The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-03-03
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BRIEFLETS.

-Canada and Norway ship poultry
In large quantities to London.
Gold mining Is reviving in New
Zealand, and the yield is increasing.
Rather heavy dish: A pig of
iron.
1T Is poor lathe that knows no
turning.
"A matrimonial wreck-A hulk of
a husband.
Why is F like cows tail? 1t Is
at the end Of beef.
Piece makers - Steam, suhpu Wder
and nitro. glycerine.
How to take life easy-Be careless
with petroleum oil.
When mother. in-laws fail out, then
we get at the family facts.
When is a doctor most annoyed ?
When he is out of patients.
The motto of the Chinese face Il
mo chin chin" 1t is good motto
fol any one.
Mot lost, but gone before p ex-
claims the man when his hat blows off
and ahead of him.
"A smart schoolboy says It takes
thirteen letters to spell COW, and proves
1t thus "See o double you"
"A cast-iron grandmother is not
a term of reproach, but only a new ma.
chine for darnlng stockings.
Mrs. PartingtOn, reading the strike
of the wire drawers, remarked: "Ah,
me what new'fangled things won't they
wear next 9"
"A young lady sent poem to a
paper, entitled, II cannot make him
SMILE" The editor thinks she could n
she had sent him the poem.
Efforts are being made to estab.
lish retreat for insane women in
Brooklyn.
1t is asserted in San Francisco that
rev census Of that city will show
that 1t has population of 300, 900.
The old mans toast "It's hard
to keep your sons 10 check while they'rq
young; it's harder to keep them in
checks when they grow older"
"A malignant type of scarlet fever
Is raging at Peru, III. Children who
have been attacked with it have died
before physician could reach them.
An affecting ceremony was recent.
ly witnessed at Green Island, N. It..
where the members of hose comnanv
turred out In a body to attend the oh.
sequles of pet dog.
-'1'm saddest when I sing - can,
Sunday evening warbler. And soss
tho whole neighborhCOdP' rOard an un.
musical voice from the street.
"A correspondent writes asking for
"a remedy for an apple.tree worm -
How can we prescribe until we know
what is the matter with the worm.D
--"Ho all ye dyspeptics p saws
patent medicine advertisement, fall
the dyspeptics would hoe regularIv
their number would be reduced ama1,
ingly.
And old lady from the rural die,
trlcts astonished a clerk in one of the
stores few days ago by lnquirinp II he
mad any "yaller developments, sich as
they did up letters in.
-A"Horse Thief Detecting Societv,n
lately organized in Orange county. N
T., has President three Vice Pres.
ldents Treasurer, a Secretary. and
an Executive Committee OF twenty.two.
The Russian legation in Washington
costs the ST. Petersburg Governments
annually about S3l 200. The ANIMAL
cost OF the Russian legation in Constan.
400. 20 '0''-
The early thaw has stopped loo.
gin cuisines throughout the WIscoS.
sin pineties, and no more work will Ina
done this winter. Comparatively few
logs are cut. which the lumber men
think will insure higher prices and bet'
ter work next winter.
The general stagnatlon of businass
and want of employment in the Dis.
trlct OF Columbia is shown by the fact
that there are, in the hands of tbs
Marshall of the District, probably as
many rs three hundred letters fron,
persons asking to BE- put on the inrins
or the courts, in order that thsv NAV
earn something for the support of their
families.
"A Mr.. Woodruff, OF IndlanapoIis
VINO has long been arranging Tor a
grand excursion around the world nm.
nounces that he has secured the re-,
CURED number OF excurSionlsts. and
WIN oe ready TO set sail next autumn.
His scheme is to take sixty persons at
S4jOO each. lie is to furnish the y.s-
Sell provisions, &c, aud conduit In,
excursion for two years.
The Charleston Courier savs,
Darlington county, WhittemOre,s
camping ground, is reported 10 be In 4"
deplorable condition. InUendiarv Ara
are OF almost nightly occurrence. and
murders bid fair to become as oammon
as ordinary thefts used to be. Tbs
people of the county have no eonfdsnac
IN the courts. A plea of guilty is hare
a criminal. VI
The Legislature Of the Isle M Nra,
has set itself to work to preserve /"
go6 d condition The many interrstins
early monuments" which .bat isIsmd
contains. An English journal saws
that, IN the discussion Of the subject
some interesting speeches were mad
ahd THE great necessity" of seeurin,,
the preservation of all the ancient mon
uments OF the Island was 'clearIy
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