The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-07-11
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the sheep had been rolling.
The Russian Government has issued
an order forbidding the newspapers to
make any reference whatever to the action
of Russia in the Afghan affair.
After deducting expenses, the Bis
marck fund amounted to sum which
admitted of 1915, 900 being paid for Schon-
hausen, and the balance, a little over
$4,000, being placed to the Premier's
edit.
The war on Mother Hubbards, which
was so vigorously waged last summer in
various parts of the country, is being re-
newed in Dawson, Ga, where an ordin-
ance has just been passed imposing fine
of five dollars on persons wearing the
Objectionable garment on the street.
The report ofthc housing of the poor
states that the single-room system for
families is spreading in central London,
where, notwithstanding sS per cent of the
poor pay more. than one fifth of their
income in rent, twelve persons of differ
ent families were in some cases found in
one room.
Some INSCRIPTIONS people in San
Francisco are selling the waters of
Owens Lake in California at 81 print
under the name of "Water of Life. :"
The water of Owens Lake is a strong lye,
and goblet of it would almost kill a
mln. But ignorant people buy it, and
drink small quantities of it under the
imprission that they are taking a
wonderful curative.
The Manchester Ship Canal bill, on
which a fortune has already been spent
in Parliamentary proceedings, is once
more before the House of Commons.
Two years ago, after the House of COM
mons had passed hebill, the Lords threw
it out. Last session the Lords passed it
and the Commons rejected it. This year
the Lords have again signifed their ap-
proval, and the promoters are sanguine.
Facts furnish practical evidence OF
the agricultural adversity in England.
Land in Norfolk which eighty years ago
let for 5S shillings an acre is now to be
had at l6 shillings, the average gross
rental at lettings by auction being no
more than one.third what it was eighty
years ago. Word to the same effect
comes from Somerset and Hampshire,
and it would appear that the value Of
land in the past four or Eve years has
fallen in England even in a greater de.
gree than in Ireland.
Upward of sixty plants in flower
were lately observed by member of the
Massachusetts, Pharmaceutical AssociG-
ton in ride over the Berkshire Hills
Violets were very abundant; five vario-
ties were named, and many others were
founl ranging in color from the deep and
pale blue and purple to yellow and white
Co.umbine, hawthorn, dogwcod, honey
suckle, ox-eye, daisy, pearly everlasting
azalea, star flower and Solomon's sea
were also plentifully spread over tn
woods and fields.
An undue flash of admiration ha
come over English turf journalism on tn
de tn of one Frederick Swindell, VIII
was principally remarkable for the fac
at he began life as an illiterate AM
pc lnilcss luborer, and, with a million G
m pney, finished as uneducated as h
started. This circumstance, and the fac
that he figured consp' cuously in severa
big racing transactions that ordinar
people would consider discreditable
quite sufficient TO account for his apothC
osis among sporting writers.
DR.. Curran writes to the LANCE
concerning the advantages of usiu
electricity in killing criminals. at is
pity" he SAYS "the thing is not tried,
only by way of experiment, en- some ,
oar lower congeners, whence it might !
transported in time to the higher regiol
o Newgate and the provinces" III.
man writes with considerable nerv,
The apparatus" he continues, "of til
fluid or force might be packed away in Il
Orlintry travelling trunk"
The burial Of relative in Timrr i
a very serious and expensive busi
n 5. 1t involves a gift to the decease
from all his blood relatives, and, in re
tan lurial feast. If the deco used is
ma of rank, this feast is a matte
yiry often Of ruin to his family. Tn
fe stiyity must be given, and al the sam
t ne the hospitality is expected to b
cxtrao 'linarily lavish. CmscC uently
otel happens that the day of the funera
is indeiin 'lely pcstp ned for months, an
even for yeGrs, until the family has ha
Ii n to accumulate 81 fticient wealth ,
clt.le and substance. In the mean tim
the corpse is enclosed in mating, an
hDlsed either in Il tree or hut and le
to itself. Then fer lays there is sayae
bal lueting and revelling, and the intel
m,nt at last carried out. Among IL
N re savage races of the Timur Lal
islands ard Timlr tie skull of Il
ancestor is severed after burial and kel
as relic in Il place of honor within III
house.
In Sumatra there is very singul,
sace called the Kubus, who are too shy
mix with the other races of the islam
; and dive Il in the recessos of the forest
They are looked on as interiors by Il
Malays, and thought to be little better tha
Gcl is Sue is Il err shyness that tho
VIII never willingly face strang,
Their trade with the Malayans is co
sequeatly carried on in strange mann,
The trader announces his arrival
, beating Il gong, and then retires from t