
being suited, until the druggist got
tired of him, and, taking down a bottle
of hartshorn, said
tive got a scentlng stuff that will
suit you. A single drop on your hand
kerchief will last you for weeks, and
you can't wash it out but to get the
strength of it you must take a big smell. I"
els that so misther? Wal, Just hold
on q mint, till get my breath, and
when ] say, Meow you put it under
my smelers."
The directions we're of course. fol-
lowed, and the Yankee was nearly
knocked off his pins5 but recovering
Himself he exclaimed;
"Chain lightnin'l Mr.. Drugger i,
the top Of my head on Sal don't want
nothn' Ike that I; it would break up a
camp meetln' in ten minnits. Yon amt
got the right kind a. scaptin' stuff -