The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-02-17
NEWS AVID orHER NoTINGs.

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month.
The first cotton mill in the Unitet
States went into operation in 1877. at Bever
| ly. Mass.
The first table cutlery OF Americal
manufacture was made at Greenfield, Mass.
| in 1884.
The first iron forge in America was es
tablished in Raynham, a town of the Ply.
mouth Colony.
The first dwelling house in Kentucky
was erected in l774. on or near the site o.
Harrodsburg.
The first Quakers in New England ar
rived in 1865, in Massachusetts, and wert
banished from the colony.
The first newspaper published in Amer
icA, outside of Boston, was issued in Phila-
deiphia, and called the american Week.,
Mercury.
Two men Of Lead City were In love
with the same Young woman. They de-
cided first choice in a match of seYen-up
six best games in eleven.
The cats and dogs OF Japan differ from
the species found in almost every other
country. The former have no tails and the
latter are almost destitute OF tails
"A farmer at Springfield, O., buried s3-
600 in silver and gold at the time of the
Morgan raid in 1868. Last week his son
found the buried treasure in the foundation
OF an old building. The father had died
without revealing It.
A negro woman of Greens wich. n. J.,
the other day came into possession OF 81
216 pension money and in addition thereto
a monthly pension OF twelve dollars for the
balance of her life. She had two sons killed
in the u Uuion service.
-Spectacles were actually Invented
about the year 1890, A. D., and certainly
they were made previous to the year 1911
The man who conferred thi. grest benefit
on suffering humanity was Alexander
Bipira, monk Of Pisa. who died In 1913.
Three years ago the manager of a silver
mine in Australia played a game of euchre
with an employe to see whether the latter
should ray 5000 or $3.50 for a one-four-
teenth share in the mine. The employe
won, and his share is now worth s., 600 ,oOO
According to native journals, Japan can
boast of a phenomenal giantess. Though
only twelve years and five month of age,
she is said to stand eight feet high and to
weigh over two hundred and seventy pounds;
her hands measure over nine inches in length,
and her feet fifteen inches.
Carl 9olmer. OF Killarney. Fla, stepped
on the head OF a large rattlesnake as he was
going home the other evening. The reptile
snapped its tail IN Mr.. Holmer's face, but
be did not bulge until he had disabled it by
stamping upon il. He then procured a gun
and killed the snake. 1t measured seven
feet in length, and had eleven rattIes
Sheriff Matson, of Chicago, received a
letter from a woman in Cerro Go.do, ILL.,,
recently, asking him to send her one strand
OF a rope that had been used to bang some
rerson. Her little boy had been having fits for
four years, and nine doctors had failed to
benefit him. A neighbour had told her OF the
rope being used in such cases with success
and she was willing to pay any price to
secure q strand OF one
Benjamin franklin, of the Second Min
nesota Volunteers, is the only man on the
Government pension rolls who sacrificed
both hands and feet in the late civil war, and
as there is no provision OF law applicable to
sIch special cases bill will be presented
to Congress Increasing the pension he now
receives TO $50 month. He now receives
the pay provided for soldier OF sailor
who has lost both hands or both feet.
"A Jersey City man who deals in second
hand furniture found $500 in an old lounge
which lie was repairing. He was honest ..
80 he sent word 10 the man from whom he
49,
that the man who sold the lounge had hid
den the money in 1t when he was drunk and
forgotten all about it. Then he had accus-
ed his wife of taking it, and the row that
ensued broke up the family and caused the
sale OF the furniture:
-Fonr years ago Addison Clifford of
North Rochester, Mass, went shooting.
His dog started fox. followed it, and never
returned A few days ago Mr.. Clifford was
out again with another dog which started q
fox and chased it to its hole. Mr.. Clifford
began 10 dig the fox out. and while at work
unearthed the skeleton of dog. the collar
on the neck OF which showed that it was his
own lost dog. 1t had evidently tried to dig
the fox out and got fast in the hole.
A colored woman and G white man met
an the street at Beaufort, S. c., the other
day, and the path through the mud wonld
only permit of one passing at a time.
Neither would waive the right TO the first
place, and they both remained in the street
all day, sending for chairs and their meals,
while their friends gathered about TO watch
the "sitting match" When the old lady
sent for her knitting the white man COO
cluded he did not want to 20 that way, and
turned back.
Acting Chief of the Secret Service John
5. Bell has discovered the first en-
graved counterfeit on the silver certificates
The counterfeit comes from the Vest. 1t Is
three siXteenths OF an inch shorter than the
genuine bill. There are no distinctive lines
on the paper, which Is very thin and OF in
inferior quality. 1t is a good counterfeit
and may easily deceive people One great
difference between the genuine and the
counterfeit Is in the yignette of General
Grant. In the counterfeit it is slightly
blurred and looks like a bulldog.
Two men in Penobscot county, Me-,
went out to look for their cattle which were
in the woods. AS they were returning with
the stock, they saw three bears sitting upon
their launches ahead OF them, directly in
their path. The oxen ran ahead of the
cows and then turned around, shaking their
heads as much as TO say, Keep back, keep
back We will attend to those black feI-
lows" Then away they ran for the enemy
One of the bears ran away, while the other
two stood their ground and the oxen charged
on them. Upon this the bears fed and one
oxen chased one of the bears a mile through
the woods, tossing him over his head in a
fearful manner. The bear was tosesd up at
least 20 times and evidently had rather a
lively time of it, Finally, the OK returned