The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-11-27
VARIETIES.

tAh1EllESs
-Is there q country editor In the
world who can speak favorably of new
paper and not wish it success, or say,
Here's our tsB- |" r' r,
A Lyons journal, having repeated
the very old story that the Pope in his
youth was Free Mason, has been pros
ecuted for publishing false news.
Two old GROWS which perch on tree
in Dudley, Mass, every afternoon, ana
cav until hundreds of others are col
ected, are called Moody and Sankey.
One of the Latter Day Saints has an
old Milanese dancing girl for one of his
wives, and Brigham Young's cook Is
an Italian who owns Q small harem Of
twenty-eight wives. id.ili,g
They have found a petrified Mormon
in Utah, and from the number Of dents
in the head, evidently made with o
poker and hatiron, 1t is judged he had
at least thirty three wives. m I
Mrs. Haddock, wife of Judge Had
dock, of Iowa, has been admitted to
practice in the courts Of that State. She
is in demand as an advocate In her hus.
bands court, and is reputed to be gen.
orally successfully.
The remarkable absence Of smoky
atmosphere during the Indian summer
at Omaha and other western points Is
accounted for by the fact that the to-
bacco served out to the Indians was too
poor to smoke. i4itftli9 Aro4
. A plucky woman Is Mrs. McKeen Of
Belfast, Me. Her husband, who com
manded Philadelphia vessel, dying
on the voyage to Genoa, she assumed
command. put in at Fayal and procur-
ed metallic coffin, In which she plac-
ed the remains, continued in command
to Genoa, and attended to dispose OF
the cargo.
The great astronomer of Paris, Le.
verrier, who discovered the planet Nep.
tune, which could eat up this little
earth of ours and not suffer from indi-
gestion IN consequence, has made pre-
diction which is noteworthy. It is that
the winter of 1875 76 will be uncom-
monty severe. Enormous quantities of
snow are to fall In December and Jan.
uary.
no CrHtcnoubty Vi tuc iuNontiDu
Of the pianoforte occurs next May.
There are 597 pensioners at the ia.
nous Hotel des Invalides, Paris, the
oldest Of whom Is the brave Tatin, now
90. ..l.sItfE1ll 10 Irioy
The British Admiralty Board accept
ed Krupp's offer to send them q can.
non for trial with the huge Woolwich
gun.
There are now about 1000 decked
vessels and 1900 open boats, with
AZ, 900 men, engaged In the Canadian
fishery. T.fF fpdW
The gilded youth of Paris nowadays
seem to find nothing better to do than
to quarrel and fight duels over the pave
ment nymphs of that over-gay capital.
Prince Bismark Is said to be suffer-
ing severely from intermittent attacks
of neuralgia. On days when he 10 free
from pain the Chancellor indnjges
himself in the pleasure Of the chase
and fishing. la lrr.I lOf
A petrified forest has been discover
ed In the desert OF Northwestern Hum.
boldt, about thirty miles west OF the
Black Rock range Of Mountains In Ne
vada The Centennial Commissioners
are having q section cut out and pre-
pared for the exhibition. o 1tI
All Polish landed proprietors In four
provinces have been ordered by the
Russian Government to sell 10 thelr
present holders any farms rented by
Russians, upon conditions regulated at
st. Petersburg. This, 1t Is said, villa
complete the improvishment Of the To-
cal Polish nobility. tVr
A drupkard who was to have Q I'M
ger amputated in the presence of al
bany Medical College students, by DIR.
Armsby, died under the influence OF
chloroform /; and the surgeon says that
in nearly every recorded Instance OF
death from an an@sthetlc the patient
was addicted TO int0xication,
In the pocket of man who was kill
ed while drunk In o Cincinnati gamb-
ling house was found the following
memorandum TOOK my last spree
May the IS, 1875. Five rules from this
date. First-Is TO never eat out three
meals a day. Second-Is never TO eat
anything between meals. Third-ls
to eat as little as l can every meal
Fourth-Is never 10 drink any Kind OF
intoxicating drinks. Fifth lis never
TO use any tobacco"
A drag driven by an elegantly at.
tired lady, and With trim and neatly
dressed colored boy perched on the foot.
mans seat behind, was passing through
the streets, when 1t was espled by an
old negro woman. "Bress de Lord, -
she exclaimed, raising her hands as she
spoke, "Bress de Lord, never spec
ted to see dat. Wonder what that cul.
lud young gemmen pays dat young
! white oman for drivin' dat kerridge
, ! know'd it'd COME, bat never ,speet ed