The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-09-08
PAltAGRAPIIIC.

High living isn't killing of ma ny
people nowadays.
The money you can earn yourself
is much brighter and sweeter than any
you can get out of dead mems Golfers.
An old sport, on seeing party of
gentleman playing croquet. remarked !:
II see billiards have gone to grass"
Lord Palmerston once said, speak,
ing of the Turks, what energy can be
expected of a people with no heels to
their shoes"
Some men can sit on a candle box
and lay out the European campaign,
and tell almost everything that is to
occur in the future, except where their
next dinner is to come from.
john B. Cough used to say that it
was no: so that guilty man could not
look an innocent one in the face; he
once addressed an Audience of convicts,
and they almost stared him out of coun-
tenance.
There seems to be nothing like
faith. One of the deacOns of church
recently wrote to a friend: "We have
secured the Rev. Mr.. Smith at a salary
of 500 year, and are hoping for a
good work of grace"
According tn the San Francisco pa.
pers greater star than Adelaid Nelson
has arisen in Helena Modjeska, Count.
ess Bozenta, who performed in "'Adri.
enne Lecouvreur" at the California
theatre on the Goth inst.
"A deserted baby in Buffalo had O
peculiar nose. A detective learned
that the parents lived in Simcoe, Cana.
da, but he did. not know their names.
BE went to Simcoe, and hunted for
somebody with a nose like the baby's,
At length he met man in the street
whose nose was of that kind, and who
proved to be the baby's father
A blue pigion with red legs lighted
on steam tug on July 30, about eight
miles from Seaham harbOr, England.
Attached to its leg was piece of paper
signed 'William StOker, Quebec. Sent
up at 1915 o'clock" The bird appear
ed TO be very tired and hunary, and is
supposed to have crossed the Atlantic.
The Emperor of Austria having
been apprlsed of the exsteHce of an
Austrian military company in San
Francisco, desired them, through his
Consul in that city. to select a suita bic
uniform for its me,nbers, to be furnished
at his expense. The company accord
! inGly decided upon the uniform Of the
Imperial JaegerS Of Vienna. The EN-
perOr has been advised of their choice,
aud the complete outfit for $50 men Is
expected to arrive soon from Austria.
At Harrison county, KY, wed.
ding the bride danced several charming
reels within a circle of three feet In di-
ameter. She changed shoes once On
account of her new ones not sounding
right against the door. The prompter
gave the very unique commands during
the dance, Rock to the right, rock to
the left, grind coffee, wiring the dish
rag, rock the CRADLE" &c. AT the wind
up OF the dance the bride showed her
agility by kicking the grOom's hat of
his head.
Two more OF the few remaining
Churches built by Wren, Id London,
after the fire Of 1866, are TO be torn
down, One of them is All HaIiows,
Bread street hill, wherein John Milton
was baptized, the entry being still pre-
served In the parish register. One Of
the curious monuments In the city
reads " In memory OF the Rev. Lau
renee Saunders, NJ. A., Rector of Ali
Hallows, Bread street, who, foz ser.
mons preached in defence Of the doc.
trlnss OF the Reformation of the Church
OF England from the corruptiOns OF the
Church OF Rome, suffered martyrdom in
ye thlrd OF Queen Mary, being burned
az Coventry, February ye Sth, 1868. 4"
The other Is st. Dionis Backchurch in
Fenshurch street. Il contains monu-
lneht OF Thomas Rowinsou, the anti.
quaiy' the sale of whose library oecu-
pied twenty-five weeks.