The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-05-14
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

Flax has been sOwn IN eight counties of
Nebraska by way of experiment, to see if 1t
will not be more profitable than wheat.
Some West Indian Negroes carry
snakes poison under their finger nails.
single scratch from a poisoned nail will
cause death in a few hours.
More elk, deer and mountain sheep
were grazing in the Yellowstone \ ational
Park during the past winter than had been
seen in that locality for many years.
The secret art of beauty lies not in cos
metics, but Is only in pure blood and
healthy perfo rmance of the vital functions,
which can be obtained by using Burdock
Blood Bitters
The four babies born to Mrs. Lars
Grudahl. of Chetek, Eau Claire county, are
in good health and growing RAPIDLY. They
have been given the distinguished names of
LincO In, Grant, Garfield and Hancock.
AT least one hundred Mormon mission
aries are at work in the South distributing
tracts by the million and making many
proselytes In the mountain districts of North
and South Carolina Georgia, Tennessee and
Alabama.
-Cartersviie, Ca, is proud of Joe, dog
of Superior Intelligence. He has been
known to seize an ear of corn, carry 1t to
rat hole, she'll of a few kernels, back off out
of sight, and then poGnce upon the rat
thus enticed to his destruction.
"A Connecticut Jus tice has just created
a precedent by giving a drunkard his
choice between enlistment in the regular
army and going to jail The man chose the
| former alternative, and was enlisted at
Fort Schuyler.
-DrOves OF wild horses are reported to
be In the Mississippi river bottoms, about
100 N lies above Memphis. They are sup
| posed to have originated from horses lost by
| the Confederate General Forrest during his
| campaigns.
Capt. MacKnight, of the steamship
| Cloribell, of the Atlas line, when in gale
tried oil to soOth the troubled waters with
| great sue cess. He put overheard a bag of
akum thoroughly saturated with oil and
the good effect was almost Immediately
| seen.
! Aches and pains long borne make even
the young feel old. The true remedy is Par
ker's Tonic. 1t purifies the blood, sets In
order the liver and kidneys, banisbes pain
and builds up the health. Besides It has
the reputation of doing what we claim for
1t.
Louis Wan, the convict who led the re-
cent revolt in the Montreal Penitentiary,
was put into the dungeon He secured a
knife, tuhneled a wall three feet thick,
reached the corridor, tunneIed two more
walls, climbed a derrick to the top of q
twenty-two-foot wall. dropped into a gar
den on the other side. and escaped.
Many ladies admire gray hsir-on some
other person. But few care to try its effec
on their own charms. Nor need they
since Ayers Hair Vigor prevents the hail
from turning gray, and restores gray hair t,
its original color. 1t cIeanses the scalp
prevents the formation of dandruff, anC
wonderfully stimulates the growth Of th
hair
"A widow in India Is thing accursed
She must do all the family drudgery, neve
entertain cheerful thought. even, or dream
P Of marrying again. Yet a man Of sixty vii
marry a girl of 8 knowing we'll to what
life his death will consign her. There ar
81, 1000 widows in Calcutta alone, and It
} supposed that there must be {, ,O0O. 900 In tn
country at large.
The oldest man in New England
said to )e Cheslev Heal, Of Searsmont Me
: who is 1O7 years old. 1t is recorded that h
{ has been married three times, twice 20 tn
] same woman that be has chewed tobacc
2 for 100 years and drank New England ruI
for nearly as long a time that be voted Il
Jefferson .he first time he was a PresideI
Jial candidate, and has been a Democrt
from that time to this, and he can and doe
read the newspapers without spectscles.
Near Winchester, KY, last week, S.
Knight, while digging post hole, struck
l. copper box about 9 inches square, with a
: iron lock. Breaking the off lid, he found
a filed with gold and silver coin to tt
: amount of 81 .233 70. Jacob Stoddard live
t alone, years ago, in an old log cabin ov,
I. the site where the money was found. r
g was reputed wealthy, but when he died M
D body could find any trace of his money.
= The value of the tin annually Importe
into the United States in the shape of Ii
plate and block tin reaches the sum of ovt
, s25. .Oo0, 600. For years efforts have bee
. made to discover profitable tin mine in Il
2 United States, and although the ore h;
Y been discovered in many places, no IOcalit
= discovered prior TO 1880 produced the ii
0 stone in sufficient quantity to make It prof
{ able. man named Cox, it is said, was Il
j first to recognize the cassiterite in the gra
= ell washings in the bear Gulch, (M T.
country. ContempOraneously tin stoT
( was discovered at the Eta mine which ws
at the time being worked for mica.