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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-11-27
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.

Letters tostamentary on tho estate OF N RS
MARTHA ROSE, late Ofthe borough Of East
Mauch Chunk. Carbon coun y, Pa, deceased,
have been granted 10 the Undersigned. TO
whom all persons Indebted TO tho said estatg
are requested TO make payment within six
weeks. and all persons having claims or de-
mands will make known the same without de-
lay to PETER HEIM,
Executor of Martha Rose, decd.
LeniRhtOn Oct -. lSsu-w-6a
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-11-27
LeIliglltOn Markets

Closing prices of DEHAvES & TOWNSEND,
Stock, Government and Gold. 40 South
Third Street. Phila., November "a 1850.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-11-27
A dmlnistratOr's Notice.

Hotfee Is hereby given, that Letters OF Ad-
mlnisiratiun upon the Estate OF Matthias
SUaussherger late OF Parryville, Pa decd,
have been granted TO the undersigned. All
persons knowing themselves indeb ed 10 said
estate will make immediate payment, and
those having claims will present them, duly
authenticated, for settlement 10
JACOB SrRAUSBERGER,
Administrator. etc.
WsiSsport, Pa, Nov 18Th, lsso.-Wss
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
A Rare Day for AIligators.
Orlando (Fls.) Reporter


Monday proved field day for the al
ligators. They came out in large num-
bers to bask in the warm sunlight after
the rain. Fatal recreation! Every
body on board went to shooting them.
Even the scullion would leave the dish
pan to take shot. and it seemed hard
to mics them. The champion slayer
was an old hunter from the Grant State.
Whenever he raised his rifle death was
in the air, and, its sharp report was the
crack Of doom for some cousin of the
crocodile. The gator slayer expended
his last cartridge in the evening, but
not until he had scored his sixty-fifth
alligator. Their vitality Is remarkable.
I chopped off the head of one a few
minutes after the head was served COM
pIetely from the body, I thrust an oar
ct it. The jaws opened and snapped
to again, like huge steel-trap, driv-
ing the teeth, three-fourths of an inch
into the hard wood and splitting the
oar-hsndle. Even twenty minutes later
the 'gater-head would not have been
q safe toy for children.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
The COlOnei's Coffee Mill.

Yesterday old Joe Hemlock one of
the blacklist colored men in Detroit,
was promenading through the editori Il
roo Us of the free Press, in search of
money enough to buy q new pair of
boots, and the sight OF him revlv> d an
old recollection. ,~s~ :'r-.
In 1861, after the retreat from Bull
Run, the Third Michigan Infantry went
INTO camp at Hunters place, and old
Joe then middle.aged darkey, came
into camp as q runaway. Col. McCon-
mel seized upon him for a cook and
after instructions Joe was given charge
of the Colonel's kitchen. His first me cal
was dinner, and about time for it to ap.
pear he walked in on the Colonel, made
q very low bow and said:
"Kernel, lie not quite up to the stu
alton jist yit. You tole me to bake
beans, didn't yon?"
II did,"
"Werry we'll, sab, de beans am
baked. You tole me to fly ham didn't
your"
EVERY well, sab, the ham am fried.
Now, did you say I war to bile de coffee
in de kernel, or, Or"
"No-no-who ever heard of making
coffee that wa,?"
"Well, OATS what I fought, but,
Kernel, it am an, awful slow JOB for
one niger to crack all dat coffee
tween his teeth, an dinners gwine
to be halt an hour late, suah's yer
born"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20

If itwere not q Buston Sunday paper,
we should not know how to believe Il
hut that respected journal says that a
woman sat in the boot-black' chair at
Maine depot on day last week. and had
.shine" as undieturbed as any mar.
Why mott If weman can nut her trim
silk-clocked stocking-foot on the knee
Of shoe, dealer, and be fitted for . pair
OF ankle boots, or step in the hand of a
groom to be put on her horse. Whv
shouldn't she call small Arab t.
brush the boots after wadinp muddy
crossings before she enters an Office a.
q railway cal? And now ne think Of
it, it strikes us that there was news.
paper woman in New York who .,se,d 10
get her boot polished BY q knight Of tha
blacking-box and strap, in her sanctnm
or behind . convenient doorway down
town. preferring this to sitting half :
day with spattered shoes, and there
never were any remarks made about
it either. . '.~0>''
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20

