The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-03-02

John Miller, of Palmyra. Wis, 81 years
of age. recently led TO the altar Mrs. Gause,
blushing bride of 65.
Charles Breck, of Milton. Mass, owns.
and occasionally wears. q pair OF shoes
made by his father 80 years ago.
in some sections of Maine the doctors
! have been compelled to put on snowshoes
In order TO make their rounds OF visits.
"A negro who was On trial IN a New
York police court. on being asked il he was
a man OF family, declared that he was the
father of 81 children.
Israel Lucas, the defaul.Ing Treasurer
! of Auglaize county. o., who was arrested
in Canada, has compromised with the coun.
| ty for s12 000 He stole S3I. 900.
China has at present 800 temples to
! the honor Of Confacius, at which 60. GOO
pigs. rabbits. sheep and deer and p, 900
pieces of silk are offered annually.
Camille Prixotto. the daughter of
prominent Hebrew of Columbia, S. c.,
eIoped with w. e McCartha. a young
Christian. She is mourned as dead by her
family.
The demand In England for butter dur
ing the last year was for 500, ,00o. 900 pounds.
or this Holland and Sweden supplied 29O.-
eoe,o00 and the United States 10. OoO. 900
pounds
Two masked men stopped a west-bound
train on the Southern Pacific Railroad near
STEMS Pass Station, Arizona, on wednes-
day night, and, after pIHndering Wells,
Fargo x Co.'S express car. made good their
escape.
A great deal of Chinese land is divided
mp into farms of oDe-sixth of an acre in
each. Field hands In China are paid SI2
per annum. with food, straw shoes and free
shaving. 1t costs about 81 per year for
clothes.
A man giving his name as James Foster
pleaded guilty last week at Bangor, Me-,
to robbing old man Bennett of S33, 900 In
| money on the night of December 4 last.
He is supposed to be highly connected. but
his identity is unknown.
A saloon on the State line of Kansas
and Missouri Is annoying the authorities of
both States. The bar Is on wheels and Is
moved back and forth across the line at
will, by which means the proprietor evades
the license Las OF either State.
"A redwood tree recently felled near
Humboldt, Cal, measured l6 feet In diane
ter one way and 20 feet in the other at the
stump. II was 200 feet long. taperine to a
diameter of feet, and contained enough
timber 10 construct a small village.
While ploughing on piece of new
ground near RIpon. Wis. Michael Krause
unearthed fine spear head OF copper which
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toric chief. 1t is two feet long snd about
~ inches thick. and is beautifully fash
ioned.
-Pillsbury Mil ga" Miunea polls grinds
7 900 barrels OF -four daily. which is enough
for New York. Brooklyn, and Jersey City
IL lie eight stories high, and work is never
stopped. 1t keeps 200 railway cars busy
An electrical apparatus enables a watch
man to locate heated box anywhere in the
mill.
An Illinois farmer in WashIn gton coun-
ty, thinking to increase the weight OF
number Of hogs he WAS about to take to
market, gave them all the salt water they
would drink. Fourteen OF them died on
the way to town or before they could be
weighed, and the tricky farmers net loss
| was about $50.
During baseball game on the grounds
| OF Chattanooga University on Wednesday
| Of last week, J. c. johnson, a spectator and
a student, took exception to a ruling of
Umpire Ben Magill. MsgiIl struck johnson
with baseball bat. fractuung his skull.
| johnson died in a few hours. Magill es-
eaped into Georgia.
In Whstcom county, w. T., recently
! Lewis DaTrow killed a grizzly bear that
| weighed 1000 pounds, one of tie largest
ever seen in the neighborhood. DarIow
shot seven slugs from a Winchester into the
animal before he could subdue IT, and just
as the final shot went crashing through its
brain the grizzly was within a few feet of
him.
The exceedingly loud manner in which
the Canadians declare that the fisheries
treaty has sacrificed their interests. and the
equally loud howl from New England
shore that its welfare is murdered by the
same document, will be likely to suggest to
the disinterested world at large the con-
clusion that the treaty must be about the
fair thing.
"A. Il French. of Kansas City. had
pretty good luck in fishing the other day
He seated himself on the pier at Santa Bar
bara, Cal, and with hook aud line caught
five sharks, averaging in lengh five feet and
nine inches each. The funny monsters
fought gamely for freedom and It took the
combined efforts of three men to get each
on terra fTDa.
"A dog testified to his ownership IN the
Hennepin county, Mimi, court. He was
claimed by two men, one OF whom stated
that he had been stolen from him two years
before. At the word OF command OF his old
master the dog said grace. bowed. opened
the door and went through a number OF
clever tricks, at once settling the question in
his owners favor
The first Texas cattle drive OF the sea =
son started north last Friday from The vicn-
| ity of San Antonio. The drive consisted OF
1000 head OF two and three year steers
owned by j. r. Blocker. OF Austin, Tex.
| and Colonel StOddard, of Wyo., Ter. They
| will be divided into four herds OF 5000
each The cattle are in prime condition
and are expected to yield their owners a
handsome profit.
The village of Little Chute. near Nee
nan, Wis, IL settled almost entirely by
| Hollsnders, the majority of whom make
their living by manufacturing wooden shoes,
snd all of whom wear them. Several times
a year they have a dance. which lasts three
days and in which everybody joins, both
old and young. These dances are always
held In the daytime, the people believing
that dancing at night is immoral.
Levi Campbell. OF Kingsbury. Ne, set
bear trap. and bear got into it. He