The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-10-19
STRAY BITS.


There is a growing demand in England for
human skin leather.
William Nickel is the proprietor of Scent
store in Butler, Pa
An excellent quality of brown paper can
be produced from peat fiber.
A Pittston, Pa, clothier announces a
great Johnstown food sale of fine clothing. 4"
Samuel Kaufman, York county tobac-
co grower, has some leaves over five feet
long.
The pockets of the British infantry coat
are to be sewed up till the men are on active
duty.
Richard Burton, of Denver, wanted a di-
vorce from his wife on the ground that she
squints.
It has been discovered that one of the most
valuable oils used by the old masters was
walnut oil
A former teacher of Latin in one of the
high schools in Indiana is now driving dirt
cart in Wichita.
A canal 250 miles long is to be built for
navigating purposes in New Mexico 1t will
be thirty feet wide.
Tillie Meyers, a 1O-year-old girl of Titus
vile, Pa. recently gathered a bouquet of
second bloom lilacs.
The mummy market is now so overstocked
that lovers Of the antique can obtain speci-
mems for less than $780,
The English royal hounds will be abolished
after next season, and the hunting establish
ments at Ascot broken up.
The production of soap in England is about
45,0OO tons per week, of which between 5000
and 1000 tons are made in London.
An Augusta, Me-, lady started out to col
lect l,OOO,OOO postage stamps. She has accu-
mulated 100000, and is ready to sell out
Eighteen tons of steel disappear daily on
tho single system of the London and North
western railway, through wear and rust
Some electric railways will be laid along
the rivers of northern Russia, where the ex-
treme cold endures during great part of the
year.
A Wadsworth, o., man has pumpkin
which is almost cubic in form and is as large
as a soap box. He will exhibit it at the
county fair
A pumpkin weighing 226 pounds was taken
to the Westchester county (Pa) agricultural
fair, and thirty-one weighing at least 100
pounds apiece.
miles square where the ground has not
thawed out for the last 100 years, and where
it is frozen to depth of sixty feet.
A tree bearing peaches of an unknown
variety and Of prodigious size-some of them
ten inches in diameter-grows in the yard of
Christian Stouffer, at Chambersburg, Pa.
A small picture was lately sold at the Hotel
Drouot, in Paris, for hundred francs,
Nrrl Ia alah hs.r., Ill 4.
Meissonier, was Immediately resold for Is. 900
francs.
Few people know that the government
issues stamp of the denomination of $50
Such stamps are used on second-class mail
matter, and are rarely seen by the general
public.
The United Kingdom paid last year more
than 93, 600 for margarine. The United
States consumed 45,000,000 pounds In the
previous year the consumption was Al, ,000, 900
pounds.
The Eiffel coiffure is to be introduced into
London life from Paris, and will be entirely
composed of hair. The back hair is to be
worked up to any permissible height and is
to end very taperingly.
Henry Bradley, the head porter of the
Lafayette hotel, Philadelphia, is said to have
MADE $lOO,OOO out OF his position. He owns
$4,000 house, in which he lives in great
comfort and some luxury
Melon sandwiches are made with slice of
well frozen ice cream, cut from brick mold
and placed between thin slices of water
melon. On yellow or white porcelain plate |
the effect is very pleasing
Some boys of Princeton college tore up a |
hundred feet of sidewalk for widow named |
Nevis, and she sent them great big sweet |
cake with enough poison in it to have killed |
twenty-five people had they eaten it.
The whole of the work on the Isllp farm,
Long Island, is done by the $50 in sane pa
tients who live there. Many of them are ex-
cellent laborers, slSillful and steady, as DIR. |
Macdonald, who has had charge of the work |
there during the past summer, can testify
A complete history of the late Johnstown
flood is being prepared by the editor of The
Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegram, 1t is claimed
that it will be the most accurate and interest
ing matter that has appeared upon this sub
ject The net proceeds of the sales will be
applied to the relief of the printers, orphan
children and aged men and women who suf-
fered by the flood.