to. cherish hope or to endure suffering
on their account? The patience Of We
men is proverbial, and their whole lives
are bound up in their affections. Few
people will deny that love in one form
or another makes up the beauty of life
to women. It enters into all she does.
Any work outside her immediate circle
is undertaken most often from pure de.
sire to help some one else to know
something of the mysterious happiness
of love. Unlike men,4 women chiefly
look for personal intercourse with those
for whom they are working. If their
interest lies among the poor, they are
DESTROYS of sympathetic personal &C.
quaintance with them, and very little
good work Of a lasting kind has been
done by women without their own in
6uence of love being brought to bear
on the individual case. Without dwell
ing on the greater physical weakness of
women in general, it is 4 fact that their
brains are more easily deraneed, and
unless they change greatly they are apt
to deteriOrate in essential. wOmanly
qualities if thrown much or prominent
" before the world. They are seldom
fitted to rule, emulation and jealousy
being strong in their character, while
their feelings and judgments are often
rapid in the extreme. 1t is in the heart,
therefore, that q woman will more g.
pecially feel the effects of agnosticism,
whether those effects be for good or for
evil. Her head may gain in grasp of
logic and in clearnees of view; but if
her heart, with all its powers for good,
is weakened and discouraged, she will
gain little ultimately by the spread
Of the new views. When the heart
is dispirited, or thrown back upon it.
self, the. action that springs from it
tends inevitably to fall lifeless to the
ground.-Miss Lathbury in Nineteenth
Century.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
Sagacfty OF Ants.

~7~'J
When DR.. Franklin was in Paris, as
he sat quietly and alone at his breakfast
one morning, he saw number of black
ants busy with the contents of the
-ugar-bowl. He drove them away, but
they returned. Again he dispersed
them; in a few minutes they were seen
climbing from lump TO lump, as if moth
ing hal happened. TO try their ingen-
uity, he had the sugar.bowl suspended
oy string from the ceiling. They en-
deavored to reach it by standing on
each others back; several mounted in
this manner and reached upwards, but
in vain; the chain of the ants fell fast
as it was raised. After repeated at
tenapts they went away and he supposed
they had given up the matter, but pres
emily he saw them descending the string,
and dropping down upon the Jumps Of
sugar. They had scaled the walls, ira
versed the ceiling, and discovered an
other road to the treasure. +
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
A Big Book.

The Chinese encyclopedias, recently
purchased for the British Museum at 3
cost Of 81 500. is volumino,,s indeed
There are 020 volumes all told, the
emperor Kang was great admirer
of ancient literature, and was deeply
grieved to perceive that extensive cor
ruptions were everywhere creeping in
to the texts that were reproduced. To
put a stop to this he determined to
gather together in one authoritative
work the entire mass of Chinese litera-
ture from the earliest times until hia
own day. A learned commission was
appointed to collate and verify all Chi
neae works, and thu Jesuit missionaries
were simultaneously employed IN cast
ing vast amount ofcopper type. The
collection and examination occupied
the commission for forty years, and be-
fore it was fully completed the wise old
monarch died, leaving the execution of
his great design to Young Ching, bis
successor, who signalized his accession
by Diminishing the missionaries as
dangerous and traitorous set. He
seems to have taken up the great liter
AIRY scheme with keen interest, and it
was at length published. The com.
missioners protested to have taken all
works from about ], 100 B C. to LOO A.
D., and It is supposed that the whole
CHINESE literature of any i'm portance
between those dates is to be found EN-.
bodied in these 5 02O volumes. The
subjects are classified under six head
ing-, under which are arranged writ
ings relating to the heavens, the earth,
mankind, inanimate nature, philosophy
and polit ical economy. tr@'"<
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
Woman's True source of Strength.

