Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-12-05
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writer in Bldc6O00TS Magazine
figures that ancient Rome had proba-
bly, 1000, 900 inhabitants.
The most exciting art topic in New
York at present is whether kettles and
big onions are art subjects.
A young lady at East Nottingham
has discovered a turtle which bore the
initials, eth. t." and date "1771."
The Junction City Republican says
that within three years Kansas will
be able to supply sugar for the entire
West.
A Boston company is trying to intro
duce wicker-work collins. They claim,
from sanitary point OF view, nothing
can equal them.
The following notice is posted at an
industrial establishment in Quaker
town, Pa: mo loafing here. EN-
ployes do enough.
A cane consisting of 1854 pieces has
just been made and presented to a
friend by William Shaeffer, of Liniield,
Montgomery county, Pa.
A gypsy fortune teller informed a
Pennsylvania girl that if she wasn't
married by the time she was twenty
one it wouldn't be her fault.
Mrs. Beck, an old lady in New York,
was so startled by a boy throwing a
dead cat at her that she was stricken
with fit of apoplexy and died.
1t is said that on the inside of ring
owned IN Alchison, Kan, is engrav-
ed the following: IT. and H., betroth-
ed April, 1884; divorced May, 1888"
The news of Chinatown in New
York is affixed to a big telegraph pole,
and the residents are much alarmed at
an order of the removal Of poles from
the streets.
A young woman at Rincon, Cal,
has begun a suit for $1,000 damages
against raucher for kisses that she
says were forcibly inflicted upon her
by the defendant.
The president of the Spanish-Amer-
| lean Union, which includes | 100 mer-
chants, says that South Americas ex-
hibit at the worlds fair in 1892 will be
most elaborate and extensive.
Several of the large land owners of
Scotland have imported number of
reindeer from Norway and turned
them out in the hope that they may
become acclimated and increase.
A Cincinnati man called for the jury
modestly confessed himself the father
of five pairs of twins, all alive and
healthy. He was promptly accepted
as an experienced ju ige of humanity.
Major w. G. Stevens, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, formerly of the Ninth Michigan
Cavalry, still owns and uses the horse
that he rode in the army. He bought
him in Kentucky in 1862 and rode him
in many battles.
Johnstown women are using the
ragged garments which have been sent
out there for carpet rugs. After the
rags are sewn and assorted the women
are taught to braid them into rugs and
strips of carpeting.
A Philadelphia night car driver has
been discharged, not for beating the
company, but for over-charging the
passengers. When he got drunken
"sleeper" the driver woke him up
every three squares and rang up fare
each time.
Both the Russians and the British,
, as they push farther and farther into
Asia, pay great attention to arborcul-
, ture, planting trees, shrubs and flow-
ers wherever they form settlement.
The result is that Central Asia is being
} refreshed.
: Ex-Burgess L. H. Windle, while
, walking over his farm in Cain Town
ship, Chester county, Pa, caught a
large blowing viper. The snake is a
ra rn pnntila in that oantinn g
being the second one ever known to
have been captured.
A letter box has been placed in the
topmost stage of the Effel tower at
the Paris exhibition, and postal cards
sold there bear a printed indication of
the height at which they are posted.
Hundreds of persons write to their
friends from this lofty perch daily.
The absurdity of applying the title
"Mster" to all sorts of men, on all
sorts of occasions, is we'll illustrated
paper, in Which it was declared that
'the late Mr.. Hank Brown was hang
ed Yesterday in the presence of large
and interesting audience"
A stove manufacturer says: at is a
curious fact, proved by forty years.
observation, that tie stove trade
moves in cycles of eleven years, each
made up of four years of upward ten
dences in prices, followed by down
ward sweep of seven years. We are
now in one of the latter periods"
A remarkable instance of long con-
tinued service in the employ of sin
ole cOnrprn is furniS nod in tho co co of
Smith b. Freeman, who died recently
on Staten Island at the age of eighty
two years, after having been continu-
ously employed by the Staten Island
dyeing establishment since its organi-
zation in 1919, period of seventy
years.
1t is asserted on the authority of a
clergyman at Chattanooga that on the
top of White Mountain, in North Car
olina, are three trees of the cachoin
species, about fifteen feet high, grow
ing close together, whose tops are in
terwoyen so completely and fiat that a
number of persons can walk on them
with ease The tops are about twenty
feet in diameter.
A British naval officer has devised a
method by which boats may be pro-
PEELED without the use of oars. 1t con-
sists of a screw propeller worked by
hand, which will enable boat to be
driven by any one, although unac-
quainted with rowing. In case of a
shipwreck it would be of great value,
as passengers could manage boat
without the aid of sailors.