The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-12
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(Ga.l Superior Court for divorce at
recent session, on the ground that she
had been living with her husband for
five years and was tired of him.
Georgetown, Col, has had to i'm
port new corps of female teachers for
its public schools, only one of last years
"schoolma'ams" remaining. The rest
have all married or are engaged.
In sleeping car on the Rock Is
land road Mr.. John T. Stewart placed a
very large valise in the aisle, and was
advised by the conductor to get it
checked. Mr.. Stewart responded by
thrashing the conductor.
"A member of the Bible Revision
Committee received a touching plea
against the changing of verse in Pro-
verbs, (which" said the writer, ''was
always great comfort to my two hus-
bands, both deceased"
"A poor servant of Broome county,
N. Y, who married the son of rich
man two years ago, has just had ver-
dict for 81, 900 against her father-in-law
awarded her on the ground that he
alienated her hurband's affections, in
consequence of which she had again to
earn her own living.
The University College Hospital is
foremost London medical institution.
The charter forbids the introduction of
religion in any form into the tuition.
Lately the nurses in the wards have
been religious sisterhood, sanctioned
by the Church of England; but there is
now movement to exclude them, on
the ground that their employment is a
violation Of the anti-religious proviso.
The contents of the State Library
at MorNco are being catalogued by
well-known French sayant, who has dis
covered there mass of correspondence
of immense historical value. There are
many documents of the greatest interest,
as well as some 10000 letters, including
many written by successive Kings of
France, and by Richelieu, Mazarin,
Catharine de Medicis, Louvois, Colbert
and Montaigne.
Ferdinand VII. of Spain, when
'hard up in 1922, received loan of
100000 reals from Senor Uzade, re-
payment not to be made unless demand
ed. The munificent senor never made
demand, but his descendants have now
brought suit against Queen Isabella and
her sister, the Duchess of Montpensier,
who resist payment on the ground that
the money was gift, and that repay
ment is at any rate barred by prescrip-
tlon.
The Lancet lately gave dreadful
picture of the unsanitary plight of
Windsor. 1t entirely agrees with the
report made by a special agent of the
Builder fourteen years ago, and is con-
firmed by well-known Windsor clergy
man, who writes; "In South place in
this there are forty-two houses with a
population of varying from 40 to 2l0.
To these forty-two houses there are
fourteen closets, all without water. Ten
of these houses have no backs no
sinks, no closets. All are without wa
ter. There are in these ten houses just
fifty people without the common decen-
cies of life." The medical officer ad-
mits all this, but adds: II do not feel
justified in condemning these houses as
unfit for habitation." Such is royal
Windsor. No wonder the Prince Con-
sort got his typhoid there.
The correspondent Of a London
paper, who visited the imperial train
which conveyed the Gar of Russia to
his meeting with the Emperor Franz
Joseph, TINS describes IL: 1T contained
bedrooms, bath rooms, and dining rooms,
besides saloons and boudoirs, and all
these were furnished with wonderful
luxury. The room of the two young
princes, for it was regular room, was
upholstered in violet leather of new
and lovely shade. Everywhere were
easy chairs and the softest of sofas. In
the Emperor's private saloon was an
ikon, with a lamp burning before land
on the table lay the newspapers which
his Majesty had been reading. There
was not Russian paper among them,
but the Kreuz Zeituhg of Berlin, four
Danish papers, and the Paris Figaro.
In all the saloons, both of the Emperor
and suite, there were card tables, and
the suite had evidently been playing
hard, judging by the packs OF cards
strewn about"