The. strength Of women lies in their
hearts 1t shows itself in their strong
dove and instructive perception of right
and wrong. Intellectual courage is
rarely one of their virtues. As rule,
they are inclined to be restless and ex.
citable, allowing their judgment and
actions to be s~ayed by quick emotions
of all kinds, but, above all, it is in their
hopefulness and their endurance that
they find their chief power. who i
the last person to give up hope in the
case of a'member Of the family who
has apparently gone altogether to the
bad? What mother or sister with deeo
and ardent love for such win ever cease
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
1t was all the fault OF the newspapers

1t was all the fault OF the newspapers.
They sal the new comet couldn't be
seen without glass" Mr.. Startling.
ton wanted to see it, so he took glass.
It still eluded his vision, and he TOOK
two more glasses. Still he couldn't see
it; and, after taking seven glasses alto
;gether, he fell down four steps into an
area, and was rewarded with sight OF
the comet. But he is positive that jrst
as he caught 3 glimpse Of the celestial
visitor it hurst into ten million pieces
one lot which struck him right between
the eyes. Ho1ristoe Herald. ~
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
Chin Sc Arbitration.
Nevada (Cal.) Transcript,

All Gee, who halls from the classic
confines OF Grass Valley Chinatown, ar
rived in the city day before yesterday
and instituted q vi orous search for
one Hop Sing, of Commercial street,
who he stated owed him $50 that had
been due for over two months past, and
was likely to remain unpaid for all
time to come unless stern measures
we're taken to collect it. The Grass
Valleyan without much trouble found
the object of his search, made the de-
mand for the money, and was startled
at the reply of the latter, which was to-
the effect that it had already been paid.
The two had some frece words, ending
in 8 threat by the alleged creditor that
he would take the matter into court.
The other expressed satisfaction at such
course, when mutual friends of the two
1nterfered and prevailed on them to
submit the settlement to q committee
OF their coontrymen. Five Moneoliane,
including the Joss-house keeper, we're
chosen as arbitrators. These exam
ined several witnesses on either sides
and found the testimony about evenly
balanced. They were unable to decide
upon the merits of the case. It was
therefore agreed that q strip of 'sholv
paper" be laid on q a It surface and
ligh.ed at one corner. If it was all con-
sumed without further human inter.
ference the debt was to be- declared not
due; otherwise, it was to be paid. The
test followed. The fire went out when
about three:fourths of the pa
per was burned. All Gee got his $50
ana went home happy. Hop Sing &C.
cepted the result with comparatively
good grace. - :.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20

snakes away from him for awhile, but
finally the number grew 80 large, and
their running so ferOcious and prom.
iscuous, that he him self was compelled
to retreat. Mr.. Mills noticed from a dis
lance that nearly all the reptiles, in
their hurry to getaway from the scorch-
ing flames, were plunging headlong in
to the well, the Others into the pond.
From the point where he stood Mr..
Mills saw, he thinks, forty or fifty hor-
rible large snakes" of various kinds 60
into that well. .-4.- .-...,>
4 A comparatively few were, rattle
snakes, and theyswere not very large,
but some OF the Others, fifteen to
twenty feet in length Some Of the
blue racers carried their heads as high
as man, and swept along like race
horaes. The sight was one which thrill
ed the auditor with q sickening horror.
When the pen had burned down, so that
there was not q probability of there
being any more reptiles era Wing from
it. MI. Mills approached the we'll and
looked in. The water was probably six
feet deep, and the distance to the water
from the top about eight feet. From his
position he saw some Of the most hor.
rible snake fights that can be imagined.
Two giants fought until the waters was
turbulent with mud and blood, spurts of
which would occasionally be sent to the
top of the well, causing him who was
looking downward to start back in a
hurry. '': ''@S .%H'
Mr.. Mills thought to. quell the mob
by shooting them, but after firing q
half-dozo loads down into the snakes
and quieting few, new idea possessed
him, and he at once com menced rolling
stones into the we'll. When early fill.
ed with stones and wood he cemented
the we'll over with dirt. And now in
that grave are buried more hundreds OF
pounds of snake flesh than can be found
in any other hole, probably, in the
state.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
Where Postal Cards are Made.

Near1. 200, 600 postal cards were used
in the United States last year. They are
made at Holyoke,. Mass, by private
concern, under the general supervision
of q government officer. The work is
nearly all done by machinery, even to
counting and putting them up 10 pack.
ages of twenty five. The use OF postal
cards is said to have driven makers of
writing paper and envelopes out Of bust
ness. :.s
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
A Fish that angles fur Prsy---A Singular
Monster Of the Deep.
ca Wnrld.,.

