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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25
HYmenial-RomIg-porney.

Atip. m. yesterday, at the residence ofthe
brides parents, 40. als North Eighth street.
Allentown, Albert L. Eomig, only son Of Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. B. Romig. Centre street, Both
lehem, and MISS c. ". Domcy, were united
in holy bonds Of mauimony. The wedding
was strictly private, only the immediate rcla-
tves of the contracting parties witnessing
the ceremony Rev. L. A. Grrnant, pgslorof
the Reformed Church Of Allentown, was the
oihelating clergyman, The bride was attircd
in herWaduating suit. she was the recipient
Of number Of beautiful and costly presents.
banquet was given after after the wedding.
Mr. Romlg and bride len on an evening train
for Philadelphia, whence they viii proceed
10 Baltimore, Md, where they viii 20 TO
housekeeping. Mr.. Romig- is Interested in
the larlmore Bnggy-tnp Manufacturing Co.,
of Baltimore. The Bethlehemites who were
present at the wedding were the groom's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Romig, and sisters
MIS-. Minnie Lynn and Miss Name Runiig.-
Bethlehem TINES. Al. has many friends in
TINS place who wish him much success ON his
matrimonial Yrnhue.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25

The members of Lehigh Hook and
Ladder Company, are requested to at
tend the regular meeting in Gabel' 5
Hall, this Saturday EVENING" at $50 o.
clock, to select a uniform from the
samples already received, and transact
other important business.
BY order of the President.
j. J.. GABEL, Il. s.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25
Obstructive FIRE at Weissport

W J.
AT about half past nine Wednesday
night flames were seen issuing from
the livery stable, connected with the
Franklin House, East Wessport, and in
few minutes the whole building was
enveloped in flames. BY the timely ef-
forts of bystanders the horses in the
stable were loosencd and saved. In a
short time the structure was burned TO
the ground together with n lot of hav.
corn, oats, harness and TWO mules.
Wessport being without a fire apparatus
the flames soon spread to al iacent build
ing', one occupied by Joseph Rex as a
Hour, feed and furniture establishment
and the builling occupied 10y Charles
Schweitaer as blacksmith shop and
Frank Fa.zinger as a shoemaker shop;
these buildings were soon burned to the
ground with their contents. Obcu's
lire apparatus was procured but the
buildings were so far gone that it was
impossible to save them ana the efforts
of the crowd were directed to the saving
Of the buildings close by. The loss. in
cludinS stockand buildings, will probab-
ly foot up $4,000 or 5000. The build
ings were owned by Thomas Koons, of
Lehighton, and were not insured. The
fire is supposed TO be the work of an in
cendiary.
The Mauch Chunk fire department
was telegraphed for but arrived too late
to be of much assistance.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25
The Carbon SArutatc.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1886.

SPECIAL NOTICE-Persons making
payments to this ofiice by money orders or
postal notes will please make them payable
at the WEIssPoRT PosT OFFICE, as the Le-
highton office is NOT q money order office
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25
j. It. NUSBAUM.

opp. Public Square, Bank Street, Lehigh-
ton. Pa. June I, Iss4-ly.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-25

sg-Happy thought! While you are
attending the Soldiers Monument Cele-
braIion at Mauch Chunk, 90 to Read
mans and have some of those elegant
CabinetPhoto made. Only $500 per
dozen.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
A Boy Without a Country.

Some years ago Charles Busch, a
naturalized German-American, accom-
panied by his pretty Italian wife, sailed
for France to accept an engagement as a
tenor singer in one of the opera COM
panies in Paris. En- route, a child, who
named Charles Herman Busch, was born
to them. The mother died shortly after
reaching France, and the father soon
followed her. The child, having been
born on the high seas, was literally with
out country. The French authorities
refused to administer upon the fathers
estate or provide gurdian for the infant,
because neither of the parents was citi-
zen of the republic. Consul Shackel-
ford could do nothing without permission
from the government.
After two years delay this permission
was finally granted. The American
colony in Paris became interested in the
child, who is said to be remarkably
bright and precocious, and a fund has
been subscribed sufficient to rear and
educate him until his 18th year, when an
effort will be made to appoint him q
cadet at thenaval academy at Annapolis
The little fortune of $27, 200 francs, the
proceeds of his fathers estate, will be
invested for him and placed at his dis
posal when he shall have finished his
Observation-Disclosures Cor. Chicago
News.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

