The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-10-20
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$50, ,199, 1926, exclusive of sinking and
literary funds.
An effort is being made In Reading
(Pa.) to establish a city park at the
head of Penn street.
THE Lancaster Examiner says the
shipping of the large tobacco crop of
Lancaster county has been begun.
The Kings County IN. " Board
of Supervisors have decided to establish
theatre for the amusement of lunatics.
The telephone is about to be intro.
duced into the coal mines at Potts Vile
as a means Of communicatin with the
outer world.
The long strike in the iron ship
building trade on the Clyde is estimated
to have cost the wOrkmel between
$780, 900 and $400,0 900 in wages lost
since April.
The Municipal Council of Paris is
said to have decided to name street of
that city the "Rue Washburne, after
the late Minister to France, Mr.. Elihu
u. Washburne.
The members of Christ Church,
Boston, the oldest church building in
the city, still use the Bible, prayer
book and silverware which were pre-
sented by King George II, in 1888.
The Pittsburg Post says the oil |
shipments from the entire regions In |
September aggregated 1857, ,359 bbls. |
These shipments were the heaviest for |
one month ever known in the trade.
1t Is estimated that over 10000 |
persons in this country are engaged in |
the keeping of bees. This includes |
farmers and others who make the pro.
duction of honey portion of their Oc-
cupation.
The solution of the tramp question
In Bridgeport, Conn.,, is to build cheap
lodging house, where tramps may get
breakfast, for which they shall pay by
breaking stones for two or three hours.
"A hundred stone cutters left New
York City last Wednesday for England.
They are engaged to work on the new
Law Court buildings in London. One
hundred more will leave some time next
week.
The rage of the moment iu Paris is
for Japanese jewelry. Fancy jewelry
of olive brown metal, with designs in
gold, chatelaine vinaigrettes. belt buck
les, agraffes for cloaks-i word
everything Is Japanese.
After the recent cyclone in the
Gulf of Mexico the beach, near Calves
ton, Texas. was strewn with human
bones washed up by the waves and sup.
posed to have been the remains of the
persons lost with the City of Waco.
The physicians and surgeons of the
Massachusetts General Hospital have
awarded the Warren prize of $400 to an
essay on the "H Healing of Arteries after
Litigation" by DR.. E. o, Shakespeare,
of Philadelphia,
The Los Angeles (Cal.) Express
explains that the word hOodlum comes
from the wharf robbers cry of "hud-
die EN-" meaning that the police are
near, and that the plunderers should
seek their rendezvous and lie low.
The workmen engaged in repairing
the front Of the Florence CalheGral re-,
Gently, in removing a thick coating OF
plaster at one of the coTnOrs of the
building, made the discovery of seven
marble statues, pronounced by conois'
seurs to be the best peric d of Greek art
The Mississippi planters have form
ed combination against the merchants
who furnish them supplies in advance
of their crops. The merchants charge;
fifty per cent. profit, and give credit fol-
year. They claim that their expen
ses and losses reduce the profit to ffteeT
per cent.
Hon. John Davis, who snt as {
Representative in Congress from thu
Bucks county district from 1889 to 1S41
and was Surveyor of the port of Phila
delphia under President Polk is living q
Dayisville, Bucks county, in the 90tl
year of his age, and his mental activity
Is still remarkable. He is the father o
General w. w. II. Davis, the we'll
known editor of the Doyelstown Demo
erat.
-"Slmplicity" is the title OF an as
ISOLATION of ladies Just formed in Leip
sic. The Objet of this association is t
promote simplicity in dress, and /
make war upon luxury. Member
must pledge themselves not to have an
trains nor false hair, nor to wear tu
niques, pOlonaises or other frivOlities
The dresses must be plain, and only
simple embroidery or trimming at th
end Of the costume is permitted,
AT the Queen of England's draw
Ing room receptions three white feath
ers must adOrn the hair of the marie
lady, and two that of an unmarrie
lady. Peeresses and their daughter
are kissed on the cheek by the Queen
but other ladies Of less "high degree
Kiss Her Majesty's hand. The Prince,
OF Wales sometimes takes the Queen
place at these drawing rooms"
which case the kisses are dispense
with.
Ellen Larrabee, an Illinois farm
er's daughter, just missed becoming
heroine, Seeing her fathers barn {
FIRE, she got a pail of water, ran /
wards the blaze and-fainted on Il
way. The barn was DESTROYED, al
her father, rating her intentions by Il
slow standard OF her failure warm,
her shoulders with a strap.
Extensive preparations are beir
made In Chicago for grand exhlbitiC
OF American and Canadian dairy pr
ducts, to be held in that city in Decer