The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-10-13
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Kentucky reports two petriiied
honeycombs-one of freestone and the
other of limestone formation.
"A valuable mine of manganese
yielding rs per cent, has Just been dis
covered at Three Springs, Huntingdon
county.
About seven hundred buildings are
being built in the burned district of
st. John, three hundred Of which are
of brick.
The first case brought before Re-
corder Greevy, of Altoona, was libel
suit against himself, growing out of q
statement printed in his paper, the Al
tOOna Globe.
Another young English noble
Earl Lovelace's nephew-has joined
the army as private. His motive is
simply manly wish to work his way
from the lowest to the highest rank.
They are now insisting in Boston
that it Is lowering to the self.respect Of
a high.school scholar to be compelled
C'obliged," the Transcript says) to
bring note from his parent in excuse
fol absence.
One of the convicts In the Berks
county prison whiles away the weary
hours OF his confinement by playing
with two mice, which he has trained to
obey his commands and to perform a
number of tricks.
A little son OF BENJAMIN Fox, of
Pennshurg, Montgomery county, at
tempted to climb over paling fence one
day lately and his clothing being
caught, was strangled to death before
any one discovered him.
The Hon. Zachariah Chandler
owns and manages farm In New Eng
land and another in Michigan. He de-
clares that farming Is truly an intellec-.
tual pursuit. Twenty years OF public
life, he says, have not diminished his
love for what, In boyhood, had been his
delight.
The New York Juvenile Asylum,
during its twenty-five years of exist
ence, has cared for 10 800 children,
The number that yearly pass through
the Institution now is about 1900. The
expenses are 800, 900 a year, one-ffth
of which Is received from private be-
neyolence, and the remainder from the
public treasury.
Count Moltke recently expressed
himself as follows to a person who ask
ed his opinion respecting the chances Of
the war In the east "lf the Russians
can manage to feed large army in
Bulgaria they must eventually win
but the question Is, what number of
troops can be fed there with the water
communications in the hands of the
TuTks?"
M Mehemet Ali Pasha, the actual. all
though not the ttular, ueralissimo of
the TDrkish forces in Bulgaria. ia a
German, but not, as seems to be yerv
generally assumed, a German officer.
All the training that he owes to his ma
tive country was received at grammar
school in provincial town. His mill
tary education must be placed to the
credit OF the Ottoman State Academy
at Constantlnople.
"A young English lady has printed
"Ihe Clergy List, Revised and Classi-
hed," showing that England has 70
clergymen named White, Black, 4
Green and rs Brown, Although none
OF them are Roman Catholics, there are
IA AbbOts, Z PriOrs, A Monks and 8
Nuns. In the clerical poultry yard or
game preserves are Peaeocks, 3 Cos
lings, 4 Partridges, Hares, 8 Spar
rows, 2 Crows, o Ravens, % Martins.
q FincheS, 2 Doves and Nightingale.
The fisherman living on the lonely
island of Hitteren, Oft the coast of Nor
way, have had for generations tradi-
tion that in shoals near the island, over
century ago, a large ship was wreck.
ed. Divers searched for the vessel this
summer, and easily found her. Since
then portions OF the cargo, including 90
cannon, ~ anchors and 200 pounds OF
lead, have been recovered The cannon
bear the date of l7l6. 1t has been dis
covered that the ill-fated ship was a
Russian man, Of war, and that while on
voyage from Cronstadt to AFehangel
in l76O she was wrecked.
The United States Consul at St.
Johns Newfoundland, has lately be-
come possessed OF one silver tablespoon
and one silver desert.spOon, supposed
to be relics OF the Franklin expedition.
The tablespoon has the letters ~. G..
F." engraved thereon. On the face of
the desert-spoon is the head of a fish.
with laural wreath, and on the back
the English crown aud stamp. The
spoons were purchased of sailor who
was wrecked in Hudson Bay last year,
aud his story is that he received the
articles from the Esquimaux Of Repulse
Bay, who had received them from the
native chief at whose camp the white
men who owned them died of seuryy
while on visit thereto.