Manufacture Of "One-Stnve" Barrels.
Flour handlers and others who use bar
rels are just now interested in zone
stave" barrel, manufactured near Detroit.
While the size and shape of this barrel
are the same as the ordinary kind, the
body of the barrel consists of a single
sheet of timber held by hoops. The tim
Der used is elm, which is cheap and
abundant. Canada is the main base of
supplies. The logs will be RATED over
during the season of navigation, and
brought by rail in winter time. The logs
are taken from the boom or yard into the
sawmill and cut into two-barrel lengths.
Thence they go into steam chest, where
they remain until thoroughly steamed
In this condition the log is converted
into thin sheets, or veneering, used in the
body of the barrel. By special process
a two-foot log becomes rolls of wooden
sheeting in a minutes time. There re-
mains upon the mandrel an eight-inch
core, which is utilized IN making barrel
heads. These sheets go next to a sand
ing machine, by which both sides are
made perfectly smooth. After passing
through cutting and growing machine
they are so cut by goring machine as to
adapt them to the shape of barrel.
Thence they go to drying-house. From
the lighthouse they go to the sizing saws,
where they are cut the desired length,
when they are ready for the cooper shop
or for shipment. They are shipped in
bundles and in the "knock-down" to be
put up at their point of destination,
Three thousand of them can be stored
and forwarded in an ordinary box car
The headings are shipped in BARRELS
Boston Budget.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
LITTLE MANNERlsMs OF SPEECH.
Everybody Is More or Less Of Huisnnos

Everybody Is More or Less of Nuisance
at Tlmes-Contradiction
Everybody has some little mannerism
Of speech or gesture that he never knows
he has. They chaif the English about
ADon't you know" but wonder how
many of the Americans who use the ex-
preston constantly know they do it.
~See:" is a common addition, period, in
terjection and exclamation. 1 know
several men who in telling anything say
"And 80 forth and 80 on" three times a
minute; and IAN that sort of thing is a
most frequent expression with any num-
Der Of people.
The man who interludes his converse
ton with "Don't you think so?" is more
OF nuisance, because you never know
whether he expects you to answer him
or not. "Sayl" is an abrupt and harsh
way of attracting attention; yet ladies
are most given to the use of it. Every
body is more or less a nuisance at times.
One man sits perfectly still and talks 30
deliberately and slowly that you get mad
either because you know five minutes
before he gets there what he's going to
say or you have to wait so long TO find
out. Another fellow talk so fast and so
much that you get tired of the subject,
however entertaining. A third fellow
gets up and walks about in the most
irritating way while he's pressing. A
fourth begins about one subject and
goes all over the earth before he gives
you chance to get a word in.
But the most universal impulse in
human nature is to contradict, and nearly
everybody does it. The man who agrees
with you in everything is awfully pleas
ant for one trip, but you never make a
great friend of him. He does not COM
pliment you, because he generally ends
by producing an idea in you that he
either knows as much as you or he is
agreeing with you from indifference. 1
like man who contradicts and sticks
up for his contradiction. Argument is
the salt of social life.-San Francisco
Chronicle "Undertones."
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
HINTS from The JAPANESE.


