The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-10
NEWS AND OTHER yOTINGs.

dens all over the city.
Mrs. Franklin. the wife of prisoner in
the WalhaIIa. S. C. Jail, smuggled an auger
to him in her hustle with which he and four
others effected their escape Tuesday night
of las: week.
! H. III. Singleton, a blind man who lives
| near Toccoa. Ga, is able to tell the denom-
lnation OF bank note or check by feeling
1t. and can count money almost as rapidly
as a bank clerk.
"A small matrimonial transaction has
! jus: taken place in Kansas The groom is
| In height 40 inches and weighs 90 pounds,
while the bride measures 80 inches and
weighs 20 pounds.
Ell BOggs and Miss Rhoda Smith and
Marion GreenhiIi and Miss Kate Chandler
walked from Carter county, Kentucky, to
Maysville, distance OF 100 miles, to be
married las. week
"A mule over sixty years ole is owned by
Aunt Nancy Honaker. of LaynesvilIe, Ky.
1t came from Virginia over sixty years ago,
and still earns its living under the saddle
and before buggy.
Large importations of potatoes arrive in
Chicago every few days from Rotterdam.
A single consignment OF 900 sacks wes
recorded last Friday. These potatoes are
for the local market. not for seeding.
w. G. Sterling, OF Greeley, Col recent
ly shot in North Park magnificent speci.
men OF the golden eagle, one of the largest
seen in the State for years. It measured
seven feet from tip to tip, and was evident
ly or great age.
Txyfl lIa
turnip patch helping itself to vegetables.
On being driven out it took TO the railroad
! track and met an approaching locomotive,
to which it would not yield the right of way.
The result was what &: might have expected
If it had had more sense.
The other day some OF the servants In
one of the richest families in Grand Rapids.
Michigan, were quite surprised to discover
SallIe Wilson, the new nurse girI, shavipg
Sallie proved TO be Fred Warden, a genuine
man, who had been doing duty as a girl
for some ten weeks or mors.
Our Consul at Stockholm Informs the
! State Department that the Swedish Gov
eminent has declared against the importa-
tiou of pork from the United States unless
IL is we'll salted. The Consul SAYS that the
order was founded on a report that a hog
pestilence is raging in the United States.
Farmers living near BakersvilIe, Cal,
built jack rabbit corral, shaped like the
letter V, recently, and then scourned the
fields on horseback, driving the animals be-
fore them into the trap. Then for two
/ hours general massacre OF the pests took
place, in which 5O75 of them were killed.
A citizen of Salina, Kan, saw a big
| Jack rabit sitting by the side of the road
/ He ran home, quarter OF a mile, got his
4 gun. ran back and fred a charge OF shot in
4 to the rabbit, which was still sitting there
I Even then it did not move. and further in
( vestigation showed that it was frozen stiff
! All vehicles in the Highlands of Scot
Z land are provided with brakes, to he used
/ in the descents, the pony chaise having one
as we'll as the four-horss coach The ma.
tives trot their horses up hill and walk them
/ down, and are amazed at Americans who
always reverse the order in the matter OF
1 up and down-hIll travel
"A trainer of animals IN Paris gives the
following account OF the way IN which he
trains cats and rats TO live on friendly
terms Taking cat and rat each by the
back OF the neck, he brings their heads
nearer and nearer. together, accustoming
them gradually TO each other until finally
their noses meet. This practice at length
seems to please them.
John XIX came into a grocery at Rip
Lake, Wis, one day week before last with
the tips of his fingers frozen, and the propri
etor advised him to thaw out the frost BY
holding hts hands in IN open barrel OF ker-
osone which stood Just outside the door
Elk did so, and when he withdrew his hand.
few moments later found that they wer,
frozen solid. When a thermometer wa:
paced in the oil the mercury mar ked 90 de.
grees below zero.
The trial of Mrs. Sarah J. Robinson, O
Somerville, on a charge of causing the dealt
of Prince A Freeman, her brother-ir la "
by poison, in June, 1885 began on Monda,
last. Last December Mrs. Robinson wa
tried on the charge of fatally poisoning he
son. William j., but the jury disagreed, an
it is likely that she will Not be tried on ths
case again. There are several additions
indictments against her. The morning wa
spent ia selecting Jury.
Captain Smith Cook, of Shelby county
: Ky, Is the tallest native born American
His height is feet 8 inches. There ar
only three men in the world whose heigt
is known to exceed his. One Is an English
man, another an Arabian and the third
Chlnaman. Captain Cook is % years
age and stopped growing when he was 2.
he wears No. 131z shoe. He is now
} candidate for doorkeeper of the Kentuck
. house OF representatives.
c An authority on pigs says that he nevt
thinks of cutting of the tails OF his pig
The tails are the indicators OF a porker
= condition. If piggy doesn't feel well,
= his food doesn't agree with him, his tail be
/ gins to straighten. The sicker the pig th
straiShter the tail; and the healthier III
, pig the tighter the curl. The old theor
that II takes bushel Of corn to fatten a
Z inch fail this nig-raiser scorns. The pig
2 tail is his pulse; therefore never cut it of
: The construction of a railroad throug
the mountains of Kentucky has been stopp
ed by a man with a rifle AS Is noted by
= paper of that State, there is probably n
: place on the American Continent where tn
could occur. but in the mountains of Ken
> lucky. a man named Asher didn't wan
= the road built through his land, aud whe
the workmen began grading on his land b
y appeared with a cooked rifle and threatene
death to the man that lifted a shoyelful {
earth.
A despatch from st. Joseph, Missouri
r says the women living in the southwesJeT
| part of that city are circulating a petition {
r have HOOueek and Buelling, wife murder
r ers. lynched- The petition already has sew
eral hundred signatures. Mr.. Augustine
the man in whose house Hooneck commit
; ted the murder, says the women have grow
q nf tIta nd NO.