The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-02-10
BRIEFLETS.

vertised for gatekeeper, received in
one week 900 answers.
There are said to be IT'S applicants
for the first vacancy that may occur in
the police force of Richmond, Va.
"A town clock, the irst on Mt. Leb-
anon, Syria, is about to be placed in
the front wall of the Protestant Church
at Zaleh.
The four-hundredth anniversary of
the introduction of printing into Eng
land is to be celebrated in London next
June.
There we're 400 cases of small pox
reported in Pittsburg during the yrar
1876, and 1OS cases for the first 26 days |
OF January, 1877.
In Texas, by new law, physi- |
clans must pass an examination in all |
branches of their science before they |
can collect their bills.
The San Francisco newspapers are
now crying aloud for street sprinklers,
and talking Of impeaching their alder
men for letting the dust accumulate,
"A New Hampshire woman received
the other day $4708 as damages for iu-
juries received from on icice falling
upon her head from the defendants
building.
"A statuette of Theodore Parker
has been given to the Cary Library, at
Lexington, Mass, the base of which is
made from the wood of the old church
belfry.
-Worcester's well-knowD series of
Dictionaries have been purchased by
j. b. Lippincott n Co., of Philadelphia
and will hereafter be issued in much
more improved styles.
Rain, formally very rare in lower
Egypt, has become frequent in
Alexandria and Cairo, in consequence
OF the extensive planting of mulberry
In that vicinity.
The new judicial system of Grsat
Britain proves to be a failure in one re-
spect at least, the number of cases in
chancery awaiting decision the present
month being nearly double what they
were two years ago.
Each of the members OF the senior
class at Trinity College, Hartford,
Conn, is obliged to write poem of
one hundred lines, and one Of the sub.
ieCts which has been given Is "The
Bennett May duel"
1t has been decided in a British
Common Pleas, following a Queens
Bench decision two years ago, that the
receiver Of a telegram canUot maintain
an action against the telegraph compa.
ny for mistake in its transmission.
Mrs. Lena Orton, of LanesvilIe
Conn, in order to prevent quarrels a
mong her heirs after death, has adopted
the expedient of dividing large par
Of her property among them. She has
already distributed in this way more
than one hundred and forty Thousand
dollars.
o.. Among the appointment arrivals
at Rochester, N Y, is the man whit
barely escaped Ashtabula, just misse(
Angola, was train behind the Carr
Rock affair, had started to the Brooklyn
Theatre that night, just left the powde
mill at Troy, and was on his way t,
the Glen Cove starch factory.
The cathedral at Rheims is to b
restored by the French Government
which has begun with an appropriation
of 100000. The stained glass win
dows, dating from the Thirteenth cen
tury, and the organ, placed in it il
1481, are still in an excellent state 0
preservation. Charles X was the las
French monarch crowned there.
There is family at Newport @
which the members are constantly
quarIeling, and one OF the incentives t
fhatr do 10 ha nf hn
sionOf the body ofthe father, which has
in consequence, been moved back an
forth between two graves in cemeter
at Newport several times during tn
last year.
The ewes of San Joaquin Valley
CAL, are refusing to suckle their liant
large numbers of which, the Sacramer
to Bee says, are dying. Herders an
farmers think this portends sever
drought, and that the beasts have a
instructive knowledge that there is
be short crop of food, and thus say
themselves the trouble Of fruitlessl
rearing their young only to die of star
atom,
-After.dinner orator, quoted
Judy "Its the wonderful insight il
ter 'uman nature that Dickens gets u
pull over Thackery; bnt on t'other har
it's in tee brilliant shafts of satir
t'gether with keen sense O. humO
that Dickery gets the pull over Thacl
ems. It's just this, Thickery is the h
mOrist and Dackens is the satris
But, after all, it's 'bsurd to instOot al
comparison between DaCkery al
Thckens." so none were ."instoOted'
"A snow storm such as has not o
CURED in the memory of man began {
the 10Th of December, in Scheswi
Jutland, the Danish Islands and Sw
den and Norway, and continued Il
Christmas. During all this time tray
by ordinary roads and by railway W
greatly impeded, and finally at maI
places suspended, and the steamboa
between Copenhagen and Stockhol
were obliged to discontinue their tri
for some days. On the Danish Sta
railways the snow lay twelve feet de
between Fredericia and Aarhus, fOu
teen feet deep between Aarhus a
Randers and Randers and Aalborg, a
savantepn feet deem at VandVssel