The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-19
ITEMS OF INTERsT.E

ITEMS OF INTERsT.E
Tho ADVOCATE is the best adver-
tising medium in this section.
-Krupp is at present chiefly manu-
featuring guns ior China, Turkey, Japan
and Egypt.
Peter the Greats boots, the original
model of the "Wellingtons," are still
exhibited as curious relics in St, Peters
burg.
Small Mediterranean oysters, con-
sidcred by gourmands as the most deli
cate of all bivalves, are now canned for
expectation from Italy.
Verdi now shuns hearing music
sung or played, whether his own or
another's. He never touches the piano,
but frequently huns to himself simple
old Italian songs.
The present Car is the most ardent
Walter in st. Petersburg, and often
catches hold of the young court ladies to
give them a spin without music and
without ceremony.
-Kossuth, from feeble health, has
been compelled to stop teaching English
at Turin, and has gone to live in the
Alps on farm, where his sons will
hereafter support him.
AT Conyers, Ont, day or two ago,
there was committed to an insane
hospital prominent citizen" who is
asserted to have been "driven crazy by
the ceremony of baptism"
--Mainsprings of watches break most
frequently in the fall of the year, and
watchmakers are said TO put in more
new springs in two fall months than in
all the rest of the year.
Vital statistics lately published show
that in Germany the average life of men
has increased during the last thirty years
from 41,0 to +3.0 years, or per cent.
In women the increase is given s per
cent, the advance being from 41.0 to
45.2.
The Prince Of Wales, 1T is estimated,
is entitled to wear seventy different uni
forms. He has right to seventeen
different military uniforms alone, and
special costumes without number associ-
ated with his various titles and offices.
And he actually does wear them as each
occasion arises.
Lord Coleridge mentioned TO a
friend who met him recently in the
quiet old cathedral town ofPeterborough,
in which he is passing the summer, that
he had no intention of retiring frCm the
bench, but, on the contrary, now that
he enjoyed the blessing of undisturbed
domestic peace, he felt he could dis
charge the duties of his Office with
greater vlgor ami efficiency. lie has no
daughter but the one welded to Mr..
Adams. lie was looking remarkably
well.
The methods of the American am
bulance service, suspension harness and
all, are warmly praised in Liverpool,
where they have been in use for over
year, The record of the Northern
Hospital gives the average time from
the call 10 the departure of all ambulance
at minutes and IA seconds by day and
4 minutes by night. The time of each
journey, from call to return, was is
minutes and so seconds. The comment
is that the keeping of such record
IN Ikcs men in the service ambitious.
-Among the assets Of an estate just
s2ttlel At Auburn, n. y, was $4,000
worth Of street railway stock, which
brought only 10 cents.
San Francisco fishermen say the
seals AMI sea lions in the harbor must
90. They consume 1000 tons of fish
4 ycar-enough 30 supply the whole city.
There is a natural bridge near the
boundary line between Arizona and
New Mexico, twenty miles north of the
Atlantic AMI Pacific Railroad, which
surpasscs in every way the famous one
il Virginia.
some OF the camel5 taken to Texas
in ant3-war days with a view to breeding
them for army transportation contracts,
have per?etuated themselves in a held
in Bastrop county. whence showmen
IN Ike frequent purchases.
A paper presented before the French
Academy of Science estimates that a
man at 80 years Of age has slept an
aggregate of COCO days, worked the
same length of time, eaten 1000 days,
walkel $40 DAYS, ana been i'll 500 days.
6. L. Thomls of Albany, n. Y, is
said to own the larest mastiff in the
world. His name is Senator, his age is
l3 mouths; weight, l60 pounds; height,
35 l-2 inches over the wethers; length
from tip Of nose to end of tail, 7 feet S
inches, and he is valued at 81 800.
Extensive pottery works have been
established at Atkins, S. c. The en-.
terprise is under the direction Of several
Northern men of capital, with expert
ence obtained elsewhere in the business
which they seek to build up in South
Carolina, and they predict success.
STEADY progress continues TO b,
made in the cultivation of tea in the
Punjlb. In 1883 there were l,Sg4 tea
gardens in existence. Out of this number
, forty-four only areEuropean plantations
the reminder being worked and owned
by natives. The total area under cult
walton is 5,70S acres. In 1888 the tota
ou.-turn OF tea was 100000 pounds, O
which 0S4, ,4o5 pounds was black tea anC
SIS, SOS Tounls green.