Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-07-11
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Ming Mllan S alnneSty uecree releaSeS
10000 prisoners.
The judges of the supreme court OF
Pennsylvania have decided to wear
black silk gowns.
The Tulare (Cal.) Register estimates
that there are 3,000professional tramps
in California.
A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, clergyman
recently took for his text: ''Can man
with family work for $50 month
and be a Christian.
A German statistician figures up
that England has caused the death of
50,000,000 people and has wrought
$40, 900, 900, 900 worth of destruction.
A. w. Pierce, of Cape Elizabeth,
Me-, owns one of the largest poultry
farms in New England. He has at
present between 1000 and 5000 birds.
The word folk lore," invented by
the late w. j. Thomas for use in Eng
lish, has been adopted by the French
and appears in the titles of new publi-
cations.
A correspondent says that not only
are Maine herrings sold for sardines,
but that the alleged olive oil in which
they are packed is simply cotton-seed
oil.
King Khoulalonkorn sends his royal
brother to China as a wedding present
big gold foot-stool studded with
large rubies. This gift is said to be
worth 100000.
A lady in Atlanta, Ga, lost her only
child Just one year ago, and not day
has since passed that she has not gone
to the cemetery and knelt in prayer
beside his grave.
In its editorial department the De-
troit Free Press has eleven persons
whose service averages over seventeen
years. The managing editor was en-
gagged in 1865; the editor-in-chef in
1861.
1t seems that there are now only
100000 Germans in France-less than
half the number that lived there before
the Franco-Prussian war. More than
one-third of these are quartered in
Paris.
1t is said that in eight cases out of
ten if man gets $50, 900 all of sud-
den he will either go cracked in the
head or make a laughing stock of him
self. That's doubtless the reason why
Providence keeps $4,000 away from
so many of us.
The advantage of technical schools
has been illustrated in Crefeld, Ger
many, where over 81, 10000 has been
spent on its lower schools and $780,
600 on a special weaving school. 1t
has doubled its population and quad
rupled its trade.
A Frenchman has invented new sys-
TEN for propelling canal boats. 1t
consists of an endless cable running
along the two banks. The boats are
moved at double the ordinary speed,
and can readily be attached and de-
tached from the cables.
At a circus far In Oroyille, Cal,
there were several mammoth exhibits
of oranges. They included an i'm
mense golden heart, covered with
thousands of oranges, grand monu-
ment on which were displayed 10000
samples of the fruit, and huge basket
in which were piled up u, $50 oranges.
Another splendid exhibit was jap
anese pagoda, in which nearly five
thousand oranges and lemons were
displayed.
A Pittsburg man is said to have
really married girl under the impress
sion that he was marrying her sister.
His courtship of the other girl was
brief, and the sisters so closely re-
sembled each other that he proposed
and was accepted before he discovered
his mistake. He has never confessed
that he made this odd error, but the
girl who lost a good husband because
of it insists to this day that she ought
to be in her sisters shoes.
The Norwegian State Antiquarian
Nicalaysen has completed the excava-
ton of the ruins of an ancient monast-
cry on the west coast of Norway. The
assembly-room, sacristy and refectory
have been uncovered, and the covered
corridor running along the court
yard. The roof of the assembly hall
seems to have been supported by n
huge central pillar. All the details of
the architecture show rich and ad-
yanced Romanesque style, and the in
terror arrangements are generally
identical with those found in early
English monasteries. A few graves
were found, and in one the remains of
an abbot, Judging from the cloak and
miter found with the skeleton.
In many establishments in Albany,
says-the Journal, workingmen demand
the privilege of bringing beer into the
factories for consumption at the noon
hour, and in at least one establishment
beer is paid for by the proprietors. In
the photographic establishments of this
country, where the work is mainly
done by German workingmen, a stipu-
lation requires the proprietors to fur
nish beer as part of the employees
wages. In one photographic establish
ment in New York, where 600 men are
employed, each one receives, by con-
tract, three pints of beer per day. An
effort was made to break up this sys-
tenn, but so much trouble ensued that
it had to be relinquished.
A correspondent from Italy speaks
of the vast proportions and evil re-
suits of the emigration from that
country to the United States: 1t is so
large that not few districts are left
without cultivation or at the price of
labor which renders all produce unre-
munerative. 1t is, as it were, the mo-
ton of pendulum. l remember the
time when labor was so ill paid that
starvation was almost the sure conse-
quence. Now every one is flying to
the United States or Brazil or the
Plata, and comparatively few remain
to cultivate rich and grateful soil.
A lamentable feature of the exodus is
that women are turned into beasts OF
burden and compelled to do the work