MVu0lOl VI lIt Dtcps
Sea World.
| A description of remarkable fish
may interest our readers. It is known by
several nahes at different localities on
our coast. AT Provincetown it is called
the goosefish, because Of report cur
rent among the fishermen of that place
that it catches wild geese and devours
them whole. Elsewhere the fish is
called the angler, fshing frog, sea devil,
bellows fish, monk fish, etc.
One day lest summer, while on the
speedwell, eff Cape Cod, we saw sever
al large fishing frogs caught in trawl
net, the largest Of which was about four
feet in length. It's huge mouth was fif.
teen inches in expanse, and seemed to
open directly into its stomach, which
was full of great flat fish and founders.
Its lows of long, sharp teeth were in
clined inward and could be depressed
at will, allowing the easy ingrees of it's
victim, but We're sure prevention of his
ever escaping.
The edge OF his head and also of his
body was adorned with leafy fringe
resembling the fronds of seaweed. This,
together with it's chameleon-like faculty
Of varying i1s color in accordance With
creature greatly in securing its prey.
To aid it further in obtaining its food,
this fish has three long filaments grow
ing out of the middle of it's mead. The
foremost of these is of especial service;
for at its end it carries tassel, which
serves as lure to attract the unwary
prey within reach of the cavernous
mouth beneath the bait, and in addi-
ton to these peculiarities, the pectoral
and ventral fins are joined, and the feb,
using these as feet, is enabled to walk
over the bottom of the sea.
The fishing frog seems to proceed
somewhat in this manner for the pur:
pose of obtaining his food. Moving
along the bottom of tire sea, he seeks
some suitable position among the sea-
weed, wnere, safely ensconced, he may
attain his purpose. Having satisfied
himself as to the place selected, he gets
out his fishing rod and bait and waves
it around in the water, until some I'm.
suspecting fish comes up to seize it,
when the angler, snatching the bait out
of the way, swallows the fish.
The young ones present = more curl.
GUS appearance even than the adult.
The tilaments on the head are more
numerous, and are tree-like in shape.
the pectoral fin is much longer and has
long spinea on it, and the fins at the
sides are very large in comparison to the
body. -.
The fishing frog is very ,rapacious.
and often swallows fish as large and
heavy as itself, such is the expansibility
Of it's stomach. It Is not eaten, but,
when captured by fishermen, it is pre-
served because of the other fish often
found in its stomach, and which it il
compelled to dis9orge by the simple
procets of holding it upside down.
Many stories are are told of the goose.
fish and its voracity. It has been known
to seize on Goldfish a. they were drawn
from the water, and was with difficulty
forced to loosen its hold. The speci
mems we saw hauled on board the yes
sci were full Of fish which they had
swallowed on their journey in the trawl
from . depth Of fifteen fathoms.. s>'
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20

IT is time honured custom in Qnin-
cy, Fla. to salute a newly married
couple by firing q cannon.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20

4. Fun.
5 The bottoms Of strawberry boxes are
as high as usual this year. IL
. s'Talk Is cheap Is il? Just hire
lawyer once.-Sy7acuse Herald.
Could not the doctors fee. be justly
called ill.gotten gains? f..
The reason "the boy stood on the
burning deck" was because it was too
hot to sit down. i, III. -.
The world owes us all . living, but
she is just as hard to collect from as
any other debtor II Philadelphia Item.
Patrick dressing for q party. "Be-
dad now, and shan't be able to git on
these boots till I've worn thin time
or two" ~ r' r''
It is now claimed that the first time
the expression Eureka" was used. was
when Socrates sat down on tack for
which he had been looking. ..s
Faber has made great deal Of mon
ey from lead pencils, which is the Diff
ference between Faber and reporteEi,a
A Michigan girl has been arrested for
carrying q revolver. That is right. No
female should be allowed to wear bangs
in her hip pocket. ~. e.. .'.s
"What shall give you? What would
you like bes,?" he said to the charming
widows little girl. I'D like to have q
little brother" said she. And the widow
blushed.
A man told his friend that he Joined
the army. "What regiment his
friend asked. "Oh, I don't mean that;
I mean the Army of the Lord" "Ah,
what church, "The Baptists." "Why,"
was the reply, 'that's not the army; it's
the navy"
Trouble wrinkled up his brow ,s./
When he tried to think az how
He shonld ask her to he his
And his heart sunk low with fear,
TN the i;d.e,e. fre+h and clear,
Struck him that it was Leap Year,
And the asktn' was her biz.
1t must have been tremendously en-
barrassing to that nice young man in
Bowling Green, kentucky, who escort
ed the preachers fair daughter to a
meeting, and arrived late, to hear
the reverend gentleman read from the
Bible as the couple marched no the
aisle, my daughter is grieyously tor.
mented with DEVIL" which verse oc.
CURED iR an account of New Tesla.
ment miracle of which the preacher
was reading. The whole congregation
snickered, and it would be hard to tell
which felt worse, the preacher, lis
daughter, or her escort. Z
Johnny wantel to 60 to the circus,
and mis- father said: "Johnny, I'd rather
you'd 20 to school, and 8 u ~, and may
be you'll be President some day." Said
Johnny: Father, there's about one mill
lion boys in the United States, isn't
there?" "Yee." "And every one of
them stands chance of being Presi.
dent?" YES" tWell, dad, I'll sell
out my chance for circus Ticket
Oil City Derrick.
When a man looks back into the dim
vista of bygone years, about the only
thing ne can remember are his mothers
slipper, his first pair of boots, the old
schoolmaster and the little rosy-cheeked
schoolgirl who used to make his heart,
ffutter whenever she asked him for q
bite of his chewing-gum. Life was
worth living for in those days, even
though there wasn't much money in
it, HackenaQck RpDublicQn.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-20
Cincinnati Commercial. :.

