The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-02-03
BRIEFLETS.


been established In Brazil since 1859.
Only nine Of Pittsburg's nineteen
wlndow glass manufactures are in op- |
peration.
Very few people succeed in getting |
on the windward side of coal ash sieve. |
The Maine prohibitionists are en-. |
deavoring to pass through the State
Legislature hill which classes cider q.
mong intoxicating drinks.
Chinese immigration has fallen off |
at San Francisco very rapidly. the de-
partures exceeding the arrivals during
December by over 600.
A lazy fellow, falling distance of
hfty feet, and escaping with only a few
scratches, a bystander remarked that
he was "tUo slow to fall fast enough to
hurt himself"
"A man in New Orleans advertises
that he will give tuition ia law, religion
and Journalism, fitting "anybody to be-
come an able lawyer, clergyman or ed
itor in one year.
DR. Peterman, the eminent German
geo2rapher, has received a grant of
SlOO,OOO from the Portuguese Govern
ment to aid him in exploring the inteTi-
or of Africa BY way of Congo river.
-BaToness Burdett Coutts Appeals to
English ladies, calling attention to the
stagnant condition of the ribbon manu-
facture, and urging them to substitute
Ribbon for feather decorations in ladies'
bonnets, thus preventing the cruel ex
tlnctlon of several species Of beautiful
plumaged birds.
The annual report of the inebriate
asylum at Binghamton, New York,
states that, from May 1st, 1867, to
December 3lst, 1876, 2065 patients
were treated. More than one-half Of
these were Permanently cured The
receipts during the year, inclusive of
cash on hand, amounting TO about $1,000
were SAB, ia 55; the expenditures,
S3S,ol9 G3; cash on hand, 1895 90.
The survey OF western Palestine is
to be completed this season by the Ex-
ploratlon Society. Lieut.. II. II Ktch-
ner, with four non-commissonpd ofli.
GERS will lead the expedition. The
northern portion of the Holy Land, In.
cluding Galilee, will be surveyed. ia,
coos Well will be cleared and restored,
and the exploration of two sections
further south will be completed.
One of the latest Partisan toys is
called the Eastern Question" 1t Is
a steel crescent, around which hang
certain number of rings strung to-
gether. The problem Is to bring order
out of confusion, but the more one tries
to arrange them the graeter is the con.
fusion. In the end the toyseller de-
yides the crescent into several piece,
and the rings arrange themselves in the
simplest way imaginable.
The other day in CATALONIA, two
culprits were to be executed The frs
died instantly, but when it came to the
turn of the second the collar nf the ga
rotte, owing to the malformation Of tht
prisoners neck, would not work. Thl
executioner removed the dead nal
from the chair and tried the other cola
but the defOrmed criminal did not fit it
and after an hours cruel work he hat
to give.it up, the culprit's neck anC
throat being badly torn. The circum
stance was telegraphed TO King Alfonsl
who replied by pardoning the wretch.
-Thes'production of quicksilver il
California has increased so enOrmousl
during the past two years that II has al
tiacted the attention of all interested i
the article throughout the world. TIL
receipts for the year have been 63, ,92
and the exports 4S 010 TASKS. In ad
dition to the receipts were, probabl
about G0O0 TASKS shipped direct frol
the mines to Nevada, thus bringing Il
the total production to over 1000
TASKS, gain in rouud numbers of frol
10000 to 10, 900 TASKS over 1875. Tn
experts in 1875 were 34, ,944 TASKS, {
IL, 1866 less than 1876.
Three bank messengers have bee
robbed in Chicago during the past Sc,
eral weeks. The Chicago Tribur
says "In every case the robbery of
bank messenger may be set down to h
own carelessness or that of his emplo,
crs. Some of the messengers are me
children, that ought not be trust,
with any larger sum than the fraction
part of dollar. 1t would be cheap
TO employ messengers of responsib
age and at higher pay. The messe
gers who are robbed are generally tho
who have the cheerful habit of carr
ing their wallets In outside pockets, c
worse yet, in their hands"
"A correspondent of the Engli
Mechanic insists that musical soun
stimulate the growth of plants,
gives an Instance in point. In ba
rem section of Portugal he built smi
conservatory and endeavored TO cul
Vate roses and other flowers under sht
ter but in spite Of his precautions and
dustry, they did not flourish. One d
he took haTmonium into the gre
house, and played for several hot
The practice he maintained for sever
months, aid was surprised to see
gradual but rapid recovery to health
the part of the plants. lie atuibut
their Improvement to the influence
music, and unfOlds the theory that {
singing of birds is conducive to veg
able life.
"A factory for making butter frC
tallow has been started in ScrantC
The process has not yet been ma
public.
The saw mills Mt Lock Haven
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