The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-07-15

erican inventors will test and experiment
until the burning TO the ground of large
modern building will be an impossibilty.
In every part of the city. building has
been going on with wonderful rapidity,
during the first half of 1882. In that six
months, the Building Bureau approved
of plans for 1865 new buildings, and for
alterations Of old ones 10 cost, together,
more than twenty-eight million dollars.
This activity is noticed in all parts Of the
city, from the Battery TO Harlem River,
many of the edifices in the upper portion
being large, costly and elegant apartment
houses, whose occupants must pay rent
of from $500 to $4,000 for suite of eight
to twelve rooms.
ODD 'ADDs."
All the entertainment in q newspaper
is not TO be found in the amusement col
umns, nor yet in that fourth column n on
the TINES editorial page where Alden's
grotesque articles are TO be looked for.
The ordinary advertisements Tor rather
the extraordinary ones found among the
ordinary one) are often more curious than
the reading matter. At 40 cents lii .
the frugal advertiser counts the space aud
boils down his meaning into the fewest
practical words. If your name happe, 8
10 be Gordon, you needn't get mad to
find, under "Help Wanted" this call:
"Wanted-Boy to kick Gordon and make
himself useful" 1t is only a printer who
wants boy to work Gordon press aud
be ready for anything else. The spinster
need not stop her paper because it con-
tains the shameless announcement Of
Hands wanted to work on bosoms;" for
it means sewing girls in shirt factory.
Small boys generally manage to fill their
pockets unto bursting, but here is q man
who advertises for Boy in salt store to
fill small pockets the pocket" being
the small bags for table salt. Another
advertisement is for "A young girl i'm
proven" but what he wants l am not
milliner enough to find out. Perhaps he
was the father of the 15-year-old girl, who
was arrested the other day for wearing
boys clothing aud running away from
home to consort with newsboys and boot
blacks. There is an ample field in New
York for young girl improvers. 1t isn't
restaurant keeper, nor the proprietor OF
country hotel who says "A Peerless
feeder wanted" but another printer who
wants boy to tend aud feed Peerless
press. Otherwise, know several men
out of employment, who would fill the
bill with peerless and Unsuitable appe-
tites. To one who has watched the way
the modern girls wind their tolls about
the eligible young men and lead them on
to marriage, it seems hardly necessary 10
advertise for "Girl wanted for winding
and doubling but investigation shows
that they are wanted by a manufacturer
of braid. 1t is not an anatomist, but an
artificial flower maker, who advertises fol
"Small girls to branch, and boy to wire,
nor is it the manager Of prize fight ex'
hibition who calls for an experienced mar
to take charge Of a throwing mill, but
the owner OF a silk factory III New Jersey,
We have all heard of galvsnic gar
ments, electrical belts. magnetic clothing
and divers other metallic appliances,
VIII, rewith the human body may be cloth
ed. but when firm in Pittsburg adver
tises, Wanted some good wire drawers,
it rather>staggers us. Not but that sucf
open work articles would prove comfort
able in this torrid season, but we really
can't think they will come into genera
use, although they might prove boon t.
the small boy, when the dog chases hin
him out of the melon patch.
ASSORTED sUNDRIEs
Peaches are becoming plenty and viii
soon be within the reach of the mos
economical housewife. The Delaware
district from which the fruit is brought
by rail, will produce this year, over A.,
000 900 baskets. Cotton may be king il
the South as whole, but the peach il
the sovereign Of Delaware, and he will
travel North this year, in special fas
trains, having the right OF way over al
plebian freight The new railroad OF
the West shore of the Hudson River viii
be In operation between New York ant
Albany by the end of the year. 1t skirt
the river nearly all the way and RUS I'M
der the Government Post at West Point
by tunnel three-qnarters of a mile long
a twelve year old boy In Brooklyn
was killed last week by cigarette smoking
He began TO smoke the murderous thing
two years ago and kept it up until carried
OF by apoplexy. directly traceable to tn
use OF "cbesp and nasty" cigarettes
The steamship Assyrian Monarch, whicl
arrived last Saturday, landed six NOR
passengers than she started with. Their
H6IC u lOt VI UuSoldu CLulBIhutS Ou bphIu
among whom were three sisters and thei
husbands. All had been married on I
same day, and on one day during III
passage. each Of the three gave birth /
twins. The Captain thought they wer
doing Russian business in fitting u
new berths for his ship. Bowery wbit
key is apt to induce ''snakes," but some
times the order is reversed. The keeps
OF q museum on that thoroughfare wa
bitten by one Of his rattlesnakes, a fe'
days ago. He Immediately drank a pint {
whiskey. Either one would have kille
him sipgly. The poison was getting i
its work in q lively way through tb
mans body until it struck the whiskeI
, Then its Efforts were in vain. 1t coul
not beat the Bowery style of burnin
, fluid and the man still lives.
Howit was Done.
"How do you manage" said lady to h'
friend, ITO appear SO happy and good nature