How We Could Learn from the AEikndo'a
People to Simplify Our Homes.
We have been looking at some Japan
csc dwellings, interiors. How simple
they are. how little furniture or adorn-
mentl how few things TO care for and
be anxious about Now the Japanese ars
very ancient people. They are people
Of high breeding, polish, refinement.
They are in some respects like the Chi
nese, who have passed through ages and
cycles Of experience, worn out about all
the philosophers and religions then on.
and come out on the other side of every
thing. They have learned to take things
rather easily. not to fret, and TO get on
without great many encumbrances that
we still YEARLY carry along.
When we look at the Japanese houses
and at their comparatively simple life,
are we warranted in saying that they are
behind us in civilization? May it not be
true that they have lived through all our
experience and come down to an easy
modus vivendi? They may have had
their bric-a-brac period, their overload
ng-establishment age, their various
measles stages of civilization before they
reached condition in which life is a
comparatively simple affair. This
thought must strike any one who sees
the present Japanese craze in this coun-
try. For, instead of adopting the Jap
anese simplicity in our dwellings, we are
adding the Japanese excentricities to our
other Accommodations of odds and ends
from all creation and increasing the in
congruity and the complication of our
daily life.
What a helpless being is the housewife
in tho midst of her treasures. The
Drawer has had occasion to speak lately
Of the recent enthusiasm in this country
for the cultivation of the mindn 1t has
become almost fashion. Clubs are
formed for this express purpose. But
what chance is there for it in the in
creased anxieties of our more and more
involved and overloaded domestic lifef
Suppose we have clubs-Japanese clubs
they might be called-for the simplifica-
ton of our dwellings and for getting rid
OF much Of our embarrassing menagel-
Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's Hag-
| azine,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
AT HOME.

The frugal snail, with forecast Of repose,
Carries his house with him where'er he
goes;
Peeps out, and II there comes a shower Of
rain,
Retreats to his small domicile again.
Touch but tip OF him, a horn-'tis well,
lie curls up In his sanctuary shell.
He's his own landlord, his own tenant;
stay
Long as he will he breads no quarter
day.
Himself he boards and lodges; both invites
And feasts himself; sleeps with himself
o. nights.
He spares the upholsterer trouble TO pro-
Chattels; himself his his own furniture,
And his sole riches. Wheresoeer he roam,
Knock when you will-he's sure to be at
home. Charles Lamb.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

If Beelzebub means "Gnat God," the
temple of that deity ought to be erected
at Barras, near the junction of the Anna
zon and the Rio Negro. Even at Fonta-
boa, some 800 miles further inland, the
mosquito swarms surpass any conception
North American could have formed in
eastern Arkansas, but at the mouth of
the Rio Negro the great plague becomes
80 absolutely intolerable that neither
commercial advantages nor exuberant
fertility of the virgin soil has thus far
induced any Caucasian bipeds to make
the delta their permanent home.
The lower eighty feet of the atmos-
phere are literally saturated with clouds
of winged blood-suckers. Thousands and
thousands of them hang like a gray mist
about every tree, and hover and hum
over every pool, and drunken man fall.
ing to sleep in the open air would prob
ably be bitten to death before morning
The wood-cutters at the steamboat land.
ing wear gauze wells, like Carmelite nuns
and defend their cabins with battery Of
ever-smoking pestazotes "stink-pots,
flied with a smouldering mixture of dry
ding and waste tobacco leaves.-Dr. Fe
lix l.. Oswald.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
DIAMOND tls1os OF SOUTH AFRICA.
How city srrans Up In the Desert "A
Vast Human Ant-Hnl.

