The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ponehe HehsOuB ieSeiNlbB PatVVV iVi SoSu
appearance.
Vermont is never pronounced "Var-
mount" by people Of that State, says the
Rutland Herald, except in imitation Of out
siders.
According TO the will OF New Hamp.
shire man bis "dear wife" Is to receive $40
900 in case she remains single eight weeks
after his death.
Texas will soon abound With cotton
mills, says a San Antonio paper, which also
chroa cles the erection Of q mill at River
side at a cost Of SIC, 1000.
Between wolves and eagles the farmers
in the interior of West Virginia have been
losing thousands Of dollars worth Of sheep
and other small stock for weeks past.
The famous old English watering
places Of Bath has not been so crowded
since the DAYS Of Jane Austin, fashionable
doctors having again discovered tho virtues
Of ils waters.
Florida has entered the list OF competi.
tors for the Northern flower market. A
horticultural ut Tangerine has recently
shipped thirty thousand tubcrose bulbs to
dealers in the North.
AT Castle Howard, Lord Carlisle's sea-
in Yorkshire, there is a euest house in the
park where months rest. with good lily
ing, is provided each month for four hard
working women from large towns.
Anton Rubenstein has been in Hol
land during the last month on q concert
tour. He has finished a new oratorio.
which is to be brought out under his own
conductorship st Antwerp during the Ex
hibition.
AN attempt to pay fine Of $5mposed
upon him by a Justice Of the Peace, bv
caucelinG debt of 81 50 which his Honor
owed him. was made by California editor,
but with what success is not stated.
"A small piece ct what seemed to him
like glass was picked up in Macon. Ga, re
Gently by a citizen of that place, who took
it to a jeweller by whom it was pr rnounced
a diamond, aud worth from $500 To ST. 900
House stealing is rot uncommon in
Dakota. Last week James Caugney, in
Aurora county, was absent few days, and
on his return found his house gone. He
traced it to another county, nDd had one
James Mcclure arrested and fined $40 and
costs.
The family Of the late Count Harry
Arnim have been for several years en-
gagged in litigation with the German Guy
eminent respecting the heavy claims Of
that unfortunate diplcmatist against the
Foreign Office. The case as now been
finally decided, in favor Of the Arnim
family.
-Thequestion Of again opening the New
Orleans Exposition op Nov. | is being agi.
tat"d. Notwithstanding the expense that
would be entsiled during the FIVE months
intervening between the closing and re
opening OF the building, in the way oI in
surance, repairs, and police, it is believed
the enterprise may be made to pay
A natural ice cave, according to the
Alta California. exists thirty miles east OF
Fall River Valley, CAL, in the Mount
Shasta region. There are huge columns If
ice, chsmbers OF ice, and ice hanging from
the ceiling like blades of polished steel
forming picture OF grandeur. TIE resi-.
dents of the valley haul their summers
supply of ice from the cave.
Hr;. Il. Al.
Texas, according to the Cotula tTexas)
Ledger, which, in speaking on the subject
says: 1--WE scarcely pick up an exchange
but several murders are reported, or come
terrible crime brought 10 light which has
long been hidden. II is a nsticable facl
that when money matters are hard crime
invariably increases.
The journal Of The Ministry of Finance
Russian paper, gives some interest ing
particulars concerning the trade between
Russia and China. In 1900 Russia only
received $4,000 pounds of tea per annum.
in 1855 the amount had risen to 225 900
pounds..and in 1888 it was no less than
sistance rendered to merchants by the Coy
ernment Of ST. Petersburg. RusHan exports
into China have fallen off f'nm six I'd q
half million roubles in 1855 to two and y
half million roubes in 1878.
1t is stated that during his connection
with Messrs. Moxon, L,rd Tennys,n re-
| al l.
royalties. Later Messrs. Strahau 4 Co.,
became his publishers, paying him e5 900
for his books then in existence, and sep
ar lie account for new works, which were
to be published on commission. During
the five years Of the contract they paid the
aut bor somewhat more than f3I 900
Tennyson's next publishers were Messrs
King Co, whose ARA angenent was to pay
"a OoO year, with a separate account for
new works.
The Los Angeles Herald, speaking Of
crop prospeets in southern California, says
the demand for the single articles of cab
baGes is SIMPLY enormous. Carload after
carload oi the popular vegetable is being
shipped to the Territories and tn Texas a ID
'hsy bring return OF at least $500 an acre
to those who raise them. All the prospects
for large fruit crop are fine for the present
summer. About 100000 grape vines
will this year yield their luscious fruit,
while the peach, apple, pear and apricot
will he about double that of any former
year.
The resources OF vilizatiou have been
brought into service in the case OF Maxwell,
the st Louis murderer, who is on board a
steamer bound to New Zealand. A cable
message has been sent from St. Louis via
England, Portugal, the Mediterranean. .
Arabia, India, Australia and New Zealand
10 the Auckland authorities at a cost Of
sbout So 80 per word, OF several hundred
dollars altogether, aud If it retain any OF
its original meaning after this trip Of 10,
! 600 miles through a II these strange couD-