The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-16
AMERICAN NOTES.

With heavy heart sit and watch
The mighty heeces of the clouds;
For I've been feeced. I've hocked with lambs
And mingled with the Wall street crowds.
transform me 10 a niIghty cI6uu!
With fleece unshorn III float along
In peace serene, where storms have pIoughed
Louisville COurier-Journal
Fifteen million horses are now owned
in America, and more than one million a
year must be bred to keep up the sup
ply.
The value of one vote was shown at an
election in McDufie County, Ga, when n
law was passed by exactly that ma
jority.
Buffalo and Philadelphia are about
TO have crematories. The latter city's
Is to cost $4,000 eleven acres of ground
having been secured near Manavuuk
The trip from New York to Boston, via
Hartford, distance 229 miles. was made
by train in five hours, deducting about
seven minutes lost in stops This is con
sidered great feat in railroad travel
ing.
1t took Sheridan only one day to dlscoy-
er that the number of Arapahoes was
only 500, while TatiOns had been drawn
upon pretended registry for 1850. OF
the Cheyennes only 2, l6S were actually
cOunted-ratiOns S,CO5."
Watermelon seed pools are the newest
style of gambling. Each player puts in q
quarter. or any other sum agreed upon.
and makes his guess then the melon is
cut and the seeds are counted. and the
best guesser takes the pool Something
over six hundred seems to be the average
number.
a Fresno, Cal, paper AYERS that 10000
pounds of arsenic have been sold by drug
glsts of that place since the prescription of
molusses arsenic and bran have been
found so et1icacious rs grasshopper de
strcyer. Somebody is liable to be poisoned
In the neighborhood of Fresno
The amount expended by the govern
ment in removing Hell Gate. Diamond.
and Coenties reef in New Tcr}, h8rbor.
mas been -, lG2.o!2.3l. The last rec Is
20 he blown Tp leaving an uuobstructcd
chann'l and q handsome SUN Of money at
the disposal Of the engiu.erS FOR further
imTroy' iueuts u tie arloHE, so far ar
prOpriated is &5,1aa.I2O
y correspondent Of the Rochester
Union makes what that paper thinks "a
startling and yet improbable suggestion"
that Of draining Lake Erie and re7vC-
ing 1t TO the dimensions Of a mere river.
This, says the Union. "would make
inland towns Of Buffalo. Cleveland and
Toledo, taking them out of the ca.egory
OF fresh water cities and leaving than
stranded high and dry in the Alpine ~o,i-
tude of their own drcary and deserted up
lands"
A Stockton. \. Y. grocer found his
cellar overrn with rats, and bought
steel trap, which he set in n
large rneasure flied with m#s'. a-d Gov 4
cred It up. Next mrrsinc Sc EaI rat, /
and cit svra that he v1Ula s0.u see the I
Ia Of ali his pests. lie re~,.: tlc trap and /
let IT, EeEt morning it WIS sprung. the {
me'l was r03c, anil iu IFS TI1ce about .
Q 'art of sticks aui tones. lie tried it /
again, ant with like result. Iuvestiga- I
ton showed that the rats threw sticks 4
and stones in upon the trap until they had /
sprung it, and then devoured the Erocer's
meal.
The New Orleans Times Democrat has
inst collected an advertising hill for 81 4
rom the Treasury Department Thepro-
'ess took several weeks and the eNueudi- .
-ure OF 20 cents for gn affidavit. to say moth
ng of clerk hire and postage as when the
olH was forwarded to Washington il had
20 pass through half a dozen hands the
authority for the expense had to be given
duplicate vouchers had TO be prepared
md sent to New Orleans the vouchers
lad to be receipted by the treasurer of
he company and as evidence that he
vas authorized to receipt. the character
If the company had to be affixed to the
-oucber and sworn To before notary
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