The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-13
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LOrQ lennySOn IS writing another
historical drama as sequel to" Beckett -
Iowa has 35.9 cattle to the squire
mile, 2 larger number, it Is said, than
any other state.
Black snakes arc stripping the Gov
eminent fish ponds near Washington
of their fi1ny occupants. The reptiles
are said to 1ncreas; in numbers nearly
as rapidly as the fish.
Tile negroes in Macon, Ga, are
greatly excited In consequence OF the
number of cases Of insanity occurring
among them within the past month.
Six crazy negroes arc nov confined in
the county jail.
--Naples at last has its Croton. A
whole river In the Apprentices has been
diverted to the city, and i3 now flowing
through 10000 pipes, and playing in the
five ornamental fountains constructed
for it. The King and Queen came TO
inaugurate the waterwor65, and were
received with indo3cribable enthusiasm.
The law, cheapening postage by
increasing the weight Of letters to one
ounce for the single rate, to go intoeffect
July l, Is already giving token Of its in
tiuence in the orders that manufacturers
are getting, Light weight writing papers
have had the preference over the heavy
ones to avoid double postage, but now
the tendency Is setting toward the heavy
papers; which, Of course, are greatly to
be preferred.
Lord Warwick is one Of those
English landlords who arc suffering
particularly from the land depression.
He has for some years been living IN the
quietest way. But his sons marriage
with great keiress will enable Warwick
Castle to be well maintained in the
future. Lord Leigh, whose heir was
killed last year in the Rocky Mountains,
is said to get about half the income he
got some years ago from his great estate
in Warwickshire,
When Mr.. Fawcett, the late Post
master-General of England, returned 10
health after Lying for time at DEATHS
door, he stated that his illness had at
least freed him from the fear of death.
In the most serious part Of his trouble
he felt no anxiety, and did not fear, as
he had in health, that the end would be
preceded by great pain or severe
struggle. He felt that his heart would
slowly and, without his knowledge,
cease to beat.
1t is interesting to know that one,
at least, of the best traditions Of classical
Greece has lasted down to these latter
days. This is the readiness Of rich
their private expense. The University of
Athens boasts Of an endowment at this
moment of more than $12,0)C,C0O.
There is q hospital at Athens, too,
entertaining more than hundred aged
brothers, which was founded by single
wealthy Greek citizen.
Whenever an individual outruns the
nominal limit Of human life physiolo-
gsts give the reason why, That for Mr..
Gladstone's excess is said to be his per-
feet digestion. Sir Henry Thompson,
in the Fortnightly of last month, holds
that the fact of the decay of teeth in old
age suggests that the food Of that period
ought to be soft, pap in fact. Lord
Randolph Churchill, the Tory Terrier,
as he is now called, need not fear then
that the G, o, NJ. will turn round and
read him.
AT Mt. Airy, Nd, the other day, a
family of bees were lowering in the air,
looking for place to swarm, when q
telegraph operator happened to pass,
and they decided TO settle upon his
head. Several hundred of them de-
scended upon him and the rest were
following, when he ran, scraping the
unwelcon!e intruders from his hair and
face with his hands, but getting so badly
stung before he could clear himself that
lie tainted. His face was terribly swollen
and he suffered severe pain.
1t is said that the pernanence OF
the California mountain forests is seri-
ously threatened by herds OF sheep and
cattle which are driven into the noun.
taius every year to Craze. From the
foothills TO the highest meadows every
blade of heritage and every Seeding
shrub, and tree is devoured. Young
trees are harked and ruined, and thC
roots of grasses are trodden out by the
hoofs OF animals. The life OF any forest
in which all young trees are destroyed
is limited to the LIE Of the full grown
trees which compose it,
"A note appears in tie latest Pal
Mall G0zette which may be taken a
another sign of the times as to the decay
of landlordism in Ireland. Under tht
heading OF "a Use for Irish Mansions
it is stated that, failing to get a private
tenant, Lord Castletown, who win bC
remembered as having, with Lore
Donoughmore, passed some month!
here in two successive seasons, ha!
offered his beautiful mansion, Grands
town Manor, in the Queens county
with fine garden and sixteen acres o
demesne land attached, at a merel,
nominal rent Ito keep the roof on it)
for the purpose of hospital or con
valescent home,