The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-03-31

"but suppose the devil fetches the prince,
what will become of the archbishop"
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They say it fact that Mr.. and Mrs.
Turknet, aged 80 and 65 years respectively,
of Cisco, Texas, have recently become the
parents Of fine boy.
1t is said that there is a woman In
Plainville, Mass who has bought but one
paper of pins during her twenty years of
housekeeping life. just how she gets her
pins is not stated.
Judge Cook Of Jacksonville, Ala, not
long ago bought purely on speculation,
forty acres of land sold for taxes. He paid
twenty dollars, ard then looking up the
site of the land, found that it was within
the corporate limits of Admission and easily
worth $4,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller Of Rice Lake,
Mimi, don't know whether to be proud OF
ashamed of their first baby. 1t weighs but
pound and half, its feet are but an inch
long each, and wineglass will cover Its
head. 1t is perfectly formed and healthy
There are over 1900 soldiers in the
Russian army afflicted with opthalima in
the hospitals of the Odessa district alone.
These cases are entirely treated by nurses
and have no skilled medical attend
ance.
The women of Bunzlar, in Sllesia, re-
Gently celebrated a curious centenary. 1t
was just hundred years since the man
died who constructed gigantic earthen-
ware vessel, which is kind of counter
part to the famed vat at Heidelberg. The
vessel holds thirty bushels of peas, is three
yards high, and measures nearly four yards
across.
When woman anxious to make a
living asks what to do, the wise answer:
What you can do best" Many women
have taken this hint, and are making money
baking cake, canning fruit, making dainty
desserts, raising bees leach doing what she
can do best. 1t is said that woman who
in prosperous days had made a study of
diamonds and was fine judge, put the ad-
vice to test, and is to-day in one of the
largest diamond houses Of this city, and is
a most successful buyer.
Barrels are now being made of hard
and soft wood, each alternate staYe being
of the soft variety and slightly thicker than
the hard wood staye. The edges of the
slaves are cut square, and, when placed
| together to form the barrel, the outsides
are even, and there is V-shaped crack be-
tween each staye from top to bottom. In
this arrangement the operation of drying
the hoops forces the edges of the hard slaves
into the soft ones until the cracks are closed
and the extra thickness of the latter cause:
its inner edges TO lap over those of the hard
wood stages, thus making the joint doubll
secure.
The paper doors now coming into use
are claimed to possess the advantage ovel
wood of neither shrinking, swelling, crack
ing nor warping. They are formed Of two
thick paper boards, stamped and moulded
into panels, and glazed together with glut
and potash, and then rolled through
heavy rollers. After being covered with I
waterproof coating, and then one that il
fireproof, they are painted, vanished, ant
hung in the usual way.
The cell of a prisoner named Dayis
aged "a, in Portsmouth convict prison, VIII
had just commenced his second term o
FIVE years penal seryitude, was bein
seaLched recently, when it was found tina
lie had only one sheet on his bed. He wa
examined, and it was ascertained that b
> converted one sheet into perfectly fittn
; srit OF clothes, a cap being made of tn
: un Ter his ordinary prison grab. A lette
vas found on him appealing to a resider
in Portsmouth for money.
An attack WIS made upon stage coac
between Lyons and L'Arbresle recently
: The driver had inside the coach valuabl
D consignment of silk and no passenger
While nearing the hamlet of Chco.iers th
{ driver heard two revolver shots, and VIZ
surprised to see one of his horses fall on Il
J knees. A bullet had entered the animal
t forehead. The driver jumped down off b
a seat and was surrounded by highwaymei
k seven men in all, armed to the teeth Z
was asked If he had any money or ban
securities, and, having replied in the neg
d tive, they went quietly away without di
> turbing his cargo.
'e A Boston man says that when Edisc
e first thought of making photograph /
n perfected most of the details before eve
,e drawing plan. When he had the i'd,
ID we'll developed, he told an old German wi
< made models for him to make a machil
Is after certain pattern. The Inventor didn
W hint what he wanted It for, but occasional
IL sent an order for a change or alteration
be made without even looking at the mod,
~ Finally the German took the machine
Mr.. Edison, who fitted bit of tinfoil in
It, turned the crank, and spoke into d
funnel, the words of that famous poem b
II ginning, "Mary had q little lamb" II
- German looked on though he thought tn
r. the inventor had gone crazy. Then N
Edison reversed the crank, and, In tn
queer, piping voice now so familiar, t
o. machine repeated the lines. "0ein Gott
ee said the German throwing up his hanG