The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-07-07
BRIEFLETS.


-" Cantbustem Is the name of
| New York shoemaker.
Men whose business drives them to
the wall-bill.posteFs.
AN Atlanta Methodist Clergyman ii
policeman oh Week days.
The wife of Gen. Jeb Stuart Is 3
teacher in the Stanton Female Seminary,
III Virginia.
Ice formed ih Canada on the night
Of the Esd ult., Causing considerable
damage to vegetation.
Charles H. Carr, formerly broker
in Wall street, New York, was kicked
to death BY horse in Cincinnati.
The Philadelphia Museum of In.
dustrial Art is to be kept open on Sun!
days There has been long contro-
versy on the subject. .....
"A man in Santa Clara county, CAL;
two weeks ago sawed off limb of tree
to Secure swarm of bees which had
settled upon 1t. The Branch In falling
knocked him down and killed him.
--Blanton Duncan has shed the man.
ayers of the louisville Library lottery
on behalf of several purchasers of tick
cts that drew no prizes, Charges Of
fraud are freely made, the amount OK
money divided among the managers be.
ing stated at over 81 100000,
Among the curiosities taken from d
Nevada milne are a piece of sandstone
with grass roots still clsnging to 1t, and
showing. native silver all over its SUR
face, petrified wood imptegnated with
ruby silver, and a mass of pure chloride
of silver that will assay at $4,000 ton.
A Cohhty COMMISSIONER in Mouta.
ma, while hunting recently, found three
bears in gulch. lie ,wounded one,
aud the other two star ted for him. He
Scrambled up a ledge Of rocks, and was
kept there for hours BY the beasts. Be-
coming hungry, they Went away, and
he escaped. ..
"A man arrived III Buffalo recently
who had come a long distance to place
his mother in an asyldm for lunatics,
He went to bed In q hotel, saying that
he had been 30 nert6ns about his moth.
er that he could not sleep for many
nights, and in the thorning was found
to have become taving maniac.
A Nevada miner fell into shaft
that was two huhdred feet deep. but
after going down about forty feet, he
struck on platform. lie says that
while falling and expecting to be in
stantly killed at the bottom, he thought
as much In the few seconds as he could
think ordinarily Ii an hour.
-Bratteboro's temperance citizens
| H., IN 1ao olah ix. ~
place card, in which they say "We;
as friends OF the temperance cadse, here
by notify 500 that we feel called upon
to insist That the sale of Intoxicating
liquors ih this town must cease. Yod
are kindly requested to discontinue the
sale or dispensing of the same"
"A medical restaurant has been late
ly established in London On the prlncl-
pie that diseases can genetally be cured
bS a special system OF diet, aud that
they are caused chiefly by improper
food. On the entrance OF a visitor, d
physician asks him regarding his all
ments. His meal Is then prescribed;
and he Is allowed to eat no more than
is presented to him. At the close he IS
dismissed to smoke a medicated cigar
and to sip coffee, caniomlle tea, or what
ever other beverage may be considered
advisable.
-Pigeoh. English, = language peep
! ing about oh the Pacific coast, was inI
vented in Canton, Hong Kong, and
|, Shanghai, where 1t Is to-day used as the
medium of business transactions be-
tween the natives and foreign mer-
, chants. The name was derived from
the fact that the natives prOnodnce busl-
ness, pigeon aud, as neither OF the
two contracting parties Gould spare the
time to acquire thoroughly either Chi.
, nese or English, a happy adaptation Of
: the one to the other by practical intet1
, miDgling was hit upon. AT the present
day some very large transactions take
, place IN Pigeon. English In the cities
, named, as well as at other points.
Two gamblers were In Leaven-
a worth, Kan, several years ago. with
about $50 IN theit pockets. They de-
sired to get money enough to 60 to Cal
Il hla They went to separate hotels
One registered as physician, and ad'
S vprtised a remedy for cholera. The
othet put UP large quantity Of yeas
powders into sample packages, with {
little crotol oil in each, and hired boy
to distribute them. Soon family attel
family, affected ny the crotOn oil, fel
what they believed we're symptoms o
i. cholera. The sale of the cholera rene
!. dy was enormous, and the gambler
l. were enabled to 90 to California. They
now tell the story through the ViTginiI
City Enterprise,