~ d kl6uC0s x40 1uu~G UUISt tu0 IVOClIe
with club, and to do it very quick,
too. He, sprang towards stake lying
on the ground, and just as he was pick
ing it up q whirr whirr was heard
from behind, and, looking up, the fork
ed tongue of q murderous rattlesneke
presented itself!
The FIRE was 90 intensely hot there
that it scared the rattleenake, and it
sped on and away. But then the col,
continued round and round, and paw:
ing, slower and slower, as if ready to
fall at any moment. Its very life was
being squeezed out of it. Without any
delay Mr.. Mills rushed that wav, and
with one fell swoop with his club burst
the reptile until it's entrails were strewu
all over the animal, and it fell to the
ground dead. Strange, the colt was not
seriously injured, and it walked away.
But danger to Mr.. Mills had just be-
gun. When the horses nan away, q
score or more of snakes dfvarious sizee
and kindssswere seen running from the
fire. A load Of shot from his gun fail.
ed to kill any Of the huge, yellow spot
ted monsters. Owing to the racket
caused by the horses, the snakes had 80
far run ii their direction, but as soon
as the apimals had got out of resch
they glided in the. direction If Mr..
Mills. With the club he held in his
hand he succeeded in keeping the
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-09
In the Water.

The human body weighs a pound IN
the water, and a single chair will carry
two grown persons. That is, 1T would
keep the head above the water, which is
all that is necessary. when it is a ques-
ton Of life or death. One finger placed
upon stool or chair, or q small box, a
piece of board, will easily keep the head
above the water, while the two feet and
the other hand may be used as paddles
to propel toward the shore. 1t is not at
all necessary to know how to swim to be
able to keep from drowning in this way.
A little experience of the buoyant power
of water, and faith in it is all that is re.
quired. We have seen a small boy who
could not swim stroke propel himself
across deep, wide pond by means Of a
board that would not sustain five pounds
weight Children and others should
have practice in the sustaining power of
water. In nine cases out of ten the
knowledge that what will sustain a
pound weight is all that is necessary to
keep the head above water, will serve
better in emergency than the greatest
experiences as swimmer. A person
unfamiliar with the buyant power of
water will naturally try to climb on top
of the floating object ON which he tries
to save himself II it is large enough
that is all right But it is generally
not large enough, and half of a struggl-
ing group is often drowned in the des-
perate scramble of life and death strug-
gle to climb on top of piece of wreck
or other floating object, not large enough
to keep them all above water. This
often happens when pleasure boats cap
size All Immediately want to get out
of the water on top of the overturned
or half filled boat, and all are drowned
except whom the wrecked craft will
wholly bear up. If they would simply
trust the water to sustain ninety-nine
hundredths of the weight OF their bod
les, and the disabled boat the other hun
dredth, they might all be saved under
most circumstances. An Overturned or
water-flled wooden boat will sustain
more people in this way than it will
carry. 1t would keep the heads above
water Of as many people as could get
their hands on the gunwale. These are
simple facts, easily learned, and may
some dav save your life.