The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREsT.

"A project is on foot at Wells, Me-,
to start a rabbit ranch, for the purpose
of supplying the Boston market. The
ranch, if established, is to consis. OF 200
acres of land, and the idea is to work it
at first with one or two thousand large
sized animals from the West.
"A curious phenomenon is reported
from some of the vineyards in the prov
ince of Malaga. According to Spanish
papers, plants attacked by the phyloxera,
and given up as practically dead, have
begun to show marked symptoms of
vitality, due, it is believed in the locali-
ties to the destruction of the insect by
gases or electrical conditions consequent
on the earthquakes.
Frances E. Townsley was ordained
by a council of Baptist churches in
Nebraska. This is the first instance, in
modern times at least, of the formal
setting apart of a woman to the office
and work of the Evangelical ministry.
The Methodist Church, though it per-
mits women to speak in its pulpits, has
declined to Ordain them. There have
been few women preachers like Miss
Anna Oliver and "Bible readers" like
Miss Smiley, but none of them has
obtained ordination. This Nebraska
case is distinctly new thing.
There is no circumlocution about
the manner in which the Pail Mall
Gazette opens its review of a newly
issued work by Mrs. Custer, widow Of
the late Gen. Custer, and dealing with
life in Dakota. The opening sentence
will be terrific shock to John Bull,
while Mrs. Grundy will read It with
feelingsIof horror. 1t reads thus :"'Boots
and Saddles is a perfect godsend TO a
world cursed with English dulness and
respectability." There is nothing really
new, however, about the expression.
Sixty or seventy years ago either Leigh
Hunt or Shelley gave expression in a
magazine of that day TO similar phrase
ology.
The workmen of Cook & Co., in
Sheffield, England, town in which
human life is worked out at greater
speedamong the manufacturing laborers,
as shown by statistics, than anywhere
else in the United Kingdom, recently
went to their employers, who were
laboring under difficulties, and stated
that ''in consequence of the stagnation
in the iron trade, and as their wages
could not be reduced, owing to their
being governed by the South Stafford
shire Board OF Cancellation, they had
decided at meeting that 1t was their
duty to help their employers to tide over
the period Of adversely. They had there
fore agreed to work a week for nothing
which they cheerfully did.
Christine Nilsson is prosecuting an
action against the family of her late
husband for the recovery Of $50, 900
which she advanced TO him during his
lifetime. The case was at hearing recent.
ly before the First Chamber of the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine. The money had
of share in a stock brokers' business.
Rougeaud was stock brokers' clark
without fortune when he married, in
1872, the celebrated singer, who saved
100000. Nilsson was, according 70 the
marriage contract, to retain complete
control of her money. Rougeaud died
three years ago in lunatic asylum, and
the defendants, as heirs-at-law, took
possession Of his property. If Nilsson
succeeds, she intends 10 make present
of the money TO the married sister OF
her late husband.
Philadelphia prides itself on its
china. Ex-Attorney-General Brewster
has spent a considerable part Of forty
years in making a collection. He has
no end of plates and saucers that, besides
their intrinsic beauty, are valuable for
historic association. He has a dinner
set that once belonged to Louis Philippe
Of France. Mrs. W. Childs is his chief