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

an offence to counterfeit i,2
The President of the Lime-kiln Club
accepts the fact that Harvard will not
confer degree upon Ben Butler. He
stated therefore at the last club-meetiug,
1--WE mus gin him him title an
legend combined. l shall now proceed
to crown him wild D. s. o. A. L. W. @
T. S. l. o., which stands fur, 'Doan' Sot
on n Limb when you got to saw it of. I"
CHICAGO can make other things besides
pork. A company has been formed in
that city, with capital of 1900, 600.
for the manufacture of single wheel
busgies. The wheel is attached TO the
horse with pair of buggy shafts, and
cannot fall to the ground as long as the
quadruped remains upon his legs. The
principal merit of this contrivance seems
to be that the buggy can go any where
that horse can o-destructior in
cluded.
NIAGARA FALLS are to be made the
scene of another thrilling experiment.
Captain Webb, the great English swim
mer, proposes to go over the falls in u
rubber ball. four and half feet in diam
eter and one efourth of an inch thick.
He says that air can be forced into the
ball until it will bear any outside rres-
sure whatever that may be put upon it..
1t shall be well if the sight.seers do not
''pick up of the fragments that remain
twelve baskets FULL
GREAT men are proverbially modest
Mr.. Charles A. Dana, of the New York
Sun, who once refused nomination for
Presidency on the grounds that 1--WE
make Presidents in the Sun Office, puts
on white beaver about 2 o'clock every
afternoon and goes to lunch. He strad
dies one of the swinging seats at coun-
ter, and, tilting his hat gently back, mods
familiarly to the waiter, and orders a
plate of soup. He is as modest as IL he
did not have $40, coo month.
THE world might we'll have spared a
greater maa." General Tom Thumb
Charles S. Stratton) died suddenly at
his home near Boston. last Sunday morn
ing. He was born at Bridgeport, Conn,
in 1882, and has been on the stage since
he WAS ten years old. Latterly be drank
more than was good for him, but never
theless he maraged to leave property
worth more than 5000 1t is wonder
full how much man may do in this
world ty being very, very "small."
WE are inclined to believe every word
Of it. Rev. Mr.. Appleton, OF Philadel-
phia, said last Sunday that Philadelphia
was getting "wickeder and wick, der
every day, and that God would soon des-
troy 1t like Sodom and Gomorrah." But
after all there are five righteous men.
Perhaps it may get off. There is G.. W.
Childs, the greatest obituary poet in the
whole world; John Wanamaker, who runs
the largest private Sunday School; Simon
and his boy Don, who control the morals
of universal politics, and Gel. Mcclure,
OF the TINES, who, acting sternly upon
the precept of st. Paul, is call things to
all men," There are just five good men
in the city of brotherly love. Perhaps
they may yet save it.
The New York Sun Of last Monday de.
voted the seven columns of its first page
to an abstract OF the budget of disclos-
ures which has just been made ly
Steve" Dorsey in reference to "The
Pledges of Garfield" 1t is not an ele-
waiting or an edifying story. Two of the
principal charges against the late Presi-
dent are contained in two documents
drawn up at the Fifth Avenue Confer
ence, which are now in existence. Iu
one of these documents Garfield bartere
his right to appoint his own Secretary OF
the Treasury, and III the other he virtu-
ally agreed to plunder the taxpayers by
giving the refunding of Government
bonds to Syndicate of New York bank
ers upon terms that would have enabled
them to gain millions of dollars from the
transaction. Another kindred document
contained an agreement by which, in
consideration OF large sum of money.
contributed by Jay Gould, the Republi-
can candidate for President pledged him
self to nominate to the first vacant sea
upon the bench of the Supreme Court OF
the United States man whose views
upon certain railroad questions should
be satisfactory to his general bene factor.
There is an old Latin maxim which wants
nothing put good" spoken of the dead
but modern history and politics demand
that we shall know of the dead, as well
as of the living, "the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.