The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-10-03
ITEMS OF INTERsT.E

Using medium in this section.
Up in Vermont $4,000 skating
rinks are offered for $500.
The refusal by a teetotal tailor to
make clothes for rumselers is a new
cause for temperance discussion in Lon
don.
The i'll feeling in France toward
England is indicated by the fact that one
issue of a leading Paris daily journal
five articles abusing ;he Brit
ons virulently.
"A New Haven beggar with swollen |
hand and story of awful suffering from |
has been exposed. lie pro-
duced the pitiful symptoms by binding
his arm with a cord
Oysters are cheap food, and yet a
steward explains that they are unproft-
able for hotel tables, because guests
never think of letting them take the
place Of any regular course in meal
"A Baltimore negro has literally worn
two fingers. OFF in many years of shovel
ing coal. The case is reported by a
physician as curiosity. There is no
apparent disease, and no inconvenience.
The increasing masculinity of Eng
lish girls is q topic for many London es-
sayists. In dress, talk, and manners
it is the fashion with daughters of wealth
and refinement TO be as much like their
brothers as decorum will allow.
Superiority in American hotels over
those of England, as judged by Black
GOODS, lies in the fact that whatever
the guest wants Is ready for him at all
hours. From the posting of letter to
the eating of meal he finds the facili-
ties in readiness.
Charles G.. Leland writes that the
masses in France believe that our civil
war was between the Spanisrds of South
America and the negroes of North Am
erica. lie afiirms that as fast as French
men learn that We are very much like
Englishmen their feeling changes to
hatred.
Two tiny boys with good voices and
clever miinicry have been singing on
Western railroad trains. They said to
sympathetic questioners that they were
working their way alone from San Fran
cisco to New York city, and one pas
senger estimated their receipts in a
single day at $40. He also discovered
that they had a manager and treasurer
in the person of their father, to whom
they slyly rendered up the money.
1t is the opinion OF Prof. Hodge, of
Princeton, who has studied the subject
carefully, that Sir Moses Montedore has
gone to the Christian heaven, although
he was a devout jew. Prof. Hodge
argues the orthodox belief to be that
God may "lead person outside the
Church to essential truth, independently
of human agency" and may "save him,
although his relation to Christ may be
so obscured by peculiar conditions as to
clude our recognition.
Accounts from the larger summer
resorts have agreed that the most sue
cessful dandyism was that of three
brothers nearly enough alike to be trip
lets. By wearing similar clothes and
manners they made treble impression,
Tor the observer could see no distin.
gushing differences, and so the COM
bined dude makes three hits TO one by
any competitor. They put on no shred
of American garb. From the tops Of
their hats to the tips of their sock,
everything was imported from London
They had a genuine Austrian baron a:
their guest all summer, taking him
from place to place and paying all his
expenses.
-Four miners sat one night in June
1858, in tent at an Australian digging
discussing their future plans and deplor
ing their ill-fortune. For weary month:
they had worked the mine without get
ting more than bare living. Atlengtl
they decided to leave the spot, though
not without regret. Three of them were
in the mine taking last look round
when one said TO his mates, "Good-by
I'll give You farewell blow" and Will
that his pick sent the splinters Of quartz
in all quarters. His trained eye spied {
glitter on one of the bits that landed a
his feet. He picked it up, examined it
and found it TO be gold. He at once
proceeded to work with a will. Hi
chums saw that something out OF tn,
common had happened, and they, too
piled their picks vigorously. With 81
lent resolve they worked on until the.
unearthed big nugget. Then fierce
glad yell of joy reached the ears OF tn
fourth man at the windlass at the min
top. whats amiss?" he shouted down
"Wind up" was the reply, and when h
did so the lump of pure gold met hi
gaze. They called it "The Welcome,
and obtained $4,000 for it. The CLAIM
where the nugget was got is now coveret
with the fine streets of the thriving tow
of Ballarat.
A disproportionate tax on foreign
ers residing in France is new an
popular proposition.
1t is Gen. Custer's widows writer
opinion that the wife of Mark Train i
young and pretty, with lustrous blacl
eyes, and a prevailing air of delicate re
ilnunent.
The Provincial Bank of Bueno
Ayres has a capital Of S3S, 900, 900 ant
deposits amounting to $4,000. Thes
figures are not equalled by any Unite,
States bank.
Cotton can be easily grown in tn
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