The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-12-01


One touch ofrumor MAKES the
whole world chin.
The man who hallows amen
the loudest doesn't always mean
it the most.
A Joint" debate ensues when
ever a Chinese opium den is
raided by the police.
Talk is cheap in this world,
because the supply is so much
larger than the demand.
Henry A. Wise, the noted
Virginia statesman of Tyler's
day, was married three times.
Buchanan's sweetheart died
during lovers quarrel, and his
bachelorhood became her molu-
ment.
Alexander H. Stephens, dis
appointed in his schoolboy love,
refers often to her in his letters
of a long life OF single blessed
ness.
stephen A. Douglas, the Lit
tie Giant of Illinois, was twice
married, and it is said that he
courted Mary Todd at the same
time that her hand was sought
by Abraham Lincoln.
George Bancroft was married
twice. His second wife, who
died several years ago, was very
popular in Washington, and was
"a noted society figure.
Chief Justice Marshall's
marriage was a happy one, and
his married lie comprised fifty
years of the tenderest affection,
Ills wife died but snort time
before him.
John Randolph, the moody
unhappy, erraic genius Ot koa'
noke, lingering Tor years on the
verge OF insanity, speaks o
Maria W ard AS one whom he
loved better than his own sou
or the one who created him.
Dan Hebst-r's two marriages
were both marriages Of love. LII
first wife was Grace Fletcher
the daughter OF a New Hamp
shire clergyman, and Webste
married her when he was n
years of age, and while he wa
YET a poor lawyer.
Germany last year imported
$1,000 horses.
A cooking school in Pittsburs
makes speciality OF educating
men cooks.
In the United States about 8,
900 watches are manufactured
every day
A Chicagoan has invented |
new calculating machine which
will accurately add. subtract
multiply OF divide.
1t is said now that Englant
gave to the Germans a copy O
ner new rifle in return for tn,
recipe for making melinite.
a talking piano. operated b,
numerous keys and producing
words OF all kinds, is one OF til,
cuiiosiies at a New YORK muse
um.
Among the permanent resi-
dents OF Paris, it is said, the ex
lies OF Russians nobility are the
most noted ior extravaganza anC
prodigality Of life.
A curious notion IN table dec
oration is to have the center o
The table made into a little ponc
IN which crabs and Holsters are
seen. and even fish are padding
about.
A man at Laramie laughed al
al Indian who slipped down on
the street five years ago. and the
other day the red man came
around aud stabbed him in the
back as a reward.
A young couple of Ellsville,
ia, went riding, and became so
interested in talk that it was some
time before they noticed that
hrir horse was quietly grazing
at the roadside.
the color ofOthcllo has been
ques ioned point in Shakes
'car NJ. Benjamin Constant,
h French artist, has recently
pressed his opinion that Othel-
o was not yellowish brown, but
decidedly black.
The use of tobacco at Yale is
decreasing each year, owing to
he example set by the athletic
iSsociations, which do not allow
their members to smoke or chew
Gymnasiums have wide infl-
erce over the health ofcollegiates'
The census of Bulgaria and
Eastern Roumelia gives the pop