The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-01-13
VARIETIES,

"A "coal oil famine is predicted
by our up-country exchanges
Rents are to be reduced 20 per cent
in Easton for the present year.
There are forty-eight millions Of
dollars In the Brooklyn savings banks.
Italy now possesses 1925 perlodi- |
cal publications, including 3S7 diurnals. !
Oranges on the tree bring but 8
cent apiece in Tampa county, Florida.
It is now proposed, in New York,
to establish a reading club for ladies'.
The graduates Of Yale College liv-
ing in Buffalo have formed an associa-
tOn.
AT dolls fair in Chester, Eng
land, 2700 wax and china beauties were
exhibited.
There are 14,007, 500 children Of
school age In the United States and
Territories.
Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume Of the week.
-LOngfeliow.
Bethlehem makes her tramps earn
their lodging by cracking stone In the
public highway.
Every Norwegian girl must be able
to bake bread and to knit stockings be-
fore marrying.
The cigar stores of Reading contain
contribution boxes fo- the reception of
aims for the poor.
Paris has 35 theatres and places Of
amusement, exclusive Of the skating
rinks and concert halls.
IA prudent man." says q witty
Frenchman, sis like q pin; his head
prevents him going too far.
Brisk times ahead The ladies OF
Grand Rapids Mich, are taking lessons
in physical culture.
Several British publcans have been
fined under the AduteratlOn act, for
selling gin extended" with water.
Troy N, Y, the centre OF the linen
collar trade, boasts Of SO collar and
shirt manufactures and 10 lAundries,
all in full operation.
Detroit, suffering from the frozen
up condition of her river, now proposes
tunnel under 1t, to be completed be-
fore another winter season sets in.
"A boy who keeps his honor bright,
however poor he may be in the worldly
things, is an heir to an inheritance
which no riches can buy-the choice
promise OF God.
Agricultural Hall is to be taken
apart and shipped to Spring Lake, neat
Sea Girt. Out Of its wood and glass a
hotel, a railroad depot and eight cot
tages are to be built.
London has women's book bind
Ing society, with $50 members, whose
pEilanthropic object is to take care oi
that class of artisans who are Ill anG
out OF employment.
The most costly hog in the county
is owned by Brighton, Mich, man
The vOracious porker, at his last meal
devoured a pocketDOok containing $17l
In notes aud currency.
Petersburg, Va, Is becoming al
important point in the fur trade, lRrg
numbers of beaver, fox, muskrat, mink
coon and rabbit skins being distributes
there to various parts OF the country.
Few men have a strictly mathemati
cal mind, but we never knew one VIII
couldn't calculate within a sixteenth Q
an inch where his neighbours propert
began when he was shoyeling snow Of
his own sidewalk.
There are 931 Freemasons' Lodge
I'm Germany. Outside of the Empir
there are 1231lodges that conduct the
proceedings in German, Of which 80 ar
in the United States. The others al
distributed throughout the world, in
Guiding China, Turkey, and Egypt.
His Majesty the King of Dahome
bitterly complains of the stoppagc {
the slave trade. "Ilere am l." said /
to a traveller, "surroundered by hun
dreds Of slaves whom l cannot emplo
and do not like 10 kill, and you EN-
lishmen have stopped the slave trad
by which l used to get rid OF the su
plus"
News has reached England OF son
antiquarian discoveries near Madra
Fossil men, immense urns in which Il
aborignes were increamated before Il
time of the Brahmins, curious potter
ware, aud various kinds of implemen
are said to have been exhumed. SeVe
al OF the vases or urns are more thu
FIVE feet in height and possess exquisi
decoration.
The san Francisco Alta says -
conversation with sea captain, nc
in port, we learned that the ship Emt
aid (sister ship to the Amethyst, nc
In the coal trade on this coast) ma
the passage from Liverpool to Ne
York in thirteen days and few houl
fifty years ago. This has never be
beaten since, coming to the westwar
and speaks well fox the old style Of v,
sells.
"A former chaplain of the Duke
Buckingham stated at recent medic
conference in England that within /
yards of the Sailors Home at LiyerpC
there were Al public houses, and
publicans were in the habit of strewi
sawdust on the pavement in front
them and spTinkling rum over it, so Il
the smell of the spirits might dec
sailors within their doors.
An unfortunate strike Of the ca
net makers in Dublin is in danger
destroying that branch Of business,
only in the city but in ireland. ]
.u,rkt,,ay, haua haan gFrilrn