The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-02
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BRIEFLETS.

Niques."
"A Plttsburg firm has an English
order for locomotive jacket iron.
The Boston Flower Mission has be-
gun its work for the present season.
New York City has, it is said, an
excess of 10, 900 marriageable women.
Newark, N. j., has been success.
fully experimenting with street steam
cars.
Florida is not wheat country, ,but
is said to be as good corn State as Illi-
nois.
"A Hartford firm has contract to
furnish thousand dozen axes to the
Indians.
Northampton Co., Pa, will hold
its annual fair at Nazareth on the I'd of
October.
AT Lebanon, Pa, there are four
generations of the same family residing
in one house.
"A Schwetzer cheese factory is the
latest addition to the manufacturing in
terests of Reading.
1t is stated that there are at present
10000 spindles silent in the Belfast,
Ireland, linen trade district.
In the northern district of Berks
county, the wages paid labOrers barely
average 90 cents per day.
About 5000 brook trout have Just
been placed in the streams of Berks
county, Pennsylvania.
AN exchange remarks that paraso!s
n nj hra aA-
they are the more they cost.
Hope, Warren county, N. j., prdes
Itself on willow tree whose trunk is
about forty feet in circumference.
Eight hundred tons of new iron arc
to be laid along the line of the New
Jersey Southern Railroad this season.
AN exchange knowingly remarks
" 1t would be painfully silent world if
people talked as little as they thought"
In Dumfries, Scotland, the other
day, a punch bowl, once the property
of the poet Robert Burns, was sold for
ten guineas.
Atlanta, Ca, is so troubled with
false Weights and measures that a
special Government agent has been ap-
pointed to examine all in use there.
There are said to be over twenty
five thousand sheep in Amwell town.
ship, Washington county. this State.
Two thousand died there this winter.
D., The Cumberland county IN. J.J
Freeholders practice economy these
hard times, by cutting down their ad-
vertising bills and voting themselves a
sumptuous banquet.
The Chinese at the Janesburg
(Monmouth county, N. J.,) shirt fac.
tory have built a house for themselves
after a " Celestial"f model, and the
major part of them have formed d Sum
day school.
AN authentic, original painting of
Miles Standish, the redoubtable captain
of the Puritans, has just been secured
by Captain Harrison, of Plymouth,
Mass, who picked it up in second.
hand furniture store.
In Massachusetts they no longer
speak of man having white ele.
phant on his hands," they allude to
him as having = A." Hoosac Tunnel on
his hands," which, to the average
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gible.
An Adrian (Michigan) man learn.
ed a trick from Cymbeline. Desiring
to escape from his creditors, he hid
himself in trunk and had this latter
checked to neighbOrlng town. lie
was discovered just as he was being put
on the train.
Dialogue between the Sultan and
an aged officer, bent by years and long
services in the field: "Sre, l am too
worn out to re-enter the service
"That need not interfere, / will give
you a position where you will have
nothing to dol will make you pay
master.
New York street urchins are now
selling ''aligator plants" species Of
oak branch, with corrugated bark stand:
ing out all around like a series of
'angle irons" These curious twigs;
resembling in many respects little alli-
gators, come by steamer from Florida.
"A bill passed by the Missouri Eegls.
lature certainly makes serious busi-
ness of the grosshopper scoutge, aud
for the war that has been made on it
all able. bodied male persons between ~
and 60 of years age are TO be drafted for
two days in each week during the
spring months of the year, those who
refuse to respond forfeiting dollar for
each absence.
What are ye dancing around fur?"
inquired boOtblaek yesterday of boy
acquaintance whose face was covered
with SMILES, and who was executing
double shuttle. "Glory 'nuf fur one
dayr' replied the lad, jumping still
higher, Cow got into the garden this
morning and tramped every bed Hat as
yer hat, and l won't have to pull q
weed this summer"
Two Mexicans, while drinking In
shop at Alma len, CAL, began discuss
ing their claims to good birth, and final.
ly proposed to compare blood; so each
cut slightly the others hand and COM
pared their blood, all 10 friendly
spirit. A scufle for the knife, how
ever, followed, which ended in a quar-.
rel, and one of the men drew razor,
and. bending down his antagonists
head, drew the weapon across his face
twice inflictino two fearful ..ou,,d.