The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-03-19
ALL SORTS OF ISFORsArIoy.

Even burial is a desecration OF the
Sabbath at Thurso, Scotland, and the
cemetery is. not opened then.
It is estimated that not less thar $780,
OO0. 600 tons of waste are heaped in the
anthracite regions Of Pennsylvania.
The latest discovery of the medical
writer's is that water is fattening, OF at
least that it favors fu!Iness and round
ness of the body.
Tnoculation of rabbits with the bacil-
lus of tubercular consumption is pro-
posed as a method of exteTminating
them. in Australia
A party of travellers recently made
the journey from San Francisco to Lon
don, via New Y ork and Liverpool, in
trife less than fourteen days.
Paupers are still sold at auction in
Nova Scotia to the lowest bidder. a
very good article of distinguished fam
ily can be had for few dollars.
A prominent physician Of Athens,
Ca, who has had many cases of sore
throat lately, made an investigation and
found that nearly every one of them
was caused by cigarette smoking.
In Lincoln county, n. M, near the
Pattos mountain, can be traced what
were once the walls of large city. In
side the walls are growing monster ce-
dar trees, said to be thousands of years
( old.
/ Clockery cofins are proposed by a
. Philadelphia inventor. His idea is to
/ glaze them, thus making tight and
/ imperishable receptacle, the object be-
ing to protect underground water cur
rents from pollution.
/ To test his craftsmanship a young
man of Sonora fired at a crow. His
aim was bad, for young lady who was
passing on the highway received the
ball in her mouth, between her parted
lips. She suddenly shnt her teeth upon
it and held it. Her only injury was a
slight cutting of the lips and the break
ing of the enamel on her upper front
teeth.
1.-TWO toes OF my buried foot overlap
each other and pain me dreadfuily,' ,
said the wife of Jacob Bereau, of Marl-
boro, Mass. The leg had been ampu
tated and buried one month. The hns
band, unknown to the wife, had the les
exhumed and the toes Strengthened out
and she said she knew by the relief thai
followed the exact moment when tht
act was performed.
Five hundred years B. G. the Etrus
can ladies fastened their coils and
braids with spear shaped pins, as beau
tifuI as they were useful. Some o
them were made of ivory and some o
bronze and silver, They were orna
mented In various ways, some will
busts carved upon them and some will
full length reclining figures. Venu
rising out of the sea and stroking bacl
her wet hair was favorite design.
In Iceland the woman have votes a
well as voices in church affairs. Th
custom las existed there for ages, ant
is kept up by the IcelandeIs who hav
emigrated. There are in Dakota, Mon
tana and Manitoba nearly dozen Ice
landic congregations. These recentl
met in convention at Mountain, Dako
ia and adopted a synodieal constitution
There was considerable discussion, bu
finally it was decided by two third
vote that the women should continue {
enjoy their ancient privilege.
In New Orleans strikingly beautifU
women may be seen of Sunday morn
ing at the Cathedral, or at the FreDc
opera upon some special occasion
Their compilations are olive their ha
black and lustrous their eyes largt
dark and expressive their hands an
feet small their figures slender an
graceful their carriage stately and dil
nified their taste in dress exquisite
These types are by no means rare, bI
as class it may be doubted whetht
the Creole women can be pronounce
handsome.
In the first generation a man reckon
only two ancestors, his father ar
mother. In the second the two a.
changed to four, as be had two gram
fathers and two grand mothers. Fac
of these four had two parents, and th,
in the third generation there are to
found eight ancestors, that is eigl
grest-grandparents. In the four
generation the number of ancestors
sixteen. in the fifth thirty-two. in Il
sixth sixty-four, in the seventh 12S.
the tenth 1,024, in the twentieth /, ,O4e
576, in the thjrtieth lob. .741 ,634. Tt
may prove that the whole world is aki