The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-02-12

hog, on Saturday last, the gross weight of
which was 1,049 lbs, 1t weighed when
dressed Sl2 lbs. 1t was only % months old.
"A hog with an artificial leg must be a
touching and picturesque object. The
cow-catcher at Duuleith took off one of the
hinder limbs of Mr. Smiths hog, and his
benevolent owner made wooden sue
cedaneum and stripped it to the stump.
, The creature shows its gratitude by accU-
mulating fat with great rapidity, the only
drawback being that when killing and
curing time comes one of the hams will
have no handle.
The Chicago Inter Ocean asks: ''Shan
all the fruits of the war be wiped out by
fraud. intimidation and violence ?" Aud
the St. Louis Times answers: cit depends
good deal on whether the Grant admins
istration proposes to keep up its wiping-out
process. A long as it makes intimidation,
fraud and violence the chief emblems and
instruments Of It's power, we must expect
to see not only the fruits of war destroyed,
but the fruits of peace also, effectually ard
forever blighted.''
Three Saginaw girls Of the Methodist
persuasion having met together, concluded
to pray for the welfare of their lovers. but
the first one had not got very far along in
her petition when i WAS discovered that
they were all engaged to the same man.
/ The religious exercisf were ut once ter
minated and an Indignation meeting organ
I lied. the result Of which was that the gay
deeeiver was obliged to leave town at a
few hours notice in order to escape the
vengeance of male relatives.
1t is said that the Committee of Wavs
and Means Of the House, will not report i'm
favor of restoring the tax on tea and coffee
Messrs Dawes. Burchard, Roberts and
Karon were for the measure, and Messrs.
Kelly, Waldron. Sheldron, Foster, Beck.
Niblack and Wood were against it. Posi-
bly, the ma iority may receive new light on
the subject from the administration. -how-
ing that an increase Of revenue cannot be
more appropriately effrc'cd than by levy
on those articles Of common consumption.
according TO the COUrt5s> Herald OF
jackson, Tenn, a man III that town. tiIei
Of renting and not disposed to invest IN a
city lot, has built himself dwelling house
on wheels. Procuring an old fashioned
log wagon, lie has erected on Il a house
10x20 feet and seve!, feet from floor 70 cell
ing. The house contains two rooms. one
entrance, and that in the end from tie
wagon tongue. aud four small Windows
This house lie proposes to move from place
{ to place in the city, or even ont Of it. as
the exigencies of his business or c0uveni~
ence may demand His family. consisting
of himself wife. and three children, win
lodge. feed and sleep in this little house. ION
wheels.
In December the DruTgist's Circular.
/ Of New York, published an account of a
man in Gilroy California, who is i'll the
/ habit of taking large quantities of strych-
nine after a protiac.ed debauch, in order
! to counteract the effects of whisky, and a
recent number of the GiIr0y Ad50cGte fully
/ COZ roborates the story. He has been known,
4 under such circumstances, to eat the eighth
1 of an ounce of this deadly poison in few
hours, without experiencing any unpleas-
ant effects but. on the contrary. after
/ swallowing n few doses of the stuff. he
4 would quickly recover from excessive ner>
vousness and prostiation. He has been
+ in the habit of using the drug for this pur-
/ pose since 1856.
A very singular electrical phenomenon.
saws the Inyo Cal. Independent, occurred
! at Mr. J. n. Roses house during the se>
we're wind storm of Thursday. While the
women were preparing dinner Mr.. Roses
little boy directed his mothers attention to
/ what be called a butterfly humming over
! the sheathing under the cooking stove. 1t
proved to be bail of fire, which rapidly
/ passed back and forth ard up over the
! stove, buzzing like small galvanic bat
/ tery. The pots and kettles the stove
were SO heavily charged that in taking hold
or touching any part stunning shock was
experienced. The ball of fire continued
to play for about eight minutes, and cooks
/ ing had to be suspended for an hour.
! The stories of want and suffering that
/ come from Kansas are terrible to contem-
plate. Twelve hundred persons are said
by reliable authority to be living on the
most Scanty charity, and advices from Burr
Oak, Jewell county, state that ten miles
west of that place two families have starved
to death. One numbered eighl persons
/ When found, the husband, wife, and six
children were dead. The other family
consisted of delicate woman and one
child. The husband went to St. Joseph s
4 for help but when it came both mother
and child were dead. Many more will
starve unless they are helped at once, for
I there is not one man in hundred with
grain enough to last through the winter.
/ The Scientific american describes a
strange fertilizer. At Stratford, Conn,
where mosquitoes are as thick as fog,
lives an ingenious Yankee, they say
believe it who may-who puts the insects
to profitable uses He has invented large
revolving scoop-net, covered with lace,
which is put in motion by wind mill.
water power OF steam. The upper halt
moves through the atmosphere, and al
each rotation draws an immense number
of the ''squitoes'' down into the water,
where they drown and sink to the bottom.
Every revolution of the net draws in an
ounce of mosquitoes, or ton for 30. oot
turns Of the machine. The mosquitoe,
thus collected make a splendid manure fol
the land, worth S45 \ ton.
The large stable of David Dempsey
in Millvale borodgh, near Pittsburgh, wa:
destroyed by fire on Monday morning
There were sxty-one horses in the stable
out Of which thirty-six head were burned
10 death, before assistance could reaci
them. All the animals burned, with th'
exception Of the pair above mentioned
, were large English draught horses, eacl
of which was valued at not less than $50
and some of them were al.praiSpf at ;
; higher figure. One pair was valued a
90, 600. Those rescued escaped with beiu:
!, singed slightly. The stable also containe'
carriages. buggies, hay, feed, harness. etc
, The loss, which is between S15. coo an
100000, will fall very heavily upon MI
Dempsey, as he has but $4,000 of insuI
ance.