The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-04-07

Duluth has ghost which inhabits
boarding house and the number of boarders
is rapidly diminishing in consequence ofits
presence. Last fall there was a suicide iii the
house, and the ghost is said to repeat the
performance of its prototype in life. Every
night it comes out upon the piazza, gets
rope and hangs itself to the railing.
"When held up to a strong light" says an
exchange,"a fresh egg is very clear and the
air cell at the large end is very small. The
smaller the air cell the fresher the egg, as
the cell expands as the egg becomes stale.
A fresh egg has somewhat rough shell, while
that of stale one is very smooth" still,
when it hits bad actor abaft the bread
basket it doesn't feel quite as smooth as it
otherwise might.
DAVID probably reached the conclusion
that all men are liars by reading alternately
the articles in the Government organs and
the opposition press. Other men since his
time, after such course of reading, have
very nearly arrived at the same opinion,
only they were too polite to blurG it right
out as he did.
81 never hear you say anything of Mr..
"a" said onelady to another; ''yet it is we'll
known TINT you dislike him." "Neither
does he love me-" replied the lady; "yet he
speaks no evil of me. Our hatred is reciprocal
yet it is not necessary that we should annoy
each other We indulge in a platonic
hatred"
An apple in just as palatable condition
as when picked from the tree was found at
depth of fifteen feet while excavating for
bridge foundation in Gardner, Me. How
it got there is problem. Somebody has
hinted, sarcastically, that perhaps ifthe dig
gers continue they will come upon the tree.
"A drop light-the falling star.
"A pillow slip is all right, but a pillow
sham savors of humbug.
"A military post is something to which
an army mule may be tied.
Easter bonnets will appear on the lst Of
April and milliners are looking out for a
sell.
"A good.hearted coal dealer will go out
of his weight to give poor widow full ton
Of coal
That which a man calls an eye-opener
in the morning may become an eye-closer
before night.
An East Saginaw man has already
grown peck of new potatoes, but he says
they cost him S25 apiece.
"A man who had started a factory for
the manufacture of felting said that he calc-
ulated to meet long-felt want.
There was kes1sense of humor in the
editor who headed an article on the care OF
the mustache, Feminine Fancy"
"A man may be truthful in everything
else, but he always played better game Of
billiards several years ago than he does now.
Don't be alarmed, Mrs. Justhitched,
your servant won't desert you if there is a
general strike ofworklng girls. She isn't one
of them.
-Teacher-Tommy, what is a strait
Tommy (close obseryer)-Ace, king,
queen, jlck aud ten-spot.
Possible you never stopped to think Of
it, but the two-headed woman must be either
happy or miserble every Easter Sunday.
Bob Ingersoll is so irreverent that If he
should see Death coming on a pale horse he
would look around right away for the red
headed girl.
Miss Frances E.Willard belives that
"American men are the best and truest who
live because they are masterful and masters
of themselves" Notwithstanding this fat
tering estimate she declares that not until
Portia is the lawyer and woman is in the
jury box will there be q possibility Of bring
culprits to justice.
"A little girl in New York was in the
habit of going to the Episcopal Church, and
one day she came home and asked her
mother if the prophets were hung on the
, commandments as gifts were hung on
Christmas trees, for she heard the minister
say: "On these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets"
"A prehistoric dam has been discovered
in oregon.It is supposed tohave been uttered
by Hannibal Hamlin the 6rst time he
} went out with no overcost.
in some States il is misdemeanor in
the sight Of the law to smoke on the streets
Il ought to be mislemeanor everywhere "a
smoke some kinds Of cigars.
-"Uneasy lies the head that wears .
crown. That is Why kings and queens almost
invariably take their crowns of before theJ
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