The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-04-06
PARAGRAPHIC.

An Egyptian papyrus, 2S feet long ly
II inches broad, has recently been pur-
chased by the French Direction of Fine
Arts The document dates back to the year
1000 B. c., and relates to the death and
funeral of the qucen-mothcr of Kor-IIor, Of
the first Egyptian dynasty.
"A Boston paper says: "a butterfly was
caught at the South End yesterday" Il
may be safe enough to catch q butterfly at
the south end, but when you 60 to grab
wasp, you want to catch it at the northeast
erly end, shifting westerly toward the head.
--Norristol,n Herald.
The driver of cab which was passing
through the Rue Grange-aux-Belles,P Paris,
was observed to be sitting OIL his box in a
state of insensibility. The horse was
stopped by police officer, and the man, on
being taken down, was found to have died
from heart disease. Two persons We're in
the vehicle, and had been driven for several
minutes by corpse, which still held the
rens in its clenched hands.
"A young man, on becoming aifiancad,
was dcsirous of presenting his intended
with q ring appropriately inscribed but,
being at loss what to have engraved upon
it, he asked his fathers adyice. "Well," :"
said the old gentleman, "put on, Wien this
you sec, remember mc." The young lady
was surprised, upon receipt of the ring a
few days after, to read this inscriptio :
"When this you see, remember father"
An arrested "moonshiner" at Mem
phis, Tenn, says there are about 200 Illicit
distilleries in Putnam County, Tenn, five
being in q circuit of one-half mile. Every
Gushel of corn used produces an average of
two and a half gallons of whisky, and the
price of corn in that locality seldom reaches
fifty cents q bushel, making the price of
whisky less than twenty cents gallon. II
is generally sold at from one to three dollars
PEI gallon
The school property in California is
valued at over S6,OOO,00O. The cost Of text
books amounts to S3,OOO,OOO yearly. There
are over 100000 children in the State be-
tween and II years of age, and of this
number not one-half attend school of any
kind. More than half Of the children are
of foreign plren.age. There are 800 pupil:
at the State Normal school. There are oven
5000 teachers in the State, and more than
half are females.
The blundcr5 of Observation-Disclosures arc
sometimes exceedingly amusing. Mos,
readers will remember the deeply-absorbed
professor, who, in passing out of the gate
way of his college, ran against cow. II
the confusion Of the moment he raised hii
hat and exclaimed, - beg your pardon
madam" Soon alterward he stumbled
against lady in the street, when, in sud
den recollection Of his former mishap, h,
called out Is that you again, you brute .
Mr.. Henry Bergh delivered a lecture oi
swill milk before the New York Farmers
Club on Tuesday, in which he said tha
eight or tenlnillion gallons of this pestre
rous illid is sold annually in New Yorl; anl
Brooklyn, and to this alone Mr.. Bargh as
cribcs the fact that in New York more than
one-half the total death occur under the az
Of years, and that the infant mortality i
greater than in Paris, where many cause
exist which tend to destroy carly life wh!e!
are unknown to us, while the death rate il
New York is IS per cent. above that Of Lon
don.
"A lady who had two children sick witt
the measles wrote to friend for the bes
remedy. The friend had just received
note from another lady inquiring he
method ofmaking pickles, In reply, III
lady unfortunately placed the notes in tn
wrong envelopes, 50 that the person who in
quired about the pickles received the rene
dy for the measles, and the anxious mothC
Of the sick children read with horror tn
following; "Scald them three or four tim,
in very hot vinegar and sprinkle them wit
ealt, and in few days they will be cured.
The "Womans Union Mission" Of sa
Francisco, maintains in that city a scho,
where Chinese boys and girls, ranging frol
four years Of age up to twelve, are taught
read, write and cipher. The school is dit
tinctively religious, and the pupils are il
struc,ed in the fundamental doctrines ,
Christianity. The girls are taught anon
other things, the use ofthe needle, and som
Of the best performances in the fancy depart
ment Of the art ornament Of the schoolroon
II costs over thousand dollars a year
carry on the institution, which has been i
existence about eight years.