The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-07-28
Editorial Mention.

EEw Youx cITI is starting q "eorner"
in peanuts.
MS. LANornY has returned to Eng
hnd, but she says that please God, I'll
soon come back again."
A wEss editor remarks that if such an
extravagant amount of virtue were not
bastOwsd upon the dead, there would be
more TO divide around among the living.
CEUseu pic.nics after dark are to come
20 an end In the diocese of the bishop
Of Newark. Itwould be we'll il all camp
meetings were TO be ''shut off, at sun.
set.
~TsE legislature,wont pass the Repub-
Ncan superintendent bill. it won't pass
the Democratic bill and it wont adjourn.
PsrhAps 1t would 90 out aud take
drink"
Two Of our learned contemporaries at
Msuch Chunk are hurling liberal eauca-
tions at each other which may, we hope,
prepare both for proper entrance into the
Kingdom Of Heaven.
"BEN BurLER is heapipg Goals OF Ere
upon the Harvard potentates who refused
him few useless letters of the alphabet.
Last week he subscribed $4,000 dollars
for new dormitory in Williams College
ARE the English colonies and depend
encies to be formed into federal union
like the United States2 This is the great
est question at present before The Brit
ish Government Ireland and Canada
form the most difficult part of the prob
lem.
1T is wonderful" said celebrated
Frenchman. "with how much fortitude
we can bear the misfortunes of other
people" How many Pennsylvania peo-
pie will weep upon hearing that in bank
at Binghamton, N. Y, there are now
calmly reposing 1000 of the eighty i've
cent dollarsf
TIE Philadelphis base ball club has
suffered from sunstroke, but is now "suf-
fering" from stroke of good luck. In
the last fourteen games, Gross, the fam
Gus batter. has been fifty.niue times at
the bat. and made 20 safe hits, including
nine two.bnggers and four three bas, rs,
running up an average of 49l,
THOUGH the American rife team, at
present competing in London, was well
ahead on Friday evening, the scoring of
Saturday showed in favor of the English
marksmen. The sum total of the scor-
ing. at ranges varying from two hundred
TO athousand yards, was. for the English
1851 points. for the Americans 1906.
The Adventists of Massachusetts are
building IN ark of enormous proportions
to provide against the second deluge
which they believe to be coming soon
For twenty dollars shelter will be afforded
Fifty dollars will be the price of nicely
furnished room. Provisions can be made
for beasts. stalls being furnished ut Fixed
rates.
Mn. SEc'Y FoLGER, in letter to cor.
respondent, has just state d that he has no
power to oEder the receipt of the trade
dollar at the Treasury in the same way as
the standard silver dollars. He also
quotes the joint resolution of Congress,
approved July 20. 1876. providing ns fol-
lows THAT the Trade Dollar shall not
hereafter be legal tender"
THH Scranton REPUBLICAN, apropos of
bangs being forbidden in church, drops
into poetry
There vase little girl, and she had little
euri,
That hung right down on her forehead;
And when she was good, she was very, very
good,
But when she was bad che was horrid."
CRTEwAYo has been badly beaten in
pitched battle by some person with the
suggestive name of Usibepu. An i'm
neDss number Of Gets" men were
killed, out that don't matter as the sable
warrior himself still possesses the gold
headed cane presented by the Prince of
Wales, and . btove pipe hat that lie
bought in London TO cover his naked-
ness.
IKE TTIEs says that the biggest strike
Of the season is yet to come. The tele-
graph operators, cigar makers aud cloak
makers. 10 the number OF 10000, are
now out enjoying a strike, but the CON-
ing strike will be the people of Pennsyl-
Vania striking Esainst do-nothing Leg
islAturc pocketing $4,000 day, Sundays
Included. Thstll be q strike as is a
strike and its bound to come.
THE complications between England
and France, arising out of the little affair
about the English Consul at Madagascar,
have cleared away. England demanded
an explanation in her old, imperious
manner. and France has ''knuekled
down" A new French ambassador has
been sent to London, and the admiral,
who insulted the consul. has been recalled
on ths ostensible ground Of ophthalmia
THn strike of the Telegraph opeTAtiveS
1s remarkable instance Of what intelii-
gent men and women may accomplish
By thorough organization. It is true
that they have not Aaccesded in all their
objects. but they have shown what a
mighty force can be exercised against
Z monopolisls when thirteen thousand self.
reliant people publicly assert their right
to fair days wage for fair days work.
RoscoE CoNKI1S0 is to spend the Iext
three or four wssks at Yellowstone Park.
lit be true that Roscoe and ''Chet" are
not on speaking terms, it is funny that
they should both perch on the same spot
for good long holiday. But the ways
Of New York politicians are strange, aud,
as the leaders OF that noble army of mar.
tyrs. Mr. Arthur aud Mr.. Conkling must
know all Abont their own ulittle game"