The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-10-23
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| ilSltut't W Illt oClluidtS oluklu0s Oht
how love my teacher dear " There
was one boy, with voice like a torna-
| do, who was so enthusiastic that he EN-
phasized every word, and roared, 6 oh
how love my teacher dear" with a
l vim that left no possible doubt of his af-
| fection. Ten minutes after that boy
had been stood on the floor for putting
shoemaker's wax on his teachers
chair, got three demerit marks for
drawing picture OF her with red chalk
on the back of an atlas, been we'll
shaken for putting bent piu ia anoth-
| er boys chair, ,scolded for whist!ing out
loud, sentenced to stay after school for
drawing ink mustaches on his face and
blackeniEg the end of another BOYS
nose, and soundly whipped for slap
ping three hundred and thirty-nine
spit balls up against the ceiling, and
throwing one big one in girls ear.
You can't believe half boy says when
he sings"
"A Sacremanto lawyer remarked TO
the court: cit is my candid opinion,
Judge, that you are an old fool" The
Judge allowed bis mildly beaming eye
| to fall upon the lawyer brief moment,
then, in voice husky with suppressed
emotion, said It's my candid opin-
ion that you are fined $780,
"A station keeper near London re-
ceived one day box of very misteri-
ous appearance, addressed to him In
his official character. Opening it he
found healthy infant. 1t was not
his fancy to rear other peoples chill
! nj ha n ociln thn
taking pity OH the infant, and, with the
! consent of the agent determined to take
it. When the child was lifted from
its crib $500 sterling was found In the
box. The station master Immediately
became interested In the little one, but
, the humane porter declared that he was
! too late, The moral is obvious.
! The haste with which the great
powers Of Europe have recognized the
boy. King of Spain is notable, II not
remarkable circumstance. Anything
but republic for them. 1t would seem
that all the courts have had hand In
Matching this royal egg, which has
brought forth lively bantam chick.
! "A man attracted attention In Troy
Ivy his queer demeanor. He seemed to
see something interesting in the buttons
on ladies' dresses, and In several In
stances was impertinent in his close ex-
aminatious. Finally he found dress
from which q button was gone. Ia
seized the wearer pulled from his pock-
ct button, and compared it with those
left on the dress. 1t matched. She
was his prisoner. He was q detective
and she had stolen the dress.
/ That was a sensitive young female
who left her home in England to join
her lover in California, but who, on tho
way, got acquainted with another fel-
/ low and married him, She thinks her
old lover is real mean to call her false
and tickle, after she took all the trouble
to come out TO this country. How true
! it is that we do not half appreciate the
devotion of those loving creatures.
-"Oh Abe," the pet eagle OF the
! Eighth Wisconsin Regiment during the
civil war, is still alive, and domiciled as
| a pensioner at the capitol of its native
State. The bird was In nineteen pitch
ed battles and rs many as eighteen skir-
mishes, and had several feathers cut out
| of his plumage by a confederate bullet.
He would enjoy a brisk fight as well as
any soldier, and his harsh screams of
defiance az the enemy are said to have
| been often heard distinctly above tho
din of musketry aud cannon. He has
even had the honor of figuring in the
official reports of certain campaigns.
A stranger from the country Obser-
wing an ordinary roller rule on the
table, took it up, and enquiring Its use
was answered. " 1t is a rule tor coun-
ting houses Too well bred, as he
construed politeness, to ask unnecessary
! questions, he turned it over and up and
down repeatedly, and at last, in o par
oxyism of baffied curiosity, inquired,
How, in the name Of wonder, do you
count houses with this 2"
AT three O'Clock Friday morning an al
tempt was made to burn the William Penn
COlliery, at Shenandoah. Before the danes
could be extingulshed saw mlh attached to
the cO'liery was destroyed,
The foundry of ]. & NJ. Garner, at Ashland,
was burned on rhursd " night. The loss Il es.
umaled ct s5O,OO0, THIS hre puts number OF
hands out OF employment Tor the winter
The Jury in the case of Siney and Parks at
Clearhell has acquitted slney aud convicted
Parks OF riot and conspiracy. Jutge Orvis haa
sentenced Parks 20 undergo Que years i'm:
prlsOnment IN the Western PenitentlarY at hard
labor. anu TO Gay a fine OF one dol ar, with costs
OF prosecution amounting TO ABOUT $500. Parks
Ia now IN the Cleal field jail. Ills friends will
make Application for hIs pardon at the next
meeting OF the Board OF Pardons.
On Wednesday night an attempt was made
TO bura the West Brookside breaker IN SchuYI.
kill county, owned by the philadelphia and
Reading Goal aud Iron Company. The black.
smith and carpenter shops, ian house and oil
house, connected with the breaker, were de-
stroYed, but the breaker itself was saved by tho
eNertlOns of the employees. Tals portion of the
Schuylkll reRiOn has hitherto heen free from
violence and incendlaItsm.
The Cathulic Church at nOylestOwn was
robbed Of all lts sacred vessels ON Wednesday
evening OF last week
Tho notorious Madame FOrtmeyer. who
was sonsenced nj ST. Louls 70 ten years i'm.
pIlsonment IN the Missouri PennitentiAry for
malpraotice escaped from the PenitentiaTy on
"Wednesday nightly squeezing herself through
| the transOIn Of her cell
THE Pittsburg Commercial gives the follow
| ing sumnal VI the Iron business IN that neigh.
| bOrhOOd The Ormby Furnace blew In last
! THURSDAY, and "a doing a good bus ness. Tho
| Valley Furnacs,at sharon Is doing well making
a0Ont thirty TONS day OF good Bessemer hon.
| Tnc Kneel hi0ge Furnace, at Sharon 10 also
making good yield OF good iron. The rolling
mill connected ID going along steadily ana work,
/ ing no % the eYofago. WheAtlA0d 10 perfectly
/ dad In Mest Aiddosex tue furnnces are be.