The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-10-13
Editorial Mention.

few days. Her mother, instead of Geb.
! hardt, accompanies the beauty this time,
LORD CoDERIDaE objected to lingering
in the Chicago slaughter houses, remark
lug quietly, Il eat sausages myself some
times"
STURGEON says that it is quite possible
for man who plays the cornet 10 be q
good christ an himself, but his neighbors
can't be so. !.
THERE are good many Christian peo-
pie who possess the characteristics of q
tin can. The can in itself is of quiet,
retiring nature, but tie it TO something
"a dogs tail for instance-and there
you are.
WHILE Henry Ward BeecLer was wait
ing for train, last week in California,
BE Nte three quarters of an apple pie.
Henry was always pious! A short time
afterwards an elderly female twiued her
arms around his neck and kissed his lips.
Henry was always lovable!.
RAILROAD construction is proceeding
SO rapidly that the imagination of chill
dren in Carbon county is affected there
BY. Last Friday, lady, with her little
girl, walked down Lehigbton behind
MN with bow legs, 'AIa," said the
child, "why has that man got a tunnel
under his coatP"
SOME men die happy after giving their
names to church, saloon, n bank
bnilding or post-office. John Du Bois,
of Clearfitld county, takes higher aim.
He is millionaire, fourteen times over,
ell made in the lumber business of this
State. He sffers to erect q court house
and public buildings if a new county is
made Of parts of Clearaeld, Elk and JEFF
ferson counties, aud called Du Bois. 1t
is new sort of dignity, this of q man be-
coming godfather 10 county at his
own request.
Much as is said about the number OF
railroad accidents in this country they
compare favorably with the death rate on
the European lines. In the United
States. during the past year, 2S9, 100, 1888
persons were transported on 107, 900
miles of railway, or ak times the total
population of the country. The total
number of persons killed on the roads
was something over 1000. In Europe,
in 1881, scarcely 10000 900 passer gers
were transported over 172 GOA miles of
railway. The European railways, in the
year 1881. killed $500 persons.
II has always been dangerous to twist
the tail of mule, but in Virginia it is
battle, murder and sudden death to pull
s1e tail of dog. On last Monday a
man named Joseph Love went out hunt.
ing in Danville with his father-in- law,
brother-in-law, and his own brother
Charley. The father pulled one CT TIE
dogs by the tail. A battle ensued. Jos
eph put holes in the three other sports
men and received one himself tt,
wounds of some are probably fatal Th,
principal shooter escaped with his Colts
revolver, aud the traditional chivalry o
Virginia is fully vindicated.
ATA special meeting of the genuine
polygamCus Moimons who wished 10 ex
press their utter contt mpt for Latter Da,
SIint' who had put away their wives il
obedience to the Edmunds Law, Brig
ham Young. Jr., made q speech. H
said that the powers of darkness wer
Strengthening to overthrow the Churc
of God; that there never was time whe
they needed the power of the Spirit s
much, but that no power on earth coul
overthrow the Saints, and that ''strangt
revelations than those they had receive
were yet to come" The manufactory
revelations is becoming thriving indu
try in Utah.
DocroRs still differ and, as usual, IL
patient gets left. A few days since Gel
Sherman told the st. Louis REPUBLIcA
that Chester A. Arthur is the most sui
able candidate the Republicans can s
iect. On the same day the WssbiAgto
CRITtc interviewed Col Tbos. NJ. Bayn
Republican member of Congress fro
Pittsburg. arthur couldn't carry Ne
York. Ohio, Indiana, nor even Pennsy
vania, in all probability. But he won
not be nominated. The Republican
haye more sense than that would show
When asked by the reporter ''where Il
President was popular, anyway" Il
Colonel replied, "Phe Lord only know
don't He's the worst we've had yet
WE have inst received a copy of
w. Aver & Sons American Newspap
Annual for 1888. l contains compile
list of newspapers end periodicals of Il
United States and Canada, includii
special lists of religious, agricultural al
all known CLASS publications. 1t gIv
the population of each State, Territor
County and County Seat in the Unit
States, along with every place in whi
paper is published. The Annual
handsomely bound and printed. The
is no other single publication which co
tains information of such varied use ~
value for general purposes, 1t is, in ia,
"a model work" which will be found III
full at all times and under all circui
stances.
THE right 10 vote at municipal ell,
tions in Prussia is briefly as follow
Every Independent Prussian who
lived in the town or city for at lenst o
year, belongs to the community, has 4
received assistance from the publieflnt
has paid the commercial taxes, who a.
either owns dwelling-house within /
city limits or exercises regular prof
sion with at least two assistants, is
tCribed on the classified State iucon
tax list, or finally, who pays a tax Of