The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-24

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good weight for the average Tex
as steer.
For the lst six months of 1882
the English railways killed
l65 people and injured 957.
Henry III. is said to have
granted license to dig coal.
near Newcastle-upon-Tyne III
1884.
A professor at Columbia Col
lege, New York, has set himself
to work and has now mastered
12 languages.
Hair powder came into use in
1890, and in 1895 tax Of a
guinea was laid upon person
using it.
Venice was first governed by
doge, Anafesta Paululio. A. d.
691; Genoa chose its first doge,
Simone Boce negra, in 1929.
After a hurricane last month
a coral reef so feet long, 80 feet
wide and 5 feet high was up
heaved in the harbor of Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
The Persees, ancient fire. wor.
shippers expelled from Persia
are the factors, capitalists, ano
leading merchants Of Bombay
where there are 5000.
An aesthetic 'ooking blue lob
ster, with a del;cately tinted pinl
,ail, was captured at Portland
Ne, recently, and is now swim
ming in close quarters as a cur
Z osity.
The impertinences OF bushes
have reached a climax in tn
sending of cards and circulars {
o undertakers and tombstone manr
facturers to The homes just visi
ed by death.
!. A farmer named Bordereal
g living near Anglers, France, p,
3. a loaded bomb-shell in his be,
s attached a lighted fuse to it an
in a few moments was complet
x x ly blown to pieces.
- Charles Joseph, a French ca
penter, % years of agc, took 6
\ enormous nail, held it with h
\ lift hand over the right tempt
y and with a heavy hammer dro'
N the nail into his brain.
There are thirty-fve cities
n the world having more than Oh
half million inhabitants.
20 'hese New York, Philadelphr
:. Brooklyn, chicago and st Lot
'N' are in the United States.
g; q; High up in the t pmc
'm- branches ola large tree that W
felled near Winchester, OH
recently. a petlifed fish w
:. found. 1t is supposed to ha
pa. been dropped by an eagle
Of some other bird of prey
NO The oldest Incorporated bu
ness concern in the world is t
a.. and Hudson Bay company, whi
'ts. has had an exister ce of Q
years. The headquarters of t
l. company areat Winnepeg, MAJ
toba, and the bulk of the sto
IS held in England.
A resident of .Siox City, low
who for 30 years or more h
4 grudgingly paid taxes on 90 We
poor Jersey acres. has Just SO
y them tor above $4,000 in co
! sequence of the discovery thei
Y on OF a bed. of fine clay for ii
"a brick and pottery making.
Nearly everybody in Englal
writes with quill. You. fiji
n them put for public use in cour
4 IN banks, in telegraph offic,
and postofices-in fact, ever
where where people must writ
q If a man prefers to use a pen
1encll he must carry it with hil
~ There is an old porpoise tn
gTes has been in the harbor of s
S'.RY aS.RY Augustine, Fla, years and yeal
''A. The porpoise is particularly tan
and frolicsome. He is call,
"Oll Ghoul," and is known
n having one fl l gone. He oftt
y plays around the fishermen
7 boats and his presence alwa
argues a good catch.
Mrs. Buckner, wife of ii
y Governor Of Kentucky, wears
4 ornaments a conch-shell lacep
4 and sleeve buttons which,
+ !, addition TO their beauty, ha
Pss: Ps: he charm of a romantic histor
lsl;; lss!lI;S; having been purchased by h
relative. General George Was
ington, from Shipwrecked al
destitute sailor, and by him wo
on the coat in which he was i
augurated.
There are about s;x tbousa,