The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-03-08
NEWS AND OTHER NorINGs.

vember ]. 1888. to March 1. 1889. was 300,
os2.
Fourteen hundred eu1igrauls were Iaud
ed in Castle Garden on Friday from three
steamers. the largest number ever landed
In one day.
An s-year-oId lad, Richard Freeman,
OF st. Louis. while trying to see how long he
could hold his breath. burst a blood vessel
and few moments later died.
"A Toledo woman. who has twice been
divorced frem the same man. married him
two weeks ago for the third time Alto.
getheT she has been married six times TO
three men,
| Electric DO wer has been utilized In the
4 Gaiician forests TO fell trees. The work Is
done by means OF a drill. operated by an
electric motor mounted on a carriage, which
is brought up close to the tree anc shackIed
to it.
| The body of a man found hanging to a
tree in Missouri had this card pinned to II {:
II die because j am too burned lazy to i've
II the rest of you feel as do you will let
me hang here until my bones drop of their
own accord
"A lady who lives near Lagrange, Ga.
ordered her servant girl 10 fire up the stove
preparatory to baking some potatoes. She
did as she was directed, but when the stove
door was opened the house cat was found
baked TO a turn.
j. L. Fletcher, OF jenkins Bridge, Va,
was in bis grave and men were brickine Il
up. when they heard q groan. They OPEN
ed the coffin and found FIetcher's heart
beating. BE was taken home, but dIec two
days afterward without regaIning con.
sciousness.
While Messrs. Emerson and Councilman.
two farmers, residing on the Potomac. near
Williamsto~n, were cutting down a tree
they discovered a package in a hollow. On
being opened the package was found to cop>
tain between five and six thousand dollars
In national bank notes. To whom the
money belongs, or when 1t was placed In
The tree, are unknown.
An Ohio poultry raiser has made eur,
ious discovery. He says that IL you 20 out
to feed flock OF chickens and will cause
them TO wait, they will invariably, as they
crowd aoont you, begin a circuit around
you from right to left, In front. and contin.
ne this revolution as long as you stand there
No amount OF interruption fer maneuvertnp
can confuse them at any time
For six year. William Teneson OF Bris-
tol. Bucks county, has been troubled with a
sore on his neck for which number OF
physicians have treated him without sue-
cess. On Thursday last Drs. PurselI and
Groom. OF Bristol. cut open his neck and
found a wisdom tooth that had become de-
tached from the jaw and had buried itself
In the tissues OF the neck. The tooth was
honeycomoed and much enlarged.
-Calen Junis. while going from Cauton
to his tannery at Grover. saw large bear
In the road. Getting party OF friends to-
sether, armed with repeating rifles, they
socr overlook the bear, and lively fsht
took place A man named Xilier was near.
Is squeezed to death In the bears embrace.
and was rescued by the rest OF the party
The hunters were compelled to retreat, and
the big bear scampered of TO the woods
They tell OF a Judge in Bennington, VT.
who. haying spoken OF buying a safe. was
interviewed by two rival agents, each of
whom had SO much to say In favor OF his
own particular safe that the Judge was
| quite at a loss to decide which to buy In a
happy moment be thought OF Burglar Price,
whom he had himself sentenced, and going
to the jail he obtained this expert safe
Breakers opinion and then gave the order.
in Brazil there is a tribe called Cafusos,
which has sprung Into existence by mar
rage between the long. stiff-baIred natives
| and The imported negro slaves. as might
be expected from the admixture OF these
extremes, this people possess hair of q very
extraordinary kind. 1t rises perpendfcu-
larry from the head in thick, curly masses,
and forms wig OF such enormous dimen-
slons that the possessors must stoop low
when entering their huts. ..
The great Eifel Tower In Paris will be
nnlshed cy April L. The tower stands al
present S25 feet high, and weigs 800 tons
Only 500 tons remain to be added. To ap-
proach the summit Of the tower there will
be three distinct kinds of elevators. Two
will 90 to the first platform, two others to
the second and third platforms In a yerti-
Gle line The whole trip will take five min
ates and the elevators will be capable OF
taking up $50 persons al hour.
AT the Royal Powder Factory Of Wet
teren. In Belgium, a new Runpowder Is be-
Ing made They call 1t poudrepapier, OF
| paper powder, and IL Is said that charge
| or TWO and a half Rrammes (tbirty-piue
2rafas( gives, In rife of small caliber an
initial velocity OF GEO yards to the ball
Ihs is equal to. IL ii does not beat, the
Lebei powder. The additional advantages
are attributed to 1t OF not srearing The bar.
rel, Of producing no smoke and of causing
no Iecoil.
One of the meanest tricks ever played
upon an ignorant emigrant was discovered
last Saturday in New York. Johann Ieclin,
German. on q trip 10 America. desired to
get some OF his money changed in.o Amer
lean currency. The sailors OF the ship vol
unteered TO arrange the matter for him and
gave him pile of tin tobacco TAGS In ex.
change for his money. When be arrived In
port and discovered tbs trick that had bseu
played upon him be consulted the Castle
Garden authorities.
| Leonard Seifert, who was recently mar
doaed, left the Eastoa jail on TUESDAY, and
hraried to the bedside OF his wife, who u
dying at the home OF her parents at Quaker
town of consumption. SeIrert was sent tc
prison for six years and four months ON 9
enarge or Indecent assault on a little girl or
tae Lehigh Mountain. The charge wa:
brought by the girls father, who, on hi!
death-bed not long ago, stated that he hat
made the complaint to get Seifert out of Ia,
way. and had prompted his daughter 3,
swear falsely at the trial. That stateu,sn
hastened the pardon Seifert's wife aIway,
believed her husband innocent, and worrie,
30 mucn over his imprisonment that she be
came consunptive. and her death Is nov
only Question OF time.
Girls In Biddeford and Saco, Me-, seen
to have some queer tastes. One lady make