The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-28
PARAGRAPHIC.
There are fifty, species of owls.

OF rallf0auI WIFI several u6W llueS uu-
der way.
One million bushels of peanuts,
valued at 100000 arrived in New
York city last year.
Five head of cattle on q farm in
Early county, Ga, were recently killed
by one stroke of lightning.
Michael Reifsnyder, aged 90 years,
and the oldest citizen of Berks county,
died at Reading on Thursday.
The New York Herald, to keep
abreast with the times, puts it thus:
"Fine promises olemargarlne no pars-
nips !"
BY the will of Charlotte Harris,
who died few days ago, the Charles
town Branch of the Boston Public Lii
brary will receive $4,000.
Boston can boast lower percent
age of moisture in the air than any
other place in New England, according
to the observation of the signal corps.
Edwin Booths is one of the half
dozen names which appear on the list
of contributors to the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre at Stratford. His
subscription is $500.
The tree under whose branches the
BlacBhawk massacre occurred, years
ago, is still standing in Chicago, and it
is now proposed to enclose it in a fence
and preserve ii.
The New York Tribune complains
that the dangerous habit of sleeping on
the roofs of houses is frequently in
dulged in at present by the poorer
classes of that city.
The promoters of the Liberian
emigration scheme claim to have enroll
ed the names of 80, 900 colored persons
in the State of South Carolina who con-
sent to emgrate.
Tho new German University es-
tablished at Strasburg has about 700
students, those of theology being the
fewest, numbering only 40, against 10
in medicine, and a still larger number
in philosophy.
Some idea of the value of the oldest
printed books may be formed from the
fact that the contributions to the CaX-
ton exhibition sent from Earl Spencer S
sured for $4,000 ... .
Permission is to be given to French
soldiers in future to wear spectacles, as
in the German army. Medical men
have urged upon the Government that
good glasses greatly ease sight, and
even strengthen it.
-Ofthe twenty-thre persons who
left New Haven, Conn, for the Black
Hills last March, all have returned ex-
cept three, and a majority of the party
lost all their money, and had to tramp
part of the way home.
According to the Chairman of the
Grand Trunk Railway that road has
lost $4, 100000 in two and a quarter
years from competition, and railways in
America have lost $4,000, 600 in the
same time from the same cause.
The Madras, India, famine has
brought curious misfortune in its
train. There are scarcely any leeches
to be had, the tanks from which they
are generally obtained having all run
dry. Patients cannot be bled, and the
despair of the doctors is agonizing.
fish-wOrm is announced, and hereafter
the poor, unotfendiug sucker and cat
fish, like their hitherto less fortunate
brethren, the trout and the pickerel, are
destined to fall victims to their mis-
placed confidence in the honesty Of
man.
California sent abroad 301 cargoes
of wheat and flour during the year end
ing June 80, valued at $l9, APT 800. 1t
would have been even better yet, how
ever, except for the war advance in
wheat, which stopped the export en-
tirely during May,
1t is reported that the Southern Pa
citic Railroad Company have engaged a
quarter of million eucalyptus trees.
The company will plant the trees along
the line of their track, and will use the
timber, when sufficiently grown, to re.
place the ties as they wear out,
Large numbers of persons from al
parts of the country are attending the
Gospel Camp Meeting" of tie WO-
mems National Christian Temperance
Association, now being held at Ocear
Grove, N. j. The presence of Franci.
Murphy. the temperance reformer, is
prominent feature of the meeting.
John Texter, who farms 1,9Ol
acres in Berks, Lebanon, and Lanca ste
counties, Pa, with extensive crops {,
harvest, does not own a moving anC
reaping machine, but cuts his gras
with scythe, and grain with the sickl,
and cradle. He and his son are old
fashioned in every respect.
The Emperor of Russia has beel
leading a very simple life at Ploiesti
He worked without ceasing, signin,
hundreds of documents daily. Ever,
document must be read over to him, TO
he will give no signature which i
merely mechanical. To the entreatie
of his servants to take things nor
easily he has always the same answer
Il am neither old enough nor i'll enougl
to relieve myself from my obligations.
The Gar reached his fifty. ninth yea
on the 23d of June. His dinner
served regularly at 12 o'clock noon
after which he takes a drive, usual
with the Crown Prince.
The Mussulmaus of India are he