The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-05-11
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CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

A German peasant has been detected
In tapping a telephone wire to cure his
rheumatism.
New Workers recently carried a dry
goods store outfit to Tacoma, w. 4.
5000 miles), in a twenty-eight car train.
John Wayne, of Reading, has a lcaden
jar 059 years old, in which his great
great-grandfather used to keep tobacco,
gold, etc.
Two Vermont hunters trapped last
winter, near Bradford, over 100 foxes.
on which they received state bounty of
fifty cents fox.
One of'the great industries of Npr,m-
berg is making lead toy soldiers. Eight
hundred work people are engaged, lnd
they turn out 10000 soldiers day.
John Airhart, of Phonxiville, Pa, has
rooster that he claims can eat corn of
table three feet high. He weighs tif-
teen pounds and his crow Is propor-
tionate
A Milwaukee man made a cannon.
filled it with powder and double B shot
got in front of it and touched the thing
Off. His purpose was to commit suicide.
and he succeeded.
In Madisonville, KY, the autbori iee
have passed an ordinance forbiddine
brass bands from meeting "for The pur.
pose of learning hew pieces of music
within 300 feet Of dwelling house"
Up to ninety years ago every shoe was
fastened with buckle, and no man had
the least idea that the time would ever
come when he would have 80 take his
teeth to hard knot in a shoestring.
The gold mine ON Douglass Island.
Ore, recently bought by an English syn.
dicate for $4,000, 900, has been diamond
drilled throughout, and 1t is said there is
gold enough shown to keep 1000 men
busy every day for 100 years taking out
the gold bearing quartz,
A couple of jackals have been added
to the Philadelphia Zoo" These little
animals, which are known in their ma
tive country as "lion providers" had
hardly been placed in their cage, in a
wing OF the lion and tiger house, before |
the lions set up roar of welcome.
The auditors office in Walla walla
was invaded the other day by a man
bringing in Se7 gopher scalps, represent |
ing one months work. If the premium
ON gophers is not too insignificant II |
would look as though they were the most |
profitable crop Washington territory |
farmer could raise,
In a village of Westphalia chess is one |
of the school studies. An examination
in chess is held annually in the upper |
form of the school, and the best six play.
ers, who, however, have to be victorious |
three times running, are presented with |
a chess board and Toasted for q whole
long summers day.
A Milwaukee genius has established a |
school for the training of professional |
beggars. He furnishes disguises, rules |
for begging and a regular route for each |
of his pupils, telling them the stories to
use and the peculiarities of those they |
are likely to meet. In exchange he de-
mands half the profits.
Advices from Rio Janeiro via Ply
mouth say that the inhabitants are leav-
ing the city in thousands, in consequence
Of the spread of yellow fever. Between
5000 and 1000 deaths have already taken
place, and they are continuing at the
rate of 15G day. The authorities are
said to be utterly powerless
Joe Wilson. an Alabama river fisher
man, colored, caught huge catfish and
started home with 1t. Somewhere on
the way the fish Topped its tail against
the hammer of Wilson's gun. The piece
was discharged, sending load of duck.
shot through the negro's thigh, inflict-
ng very dangerous wound.
The highest price on record" for a
postage stamp was realized recently at
The mart, Tokenhouse yard, London,
when an unusual cent British Guiana
stamp Of 1855 was knocked down to
Buhl, the dealer, for $780, The same
gentleman also bought a similar stamp,
which, however, had been through the
post, for S185.
The wife of a prominent Plattville,
Ala, citizen made q lot of batter cakes
IN April and stuffed them with cotton
When her husband sat down to the table
10 was very excitedly describing how
Hawes escaped from the Birmingham
Jail, and he became SO thoroughly abb
'orbed in the narrative that he ate all
he cakes without once noticing anything
peculiar about them. His wife had to
explain to him afterward that he had
oeen fooled. He claimed that the joke
vas on her.