Vast Human Ant-Hn.
As the pan-washing and crallinp OF
the adventurous prospector Of 40 has
given way, on the Pacific slope, to the
operations Of organized and scientific
mining industry, SO the individual oper-
atoms Of the individual diamond diggers
OF 9riqualand, South Africa, in 1871,
with their rude bucket and windlass,
followed BY the inclined wire, have been
replaced by skilled labor Tunnels have
been blasted through solid rock, shafts
have been sunk hundreds Of feet into the
earth, and yet the precious bits of carbon
are found in. quantities to supply the
greed OF avaricious man and furnish a
living to thousands and wealth to a
lucky few.
In 1872 what is now known as Kimber-
ley was called De Beers New Rush and
had already been yielding up its carbon
crystals until city of tents and cor
rugated iron houses, with one huge music
hall and between 300 and 400 drinking
places had clustered around the enor-
NOUS excavation, whence the earth had
been removed by single bucketfuls. This
marvellous result of the labors of the
human ants who swarmed in its depths
and ON its borders was the spot which
became known the world round as the
kolesberg Kopje before it became the
Kimberley mine.
Some idea of the size of the Kopie and
the number of people working ON it daily
VIII be gathered from the statement that
at the time now spoken of 800 claims,
each being thirty feet square, and an
average Of about thirty men-say twenty
six black and four white-worked in
each claim, giving a total of "a, 900 work
ing there. The first licenses to work
claims at the Kopje were issued on the
goth of July, 1871, and in little more than
year the claims were carried down 50
deep, many over eighty feet, that none
of the roadways were left standing COM
plete, though immense portions of them
having the appearance of huge. broken
walls remained.
"The kopje has been aptly described as
vast human ant-hill, says writer of
the period referred to. II do not know
more effective simile. Human beings
are everywhere moving about with an
activity and in numbers, like ants. They
pass over the narrow roadways, glide
down the face of the excavation, or are
at work at depth which dwarfs their
statures into that Of mere miniature
men. Here men are feverishly rislking
their necks day after day in the pursuit
of wealth. They pass over places where
false step-the slipping of foot or the
incorrectness Of the eye in measuring a
distance-will cause their death. They
climb up ascents that to the expert seem
unascendable. They slip down ropes
that are only fastened to frail tree
branches driven into the loose earth.
They stand ON lodges that are perhaps
forty feet away from the roadway above,
and forty feet above the bottom of the
claim below. They wheel barrows along
narrow pathways that would startle
even some expert mountaineers. They
work beneath tottering masses, and
every now and then these fall, manning
and killing.-Detroit Free Press.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

In the southern central part of the
state, however, extending hom latitude
20 degrees 80 minutes to latitude 2S de
grees 80 minutes, is a network of little
lakes, rivers and swamps, which was
long considered unfit for any of the pur-
poses of civilized life. This region is be-
tween forty and sixty feet above the
level of the sea, so that there is no reason
why it should be considered undrainable.
The lakes and swamps have been formed
by the rank vegetation, which for cent
uries grew, decayed and fell into the
rivers, thus damming them up and
partially flooding the surrounding
country.
The company organized by Disston, of
Boston, obtained from the government
a grant of all tho lands which should be
drained by it. The company brought
down dredges and began its work by
clearing out channel from the Lake
Okeechobee to the Atlantic, a distance Of
forty miles. If the project is ever carried
out, it will shorten by about 260 miles
the sea voyage between points on the At
lantic coast and the gulf ports. The
company also intends to drain the south
east Everglades by the same method EN-
ployed in retaining the northern
swamps.-Florida Cor. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

These discussions or exchanges of
opinion as to the value of militia, COM
pared TO regular soldiers, are all right,
but I tell you some respect is paid to the
militia in times of disturbance. or course
they will shoot high, and everything
like that, and they will shudder at the
thought of shedding blood, where the
regulars will shoot to kill, their only
thought, aim and object being to obey
orders. But oftentimes it is not neces.
sary to shoot. The uniform and the
sight of a gun does great deal. II
awes.-W. H. Trask in Globe-Democrat
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

While it would grieve me to offend the
modest vanity of the swine-breeders OF
the states, truth compels me to say that
with all their efforts, and perfect as they
fancy their Poland-Chinas and Berk-
shires, those gentlemen have not sue
ceeded in producing anything resemb-
ling the hog of Honduras. But when
by some unaccustomed circumstances
the hog of Central America has had food
enough to put little flesh on his ample
stock Of bones, that flesh is incomparably
superior in flavor to the oily gross
product of the north.-Chicago Times.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

A German test for watered milk con-
sists in dipping a well-polished knitting
needle into deep vessel of milk and
then Immediately Withdrawing it in an
upright position. II the milk is pure a
drop of the fluid will hang to the needle,
but the addition of even a small proper
ton Of water will prevent the adhesion
of the drop.-Chicago Tribune.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

A doctor is called TO a man suffering
from asthma. His visit over, he is stopped
in the entry by the sick mans wife.
swell, doctor, WI do you think Of
my poor husband
"Reassure yourself, sathma is patent
of longevity"
"But you will cure him of it, won't
you?"-Detroit Free Press.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

