The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-04-13
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

An impecunions negro In Savannah,
Ga. stole a watch. and with the advance
given him on it at the pawn shop. took out
a marriage certificate.
"A year ago Saratoga. Kan. was q
fiourishing town of 2 500 Inhabitants Now
1t has but $50. and Is fast becoming smaller.
The removal of the county seat caused the
decline.
1t is reported that the churches of EN-
poria. Kan, have generously decided to
emit taking up collections until sufficient
money has been subscribed to pay the saIar-
les OF its base ball nine.
Cincinnati is said TO have more Hebrews
In proportion to population than any other
city In this country. or perhaps In the world.
The Hebrews are a. the very top in that
city, not only in business. but IN society.
Queen Victoria point blank declines to
pay for the special trains provided for royal
visitors during her jubilee festivities. 1t IS
expected that the railroad companies will
have to wipe of their claims as bad debts.
The Chinese of Tacoma. w. T., import
from Alaska every few months big boxes
full of dried bears paws from which they
make medicine similar to their dried lizard
tonic. Bears gall. which sells at $40
pound. is also In great demand among them.
The Vatican Is the most polite court in
Europe. Replies to all communications are
addressed with the titles assumed by the
original correspondents. be they counts,
dukes or princes. The Pope never stops to
ask whether they are genuine nob.emen or
not:
/ The annual honey product of North
America is about 100. 900 900 pounds and its
value is nearly SIS. 600. .Oe0. The annual
wax product Is about 500. 600 pounds and its
value is more than s1Os, ,O00 There are
about 800 900 persons keeping bees in North
America.
Marriages are not allowed in Russia be-
fore the male Is eighteen and the female
sixteen. nor are men over eighty or women
over sixty permitted to enter wedIock A
fourth marriage is illegal. Priests may
marry only once. Marriages in secret
without witnesses are not valid.
People are dying from hunger in some
parts Of Turkey. a correspondent explains
that famine in central Turkey resulting
from drought. and in eastern Turkey from
devastation OF ten thousand square miles
by locusts, is now eliminating in utter des-
titution and death.
"A Missouri wretch ired a pistol at a
passenger train near Rich Hill, and the ball
hit passenger. 1t would have made a Sc
rious If not a fatal wound but for the fact
that he had plug of chewing tobacco in
his vest pocket. The bullet struck the plug,
aud was thus stopped IN its course.
Victor, Ia, has st. Bernard dog that
stands twenty nine inches high, is sixty-two
inches long from tip to tip and weighs $50
pounds The other day he saw a little tod
dier making its way toward two angry
boars that were fighting. and, walking in
front of the baby, he pushed it away. and
repeated this several times until the child's
mother came.
The Chinese wall was originally built
as a buiwark against the Tartars, about
215 B. e. 1t is in some places In a ruinous
state at present; in others. in fair preservs-
ton. In some places 1t is a simple rampant;
in others, solid foundation of granite.
The eastern section is from Is to 80 feet high
and wide enough to allow six horsemen to
ride abreast upon it. The entire length of
the wall. with all its wInGIngs. was not far
/ from 500.
The new timber ship building at Port
Joggins. Nova Scotia, will be launched in
June, and will be coo feet long, "a feet beam
and 3S feet deep. She will be constructed
1 of % .0oO spruce trees, the sticks averaging
3S feet in length. The vessel will carry six
masts. each built twelve feet into the hull
and fitted with spring stays and shrouds.
She will be square rigged, with fore and aft
topsai!s, and will be fitted with anchors.
rudder gnd steering gear. a steamship will
tow her, with powerful tug alongside as a
convoy.
| An English analyst recently received
twelve specimens of supposed butter, which
! he was TO analyZe to discover which was
/ pure and which was oIeomargarine. After
taking what he wanted he set the twelve
] plates in his laboratory. Next morning the
butter had disappeared from ten and on two
it remained. These two were aoulterated
and the Others pure. Suspecting mice, be
| set out other plates, some containing pure
and some aduIterated in various degrees
Again the pure butter was cleared away.
the slightly adulterated half eaten, and the
much adulterated only nibbled.
"A fire started last Friday evening ID the
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Williamsport this State, and was not sub
dued until it had burned everything be-
tween Park and Maynard streets. and be-
tween the railroad track and the canal a
territory of over five acres. Between four
and five million feet of pine and hemlock
lumber and picket5 were burned, involving
a total loss of about $40. 900. with an insur-
ance of S65 600. Steamers were brought
from Lock Haven and WatsoDtown and
rendered valuable aid. The fire caught from
a spark from an adjoining pianing mill.
Three citizens of Paramount, Oak, have
been arrested for stealing a schoolhouse
The people of the district have Icng been
divided as to where the house ought to
stand. part of them wanting it on the
north side OF the creek, and the rest claim
| ing that it should be on the south side. The
| Northsiders took the house and moved it
across the creek In the night. The next
morning the Southsiders awakened and
found the house on the enemy's land. The
next Light il was moved back to its former
place. After the house had been hauled
back and forth until it was nearly worn out
arrests were made. and the building is now
getting a rest.
Wild geese in this part of the country,
says the Baltimore Sun. were aware several
hours before the cold wave signal was dis
played at the Weather Bureau that the
blizzard would strike Baltimore last Sunday
week. A flock of them flew slowly over
Baltimore just about daylight on Sunday,
and their self satisfied honk-honk honk, as
they travelled toward the north, seemed to