The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-03-17
Subscribers out of County, S1.2
RRIEFLETS.

The proportion of Roman Cntho.
lies to Prote5tants in Ireland is nearly
three and half to one.
Queen Victoria has granted a PEN
sion of $3.50 per annum to the widow
of Mr.. Noble, the sculptor.
--Gymnasiums are being provided ut
all the large barracks in Great Britain.
That of Tipperaty cost s14, $50.
The horse disease in Brooklyn Is
said to be fatal, one-halt OF the horses
attacked falling victims 10 the malady,
"A French station master has been
sentenced 70 three years Imprisonment
and a fine of SEQ for negigently per
mitting q railway accident.
Mrs. Jaskar of Augusta killed, her.
self because, being eighty yeal 1 old
and fifty years widow, she despGirrd
of ever getting another husband.
y, A remarkable decrease of panpei-
ism is reported from Manchester, Eng
land, the number of paupers having
been 1858 in 1870, and 4G1l in 1876.
There is bill before the French
Chambers to prohibit foreigners from
practising medicine in France unless
they have submitted to French examln-
alton. .#
Frank Buckland, the English nat
uralst, says that the skins of snakes,
if dried aud properly purified, might
make very attractive trimmings for
ladies' dresses.
"A young. Madagascar brought into
nj
doctors. Asked why he thought so, hA
replied that they all took his hand and
asked after his health. .....
The Galveston Common Council
passed an ordinance ordering the clos
ing of ss,loons at midnight. Then four
of their number went to a saloon, aud
drank and played billiards until morn
ing.
"A Boston girl, when asked to look
through telescope and see "Venus in
her glory" replied frigidly "I have no
desire TO look at any member of NV
sex who dresses as she is represented
to-"
"A railroad panic broke out at the
beginning Of the year in Switzerland,
and the shares of the two principal lines
fell about one-half. This with the de,
cline of the watch trade, makes the
Swiss feel poor. ....
AT recent auction in Paris the
dagger worn by Henry " ut his mar.
riage, in 1859, was knocfed down at
lS,ooV lrahcs' or nearly SS'4VO' Ihe
sword worn by the king or that occa-
siorf is in the Museum of Artillery.
SIXTY indian convicts are in the
old fort at st. Augustine. Ma. and the
guard is daily seectdd froui their ranks.
About once a week each shoulders a
musket as one of the garrison and does
sentry duty over his conardes They
uo no1 eSGape' oecause they prefer To
s'"y anu oe leu
The medical men of Client have
formed union to print a black book,
containing in alphabetical order, the
names of persons who are iu the habit
of not paying the fees due for medical
assistance. They have also taken a
pledge not to attend such persons ex.
cept in cases of immediate urgency.
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"A clerk in the Russian Ordnance
Office, at Alexandrapel, has lately been
condemned to penal servitude for lite
for selling the plan of the fortress there
TO the Turks, for the sum of 600 roubes
The Russian military police arrested
the clerk in question, on Turkish ter.
ritOry before he had time to part with
the plan.
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