John Burroughs finds that since he
gave up the use of meat his health has
been materially improved. u find !
need less physical exercise, that my
nerves are much steadier, and that ]
have far fewer dull, blank, depressing
days; in fact, all the functions of my
body are much better performed by
abstaining from meat."-Chicago Trib-
unn
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

It is recalled by Forest and Stream that
the first effective law for the protection
of insectiverous birds was prepared by
Henry William Herbert. The original
draft is still in MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

The school was celebrating the birth
day of Oliver Wendell Holmes. "And
now," said the teacher, who is DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes?n And the
school shrieked out, "Versed in war,
versed in peace, versed in the hearts OF
his countrymen!"-Burdette in Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
T 0 CONSERVATIVES.

The advert err having been permanently cured
Of that dread disease, Comsun ption by simple
sufferers the means Of cure. To all who desire II
he will send copy of tho prescription used (Fr q
with the directions for preparing and using the
same which they will fni a sure CURE Tor
COUGHS, COLDS, CONSUMPTION, ASTHAMA.
BRONCHITIS, SC. Parties wishing the Prescrp-
ton, will please address, Rev. J.. A. Wilson, 1871
Penn street, Williamsburgh, n. Y.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

ATTENTION
FARMERS and GARDENERS
Buy a $5 Bone Mill
And make your own bone meal, crack
ed corn, and ground oyster shells for
your chickens. The increase in eggs
will soon pay for the mill
Buy Cooley Dreamer
And make better butter, more of il
with less labor than by any other
method.
Buy a Matthew Seed Drill
And SOW all the small seeds in your
garden with regularity and precision,
saving labor and seed.
Buy Lees Wheel Hoe
To destroy all the weeds in your gar
den. A boy can work it.
Buy 0ahoon Broadcast Seed-sower
To SOW any kind of grain or grass seed
at the rate Of to acres per hour.
Call and examine these and other labor
saving implements at
ID. LazlurctI1 and Sons,
IMPLEMENTS and SEED WAREHOUSE,
81 and 20 South sixth Street Philadelphia.
Branch StOre-Drlaware Avenue and
Arch Streets, pha
seed and Implement catalogue free to all ap
plcants. m2O-3m
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

1t is better for the general health of a
community to have one good-natured
man in neighborhood than four doc
tors.--Chicago LedGer.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

A German metallurgist has intoducee
an apparatus for pumping molten lead
by steam pressure.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17
1855.

Is47. 1885.
GEO. W. WILLIAMS,
NEWARK, DELAWARE.
agent for the Kent County Mutual Fine
Insurance Co., Of Dover, Delaware, In
sures against loss Of Fire, issuing Mutual
Policies only under which Payments are
made annually in advance during mem
bership, and ON ccasing to be members
whatever remains unexp,ndcd after pay
ing loses. expenses and dividends are re-
turned, thereby furnishing Insurance at
cost. Dividends returned after the
second animal payment Ang22tf
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

The name of the late Charles L. Davis,
ESQ.,, of Portland, stands on the list of
Names great lawyers. His intellect was
subtle and his diction choice. He made
one Of his incest and most involved ar
p-uments before Judge Colt one day.
After he had addressed the court learn
eddy and warmly for an hour or more he
asked: @Does your honor see the thread
of my argument" Il don't quite see
the thread of your argument, Brother
Davis said the court, with a smile, ~but
1 plainly hear the spinning of the wheel"
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

HTI Nor work Ing people. Send 10 cents DOS,
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dress stinson Co Portland. Maine
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

There is a story told of Drs. Chalmers
and Stewart, who argued on the street
corner on some knotty point of theology,
with Scottish pertinacity, until it was
time to separate, when one of them re-
marked: "You will find my views very
well put in a certain tract" of which
he gave the title. Upon which, to his
surprise, his antagonist replied; "Why,
I wrote that tract myself.-The Argo-
naIIt
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

Evidence of the decay of forests in
Australia is found in the present exis-
once of a few trees far exceeding in
size any Of those about them, and sup
posed TO be survivors Of a departed race
Of giants.--Arlkansaw Traveller
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-17

Artificial ice is used on some Of the
English steamers