The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-21
Editorial Mention.

A WASHINGTON newspaper man is dis
Eusted to think that President Arthur
wears three collars day-and not paper
ones oitherl
OSCAR WILDE, in his lecture on Ameri.
ca, delivered in England, describes the
American girl as "a pretty oasis of un.
reasonableness in a desert of common
sense"
IT Is gratifying to all readers of books
TO know that Mr.. Crosse, the American
E who became the husband of "George
Eliot" is writing the history of that ill.,
lastrious woman.
SOME idea of the great change which
has taken place in Italian sentiment may
be found in the defeat of Garibaldi's
younger son in a contest for seat in tie
Chamber of Deputies.
DR. MARY WALKER made AN excellent
nurse upon the battle fields, but as an
understrapper in the Pension Office she
did not succeed. Official potentates
under Secretary Chandler could not tol-
crate that a woman should 'wear the
pants" So Mary has been dismissed.
and is now on her way to Europe.
MARY ANDERSON is the admired of all
admirers in London. At the Lyceum
Theatre the other night she was reccg.
nized in the stalls, and the whole audi
ence. waited long after the curtain fell to
see Miss Anderson leave the house, She
enjoys reputation which rarely falls o
the lot of actresses.
GEN. Crook does not believe more in
the Indians, but he believes less in the
Indian agents. He says that the man
agement of Indian tribes by an Indian
Bureau or by the Interior Department
sis a miserable force. When Indians
are bad the agent is afraid of them, and
when they are good he steals from them.
Tais is very like fact.
: SOME of the noble inte!lects behind the
HARRIsBURG TELEGRAPH do not like the
way in which Governor Pattison sits on
horseback. They say that having adopt.
ed the English sty lie Of ,questrianism he
is like ''sack of meal on O saddle"
THIS should not be So The Harrisburg
Legislature being at present very like
circus, every performer ought to be some.
thing of jockey.
THERE is nothing like enterprise. A
company is being formed in England and
France to dredge the Red Sea for recov-
cry OF the treasures which Pharoah
dropped" when with his hosts he hunt
ed Moses 'across the raging main."
Nearly 5000, 600 have been subscribed for
III, purpose, and, considering that ur-
dergroupd cities are turning mp every
other day, there may be millions in The
submarine Egyptian chariots of silver
and fine gold.
WHAT would be the comment of our
old friend Esop, who wrote the Fables
or of those extra-thoughtful people who
tack on "sound moral lesson" to every
little story, upon the following incident
which occurred last Friday at Albany.
"Aiichael Peets, aged seventeen years,
while reading the Bible iu his house, OIL
the Shaker road, six miles from Albany,
in the afternoon, was struck by lightning
and killed" The obvious answer is,
"Don't read the Bible by lightning.
BANGS are to be bauished. Father o.
Haran, of Wilkesbarre, and the Catho-
lie priest of Plymouth, have informed
the Sunday school children of their con-
gregations that hereafter they will not be
allowed to wear bangs or frizzes while
attending Divine Service. Father o.
Haran said very properly that mo girl
who ever expected to become lady
would be guilty of the act of banging"
His reverence should haye added "doors,
windows, and kitchen dishes" to his in
dictment against banging of young
ladies' curls.
IT is q pity that Mr.. Gowen does not
run the universe. The Reading has or
dered reduction in the wages of all
employees over sixty years of age at a
rate which is more than sixty per cent. OF
the wages they have been receiving. A
man at sixty years of age is not in his
prime, but there are plenty of men at
that age who can get through as much
manual labor as far younger men. Be.
ing unable to do his work is a sufficient
reason for reducing mans wages. but
being sixty years of age is no reason
whatever except to employers who re-
gard old people as young children-good
enough to play with.
SMALL boys will be glad to hear that
good cyclone may be made for five cents.
Professor Doug lass of Ann Arbor Uni
versity is showing chow it is DONE" He
suspends large copper plate by silken
cords. This plate is charged heavily
with electricity, which hangs down like
bag underneath, and is rendered visi-
bio by the use of arsenous acid gas,
which gives it green color, Tbs form
alton is miniature cyclone as perfect
as any started in the clouds. 1t is fun
Eel-shaped and wbirls around rapidly.
Passing the plate over table, the i've
cent cyclone snatches up copper cents,
pens, pith balls AID other objects and
scatters them on all sides,
TIE Keystone State and the party of
''Great Moral Ideas" will have to get
along without Don Cameron until 1885.
His toothache is over, and so is he-in
Europe. He met Tom Ochiltree in Lon
don the other day aud says that Tom"
is the greatest institution he has yet dis
covered in Europe. The Don says that
England would be very we'll if be had
only few Of the "Boys" over with Lin.
A whole cargo OF "Bcys' is to be CON
signed 10 him in the course of faw