The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-27
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

Two million dollars worth of business
property was destroyed by fire in San Fran
CISCO on Saturday night
"In attend to it soon" Don't cheat
yourself in that way. Your hair is growing
thinner, dryer and more lifeless every day.
Save it and restore Its original color, softness
and gloss by using Parker's hair Balsam
while you may.
"A Wisconsin farmer, going down hill
with load of hay, locked one of the wheels
of the wagon. The friction of the wheel
upon the ground struck a spark which igni-
ted the hay and started fire that required
eleven men to extinguish.
"A little tornado whirled through Colds
boro n. c., the other day and finding the
front door of fine residence open, dashed
into the house, gathered up lot of furni-
ture, burst open rear door, and flung the
whole lot in a heap in the back yard,
With your next order to your grocer,
send tor sample pound of Dreydoppel's
Borax Soap. You will find it to be the best
and cheapest soap you ever used. 1t is
used by the best families in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
While a circus was parading in Kingston
Canada, recently, a wagon containing den
of lions was overturned and the top of the
pen knocked off. A FIRE was built around
the cage to keep the lions in until repairs
were made, and then the wagon was righ.ed
by the aid of two elephants.
1.-THE women appear TO do all the work,
writes Colonel Watterson of the Swiss. 1t
is not uncommon to see a girl and dog
hitched to a cart and trotting along together
like pair of ponies. The men, great strap
ping fellows, idle and lazy, loaf about the
basseries. Their wives, daughters and
sisters till the fields and supply the
markets.
Sonora Dolores FOsta, widow of the
famous Mexican general, Santa Anna is
dead. She was woman of strong charac-
ter aud had lived in retirement since the
death Of her husband. She was about 40
years of age. Her husband was President
of Mexico three years before she was born
and she was married to him when she was
{ 13 years old.
The HoIstein COW CIothilde, owned by
Smiths, Powell and Lamb. of Syracuse, n.
| Y, closed her six-year-old record on Tues
day night of last week. She has given dur
/ ing that time little more than 26. 600 pounds
( of milk, OF about seventy pounds dav.
The highest previous record was "a 775
! pounds. made three years ago by the COW
: Echo owned in Utica, y. Y.
| AT the Mecher1ich Lead Works IN Ger
many the talIest chimney in the world has
recently been completed. It is 44O feet
. high six feet more than the famous Chin
ney of the st. ROlIox Chemical Works, near
! Glasgow, Scotland. which, until the German
I one was built, was without a rival. The
! fiue of the MechernicF chimney is 111E feet
! in diameter at the bottom and 10 feet at the
/ top.
The strongest wood in the United States
| according to Professor Sargent, is the Tut
meg hickory of the Arkansas region, and
/ the weakest the West Indian birch The
/ most elastic is the tamarack, the white OF
/ shell bark hickory standing far below it
/ The least elastic and the lowest specific
/ gravity, upon which in general depends
value as fuel is attained by the blue wood
| OF Arizona.
"A little elephant in a travelling menag-
/ erie took great dislike to the lion, and the
/ other night in Vallejo, Cal, cot loose,
! grabbed the king of beasts by a hind leg,
/ and tried to pull him through the bars of
/ tae cage. The uproar that followed was
tremendous and it required the whole of the
: circus force to get the little fellow away and
/ chain him fast. The lions leg was badly
! wrenched.
! Figures, which proverhially cannot lie,
/ show that the cOrnfields of the United States
! cover a territory as large as England, Scot
/ land and Belgium united, while the grain
/ fields surpass Spain in territorial extent.
! The acreage of our farm lands under cult
J vation is equal in extent to all of the Uni.
ted Kingdom of Great britain and Ireland,
: France, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, and
/ Austro- Hungary.
1t was Henry O'Rielly, who has just
( died a. Rochester, y, Y. that New jersey
railroad. 40 years ago, refused permission tC
erect posts and build a line of telegraph
along its road between Philadelphia anc
/ New York The frank and absurd reason
given was that "tbe telegraph would
interfere with travel, by enaling persons tC
transact business Dy its means instead oi
using the railroad"
Mr.. Kevser, of Geneseo, Ill, it's related
while floating down the Illinois river in 8
flatboat, went to sleep one night leaving q
stout fishing line dangling In the water
. The next morning he was astOnished tC
find that the boat was fifteen miles higher
up the river than it was the night before
The mystery was explained when he looked
| in front of the boat and saw a monster cat
fish fast to his line and making rapid prog
ress up the river.
The storm in Texas on last Friday car
ried death and ruin to many. Galveston suf
fered severely. Many families lost their al
and are destitute, while others lost but {
portion. 1t Is thought by conservative mel
the loss will reach fully 5000. 600. and per
haps more At Indianaola several person,
were killed and others are missing A
Victoria 20 houses were demolished and
many damaged Railroads were obstTucIeC
and telegraph wires prostrated in eli direct
ions.
Metallic railway ties are now emp Ioyet
in Belgium, Holland France, Ger many, anC
Switzerland, and in the United States
paper tie of the hardness OF stone and TAX
ing as high polish as metal, has been pat
ented. 1t is impervious to dampness, anC
will, it is estimated, last :hirty years; Th,
experiment with metallic ties on the Mexi
can railway to Vera Cruz is satisfactory
The railway tie question is one OF grea
special interest where the climate rapid,
destroys the firmest woods.
Bishop Borgess., of Michigan, has pro
mulgated a canon to the effect that no prizes
in his diocese must in future hold any no