The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-08

10. %; namuereo BOlu, A0'OOs
platinum. %; iridium, %.
There are but three factories
in the United States in which
crutches are exclusively manu-
factured, one each in Boston,
Philadelphia and New York.
Aluminium resembles silver in
appearance, is strongerthan steel,
will not tarnish and is superior
to silver for all purposes TOR
which that metal is used.
Bones disintegrate quickly in
sea water. They are consequent
ly seldom obtained during ocean
dredgings, although teeth, which
resist the action of the water in
definitely, are often brought up.
Vegetarianism does not pro-
tect from cancer. In a hospital
at Jeypore, India, during the
last eight years, forty-one opera
tions for cancer have been per-
formed on the persons of meat
eaters, and sixty-one on strict
and lifelong vegetarians.
A new glass, recently invent
ed in Sweden, is said to be cap
able, when made into a lens for
a microscope, OF "enabling us to
distinguish the 204, TOO, 900 part
of an inch" II is also said that
there is great promise of this
glass producing wonderfully
= powerful telescope lenses and a
new departure in astronomy.
According to a Chicago wagon
maker, white OAK requires eighty
years to mature; shell-bark hIck-
, ory, from thirty to fifty years
tulip-tree, sixty or more years
and red or Norway pine at least
sixty years. Artiticially grown
, fifty-fve thousand feet OF these
kinds oflumber may be obtained
from each acre.
There are in the German EN-
pire between fifty and sixty
) manufactures of playing-cards
! which in the last fiscal year turn
) ed out about 100000 packs
K of which about 100000 were
I exported. About four tifths o
= the production consisted Of pack
containing not more than thirty
six cards, and of the larger pack
! the greater part were exported
= An English physician of not
expresses in the Lancet the be
lief that consumption is due tt
= a constant irritation of the ali
passages, and that cold air breath
81 ed at night is one ofthe creates
(. irritants. Those who 1--we mos
N, of the time in the open air arr
81 the least ikely to suffer from
- phthisis, because their lungs arr
accustomed to cold air as not tt
be irritated by it at night.
By BY one compromising act
'af sf your hold upon another's conf
dence may be forever lost. b
70 truthful and consistent.
The man who sits down alC
ID waits to be appreciated will fine
himself among the uncalled- bag
gage, after the limited express
I has gone by.
Carry yourselfrespectfully to
ward your superiors, friendly to
ward your equals, condescend
ing toward your interiors, gen
elous toward your enemies, ane
lovingly towards all.
1t is worth realizing tina
there is no such things as com
monplace life or uninterestine
/ circumstances. They are so only
because we do not see into them
and, do not know them.
Life is warfare, and those who
\ climb up and down steep paths.
and 60 through dangerous enter.
prises, are the brave men and
the leaders in the camp; but to
!. rest basely at the cost of others
I ! labors, is to be a coward, safe
; because despised.
{ 1t is true that no bad man is
= ever brought to repentance by
angry words, or by bitter, scorn-
full reproaches. He iortifes him
self against reproof, and hurls
back foul charges in the face Of
his accuser. Yet guilty and
hardened as he seems, he has a
heart in his bosom, and may be
melted to tears by agentle voice
Lite has its moments OF
; strength and bloom; its bright
! moments ofinspiration; in which
) the human artist, the painter Of
o human life, seizes on and utters
what is purest, most beautiful,
= and divine. If in our human
life, we acted only then, if then