The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-03-16
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

An elephant in the funeral procession
to q recent Hindoo cremation Wore q silver
collar worth e. 600.
DISCRIMINATING prairie dogs at so much
an acre is the occupation of several men at
Wichita Fails. Tex.
There are 900 oeetsugar factories in Eu-
rope France manufactures 600, 900 tons OF
sugar. and Germany .02i, 900 tons.
Dynamite when ignited by a blow or by
n detonstiDg fuse explodes with tremendous
force when fire is applied to 1t It burns with
4 strong flame without any explosion.
The lot on which tie California Theater
stands. IN San Francisco. which has Just
been purchased by Mrs. Kate McDonough
for 1927 900, was bought 40 years ago for
45.
Says an imaginative statisticIan ''If
Texas were circular lake and France a
circular island. the leland could be anchor
ed centrally in the lake out OF sight OF land,
% miles from any point on the encirclInR
shore"
j. T. Campbell, United States Consul
at Auckland. New Zealand, says in his la
test report to the State Department that
sl2, ,0oo, 90 have been expended in New Zea-
land In the last eight years in the effort to
overcome the rabbit plague.
Two women living near Davenport.
Iowa, went to visit friend some miles dis
tant. Each took her baby with her. and
when returning. as II wss very cold, they
TOOK particular pains TO wrap the little ones
up snugly TO keep them from freezing to
death. Both infants died from suffocation.
In the Office OF the Recorder of Deeds.
Philadelphia. Is preserved Justices docket
over 100 years old. One Of the entries in the
volume is as follows: "Commopwealtb
agt. Stephen Blunt, July "a, 1873. Charged
OF drinking DamDatIon to General Wash
lnGton and all his Army. Defendant held
in 92O0.'
"A Doylesiown o. man discovered that
his chickens were being stolen from time to
ume- lie missed half a dozen more hens
the other morning, and while looking around
the coop discovered a pOcketbook contain
ing Ss5 and the name OF welI-kuown
neighbUr who was a respected member or
the community.
=. farmer in Clinton county, No, found
out that the grand jury was trying to haul
him up for working on Sunday. He at
once had his four sons summoned to appear
before the jury as witnesses against him.
lie was fined 81 and costs. total OF s..
His sons fees aid mileage amounted 20
81 90 each, a total Of 10 10.
Louis Richter on last Friday shot and
killed his cousin. Louisa Smith. aged II at
Evansville, Ind-, and then sent q bullet
through his Own brain. Richter was the
son OF one OF the wealthiest and best known
citizen In the county. He was in love with
the girl. but she cid not reciprocaie, and il
is thought this unbalanced his mind.
Remarkable canine sagacity was dis.
played short time ago by a Newfoundland
dog near Williamsburg, \. Y. The owner
OF the animal being overcome by extreme
cold while crossing the open fields would
have perished had II not been for the 10
ble animal, who seized his masters hat and
carried II to his home. thus procuring as
sistance.
If one grain OF wheat is put on one
square of the chess-board, twp on the sec
Und, four or the third, &c , it would REQUIRE
merely for the last square 3,O2s. .49i million
tons, or as much as 49i coo, coo OF the largest
ships could carry. or more than the freight
carrying capacity OF all the shipping from
Noah 10 now added TO all the railroad cars,
carts AID wagons ever made
AT a recent lawsuit in Texas l3 expert
cattle brandsTs swore that when cattle were
branded in "the dark OF the moon" the
brand will never get larger than the first
imnTHEEinT, tor
NAL may grow. But il the branding iron is
applied In the light of the moon" the seer
will spread, and The lighter the moon the
larger will be the spread"
After the war when things looked very
gloomy w. 5. Jordan. OF SumpteI county,
Fla, took unique way Of expressing his
belief that the country was going TO the
dogs. The stamps which be placed upon let
ters were put o upside down. As things in
proved, according 30 his view, he gradually
turned them little, and when Cleveland
took his seat as President he began putting
the stamps on his envelopes right side uI
and In their proper place.
The total number OF coke ovens in the
United States. up to the time when las
noted, was % .597 building, 4.l54. The
production ot coke foE 1886 was 6 845. 36s
tons. costing at oven 81 63 per ton. Sil
years ago there were only IA ,119 ovens, and
/ the cost at ovens was then Sl.8S per ton
/ Pennsylvania has produced 20 per cent. O
| all the coke made in the United States. Tht
| consumption OF coal fo- 1886 was 10 6Ss 81:
/ tons. New coke works are siill being pro
| iected.
"A special from Msndsn, Dakota. says
About midnight at New BugaIo, Pullman
| Conductor TOwne was attacked in tn
drawing room OF his car by two maske,
mes. who sand-bagged him and robbed hin
OF 800 and the contents of his pocketbOok
They then dragged him to the platform o
the car and left him for dead. He wa
found shortly after the train had started b
passenger, but did not regain his sense
until the train reached Msndan. Ne,
Buffalo is a few miles west OF Fargo. Th
train was the west-oOund Northern Pacif
Express.
Mrs. frost, OF Muskegon. Mich, weI
to bed In a Milwaukee hotel the other nigh
with the recollection of all the hotel fires {
which she had read surging through he
brain. She soon awoke with a start. II
she heard considerable noise down stair
The noise continued, and the poor woms
became so nervous that she jumped frol
her window to shed, and thence to III
ground, and never stopped until she reach
ed the house OF a relative, 16 miles ava
Her room was over the kitchen, and II
noise she heard was made by the servant
in doing up the evening work.
Squire w. j. Anderson, of Xenis, {