The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-06-16
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In Columbus, Ohio, stanch re-
publican has been heard to speak con-
temptuously of the southern policy
as "boiled crow, with Hayes sauce"
"A Virginia City Chinaman tied his
donkey by rope to the front door
knob of a mans house, who owed him
a dollar for fire.wood, and let the beast
howl while he sat on the steps and
waited The besieged man capitulated
in three hours.
-"No, ma" she said, "Charley can
never be anything to me more. He
came out this spring with his last fall
overcast; and, o, ma! If it only match
ed my new dress l wouldn't care SO
much; but it doesn't, and we have
parted"
"A doctor in ireland was disturbed
in the night by rapping on the door,
and opening it, found laboring man
who had come for him. "Have you
been long here?" asked the doctor?
'Indeed have" answered Pat. "But
why didn't you ring the night bell?"
"Och, because l was afraid of disturb
ing your honor"
-"Look here, Jim, there's u hole
knocked out of this bottle you gave me,
"Why, not at all; there's the hole in it
now; if 1t was knocked out, how could
1t be there?"
A plain spoken woman recently
visited married acquaintance, and
said to her: "IIow do you contrive to
amuse yourself?" "Amuse" said the
other starting, "Do you not know that
l have my Homework to do?" "Yes,"
was the answer, "I see you have it to
do; but as it's never done, conclude
you must have some other way of
spending your time"
"A worthy old lady of Litchfeld,
Conn, received the intelligence of the
appearance of the seventeen year To-
Gusts with the remark that she "allus
thought suthin' orful would happen the
country ever since Hayes was counted
in.''
"A man in Wilmington filled a
sprinkling pot with benzine, and damp
eued the carpet in his parlor with it,
as protection against moths. Gas
generated by the benzine caused vio~
lent explosion, killing two women who
were in the apartment.
-Chinamen in California are them.
selves complaining of "Chinese cheap
labor" Coal mines in Amador county
are worked by Cinnamon from the in
terror of China, who speak a dia-
lect that the rest of their countrymen in
California cannot understand, accept
$40 month wages and board them
selves.
When lately the Admiral introduc-
ed the royal cadet, Prince Henry, Sec
ond son of the crown Prince of Ger
many, to the officers of his ship, he said
that the Prince is the first of the dynas-
ty VIII o has entered the naval service,
and that his doing so proved the Elm.
peror's intention to put the army and
navy on perfectly equal footing.
The young men of Maysville, an
Ohio village, being inclined toward
economy, bought large quantity Of
cloth at a wholesale price from manu-
facturer, and had it made into clothing
for themselves. The unnformed Wis.
ltor is surprised by the sight of so many
men dressed exactly alike, and is led to
believe that he is in some socialistic
community.
In his work on the "Principles of
Punishment, as Applied to the Admin
istration of the Criminal Law" the
author, Mr.. Sergeant Cox, an English
Judge of large experience, says that
experts have estimated tn chances of
escape thus: In but one larceny in eight
is the thief detected, but one in three is
prosecuted, and nearly one-half are ac-
quilted"
"A new dodge has come to light in
London. A venerable person attred
like a clergyman walks about in
dreamy way, book in his left hand, an
umbrella partly open in Lis right. This
reverend looking object, it has been
discovered, is a centre around which
youthful pickpokets gyrate, and jewel
ry, watches, purses, &c, "prigged" by
them are dropped into the umbrella
without any suspicion being excited
A iaded, tattered German trudged
into Baltimore, and inquired at police
station if any of the officers had seen a
man and a woman, whom he described,
They were his wife and the man with
whom she had eOped, he said, and lie
had traced them afoOt from his home in
western Pennsylvania. They had
lHktn MI blo llOhVys Su llldb lnty were
able to ride, and he was compelled TO
walk. The police learned that they
had sailed for Germany, and he has
sailed in pursuit, his passage being paid
by charitable persons.
"A burglar brokei into Kansas City
houses in which Mrs. Gay was alone,
and told her if she made any noise or
attempted to get out of bed he would
kill her. She was frightened, and did
not speak or stir while he packed her
silverWare and jewelry for removal.
Then, by way of emphazing a parting
injunction not to raise an alarm, he
boxed her ears. That made her SO
angry that she forgot her fear. She
jumped out of bed, knocked the burg.
lar down with a chair, pulled his hair,
scratched his face, stamped on him, aud
yelled at the top of her voice. 4 police
officer heard the racket, and the badly
injured man was arrested.
Andrew jackson Davis says that,
T.,,,or,, 1879 L.. IL