The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-07-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

sus bulletin recently issued. It ap
pears that crops we're raised by irriga
ton in the year ending June 30, 1890
on 9l,745 acres, or 1926 square miles
a little more than one-tenth of pei
cent. of the entire area of the territory
The aggregate number of farms was
! ALA mot including those of the Pueblo
Indians), and of these 3,095, or nearly
three-fourths, depend on irrigation.
Russian, Spanish and Mexican ladies
smoke cigarettes habitually in their
own and their friends houses, writes
George Augustus Sala That Turkish
and Greek ladies also indulge in "the
weed" at home I have often heard.
Multitudes of French ladies smoke.
but have never seen them indulge in
the practice in public. The most in
veterate female "tobacconists" are,
perhaps, the Italians. have seen
Italian ladies in railway carriages pull
ling Justify not only at cigarettes, but
at "Cavours" and "Minghettis."
One of the most remarkable old
gentlemen in New York is Colonel
Charles B. Tappen. He is ninety-six
years old, but on almost every week
day of the year he walks from his home
on Sixty eighth street, where he lives
with his son, Frederick d. Tappen.
President of the Gallatin National
Bank, to Wall street and back again.
This is walk of over eight miles.
Colonel Tappen received his military
title from Governor Marcy in 1843,
while member of the State militia:
but he was also soldier in the war of
1872
The statistics of the WesIeyans of
England, just published, give a total
membership in Great Britain of 424.-
BOB, which shows a net increase of 69S
in the year, with 28,O95 on trial for
church membership, and 62,416 young
persons meeting in junior society
classes. Last year the increase was
1888, and in 1889, 5,161 The Methodist
Recorder gives a diagram which shows
that the increase in British Methodism
for the past forty years is $4,000. or
just over fifty per cent. and that dur
ing the past thirty-hve years, in which
there has been no secession, the in
crease has been 163,445, or a little over
fifty-two per cent.
Last year the deposits of individuals |
In savings banks in the six New Eng |
land States and New York, New Jersey.
and Pennsylvania, amounted to 81 .279.-
100000 against s1,2l4,0OO,OOO the year
before, an increase of s65,OOO,OO0. The
number of depositors last year was
3,52O,OOO, or rather more than one in
every five inhabitants, as the popula-
tlon OF those States was about 17.3OO.-
zoo. The average amount to the credit
of each depositor was about s363.33
According to the census of 1880. about
one in three was engaged in some gain
full pursuit. Assuming that the same
proportion holds now, the average
amount deposited for each person so
HAPAOJSu 10 tOOuU pSOt,
Strange are the things which some
women do. The women of Blairstown.
N. T., have formed an Indignation
Club," to discourage gambling and un-
hours among their hus-
bands A Chicago schoolmaam, about
to wed, and being short of funds, called
on John Wanamaker for $500. A New
York woman entered a pattern store
and inquired if they kept shrouds for
widows. She said she had
made herself shroud eight years be-
fore, but had not died, and that in the
interim her hair had grown gray, and
her complexion has so changed that
the homemade shroud was no longer a
tasty one, 'Do you not think that the
lace on the neck should be little
narrower to suit me now?" said she.
"a good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches" So the Bible says,
remarks the New York Observer. and
the late Thomas Charles Barring. of
London, evidently thought so. 1t is
recalled to his honor that although he
had previously retired from the great
banking firm with which his family had
been identified, yet when the embarrass
ments of last winter overlook the
house he placed his whole large fortune
to its credit, and on the reorganization
the concern he became the chairman of
the limited company to which its bust
ness was turned over, being a subscri-
ber for four hundred of the two thous-
and shares into which the capital stock
of the new company was divided.